Overflowing Blessing

Luke 6:38

New Living Translation (NLT)

³⁸ Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.“

There’s noting exact about God’s recipe of return to us. His gifts and overflowing. He’s not stingy with His goodness or ungenerous with His supply. When you choose to give. He promises you’ll have enough – more than you think – filling you back up with more than you had to begin with.

This doesn’t mean you should always without question give yourself at the expense of the relationships and purposes that should be prioritized in your life. Sometimes the best, most empowering word you can learn to utter is no. But on those occasions when you do feel genuinely led by God to give, you needn’t be worried about what appears to be a dwindling amount of personal resources to do the task.

Most people think these things:

• My energy level is so low
• My love tank is running so close to empty
• its only tuesday but my patience is already running out
• I barely have enough money to fill the tank and feed my kids!

Yet when you feel as though you’re completely void of anything worthwhile to offer, or when your situation make you feel justified in not being the one to participate, you’ll often hear Him whispering… Give and it will be given to you.

It appears that the best way to get more of what you need is to give away the little you think you have left – at the appropriate time and in the appropriate way. So make the resolution to be content. Then look toward heaven with holy anticipation.

When you consider your level of willingness to give of yourself, does it reveal more contentment or discontentment residing in your heart? In what way?

Based on God’s provissions that you listed at the end of the last chapter what is one thing you could close this book and go do for someone else out of that resource?

Record your thoughts regarding this statement. “Sometimes the best, more empowering word you can learn to utter is no.”

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