The Power of Money - The Power of Giving

Malachi 3:8

 ⁸Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

This scripture was not talking to the church. The church was not birthed until the book of Acts. It was speaking to the Levitical priesthood. Tithing was done before the law. Abraham tithed to Melchizedek (See Genesis 14: 17 - 20). Melchizedek had no beginning or end. God will step in the fire with you and He will show up on your behalf when people are attacking you. Melchizedek was Jesus.

When you don't tithe you are robbing God. The tithe is 10%. It is the debt that you owe. The offering is the seed that you sow. A tithe is returned and an offering is given. The tithe and the offerings are two seperate things. To receive more you have to give more.

There is a difference between a thief and a robber. A thief is sly, creepy, puts on a mask. A robber is bold and will steal in broad daylight.

Luke 6:38 

³⁸Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Man runs the earth. God doesn't have access unless it is through man. It is our own fault if we are broke and we have to do something about it. You can't be stingy because a closed fist can not receive anything. Sometimes you have to give your way out. One day you will be the man (Luke 6:38) who will doing the giving.

If it is not in your heart to give it is best to keep your money. God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7). If you feel a tugging on your heart that is God telling you to give.

2 Corinthians 9:10 

¹⁰Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

The seed and the harvest is often confused. If it doesn't meet a need it is a seed. Don't eat your seed.

Acts 10:1-4

 ¹There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
 ²A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
 ³He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
 ⁴And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.


Alms is any kind of money, food, clothing,ect that is given to the poor.

Proverbs 28:27
  ²⁷He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

Matt 14:16 - 21 

¹⁶But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
 ¹⁷And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
 ¹⁸He said, Bring them hither to me.
 ¹⁹And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
 ²⁰And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
 ²¹And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

When you give God positions you for the overflow. Notice that there were 12 baskets, one for each disciples. Little in your hand become big in His hands.

You live to give.