Deliverance Through the Tithe
The partnership letter for November 2013
Greetings to all my precious Partners in Christ Jesus our Lord. This month I would like to share with you along the lines of ‘Deliverance Through the Tithe’.
My foundational scriptures are as follows, Malachi 3:11 “I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit for you in the field.” Says the LORD of hosts.” satan gains advantage over everyone who places themselves outside of the will of God by disobeying His Word. When we hear the Word of God, become convicted, repent from our sins, receive Christ, and return to God, many aspects of our lives experience change. In our conversation, we will stop swearing and lying and we will begin speaking encouraging, wise and powerful words. Our sick conversation will be healed. We will stop cheating on our wives or husbands. We will stop stealing. We will become great employees.
Keys to Financial Excellence
We will apologize to those that we have wronged. We will get our lives right with our neighbors, our God, and ourselves. We will commit ourselves to attend church. We will commit ourselves to prayer and the study of the Bible. Eventually, we get right with God in nearly every single area. Yet, He still says, “Return to Me”. Why does He say this? Because we need to get right with God financially, as well all of those other areas.
“Yet from the days of your fathers, You have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of hosts. But you said, ‘In what way shall we re-turn?’ Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me! But you say, “In what way have we robbed you?” in tithes and offerings.
To be right with God financially means to pay our tithes and give offerings to God- not just offerings and not just tithes, but both, as scripture above indicates. Tithes belong to God. If we are found with them in our hand, we are considered to be robbing from God. We cannot expect a financial breakthrough in our lives if we are stealing from God or withholding from Him what He has requested from us.
2 Thessalonians 3:11, Paul calls people who don’t work “disorderly.” He says these people should get a job so they will have something to give. Some people will say, “I’m no thief,” yet they don’t tithe.
Withholding from God places them among the very worst of thieves-those who take from God Himself! If we are not tithing, then we are stealing from God and from His house. Plain and Simple. Their farmlands and destroy their economy. The Lord declared this to be the work of a personality called “the devourer.” When we fail to tithe, the door to the devil is left wide open. The “devourer” is able to gain access to the resources and provisions of our lives and “destroy” them.
The devourer can get into anyone’s business and wreak havoc. When we tithe from our business income, our forms of income are protected from destruction. Instead of business deals falling through, the “vine bears fruit.” God will rebuke the devil for you once your tithes have been paid to Him. Projects will not keep failing. They will come to fruition. Plans will be successful, and the curse will be removed.
“Your crops will be large, for I will guard them from insects and plagues. Your grapes won’t shrivel away before they ripen,” says the Lord Almighty. (Malachi 3:11) This thief is not restricted to the world of agriculture. The devourer is a “he,” a person. In John 10:10, Jesus called the destroyer ‘The Thief’: the devil does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” The purpose of the destroyer is to steal all the blessings of God from every believer’s life. Success is not just dependent on the brilliance of the plan or the idea, but on being right with God. This leads to His blessing on all that we do.
When Jesus rebukes something, it is gone!
In Mark 4:39 He rebuked the wind, and it ceased. He rebuked the stormy seas, and they calmed. The church is not an “organization” it is a congregation of the people of God. If we as a body fail to bring the tithes and offerings, which belong to God, then as a church we are not right with Him. Once we have gotten right with God in this area, the curse brought on by withholding the tithe will be removed. We must never be found to be withholding from God. Everyone must play a part in bringing the incredible financial breakthrough God intends to bring to His church. The breakthrough in the church begins in our spirits.
When we break free from holding back the tithe, we will cause a breakthrough in the Heavens over our lives so that such blessings will begin to fall upon us all that we won’t be able to contain them!
“And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground , nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” says the LORD of hosts. Malachi 3:11
The Tithe Defeats the Destroyer
The Israelites were a farming community whose financial prosperity depended on their crops becoming ripe for harvest. However, there were many different diseases and pestilences that could prevent that from happening. Blasting hot east winds that dried and ruined crops and mildew fungus on plants were just two of the calamities that could come upon. In Mark 9:25 He rebuked the demon of deafness, and it left the boy. In Matthew 17:18 He rebuked a self-destructive spirit out of a boy, and it left him. In Mark 1:25 He rebuked an unclean spirit out of a person in the synagogue, and it left him.
In Luke 4:39 He rebuked the fever in Peter’s mother-in-law, and it left her. When God rebukes the devourer from our lives, the devourer must leave! Instead of continually losing, we start winning. Our finances get healthy. The destroyer is destroyed!
I therefore declare that you and your whole household will experience unbeatable prosperity because of the tithe. May God continue to richly bless you and your family. We pray for you daily and take pleasure in seeing you enjoy God’s blessings.
May God continue to richly bless you and your family. I pray for you daily and take pleasure in seeing you enjoy God’s blessings.
We Love you very much, Dr. Roshan and Pastor Zubeda Sing.