His Double Portion

I've heard many times from the pulpit - "You cannot out-give God." While this is true and many of us would try to out-give God for honorable reasons, Christians need to understand the idea of being filled up with God before pouring out God to others. If resting in God's presence and allowing Him to minister to you does not happen, then whatever believers do is under their own strength. 

Some people have a hard time with receiving anything from anybody, especially God. However, from the beginning, if we desire to be part of God's Family, there must be a reception of God's gift of love - Christ Jesus.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16

Look at the ways Jesus loved us - He taught us His new way of Kingdom living, lived the perfect life we could not live, sacrificed His perfect life for ours as the redeeming substitute for our fallen relationship with Father God, bore torture for our healing, on the third day of His death He rose - defeating death, Hell and the grave. 

This display of love did not stop at the Cross and Resurrection. Christ now sits at the right hand of Father God and intercedes for His believers along with The Holy Spirit. Not only is Love one of God's names, according to Scripture, He is Love - 1 John 4:8 says, "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." 

Love is a verb, an action word - it does not stay still. We see this concept emphasized in Psalm 136 as it has twenty-some instances of the phrase - "His love endures forever". Even though this is a song, we certainly understand the main point through repetition. God's love continues toward His family forever. Our responsibility is to freely receive and freely bless others with His love and inpouring of blessings.

Believers in Christ have the most generous God and King. I'm sure many Christians can testify to the plethora of blessings God has continued to bestow - and we must find the time and place to allow Him to pour out His abundance. 

Securing an uninterrupted time and place for God to minister to believers as His family is paramount for relational development. Just sitting and soaking in God's presence is a wonderful start, but be receptive to the good things, the love, the equipping God desires to do with you in these moments. This time supplies the opportunity for God to fill the Christian and arm the Christian with what is needed to minister to others, by receiving His Double Portion.