The document discusses the significance of tithing as an act of honoring God, emphasizing that it reflects love, respect, and acknowledgment of God as the source of blessings. It outlines scriptural references that illustrate the benefits of tithing, including the promise of blessings and protection from financial curses. The text also explains the attitude and patterns required for effective tithing, ultimately linking it to spiritual and financial prosperity.

1. Honoring God With
The Tithe

2. Tithing: The Cornerstone of Reaching
Your Financial Destiny

3. Bringing the Tithe Honors God
$ Proverbs 3:9-10 (NIV)
$ 9 Honor the LORD with your
wealth, with the first fruits
of all your crops;
$ 10then your barns will be
filled to overflowing, and
your vats will brim over

4. The Meaning of the Word Honor
$ In the New Testament, the main Greek word
translated "honor" means "to praise or to
revere." It has its origin in a Greek word
meaning "valuable." In fact the Greek word for
"without honor" literally means "no value."
$ English dictionary
Definition: To dignify; to raise to distinction
or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate
in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to
glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to
treat in a complimentary manner or with
civility.

5. The Father Loves Us But Still Expects His
Honor and Respect
$ Malachi 1:2,6 (New International
Version)
$ 2. "I have loved you," says the LORD.
"But you ask, 'How have you loved us?'
$ 6. "A son honors his father, and a
servant his master. If I am a father,
where is the honor due me? If I am a
master, where is the respect due me?"
says the LORD Almighty.

6. Your Leftovers Dishonors God

7. Showing Honor is about love,
presentation and attitude

8. What Does Money Represent???

9. Money Represents Our Life
$ Your productive time you’re paid for
$ Your influence to produce wealth
$ Your talents and gifts used to earn
income
$ Possessions entrusted to you
$ Ideas, wisdom, favor, creativity used
to produce business, inventions,
markets.
All given to us by God.

10. The Significance of the Tithe
Bringing the tithe is an acknowledgement of
who God is in your life. You honor Him as:
$ Father
$ Owner
$ Source of Blessings
$ Provider
$ Giver of all good things
$ Giver of your Ability
$ Creator

11. Abram – Gen 14:18-20
$ 18And Melchizedek king of Salem
brought forth bread and wine: and he
was the priest of the most high God.
$ 19And he blessed him, and said,
Blessed be Abram of the most high
God, possessor of heaven and earth:
$ 20And blessed be the most high God,
which hath delivered thine enemies into
thy hand. And he gave him tithes of
all.

12. Abram – Gen 14:21- 23
$ 21And the king of Sodom said unto
Abram, Give me the persons, and take
the goods to thyself.
$ 22And Abram said to the king of
Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto
the LORD, the most high God, the
possessor of heaven and earth,
$ 23That I will not take from a thread
even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not
take any thing that is thine, lest thou
shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

13. Abram – Gen 15:1
After these things the
word of the LORD came
unto Abram in a vision,
saying, Fear not, Abram: I
am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward.

14. Honoring God brings God’s Honor
1 Samuel 2:30b
But now the LORD saith, Be it
far from me; for them that
honour me I will honour, and
they that despise me shall be
lightly esteemed.
Honoring God is not just an act but also an
attitude

15. The Pattern for Tithing the Tithe
Deuteronomy 26
$ Acknowledge God as the giver of what
you own. (V1-4)
$ Remember where you came from.(V5-7)
$ Acknowledge the power, grace and
provision of God. (V8-9)
$ Given with an attitude of Worship (v10)

16. The Pattern for Tithing the Tithe
Deuteronomy 26
$ Rejoice in every good thing (v11)
$ Given as an act of obedience (v13-14)
$ Petitions God for His blessings based
on the covenant (v15)
$ Renewed commitment (17-19)

17. Benefits of Tithing
• Malachi 3:10-11
• 10 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.
• 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your
sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of
your ground; neither shall your vine cast
her fruit before the time in the field, saith
the Lord of hosts.

18. Benefits of Tithing
$ Tithing opens the windows of
heaven for God to pour out a
personalized, custom-made
blessing.
$ Tithing increases your capacity
to receive the blessings of
God.

19. Benefits of Tithing
$ Tithing aligns you with the
authority of God to rebuke the
devourer.
Hebrew word meaning for “devourer”
$ To exploit or prey on the weak or
wounded.
$ To slowly eat and consume that which
is good.
$ To devourer by constant oppression
and constant attack.

20. A Failure To Tithe Invites The
Devourer
Some Signs of being devoured.
$ Fear
$ Anxiety
$ Insecurity
$ Loss of sleep
$ Ungratefulness
$ Reverse ownership
$ Envy

21. Benefits of Tithing
The covenant position of the tither.
$ Causes the devourer to be rebuked
$ To destroy the morale of the enemy.
$ To roll him back by a given authority.
$ To overthrow the stronghold of the
enemy.

22. Benefits of Tithing
$ Tithing is putting my trust in God’s ability to
take care of me and to remove the curse from
my finances.
$ Signs of a curse attached to your
blessing. (Haggai 1:6,9-11)
$ 6 “You have planted much, but
harvested little. You eat, but never have
enough. You drink, but never have your
fill. You put on clothes, but are not
warm. You earn wages, only to put
them in a purse with holes in it.”

23. Haggai 1:9-11
$ 9 You expected much, but see, it turned out
to be little. What you brought home, I blew
away. Why?” declares the LORD Almighty.
“Because of my house, which remains a
ruin, while each of you is busy with your own
house.
$ 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens
have withheld their dew and the earth its
crops.
$ 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the
mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the
olive oil and everything else the ground
produces, on people and livestock, and on
all the labor of your hands.”

24. Benefits of Tithing
$ Tithing removes the curse by returning to
covenant obedience.
$ Return to trusting in God’s principles of
giving as a foundation for living.
$ Return to honoring God by bringing your
tithe consistently with a joyful spirit of faith
and expectation.
$ Return to the proper view of stewardship;
my money is a trust from God and must
be earned and managed according to
God’s word.