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<strong>Attack</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Lack</strong><br />
repenting and returning to God, think of the joy that<br />
God gets!<br />
The God-Kind of Giving and<br />
Receiving Involves People—But as<br />
Means, Methods, Instruments<br />
You are actually dealing with God himself when<br />
you give to further His work on this earth. And God<br />
alone determines which men He chooses to give back<br />
to you. They may not be, and usually aren't, the ones<br />
that YOU choose, but the men He chooses will go out of<br />
their way, if need be, to help you as God has promised.<br />
I remember a man who sent me a sizable check for<br />
this ministry. I had never met him nor heard about him.<br />
In his letter with the check he wrote, "Don't think I'm<br />
giving this to you because I like you. I wouldn't walk<br />
across the street to hear you preach. But God showed<br />
me you are building a university based on the Holy<br />
Spirit and the authority of God, and I'm giving to you for<br />
that reason." Then he added that he was pretty sure<br />
that I would want to send his check back. "Don't," he<br />
wrote. "God told me to send it and to obey Him. I must<br />
obey, whether I like you or not."<br />
Well, he was reading my mind about the part<br />
where he thought I might want to send his check back<br />
to him. At first I wrestled and said I didn't want any<br />
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