Have you given out of pressure?<\/p>\n
Have you avoided being generous?<\/p>\n
Has someone guilted you into donating toward their cause, so that you gave just because you didn't want them to think ill of you?<\/p>\n
If you were to consider in your heart how you would like to help a person or group, what would you like to give money or your time to?<\/p>\n
We should not just ask ourselves why we don't give if that is the case, rather, ask why we are not cheerful givers. What might we need to start thinking about or do to become a cheerful giver?<\/p>\n
God has the heart as His priority, let's make it our priority as well.<\/p>\n
"Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."
-2 Corinthians 9:7<\/p>\n
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