Where did the money go?

Have you ever said to yourself, "I meant to pay my tithe this month or I wanted to give to help the youth ministry but, where did the money go?" As I briefly touched on in my last post, you should never have to give your last $20.00 to help with God's work! Now that does not mean that you should not give or that God looks the other way if you feel that you have a more pressing need in your life and therefore you don't give back to Him what is rightfully His in your tithe and offerings...What I am saying here is that God should be the first person that you pay when you get your check and therefore you should never have to give your last $20.00 to Him, because you gave your first $20.00 to Him!?!

It all goes back to faith. It takes a step of faith to say, "God, You know I don't have the money for this but it is Yours anyway." It takes trust to give of your need and not of your excess. For instance, consider this passage of scripture from Mark 12:41-44...

"And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living."

She needed the money to live on but she gave it to God! She didn't have ANY money left! Not a penny! Yet she still gave. A wise man said the following, "Where God guides, God provides." Do you believe that?...How you give back to Him will tell the truth...