REFERENCE SCRIPTURES ON GIVING:
- Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. - Proverbs 3:9-10
- The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. – Corinthians 9:6-7
- One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. – Proverbs 11:24
- But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand. – 1 Chronicles 29:14
- A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. – Proverbs 11:25