{"id":1274,"date":"2025-07-23T19:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:16:28","slug":"whatevers-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhatever\u2019s Fair\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEach of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give,\u00a0not reluctantly or under compulsion,\u00a0for God loves a cheerful giver.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 Corinthians 9:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I haven\u2019t always been a cheerful giver. In fact, I use to measure out my giving and tithe exactly 10%. Then Jesus moved into all the areas of my life, which included my finances. He\u2019s become my Chief Financial Officer. It\u2019s exciting to say the least, but very SCARY!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, a restaurant server we know shared that his boss cut everyone\u2019s hours. This man is married with five children. He asked if we had any odd jobs at our house that he could do to make extra money. That next Saturday, he worked three hours doing the things we needed done around our house. When I asked, \u201cWhat do we owe you?\u201d He said, \u201cWhatever\u2019s fair.\u201d God put it on our hearts to pay him three times more than what he would have made per hour as a server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is God my Chief Financial Officer? Am I a cheerful giver?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cEach of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give,\u00a0not reluctantly or under compulsion,\u00a0for God loves a cheerful giver.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 Corinthians 9:7 Applying God\u2019s Word I haven\u2019t always been a cheerful giver. In fact, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}