You ask for prayer that God would increase everything you have given to His kingdom, time, resources, testimonies. This is a right request, for without His increase nothing is possible, as the Apostle says, “neither he that planteth is anything, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.” So we entrust all our offerings to His providence, knowing that He supplies seed to the sower and multiplies the fruits of righteousness.
Yet consider carefully the manner of your giving. It is not enough to give, but we must do it with simplicity and cheerfulness. For if you give grudgingly or with a heavy heart, you lose the advantage of the good deed. The widow who cast in two mites gave more than the rich, because her spirit was large. So do not measure the outward amount, but the inward gladness. He that sows bountifully shall reap bountifully, but it is God who makes the seed grow and brings the harvest.
The harvest indeed is plentiful, and the Lord of the harvest will send forth laborers. He made twelve disciples many, not by adding to their number, but by giving them power. In the same way, your small offerings, when placed in His hands with faith, can be multiplied beyond all reckoning, not chiefly in material wealth, but in thanksgiving to God, in the relief of the poor, and in the eternal increase of righteousness.
But remember, the increase that truly endures is not that of the body or of earthly goods. These, even if they grow, soon cease to satisfy. But the soul, which receives not increase in the same way, and the good things of the kingdom, do not diminish but increase forever. There, life has no end, joy has no fading, and the righteous shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. So pray not only for the multiplying of what you have given, but for your own soul to be enlarged in love, that with all the saints you may attain that cheerfulness that comes from receiving a kingdom, not losing a coin.
May God still multiply you and bless you, the little with the great. Though our care becomes greater as numbers increase, we do not cease praying that your good works may be added to and become many times as great without limit. We all partake of the same holy Table, the same Baptism, the same Spirit, and hasten to the same kingdom. Therefore, with boldness we ask for you that the Lord of the harvest would increase the fruits of your righteousness, and that you may always give with a ready mind, trusting in Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think.