Scripture Text: Philippians 4:14-20

Faithful Giving transcends mere giving. It is all about putting God at the centre of your giving.
Faithful Giving is
- giving quietly
- giving ungrudgingly
- giving without expecting something in return from the person you are giving to
- giving cheerfully
- giving in obedience
- giving with a heart of worship to God.

How Do We Give?
1. Giving our lives to Christ in absolute repentance. This is a kind of giving where we by all virtues surrender to the God, having purchased us and paid through the Death and Blood of His Son (2 Corinthians 5:15).
2. Giving ourselves as living sacrifice (Romans 12:1).
3. Giving motivated by act of Worship. This is when we give gratefully out of heart of love and worship because Christ gave Himself for us.
4. Giving by investing in Eternity(Mathew 6:19-21). This is also known as investing in our spiritual growth which leads us to eternity with God. Examples are giving our time to God in personal devotion, meditation, reflection and applying the Word of God; praise worship, ministerial services, mission trips and community outreach opportunities, evangelism, etc.
5. Giving towards the work and heart beat of God. Examples are providing tracts for evangelism, sharing Bible for new convert or people in the prison, feeding the poor and the needy, giving advice or support who are emotionally damaged, providing shelter and clothing for those who deserve it, etc (Mathew 25:31-40).
6. Giving our tithes, offerings, first fruit, etc., faithfully.
7. Giving up ourselves to Christ to follow Him as His disciples.

Reward from Giving
- Before we receive a reward from Giving, we must first receive the gift of Christ by accepting Him as our Lord and Saviour. Only by this we can faithfully give and receive our due rewards.
- Getting rewards based on what measure we have given. That is, the more we give, the more reward we get( 2 Cor 9:6).
- We get to store our treasures in Heaven and have access to them when we enter God's Kingdom
- We build and secure our mansions in Heaven to live eternally with Christ.
- We receive daily supply of our needs from God accordingly to His riches in glory by Christ (Philippians 4:19).
- God will remove devourer from our finances, health, career, family, etc and open the storehouse of heaven to bless us.
- We will continue to enjoy God's favour, protection, mercy, joy, happiness, long life, fulfillment, increase and all other blessings He promised us His children.
- If we follow Christ and give ourselves to Him as disciples, we will make Heaven at last.

So brethren, giving is beyond money or material things. It is faithfully giving yourself and all to God.

Today is another chance to give your life to Christ for tomorrow may be too late.

God bless you.

Peace!