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The Promises of God: Part CCXVII
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
May 01, 2025
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Honor the Lord with your possessions, and the first fruits of all your increase, so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. Proverbs 3:9,10
Honor the Lord with your possessions, and the first fruits of all your increase, so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. Proverbs 3:9,10
Old Testament giving amounted to many types of offerings including the tithe, 10% of your wages or harvest. It has been my experience that the tithe normally reaps 10 times the amount given, not that we give to receive but to reveal the Divine blessing of our obedience.
In the New Testament the tithe isn't spoken of much either by Jesus or Paul but giving by the Spirit is. In other words, Spirit led giving seems to be the way God wants His believers to give! In any case God blesses a cheerful giver and He blesses our giving generously giving back in great abundance!
If you are not sure about whether to tithe or be led by the Spirit, do both! Give the 10% as your tithe and then allow the Holy Spirit to lead you into the blessing of giving supernaturally in the Spirit to whatever or whomever the Spirit leads you to give!
But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully (with blessings) will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity: (compulsion) for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. II Corinthians 9:6-8
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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