Tithing Pays Dividends!

Hello again,

What a busy week it has been! After suggesting that we might try to do something to support the
drought affected farm communities with a goal to raise $50,000 and asking for people to send
in stories about their giving and tithing experiences I have been swamped with e-mails about the question of giving and tithing, I have put a sample of the response e-mails up on a web-page for your viewing if you are interested in having a look. Click Here

I am actually going to use one of these stories as today's success story sent in by Sam.

Here is Sam's success story.

My husband and I started tithing about 17 or 18 years ago. We were a young family with three young children and there never seemed to be enough money for anything. We couldn't even pay our own bills. We had to let my husband's parents pay our bills. The house we lived in belonged to them also.

For some reason, money, the little bit there was, would just disappear before we could get our bills
paid.

After hearing a teaching on tithing, we decided to give it a try. It sounded crazy, but we were desperate. After watching for a couple of years, we realized that if we paid our tithes first, there was always enough to pay bills. If we didn't, we'd be bouncing checks before the next payday --every time.

Within a couple of years, we were paying our own bills and we even bought the house from my in-laws that we had been living in--all with the same amount of money.

I don't think it is a formula: pay tithes = affluence, but I do believe there is an underlying spiritual law that just works, whether you are a Christian or not. I have read financial books by Christians and non-Christians and they ALL agreed that there is a law to paying tithes and giving, that the part you have left will simply go further.

That sounds like a success story that defies logic to me and I am sure that is because not everything works on logic.