“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:38
“Be steadfast, Christian giver: give what you may receive, sow what you may reap, scatter what you may gather. Fear not to spend, sigh not over the doubtfulness of the gain. Your substance grows when it is wisely dispensed. Set your heart on the profits due to mercy, and traffic in eternal gains. Your Recompenser wishes you to be munificent, and He who gives that you may have, commands you to spend, saying, “Give, and it shall be given to you.” You must thankfully embrace the conditions of this promise. For although you have nothing that you did not receive, yet you cannot fail to have what you give.'”
Leo the Great (c.400-461) in Saints’ Quotes: Holy Quotations for Purification of the Soul, Collection on Alms.
The conditions of the promise are clear. We must be people who give, sow, scatter the resources God has supplied to us without fear or sighing knowing that the Recompenser will sort our reward.
Soak in the truth that we must give what we have, and give that we may have.
Then practice it, understanding the conditions of this promise. Please make a gift to GTP today. Please understand the connection. We are empowering national workers to do this in the poorest places and it’s transforming communities.
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When people give what they have and that they may have, it causes renewal, revival, and recompense. This is not to become prosperous or wealthy but to gain true riches that can only be gained through obedience and sharing.
What are you waiting for? Give what you have, that you may have. Use the measure of what God has given you.