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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

According to 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, truly biblical giving that pleases God is dependent on His grace from start to finish. God’s grace: 1. Enables us to give generously. 2. Causes us to consider giving to be a privilege. 3. Assists us in viewing collections as gracious works. 4. Inspires us with Christ’s gracious example. 5. Helps us give by means of human leadership. 6. Graciously rewards us with an abundance of money to meet all of our personal needs and to give to others.
Rod Rogers

For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.
David Livingstone