ABC's of Financial Freedom, Week 3: Choice

Message Title: Choice The transformation you want to see comes down to the choice you are willing to make. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. Deuteronomy 30:15-16 (NIV) But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. Deuteronomy 30:17-18 (NIV) This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV) Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give… Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (NIV) There IS a way to manage our finances that POSITIONS us for God’s blessings. “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. Malachi 3:6-7 (NIV) “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ Malachi 3:7-8 (NIV) “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse —your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Malachi 3:8-9 (NIV) 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. Malachi 3:10 (NIV) If we plan to get out of debt and get rid of financial problems, the tithe has to be the absolute center of our plan. 4 facts about TITHING Tithing is about CONTROL BRING the WHOLE tithe into the STOREHOUSE... Malachi 3:10 (NIV) God won’t take control... you have to make a CHOICE to give Him control. NOT tithing has an impact on your FELLOWSHIP with God. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21(NIV) God attaches a PROMISE to the Tithe. 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. Malachi 3:10 (NIV) “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says the Lord of hosts; “And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says the Lord of hosts. Malachi 3:11-12 (NKJV) With Tithing, God commands us to TEST Him. God PROMISES that your 90 with His blessing will ALWAYS go further than your 100 without His blessing.