Miracles and Blessings

The Economy of the Tithe
Miracles and Blessings
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Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

1 Timothy 6:17-19

God’s provision for us is separate from the world’s provision. We are not to put our trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Our faith and trust is in the Lord Jesus Christ and the economy He has given. We enter His economy through the tithe. Simply giving ten percent starts us in the economy of God and He begins to move on our behalf. Why ten percent? It’s simply an act of obedience — seed He can work with to begin to bless our lives.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

Ephesians 1:3

Everything we have spiritually came from the Lord Jesus Christ, and everything in our natural life started with something spiritual. The very blessings we have in our natural life started because God gave us all the spiritual blessings of heaven. The Word of God declares that every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above from the Father of Lights in whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (See James 1:17.) The very tithe you give to God actually started from Him. He gave you seed to sow. That seed came from God. The blessings of God come into our life that we can turn around and enter into His plan — His form of blessing.

Many Christians have asked me, “Pastor, how come when I first got saved it seemed like God just did one miracle after another for me? And how come it now seems like the miracles don’t happen as often as they used to? Somehow I think my life isn’t as spiritual as it used to be because I don’t see as many miracles.”

When we first trusted in God and first got saved, it seemed like no matter what came our way, miracles happened. People knocked at the front door, giving us groceries. I remember laying hands on our broken down car and praying and the engine started. I’ve heard one great testimony one after another and people asking, “Pastor, is there something wrong with my life? Those things just don’t seem to happen as much as they used to.”

Answer these questions: Is your car as crummy as it used to be or do you have a better car today? Do you have enough food in the cupboard now, where you had no food back then? The purpose of God’s miracles is to get you into a life of blessings so He doesn’t have to keep performing miracles for you every single day. Which is better, miracles or blessings? The answer is blessings!
Ephesians 1:3 tells us He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings and those spill over into the natural blessings of our life. This is God’s purpose in life. The many spiritual blessings we have include the new birth, being filled with the Holy Spirit, healing, and prosperity. Spiritual prosperity moves over into the natural prosperity of life. All these are great blessings.

It doesn’t matter whether we are watching Christian television, listening to Christian radio, or reading Christian books, we are attracted to those with the word “miracle” splashed all over it. Christians especially are so caught up with the word ‘miracles’. If we offered a miracle service at church, we could pack the place out, but if I said we’re going to have a blessing service, we would probably have just a few people show up. There’s such a misunderstanding about blessings.

Remember the Let’s Make a Deal television show? If we have one door marked ‘miracles’ and one door marked ‘blessings’, most everyone would choose the miracle door and ignore the blessing door, which God is trying to tell us there is something greater than miracles and that is the blessings of the Lord. It’s the blessing of the Lord that make rich and adds no sorrow with it. (See Proverbs 10:22.)

There is a way to enter into that life of blessing that God wants us to have. The longest running miracle found in the Word of God lasted nearly forty years. It was the miracle of the manna and the quail that fell every day for the children of Israel.

I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was.

And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

Exodus 16:12-15

Do you murmur in faith or do you murmur in unbelief? You don’t murmur in faith. Those two words just don’t go together. Murmuring goes with unbelief and doubt. God says, “I have heard the murmurings.” Murmuring is the outward expression of the unbelief that was in their heart.

At this point, the children of Israel were not that far out of the nation of Egypt. God had performed miracle after miracle. God had delivered them from Egypt, brought them through the plagues supernaturally, brought them through the Red Sea on dry land, and they watched their enemies drown behind them. They had a camp meeting. They rejoiced. Miriam played the tambourine. The people shouted and rejoiced, and a day or two later they were complaining.

“Where’s the water? We’re out of water. Moses, fetch us water.”

“Moses, you’re our errand boy. Fetch us water!”

I like what Moses said. “Who am I that I should get you water?” (See Exodus 16:7.)The miracle comes from God not from men so Moses turned to the Lord, and the Lord supplied in a place where there was no water. He supplied in a place where there was bitter water. Every time a miracle took place the people would shout and rejoice, but within a few days they were right back to unbelief again.

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you.

Exodus 16:3-4

God provided quail in the afternoon and manna in the morning. In fact, when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “It is manna.” Manna is the Hebrew word for what is it. They looked at it and said, “Manna? What is it?” And God said, “Let’s just call it manna.” Moses explained to them that this is the bread the Lord has sent. They’d never seen it before. Psalm 78:24-25 tells us that what the Lord provided for them was angels’ food. God just took some of the angels’ food in heaven and dropped it down on earth so they could have it, and God did this for forty years.

