If you sow on good ground in love, humility, simplicity, and for the glory of God, God will multiply our gifts back to us. He will do it automatically. Some will reap thirty fold, sixty fold, or a hundred fold. Did you know that if you scatter your gifts to the poor, your righteousness will endure forever. ( see 2 Corinthians 9:9). Biblical giving has something to do with righteousness. Those who give to the poor lack nothing, but those who CLOSE their eyes to them, receive many CURSES. (see Proverbs 28:27). Be enlightened.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds & write them on their hearts. I will be their God, & they will be My people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10-11). If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant & difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live the Christian way. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wanting to obey God. With new hearts, hearts of flesh & not hearts of stone, we will find that serving God is our greatest joy. Under God's new covenant, God's law is inside us & not outside, ie, on a tablet of stone. No, it's written in our hearts. It is no longer an external set of rules & principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our ...
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