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What Causes You to Give?
Dr. David Davis
Mark 14:3-9
Mark 14:3-9 - "And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. (4) And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? (5) For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. (6) And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. (7) For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. (8) She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. (9) Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."
There was a strong man in a circus who performed great feats of strength and closed his act by squeezing an orange and challenging a member of the audience to squeeze one more drop. A little skinny man came forth - squeezed out one drop to the amazement and applause of the audience. The strong man says - "Where did you get such strength?" The man replied, "I'm the treasurer of the Baptist church that I attend!"
We are bombarded with pressures to give to all kinds of things in life.
There is the United Way - American Cancer Fund - MS - Vietnam Veterans - Wounded Warriors - and so many others.
All of these are doing a wonderful work. However, would you agree that much of our giving has to do with emotional promptings?
I want to give to you a formula to make you secure so you can say, "I want a security for giving other than having to be primed and prompted by gimmicks of this world."
Learn to give under the prompting of the Holy Spirit as underlined and explained in the Holy Scr ...
Dr. David Davis
Mark 14:3-9
Mark 14:3-9 - "And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. (4) And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? (5) For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. (6) And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. (7) For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. (8) She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. (9) Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."
There was a strong man in a circus who performed great feats of strength and closed his act by squeezing an orange and challenging a member of the audience to squeeze one more drop. A little skinny man came forth - squeezed out one drop to the amazement and applause of the audience. The strong man says - "Where did you get such strength?" The man replied, "I'm the treasurer of the Baptist church that I attend!"
We are bombarded with pressures to give to all kinds of things in life.
There is the United Way - American Cancer Fund - MS - Vietnam Veterans - Wounded Warriors - and so many others.
All of these are doing a wonderful work. However, would you agree that much of our giving has to do with emotional promptings?
I want to give to you a formula to make you secure so you can say, "I want a security for giving other than having to be primed and prompted by gimmicks of this world."
Learn to give under the prompting of the Holy Spirit as underlined and explained in the Holy Scr ...
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