Thoughts About Money - Keith A. Craft

 

Rule #5: Seek to give 10%+ of your income to advance God’s Kingdom.

– Keith A. Craft

Biblical GIVING doesn’t start until AFTER we have Put God first by RETURNING to Him the first 10% of our income and increase. Biblically speaking (Think…Be…Do with a Biblical Worldview), we are NOT giving when we tithe! We are RETURNING to God what He says is HIS. Our giving actually begins AFTER we have returned to God His tithe (our first dollar of every ten we make). Many Christians and even some Christian leaders do not understand this. God established the first margin of 10%. He has given us everything we have, and God said, “prove Me in this and see if I will not open the heavens over your life…” God did not say He wanted a particular AMOUNT. The amount of money you have doesn’t matter to God. He wants your HONOR and obedience. He wants THE FIRST 10%. But He is also honored by our OFFERINGS! People who don’t put God first in their finances AND who don’t give God offerings are, according to God, ROBBING HIM. Robbing Him of what? His ability to Open the Windows of heaven over your life and bring His SUPER into your natural! And we also ROB GOD…from being able to rebuke the devourer on our behalf. Returning our first-fruits to God and giving over and above offerings not only honor God and His place in our lives but also empowers us to be the most like God! “When we are generous, we are the most like God.” @leadershipology ““Yet from the days of your fathers you have turned away from My statutes and ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings [you have withheld]. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this whole nation! Bring all the tithes (the tenth) into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you [so great] a blessing until there is no more room to receive it. Then I will rebuke the devourer for your sake…”” – Malachi 3:7-11