Tithing saves you from hardship

Tithing is a biblical principle. It may take you a while to understand, believe and have faith in it but once you do and start the process you will be blessed and GOD will always protect you from hardship.

GOD does not need our money, but he wants us to understand the principle of giving to others, saving and investing so that we may prosper. GOD is our greatest employer; he is the one that has given us that contract or that job.

Deuteronomy 8:18 – ‘and you shall remember the Lord your GOD, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth’

So we should be giving 10% back to him each month, not hoarding it. When we pay him first we are honouring him, we are saying he is more important above everything in our lives. All he asks is for 10% which is mandatory.

Genesis 28:20-22 – Jacob’s vow ‘If GOD will be with me and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on. So that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my GOD. And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be GOD’s house and of all that you give me I will surely give a tenth to you’.

Your tithes can be paid weekly or monthly whenever you get your salary. The amount is 10% of your gross amount. You should give it to your local church where you fellowship.

I personally pay my tithes by standing order before I pay any of my bills. I put GOD first every month even when I am between IT Contracts. When I give him that 10% (I actually give more) I find that the 90% left goes amazingly further. I started the principle of tithing every month in 2008, but decided to set up a standing order in 2009 once I could see that the church I was going to had proper accounts and I was able to view them.

How does money going further? That is what GOD will do for you when you open your hand. When you rob GOD you are robbing yourself.

Malachi 3:9 – ‘you are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole nation’.

When you give cheerfully to GOD he will bless you.

Malachi 3:10 – ‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this. Says the Lord of hosts, ‘If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it’.

This is a superb video by Pastor Billy Ritchie of Milton Keynes Christian Centre which I hope will give you a greater understanding of how to start ‘Tithing’.

Please send me a message if this article and video has helped you in anyway. God Bless

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Life

This video is about Life.

Treasure every moment!

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Giving Thanks to GOD for 2010

It’s been a truly Wonderful Year as usual. When you put GOD first in everything that you do he will always reward you :)

I ended 2009 saying that I wanted to work on an IT contract from home in February 2010 and sure enough the Lord heard me and I obtained a contract working from home on February 5th.

I was honoured to be asked by the Service Manager of New Covenant Church MK at the end of December 2009 if I would like to head up a new department starting from 8th January 2010 called ‘Dominion Hour Ushers’ for a new UK wide national service called ‘Dominion Hour’ taking place on the first Friday of every month. I also wanted to work closer to home so that I could commit to this new role which meant getting to church by 7pm latest each month. I am happy to have achieved this from January through to December 2010. The role involved building a team, having meetings and producing minutes. Attending professional usher training, this enabled me to create Roles and Responsibilities, Code of Conduct, videos and training material for the team.

I completed a 3 day fast (eating after 6pm to 12 midnight) and then a 4 day fast (no food only water) from 1st – 8th January 2010. I thought as I am now in charge of a department I had better set an example. It was tough going but I asked God for strength each day, I was going to be a winner and I achieve my objective. This can bring you closer to GOD because you are giving up what you love (food) to focus on him alone.

From April 5th I completed 20 days out of a 40 day prayer walk at 6am each morning in Campbell Park, Milton Keynes. This gave me the revelation to create my blog, back in April. See the Category: Prayer, Prayer Walks – for pictures of the sheep lining up to get their picture taken :)

I changed my car in April, I was lead by the Lord to the BMW website, and went back to driving a BMW my fourth one in 11 years with GOD’s financial wisdom learnt in the past couple of years I bought it for cash – 5 figures. I picked it up on Monday afternoon 12th April. Pastor Fola sat in my car and blessed it after our prayer walk on Wednesday 14th April. Praise God! She is so lovely :)

I wanted time out from my IT contract after April, because I wanted to honour GOD with my blogs, twitter and Hubpages editorial and the setup of my Life Coaching website, so the Lord granted me this and I enjoyed the summer working on these projects.

