Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

I just want to talk to you today about being an extravagant giver. You know, when you live a life of

giving, you live the best possible life there is. Now sometimes we think, well, I can't give all the

time. If I give all the time, I won't have anything left. Or we think, if I, if someone asks me for

something that I don't have, how do you expect me to give? But can I tell you this today that there is

never a time that you are empty handed. You always have something to give. In the book of

Acts, Peter and Paul were walking to the temple to worship God. It was a time of day where

everyone came to worship at the temple. I can just imagine the crowd and everybody trying to get

into the temple so they could all get a good seat. Kind of like this morning, you know, you got

out of your car, you were rushing here, you wanted to get your seat before someone took it.

You were all busy. And so they came walking into the temple, they were passing the gates of

the temple and they passed a man who was sitting there begging. Now the Bible talks about this

man and this man had been crippled from birth and the people that took care of him placed him

at the gate every single day. Obviously it was a good place to sit for spare change because he was

there every day. I'm sure if it wasn't a good place they would have moved him somewhere else,

right? So he was there that day begging, believing that he was going to get what he needed for that

day, have enough money to take care of himself and the people who helped him. Well this particular

day when Peter and John were walking past the gate, he haulered out to them and he said, hey, I need some money.

He was begging from them. And I can see Peter and John there probably, you have it a good time, a good day.

It was a good day for them and they kind of felt their pockets. Maybe they got their money back and they

realized I don't have any money. And it would have been easy for them to say, well, buddy, you know what,

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