Divine Protection | Herbert Cooper

Faith Over Fear: Divine Protection 1 Chronicles 4:10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. (NIV) James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (NIV) 5 Ways Tithing Protects Your Life   1. Protects your heart from drifting from God Malachi 3:6-8 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 7 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. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ 8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. (NIV) Matthew 6:21 Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. (NLT) 2. Protects you from the consequences of disobedience Malachi 3:9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. (NIV) Malachi 3:11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty. (NIV) James 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (NIV) 3. Protects you from trusting in yourself 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. (NIV) 4. Protects you from blocking God’s blessings 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 (NIV) 5. Protects your influence Malachi 3:12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty. (NIV)