FINANCIAL HEALTH



Part 2:
Laws of Financial Health


Hie, just a recap on what we talked last time: we said money can be served or work for you, and our goal should be to have money work for you. Go to work, do business but at the end of the day, you should have money under your subjection. You should be able to tell money what to do for you than it telling you what to do. 

Today, we’re going to start looking at principles that can place you at leadership over money. These principles are the basic paths to money that serves. Different people apply them differently but the bottom line is that they work.

 

1.      Law of Commitment

Far and foremost, this principle is the very first key to financial health and at the same time it is the most missed key. As it says, it is about how devoted you are to fulfilling it regardless of what is on the ground. Many of us are fond of weighing benefits of every action we take, and we tend to get the wrong math of this law. Most times, we weigh the benefits based on variables or say factors that are on our table. Some factors shadow the benefit of this law resulting into our miscalculation and preference of action actually. Law of commitment (tithe) needs to be put at work regardless of the factors at hand no matter how important they seem to be.

 

Tithe shows your commitment to God over what He has given you regardless. It speaks your faithfulness in giving God what is His. The ten percent of whatever you get from God belongs to God, not you, and it is supposed to go to who it belongs. Unfortunately, we tend to consume what is not ours. Do you know how it feels to know that I have consumed your share irrespective of our agreement? Do you know the consequences of breaching a contract? You can be sued for not honouring the contract. It is not ethical.

 

“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings [you have withheld]. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this whole nation! Bring all the tithes (the tenth) into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you [so great] a blessing until there is no more room to receive it.

Malachi 3:8-10 (Amplified Version 2015)

 

The failure to give God the tenth puts you under a curse for the reason that you are robbing God. Come on buddy, how bold are you to even rob God? But we do. A curse cannot receive a blessing, and there is just no way that you can be financially healthy if you are under a curse. The first thing is to break that curse; give God what is His. God says man is able to rob Him in the tithes he withholds from Him. The curse of not tithing can even spread to your nation, your offspring, your generation. Tithe is powerful enough to speak for your generation.

Now, what puts tithe as the first key to financial health is its ability to: open the windows of heaven. For you to withdraw money using ATM or mobile money platforms, you need the password to your account. The password to good finances is TITHE. It is upon opening the door to your healthy finance that you can be able to withdraw from it and then live it.

Lastly, stop thinking that you only tithe money. You tithe from what God has given you. If God has blessed you with bags of maize, the tenth of those bags is God’s. If God has blessed you with clothes, the tenth belongs to God. From whatever that God has blessed you with, the tenth is His. And it doesn’t matter if what you have is small, you still need to return to God what is His. Even if the food and money that you have is only enough to sustain you, God still needs His. That’s why it is a law of commitment: are you able to honour God regardless of the circumstance. God did not ask us to tithe when everything is okay, when we have enough and we feel like we will still have a surplus after we tithe. 

The first thing you can do before you start using that money, those harvests is to give God His, tithe. Do not ever consume your tithe thinking you gonna replace it later on, it doesn’t work like that. Tithe first, second is your plans now. We are promised a blessing that we cannot be able to contain. Show your commitment, give your Boss His share of what you have.

 

But I tithe, I don’t see a blessing that I cannot contain. Well, if it’s not working for you, it is not the tithe that is not working, it should be you who is not working. Next, we will look at the law that gets things working after the tithe. Tithe and stay blessed…

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