The essence of giving

 The essence of giving according to the word of God and thus the inspiration behind God is Love.

What God says about giving

📖 2 Corinthians 9:7 – "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."

📖 Proverbs 19:17 – "Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will reward them for what they have done."

📖 Luke 6:38 – "Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

📖 Acts 20:35 – "In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

📖 Matthew 6:3-4 – "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

What God says about Helping Others

📖 Galatians 6:2 – "Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ."

📖 Hebrews 13:16 – "And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased."

📖 Isaiah 58:10 – "If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday."

📖 Matthew 25:35-36 – "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

📖 James 1:27 – "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."