Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.
Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!
There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.
Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.
God loves to glorify himself by suspending his gifts and blessings on our asking him for them. We should never presume to receive from God apart from prayer what he's clearly told us in Scripture will be ours only through prayer.