Bible
verses
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Explanation
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First of all:
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first
fruits of all your crops;
Then your barns will be filled to overflowing,
and your vats will brim over with new wine.
Proverbs 3: 9,10
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The Lord expects you to have a
habit of giving to Him before He will bless your
wealth. |
So:
Cast your bread upon the water, for after many
days you will find it again.
Give portions to seven, yes eight, for you do not
know what disaster may come upon the land.
Eccl. 11: 1,2
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This could be saying to spread
your wealth around, you don't know where it is
going to be needed most or give the best return,
and also don't expect a quick return.(after many
days). |
Remember this: Whoever sows
spraringly will also reap sparingly, and whoever
sows generously will also reap generously.
Each man should give what he has decided in his
heart to give, not reluctantly or under
compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Cor. 9 6,7
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If you only spread a few seeds,
you only get a few plants. The plants don't bear
fruit for a while and not much if you don't have
good seeds. Apply this to what money you give and
the good seed as the cheerfulness as to how it is
given. |
Also
There is one who scatters, yet increases all the
more, and there is one who withholds what is
justly due, but it results only in want.
The generous man will be prosperous, and he who
waters will himself be watered.
Prov. 11: 24,25 |
An Old Testament proverb says
almost the same thing as the New Testament verses
above. |
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob
Me. But you ask, 'How do we rob you ? 'In tithes
and offerings.
"You are under a curse -the whole nation of
you - because you are robbing me.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that
there may be food in My house. Test Me in
this," says the Lord Almighty, " and
see if I will not throw open the floodgates of
heaven and pour out so much blessing that you
will not have room enough for it"
Malachi 3: 8-10
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God is being specific about a
tithe, which is 10%. He says here in the last
book of the Old Testiment specifically, that it
belongs to Him. If you don't give it back you are
stealing it from God, and God will bring a curse
on those who don't pay properly. On the other
hand, when you do return it properly, God will
bless you so that you will have more to give him
more the next time around. |
And you say, 'What a burden!' and
you sniff at it contemptuously," says the
Lord Almighty." When you bring injured
crippled or diseased animals and offer them as
sacrifices, should I accept them from your hand
?" says the Lord
"Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable
male in his flock and vows to give it, but then
sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I
am a great king." says the Lord Almighty,
"and My name is to be feared among the
nations."
Malachi 1:13,14 |
I put this here because in those
days, the flock was their wealth, and offering.
When they brought a defective animal, it was a
curse, not a blessing. A short tithe, could be
like a defective animal, only the full tithe
invokes the blessing, anything short is
incomplete and could invoke a curse. If you are
paying a tithe, pay the whole thing, you don't
want to short the Almighty God. If there is a
formula, 10% returned from your increase is in
the equation. |
Therefore, if you are offering
your gift at the alter and there remember that
your brother has something against you.
leave your gift there in front of the alter.
First go and be reconciled to your brother, them
come and offfer your gift.
Matthew 5:23,24
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This is important, if someone has
a grudge or reason to be angry with you,
(expecially had you cheated or done them wrong)
and they have not forgiven you, it is not the
time to give your offering, that would be a
waste. You need to straighen that problem out and
ask for forgiveness. That would be another way to
defile your gift, better to put it aside, save it
up if needed, and get the reconcilement and
forgiveness finished first.
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God says:
I love those who love me; and those who
diligently seek me will find me.
Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and
righteousness.
My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, and
my yield than choicest silver.
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst
of the path of justice,
To endow those who love me with wealth, that I
may fill their treasuries.
Proverbs 8:17-21 |
Love and seek God, He is among
the paths of righeousness and justice. He knows
who truely loves Him, and those are the ones who
share the His treasure and wealth. |
The blessing of the Lord brings
wealth, and He ads no sorrow to it.
Proverbs 10:22 |
How will you invoke the blessing
of the Lord ? |
But:
Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands
bring wealth
Proverbs 10;4 |
Don't expect wealth to fall in
your lap, work diligently. |
He who oppresses the poor to
increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the
rich - both come to poverty.
Proverbs 22:16 |
Taking from the poor and giving
to the rich is the opposite of Robin Hood. Be
careful to give to the poor for favor with God. |
He who is gracious to the poor,
lends to the Lord, and He will repay him for his
good deeds.
Prov 19:17 |
Now, is it clear who God wants
you to help ? |
And you shall again obey the Lord
and observe all His commandments whcih I command
you today.
Then the Lord your God will prosper you
abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the
offspring of your body and in the offspring of
your cattle and in the produce of your ground,
for the Lord will again rejoice over you for
good, just as he rejoiced over your fathers.
Deut 30:8,9 |
The promise comes to pass from
obedience of Gods rules and ways, abundant
prosperity. |
Do not store up for yourselves
treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy
and where thieves break in and steal.
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where moth and rust do not destroy and where
thieves do not break in or steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will
be also.
Matt. 6:19-21 |
When you master the above and all
along the way, you need to keep the habit of
giving back to God. What you keep on earth is
temporary. Like a pension plan or 401K, every
week you make a deposit with the Lord, in the
form or tithes and offerings. |
Command those who are rich in
this present world not to be arrogant nor to put
their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but
to put their hope in God, who richly provides us
with everything for our enjoyment.
Command them to do good, to be rich in good
deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.
1 Tim 6: 17,18 |
Once again, develope the right
attitude of how you will handle wealth, once it
comes your way. My guess is God will build your
wealth slowly to be sure you have the right
habits first. |
But you shall remember the Lord
your God, for it is He who is giving you power to
make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant
which He swore to your fathers, as it is this
day.
Deut. 8:18 |
Make sure to acknowledge and
thank God for your prosperiry, if you think or
claim it is all you own doing, then you will
likely get Him angry. Remember He can take away,
in an instant, all you have, wealth, health,
wife, life and more and has been known to do so
especially in the case of personal pride. |
Do not weary yourself to gain
wealth, Cease from your consideration of it.
When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For
wealth certainly makes itself wings, like an
eagle that flies toward the heavens.
Prov. 23:4,5 |
Hopefully from the above you can
see that you don't pursue wealth, It has wings to
fly away. |
It is the blessing of the Lord
that make rich, and He adds no sorrow to it.
Prov 10: 22 |
You do the things God wants you
to do and He blesses you with prosperity as you
show yourself faithful. |
Do not be with heavy drinkers if
wine, or with gluttonous eater of meat;
For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come
to poverty, and drowsiness will cloth a man with
rags.
Prov 23 :20,21 |
Drunks and Gluttons, hopefully
this is self explanitory. If they have money, it
is ussually not for long. How many rich ones do
you know ? |
Wealth obtained by fraud
dwindles, but the one who gathers by labor
increases it.
Prov 13:11 |
Cheating, lying, stealing, is not
going to get lasting wealth. It is best obtained
by working diligently and working smart. |
Like a partridge that hatches
eggs it did not lay is the man who gains riches
by unjust means. When his life is half gone, they
will desert him, and in the end he will prove to
be a fool.
Jer. 17:11 |
Dishonestly is specifically
cursed as a means of gaining wealth. Jeremiah the
profit has yet to be proven wrong. God will not
be mocked. |
Poor is he who works with a
negligent hand, but the hand of the diligent make
rich.
Prov 10: 4 |
Slow, lazy and careless workers
get the smallest raises, if any. Those who work
diligently get promoted, bosses like them, I
know. |
Psalms 112: 1-10
The whole chapter, look it up. |
Pretty much what I've been
telling you above. |
