{"id":2302,"date":"2023-12-28T23:27:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2023-12-28T23:27:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T23:27:48","slug":"giving-matching-desire-with-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Giving &#8211; Matching Desire with Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Faith is made complete by actions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NLT-28899\" class=\"text 2Cor-8-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>So we have urged Titus, who encouraged your giving in the first place, to return to you and encourage you to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">finish<\/span> this <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ministry of giving<\/span>.<\/span> <sup>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/sup><span id=\"en-NLT-28903\" class=\"text 2Cor-8-10\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>Here is my advice: It would be good for you to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">finish what you started a year ago<\/span>. Last year you were the first who wanted to give, and you were the first to begin doing it.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NLT-28904\" class=\"text 2Cor-8-11\"><sup class=\"versenum\">11\u00a0<\/sup>Now you should finish what you started. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let the eagerness<\/span> you showed in the beginning <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">be matched<\/span> now by your giving. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Give in proportion to what you have<\/span>.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NLT-28905\" class=\"text 2Cor-8-12\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>Whatever you give is acceptable if you give it eagerly. And give according to what you have, not what you don\u2019t have.<\/span>\u00a0 <span id=\"en-NLT-28906\" class=\"text 2Cor-8-13\"><\/span><strong>[2 Corinthians 8:6, 10-12 (NLT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span class=\"text Jas-2-14\"><sup class=\"versenum\">14\u00a0<\/sup>What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?<\/span> &#8230;&#8230;..<span id=\"en-NIV-30315\" class=\"text Jas-2-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21\u00a0<\/sup>Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?<\/span> <span id=\"en-NIV-30316\" class=\"text Jas-2-22\"><sup class=\"versenum\">22\u00a0<\/sup>You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did&#8230;&#8230;.<span id=\"en-NIV-30318\" class=\"text Jas-2-24\"><sup class=\"versenum\">24\u00a0<\/sup>You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>(<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>James 2:14,21,22,24)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Types of Biblical Givings: <\/strong><\/span>First fruits (Proverbs 3:9-10), Tithes, Seed Offerings, Freewill Offerings, Alms, Thanksgiving and Grace giving.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The case of David and Giving:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. He had a Desire to Build the Temple<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 7:1-3<\/p>\n<p><strong>B. God made an unconditional promise to him because of this desire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>v16 &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Your house and your kingdom will endure before me forever, and your throne will be established forever<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Chronicles 17:11-14<\/li>\n<li>2 Chronicles 6:16<\/li>\n<li>Matthew 1:1<\/li>\n<li>Matthew 21:9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>C. His Desire was put into Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>i. He gave the Temple Plans<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Chronicles 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>v11-12 He gave plans of the temple as the spirit had given him<\/p>\n<p>v13 Gave distribution of work for the priests, and articles that were to be used<\/p>\n<p>v14-18 Guidelines for the gold and silver for the articles (lamp stand, lamps, tables for consecrated bread, forks, sprinkling bowls, pitches, dishes, altar of incense and cherubim).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">ii. David gave encouragement to Solomon who was to build the temple<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Chronicles 28:19-21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">iii. David gave all his resources and personal treasures<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Chronicles 29:2-3,6<\/strong> shows that all the leaders gave willingly<\/p>\n<p><strong>v9-19<\/strong> Also shows that all gave willingly for the work of the temple.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">iv. David thank God for the opportunity to give.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>v14-18<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">He acknowledged that all that he, the leaders and the people gave came from God and belongs to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">He acknowledged that they gave <span style=\"color: #003366;\">willingly <\/span>and with <span style=\"color: #003366;\">honest<\/span> intent. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dedication of the temple: <strong>2 Chronicles 7:11-16<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1 Samuel 2:30<\/strong>b states, &#8220;&#8230;&#8230;..<span id=\"en-NIV-7271\" class=\"text 1Sam-2-30\">Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NIV-7272\" class=\"text 1Sam-2-31\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke 8:1-3<\/strong> talks of women who were financial supporters of the ministry of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith is made complete by actions 6\u00a0So we have urged Titus, who encouraged your giving in the first place, to return to you and encourage you to finish this ministry of giving. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.10\u00a0Here is my advice: It would be good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/?p=2302\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giveasmiletoday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}