Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Start Time: 6:11 AM

End Time: 6:33 AM

Title: Generous Hands are Blessed Hands

Scriptures: Proverbs 22:9

God’s Message/Promise/Commands:

Amazing day with Jesus!  Today, I want to talk about Generosity.  Proverbs 22:9 says, "Generous hands are blessed hands because they give bread to the poor." I was awaken by this truth.  The fact is, I consider myself a generous person until I read this verse.  Because in reality, many times, I am generous when it is convenient for me.  I give to the people I know who are in need, sometimes even beyond what they need.  But verse 9 spoke of a generous hands being blessed for the sole reason that those hands give bread to the poor.  I can consider myself generous but do I have blessed hands?  Because according to this scripture, generous hands are only blessed when they give to the poor.  So, do we give to the poor?  Or do we give to the people we consider poor and in need.  I am guilty of this because I give only to those I feel deserves it but it's no way written in the Bible that we give to those who deserve it only.  In fact it generalizes that we give to the poor.  So anyone who is poor, we ought to give.  Amen!

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, thank You for a great message.  Thank You for making me realize that to have a blessed hands, I need to give to the poor.  Help me Lord to give to the poor even if I don't think they deserve it.  Give me this conviction in my heart and let me realize that I need to give to the poor not specifically to be blessed because You have commanded me to do so.  And to have a blessed hand is just an added bonus.  Give me wisdom Lord to apply what I learned today.  In Jesus' Name, Amen!

Memory Verse Share for today:

Proverbs 22:9 (The message version)

Generous hands are blessed hands because they give bread to the poor.

Are you generous?  How many times have we given only when it is convenient to us?  Well, today God tells us that we may think or consider ourselves a generous person but only when we give to the poor that our hands are blessed.  God didn't say to give to the poor who deserve them or to those who work or showed effort to get out of poverty.  God plainly said, give to the poor because those hands who give to the poor are blessed hands. 

Happy Wednesday Guys!