Matters of the Heart: Giving

Today we are going to discuss something that many of you in here believe that I don’t talk about enough, but after today we will nip this thing in the bud once and for all. After this I don’t want to hear,” PT never taught us on giving and tithing...”

To be honest I don’t like to talk about giving because I truly believe that giving is a heart issues, but the reality of the matter is this I have been talking about intimacy, and guess what this is a form of intimacy with God. The truth of the matter is I live by giving and sowing. Like I literally look for opportunities to give because it is what keeps my house blessed. I trust the provider of my house. As the head of my house I have to lead as an example so that they see that I am not moved by what I see because God has a promise to keep over my house.

Think about it how many one-sided relationships do you have? By show of hands..... no keep them up.....

If your hand wasn’t up how many of you been in one? I am sure it didn’t last for that very reason.

How many of you don’t trust your partner? Who stays in a relationship where there is no trust? That is the same way we should look at tithing and sowing.

Let’s take this to the Gym

Giving is a form of cardio, and the lack of giving is a form that is spiritual unhealthy living. How many of you can just live off of fast foods, AND without working out at all? No, not at all? Interesting this is what it looks like when we don’t factor in giving our tithes and offering.

Tithing is a matter of the heart when you give it. Your 10% is your gross, not your net of what you bring home. Think about it if your other taxes and coverages are taken out in the beginning should God be in that same category? The reason why they don’t do it for you is because that is our responsibility to God, not theirs.

Why?

Because if somebody has to prove to God of your commitment, then it is not done in liberty but out of force. Why would He need our relationship in the first place in the realm of a principle relationship?

Giving is apart of our foundational living. The first scripture that deals with this contrary to our understanding it is NOT Mal 3:8

Malachi 3:8 M:BCL

8 “Begin by being honest. Do honest people rob God? But you rob me day after day. “You ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’ “The tithe and the offering—that’s how!

but it is in fact found in Gen 14:17-20

Genesis 14:17–20 M:BCL

17 After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and his allied kings, the king of Sodom came out to greet him in the Valley of Shaveh, the King’s Valley. 18 Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine—he was priest of The High God—19 and blessed him: Blessed be Abram by The High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth. 20 And blessed be The High God, who handed your enemies over to you. Abram gave him a tenth of all the recovered plunder.

and then in Gen 28:18-22

Genesis 28:18–22 M:BCL

18 Jacob was up first thing in the morning. He took the stone he had used for his pillow and stood it up as a memorial pillar and poured oil over it. 19 He christened the place Bethel (God’s House). The name of the town had been Luz until then. 20 Jacob vowed a vow: “If God stands by me and protects me on this journey on which I’m setting out, keeps me in food and clothing, 21 and brings me back in one piece to my father’s house, this God will be my God. 22 This stone that I have set up as a memorial pillar will mark this as a place where God lives. And everything you give me, I’ll return a tenth to you.”

Abraham (Father) then Jacob (Grandson) what does that say? If you want generational sustainability there must be tithing. We must tithe for the sake of the sustainability of whatever God gives us.

Your tithe is Holy! in Lev 27:30-32

Leviticus 27:30–32 M:BCL

30 “A tenth of the land’s produce, whether grain from the ground or fruit from the trees, is God’s. It is holy to God. 31 If a man buys back any of the tenth he has given, he must add twenty percent to it. 32 A tenth of the entire herd and flock, every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod, is holy to God.

Your tithe should be your best! What makes it your best? The way you give it! Neh 10:37-39; 12:44; 13:5, 12

Nehemiah 13:12 M:BCL

12 so that all Judah was again bringing in the tithe of grain, wine, and oil to the storerooms.

Malachi 3:8–10 M:BCL

8 “Begin by being honest. Do honest people rob God? But you rob me day after day. “You ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’ “The tithe and the offering—that’s how! 9 And now you’re under a curse—the whole lot of you—because you’re robbing me. 10 Bring your full tithe to the Temple treasury so there will be ample provisions in my Temple. Test me in this and see if I don’t open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams.

It’s robbery not to give it to God, and a forfeiture of the blessings that God wants to relentlessly give you.

Being blessed by the heaving of your tithe is different from the blessing of daily disbursement, this is the blessing that speaks to everything you possess and those attached to you.

Tithing is not for your own ability to brandish it to the world, but it should be held reverently because like most secured relationships you don’t have to broadcast every good thing you do for your spouse when it is the principle thing to do, the same is to be said about your tithing unto God.

Tithing can also be spontaneous… Now I have another instance where it isn’t but let’s read this passage of scripture.

2 Corinthians 8:1–15 M:BCL

1 Now, friends, I want to report on the surprising and generous ways in which God is working in the churches in Macedonia province. 2 Fierce troubles came down on the people of those churches, pushing them to the very limit. The trial exposed their true colors: They were incredibly happy, though desperately poor. The pressure triggered something totally unexpected: an outpouring of pure and generous gifts. 3 I was there and saw it for myself. They gave offerings of whatever they could—far more than they could afford!—4 pleading for the privilege of helping out in the relief of poor Christians. 5 This was totally spontaneous, entirely their own idea, and caught us completely off guard. What explains it was that they had first given themselves unreservedly to God and to us. The other giving simply flowed out of the purposes of God working in their lives. 6 That’s what prompted us to ask Titus to bring the relief offering to your attention, so that what was so well begun could be finished up. 7 You do so well in so many things—you trust God, you’re articulate, you’re insightful, you’re passionate, you love us—now, do your best in this, too. 8 I’m not trying to order you around against your will. But by bringing in the Macedonians’ enthusiasm as a stimulus to your love, I am hoping to bring the best out of you. 9 You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us—in one stroke he became poor and we became rich. 10 So here’s what I think: The best thing you can do right now is to finish what you started last year and not let those good intentions grow stale. 11 Your heart’s been in the right place all along. You’ve got what it takes to finish it up, so go to it. 12 Once the commitment is clear, you do what you can, not what you can’t. The heart regulates the hands. 13 This isn’t so others can take it easy while you sweat it out. No, you’re shoulder to shoulder with them all the way, 14 your surplus matching their deficit, their surplus matching your deficit. In the end you come out even. 15 As it is written, Nothing left over to the one with the most, Nothing lacking to the one with the least.

Nothing leftover to the one with the most,

Nothing lacking to the one with the least.....

If you want to know how we can move out into our next?

ONE ACCORD IN TITHING.

We can’t have you lacking and I am blessed because I am tithing and you aren’t.... this last part of the scripture explains that strictly.

Interesting how when Pentecost happen they were on ONE ACCORD and God showed up, and now look at this here in Corinthians were there was not ONE SIGN OF LACK IN THE IN ENTIRE CHURCH BECAUSE OF THEIR GIVING!

Now on the flip side of things there are times when your giving should be thought through 2 Cor 9:7-9

2 Corinthians 9:7–9 M:BCL

7 I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over, and make up your own mind what you will give. That will protect you against sob stories and arm-twisting. God loves it when the giver delights in the giving. 8 God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. 9 As one psalmist puts it, He throws caution to the winds, giving to the needy in reckless abandon. His right-living, right-giving ways never run out, never wear out.

Ask the house for a 5 dollar seed via cashapp ask Chief to open up the cashapp to see if that 5 dollars gets sown. When it does have her send the 50 to them.

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