OUR
GIVING FATHER
BREAD
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NIV)
15 Thanks
be to God for his indescribable gift! 2
Corinthians 9:15 (NIV)
10 Jesus
answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it
is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given
you living water.” John 4:10
(NIV)
9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and
you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For
everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door
will be opened. 11 Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give
him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will
give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are
evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your
Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:9-13 (NIV)
8 And
God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all
times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9 As it is written: “He has
scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.” 2 Corinthians 9:7-9 (NIV)
8 For it
is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God-- 9 not by
works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians
2:8-9 (NIV)
17 Every
good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the
heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 (NIV)
10 Each
one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully
administering God's grace in its various forms. 1 Peter
4:10 (NIV)
38 “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed
down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with
the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:38 (NIV)
BUTTER
“(Why does God) bother to speak to
us? The truly staggering answer that the
Bible gives to this question is that God’s purpose in revelation is to make
friends with us. It was to this end that
he created us rational beings, bearing his image, able to think and hear and
speak and love; he wanted there to be genuine personal affection and
friendship, two-sided, between himself and us—a relation, not like that between
a man and his dog, but like that of a father to his child, or a husband to his
wife. Loving friendship between two
persons has no ulterior motive; it is an end in itself. And this is God’s end
in revelation. He speaks to us simply to fulfill the purpose for which we were
made; that is, to bring into being a relationship in which he is a friend to
us, and we to him, he finding his joy in giving us gifts and we finding ours in
giving him thanks”. J I Packer
“The Holy Spirit is the Comforter, the Helper, the Guide, the very
presence of God living in you. The great promise of God in prayer is this: We
ask God for the gift- He gives us the Giver. We ask God for the supply and He
gives us the Source. We ask God for the money and He doesn't give us cash;
instead, so to speak, He gives us the bank...He delights in giving us
Himself....The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God
who desire to make much of him in this world.”
David Platt
“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.” Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given,
never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. Gratitude
for the seemingly insignificant- a seed- this plants the giant miracle. The
miracle of eucharisto. Do not disdain the small. The whole of the life - even the hard -
is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the
whole...There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is
this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.” Ann
Voskamp
“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged.” Matthew Arnold
“God’s greatest gifts come through travail.” F. B. Meyer
“Martin Luther wrote in his book, Table
Talk: ‘The greater God’s gifts and
works, the less they are regarded.’ We
tend to exhibit a degree of thanksgiving in reverse proportion to the amount of
blessings we’ve received. A hungry man
is more thankful for his morsel than a rich man for his heavily-laden
table. A lonely woman in a nursing home
will appreciate a visit more than a popular woman with a party thrown in her
honor. If the birds only burst into song
once a year, we’d all pay close attention.
But because they are singing every morning, we scarcely bother to
listen.” Robert J. Morgan
HEART SAVOR
- · All God’s gifts are good and perfect.
- · God’s greatest gift is Him.
- · God gives gifts and I give thanks.
