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Guided Plans. Trusted Pros. Everything belongs to God and he lends his gifts to us. We enter the world with nothing and leave with nothing. Seems like a wise decision to me?
We set our goal for when we wanted to be done paying them off by paying well over our monthly payment each month and still find room to tithe. If we follow our budget, which is aligned with our goal, it is still quite easy to glorify God for what he has given us through our funds!
It comes down to glorifying the Lord with our Money. He gives us everything that we have in our life and is so good.
Tithing is a great tool to give up control of what seems to have the biggest grip on our lives, our finances. We trust that God will take care of us, even if we are stretching our funds to both aggressively pay off debt while tithing. Here is what i have to say.
Yes I tithe. What is kind of funny is my student loan payments are more than my tithe. However I feel like God wants me to give to my friends in Christian missions and so my total giving is about equal to my student loans. Plus I have some credit card consolidated debt i am paying on. The tithe is a test of trust in God and recognition that everything we have comes from Him in the first place. I know that I am able to praise Jesus anywhere, but to be able to come together with my church family each week is a very important component in my life.
They need our tithing to function daily and also to help those in need. These two things fade into each other, and clear delineation is not needed. But as one happens it becomes the other. God invites me to surrender all parts of my life and a huge part of my life is how I interact with money — actively surrendering my money to him allows him to imprint his priority list on my heart and mind.
Like a lot of the testimonials, tithing has become a non-negotiable in our budget. Our budget is based on our priorities and values , so we tithe. No matter how close we were to just scraping by, and believe me, when we started, we were just scraping by, we still made it priority to tithe. It would have been easy to move our tithe money someplace else to pay off bills, save for vacation, or invest.
We needed every dollar we could get our hands on. The creator of the universe and the lover of your soul shows up in your life in very real ways. I remember one month looking at our budget. It was devastating. I even checked our bank accounts to confirm we had this mysterious extra money. We did. In the end, we had to attribute the extra money to Jesus. He tangibly showed up in our budget and blessed us. Do you remember the story of the widow and her offering?
Mark reads,. And He Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.
The widow gave all she had because she believed God would meet her needs. Her gift of two small coins — small to the world but large to her — demonstrated her complete dependence on the One who loved her. Paul said, Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. God does not promise to reward your giving with lots of money or other earthly blessing as the Prosperity Gospel proclaims but you will experience blessing, perhaps not visible until you enter heaven and discover the treasures God has stored for you there. Just know that He promises to supply bountifully if you give generously.
Start giving now. Pray with your spouse and agree on a dollar amount to give each week. This should be an amount that does not cause you to default on your current bills or harm your marriage. As you give, ask God to multiply it for His Kingdom. At the same time, I recommend that you begin to save so you can establish an emergency savings account.
Tithing when broke may be in part just a matter of finding those little extravagances in your budget and cut them. The money from those items becomes money that you tithe. There are also free ways you can donate money such as signing up for Amazon Smile. If you shop through AmazonSmile,. There are over 1 million charities to choose from! I found our church there and signed up. Likewise, some grocery loyalty cards also have a charitable component.
There are other ways you can give for free.
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