In all your ways be mindful of the LORD and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:6.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
Go out into the deep waters with Me and put down your nets for a catch. Here I am not talking about fishing like My Son once addressed Peter and his brother Andrew on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, I am talking about prayer and going deeper into the treasure you find in Me, the abundance of revelation that comes when you capture and pull in the treasure I have waiting for you deep within the secret place of prayer. My prophet Isaiah loved to go deep into the secrets hidden from the world in Me and pull up treasures of revelation about the Messiah that he then shared with you as he spoke them into the earth for their fulfillment in Jesus. He called it joyously drawing water from the springs of Salvation (Yeshuah). In Jesus are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. So put down your bucket with joy deep into the wellsprings of Salvation and bring up treasures of wisdom and revelation knowledge. And drink deeply of the living water, the river of delights, that flows from My throne to you through the hands of Jesus. And that should be what you do in prayer.
Be mindful of Me in all your ways and I will make your paths straight. No detours to get you off track, no dead ends, and no circling back.
How do you stay mindful of Me in all your ways? There are many facets and treasures in this but primarily by keeping My Word in your mind (keeps your mind full of Me for I am My Word) and the tithe. When you are watching what you receive with the purpose to tithe and make offerings to Me you are mindful of Me. People who have no interest in Me or My Kingdom do not tithe. They are mindful of themselves and not Me.
When My people harvested their crops and put the first fruits and the tithe apart for Me before they consumed, stored, or sold the harvest, they were honoring Me by being mindful of Me. And they found it prospered them and blessed all they set the hand to.
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 ten percent of your increase, have you ever wondered why the tenth? Think about this, everything you have is from My hands, you are all the work of My hands. I open My hand and give good to all.
They all wait for You to give them their food in due season. You give to them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good. Psalm 104:27-28.
The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in due time. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. Psalm 145:15-16.
And what you return to Me is from your hands. I prosper the work of your hands. Your hands serve Me and those I send to you. You give to Me with open hands as I do to you. And I have hold of your hand.
How many fingers are on your two hands? Ten. In Hebrew the word for hand is the same as the name of the letter that has a hand as its pictograph, it is a yod (י) and since the numbers in Hebrew are expressed by letters, the number of the letter “yod” is ten. Your hands are working and I prosper the work of your hands. I teach you to profit and the way you should go. I guide you, protect you, feed you, and bless you by My hand. And when My hand is upon you favor is the result.
And the king granted them to me because the good hand of my God was on me. Nehemiah 1:8.
I have put My Words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of My hand to establish Heaven on the earth.
My Words, the Shabbat, and the Tithe are all signs between you and Me that you are My people and that I am your God, are we are consecrated, set apart unto each other.
Consecrate them in the truth; Your Word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I consecrate Myself, that they themselves also may be consecrated in truth. John 17:17-19.
No one else keeps My Words, My Shabbat, and My tithe or understands them, they see no importance them, only those who belong to Me. The unbelivers see them as burdens that curtail their freedom.
“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:25-26.
They do not believe that the words you speak as the foundation, pillars, and determinators of your life now and for eternity, they do not believe My Words can give life, heal, deliver, and change the physical things they see. They see no point in shabbat, in resting in Me and listening to My guidance and working from that place of no anxiety. They see no importance in setting aside a day with Me and for Me. It does not seem profitable. And they see no value or sense in giving tithes and offerings of their “hard earned income” that they could spend on things they enjoy or that give them more prestige. But those who understand the amazing fruitfulness, blessing, and peace in keeping My Word, My Shabbat and My tithes and offerings, the beautiful life that these give you and the closeness of your walk with Me, they walk in these with joy. In keeping these you are mindful of Me in all your ways: spiritual, physical and financial. Spirit, soul, and body.
“You shall therefore impress these Words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.” Deuteronomy 11:18.
Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’ Ezekiel 20:20.
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 food 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 28:20-22.
Jesus told you by your love for one another, for the believers, others would know you were My disciples. Jesus told you to believe in Him by the testimony of His words, which were Mine, and the works which the Words produced in Him. And that should be the signs with you.
“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.” John 14:10-11.
Tithing and giving offerings so that you are mindful of Me in your work and your rest shows three things that keep you on the straight path to your high calling in Christ:
- Tithing shows you consider yourself a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven with full rights, benefits, and responsibilities of such citizenship.
- Tithing shows you know your source and are mindful of your obligations to the source. It shows gratitude, loyalty, faithfulness, and love as well. It is an acknowledgement that you are midful of where all you have is from.
- Tithing shows you trust in My provision. It shows you have no fear that tithing will lessen your financial security in any way but will rather increase it.
With respect to being a citizen of My Kingdom, just as in your country of citizenship on earth you have the right to invoke the protection of the police to defend you in harmful situations or pursue robbers or thieves, so too in My Kingdom I command the angels to protect, defend, and bring you provision from My hands. You can call on Me to send twelve legions of angels should you have need of them. And to each of you who believe, I have given a guardian angel that is yours alone and with you in all your ways. You can call upon the Heavenly Host. And that is why whenever I speak of the tithe and offerings or serving in My house, I speak as LORD of Hosts.
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. 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 3:10-12.
If only you could see the beauty before Me of your prayers, tithes, offerings, good deeds, and love of My Word, instead of worrying in your bed at night you would sing for joy at all the beautiful things that are coming into your life because of your tithes and offerings. You account is growing in Heaven every time you give because you are being mindful of Me.
I love you. Be mindful of Me in all your ways and I will make your paths straight. Let Me help your to order your day aright so you may gain wisdom of heart. I delight in the prosperity of My servants, but there is only one way true prosperity comes and that is by faithful tithing and giving of offerings. Think of this, Adam stole the tithe for himself and died the death, Cain was angered by Abel’s tithe and murdered and cut himself off from My presence, Achan took My tithe in Jericho and died, Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, lied about their offering and kept some back for themselves and died before the whole congregation. Selah. Be careful how you live and redeem the time. Tithing redeems the time.