How would you like to taste manna? How would you like to eat it for forty years? You’d get tired of it just like the children of Israel did. After a few years of this stuff, they said, “We hate this stuff! We loathe this stuff!”

God performed a miracle by dropping manna out of heaven for them every single day. That must have been a lot of manna. The scholars tell us there were least two million perhaps three to three and a half million Jews in the desert, along with their children, cattle, and livestock, and every day God brought manna for them.

They could only get enough manna for one day. If they got any more, it bred worms and stank. (See Exodus 16:4, 20.) The quail fell every day also. Can you imagine how many quail God had to send over every day and at the right time they all had a heart attack and fell right into the middle of the camp? Coveys of quail would have to come from everywhere and fall right there in the camp. They were already dead when they hit the ground. The people were picking them up and making their meal for that day. They probably had manna in the morning and quail in the evening and then for lunch the next day they had quail sandwiches made out of manna. They probably had poached manna, fricasseed manna, and grilled manna. They probably came up with all the different ways to prepare manna and quail, but the miracle was that God provided this for them every single day. The only day God didn’t supply it was on the Sabbath Day. On Friday, God allowed them to pick up a double portion which lasted one more day and it wouldn’t spoil on the Sabbath Day.

Although this was a tremendous miracle which lasted forty years, the miracle of the manna and quail was not God’s best. God did it because they complained and griped, but this was not God’s best. God never intended for the children of Israel to spend forty years in the wilderness. Scholars tell us it’s about a twelve-day to two-week trek across there into the Promised Land. Yet they were there for forty years. God would just as soon have gone over at the end of one year. At the end of one year they came to Kadesh-Barnea. They sent twelve spies in. Ten came back with an evil report; two came back with a good report. God wanted them to believe the good report but they didn’t. They believed the evil report so for thirty nine more years they wandered around until the first generation died off and the second generation could go in, and when the second generation went in, they found out what God intended the whole time. (See Numbers 32:7-13.)

And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, parched corn in the selfsame day.

And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Joshua 5:10-12

God wanted them to live off the land. He wanted them to live off seedtime and harvest. He didn’t want to drop manna on them every day because the manna was not His best. God’s best is for us to work and be blessed by the fruit of the land and by the sowing of seed. God said in Genesis 8:22 that as long as the earth remains there will always be seedtime and harvest. He doesn’t want us to depend on miracles each and every day.

According to the Word of God, there is a difference between blessings and miracles.

1.   Miracles come in a crisis. Aren’t you glad God has moved you out of a state of crisis every day? Aren’t you glad the crisis times are less than they’ve ever been? I’m not saying you’re free from crisis, but aren’t you glad that the times of crisis aren’t as bad as they used to be? A miracle comes in a time of crisis, but a blessing is designed to keep you out of a crisis. Oh, glory to God! Now maybe you’re happy you don’t have to have miracles every single day.

When God sends a miracle, it’s because you’re in a crisis. When you’re in a crisis, you’re occupied with the crisis. All you can think about is that next paycheck or the lack of that next paycheck. All you can think about is that bill. All you can think about is the food or the clothing. In a crisis situation, you’re thinking about yourself and screaming out to God. Then, God comes through with the miracle.

When my wife and I first got married, we trusted in God, but there were times we didn’t know where it was going to come from. God sent it through. You know what I’m talking about, times when people came to the door with groceries in their hands, times when we didn’t have enough gasoline and God supernaturally made the gasoline last a few more days. Thank God for those days of miracles, but thank God I now have money to buy fuel for my car. Thank God I have a car to buy fuel for. Thank God He’s blessed us. When you’re out of the crisis, you can be occupied with the needs of other people. You can be the one God works through to miraculously meet the needs of others.

2.   Miracles come in small amounts just enough for the day, just enough for that time; but blessings come in great abundance. God’s will was not just enough bread for the day. He said when you move into the Promised Land, you’re going to eat bread without scarceness.

3.   A miracle is just enough for you; but blessings are enough for you and to give away to others. How much could the children of Israel gather? Just enough bread for them, for their children, for the wife, for the husband, and that’s it. They couldn’t get any more. If they tried to get any more, the Bible says it bred worms and stank. They could only get enough for themselves just for that day. With a blessing, there will be so much seed in the silo, so much seed stored away, and so much bread stored away; you’re going to have more than you need for your family so you can give it away. This is God’s purpose and why He wants to send blessings our way.

