The Importance Of Helping The Gospel
- Santita Daley
- Jul 7
- 5 min read
Updated: Jul 13
Will you rob God?
Yes.
The word of God says you have robbed the Lord.
“Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.”
Malachi 3:8 ESV
The Lord gets straight to the point in this message written by the prophet Malachi. He uses His prophets to relay a message to you, His people, because when He comes to you directly you ignore Him, or worse you don’t hear from Him at all.
You. Are. Robbing. God.
He breaks it down so clearly even answering the question of “how?” - tithes and contributions.
“You must set aside a tithe of your crops—one-tenth of all the crops you harvest each year.”
Deuteronomy 14:22 NLT
What is tithes?
Tithes is 10% of your income and a contribution is anything more than tithes.
For example, If I get a $50 check the Lord expects a tenth of that, so $5 is to go to the Lord and I can keep $45. If I offer more than that, that is then considered an offering or contribution.
If I get paid $50 and give $10 to the Lord then I have paid my $5 tithes and added another $5 for offering.
We know how to pray over our food to bless our food. We pray over our sleep that God protects us through the night. However, we don’t know how to protect our money and bless our income? It’s because that would require us to give up some of it, joyfully.
The mystery behind protection over our job and our finances is tithes and offerings. Money doesn’t respond to prayer that’s why we aren’t taught to pray over money. The blessing comes from giving it back to God that the work of God and the gospel can continue to reach those that are lost and poor.
You think you need the money more? You don’t, in fact you do yourself more harm holding on to it.
The scripture continue on to say;
“That's why your whole nation is under a curse. I am the Lord All-Powerful, and I challenge you to put me to the test. Bring the entire ten percent into the storehouse, so there will be food in my house. Then I will open the windows of heaven and flood you with blessing after blessing.”
Malachi 3:9-10 CEV
Some of you reading have no clue what a curse is and yet you are unknowingly warring against it unbeknownst to you, and have been all your life.
The Lord says try him! Bring the money you owe Him into His church and see what happens. This, my friend, is God “standing on business”.
He then proceeds to say, Give me my moneyyyyy and I will be sure to flood you with blessings!
You didn’t even realize some of your problems that you face is because you thought you could get away with stealing from a big God.
The problems that continue to return, no matter how hard you try to rise above them are curses sent from God. A lot of time we want to cry “the enemy” or “the devil” but what if the reason behind your problem was disobedience?
He promises to protect your finances - that there will be meat in His house. When you give to the House of God blessings will come at times you wont notice or where you least expected it. If God is benefiting from your income why wouldn’t He protect it? A fool thinks its by his own accord but the wise know its not by power, not by might but by the spirit of the Lord that they do not lack or that the job is moving smoothly or the check isn’t short or that an opportunity for money has been open.
Here is the most important part;
In God’s realm all things must be done in purity of heart. Giving to His house because someone told you to will not trigger the heaven to open up on your behalf. Blessings will not pour for you. He makes it known that he loves a joyful giver in the book of Corinthians;
“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”
2 Corinthians 9:7-8 NIV
The spirit of God in you will know how much to give and you will do it joyfully. Not because you were told or because you feel obligated but because you are a child of God and you want your fathers work to prevail.
God has business to take care of. There is a hungry child or someone looking for a sign from Jesus, don’t have a hand in withholding their breakthrough.
Money buys things needed to fill God’s house that will help connect the lost to the kingdom. It will push outreach ministries, a ministry responsible to spread the gospel. Outreach ministry will do things like; make sandwiches to give to starving families, offer sanitary pads for woman, clean the neighborhood, pray for the sick or It’s to make pamphlets to expose Jesus’ love to the person lost in a dark world. The money pushes’ Jesus’ agenda to answering their prayer, for we serve a living God who hears us.
I want you to take a moment to reflect; When’s the last time you gave tithes and offerings to the church?
If you would like to give and are unsure where to give to, think of a ministry that feeds your spirit the most. Give to the church or person of God that is helping you to grow the most in your walk with Jesus Christ.
If that happens to be this ministry, I am accepting tithes/offerings on behalf of my own church (Holy Ghost Revival Church) to go towards our outreach ministry.
Cash app: https://cash.app/$HolyGhostRevivalC
The first step in your relationship with God is confessing that He lived and died for you to have an abundant and eternal life. If you would like to start your walk with Him, say the following prayer with all your heart out loud;
Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need your forgiveness. I believe that you died on the cross for my sins and rose again. I invite you into my heart and life to be my Lord and Savior. Thank you for your sacrifice, fill me with your Holy Spirit. Amen.
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