Trust GOD or just say we do.

[4hisglory]

I use to be on those people that said:

"I can't afford to pay my tithes"

Thats just like saying:

"God, I really don't trust you, so I'm gonna do it my way".

I decided to step out on faith and do it, and I'm a living testimony to the fact that our God is real, and his word is real.

[allonesound]

okay this is my personal opinion.... but also true

where is God on your agenda?
If you can not afford to pay your tithes then you can not afford your cell phone, satelite, cable, internet, going out to eat buying tha new easter dress... and all the extra things you are doing with your money.


Giving 10% to God is nothing compared to what he gives to us... just think if he only gave 10% to us, where would we be?
so if you can not "afford to pay tithes" then you need to check what you are doing with the money, and are you putting God first.

so if you make a $400 check what is 40 dollars NOTHING! and you still have 360 dollars left and if giving up that 40 dollars is hurting then give up some of the extras you have...

[Nakia518]

I used to be one of those people who didn't want to pay tithes... One because I knew that my pastor at the time was taking my money...  Thank God I am no longer a member of that church...

Then I was paying my tithes on my net pay and not my gross... Because I was unable to pay on my gross...

But I prayed to God and I told him that I wanted to be able to pay on my gross and not my net... and I have been doing it ever since....

[Nakia518]

okay this is my personal opinion.... but also true

where is God on your agenda?
If you can not afford to pay your tithes then you can not afford your cell phone, satelite, cable, internet, going out to eat buying tha new easter dress... and all the extra things you are doing with your money.


Giving 10% to God is nothing compared to what he gives to us... just think if he only gave 10% to us, where would we be?
so if you can not "afford to pay tithes" then you need to check what you are doing with the money, and are you putting God first.

so if you make a $400 check what is 40 dollars NOTHING! and you still have 360 dollars left and if giving up that 40 dollars is hurting then give up some of the extras you have...

Amen... My pastor's mom told us to do the 10-10-80...
Give God 10%
Savings   10%
For you   80%
It really works..

If you can't live off of 80% of yout income then you need to cut some things out...

[allonesound]

Amen... My pastor's mom told us to do the 10-10-80...
Give God 10%
Savings   10%
For you   80%
It really works..

If you can't live off of 80% of yout income then you need to cut some things out...

thats true... my dad taught me and my sister a good method too

Give God 10%
Savings    40%
Do what you want with the rest....(after bills are paid)

------i know some are unable to save 40% so if you do save 10% when the time comes to have that money you will be glad you did!

[PianoWizard]

Amen... My pastor's mom told us to do the 10-10-80...
Give God 10%
Savings   10%
For you   80%
It really works..

If you can't live off of 80% of yout income then you need to cut some things out...

That is some grade 'A' ADVICE there, I think I will start doing that........Thanks....

PianoWiz...

[SisterT]

Don't limit yourselves to just giving God 10%---it's only a start. What you give to God represents you. So the question becomes, Is what you are giving to God really representing you?

Why not strive to give God more! There is a song that says it well "the more you give, the more he gives back to you".

Another thing, I may be missing something with Nakia's and Allonesound's plan...but where is the offering? God wants the Tithe and and offerings

[Nakia518]

Another thing, I may be missing something with Nakia's and Allonesound's plan...but where is the offering? God wants the Tithe and and offerings

What I stated was according to what is required of you... That should come out just like taxes... Right after I cash my check I immediately take out my tithes and seperate it from the rest of my money... I am the type of person, where if I see it I spend it.. So I am training myself to give God his First... Then me ....

Your offering is what you want to give.... That would come out of the 80% you have left... and it also according to the person...

[lumbebear1]

okay this is my personal opinion.... but also true

where is God on your agenda?
If you can not afford to pay your tithes then you can not afford your cell phone, satelite, cable, internet, going out to eat buying tha new easter dress... and all the extra things you are doing with your money.


Giving 10% to God is nothing compared to what he gives to us... just think if he only gave 10% to us, where would we be?
so if you can not "afford to pay tithes" then you need to check what you are doing with the money, and are you putting God first.

so if you make a $400 check what is 40 dollars NOTHING! and you still have 360 dollars left and if giving up that 40 dollars is hurting then give up some of the extras you have...

Preach Sista'             Amen Amen Amen

[lumbebear1]

Tithing is the commandment.

Offering is the seed (Gen. 8:22) As long as the earth remains, there shall be seed time and harvest.

the hearvest is from the sowing (offering) not the tithe. The tithe is obedience to the Word.

[Torch7]

Don't limit yourselves to just giving God 10%---it's only a start. What you give to God represents you. So the question becomes, Is what you are giving to God really representing you?

Why not strive to give God more! There is a song that says it well "the more you give, the more he gives back to you".

Another thing, I may be missing something with Nakia's and Allonesound's plan...but where is the offering? God wants the Tithe and and offerings

Amen Sister T.

The Tithe belongs to God, we ought not think we are doing anything special when we pay tithes.  We have no right to it, it is God's.  The Offering above and beyond the tithe, is were we show were our heart is.  Especially when giving sacrificially.

