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 back to you. Luke 6:38
“What is the “it” that will be given to us as we give? It may be love, time, material provision, friendship, ideas, opportunity. When we give–and not only money, but time, energy, effort, creativity, prayer–we receive. God gives us in return precisely what we need the most, and He gives it in overflowing supply. God desires for us to give, so that He might use what we give, multiply it, and return to us those things that will make us whole.”
Charles Stanley in Success God’s Way: Achieving True Contentment and Purpose (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2000) 106.