Radical Generosity: Building a Lasting Legacy for God

Our generosity has the opportunity, blessed by God, to bring things that aren't into existence into existence. And what we see with David is that he used his words to inspire a nation with something that he would not see himself. He rallied them together to bring forth a generosity that was radical, that was abundant, that was above all that they could give at that time, but because they gave of themselves they could accomplish much for the kingdom of God. [01:09:15] (33 seconds)  #InspireGenerosity

The words generation and generosity are very closely tied together. They come from the same Latin root word which is gen meaning to bring into being, to cause to grow and to originate. See both generation and generosity are about giving life or creating something beyond oneself. Generation is about giving forth life, producing the next lineage that is extending your legacy. Generosity is about giving forth life, releasing what you have so others may grow and flourish to continue. [01:09:49] (41 seconds)  #GenerationsOfGenerosity

The generosity of the righteous is what lives on forever. Psalm 112:9 says that he has given freely to the poor, his righteousness endures forever, his horn will be exalted in honor. See Paul describes also in the New Testament that generosity is like sowing a seed. He says in 2 Corinthians 9:6, he says he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, but he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. See the seed of your generosity today has the ability to impact the future tomorrow. [01:11:18] (40 seconds)  #SowGenerously

Generosity is not just about what you give but it's about what you set into motion with what you give. When you give to a person, when you give to a cause, when you give of your time and your attention, when you give of your life to the kingdom and to the purpose of God, you are setting things into motion. You're setting things into motion with your love, you're setting things into motion with your time, you're setting things into motion with your talents and your abilities because God can do more with what we give than what we could do by ourselves. [01:11:58] (37 seconds)  #GenerosityInMotion

It wasn't the amount but it was the amount of the heart. I think about the story of the widow's might in the New Testament that Jesus was not impressed by how much she gave but what impressed and what moved the heart of God was that she gave her all. See David, it wasn't just the amount that he gave but it was that he gave the best that he could in that moment to honor and to bring God glory. [01:15:07] (28 seconds)  #HeartOverAmount

David said that I want my worship, I want what I give to the Lord to cost me something. He had the opportunity to compromise for convenience sake but he realized that the best and the purest form of worship that he could give to honor the Lord was something that would cost himself and this is something that isn't just confronted in the life of David but it's something that we're confronted with every single day of our life. [01:16:36] (31 seconds)  #CostlyWorship

Radical generosity is anchored in how we respond to the redemptive work of Jesus in our life, that every one of us has been saved and set free and we stand on a firm foundation in Jesus Christ, a man that he has bought us with a price that is incorruptible, the blood of Jesus, we stand without a guilty conscience, we stand firm with confidence before him in his presence and it is that work that when we contribute it and give it back to the Lord that we see him glorified in a great way. [01:31:28] (37 seconds)  #GraceDrivenGenerosity

A surrendered heart is one that realizes that your life in God's hands is better than your life in your hands, realizing that when you offer yourself to the Lord that he can make the most of it. See a basketball in my hands is nothing, in fact it's probably worth less than what I paid for it, but if you put that same basketball into the hands of Steph Curry it's worth a lot more. [01:37:14] (34 seconds)  #InGodsHands

``When you surrender your life to God he will reorient your identity, he will reorient your purpose, he will tweak your desires, who even change how you see the things that you once loved, the things that used to give your attention to on a daily basis, all of a sudden those things begin to change. First Peter 2 says that and coming to him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men but is choice and precious in the side of God that you also as living stones are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer up a spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. [01:38:37] (51 seconds)  #SurrenderTransforms

When we give generously to the work and to the glory of God we're not just giving to something that is happening here in the natural, we are giving according to the realities of heaven, we are aligning our heart and our purpose to see the glory of God in legacy not just here on this earth that will live throughout time but that will live on throughout all of eternity and it's through that process that God begins to refine our heart not just on the form and the activities of what we do but what untruly matters. [01:42:43] (36 seconds)  #HeavenlyAlignedGiving