Generosity

Dear Lord please be with us this day and may Your Holy Spirit please be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and protection that You have given us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths of generosity on this day and please help us to make this day better for others in some way, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

Quotation:*
He, who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more. -Tulner 

KJV*
Mt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 
Mt 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 
Mt 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 
Mt 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 
Mt 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 
Mt 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Mt 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 
Mt 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 
Mt 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 

Phillip Doddridge (Commentary on New Testament as per Power Bible CD)
  Paraphrase  Mt 7:13
It will indeed be very difficult thus to overcome the prejudices of self love, and to subdue those other corruptions of the heart which oppose themselves to the obedience of the Divine laws; and the persecutions to which good men are often exposed will increase the difficulty: but I would press you to exert a becoming resolution, and courageously to  enter in through the strait gate of self denial and holiness; for wide is the gate, and smooth and spacious the way which leads to destruction; and there are many who enter into destruction by it: