Genesis 14
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
After Abram had given the tithe he was approached by the king of Sodom who offered to give him all the spoil of war. He was offering him a reward for being victorious in battle and rescuing his people. However, Abram rejects his offer and says some things that reveal to us what was in Abram’s heart and what he was thinking when he gave the tithe to Melchizedek who was a priest of God and also explain why he rejected the gifts of the king of Sodom.
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Abram understood that God was his source. He gave a tithe as an expression of his trust in God as his provider. He gave the tithe as an acknowledgement and acceptance of the blessing that was upon him which Melchizedek had pronounced when he met him on his way back from the slaughter of the kings. It was an act of faith on Abram’s part for God’s provision, victory and faithfulness. He was saying that now that he had the blessing of God on him, God Himself would prosper him and not man. No man would be able to say that he had made Abram rich. God was so honored by this act of faith that later when He gives the law He instituted the tithe as a legislation.
Every time we tithe we are saying that Jesus our High Priest has already blessed us. We are saying that God is our source and is the only one that prospers us. Every time we tithe we are expressing our trust in God and not in man or our own ability. This is what the tithe is about. It’s about faith. Tithing is supernatural. It is spiritual. It is a faith thing. And if you do it properly you will see supernatural results. You will see God provide for you supernaturally. You will prosper in a supernatural way.
Tithing connects you to the generational blessing of Abraham. Tithing connects you to your spiritual history all the way back to Abraham. Until Abraham tithed Sarah didn’t conceive and bring forth the generational seed. As soon as Abraham tithed to Melchizedek he and Sarah conceived Isaac. His tithe connected him to the generational blessing all the way from Adam to Noah to him. The tithe is entirely supernatural and entirely a faith thing. The tithe takes us all the way back. It connects us to the blessing on Adam, the blessing on Noah, the blessing on Abraham. It connects us by faith. It connects us to the blessing of Christ that we have in Him.
Haggai 1
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built. 3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
If we will honor God and take care of His house we will see our own house supernaturally taken care of. When we honor God and use our finances to advance His work on the earth then God supernaturally takes care of us because our faith is in Him to take care of us and not in us to take care of ourselves.
When the resources that we would have used to advance ourselves go to God’s work on earth, then it means we are depending on God to advance us and He will every single time.
Matthew 6:31-33 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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