When God said quit tithing to me I was having hard time in my life. I was broke all the time and it wasn’t from bad money practices or over spending. I had nothing to spend. I had stuff constantly break and needed repair. The straw that broke the camels back was my car. Finally me and the Lord had a talk about it. I told him his word said in
Malachi 3:10 “Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, to see if I will not open the windows of Heaven for you, and pour out a blessing for you, until there is not enough room.”
So I told the Lord this promise isn’t true and you have not done this for me. You asked me to test you and I did, I am commanded to test you and yet I found this promise failed.
Now I ask you, are you bold enough to say that to the Lord, or even honest enough to say it? I said Lord you have never blessed me with this promise. I have never seen a blessing so big I could not contain it all. Also in
Malachi 3:11 you said, ” And I will rebuke your devourer, and he shall not decay the fruit of your ground against you; nor shall your vine miscarry against you in the field, says Jehovah of Hosts”.
Where is that part. The little money I do make is ate up constantly on stupid things needing repairs and my money is always devoured. What kind of promise is this? I have been faithful in giving my tithe. You asked me to test you now here in this and I have found it not true. So the Lord spoke and said, “Then why don’t you quit?” I have to say I was taken back by it at first. I said, “Because your word says to do this tithe” and he said, “Well if it doesn’t work why would you keep doing it if I failed to provide my end of the promise?”
So I said Lord, “I quit then” and he said, “Good, then do it.” I have to say when I told my wife this she thought I was crazy, every preacher I know would have thought I was crazy or they would think my problem was I was probably sinning some how and this was the reason God wasn’t blessing me with this promise, but no matter if God said it to me I was going to obey it in SPITE of what all these preachers said about it.
Forward 5 years of my life and I finally got my answer to the issue. God showed me this study on tithing and I was blown away. How good was God. God showed me this and I found out they are sinning by preaching this and all those little things that didn’t add up in scripture finally came to the full revelation of his word. How ignorant was I and still how ignorant are those who fall for this preaching all the time. This set me on the road to be a learned Christian and not listen to half of what these self kingdom builders preach. What a blessing it has been. We as Christians are so ignorant of God’s Word it is silly, I repent of that and want to move forward to be like
2Timothy 2:15 Study earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Also I might mention since I quit tithing I have been more blessed than ever in my life. Now I understand the joy of giving again and the reckless abandon of giving to God. I do what Jesus said, ”
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
