Love is giving. When your heart is full of love, you will have that intense desire to give what you've got. You'll see a need and you'll WANT to fill it. That's what it means to do things heartily--doing something to the best of your ability, because it's in your heart to do it. And that's God...
Love is giving. That's my definition. "I will gladly spend myself and all I have for you, even though it seems that the more I love you, the less you love me" (2 Corinthians 12:15 NLT). Giving everything you have and everything you are. That's what God the Father did when He gave His only begotten...
When you give what you've got, you experience what you've got. And, since love is giving, when you give what you've got you experience love. I think that's pretty awesome. In the literal sense of the word meaning it inspires awe. I don't think there's anything more holy, or sanctified, or...
It is the season of giving. Which, when you think about it, should probably be all day every day anyway. Because our heavenly Father has already given us the greatest gift there is. Look at Romans 6:23, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our...
Love is giving. So let's look at that for a few days. And let's start with Luke 3:10-11, " And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise." What...
Whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord. That's our motivation. That's why--and how--we do what we do. Do it to the best of your ability, because it's in your heart to do it. Let what's inside come out... by knowing and believing that it's in there. That, to me, is what it's all about....
The issue of life flows from the heart. The issue of life... is love. If you're doing things heartily--to the best of your ability, because it's in your heart to do it--then you're letting love guide the way. It is God working in us both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure. I think one of the...
David was known as a man after God's own heart, right? Which didn't necessarily mean that he HAD God's heart. On that side of the cross it was, at best, a type and shadow of what would be available after Jesus finished the work. So what we see in Paslm 51:10 is the cry of David's heart. We see that...
There are, in my opinion, two parts to doing things heartily. There's doing it because it is in your heart to do it, and there is doing it to the best of your ability--as unto God, and not as unto men--taking "deserve" out of the question. Let me say it another way, "For it is God which worketh in...