The 5 Minute Discipleship Podcast

#1,256: Why We Struggle With Generosity

• Loren Hicks

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I remember my Dad saying, “If God can get it through you, God will get it to you.” If God knows you and I can be trusted to be His channel of blessing through generosity, He will continue to provide the resources to do so. In other words, you cannot outgive God.


Main Points:

1. When it comes to generosity, I don’t believe the struggle for most people is greed. I think the bigger struggle is fear. We want to be generous. We know God is calling us as His children to live with generosity. But we battle with fear thinking that if we are generous, we won’t have enough for ourselves.


2. God is the owner of everything. We are just the managers of His resources. If He put it in our hands, or our bank account, it means He trusts us. I suppose a question to wrestle with is: Are we being trustworthy?


3. Are you living with the fear that if you are generous, you won’t have enough for yourself? Trust the promise of God that He will provide bread for food and seed for sowing.


Today’s Scripture Verses:

Psalm 24:1 - “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.”


2 Corinthians 9:10-11 - “Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.”


Proverbs 11:25 - “The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.”


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