My accountant Marion attended NCC Woman at Bethany in May and she decided to have her water baptism that day, so she is now Born Again. Winning a Soul for Christ is a great feeling. GOD gives me amazing talents which I use so I always gain more. I captured the whole ceremony of everyone being baptised on video and presented to the church on Sunday 30th May (which I do annually). See the parable of the talents in Matt 25 14:29

In July I decided that I needed to get another IT contract, wanting to pay my tax bill. I took action and went to my hairdressers in London. I wanted a contract this month, so I set the wheels in motion, found a website on the Internet and it automatically emailed me relevant roles I was looking for. After a home study Bible class at my friend’s Loretta & Arthur home on Wednesday 28th July, I prepared for the following week’s study by reading the Chapter 4 ‘What is Faith’ (Bible Faith Study Course by Kenneth E. Hagin) and in doing so read the following statement – Faith says, “It’s mine, I have it now”. This was written in the context within the chapter of people wanting their healing, but instead of having faith, they were hoping for healing.

Friday night 30th July at 20:19pm I received an email Skills: “Trainer – IT/Phone Systems required for contract up to Christmas period based in the Luton area. You will be an experienced Trainer, who is able to come on board and have relevant experience teaching small sized classes rolling out new phone systems. You will be fully trained on these phone systems. You will have excellent communication skills, be personable and confident. You will have a few years experience as a Trainer under your belt. You will deliver training to end-users through basic methodologies. You will demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills. Work effectively in a team and contribute to the success of training objectives. Evaluate feedback about the effectiveness of individual training programs. Please apply immediately…”

I liked the sound of it all and as I had never done telephone training and Voice over IP, I thought ‘Yes this is for me, I want this new skill’ and I grabbed the opportunity (I knew GOD had given it to me), so I applied. The agency called me on the Monday 2nd August to ask my permission to send off my CV to the client. When they hung up, I said out loud “Faith says It is mine, I have it now”. Then I prayed and thanked GOD for the contract.

On Tuesday I wondered why I had not received a call but I told myself that GOD was taking care of it and the contract was already mine. GOD never lies, only if you are a doubting Thomas.

I had a phone call from the contract agency on the Wednesday at 12:30pm “they love your CV can you do an interview over the phone, and what time would you like?” I went out shopping had a call “can I get back and do the interview at 15:00pm”, “sure no problem”. After 30 minutes on the phone and asking them to do a video conference from my laptop on skype the contract was mine. I fell down and praised GOD. It was my turn to have the home study Bible class at my house that evening and I gave my Testimony to the group, they we so excited and pleased for me, it gave them confidence that GOD answers you when you pray in faith. So we helped each other to become stronger in Christ. I then gave a Testimony at our Dominion Hour Service on Friday evening 6th August and in Sunday service. When a congregation can hear a real life testimony from someone they know it will inspire them to move forward.

I started my contract the following week on 12th August continuing until 14th January 2011. I deferred my last 5 days (insight from the Lord on Sunday morning) from Monday 20th December due to the snowy and icy conditions no grit on our roads, giving the client value because more staff will be in that week for training.

Many times leaving Luton at the right time intervention by the Holy Spirit would stop me from being involved in traffic jams which everyone else would be stuck in for 2 hours. I would leave and get home to Milton Keynes in 40 minutes. Many times I was asked ‘how did you do that’? When you have a relationship with GOD his spirit guides you. You have to listen though, so many of us are so busy and never stand still to hear him speaking to us when he is trying to give us insights and revelations.

Attending ‘NCC Women Spa Weekend’ retreat for a whole weekend in Friday 15th – 17th October was brilliant, attended with 18 girlfriends from various NCC church branches who were great company & great fun. Great food, informative and brilliant lectures with image and etiquette consultants. Venue Latimer House, Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

The last entry in my blog up to today was ‘An Opening Church Prayer’ – my Pastor had contacted on the Wednesday 28th July during the day to ask if I would like to do the Opening Prayer at our new venue of Hazeley School, Milton Keynes on the Sunday 1st August. Since that time I have been very busy on my contract, church events and completing my Life Coaching modules.

