Don’t trust in your riches, but trust in God. Think about, discuss or pray about the verse that relates most to your life:

Proverbs 11:28 Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.

1 Timothy 6:17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God.

John 14:1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God.

Job 31:24-28 (Job said) “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘you are my security,’ if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained…so that my heart was secretly enticed…then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.”

Psalm 49:6-12 (sinners) trust in their wealth and boast about how rich they are, yet not one of them, though rich as kings, can ransom his own brother from the penalty of sin! for God’s forgiveness does not come that way…Rich man! Proud man! Wise man! you must die like all the rest! you have no greater lease on life than foolish, stupid men. you must leave your wealth to others. you name your estates after yourselves as though your lands could be forever yours and you could live on them eternally. But man with all his pomp must die like any animal.

Are you rich? Did you realize that if you personally make more than $1500 per year you are richer than 75% of the world’s 6+ billion people! To find out how your income compares to everyone else in the world go to: www.globalrichlist.com

Set up a plan to faithfully give 10% OR MORE of your financial resources to the Lord’s work. Think about, discuss or pray about the verse that relates most to your life:

Luke 11:42 (Jesus said) “Though you are careful to tithe even the smallest part of your income, you completely forget about justice and the love of God. you should tithe, yes, but you should not leave these other things undone.”

Deuteronomy 14:22,23 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce…The purpose of tithing is to teach you always to put God first in your lives.

Exodus 22:29 you must be prompt in giving Me the tithe…

Genesis 14:20 abram gave…a tenth of everything.

Malachi 3:8-11 “Will a man rob God? surely not! and yet you have robbed me. “’What do you mean? When did we ever rob you?’ “you have robbed me of the tithes and offerings due to me. and so the awesome curse of God is cursing you…Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so that there will be food enough in my Temple; if you do, I will open up the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing so great you won’t have room enough to take it in! “Try it! Let me prove it to you! 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.

2 Chronicles 31:5,12 The people responded immediately and generously with the first of their crops and grain, new wine, olive oil, money, and everything else -- a tithe of all they owned. They faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes and dedicated gifts. 

Giving 10% isn’t the ceiling of giving; it’s the floor. It’s not the finish line of giving; it’s just the starting blocks.

Even the poor are to give to God from what they have. Think about, discuss or pray about the verse that relates most to your life:

Deuteronomy 16:16 no man should appear before the LoRD empty-handed.

1 Kings 17:10-15 When (elijah) came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” as she was going to get it, he called, “and bring me, please, a piece of bread.” “as surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread-only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it-and die.” elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord
gives rain.’” she went away and did as elijah had told her. There was food every day for elijah and for the woman and her family.

Genesis 28:20-22 (While a single young man with no job or income) Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me… then the Lord will be my God…and of all that you (o God) give me I will give you a tenth.”

2 Corinthians 8:2-4 Though (the Macedonian Christians) have been going through much trouble and hard times, they have mixed their wonderful joy with their deep poverty, and the result has been an overflow of giving to others. They gave not only what they could afford but far more; and I can testify that they did it because they wanted to…They begged us to take the money so they could share in the joy of helping the Christians in Jerusalem.

If a pauper gives to God, he’ll feel like a prince. If a prince doesn’t give to God, he’ll feel like a pauper.