4.   Miracles come even when you’re in unbelief. This is very important. Remember God said He heard the murmurings of the children of Israel? He provided bread for them in the morning and quail in the afternoon. Faith is not needed for a miracle. It’s good to have it, but faith is not needed for a miracle.
Two things are needed for a miracle: a screaming need and a compassionate God. How many times have you given money to someone who had a screaming need even though it was against your better judgment? We’ve all done that. How many times have you given something to your children simply because they cried long enough and you finally gave in and gave it to them, although you knew they didn’t deserve it? They hadn’t cleaned their room this week. They hadn’t mowed the lawn but they got on their knees and cried, “Daddy, Daddy, please! Please! Please!”

You’re thinking of all the things they haven’t done but finally you say, “Okay! Okay! Okay!” But you know what your next statement is? “But now will you be obedient?”
“Oh, Daddy. Yes, yes, yes!”
How long does that last? About ten minutes and they’re out the door.
How many times have you ever heard this from a Christian? “If God would just do a miracle for me, I’d serve Him.” Most the time they don’t, and yet God, out of His compassion, performs a miracle for them.
We find that throughout the Word of God. “Hey, Jesus, we’ll believe in You if You’ll just do something for us. Do a miracle.” And how often does God come through? Where does that thing inside of us come from that we’ll even do something for someone against our better judgment? It comes from God because God’s done that.
They came to God and said, “Oh, God! Please give us a king.”
God said, “I don’t want you to have a king.”
But they said, “We want a king.”
He said, “Okay. Have a king.” And He went against His own better judgment and let them have a king. As a result, they suffered because their kings had rule over the nation rather than God. (See 1 Samuel 8:6-22.)
Remember the disciples in the boat? They cried out and said, “Don’t you care that we perish!”
Jesus got up, stilled the storm, and then turned around and chewed them out for their unbelief. “Oh, ye of little faith.” (See Mark 4:35-40.)

Yes, He performed a miracle. Yes, He stopped the storm. Yes, He showed them He cared, but that was not His best. His best was for them to sit down and be in faith. He wanted them to rest during the storm because that is operating in blessings, rather than needing a miracle at the moment. Miracles even come when we are in unbelief, but blessings demand responsibility, obedience, and faith.

Miracles counteract natural law, but blessings cooperate with natural law. The parting of the Red Sea isn’t something that happens normally every day. The backing up of the Jordan River is not something that normally happens every day. God delivering you from plagues is not something that normally happens every day, but God did all these things to arrest people’s attention. In a miracle, God works for you. In blessings, God works with you.

A miracle is temporary, but a blessing is eternal. A miracle is just for the moment, just enough to get you by; it is temporary, but blessings are eternal. By eternal, they out live you! When God bestows blessings in your life, those blessings can be handed down to your children once you’re gone. We find throughout the Word of God that parents blessed their children and blessed their grandchildren and then they died to be with the Lord, but the blessings kept on going and going. The seeds that were sown kept on coming up for generation after generation after generation.

Jacob blessed his sons, then he blessed his grandsons. Read the blessings he read over his twelve different sons, and you’ll notice he gave to them from the Holy Spirit. They followed those same blessings on to the next generation in the time of the kings, all the way down to the New Testament. Even today those twelve tribes still operate in those different areas of blessings that were read to them thousands of years ago and will keep right on going through the millennial reign of the Lord Jesus Christ as they rule and reign in that nation. Those blessings are eternal and it shows us we should be reading and quoting blessings over our children and passing the blessing onto our children from generation to generation realizing that they out live us. God hasn’t given blessings to us so that when we die it’s all over. He’s given blessings that last forever and we can hand them down for generations yet to come. Oh, glory to God!

Peter walked on the water once. Jesus walked on the water twice. Neither one was a daily occurrence, yet blessings followed Jesus every single day.

Jesus turned water into wine one time, multiplied loaves and fishes twice, the Red Sea parted once, the Jordan River backed up once. One time occurrences — miracles. On the other hand, God wants us to walk in His blessings each and every day because He desires to work in our lifetime through seedtime and harvest. This is His best. As long as the earth remains, there will always be seedtime and harvest. A miracle can come outside of that for God is sovereign. Often we want Him to move in miracles. He moves once and we want to see it happen every single day. However, when it happened every day in the lifetime of one generation, they were the most unbelieving generation and the Bible keeps pointing back to the generation in the wilderness throughout the entire New Testament. They saw a miracle at least twice a day in addition to other miracles, and God wouldn’t even let them into the Promised Land because of their lack of faith in Him. So don’t fool yourself to believe that if God worked a miracle for you every day that somehow you would trust Him and believe Him. The children of Israel disproved that. God wants you to start acting in faith and moving in the area of blessings for your life.

