Suppose a man decided to save his left arm and just use
his right one, thinking that years later when his right arm got
tired, he could switch over and use the left one again. What
would happen to his left arm? It would lose its ability to function,
wouldn’t it? Now, this is a foolish idea, but the principle is
true for a man with $100,000 stashed away because of fear that
one of these days there wouldn’t be any money left.

If you are exercising this kind of fear with a few dollars, you
are just as guilty of being a reservoir—a dead end, a satanic
stoppage—as the man who stopped up a million dollars.
Someone with no more than a secondhand shirt can be just as
guilty of greed as a man with millions of dollars piled up somewhere.
One is just as deceived as the other. To a person who is
cold, a secondhand shirt looks pretty good. As I pointed out
before, the Bible does not say that money is the root of all evil;
it says the love of money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10),
and there are millions of people committing that sin who don’t
have a dime! God can do more with 15 cents given in faith than
kings can do with mountains of gold! The little widow proved
this with her two mites (see Mark 12:41-44). Remember not to
limit God to only what you can see and understand with your
head. When the entire world is completely destitute, God will
still have plenty and can make it abound toward you. As He is,
so are we in this world. So don’t be afraid to become a cheerful,
freehearted giver.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries