praying for you!!!!!! Continue to put God FIRST. If you aren't doing that already....start. REmember to tithe the FIRST of everything you make....no matter how big or small. When you put God FIRST....and that includes tithing your income....GOD WILL BLESS YOU!!!! If you aren't doing these 2 things you are not giving God the room to work miracles in your life.
•• Wealthy Abraham, the first great patriarch of Israel,
gave tithes
centuries
before
Moses’ Law
(
Genesis 14
).
•• Poor Jacob, the father of the twelve tribes of Israel, gave his
tithes
, also
before
the Law —
Genesis 28:22
“And of
all
that you give me I will
give you a TENTH
.â€
•• In the
Law
that God gave through Moses to God’s people, there were clear
commandments
to give
tithes
—
•
Leviticus 27:30, 32
A
tithe
of everything from the
land...belongs to the LORD
; it is holy to the Lord. ... The
entire tithe
of the herd and flock — every tenth animal ... — will be holy to
the Lord
.
•
Ten lambs
born? They gave the
Lord one
.
Ten bushels
of wheat harvested? They gave the
Lord one
. They tithed — that is, they gave ten percent — on the
"gross"
increase.
•
My
tithe
“belongs
[not to me, but]
to the
Lord
.â€
NEW TESTAMENT TITHING...VERSES TO PRAY OVER YOURSELF
• Giving your tithes
"...teach[es] you always to put God first in your lives" (Deut. 14:23, TLB).
• Tithing is a
Bible doctrine with
continuity in the Scriptures, before, during, and after Moses’ Law.
• The tithe is not mine to withhold; it
belongs to the Lord (Leviticus 27:30).
• Tithing is an indicator of
faithfulness to God (2 Chronicles 31:12).
• Tithing is an indicator of our
generosity (2 Chronicles 31:5). And
“A generous man will himself be blessed†(Prov. 22:9).
• Our tithes allow
God-called ministers to devote themselves
fully to the Lord’s work (Numbers 18:21; 1 Corin. 9:13f).
• I
don’t want God to consider me a
robber (Malachi 3:8) for failing to give tithes and offerings.
• God wants His
“houseâ€, the church, to be
abundantly supplied (Malachi 3:10 with 1 Timothy 3:15).
• God says if we are faithful in
tithes and offerings, He will open the windows of heaven and pour out
abundant blessings (Malachi 3:10-12; also Proverbs 3:10).
• We are
honoring the Lord when we give to Him (Prov. 3:9).
• There is a bible principle of
sowing and reaping (2 Corin. 9:6). As we sow generously, we shall reap generously, both naturally and spiritually.
• Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there your HEART will be also.
May both
our treasures (
tithes and offerings) and
our hearts be in the
Lord’s church and the
kingdom of God.