Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

I'm asking the Lord to make 2017 the most generous year we've ever known.

A lot of times we crave the expression of his generosity without sowing that expression within ourselves.

I say that after you've already written your checkout, unless you say that after you've already written your checkout,

unless you're Luke, you've already written your checkout.

And I say that because I'm not trying to manipulate you

into doing anything, but I'm trying to get you

to understand that many of you have cried out

for resources that are not legally accessible to you.

If you've not been faithful in the area of sewing,

regardless of how good God is, it's a violation for you to ask to reap.

God is good in the principle of reciprocity, I believe, is eternal.

Inside of the principle, let me say that like this, the law of reciprocity is eternal.

Inside of the law of reciprocity is the principle of sowing and reaping.

As good as God is, it's illegal for me to stand in a field I never plowed or planted in and demand a harvest.

There is a process to you accessing his generosity and it's you

releasing yours. You don't have to be wealthy to be generous. The widow's might was generosity

because it was relative to where she was. Five dollars can be generous. I'm teaching my children

to be generous now when they are not in in stewarding

significant resources because I know if I teach them generosity I'll never have to worry about teaching them simple stewardship.

I disagree that kingdom finances work primarily off stewardship. I disagree. I believe kingdom

finances work primarily off of faith. And a lot of people don't release faith well because they

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