Tithing...

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Want you to get victory----If your having financial problems---please tithe---and give offerings if possible---you say, but I can't afford to give---what your doing is not working?-----I've been jammed up financially---got committed to giving in faith---it works....I get bummed out when people preach against tithing----I know this will hurt people---God does not need our money---we need God in our finances... Grace and Peace...
 

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Want you to get victory----If your having financial problems---please tithe---and give offerings if possible---you say, but I can't afford to give---what your doing is not working?-----I've been jammed up financially---got committed to giving in faith---it works....I get bummed out when people preach against tithing----I know this will hurt people---God does not need our money---we need God in our finances... Grace and Peace...
Can't argue against this. My wife insists on tithing regardless of our current financial situation at the time. Apparently, she has more biblical wisdom than I currently possess.
 

88

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I heard about a guy being baptized in water---when he went under---he held his wallet above the water... Love & Grace
 
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Sounds fine to me. I hope that all of you do understand that mandatory tithing for Christians is a man made tradition and is not taught by the word of God, God gave Christians the choice of how much and how often to give. Someone did not like the teaching God gave the church about giving so they placed mandatory tithing on people. If that is your choice then go for it, but don't make the mistake of claiming God has commanded Christians to tithe...false teaching.
 

presidente

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Tithing cash income as a financial discipline out of generosity toward God is a good thing. Telling people they are under the curse because they did not give you 10% of their cash income by taking a verse about the requirements of the Israelites to give 10% of the crops and herds grown and raised in the land of Israel as a part of the Law of Moses and twisting it out of context... that's a different story.
 

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I tried that. I ended up over giving and got in debt. I had to ask the church to help with a shut off notice. I had faith 100%, so I think there's something I'm not understanding about this situation. I don't know everything. But I know if you give God the money He gave you to pay your bills, it's not going to magically appear in the mouth of a fish. And shut-offs are real, and homelessness is real for those who don't pay their bills, faith or not.
 

presidente

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I tried that. I ended up over giving and got in debt. I had to ask the church to help with a shut off notice. I had faith 100%, so I think there's something I'm not understanding about this situation. I don't know everything. But I know if you give God the money He gave you to pay your bills, it's not going to magically appear in the mouth of a fish.
Peter caught a fish with money in it's mouth. I read there is a kind of fish in the Sea of Galilee that puts rocks in its mouth, or coins if the coins happen to fall in the right place. So the idea of finding a coin in the mouth of a fish may not have been unheard of back then, but probably very rare. And Jesus telling Peter to go catch a fish and it would have a coin in it's mouth that would pay both of their tax was extremely detailed.

But God can provide like this.

Once, while poor, unemployed and moving far away by plane, my wife told me that so-and-so just gave her $400. I prayed, "Lord, I'd like someone to give me $400." Within two hours, maybe one, someone put $400 in my hand. I was going to refuse it, but then I saw it was $400 and remembered my prayer and dared not refuse it.
 

hornetguy

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Scripturally, we are supposed to give out of the goodness of our heart...willingly and cheerfully.
10% doesn't even enter the equation.

I heard a sermon on giving once where the preacher said "we don't believe in tithing. We don't want to limit anyone to 10%..."
 
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Abraham tithed to Melchisdec...
 

88

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I understand how you feel---- we have to work out our responsibilities before God and man (Mark 12:17)---I have gone through stuff like that----eventually being persistent we can find Grace to figure it all out----when we "find" a way to tithe it is a way for God to bless us....its just like prayer---- God could do things without our prayers---- but He asks us to pray ---and He works that way...Grace and Peace
 
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Ive always found tithing exactly 10 percent dogmatic like many church traditions are. Some people like me do not go to church but rather worship God our own way. After all He is everywhere. But church is not bad just some have to much legalism and dogma
 

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To find our place in God we need the church----we need a good spiritual father to love and nurture us in the faith...Grace and Peace
 

88

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It's Friday, but Sundays coming....just saying
 

shittim

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Much like our faith, where we trade that which we cannot keep to gain that which we cannot lose, why would we risk
not giving back 10% or more to the One who provided the 100%?
Is it worth the risk as it may be one of the ways He allows us to build up treasure in Heaven as we are guided to do?
We can't take it with us,but He has provided a way to send it ahead.
We can't out give G-d.
 

KohenMatt

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We tithe every month. 10% off the gross.

More importantly, we "tithe" our lives every week we go by the offering basket before we place anything monetary in it. We give the very best that we have: a humble and thankful heart and life.
 

Dan_473

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one thing I see about tithing is that back in time,

it was necessary to support the physical temple and the priesthood.

today, the church doesn't require money to be the church.
 
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Want you to get victory----If your having financial problems---please tithe---and give offerings if possible---you say, but I can't afford to give---what your doing is not working?-----I've been jammed up financially---got committed to giving in faith---it works....I get bummed out when people preach against tithing----I know this will hurt people---God does not need our money---we need God in our finances... Grace and Peace...
All the money

Oh and time and etc are his_God's


God just expects 10%of our income and freewill offering too to help finance the spread of the gospel
 
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God owns 100% of my money


Think on these things...
 

shittim

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Our church has bills to pay, electricity, heat, snow removal.
We are not to forsake meeting together in His name, the early church members sold their excess properties and met in each others homes, looks like they were understanding about heavenly rewards being vastly more important than earthly, temporal, possessions.
What do we want waiting for us when we get there?