God wants to bless the works of our hands. He wants miracles to bring us to a life of blessing. He starts with miracles in our life to move us into a lifestyle of blessing. God wanted the children of Israel to get to the Promised Land as quickly as they could because there were seeds there that would cause great blessing to come into their life. Miracles are designed by God to be a jumpstart into a life of blessing.

Have you ever had an old car that needed a jumpstart? Did you ever have one of those cars that you had to trust God when you stuck the key in the ignition that is was going to start? That car kept your faith life going. In addition to that, when that old car started you thought, “Whoa! Glory to God!” But then there were those times when it didn’t start and you needed a jumpstart. Isn’t it better to give jumpstarts than to need jumpstarts? That’s what a blessing is. When you’re driving a blessing, you can be the miracle for someone else.

Thank God I have a car today that when I put the key in I know it’s going to start. I don’t even have to think about it. I’ve experienced those times when every thought is on that ignition. Every thought is on that electrical system. Every thought is, I trust this is going to start, and when it fails to start after two or three turns, my heart sinks. But I keep on trying and when it finally starts I shout, “Oh, hallelujah! Hallelujah!” That’s my miracle. But what is even more wonderful is that you can drive a blessing around town with a set of jumper cables in the trunk, knowing you can help other people. Blessings are given to you in such abundance so you can be a blessing to other people. God wants you to be blessed so you can be a blessing. He told Abraham, “I want to bless you Abraham because I know you will be a blessing.”
God wants us to move in the area of blessings so we can constantly have our attention fixed on Him.

In the midst of a crisis when we need a miracle, our mind is continually set on that miracle. God wants us to move into a lifestyle of blessings where we don’t have to think about ourselves. Our needs are met and supplied so we can be a blessing to other people.

Do you believe God prospers us? Do you believe God wants to prosper us beyond our wildest imaginations? The purpose is not so we’ll tear down our barns and build bigger barns. God doesn’t want us to heap this on ourselves. God wants us to come to a place where one day we say, “I’ve got so much that my barns are filled with plenty and my presses are bursting out with new wine. I could never use all this in a lifetime. I’m just going to start giving it away.”

God says, “That’s why I left you on this earth — to be a giver into other people’s life.” That’s what a blessing is for because every seed has that hundred-fold potential to be a blessing to others.
Proverbs 10:22 says the blessing (singular) of the Lord it makes rich and adds no sorrow. There is a difference between blessing (singular) and blessings (plural). Blessings (plural) come from blessing (singular). The blessing is not the riches but the blessing can bring us the riches. What is the blessing? The blessing is the favor of God and it brings us riches. It’s the blessing of God that opens doors for us. The blessing of God brings the right people across our paths. The blessing is not just money in our pockets; it’s all the other areas of life that God blesses us with.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.

And all these blessings (plural) shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2

God is saying is this: Don’t chase after blessings, chase after God. Chase after His Word. Chase after His Spirit. Chase after obedience to be a doer of the Word of God. If we’ll chase after God, blessings will chase after us. Remember the old expression: if you chase after a butterfly, you’ll never catch it; but if you’ll stand still it will come to you? If you’ll seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these things will be added unto you. (See Matthew 6:33.)

It says in Deuteronomy all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you. Look at it this way: we’re running down the road, chasing Jesus, and behind you blessings are chasing you.

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy 28:3

Some believe the prosperity message is just a North American teaching, and it only works in the cities not in the country. God never said He would take you where the money is. He said the blessings would find you. When you follow after God, blessings can find you whether you’re in the city or whether you’re in the field.

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Deuteronomy 28:4-6

Whether I’m coming or going or don’t know if I’m coming or going, I’m still blessed.

The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

Deuteronomy 28:7

That’s not only true personally, I believe it’s true right now in Afghanistan where our troops are. When our enemies come at us one way, they’re going to flee in seven directions. You know what that means? They’re going to come at us organized and flee before us disorganized. They’ll come at us with a single purpose and flee before us confused.

The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 28:8

God would rather work through your hands rather than work outside of you. Rather than have you just sit down and watch God work, He would rather work with you.

The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.

And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.

And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them.

Deuteronomy 28:9-13

God wants us occupied with serving Him.

