A Generous Heart

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

When soccer star Sadio Mané from Senegal was playing for Liverpool in the English Premier League, he was one of the world’s highest paid African players, making millions of dollars per year. Fans spotted a picture of Mané carrying an iPhone with a cracked screen and joked about him using the damaged device. His response was unflustered. "Why would I want ten Ferraris, twenty diamond watches, and two jet planes?” he asked. “I starved, I worked in the fields, played barefoot, and didn't go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. . . . [Give] some of what life has given me."

Mané knew how selfish it would be to hoard all his prosperity when so many of his neighbors back home struggled under crushing conditions. Hebrews reminds us that this generous way of life is for all of us, not only for those who are wealthy. “Do not forget to do good and to share with others,” Scripture says, “for with such sacrifices God is pleased” (13:16). Nurturing a generous heart isn’t only the right thing to do, but according to Hebrews, generosity also makes God smile. Who doesn’t want to make God pleased?

Generosity isn’t defined simply by how much we give. Instead, generosity refers to the posture of our heart. One thing we can do that’s “pleasing to [God]” (v. 21) is to simply open our hands and share what we have.

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0:00.0	Do not forget to do good and to share with others.
0:04.9	Hebrews 13, verse 16.
0:08.5	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:13.2	A generous heart was written and read by Wyn Collier.
0:25.4	Hebrews chapter 13, verses 15 to 21 through Jesus therefore let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise
0:32.0	the fruit of lips that openly profess his name and do not forget to do good and to share with others,
0:41.0	for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
0:45.4	Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority
0:48.9	because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account.
0:58.1	Do this so that their work will be a joy,
1:07.3	not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you. Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.
1:16.4	I particularly urge you to pray so that I may be restored to you soon.
1:23.5	Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the Eternal Covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep.
1:28.4	Equip you with everything good for doing his will.
1:33.1	And may he work in us what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory
1:39.1	forever and ever.
1:41.5	Amen.
1:45.5	A generous heart.
1:48.2	When soccer star Sadio Manet from Senegal was playing for Liverpool in the English Premier League,
1:55.3	he was one of the world's highest paid African players, making millions of dollars per year.
2:01.7	Fans spotted a picture of Manety carrying an iPhone with a cracked screen and joked about him
2:07.2	using the damaged device.
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