God loves you when you give generously. He generously gave Jesus, demonstrating His great love.

“You shall open your hand wide [pathach] to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.” (Deut 15:11)

“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves [hilaros] a cheerful giver.” (2Cor 9:7)

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us” (Eph 2:4)

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.” (2Cor 9:8)

“Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?” (Jm 2:5)

“They desired only that we should remember the poor [ptochos], the very thing which I also was eager to do.” (Gal 2:10)

“I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak [astheneo]. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35)

“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (Jn 10:10)

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Eph 3:20)

“Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.” (Eph 4:28)

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1Cor 2:9)

“He also brought me out into a broad [merchab] place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.” (Ps 18:19)

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide [rachab], and I will fill it.” (Ps 81:10)

“What You give them they gather in; You open [pathach] Your hand, they are filled with good.” (Ps 104:28)

“I called on the LORD in distress; the LORD answered me and set me in a broad [merchab] place.” (Ps 118:5)

“You open Your [pathach] hand and satisfy [saba] the desire [ratson] of every living thing.” (Ps 145:16)

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will[fn] ask what you desire [thelo], and it shall be done for you.” (Jn 15:7)

“For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” (Ps 84:11)

“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (Jm 1:27)

Reading: Deut 13-15; Matt 21