Mark 12:42-44 A poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins…. Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others…. She, out of her poverty, put in everything–all she had to live on.”
A young man came to me one night and said, “Billy, I pray, read the Bible, and go to church, but I have no victory in my life. What can I do?”
I thought for a moment and asked, “Do you tithe? Do you give to God’s work?”
He replied, “No, I don’t, but I don’t make very much money.”
I said, “That’s not the point. No one can rob God and expect to experience victory in life.”
We can pray all day long. We can go to church every week. We can read our Bible through a thousand times–but if we are robbing God, we will be miserable and spiritually dry.
Do you think you can rob God but have victory in your life? It cannot be done. There is no victory if we aren’t giving a portion of our income to the Lord.
The basis of our giving is the tithe–one-tenth of your income–is God’s (see Malachi 3:10). It’s God’s rule, and I believe it is still valid today.
Michael & Alison Smitherman
The Singing NetSurfers
How much of our money are we giving back to God? Even in nature, if a farmer does not put resources back into the soil, it will become farmed out and worthless to him. So much more do we have to return a portion of our resources back to the source from whence it came. Not because God needs it, but because we do. We are in fact robbing ourselves when we do not give back to God.
The good news is that returning this portion to God, ensures our fiscal welfare and our physical welfare, but more importantly it assures our spiritual welfare.
Returning God’s to God.
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 