Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won’t let you outgive Him.

Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and transfers my center of gravity to Heaven.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.