Cheerful Giver | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 6, 2021
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, and thanks for joining us for this daily encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional. |
| 0:11.8 | Our reading titled Cheerful Giver was written by Astera Poroska Escobar. |
| 0:18.2 | Nicholas, who was born in the third century, had no idea that centuries after his death, he would be known as Santa Claus. |
| 0:27.5 | He was just a man who loved God and genuinely cared for people, and who was known for giving cheerfully of his own possessions and doing kind deeds. |
| 0:40.3 | The story is told that after learning of a family who was in great financial distress, Nicholas came to their home at night and |
| 0:46.0 | threw a bag of gold through an open window, which landed in a shoe or stocking warming by the |
| 0:52.3 | fireplace. Long before Nicholas, the Apostle Paul urged the |
| 0:56.6 | believers in Corinth to be cheerful givers. He wrote to them about the great financial needs of |
| 1:02.2 | their brothers and sisters in Jerusalem and encouraged them to give generously. Paul explained to them |
| 1:09.2 | the benefits and blessings that come to those who give of their possessions. |
| 1:14.2 | He reminded them that whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. |
| 1:23.8 | As a result of their cheerful generosity, they would be enriched in every way, and God would |
| 1:29.9 | be honored. |
| 1:31.7 | Father, would you help us to be cheerful givers not only during this Christmas season but all year |
| 1:37.8 | long? |
| 1:38.8 | Thank you for your incredible generosity in giving us your indescribable gift, your son Jesus. |
| 1:50.7 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from 2 Corinthians chapter 9 |
| 1:55.9 | verses 6 through 15. Remember this. Whoever so sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever |
| 2:04.7 | sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your |
| 2:11.7 | heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you |
| 2:21.0 | abundantly so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good |
| 2:28.2 | work. As it is written, they have freely scattered their gifts to the poor, their righteousness endures forever. |
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