Speaker: Matthew White
Date: February 7 2010

Why is giving so hard?

• Lack of money is stressful
• How much money for happiness?
  • A little more – John D. Rockefeller
  • 20%
• Sever connection between money and happiness
• Phil. 4:12-13

2 Cor. 9:6-9 – Law of Sowing and Reaping

Laws of Sowing and Reaping

• Good soil matters
• Are we planting on good ground?
• The fruit of giving to God lasts an eternity
• Sowing reaps a harvest
• Don’t be stingy with seeds
• Prov 11:24-25 – Entering the flow of God’s blessing
• RG LeTourneau
• Sowing is risky
• We are completely reliant on God
• Jim Elliot – “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose”
• A full life is measured by giving not by gaining