#GOFAMINTDailyDevotion Sat. 19/8/2017

20/8/2017 LESSON 12

BLESSINGS FOR THOSE WHO GIVE TO THE NEEDY

Quarter’s Theme: CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE

Unit 3: Our Impacts (Lessons 10-12)

(STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY MONTH)

Suggested Hymns: G.H.B. 208, 223

Devotional Reading: LK. 6:30-38

Topic For Adults

GOD THE FATHER, THE FIRST MODEL GIVER

Topic For Youths

GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER, NOT ‘SHOWFUL’ GIVER

Topic For Intermediates

YOUR LIFE IS A GIFT

Scripture Lesson

ACTS 20:35; MATT. 6:1-4; PS. 41:1-3

MEMORY VERSE

And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me. Matt 25:40 (NKJV)

DAILY DEVOTIONAL READING

Sat. 19/8/2017

Despite I Have Given All, I Might Have Given Nothing

1 Cor. 13:3; Lk. 12:33; Matt. 6:19-21; 2 Cor. 9:7

True giving and offering is that which credits your heavenly treasury and it’s a sweet smelling savor to the Lord. A believer may think he is storing much in heaven only to meet bags of ashes. What may cause this? The heart and motive. Any act of giving not done as a result of impulse of agape love and motive to give glory to the Father is zero in currency of heaven. No reward. Any act of giving done to show self-righteousness before people as a giver (Matt. 6:1-34) has no reward. God even respects gifts given in secret than one done in the open (Matt. 6:3-4). Any giving done reluctantly or under compulsion has no reward. Any giving not done in faith has no reward (Rom. 14:23b)

POINT OF EMPHASIS: Do not have your reward now and have none in heaven.

PRAYER POINT: Lord, cleanse my heart of all wrong motives and impurity, that no one takes my crown, that I do not lose my anticipated reward.