When you prepare your budget and receive your paycheck habitually, give God the first fruits of your income, not the leftovers
Therefore, when you prepare your budget and receive your paycheck habitually, give God the first fruits of your income, not the leftovers.
If you believe the money you have is yours to do with it as you please, and it's unlikely that you will ever give generously. However, if you acknowledge that you're a manager of God's resources and if you love the Lord Jesus Christ and have a close relationship with him, then generous giving is a skill that you can learn with God's help.
Manage money and material things with an eternal perspective, not a temporal perspective.
Give generously and sacrificially to God's work and do not be constrained by the tithe.
As a result of your love for God, give generously to God's work and God will bless you both here on Earth and for eternity in heaven.
As you give to God's work, ensure that your motives are godly and God will bless you abundantly.
We want you to know about the grace of God has given the Macedonian churches out of the most severe trial are overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.
God's purpose for blessing Christians is not to enable us to spend as we wish, but rather so that we can give generously and God will be glorified.
Make it a priority to give the first 10 percent to God's work. God will bless your obedience.
Study God's word on finances so you can avoid the many financial pitfalls that result in debt.
Within one year they were tithing again, and within three years they had paid off their credit cards and their personal line of credit, and they were experiencing God's peace in the area finances.
Give generously and sacrificially to God's work as a result of your love, obedience and trust in the Lord.
But when you are tempted, God will provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
Over the past 40 years, I've had the privilege of helping thousands of individuals and couples to reduce their debt and with many becoming totally debt free.
It only makes sense to give generously to God's work. And that's why Jesus said it is more blessed to give them to receive Acts 20:35.
We have a dual responsibility that is to pay our debts and to give to God's work simultaneously.