2 Corinthians 9:6 ‘But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.’

DAILY READING – – • Mark 5:1-20; 2 Samuel 13; Daniel 7

Today, Chantel Ray is the name behind a multimillion-dollar real estate company. However, years ago, Chantel was a youth pastor struggling with an entry level job and a meager salary. She was making $9 an hour, 20 hours a week and was barely able to buy groceries or pay rent. After some years Chantel maxed out her credit card and was $10,000 dollars in debt and could no longer buy even grocery.
During this time, Chantel heard a message on tithing. She knew God was leading her to begin tithing but she felt she would start when she began making more money. But after months of things only getting worse, she eventually took the leap of faith and like the widow who gave her two mites, Chantel gave the only remaining $30 in her account and had nothing left.
To her surprise one week later, she received a $300 refund check in the mail from her utility company. She continued to tithe faithfully and received another financial breakthrough. Her aunt paid off her $10,000 credit card debt!
Soon after, she was listening to a podcast about giving away 90% and felt God was telling her to do the same and so she gradually started towards that.
And two years after that, she obeyed God’s leading to launch out into a career in real estate. When she began, she saw another dramatic increase in her income. Chantel sold more houses her first year in real estate than any other person who also started that year. As she was faithful to keep her part, she found God was faithful as well to keep His part.
And today Chantel Ray owns and runs a multimillion-dollar real estate company, with over 130 employees in multiple branches, Her company grows by at least 40% or more every year.
Chantel Ray says her life is a perfect example of God being true to His promises to give back when we give to Him.
Genesis 8:22 says “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease”
Whenever God requires a sacrifice from us in our financial giving we should be prompt to obey. Oftentimes such calls are gateways to our financial freedom.
God uses the area of financial giving to test our heart and our love for Him. If we understand Jesus’ words that our “treasure” is an indication of our “heart,” then we will understand that you can’t love without giving. That is what we learn by the Bible’s account of what took place in Mark 12:41-44.
When Jesus observed those giving in the temple, He took note that while others gave out of their abundance, the widow gave all she had with nothing left over. People may ask how much did a man give, but Christ asks how much did the man keep?
Giving is a deep part of our personal connection to God and God is always interested to know how much we are willing to lay down for the sake of His kingdom. No matter what little we think we have, we can still express our love to God through how much of that little we are willing to give, it is not about the volume it is about the value.
However it takes grace to be able to give sacrificially. Concerning the Macedonian Church, 2 Corinthians 8;2, says: “How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;’
So the giving of the Macedonian Church was beyond their power, it was the supernatural grace of God that enabled them to give despite their deep poverty and great trial of affliction. Oftentimes, it seems as if there are so many needs around us that we can’t afford to give sacrificially. But if we continue to observe the clouds we may never sow, and if never sow then we will never reap. Also he that sows sparingly will reap sparingly and he that sows bountifully will reap bountifully.
Let us therefore receive grace today to give to God cheerfully and willingly out of what we have and God in turn will give back to us good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over in Jesus Name.

PRAYER: Lord, I know that it is Your will for me to prosper, I therefore thank You for the supernatural grace to continually sow seeds that will produce rich harvests in my life in Jesus Name ..

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Until your worship gets to your money, it hasn’t really gotten to you. – WORDBITE 222.