TODAY’S WORD FOR FRIDAY APRIL 8, 2016.
TITHING
To give or pay a tenth of goods or income for the support of the church.
You shall tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year. Deuteronomy 14:22.
Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first fruits of all your increase; so your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will over flow with new wine. Proverbs 3: 9-10.
One of the important principles that God has given us is to tithe back to our Lord 10% of what He has blessed us with. Tithing is of great significance in the life of those who are believers. The purpose of tithing is to demonstrate that we put God first in our lives and to signify that we are serving and honoring the Lord.
Giving God the first part of our earnings shows what we value most. It is a temptation for many believers to take care of everything else first, all of the bills they owe, and then give the Lord something if there is money left over. If the Lord is not a priority, we cannot expect Him to bless us. Look again at the verse above from Proverbs and see how “your barns can be filled with plenty.”
The Israelites were instructed by God through Moses to give God the first and best portions of their harvest and the best of their flocks to the Lord. It served as a reminder to them that everything they had belonged to God.
Over the years the Israelites forgot what God had told them and they were neglecting giving God their tithe. In Malachi 3:6, we are told that God used Malachi the prophet to rebuke the people for their sins. Malachi asked the Jews this question: “Will a man rob God?” This shocked the Israelites and they asked, “How do we rob God?” God answered them through His prophet Malachi, “In tithes and offerings?”
If you are not tithing have you thought about the fact that you are robbing God? God gave a challenge to the Israelites through Malachi when He said in Malachi 3:10. “Test Me in this. Bring all your tithe into the storehouse and see if I will not pour out so much blessing that you will not have room for it.
If a tenth seems a lot to you just remember two things. First, all we have belongs to God and secondly, we cannot out give God. We have found that the more we give the more God blesses us. We challenge you to tithe if you do not practice it now. There were times that we struggled whether we should put off tithing because we knew we did not have enough to pay all of our bills. Even though it was difficult we always tithed and when unexpected financial needs came God provided far and beyond our need.
Our memory verse for this week is found in II Timothy 3:17.
So that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Keep me faithful in tithing to You from all that You have blessed me with. Thank You for providing for our family, without exception, in such a marvelous way when we tithed faithfully to You.
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