I am now an Accredited Life Coach. I praise GOD and give him all the glory for this achievement. I completed all my 14 assignments with diligence, achieving 14 A grades – (6 x A stars, 6 x A and 2 x A minus).

One of my favourite and powerful scriptures is 2 Tim 1:7 “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind”. If you ever live in fear this is the scripture to read and mediate on.

To help you to understand faith read Hebrews 11, also join a Bible Class with a group of friends to learn, you cannot do it on your own.

Finally, GOD rewards those who paid their Tithe & Offering see Malachi 3 8:11

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An Opening Church Prayer

Welcome to our Sunday Service
May the Lord bless each and every one of you for coming into his presence.
We ask you Lord to Bless our dear brothers and sisters who are on their way and for those who cannot attend today.
We praise the Lord for our new surroundings!
We Praise God! because he is awesome.
He has bought us in into the Land flowing with Milk & Honey!

Psalm 66: 1:3
Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth
Sing out the honour of his name
Make his praise glorious
Congregation to repeat v: 3 Say to God “ How awesome are Your works!”
Continue…Psalm 66: 4-20

Prayer 1
“Let us pray”
Our Father which Art in heaven
Hallowed be they name
Thy kingdom come
Thine will be done in earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgiven them that trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom, the Power and the Glory, Forever and ever, Amen”

Confession – Congregation to repeat
Dear Father, I rejoice at the knowledge, that this is my set time, to experience bountiful blessings in my life, in overflowing measure! We thank you Lord for our new surroundings. We give you the Glory! Thank you for blessing me, and making me a blessing to others. My life is filled with good things, in an overflowing measure, and those I come in contact with, are sharing the goodness of God in my life.

Prayer 2
Dear Holy Spirit, please help us to be sensitive and alert in our spirit to recognise moments of divine visitations, so that we will receive every blessing that you desire to impart into our lives, in Jesus name, Amen.

Prayer 3
Dear Father, thank you for your anointing which causes us to grow, expand and multiply in whatever we lay our hands upon. As we recognise and take advantage of that anointing in our lives today, our jobs, businesses, finances and influence are increasing and expanding in the Name of Jesus, Amen.

Final Prayer 4
We thank you GOD for your presence here today, we give you all the glory and all the praise in Jesus name we have prayed. Amen.

Prepared by Sandy Grey (GodLivesInUs)

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Share a Testimony to Help Motivate Others In Need

You can provoke God to give you blessings when you share your testimonies with others.

Giving a testimony about what God has done for you should fill you up with so much passion that you tell it without fear of ridicule.

No matter how small or insignificant you think your testimony may be someone somewhere needs to hear it or read it.

So share what God did for you today? this week? this month? this year?

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Debt Testimony

Deliverance – Financial – Testimony given 21 November 2008 at Night Vigil:-
God has given me deliverance (freedom) from my sin (transgression/fault /offence /wrong) of being in debt.

I recognised that I was not very good with money back in August 2006 – and God has now shown me the way.

He had showed me the way along time ago, but I was not paying attention.

I thought I needed financial coaching and just wanted to cure myself – I thought how I can change this bad habit after 25 years it will be a struggle.

Now by a miracle after reading and understanding God’s Word I realise you should never be indebted to anyone. I now pay debit card/cash for everything.

I bought a beautiful Toshiba laptop recently – I talked to God first about it – I use it for his work.

God has checked my understanding, he has tested me in the past few months and because he sees I am listening and taking action he has given me a new accountant who has guided me so well that I will now have money in my limited company at the end of my contract, which allows me to pay myself a salary for the next 6 months.

This is a miracle from my God.

I asked so many people for help – even my financial consultant for a course but nothing was forthcoming from anyone. I realise now that so many people are in the wilderness with their finances even the Financial Institutions who should know better. “But now I know the reason – they do not have the Word of God”.

Philippians 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus”.

