Month: June 2024

The Kitchen Table Devotional

2 Corinthians 9 Day 4

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness; ¹¹ you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God.

2 Corinthians 9:10-11

The One who supplies what we have to give is the One who supplies what we get.  We can’t out-give God, He is the Lord of more than enough.  Don’t be afraid to give, it’s an act of trusting Him who has it all.

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2 Corinthians 9 Day 3

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed; ⁹ as it is written,
“HE SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE POOR,
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ENDURES FOREVER.”

2 Corinthians 9:8-9

To live in the love of God we must live in the love of God!  Grace is the undeserved and unreserved love of God always touching the lives of those who love God.

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2 Corinthians 9 Day 2

Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ⁷ Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver

2 Corinthians 9:6-7

God loves a cheerful giver!  But this giver doesn’t just throw seed here and there randomly, he sows with purpose and passion in his giving.  He gives because he gets it.  He sows because he wants to see it.  What do you want to see in your life, your family, your city, and your world?  We sow, we give, cheerfully into those things that we really want.  What do you want to see?  God can make it happen.

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2 Corinthians 9 Day 1

For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;

2 Corinthians 9:1

It’s hard to give.  It’s also a joy.  But it’s hard to give beyond our initial reaction to a need, especially when the gift goes to a person or place I don’t see every day, but money needs a mission bigger than our own selves. We can agree to pray and praise and even put in a good word but when it comes to paying, that goes deeper and reveals the real motives of our hearts.  This ministry?  It’s about giving to the needs of the saints in this context.