Don't Send It There...Send It Here!
Posted by:
Bible Blogger on
August 30, 2007 at
1:37AM EST
A few weeks ago I was getting ready to give my tithe money to a
particular ministry when I felt God telling me to send it to a woman in
another ministry. If there's one thing that I have learned over the
last two years is that when God tells me something clearly in regards
to where I send the ten percent of my paycheck that always goes to
ministry I should just do it without question.
Tonight I received an e-mail from the wonderful woman in this ministry
and she said that when she received my PayPal notice of a donation that
she asked God if there was something she needed to know. At the time,
she was in Georgia to fill in for a fellow minister and as part of her
performance would have picked up $500 toward her upcoming wedding.
What happened? Her fiancee came down with horrible stomach pain. Into
the hospital he went. Out came the appendix. She had to leave
Georgia, spend two days in the hospital with her beloved and lose out
on the money she had been counting on for her wedding.
However, God then provided for her. My giving was apparently just the
start of God coming through to meet the need in her life. Again, as
she had done in the past, she gave it all to Him and He came through to
bless her. I feel honored that God chose to use me to be just a little
part of the blessing He was giving to her.
"Whether it is good or bad, we will obey
the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well
with us when we obey the voice of the Lord
our God.” - Jeremiah 42:6 (ESV)
I know sometimes it can be hard to take that tithe you've dedicated to
the Lord and take it somewhere that seems out of the ordinary. I know
there are pastors who always tell you that ten percent is to go into
his or her church's coffers instead of that ten percent going to serve
God's purposes here on earth. I want to encourage you to follow the
Lord's leading when you feel it on your heart to give that ten percent
to the struggling Christian singer or the man running the homeless
shelter downtown. God's will is not always where you first think it
will be....and He knows when someone is going to need that money before
you or they realize that they do