In Genesis 27:15-33, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau. In Genesis 48:8 through 49:33, Jacob blessed his twelve sons and then later blessed his grandsons. This blessing that was passed was not just material things. He passed on the blessing, the favor of God, and that blessing imparted to their lives caused blessings to come to them as they honored the commandments of the Lord.

Blessings are always associated with seed. Miracles are not. Miracles have nothing to do with seed; it’s God acting in sovereignty. Remember the manna He gave to the children of Israel. The Bible doesn’t say God went into a foreign country and beat the wheat into bread and baked it in giant, godly ovens. The Bible says was angels’ food. God simply reached up there in heaven and dropped something on this earth that was completely unknown to man, and the children of Israel asked, “What is it?” which is the Hebrew word manna. Along with the quail that fell into the camp at night, God did this every day and did not demand seed being sown by them.

To enter into a life of blessing we must begin by sowing seed, which is the tithe. The tithe is your entrance into a financial life of blessing.

God said, “Test me,” in Malachi 3:10. Give unto me and see if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour out more of a blessing than you can contain. Pour out more of a blessing than you can contain! The tithe is our seed to the storehouse of God’s blessings that He will open up and it starts with simply giving a tithe, our seed to the Lord. This is where it begins.

Often people come to church and say, “Lord, if You’ll just send a miracle along my way, it sure would help.”
God’s saying, “Why don’t you give Me something I can work with so we can get into something more substantial than miracles?”

God wants to get us into something that keeps on producing, keeps on producing, and keeps on producing; seed producing harvest, producing more seed, producing more harvest. This process will continue to multiply in our life to where more and more will come and we won’t have to be concerned about the food on our table or about the money to pay our bills. Rather, we can be concerned about people getting saved and people getting filled with the Holy Spirit, laying hands on people and seeing them healed, and sponsoring missionaries and sending money to the evangelists and teachers across our nation. Or, as it says in 2 Corinthians, we can have so much left over we can give into every good work. Hallelujah!

A number of years ago the Kingston Trio had a song called Desert Pete. The story was about a man traveling through the desert. The sun was high above him, he was crawling on the sand, and he was just about to die of thirst when suddenly he looked up and there was a water pump next to an old barn out in the middle of the desert. He crawled over to the water pump and as he was going to get some water out of it, he noticed a small Mason jar filled with water at the bottom of the pump. A little note on the top of the jar read: Don’t drink this water. This water is to prime the pump. Take this water from the Mason jar and pour it down into the pump and then pump like crazy because there’s plenty of water under the ground. Take my word for it.

At the bottom of the note it read: When you have drunk enough water, fill this jar back up for the next person that comes along. There is plenty of water in this well.

The thirsty, dying man looked at that water jar and thought, I’m so thirsty. What if there is no more water? What if this is just a hoax? I could drink this water and I’d be satisfied for the moment and it would carry me for just a little while longer, but there’s not enough in here to carry me through the whole day. What am I going to do?

He looked at that jar and looked at the pump and finally decided, Okay, I’ll take his word for it. He unscrewed the lid and poured the water down into the pump and started pumping. He pumped and pumped and pumped and when it looked like nothing was going to happen, he started getting discouraged. But he continued pumping and, suddenly, under the ground came a thunderous rumble and water came spewing out from everywhere. The man had plenty to wash himself. He rolled around in the water, drank as much water as he wanted to, and then filled the Mason jar back up, put the note back on it, and left it there for the next person who came along.

Just like in this story, under the surface is more financial blessing than you have ever seen, but it takes a little bit to prime the pump. It’s called the tithe, and if you’ll give the tithe you’ll have blessings spewing all over the place — more than you can contain.

You say, “Oh, but I need it to pay these bills. If could just have that little bit of money, I know it wouldn’t carry me very long, but I don’t know if I can trust God or not.”

God says, “Go ahead and trust Me. Test Me and prove Me if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour out more than you can contain.”

So we say, “Okay, okay,” and we pour it in and start pumping, and in Jesus’ name I believe I receive and my God shall supply all my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Just when we get to wondering if this principle of the tithe being what primes the pump, the rumble starts and the financial blessings start to pour into our life.

The object is after you have eaten and are full and blessed beyond measure, fill the jar up again and hand it to someone else and tell them it will work in their life too. Even the water we pour into the pump came from God Himself. Our tithe came from the abundance that God has poured into our life and if we’ll do that, God promised He would bless us to get past a life of needing a miracle every day just to sustain us into a life of blessings that carry us each and every day. Miracles are for the moment; blessings are for eternity.

Bob Yandian

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