TITHE
Meaning.
A tithe is 10% of your income given specifically to your local church. The word tithe literally means tenth in Hebrew & the custom of tithing is biblical so many Christians & Jews practice it as part of their faith.
1. We can all attest to the fact that mothers get overjoyed when a child learns to count 1 up to 10 and10 is more pronounced than any other number.
2. Put your fingers together & they add up to 10 as you perform works of your hands.
3. Put your toes together & they add up to 10 as you move from place to place.
4. We were taught to receive anything from an elderly person with both hands (which include 10 fingers) to show respect.
5. When mum taught me to pray she helped me put the 10 fingers together and told me to close my eyes and then speak to God and wait for an answer to my prayer.
6. When God pronounced an assurance on Joshua He told him wherever his feet (10 toes on his feet) shall step ,that land was to be his.
7. Every 10th of your income must be given to God as taught by the Bible. If you don’t give Tithe you’re a Thief actually the right term is Robber. Is it that hard to do this when we have grown up knowing there is something significant about the number 10? Moreover there is a big blessing in Tithe. Why do we complain of “hard times” when we know the key to unlock the blessings is in giving the 10% of income to God who has challenged us to give and see. How tempting it is to chew Tithe and the debate that goes with it !Ask yourself if it is in the best interest for Satan to see you blessed and God to see you struggle.
Malachi 3:8 KJV
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:10 KJV
Bring ye ALL the TITHES into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Leviticus 27:30 KJV
And ALL the TITHE of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S: it is holy unto the LORD.
Genesis 14:19-20 KJV
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him TITHES of ALL.
“If you are members of these fine churches that’s represented here, you support your church. That’s your first duty to God. “Bring your tithe and offerings into the storehouse.” And the storehouse, you surely know what that is, it’s where you get your food. So, there’s where you get your spiritual food, and your obligation is to your church and not to an evangelist like me”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
NORTON 09.09.2020
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