Deuteronomy 15:6 – For the Lord your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

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57 reasons why the Word is good advice to share

God lives in all of us and he can connect with us more when we spend quite times focused on him. He will always talk to us and direct our steps if we are prepared to listen. When we constantly put mammon (material things) first we are walking in the flesh. To have peace and joy in our souls we need to walk with him in the spirit.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are your Spirit, and they are life. John 6:63

In my peaceful moment with him he gave me insights of 57 reasons how the Word can help each of us in our lives today.

  1. GOOD times, read the Word
  2. TOUGH times, read the Word
  3. HAPPY times, read the Word
  4. SAD times, read the Word
  5. LIVING IN FEAR, read the Word
  6. WANT Direction, read the Word
  7. Want PEACE, read the Word
  8. In PAIN, read the Word
  9. GOOD HEALTH read the Word
  10. BAD HEALTH read the Word
  11. IN DEBT read the Word
  12. WANT FINANCIAL WISDOM read the Word
  13. CAN’T CONCEIVE A CHILD read the Word
  14. WANT HAPPINESS read the Word
  15. WANT A BUSINESS IDEA read the Word
  16. WANT TO BE RICH read the Word
  17. WANT HELP read the Word
  18. WANT TO CONFESS read the Word
  19. DON’T LIKE YOUR BOSS read the Word
  20. WANT A NEW CAREER read the Word
  21. OUT OF WORK read the Word
  22. HAVE NO FOOD read the Word
  23. PENNILESS read the Word
  24. WANT HUMILITY read the Word
  25. WANT OLYMPIC GOLD read the Word
  26. WANT TO STOP SMOKING read the Word
  27. BECOMING AN ALCOHOLIC read the Word
  28. WANT TO STOP TAKING DRUGS read the Word
  29. WANT MOTIVATION read the Word
  30. WANT STRENGTH read the Word
  31. WANT MORE SLEEP read the Word
  32. WANT MORE “ME” TIME read the Word
  33. WANT TO STOP SWEARING read the Word
  34. SCARED TO TAKE ACTION read the Word
  35. FEELING DEMORALISED read the Word
  36. WANT A HOUSE read the Word
  37. WANT TO FURNISH YOUR HOUSE read the Word
  38. WANT A BETTER LIFESTYLE read the Word
  39. WANT A CAR read the Word
  40. HAVE A PROBLEM read the Word
  41. WRITING A SONG read the Word
  42. LOST CONFIDENCE read the Word
  43. WANT TO BE BOLD read the Word
  44. WANT TO BE SAFE read the Word
  45. WANT A ROCK read the Word
  46. WANT ADVICE read the Word
  47. NEED COUSELLING read the Word
  48. LOST YOUR EYESIGHT hear the Word
  49. STRUGGLING TO PRAY read the Word
  50. CAN’T LOVE read the Word
  51. LACK OF FAITH read the Word
  52. LACK OF Wisdom read the Word
  53. LOST YOUR WAY read the Word
  54. CAN’T EAT read the Word
  55. WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT read the Word
  56. WANT TO WIN THAT RACE read the Word
  57. WANT ANSWERS to LIFE read the Word

You can turn your Life around no matter how bad you feel by reading, hearing and mediating on the Word everyday.

Give your Life to Jesus and he will take on all your BURDENS

Keep mediating on the Word to get light into your life and revelations

God gives me so much revelation all the above quotes came to me through the Holy Spirit on Sunday 27th June 2010.

Can you add to the list? Love to hear from you :)

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Inspirational Video

This video is dedicated to ALL the people around the world who has dared to step outside of their comfort zones.

 I created this original video back in December 2005 from an email which was sent to me by one of my best friends Babsie. I was about to forward the email on to friends, but then decided to put all the words into a video plus some of my own words with the Over the Rainbow track. I was originally a representative with MyVideoTalk at the time and because I had so many people sending me messages of gratitude I decided to create an anonymous version for people to share and pass on. So this is the story of how this video came about.

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