January 3, 2024 - Proverbs 3:9-10

“Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine.” Proverbs 3:9-10 NLT

Lord, you are so incredible. The way you long to bless us is unbelievable. You love to lavish us with your gifts. So many of us really struggle to walk out in the belief that you will bless us beyond what we can imagine when we are generous with what you give us. Please forgive us for our unbelief. We want to trust in you and your promises. This verse says that you will fill our barns and vats when we give you our first and best. We can read other similar promises in the bible. It is a law of your Kingdom. What we reap, we will sow. It might not always look the way we imagined or wanted, but you will bless us in remarkable ways when we do sow into you. You are such a generous God. You give and you give, and then you give us some more. When we give what we have to you, you will multiply it and bless us abundantly.

Lord, show us the places in our lives in which we are not giving you our first or our best. We not only want to tithe to you our finances, but everything else in our lives too. You deserve our everything. We don’t just want to stop at 10%, that is just the minimum. We want to give more than the minimum. You are worthy of more than the minimum. Help us grow a generous heart. Help us uproot any stinginess in us. Make us generous like you are. Teach us how to live within a lifestyle that allows us to give well above the 10%. We ask that you bless our lifestyle so that we live above what it seems we should be able to, not because we have given all our time, talent, efforts, and money to obtain it, but because we have given you the first of those things and you blessed us with our abundance. We praise you for your generosity and how you bless us!

In Jesus name, amen.