[Thursday's Devotional] - Give and it Will be Given to You

Give and it Will be Given to You I have found that helping someone in need and thanking God to meet my own needs, works.    Right now there is a child dying somewhere in developing countries because of drinking dirty water or malnutrition.   Why not sacrifice a pound you intended to spend on a cup of Starbucks coffee and be the miracle that poor family has been waiting and praying for?   When your pound joins others from 5,000 other people, you can drill a well and install a water pump for clean drinking water provision savings many lives in a remote village in Africa, Asia or Latin America.   Friends, this is not charity marketing, but God's word!   Read the entire chapter of Isaiah 58.  God says true fasting that pleases Him is to attend to the needs of the poor and in verse 9, He promises:   "Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I."   Due to culture and tradition, we may refuse to accept God's admonition, but the truth is that there are both earthly and heavenly benefits/ consequences for doing the things the Lord tells us to do.  If this were not true, why is David recorded in the giant slaying story, saying: what will be the reward for someone who is going to kill the uncircumcised Philistine? God was going to use Saul to meet David's own needs, for doing this (1 Samuel 17:25).   Giving is a spiritual law, just like the natural law of gravity. Both were created by God.   Farai Mutsambiwa    Twitter Website Copyright © 2017 St. Matthew & St. Oswald's Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the Daily Devotionals Our mailing address is: St. Matthew & St. Oswald's Church 1a New Street Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 7BE United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Want to be added to our mailing list? - sign up here!