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Thanksgiving Through Giving

#Thanksgiving Day 8

Thanksgiving Through Giving.
You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God’s people, but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. ~ 2 Corinthians 9:11-12

Another way we can show our thanks to God is by giving our substances. You can give a thanksgiving seed to show appreciation to God. When the temple was to be dedicated, King Solomon offered unto God a thousand burnt offerings.

Note this: you can never pay God for what He has done. So don’t think your giving is paying for what God has done for you. Nope! Your giving is simply a show of appreciation to God. It could be in cash or kind. 

Giving to the work of God as a way of offering thanks is a good act. 

In the last part of 2 Corinthians 9 verse 11 Paul says something very interesting.  He states “your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God”.  Their seeds of giving will reap a harvest of increase for them, but it will also result in an increase of thanksgiving to God.  In verse 12 he says, “This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.”  

When the Corinthians give to the poor of Jerusalem, Paul will thank God his request was granted and the poor saints in Jerusalem will thank God that their needs and wants were met.  This is what it means to sow seeds of thanksgiving.  When we give as Paul encouraged the Corinthians to give, we open doors of opportunity for those receiving the gifts to glorify God with thanksgiving.

In 2 Corinthians 9 Paul makes his request and explains how and why the Corinthians should give.  More importantly he stresses that giving pleases God and gives more thanks to God.  This Thanksgiving season let’s not allow our thanks to God stop with us.  

Let’s give others a reason to thank Him as well.  Let us sow in giving abundantly, intentionally, and freely that God may reap a plentiful harvest of thanksgiving.  This is how we can take thanksgiving to the next level. This is how we sow seeds of thanksgiving.

It’s the Eighth day of our Thanks-filled Month. Package a thanksgiving offering to God or take on a project in the church/community in appreciation of what God has done for you.

And it will surprise you the more God can do.


Shalom! 😊

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