Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. Malachi 3:10.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
I make an extraordinary promise to you that if people really believed My promises, and My Will is found in My Word, they would be very diligent to do this to reap the promise. It is sowing and reaping, seedtime and harvest, and I told Noah this would never cease as long as the earth remains.
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22.
Come near and listen to Me, I send you My Son and My Spirit to teach you to profit and the way you should go. So if you would listen, pay attention, to My Word, then your well-being (shalom) would be like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Isaiah 48:16-18.
There are many facets to living a healed and prosperous life of shalom filled with good days and fruitful, creative years, for it is My desire that in every area of your life you prosper and be in good health even as your soul prospers. Your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions and your soul can receive input from your spirit or from your flesh. A mind controlled by the spirit is a mind at rest filled with peace and beautiful thoughts, a mind controlled by the flesh is agitated with tormenting and lustful thoughts. It all depends on what you are feeding your mind with, whether words of life or words of death.
Please be aware that by “flesh” I do not mean your body and its organs, you are wonderfully planned and made for living upon earth and performing a life of good deeds that I have prepared for you in advance that you might enjoy it. By “flesh,” I mean a godless lifestyle whereby you live primarily by what you see and feel with the five senses with self as the center and focus of your life on earth. You do not trust in My power and do not look beyond for the miracles that I do. Believers and nonbelievers can live by the flesh. And to those in the flesh, spiritual things make no sense, such as tithing.
But if you offer your body to Me for works of righteousness, that is, using your dominion authority over the earth to partner with Me in bringing the Kingdom benefits to earth rather than letting your bodies rule you and make you slaves of sin, captive to do the devil’s will. The devil comes only to steal, kill, and destroy all that is good. He will steal your harvest so that your life is unfruitful. But just trying to discipline your body under your old mindset of the flesh is impossible, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile to Me for My Words are Spirit and life. If you want a happy, prosperous life, you must also be diligent to renew your mind in My Word so that you are transformed to think and talk in love as I do to walk in the spirit. You must reprogram your thoughts so your response to everything that comes against you is to answer with My Word that addresses that topic. For My Word consecrates you and sanctifies you in truth.
And that is the only way your soul prospers—by walking in the truth.
Beloved, I desire earnestly that in all respects you prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth. I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. 3 John 1:2-4.
If you continue (remain, abide) in My Word and do not let go of it no matter what comes against you, then you will truly be My disciples (to whom I give the Kingdom) and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Free of the slavery to sin and death by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
And My Will is that all be saved (receive Jesus as Lord) and come to know the truth, to be free to have and enjoy your life of abundance that Jesus gave to give you. He came to restore to you what the devil stole.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:1.
And that brings us to the subject of the tithe. The tithe opens the riches of My house to you. The tithe shows that I am your God and that you honor Me. It is a spiritual act with a physical offering that represents the fruit of your labor. It comes first off the top and then the rest is blessed.
Honor the LORD from your wealth and from the first of all your produce; So your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine. Proverbs 3:9-10.
The tithe is Mine, the rest then is yours and then it will increase. Seek Me first and all else is added.
“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you! Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows (floodgates) of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the LORD of hosts. “All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land,” says the LORD of hosts. Malachi 3:8-12.
This promise is sure. Tithes and offerings give you the joy of living under an open Heaven, and not just a small opening with a trickle of blessings coming to you! No! I open the FLOODGATES of My Kingdom and pour out for YOU a blessing until you cannot contain it but have to share it. It not only makes you a receiver but also a giver. My blessing makes you rich and adds no sorrow with it. It is a joy to give and have more than enough for yourself and others. In fact, as any farmer knows, the more you seed you sow, the more you grow.
The tithe of ten percent off the top of all you acquire is the seed you sow into My house to maintain the work of the ministry and supply for your pastor and church where you are fed the Word of Salvation that you may grow thereby and it will bring back a harvest of blessings. Make sure you are sowing in good ground. Your tithe should be for your church and not for going to restaurants, movie theaters, sport’s events, or buying new electronic devices. You can go to and buy those if you like but not to the expense of My tithe or you are robbing Me.
Do you notice that when I speak of the tithe or riches coming in to you, I speak it as the LORD of hosts, the ruler of the angelic armies? The angels are involved in bringing in your increase and prosperity. They are involved in wealth transfer from the wicked to the righteous. Haggai 2:5-9.
And do not say the tithe is not applicable now under the New Covenant that it was only under the law of the Mosaic Covenant. It was under the Mosaic Covenant but it has been under every Covenant I have made with man, from Adam until now. The tithe was from the beginning. You will notice that even Isaac’s son Jacob did not prosper until he vowed to take Me as his God and that he would show this was so by the tithe. Where do you think he learned that? From his father Isaac whom I prospered even in times of famine. And Isaac learned from his father Abraham, who tithed to My priest, Melchizedek.
Later when I prospered Jacob and made from his descendants My great nation of Israel, I reminded him it all started when he made that vow to Me at Beth-el (meaning, House of God). Do you recall that vow?
So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top. He called the name of that place Beth-el; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me bread to eat and garments to wear, and I return to my father’s house in safety, then the LORD will be my God. This stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.” Genesis 28:18-22.
And if you recall, the encounter at Luz, which he renamed Beth-el, which means “House of God,” where the temple was later built, Jacob was fleeing from Esau with only a staff in hand seeking a bride among his mother’s kinfolk as Abraham had done for his father, Issac. As he spent the night there, he had a dream and he saw a ladder joining Heaven and earth and angels were descending to earth and ascending back to Heaven on that ladder. I stood at the top of the ladder and promised to prosper him. And later My Son revealed to His disciple Nathanael that the ladder represented Jesus as the mediator between God and man who opened the way to the Kingdom to you, opened Heaven to you, the Messiah: “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” John 1:52.
And when I taught Jacob how to prosper in the face of being cheated of his wages by his father in law, Laban, I did it by showing him a very creative idea that gave him a supernatural wealth transfer of the strong sheep of Laban’s flock becoming his wages so that he became wealthy in all he put his hand too. It was then, in giving him direction, that I identified Myself to Him as “I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to Me.” Genesis 31:13. And he kept that vow and I prospered him and his children and his children’s children. When you tithe you acquire tither’s rights, which benefit not only you but all that is yours, including your children and your household.
The tithe is ten percent of all that you receive as increase into your life. And the free will offering is amounts above that which you give to honor Me in an extra way to show your love, trust, and gratitude for My provision in your life. The tithe opens the windows of Heaven to give you the finances you need and an abundance for every good work. And it brings in My protection of your assets from the devourer, including your life and health, for it is the only time I tell you that I will rebuke the devil for you. This is a promise only for those who tithe. Offerings you sow for a dedicated purpose that you name that is a desire of your heart for a particular harvest.
The tithe you give is now primarily money for that is what you receive from your work and other sources of income, but when society was primarily agricultural in nature and work, it was the produce of your fields and the increase of your flocks and herds.
Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s; it is holy to the LORD. Leviticus 27:30.
And this will take us back further in the history of the tithe, for it began with Adam and Eve. And they robbed Me of the tithe I had designated as Mine. And the result was the devourer took everything from them, including their dominion authority as his own. Tithing, as all prospering, as to do with walking in the truth. But more about that in our next Life Lesson.
I love you. Do you tithe? Keep a record of all that comes in and then determine your tithe off the top, and, if you want to increase your harvest, designate offerings above the tithe as I inspire you. Try Me in this and you will be blessed abundantly. The measure you give you shall receive and more besides. I honor those who honor Me. Why? They have hearts open to receive. I love a cheerful giver and a thankful receiver.