MoneyWalk 54: Giving Blesses You!

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

God recognizes that you honor Him first when your heart is conditioned to budget your income so that your plan is always to first make sure He will receive (thru His church – the local representation of Jesus Christ on earth) the portion of your income that scripture instructs.

Actually giving the amount to Him first may be possible if you’re an entrepreneur who makes the decision how all disbursements from your gross business revenue will be given out. However, it is impossible for most people who work for employers that are obligated by Uncle Sam to automatically take income and payroll tax from your gross pay and forward it federal, state, and local governments.

The fact that you cannot actually give to God first is not dishonoring to Him in this situation because you cannot exert control over this government mandated process. The Lord is more interested in you not giving Him blemished, spotted, wrinkled, and crippled sacrifices with regard to the after tax income that is in your control. Spending first on all your desires and even things you feel you need when you have not set aside the tithe and an offering for Him and His kingdom use is dishonoring God because it shows that you do not trust Him to care for all your need while you follow His instructions.

That house, car, kid’s camp, private school tuition, food, clothing, etc. is not more important than following His commands and instructions. We must let our heart be transformed in the area of managing income and giving so that we can say like the psalmist, “Obeying your every word is my necessary food!” When you follow scriptural instructions God will take care of all your need and many times way beyond that even though the picture looks grim right now.

The scriptures about Abraham, Jacob, faithful Israelites as well as Jesus instructions in Matthew 23:23 and the example in Hebrews 7:8 show that the tithe given to Jesus’ under-shepherd’s on earth (church leaders) and received by Him in Heaven is the starting point for determining our faithfulness managing our income to glorify God. Beyond that He desires that we willingly give an offering because we love Him and other people and desire to see them reached with the gospel and saved from destruction.

The organism and mechanism He built for carrying out that mission is His organized church lead by elders such as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers who equip believers and administer all the physical aspects needed to make it happen (meeting places, tools, classes, volunteers, paid staff, instruction to deacons, etc.).

It is not the ten percent tithe and an offering that keep people from having their needs met or living an abundant life. It is their lack of planning and budgeting to honor God with the first fruits of their income when they receive it that causes them to dwell in the land of broke, disgusted, and can’t be trusted. Ninety percent of your income less an offering and required taxes is more than enough to live on when you have the Living God supporting you.

They simply don’t trust the truth of His word that if they obey He will:

1) Open the windows of Heaven over them and pour them out a blessing they don’t have room enough to receive.

2) Rebuke the devourer for their sakes so that they are abundantly fruitful.

3) Add all the other things to them.

4) Inspire people to give into their lives full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

5) Cause all grace to abound to them so that they have all sufficiency in all things and more than enough for every good work they are supposed to do and help with.

6) Provide all their need according to His riches in glory in Jesus Christ.

Being a faithful giver may require you to sacrifice some pleasures and reduce the amount you're currently paying some of your creditors in order to tithe and give offerings to God. However, in due time, He will supernaturally bless your finances by getting the devil off your case. This allows you to eventually obtain money you need to pay all creditors what you owe them, stay out of debt, and live in abundance well into the future. Let’s wholly put our trust in Him and not in what we think is best based on our limited view of the situation, surroundings, and future.

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Genesis 14:20-24, Malachi 3:8-12, Matthew 7:2, Mark 4:24, Luke 6:38, Acts 20:35
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