When you're passionate for the kingdom of God, it will affect your budget.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

We cannot claim to be devoted to Christ and his kingdom if we are not investing generously in it.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, November 19, 2014.

Yesterday, we heard an intriguing message from John Reinhart about gospel patrons, those who see the Lord working and provide know-how and finances to help propel that work.

John gave that message earlier this year at the generous giving conference, and then our host, Nancy Lee DeMoss, also spoke.

We're going to hear her message today and tomorrow about where a heart of generosity comes from.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

You couldn't grow up in the DeMoss household and not have a heart forgiving.

It was just part of the air we breathed.

And I can remember getting to the University of Southern California

as a 17-year-old junior in college. I transferred there. I had an allowance of $50 a month,

and I can't remember whether or not that included gas. I commuted to school, but I know that

it was the most I'd ever had per month, and I have gone back and found these

meticulous records I kept all handwritten of every penny I would spend because the goal was how much I could have every month to give.

And out of that $50, how to spend as little of it as possible and give as much of it as possible.

And I don't take any credit for thinking that way at all.

It's just the way of life I had seen modeled in our household.

And then when I got to my first job, my first ministry assignment at a college,

I had this huge salary of $7,800 per year.

And I would just thought, there's more to give. Of course, there were more expenses, too. But I can, in those early days, just remember such joy. And I've asked the Lord to

let me stand on the shoulders of my parents, so to speak, in every area of life. And I would want for

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