Did you know that 88% of people believe that the Bible teaches generosity? ¹ Did you also know that one part of generosity includes giving back to God? It starts with you being generous towards Him. It starts with tithing. Some raise up with objections or comments about why they think they shouldn’t or why they can’t tithe. But, tithing works. God’s promises are true. It works just like clockwork. Here are a few points to bring an understanding of the Bible system of tithing.

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Malachi 3:8–12 (NKJV)
⁸ “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. ⁹ You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. ¹⁰ Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. ¹¹ “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says the Lord of hosts; ¹² And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says the Lord of hosts.

Tithing Works Like Farming in the Agricultural Sphere

• Plant a seed, reap a harvest, that’s the Bible way, that’s creations way.
• Why did God do it this way?
• Why didn’t the Lord just make everything appear?
• Why go through the time process of sowing and reaping?
• Couldn’t God have just gone ‘Swoosh’  and make 95 million peach trees all laden with fruit appear?
  • Swoosh! – 37 billion rice plants – loaded with rice instantly manifest?
  • Swoosh! – 300 zillion banana trees – loaded and ready to go?
• Instead, there is a time process to agriculture.
• It’s the same in God and to all things God.
• Heaven won’t be any different.
  • “Yeah but there is no time in heaven”, you might say.
• Yes, but there is process in heaven.
• Nothing’s instant, not even in heaven.
• Things work by process.
• There is an order to things in heaven.
• You will see the order but you will not be aware of the time element as you are on planet earth.
• Nothing in God is instant, nothing.
• You plant a seed.
• You wait for the seed to germinate and start growing in the ground a specified time.
• Then the tree breaks ground and grows which is more time.
• The tree then produces fruit at some later stage.
• You plant the seed, you wait, and then the harvest comes.
• You have to respect the process.
• If you respect the process, if you work with God’s laws of sowing and reaping financially, when the crisis comes, the harvest will be there.
• God’s system involves the tithe.
• You sow the tithe just like you sow physical seed.
• If you withhold the seed (the tithe) because you think you can’t afford to put it into the ground, this is what will happen.
• The same amount of time is going to go by.
• The same crisis will pop up.
• The one you didn’t see.
• The one you weren’t expecting.
• There will be no harvest to bail you out.
• You will have to handle that crisis with your own resources.
• If your resources are low, to begin with, you are going to end up in the hole.
• Don’t get despondent, If you didn’t realize how God’ system works.
• If you cry out to God, God is full of mercy and He will help you.
• But you don’t have to live praying about one crisis after another crisis.
• If you tithe and the seed is already in the ground, you do not have cry out for mercy – you respected the process – the tree is there.
• The harvest is in place.
• So, we have talked the majority of this lesson on the idea and focus of being generous towards God.
• Of course, tithing gets expanding by sowing more directly into individual people’s lives.

Don’t think you have to have a lot of money in order to be generous. Generosity can be practiced no matter how much or how little you have. If you share what you have with others freely, you are a generous person. You may share a meal, give a helping hand, give hospitality by inviting others into your home, or you may give the gift of true friendship. – – Joyce Meyer

Call to Action:

Become a tither today. Become a giver to God and man. As with every other area connected with God: it takes knowledge; it takes faith; it takes commitment; it takes not letting it slip away (Heb. 2:1).

Question: Are you a tither? If so, please leave a testimony on how God increased your life because you were generous to Him. Please leave a comment in the comments section below.

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