{"id":13605,"date":"2025-09-21T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=13605"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:38:29","slug":"the-habit-of-generosity","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/the-habit-of-generosity","title":{"rendered":"The Habit of Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a culture that prizes getting more than giving. Advertisers constantly tell us we don\u2019t have enough, while inflation and bills pressure us to hold tighter to money and possessions. As God\u2019s children, instead of a having a mindset of abundance, we often struggle with a mindset of scarcity, doubting God\u2019s provision and anxious about having enough. Yet, God is generous! And we were created in His image to be generous too!<\/p>\n<p>In the apostle Paul\u2019s second letter to the Corinthians, he urged them to them to excel in the grace of giving by pointing to the Macedonian churches, who, though poor and afflicted, gave generously beyond their means, and by reminding them of Christ\u2019s supreme example of generosity. We can cultivate the habit of generosity to excel in the grace of giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13606,"template":"","tags":[2035],"series":[2982],"scripture-book":[1314],"scripture-chapter":[1341],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-13605","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-generosity","series-the-power-of-spiritual-habits","scripture-book-2-corinthians","scripture-chapter-1341","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13607,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13605\/revisions\/13607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13605"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13605"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=13605"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=13605"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=13605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}