If you are faithfully giving from what you have, you MAY find that the Lord gives you more - then again, he may not. He blesses some people with the ability to make lots of money so that they can do good with it; I don't know whether or not you are one of those.
We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully. -- Romans 12
I look at the bolded portion and I'm reminded of this:
To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. -- Matthew 25
This all works together.
I have observed this in people who are using their spiritual gifts: Spiritual gifts are never exhausted.
I know a Christian woman with the spiritual gift of "helps." I knew her when she was in the military, where her job was training administration. She was always about helping other military people in performing their own training, documenting, being ready for inspections--going far above what might have been necessary. She was always right there for everyone.
When she retired from the Air Force, she went into physical therapy--another "helping" role. I'd listen to her talking about someone she worked with, spending weeks just getting a person able to perform a small range of motion of an injured or paralyzed limb.
While listening to her, I was thinking, "It would wear me out to spend weeks of long days with someone just to get his arm to move from
here to
there."
But this woman was
stoked by that work. She was enthusiastic, she was excited, after working for such people for a week, she was eager to begin again the next week.
And on the weekends she visited the sick and elderly. Sure, her body tired and she needed to eat and take a nap now and then, but her spirit never wearied of helping people.
That was something I saw in her hugely different from most people--that was a spiritual gift.
I knew a man who owned a Chevron service station. He was moved by the Holy Spirit to offer two of his service bays once day a month to the church. He would pay for supplies and parts to repair cars for any service that could be done in a day. The pastor kept a "widows and single mothers" list, and applied that list to the Chevron owner's gift. Each woman on the list was scheduled to bring her car in for servicing every three months. The station owner's chief mechanic donated his services, we had some professional dealer mechanics who donated their services, and some decent shade-tree mechanics also donated ours.
Here is the neat thing: The station owner said that he'd expected to consider his losses (lost service business from those bays for that day, the cost of the parts and supplies he'd furnish) to be donations to the church. But the funny thing was that he never suffered any losses. His overall business increased more than the cost of providing the free service to the widows and single mothers of the congregation.
Spiritual gifts are never exhausted. The Holy Spirit is constantly replenishing them from the other side.