The ‘Someday Trap’
‘DO NOT WITHHOLD GOOD...WHEN IT IS IN YOUR POWER TO ACT’
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vercoming
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PROVERBS 3:27 NIV.
Have you fallen into the ‘someday trap?’ You know the one where you think,
‘Someday when I have the money, or someday when I have the time, or someday
when the kids are grown.’
Listen: ‘Don’t tell your neighbour, ‘Maybe some other time’ or ‘Try me tomorrow,’
when the money’s right there in your pocket’ (Proverbs3:27-28 TM). No loopholes
Lord let me use
or wriggle-room there. Right? God will give you more only when you use what He’s
already given you. He pours His blessings into pipes, not pots. If you constantly
what You have
dwell on what you don’t have instead of what you do, you’ll never feel that you have
given me to its full
enough to give to others! Forget the big things! Take a box of groceries to a needy
potential today.
family. Turn the clutter in your cupboard into the answer to somebody’s prayer.
Show me Lord the
Better still; give away new stuff, things you really want to keep. This will develop
resources I have
character, crucify self-centredness and help you to be more like Jesus. You did say
which I could
you wanted to be like Him, didn’t you?
use, but have
If you want to measure your generosity, check out the Macedonian church, the most
overlooked. Help
impoverished in Europe. Listen: ‘Though desperately poor...they gave...far more me live with a
than they could afford! Pleading for the privilege of helping out... This was totally generous spirit,
spontaneous...and caught us completely off guard. What explains it was that they
to be a blessing at
had fi rst given themselves unreservedly to God and to us. The other giving simply
every opportunity.
fl owed out of the purposes of God working in their lives’
Lord make me
(2 Corinthians 8:3-5 TM). How’s that for giving?
someone’s miracle
today. When I do
Take Another Look At Your Sowing
give Lord, help me
keep a smile on my
‘...WHOEVER SOWS GENEROUSLY WILL ALSO REAP GENEROUSLY’ 2
face, I pray in Jesus’
CORINTHIANS 9:6.
Name.
There are three things you need to know today about your sowing and reaping:
1) Everything you have is a seed! Your skill, your love, your prayers and your money
are all ‘seeds.’ A boy’s lunch became the seed that fed 5,000, when he put it into
the Master’s hands. Listen: ‘For God...will give you more and more seed to [sow] and
will make it grow so that you can give away more and more...’
(2 Corinthians 9:10 TLB). Note: God gives seed only to sowers; so keep sowing!
2) The seed you sow will never leave your life! It moves just from where you are
God gives
today to where you’ll be tomorrow. When you get there, it’ll no longer be a seed
seed only
you sowed, but the harvest you need. Consecutive sowing guarantees consecutive
reaping; it’s a law! Listen: ‘...whoever sows generously will also reap generously’
to sowers;
(2 Corinthians 9:6 NIV). Selah! so keep
3) God will never ask you to give what you don’t have. But He’ll often ask you to give
what you’d like to keep. Why? Because giving proves you’ve conquered self-interest!
sowing!
Paul says, ‘...give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful
giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all
times, having all you need, you will abound in every good work’
(2 Corinthians 9:7-8 NIV). ‘How much can I believe God for?’ you ask. As much as
He can trust you with and as much as His will for your life requires!
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