That is what my wife asked me. Things had not been getting along well with us for no reason, as I could see. It got so bad that once about four months ago when my wife was about entering the car I had repaired twice that month, the latch came off on her hands. She wondered aloud what was going on and pointedly asked me if I had been faithfully tithing. I had not.
I became a Christian over 20 years ago and started tithing as soon as I began receiving a salary. I have been quite irregular with the tithe, and it would appear to me things were not going on as expected for a Christian. I had several devourers up my purse. Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you Mal 3:8, 9 (ESV). People would just get sick in the house, and my car just kept breaking down. I would repair it and it would again break down about twice in the month. I had sold land four years ago and received N2.7M from it. My wife asked me to tithe the money but I felt that I should not. I invested N1M of it in bank shares that same year in oceanic, first bank and bank PHB, but now the net worth of those shares is about N200, 000. But I did tell them this, 'Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Live the way I told you to live so that things will go well for you.' Jer 7:23(GW)
I now remembered an incident after my wedding seven years ago which should have taught me the lesson. I had been saving up money for the wedding but when the right bride did not come I used up the money. In short I took loans to wed. After my wedding was owing a friend about a N100,000; when I got my next salary I told myself if I pay my tithe it may not be enough to settle my debt but I conferred with my wife and I decided to pay the tithe . I took the tithe out of the salary and left the remaining money in the house and went to church. I paid my tithe and on coming back to the house discovered thieves have entered my house.
They removed the burglary proof from the wall, broke all the locked wardrobes about four in number ,my heart took a leap as I remembered that I left a big sum at home. My neighbour lamented that the thieves broke his wardrobe and took his money. Lo and behold I checked the my wardrobe and discovered that my money was intact then I knew that as He said in Malachi that when we pay our tithe he will rebuke the devourer for our sake is very true: I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts. Mal 3:11, (ESV). My car went to repairs recently, and has remained ok, and my children have stopped being sickly. Coincidence? No. It pays to tithe.
Ifeanyi lives at Trans Ekulu and works at the Orthopaedic Hospital
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