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dennis62
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Most of the time Pastors will teach about bringing your money into the store house. But God wants more than just our money, He wants us. Think about this. There are 168 hours in a week. If you just give God 10% of your time that is 16.8 hours serving Him. If you go the church 3 hrs on Sunday, maybe 2 hrs on Wednesday, and you read your Bible 1 hr. a day. If you add all this time up you have been with Him about 12 hours give or that an hour or so. Just using 10% of tithing your time you have robbed God of at least 4.8 hours, and we wonder why He doesn't bless us!!!
8 Will someone steal from God?” Yet you are always stealing from Me! But you self-centered people still ask, “How have we stolen from You?” In the tithes and the offerings you have not given Me as the law requires!
9 You are cursed with a curse, for as an entire nation you are stealing from Me.
10 To rectify this situation, you must bring the entire tithe into the storage house in the temple so that there may be food for Me and for the Levites in My house. Feel free to test Me now in this. See whether or not I, the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, will open the windows of heaven to you and pour a blessing down upon you until all needs are satisfied.
11 I will rebuke the swarm of locusts devouring your crops, and the devourer will not cause the produce you have grown in the earth to decay or the vines in the field to drop their grapes.
12 And all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight. I, the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, promise you this.
Malachi 3: 8-12 The Voice Bible.
8 Will someone steal from God?” Yet you are always stealing from Me! But you self-centered people still ask, “How have we stolen from You?” In the tithes and the offerings you have not given Me as the law requires!
9 You are cursed with a curse, for as an entire nation you are stealing from Me.
10 To rectify this situation, you must bring the entire tithe into the storage house in the temple so that there may be food for Me and for the Levites in My house. Feel free to test Me now in this. See whether or not I, the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, will open the windows of heaven to you and pour a blessing down upon you until all needs are satisfied.
11 I will rebuke the swarm of locusts devouring your crops, and the devourer will not cause the produce you have grown in the earth to decay or the vines in the field to drop their grapes.
12 And all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight. I, the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, promise you this.
Malachi 3: 8-12 The Voice Bible.