Sunday, July 1, 2012

How Tithing strengthened my faith in God


Tithing 

How Tithing strengthened my faith in God:
I never used to tithe, in fact it didn't even make any sense as to how I'm suppose to give a tenth of my gross salary a month, it sounded ridiculous  to me. My thinking was that  I can barely get through a month as it is, how am I suppose to  give this amount of money to the church? To make matters worse for me I was and will never be a big spender of money, I don't waste money and to me back then giving money to the church is wasting money, I mean, it could of been in my pocket.
I have to thank my wife for planting the seed of tithing, she never forced me in doing it only talked about it and said that since she started to tithe her life just miraculously was blessed more, not only that but she also said that there was a stage where she stopped tithing, and guess what, she started having financial problems after that and other elements in her life just seemed to go wrong, mmm, so it got me thinking and then I read the following piece in the bible:   

Malachi 3:10
New International Version  (©1984) 
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
Let me tell you something, if you want to truly test your faith then I encourage you to tithe, this is God's own words people  Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty.  How awesome is this that we can actually test God, I think it's brilliant and I'm happy I started tithing because the moment I started tithing my life was so blessed that I will never miss a tithing again, seriously. 

Blessings comes in many forms, for e.g. having enough food every day to eat, I've never slept hungry, I have an overabundance of clothes, so much so that I could give a whole black bag full of clothes away to the poor. A home, a warm bed to sleep in, warm water, a car, a job, a beautiful Christian wife, enough money to get through the month, enough money to buy underprivileged people food too.

Now just understand that financially I definitely not the richest person in the world, but I'm definitely blessed with positive things and God supplies all my needs.     
Isn't it time you started tithing? Remember you can test God in this  - get ready to be blessed!

Written by: Armand Coetzee (Church Board Member)