The Simple Circle of Giving

Purpose to give and supply for that gift will flow to you.

You can’t give something you don’t have. When you purpose to give, those things will flow unto you so you will have them to give. When you purpose in your heart to give a gift that is motivated by love, it opens a door of supply that will flow to you so you will have an abundance of the thing you are desiring or have determined to give.

Giving that produces the greatest rewards is giving to those who have a need. You aren’t inspired to give money to someone who lives in an opulent mansion and drives a big luxury car and has an income of a million dollars a year. You give money to that person who is in serious and obvious need. Therefore, love everyone, but if you give love to that one whom you perceive as unlovable, you will have an abundance of love. Be patient with everyone but be patient with he who is impatient and you will have patience in abundance because that is what will be needed in order for you to give patience to that individual. Live at peace with everyone, but give peace to one who is prone to violence or confrontation and you will have abundance of peace.

You may not have love for that person who is unloving and who may even appear unlovable. But if you purpose to give love, the love you need will flow to you in abundant supply and suddenly you will find yourself with more than you need in order to fulfill that purpose. This is why Jesus said in one of His parables, when you give a feast don’t invite your friends and your relatives that can repay you by inviting you to their feast, but go out into the highways and byways and find those who don’t have anything with which to repay you (the street people and bums, in other words those who are needy).

So, the reason our giving, especially in the area of finances, does not always bear fruit is that our giving must come from a motivation of pure love. If you give anything because you were coerced or manipulated, then that gift will bear no fruit. The motivation for giving any gift should be love. The person who has need must also learn to give from a loving motivation in order to have what they need instead of using coercion and manipulation to try and get their needs met. If someone begs and pleads and even threatens you with evil or lack in order to get a gift from you, then anything you give them will have been out of necessity as the Bible puts it. You will have given the gift because pressure was put on you. When the Bible says, “God loves a cheerful giver,” you could also translate that as God loves a willing and loving giver.

Look at how the Apostle Paul was inspired to reveal this in II Corinthians 9:6-8.

Love must be the motivation for the gift or else no abundant supply, which will enable and empower you to give the gift, will flow to you.

Also note that if your reason for giving is motivated by anything other than love, such as selfishness or greed, then no supply for the gift will flow to you. Negative emotions such as selfishness or greed cannot coexist with love, therefore the door will not be opened for supply to flow to you. So, if you give money simply because you want to get money, and that is the motivating factor, your gift will bear no fruit because the motivation was not love, it was greed and selfishness. Give where you are shown there is a need and where your heart is moved with compassion. Give because you are motivated by love and thankfulness for the opportunity to give and supply will come unto you. In fact, any gift that is motivated by love, even if it is given to one who already has an abundance will bear fruit and open the door for supply to flow.

You are like an electrical conduit. When an appliance needs electricity in order to function, electricity flows through the electrical conduit plugged into it. The more power an appliance needs in order to fulfill its function, the more electricity will flow through the conduit. If little power is needed, the flow will be small. If much power is needed, the flow of electricity will be great. Therefore, we all need love and the positive things love brings. But when someone needs more of something, like patience for instance, you can make yourself a conduit through which patience can flow. Therefore you will receive patience in abundance because you have to first have it before you can give it. Patience will flow through you in abundance to meet the needs of that one (or even several) individuals that need it.

Another principle that is part of this same equation is that if you do something that you love, you will give yourself to it in love and therefore you will receive as a result of your giving. What you receive may come in many different forms, but they will all be aspects of love. You may receive peace, joy, happiness, enjoyment, vitality etc. Perhaps even financial blessings will come, but they come as a natural result of the spiritual flow that is coming through you to that endeavor.

Now, just as energy can be positive or negative and current can flow in both directions, there is also a negative aspect to this. Remember the principle is whatever you purpose to give will open the door for flow of that thing to you so you will have supply from which to give. This works for negative things as well as positive.

If you purpose to show intolerance, then intolerance will flow to you so that you will have an abundant supply of intolerance from which to give. If you purpose to judge others from a self righteous point of view, then that opens the door for self righteous judgment to come to you. Remember on this note Jesus said, “Judge not that you be not judged.”

This principle works for every negative emotion and attitude, just like it does for the positive things. Give out hatred and hatred comes back to you. Purpose in your heart to be suspicious and believe the worst about others and you will experience an abundant supply of lack of trust coming to you from others. A wise man once put it this way, whatever you send out, the universe mirrors back to you. That is kind of another way of stating the point I’ve been making.

Jesus said, “Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over shall men give unto your bosom.” (Luke 6:38) That thing given (or whatever you give) shall be given unto you but it shall come from MEN. Notice that it not only comes from or through other humans, but it says “men”, plural; more than one man. You may give to one man (or woman) but the fall out comes from many men, not just the one to which you gave. The one you gave to may turn around and give back to you, especially if it is something negative. However, that individual is not necessarily going to be the source of what you get in return. It will probably come from many different physical sources. And the neat thing is that these sources that bring supply to you bring it because they have become conduits also (either for good things or negative things). And so you have the SIMPLE CIRCLE OF GIVING!

The Bible says that it is more blessed to give than to receive. The reason is that as you purpose to give and execute the act of giving, a spiritual door is opened that allows supply for that gift to flow to you so that you have an abundant supply from which to give. It may take time for that supply to manifest in the natural realm, but it is there instantaneously in the Spirit for there is no time or distance in the realm of the Spirit.

So, since we may not instantaneously see the manifestation of supply with our physical eyes, we must learn to see it with our spiritual eyes. This is where faith enters the equation. You must have faith that the supply you need to give the gift is there. When you believe that the supply is there (even though you may not see it with your physical eyes or comprehend it with your psychological mind), you will have no problem giving the gift because of your faith. That is why the Bible says that, “Faith without works is dead.” (James 2:20) If you have the faith that the supply is available, then you will perform the works of giving the gifts. However, if you doubt the presence or availability of supply, then you will not perform the works of giving the gifts because your faith is dead and has no power to open the door for supply to flow. (So, continuing to use the analogy of the flow of electricity, if you doubt the presence or availability of supply, it is like not having your electrical cord plugged in. Faith and love is what plugs you into the Source of supply.)

Once again it all boils down to THE SIMPLE CIRCLE OF GIVING.

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