This year God had to remind me to GIVE TO GET.

This year God had to remind me to GIVE TO GET.

My wife Leslie and I are generous, we love giving, blessing others.

The video is from a few years ago randomly blessing a fast food worker with a stack of benjamins. Sometimes we give in public, sometimes in private. Love both!

We love doing unexpected things for people in need.

- buying a teenage girl starting high school an entire wardrobe because their family was going through rough financial times.

- picking random couples getting married and dropping off tons of wedding presents unexpectedly.

- leaving thousand dollar tips to our servers.

- treating a struggling pastor to an entire wardrobe.

- giving away my Rolex to someone who said they liked it.

- dropping off envelopes full of cash to people struggling.

- buying people cars.

- cooking dinners for people.

- spending time with people.

- taking care of widows and orphans.

- supporting churches and ministries, etc ...

EVERY time, we have given because God prompted us to.

We've been givers when we were broke and when we were in abundance. 

Why? What do we get? It make us feel good to help others. 

But God has been pointing out something that I've been overlooking. God rewards generous givers. He has promises available for all who will receive them by faith.

>> Bring all the tithes (the tenth) into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you [so great] a blessing until there is no more room to receive it. Then I will rebuke the devourer (insects, plague) for your sake and he will not destroy the fruits of the ground, nor will your vine in the field drop its grapes [before harvest],” says the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 3:10-11)

>> Now He who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed for sowing [that is, your resources] and increase the harvest of your righteousness [which shows itself in active goodness, kindness, and love]. You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous, and this [generosity, administered] through us is producing thanksgiving to God [from those who benefit]. (2 Corinthians 9:10-11)

God had to remind me that these promises were for me, but that like every other Biblical promise, I would have to receive them by faith.

I've been meditating on these promises and many others like them and I can tell you, I want God to abundantly bless every area of my life.

This year I'm swinging for the fences. I'm giving to get everything God has for me.

-Gerald