Is it really more blessed to give? Acts 20:35,
35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Giving activates receiving, and we should expect a return when we give. So I plan to talk to you and help you understand the grace of giving and receiving. You know, the grace of God is the ability of God on a man to complete a task. And God has set forth a principle in the earth called giving and receiving. Sowing and reaping. God’s plan to bring increase into our lives involves two principles.
- Giving in obedience to the spirit of love and
- Reaping; receiving a harvest.
Genesis 8:22 says,
22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
God believes in the grace of giving and receiving. God functions by His own laws that he’s made available for us to function in. God gives because of His love. God gives His very best; God gives for the benefit of others, and God gives expecting a return. We are children of God. God has set that we function in the spirit of love and that we increase in our lives. God has promised to increase us more and more, us and our children. However, He expects us to walk in love and walk by faith.
John 3:16 says,
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Before Jesus gave his life on the cross, he revealed that he expected a return. You see John 12:23 verse,
23And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
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In the new testament, we see the return that God received from giving of his son. Hebrews 2:9 says,
So Jesus Christ was planted and he brought forth much fruit. That scripture in that 10th verse says, ‘For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory.’ So, you can see that God believes in sowing and in reaping and we should expect return when we give. When we compare Luke 6:31-35 with Luke 6:38 then we can see that we should expect a return for our giving.
Although we shouldn’t look to receive from a specific person, the Lord promises a return. Luke 6:31 – 35 verse,
You see in Luke 6:38 God says,
38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
You see, God is our source and we expect the return from God and it doesn’t matter who he uses to bring it to us. So although we shouldn’t look to receive from a specific person, the Lord promises a return. So it IS more blessed to give than to receive. Giving activates receiving; and we should expect a return for our giving.
We give led by the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit leads us into this truth about the grace of giving and receiving motivated by love but releasing our faith in the promises of God. He expects us to increase so that we’ll have the wherewithal to complete the task that he has given to us in the earth and working together with him to bring his desire to pass in the earth.
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