Not to boast, because God has prepared my heart to give, but he has met my every need.  I can testify, that I do not have a college degree, but God has increased my yearly salary, almost 4 1/2 times since I have been working.  That's in the natural, I cannot begin to tell you how I have been blessed spiritually.

Some say they can't affort do pay tithes, I say; I can't afford not too.

[certify]

Tithing is the commandment.

Offering is the seed (Gen. 8:22) As long as the earth remains, there shall be seed time and harvest.

the hearvest is from the sowing (offering) not the tithe. The tithe is obedience to the Word.

AMEN. Well said.

[lumbebear1]

Amen Sister T.

The Tithe belongs to God, we ought not think we are doing anything special when we pay tithes.  We have no right to it, it is God's.  The Offering above and beyond the tithe, is were we show were our heart is.  Especially when giving sacrificially.

Not to boast, because God has prepared my heart to give, but he has met my every need.  I can testify, that I do not have a college degree, but God has increased my yearly salary, almost 4 1/2 times since I have been working.  That's in the natural, I cannot begin to tell you how I have been blessed spiritually.

Some say they can't affort do pay tithes, I say; I can't afford not too.

When we don't tithe we give the enemy an open door to devour all that we have. I can't afford not to either Torch7

Mal. 3:10 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.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

[blessedone]

I agree because some of us never pay our tithes. I use to say," Lord I don't have enough money for my bills". The Lord giveth and he taketh away. Some who think they are getting over, think again. If God doesn't get your tithes, he will get it another way. Trust me.

[bishopcole]

Don't limit yourselves to just giving God 10%---it's only a start. What you give to God represents you. So the question becomes, Is what you are giving to God really representing you?

Why not strive to give God more! There is a song that says it well "the more you give, the more he gives back to you".

Another thing, I may be missing something with Nakia's and Allonesound's plan...but where is the offering? God wants the Tithe and and offerings

This is so true. Our real abundant blessings or overflow will be challenged thru our offerings that most of us do not want to do BUT, I am a living witness that when you give God a "JUST BECAUSE OFFERING" God will give you a double overflow of a "JUST BECAUSE BLESSING"!!!!  Bishop Cole   

[praizeHim]

Tithing is the commandment.

Offering is the seed (Gen. 8:22) As long as the earth remains, there shall be seed time and harvest.

the hearvest is from the sowing (offering) not the tithe. The tithe is obedience to the Word.

That's how I was taught!

When I got saved, I came in on about a 6 month series on giving and at first was disappointed because I wanted to find out what must I do to be saved. 

But after I learned the principals of tithes and offering -- It was ON!  I've never had a problem giving tithes and as Lumbebear1 says, the harvest is in the offering.

I've learned over the years,  as long as I give as unto the Lord it doesn't matter what they do with the money -- I've done my part.

[Divinecalling1]

After my mother and father got divorced my mother (who was a minister) was on Welfare, we were younger and her testimony is that she gave herself out of poverty.  She paid her tithes for the amount of money she wanted to make and within a year...within in one year she was buying a house and a new car.  Her monthly support from the state was about 500-600 dollars and she giving upto 100.00 or more permonth. 

She said I am giving according to what I want to make and God dit it..... I have always paid tithe and I learned a valuable lesson from my mom about giving according to the what you want to recieve.  It works.

[4hisglory]

Alright now.

[T-Block]

Then I was paying my tithes on my net pay and not my gross... Because I was unable to pay on my gross...

But I prayed to God and I told him that I wanted to be able to pay on my gross and not my net... and I have been doing it ever since....

Some people feel that paying tithe from your net is acceptable cuz they don't know any better.  I used to pay tithes from my net all the time and not have a care in the world.  I was happy to pay it cuz I knew 10% belong to God cuz of the way I was taught.  I just recently began to understand that I should pay from my gross cuz that is all the money I have earned.  The net is what you get after Uncle Same take his cut.  That knowlege changed everything about what I thought paying tithes consisted of.

What I'm saying that if people don't know to pay from gross, then they won't.  They will pay from their net and still go on like ain't nothing wrong.  I still find myself sometimes paying from net, not because I am stingy, but because it was a habit for so long.  Now I really pay attention to what I pay for my tithe.

[Scales27]

thats true... my dad taught me and my sister a good method too

Give God 10%
Savings    40%
Do what you want with the rest....(after bills are paid)

------i know some are unable to save 40% so if you do save 10% when the time comes to have that money you will be glad you did!

      I came up with that way too. To only spend half of what you make, and tithe 10%, save 40%, minus whatever I put in the general collection plate (If I didn't just put the 10% in the plate). I can say that GOD wasn't lying about reaping what you sow. When I was working I put in 10% from every paycheck. I had started inadvertently putting in more, but I just let it stay there when my uncle forgot to take it out for me. When I had stopped working, I was having my socks blessed off! Every time I ran out of money I was given more money for like three months, and just to let you know how much he blessed me, I ran out of money quickly and frequently. I gave more generously to GOD (I was amazed!)