Friday, July 3, 2009

PUT ME TO THE TEST!

MALACHI 3:10

"Bring all your tithes into the storehouse, so there will be enough food in the temple.  If you do, says the Lord, I will open up the windows of heaven for you.  I will pour out a blessing so great you will not enough room to take it in.  Try me, PUT ME TO THE TEST!

Do  you like to be challenged?  Are you up to being tested by God?  Here is a direct opportunity to prove or disprove the Word of God.  If God is real and His Word is the Truth, then all you have to do to confirm His existence is to follow this One Truth Today.  Like any challenge you have to follow the rules as they are set forth.  You have to do the right thing to get the right results.  If you bring a tenth of your income or blessings into the temple and storehouse of God, as a gift or tithe, God will pour out a blessing so great that you will not have enough room to take it in.  You have to bring it all, and that means all the tithe, not part.  If you do your part God will do His part and open up the windows of Heaven for you!

Now here is the part that seems to elude the average believer.  God means that you have to give one tenth of your increase or blessing to His Temple.  No parsing of words here, If you make one dollar, you must bring ten cents to the Lord and His Church.  If you make a million dollars then you must bring one hundred thousand dollars to His Temple storehouse.  How many people do you think really test God and try Him at His Word.  No tithe, then no poured out blessing.  Tithe and you will open up the doors of heaven and have a blessing poured out on you that you will not have enough room to take it in.  You will have to continue giving the Lord His tithe.  God Say's. PUT ME TO THE TEST!

Are you a robber?  Have you robbed or defrauded God of His just tithe during your life?  By withholding your tithes and offerings from God you have made a choice that has consequences.  If you are poor and never seem to have enough from day to day, I wonder if you have heard the One Truth Today and listened and learned?  I confess that as a child and young adult I never heard or understood the message of the Lord.  The Holy Spirit entered my life and then I was able to understand and put into action His Word.  I made a conscious effort and have succeeded, although not perfectly.  I now know that there is a direct proportional relationship to the giving and then receiving relationship I have with the Lord.  I have noted that those individuals that give the most to God, receive the most.  The more a person blesses God, the more God blesses the person.  The more you give, the more that you get.  The more you bless others, the more you are blessed.  Jesus Christ told us it is more blessed to give than to receive and that is the Truth. If you do not believe it, God is saying, TRY ME, PUT ME TO THE TEST!