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GIVING IS LIVING
Even nature and science confirms that we must breathe out in order to breathe in. We must breathe out carbon dioxide and breathe in oxygen. Without exhaling or inhaling, you cannot live. You must give to live. Similarly, a farmer who plants crop must give seeds to the earth otherwise he will only harvest weeds. When he plants seed however, a far greater return than what he plants comes multiplied unto him.  What you give therefore is the seed that you plant. It is a fundamental law of nature that like attracts like. You cannot plant an orange and reap mango. Each is after its kind. When you give, it reproduces and multiplies.
“Here is a simple rule of thumb for behaviour; Ask yourself what you want people to do for you; then grab the initiative and do it for them! If you only love the lovable, do you expect a pat on the back? Run-off-the mill sinners do that. If you only help those who help you, do you expect a medal? Garden-variety sinners do that. If you only give for what you hope to get out of it, do you think that is charity? The stingiest of pawnbrokers does that.




I tell you, Love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You will never- I promise regret it. Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives towards us, generously and graciously, even when we are at our worst. Our Father is kind; you be kind.”
(Jesus Christ in Luke 6; 31 to 36)
According to Bishop David Oyedepo, “Until there is an evaporation from the earth, there is no ‘outpouration.’” This simply means that the normal process of nature is that until there is evaporation, rain cannot pour down. 

Something must leave the earth before something can leave heaven.

 Similarly, throughout my twenty plus years in this planet, never have I come across any man who took food into his body without giving it out. The expiration of food and the rust and decay all shows the folly in storing up without releasing.

Money is like manure; Store it up in one place and it stinks; Spread it around and it does a lot of good.

 This principle makes Christianity the best deal that man ever had. If there were not a hell to shun and a heaven to gain; practising the principles laid down by Christ would still make Christianity the greatest life in the world.

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