FINANCIAL HEALTH





Part 3: 
Laws of Financial Health



    2.      Law of Love

Second to the law of commitment, is love. Love is more of giving than receiving. This law is about your ability to give. Never underestimate the power of giving, giving provokes your receiving. Giving is how you express your love to someone, something and especially to God. Tithe establishes trust between you and God. Through tithe, God teaches us to trust Him with what we have regardless the amount; He only asks for ten percent, the ninety percent is yours. It is through the same trust-relationship that God is able to trust you with the keys to opening the windows of heaven. On the other hand, giving shows the depth of your love for the one you are giving to. Tithe is fixed and a must do, giving is a must do as well but it is not fixed, you give in different amounts. Giving is your receiving, it is what downloads the extent of your financial health.

 

“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].

Malachi 3:8 (Amplified Version 2015)


As much as we encourage you to tithe so that God opens the windows of heaven and shower you with abundance, tithe is not what showers you with abundance. Tithe alone is not enough. Tithe is the key that opens the door of abundance, and that’s it, it just opens. When you have punched in the password to your ATM, you can now withdraw any amount you want to the maximum of what your account holds. Same way, you will need to withdraw the amount you want from the door you have opened with your tithe. Offerings is what you use to withdraw from the windows of heaven. Come on, when God has opened these for you, you have access to whatever is His. Offerings is what gets God’s abundance on your plate. What you offer is a seed. The seed that you sow is what you reap. If you sow abundantly, you reap abundantly; tithe has nothing to do with how much you get, but your giving.

 

Remember this-- a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. "For God loves a person who gives cheerfully."

2 Corinthian 9:6-7 (NLT)


Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full-- pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back. "

Luke 6:38 (NLT)


It is said giving comes out of willingness, you should be willing to give. Giving out of your heart is what works. And the amount that you give is the same amount you get. So let us get this, tithe opens the door where abundance is; giving determines how much of the abundance you get.

 

Last but one, all these verses speak a common thing: give richly if you want to be financially healthy because richly you receive. How you give speaks much about what you are. Quoting Triumphant Magowa, giving reveals the kind of the person you are and the kind of the person you are giving to. Giving reveals both your value and the value of the receiver. I would say giving is faith based because you assign value to yourself and you live that value regardless of what you seem actually. Let me use an example of truth, by fact you might not be rich but the truth according to God is that you are rich. In the society, we have a perception that rich people give more. Say your financial status allows you to give a maximum offering of k200, fine, but suppose you are rich, how much would you be giving? You want financial health, give the way financially healthy people give. A King gives royalty to express his value. Financially healthy people gives healthily.

 

Lastly, offerings or say givings are in different categories. It can be first fruits, worship offering, seed offering, the fundraising in the church, charity giving and other contributions. The services you give to the church count, don’t be idle. Just because am mentioning church, the church is not the only platform for you increase. Learn in the church, go out in the world, give to people, give to your community, give to your nation. Be it in form of your service, money, social basic needs. Giving is not only physical, give spiritually too. Peter in Acts 3 said "I don't have any silver or gold for you. But I'll give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!" 

You don’t need to have money to give, you don’t have to have food to give, nooo, give your love; speak a good word to somebody; give an advice; give an instruction; give knowledge and wisdom. We rob God in offerings too, financial health demands you to partake in giving. Be a cheerful giver. Your tithe is working, what is remaining is giving to receive.


So, we are agreeing to give, right? 

Stay blessed...

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