6:38 God Expects You to Receive a Harvest from Your Giving. He Wants Us to Expect a Miracle Return!, SEED FAITH. Jesus opened up a whole new way of giving. He gave Himself totally to and for the needs of people. We can no longer pay or sacrifice our way into God's mercy.Jesus Christ has paid our debt before God, and His Cross †  is a completed work in our eternal interest. Our giving, then, is no longer a debt that we owe, but a seed that we sow! The life and power source is from Him. Ours is simply to act on the power potential in that seed-life He has placed in us by His power and grace!

Notice that when Jesus said, "Give," He also said, "and it will be given to you." Giving and receiving belong together. Only when we give are we in a position to expect to reach and receive a harvest. And Jesus said the harvest will be "good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over."

We give as to God, and we receive as from God; but we should remain sensitive at all times to the different ways in which God may deliver our harvest. I often say, "A miracle is either coming toward you or going passed you all the time. Reach out and take it! Do not let it pass by!" (see Matt. 9:20-22). God's miracle for you may be coming as an idea, an oppurtunity, an invitation, or a previously unkown or unidentified association. Watch expectantly for the ways in which God may choose to deliver your miracle to you in His "due season"; (which, for you, may be today). (John 10:10/Gal. 6:7-9) O.R.
 

6:38 The Law of Divine Reciprocity, GOD'S PROSPERITY. There is a universal law of divine reciprocity. You give; God gives in return. When you plant a seed, the ground yields a harvest. That is a reciprocal relationship. The ground can only give to you as you give to the ground. You put money in the bank, and the bank returns interest. That is reciprocity.

But many people want something for nothing when it comes to the things of God. They know that it does not work the way in the world system. Yet they always expect God to send them something when they have not invested in the kingdom of God. 

If you are not investing your time, talent, commitment, and your money, why do you want something? How can you get something when you have not planted any seed? How can you expect God to honor your desire when you have not honored His command to give? Prosperity begins with investment. (Malachi 3:8-10/3 John 2) F.P

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 8.  "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, `In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. 
 9.  You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation. 
 10.  Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now in this,'' says the Lord of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.