Heart: “KARDIA”—the CENTER of your life. Where you are devoted physically, emotionally and spiritually.
WHO/WHAT has 1ST place in your life.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your HEART.
I Samuel 12:24 But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your HEART.
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your HEART.
Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your HEART…”
Does God have ALL my HEART?
Proverbs 21:2 Every person’s way is right in his own eyes, but the Lord EXAMINES the HEART.
Matthew 6:21 For where your TREASURE is, there your HEART will be also.
The PORTION God has of your heart is determined by the POSITION he has in your finances.
For God to be first in your HEART he must be first in your FINANCES.
Biblical Principle: The TITHE
WHAT is a tithe?
Hebrew word “ms’aser” simply means 1/10th or 10%
Matthew 23:23 You SHOULD TITHE, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
PAID TITHE
$1,000 $100
$10,000 $1,000
$100,000 $10,000
$1,000,000 $100,000
$100 Billion $10 Billion
WHEN do you tithe?
Tithing isn’t just the AMOUNT (10%) it’s the ORDER (1st) in which we give.
Proverbs 3:9 Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the FIRSTFRUITS of all your crops.
Genesis 4:3 IN THE COURSE OF TIME Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.
Genesis 4:4-5 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the FIRSTBORN of his flock. The Lord looked with FAVOR on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he DID NOT LOOK WITH FAVOR.
WHY should you tithe?
Promise of Tithing: 90% with God’s blessing always goes further than 100% on your own.
$7,200 (with God) > $8,000 (on your own)
Malachi 3:10 “Bring the WHOLE TITHE into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. TEST ME in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much BLESSING that there will not be room enough to store it.”
Leviticus 27:30 “A tithe of everything…BELONGS to the Lord; it is HOLY to the Lord.
Malachi 3:8-11 MSG “Begin by being honest. Do honest people rob God? But you ROB me day after day. “You ask, ‘HOW have we robbed you?’ “The TITHE and the offering—that’s HOW!
WHERE do you tithe?
Leviticus 27:30 “A tithe of everything…BELONGS to the Lord; it is HOLY to the Lord
HOW do you start?
TEST God with TITHING.
Does God have ALL of your HEART?
