Well we thought we'd have a bit of a conversation telling I want to tell you a

story tonight. God wants to tell us all a story tonight and it's a beautiful

story of our house and it's a really great story of the faithfulness and the

sovereignty of God and we wanted to end generosity Sunday not talking about

money because at the end of the day generosity is not necessarily about wealth.

I think sometimes we get it in a mind that generosity is for rich people and if

I once I get money or get wealth or get in a position like that then I can

start thinking about being generous but the honest truth is is that all of us

are not in that position right now some of you are in school in high school

some of these middle school kids that were down here worshiping maybe don't have

a lot of money you might be a single parent or you might be in just in a

situation with your business or what happened in the economy and you're just

not in that zone right now where you would consider yourself to be a wealthy

person but here's the key generosity is not about being wealthy generosity is

about being available it's not reserved just for a select group of people who

have financial resources generosity is about an attitude of life that says I

don't have a lot but I'm willing to make myself in what I do have available to

God and when I make what I have available to God then miraculous things can

happen and it really doesn't matter how much I make available or that I don't

think I have that much to be available is that God can do the supernatural with

whatever it is that we put in his hands that's the story of the big crowd of

people who gathered around Jesus remember that story told he told it all the

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