Luke 6: 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
We talked about God’s promises this past Sunday. I wanted to take a verse or two this week and drill down on a few of those promises.
Charity, and blessings. If you want them, you need to start handing them out. This is not just a good idea, something to do in your spare time, or something that will make you look good in the public eye. This is a promise from God, delivered by His Son in person. Jesus is telling us give and it will be given to you. Of course not just given to you, not a little, not enough to get by, not a smidge. No that is not the way God works, He does not do half way! It will be a good measure! It will be pressed down. Have you ever filled a measuring cup with flour, or butter? You can fill a cup rather quickly, but there is a lot of air in there, you have pockets of space that are not used. Well the Lord is telling you that when He measures that blessing out, he is going to measure it, then press it down! No space unfilled, no gap left unfilled. He is going to pack it down, shake it and then as if that were not enough, he is going to run it over to the point of overflow, then He is going to dump it in your lap! More than you need, more than you asked for. Then all He asks is that you take it, and do the same. Pour out that blessing onto the world in front of you. You will have plenty to share, because you were given more than you need. Grace, peace, love, joy, forgiveness, protection all of these things are heaped upon you so that you might go out and offer the same in the name of God. All the Lord wants to see, is that you hav3e tried to get rid of everything He gave you. Of course you will never pull it off, but I can think of worse was to spend my days than trying to bless others beyond the point that I have been blessed. This is a promise from God. If you want the blessing, give it away, if you want more than what you have, you have to clear out what you have to make room for the next round. Make good on the promise. Start today. If you have it give it. I know in these times money is a hard thing to come by, but I know that God has blessed us all with more than worldly riches. Give freely what you have been given, give what you have, then be ready to see the Lord in action, prepare to be blessed.
God Bless,
Brian Thetford
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