Think about giving – it's truly beautiful in God's eyes. When you're preparing your offering, remember it should be your best, given with a sincere heart. It should be a joyful act, knowing how much God has already blessed us with, even when we don't deserve it. He's been incredibly generous, hasn't He?
If you only give what's leftover, well, life might just mirror that back to you. Think about it – give as if you're giving to yourself. Don't do it out of obligation or because you expect something in return. True giving comes from the heart.
Don't make a big show of it either. It's not about getting praised or patted on the back. Let your giving be a quiet act between you and God. He sees what's in your heart, and He loves a cheerful giver. Remember what it says in 2 Corinthians 9:7: "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."
Giving is an act of worship, a way to give back a portion of what God has already given us. And when God gives, He gives abundantly. When you offer from the heart, you're opening the door for even more blessings. The more you give, the more you receive. It's a beautiful cycle.
I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
In that day LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shall speak to the sons of Israel.
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people. And they said, All that LORD has spoken will we do, and be obedient.And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that LORD has made with you concerning all these words.
And I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.And ye shall eat old storage long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the new.And I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
Know therefore that LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, do thou go in to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations LORD thy God drives them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which LO
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,in that I command thee this day to love LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou may live and multiply, and that LORD thy God may bless thee in the land where th
He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac,and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed, says LORD who has mercy on thee.
For I, LORD, love justice. I hate robbery with iniquity. And I will give them their recompense in truth. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded (LXX/NT) them, says LORDBut this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my laws (LXX/NT) in their inward parts, and I will write them (LXX/NT) in their hearts. And I will be their God, and thAnd they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know LORD, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
My covenant of life and peace was with him. And I gave them to him that he might fear, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.
for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed on behalf of many for remission of sins.
Likewise also the cup after dining, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood being shed for you.
But now he has obtained a superior ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a superior covenant, which has been enacted upon superior promises.For if that first one was faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.
And because of this he is mediator of a new covenant, so that a death having occurred for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, those who are called might take the promise of the eternal inheritance.
This is the covenant that I will ordain with them after those days, says Lord, giving my laws on their hearts, and on their minds I will write them,and, Their sins and their lawlessness I will, no, not further remember.
Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing.And I will bless those who bless thee, and he who curses thee I will curse. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
and said, By myself I have sworn, says LORD, because thou have done this thing, and have not withheld thy son, thine only son,that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies,and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.
And LORD said to Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.And he was there with LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac,and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
O LORD, thou are my God. I will exalt thee. I will praise thy name. For thou have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Think not that I came to abolish the law or the prophets. I came not to abolish, but to fulfill.For truly I say to you, until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle will, no, not pass away from the law, until all things come to pass.
For the promise to Abraham or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, was not through law, but through a righteousness of faith.
Brothers (I speak according to a man), in the same way of a man, no man annuls or adds to a contract that has been ratified.Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, And to the seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, who is Christ.
But the loving kindness of LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to son's sons,
For thus says LORD of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:To them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant. Before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation, and all the people among which thou are shall see the work of LORD, for it is an aw
Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which LORD thy God has forbidden thee.For LORD thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that LORD thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to thy fathers.And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee. He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the
LORD will establish thee for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to thee, if thou shall keep the commandments of LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou are called by the name of LORD, and they shall be afraid of thee.
All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Thus says LORD, In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in a day of salvation I have helped thee. And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate he
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my laws (LXX/NT) in their inward parts, and I will write them (LXX/NT) in their hearts. And I will be their God, and th
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant.
I say therefore, did God thrust away his people? May it not happen! For I also am an Israelite from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.God did not thrust away his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture tells by Elijah? How he encounters God about Israel.
For, finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says Lord, and I will perfect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by my hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says Lord.Because this is the covenant that I will ordain with the house of Israel after those days, says Lord, giving my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be to them for a God, and they will be to me fo
I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
A book of a genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers,and Judah begot Perez and Zerah from Tamar, and Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram,and Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon,and Salmon begot Boaz from Rahab, and Boaz begot Obed from Ruth, and Obed begot Jesse,and Jesse begot David the king. And David begot Solomon from the widow of Uriah,and Solomon begot Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa,and Asa begot Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah,and Uzziah begot Jotham, and Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah,and Hezekiah begot Manasseh, and Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah,and Josiah begot Jechoniah and his brothers during the Babylonian exile.And after the Babylonian exile, Jechoniah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel,and Zerubbabel begot Abiud, and Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor,and Azor begot Zadoc, and Zadoc begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud,and Eliud begot Eleazar, and Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob,and Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the Babylonian exile fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian exile to the Christ fourteen generations.
to do mercy with our fathers, and his holy covenant to be remembered,the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to give to us,
Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made for our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed all the patriarchies of the earth will be blessed.
who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the divine service, and the promises,of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.
