9 a.m.
Please arrive by 8:30 a.m. Downloadable PDF Lesson Plans for 9:00 a.m. Service:
10:45 a.m.
Please arrive by 10:15 a.m. Downloadable PDF Lesson Plans for 10:45 a.m. Service:
Leader Devo
I lived for a time in a small farming community. I wasn’t on a farm, but all my friends were. I learned from them a great deal about planting and harvesting. When it comes to planting, you’ll almost always overspread seeds. If you hold back from putting them out there, you’ll find that by harvest time you won’t get a great return.
When it comes to generosity, the same is true. If we hold back from being generous, we miss out on the amazing returns that could have come our way.
Read 2 Corinthians 9:6–14. Paul understood this principle: We’re to be generous with our time, talent, and treasure the way God is generous with His love for us.
There’s also a second principle with generosity that has to do with our heart attitude: “God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7). If we give grudgingly, we can miss the gifts God desires for us. Still, we all struggle sometimes. My encouragement? Give anyway. What I’ve realized is that if I give God all I have, even when my heart doesn’t feel all that grateful, God takes my little and turns it into abundance. Because that is who God is!
Is there something you’re only releasing a little of? Give God all of it, and see what He does!
—Tom Bump
Children’s Ministry Leader, Author, and Coach
Contributor to Wonder Ink
*Wonder Ink Video for this series**Word of Wonder*
Word of Wonder:
“The three most important things to have are faith, hope and love. But the greatest of them is love.”
—1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIrV)
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