Why We Pay Tithes

Why does God insist on the payment of tithes? Does He really need it? God Himself as a Divine entity does not need money; neither does He need clothing or any physical or material substance for that matter. He does not need them for anything. God is a Spirit (John 4:24). Spirit beings do not need physical materials such as money, land or houses.

God actual owns all the things we have including our own lives. The world and the fullness thereof belong to Him. He says if He were hungry, He would not tell us.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. (Psalms 50:12)

So why does God insist on the payment of tithes?

It is so that there will be meat (resources) in His house!

“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house…”(Malachi 3:10)          

Although God possesses all the wealth in the universe, the gospel will only expand to the extent that the people of God are willing and prepared to finance the spreading of the Gospel.

When Jesus sent His disciples, He sent them without their purse (without money) because the gospel is financed by the people receiving it.

“And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:” (Mark 6:7-8)

And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire…(Luke 10:7)

God chooses this method so that He can identify the people whom He can prosper and entrust them with the huge assignment of spreading His Kingdom by spreading the Gospel.

“Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.” (Zechariah 1:17)

Though God has all the resources available to Him, He has chosen this method of financing the Gospel so as to know whom to bless even more for the purpose of His Kingdom.

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Malachi 3:16 – 18)

Paying tithe is not just wisdom but it is also an avenue for distinction. It is the cheapest way to ensure God spares you during famine and other financial catastrophes.

Through tithe payments, God has thrown an open challenge to man. He says “Prove me now…”

Pay your tithe and prove God now!

May God prove Himself to you today when you start tithing!