For as many as be promises of God, in him is the Yes, and in him the Truly, for glory to God through us.
For as many as are from works of law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed is every man who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them.But that no man is made righteous by law before God, is evident, because, The righteous man will live from faith.And the law is not from faith, but the man who does them will live in them.Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.So that the blessing of Abraham might occur for the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.
Now indeed therefore the first had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.
this signifying from the Holy Spirit, the way into the holy things is not yet to be made known while the first tabernacle still remains.Which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able to make the man officiating fully perfect in respect to conscience,
And LORD has avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised thee, and that thou should keep all his commandments,
He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye LORD.
And, behold, LORD stood above it, and said, I am LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which thou lay, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed.And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee wherever thou go, and will bring thee again into this land. For I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
And God said, No, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that thou may live, thou and thy seed,to love LORD thy God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him, for he is thy life, and the length of thy days, that thou may dwell in the land which LORD swore to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
but chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says LORD: My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed
And I, LORD, will be their God, and my servant David ruler among them. I, LORD, have spoken it.
But I say to you, that I will, no, not drink of this fruit of the grapevine henceforth until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
Blessed is Lord, the God of Israel, because he came to help, and made ransom for his people.And he raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his boy David,
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those in afar, as many as Lord our God may call.
For there is no distinction of a Jew and also of a Greek, for the same Lord is of all men, being rich toward all those who call upon him.For every man, whoever may call upon the name of Lord will be saved.
But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.
As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shall be the father of a multitude of nations.Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for I have made thee the father of a multitude of nations.
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors. Yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercessi
Thus says LORD: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season,then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
Because of this it is from faith, so that it is according to grace, in order for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to the seed from the law, but also to the seed from the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all
Brothers (I speak according to a man), in the same way of a man, no man annuls or adds to a contract that has been ratified.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born from a woman, born under law,so that he might redeem those under law, so that we might receive the sonship.
Think not that I came to abolish the law or the prophets. I came not to abolish, but to fulfill.
This is the covenant that I will ordain with them after those days, says Lord, giving my laws on their hearts, and on their minds I will write them,
And LORD said to Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt,to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances,if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments,then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes,
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness. For they have been ever of old.Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written, The man who delivers will come from Zion, and will turn away impiety from Jacob.And this is the covenant from me to them when I will take away their sins.
to him who smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving kindness [is] forever,and brought out Israel from among them, for his loving kindness [is] forever,with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, for his loving kindness [is] forever,
Behold, my Boy whom I chose, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will declare justice to the Gentiles.
Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,but by precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--of Christ,
He has sent redemption to his people. He has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and reverend is his name.
Yet it pleased LORD to bruise him. He has put him to grief. When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of LORD shall prosper in his hand.He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied. By the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.
But after going, learn what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners for repentance.
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to LORD, and all the kinfolk of the nations shall worship before thee.
Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.
He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
But thou, O LORD, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,so thou shall find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Thus says LORD, In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in a day of salvation I have helped thee. And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate hesaying to those who are bound, Go forth to those who are in darkness. Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare heights.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
For LORD is good. His loving kindness [is] forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy [is] in the morning.
Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
For I am not ashamed of the good-news of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to every man who believes, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek.For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.
For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart o
The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise.The precepts of LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD are true, [and] righteous altogether.More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant--our Lord Jesus--may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.I will also lift up my hands to thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate on thy statutes.
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. For thou have magnified thy word above all thy name.
Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
And passing forth from there, Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And he says to him, Follow me. And after rising, he followed him.And it came to pass while he relaxed in the house, and behold, many tax collectors and sinners having come, they were sitting with Jesus and his disciples.
I will not break my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.I have sworn once by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
But it is not as that the word of God has failed. For all those from Israel, these are not Israel,
Ye are my witnesses, says LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after me.
And he remembered his covenant for them, and relented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but became strong in faith, giving glory to God,
LORD will perfect that which concerns me. Thy loving kindness, O LORD, [is] forever. Forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Bless LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou are very great. Thou are clothed with honor and majesty,who covers thyself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind,who makes his [heavenly] agents spirits, his ministers a flame of fire,who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be moved forever.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.