Tithing

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 14th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Malachi 3:8: ”Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me! But you say,’ In what way have we robbed you?’  In tithes and offerings.” Then we go down to verse 10,”Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house…” (The Lord says),”… and try me now in this if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.”  We’re talking about a tithe. A tithe is ten percent of your income. It’s a serious one and it’s a very sensitive one, and I’m just going to share my heart with you. It is not money that you have to even think about. It belongs to God. The first ten percent is His. I’m not talking about tithing on money that you’ve borrowed. That’s not your money. I’m talking about money that belongs to you, and then after the tithe comes the gifts and the offerings. Robert Le Tourneau, the man who started those big yellow machines, was one of the wealthiest men in the world. He loved God with a passion. He used to tithe ninety per cent of his income and keep ten per cent, and he was a multi-millionaire, and he supported Christian missions all over the world. He used to say, ”When you go to church and you put your hand in your pocket when the offering plate comes around, don’t ask yourself the question, ”How much of my money am I going to give to the Lord today?” Ask yourself, ”How much of the Lord’s money am I going to keep to myself today?”The mindset for that man was, it all belongs to Him anyway, and God prospered him because he was generous. Now, I can hear someone saying to me, ”But I don’t go to church. I live in the bush. There’s no churches anywhere near me. Where do I send my tithe?” You send your tithe to the storehouse where you get your bread, where you get your food from the Lord. That’s where you send your tithe so that the Lord can use it to expand the work He’s given us to do.The Lord also likes a cheerful giver. He doesn’t want you to tithe if you hate doing that or if you don’t like giving money to the Lord’s work. Don’t do that, He doesn’t like that at all. You must do it willingly and joyfully and God who has told us here. He says, “Will not I open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it?” That’s what we do.Jesus bless you as you pray about this because it’s between you and God, no one else.Jesus bless you and goodbye.