Feb 26, 2025 … Giving Joyfully

Feb 26, 2025 … Giving Joyfully  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Moen speaking and  singing … We Are An Offering, showing that we, Christians, should be giving of ourselves - our times and talents - as an offering to and for the Lord by joyously helping others.

Woman joyfully crocheting a hat ... 

Highlight Passage: … Acts 9:36 …[NLT] … 

36 There was a believer in Joppa named Tabitha (which in Greek is Dorcas). She was always doing kind things for others and helping the poor.           

… Tabatha was a joyful worker for her Lord.      

Highlight Passage (in context)  …Acts 9:36-43 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Paul relates the story of Tabitha (i.e., “Dorcas” in the Greek) who worked joyfully for the Lord and was raised from the dead by God thru Peter’s intervention.                                                     

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 15:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Moses, commands His people to give generously to the poor with God’s blessing on those who do.

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 22:9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon’s wisdom on giving joyfully to the Lord. 

Reference Passage: … Malachi 3:10  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s challenge, thru the Prophet Malachi, that God will pour out a blessing on those who joyfully and generously give to God’s storehouse. 

Reference Passage: … Luke 6:38 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus clearly commands His born-again servants to give generously, joyfully, and sacrificially. 

Reference Passage: … Acts 20:35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul witnesses and testifies how he had tried to be an example to others of joyfully working hard to help others.

Reference Passage:… 2Corinthians 9:6-7  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul assures fellow Christians that God will provide for those who give to help those in need. 

                            

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Katara Patton … AT THIS LINK     … related a story about a woman on a five-hour flight noticing that a baby on her mother’s lap next to her was joyfully watching her crocheting a sweater (see photo).  But the woman decided to crochet a hat for the baby; and in the remaining hour of the flight time she rapidly and joyfully finished the hat and presented it to the mother of the baby, who gladly received the hat, knowing that the woman making the hat had kept her baby so occupied during the flight.

That story is a good human illustration of what we Christians should be doing with our time,  talents and treasures (i.e., money), … giving them and using them for God’s glory by helping  others who are in need of what we can joyously and sacrificially give.  So, I’m praying - right now - for all of us to look for opportunities  - maybe even today - of how we can give and serve JOYOUSLY in the name of our Lord.                  

          

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for being my joyous example of giving all I can in your name and for Your glory.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  to joyously give and serve others - maybe today - in Your name and for Your glory, Lord.   … Amen

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