January 27th, 2025
What a great day of worship with our beloved SBC family! Let’s begin our week prayerfully reading and reflecting on Malachi chapter 3 once again (it’s good to read in a different translation). Does anything new stand out in light of yesterday’s sermon?
Let’s ZERO INTO Vs. 7 – 12 as God expresses concern of the low level of giving by His people.
CHALLENGE – Wherever you are in your generosity journey, take God at His Word as He invites you “Test me in this way… to see if I will pour out a blessing for you.” Sincerely give to God one-tenth or more of your earnings to support the mission of His local church and notice what happens in your life. God assures us it will be good and not bad.
PRAYER PROMT. – “Father in heaven, You are the giver of every good and perfect gift, and I am filled with thanksgiving for Your love for me. I especially thank you for the gift of _____________________________________. I desire to honor You by freely giving to You what I have freely received from You. My heart is to take You at Your Word and give the amount of _________________________ this week as an offering to Your church, for I humbly pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Let’s ZERO INTO Vs. 7 – 12 as God expresses concern of the low level of giving by His people.
- When one withholds from giving to God, how is this viewed by God? _____________________ - i.e. ‘robbery without a weapon’; taking from God what is rightfully His. How have we been guilty of this action?
- The Lord specifically addresses “the tithe.” - i.e. the payments of the tenth. A tithe would be 1/10 of our earnings. What amount of your monthly income would be a tithe? ___________________________________________.
- Where are tithes and offerings to be made to God? V.10 – “Bring into the ________________... so that there may be food in my ___________.” In the New Testament, we are to bring our gifts to the local church – see 1 Corinthians 16: 2.
- What promise does the Lord make to ones who honor Him by their giving? V.10b – “See if I will not open __________________________ and pour out a blessing for you __________ _____________________.” Wow! That’s amazing!
- V.11, 12 – contains another promise God makes – “I will rebuke the ________________ , so that it will not ruin your produce” – i.e. God will take care of your well-being if you honor Him.
CHALLENGE – Wherever you are in your generosity journey, take God at His Word as He invites you “Test me in this way… to see if I will pour out a blessing for you.” Sincerely give to God one-tenth or more of your earnings to support the mission of His local church and notice what happens in your life. God assures us it will be good and not bad.
PRAYER PROMT. – “Father in heaven, You are the giver of every good and perfect gift, and I am filled with thanksgiving for Your love for me. I especially thank you for the gift of _____________________________________. I desire to honor You by freely giving to You what I have freely received from You. My heart is to take You at Your Word and give the amount of _________________________ this week as an offering to Your church, for I humbly pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
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