God Owns Everything

We give as a natural response to our love for Jesus. We should give according to our abilities, voluntarily and generously. God gives to us so that we can share with others.

Our tithes and offerings are God's by right, for the first fruits belong to Him. Tithing is God's key to your successful personal finances.

Christians live under grace and, therefore, their tithing is not a legal requirement but a response of grace to God. Jesus Himself fulfilled the Old Testament Law including tithing, but He never revised the law downward.

God owns everything. When billionaire Howard Hughes died, naked and terrified of flies, someone asked how much he left. The answer, of course, was, "All of it!" The ultimate measure of a man's wealth is how much he is worth when he has lost everything. Naked we come into this world, and naked we depart. Our wealth consists not in the abundance of our possessions, but in who we are as children of God. How we must remember, "The earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it" (Psalm 24:1). We may possess things, but God owns them.

-From "God's Call for Responsible Giving" by Gordon K. Moyes in Money for Ministries; part of The Inspirational Study Bible: New Century Version by Max Lucado

 Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. -Deuteronomy 15:10

 "Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How are we robbing you?' "In tithes and offerings." . . . Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it." -Malachi 3:8, 10

 Freely you have received; freely give. -Matthew 10:8b

 Give, and it will be given you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. -Luke 6:38

 Make your gratitude to God tangible with your finances, time and gifts.

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