"Autarkeia", Paul on the topic of eliminating needs in order to be able to give more abundantly.

For me to consider, remember, and figure out how to apply better:

"But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposely in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:" 

2nd Corinthians 9:6-8 

 

"Paul insists that God can give a man both the substance to give and the spirit in which to give it....He speaks of the all the "sufficiency" which God gives us. The word he uses is "autarkeia". This was a favorite Stoic word.  It does not describe the sufficiency of the man who possess all kinds of things in abundance.  It means independence.  It describes the state of the man who has directed life not to amassing possessions, but to eliminating needs.  It describes the man who has taught himself to be content with very little. It is obvious that such a man will be able to give far more to others because he wants so little for himself.  It is so often true that we want and keep so much for ourselves that we much less left to give to others....

"...it is God who can give us the spirit in which to give...It is God alone who can put into our hearts the love which is the essence of a the generous spirit."

~ William Barclay, Commentary on 2nd Corinthians, Chapter 9