God has done everything He can to ensure that mankind is blessed and protected. He has established spiritual laws in the earth that govern mankind, but in order to activate the blessing these spiritual laws have to be followed.

God has

- Given us the 10 commandments, and a foundation to live our lives by. The 10 commandments are spiritual laws that bring blessing to those who follow them whether they are believer's or not. God wants to protect all of mankind!

- Sent us a Saviour so that through believing on the Lord Jesus Christ mankind can be saved and experience the reality of eternal salvation. God promises to reveal Himself to those who genuinely cry out to HIM.

- Provided for those who accept Jesus Christ as their own personal Lord and Saviour through believing in His Word - the benefits include health, healing, protection, giving us the desires of our heart, and much much more.

Another way that a Christian is blessed is through the tithe.

- The purpose of the tithe is related to God's promise
- God promises to rebuke the devourer for the tither's sake

"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." (Malachi 3:10)

"And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes" (Malachi 3:11)

- The tithe itself is giving 10% of what you have, usually in the form of income, to God for His Plans and Purposes. Not giving the tithe activates a curse.

"Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation" (Malachi 3:8, 9).

- Many Christians give 10% of their income. Christians giving 10% of their income are responsible in their relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, to follow the inward witness about where to give their tithe. If the tithe is not given where God is directing it to go, then it is not the tithe.

- The tithe is to be given to apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers" (Ephesians 4:11)

- As Christians, when we support ministries that God does not want us to support, we are not listening to the inward witness and therefore not following God's Plan for the Body of Christ.

The tithe is just one of many ways God reveals another facet of His Love to His people. When God asks us to give to Him, it is so that He can bless US! God is a giver, beginning with giving Jesus Christ His Son. When God asks us to tithe, it is designed to activate a higher level of blessing!