GOD FIRST!
DO934
20/9/80
--Or, God the Preferred Creditor!
1. GOD COMES FIRST!--HE IS A PREFERRED CREDITOR, NOT TO BE A DEFERRED CREDITOR! If you don't put God first, you're going to have a Hell of a lot of unexpected bills with which He'll chastise you! He's a preferred Creditor & His bill comes first. His tithe comes first & should be paid before anything else is paid--period! If you don't believe it, read Exodus 20:3 & 5 where He says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God!"
2. God comes first, & His TITHE is your TOP bill on the top of your stack of bills. He is to be your preferred Creditor above all others, & you are to pay your tithe whether you get any other bills paid or not! You're to pay your tithe whether you can pay your rent or your utilities or your doctor bills, or whether it even looks like you'll have enough money for food!
3. I'll guarantee right now that if you will put GOD FIRST & put His tithe first, He will see to it that "the barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail"! He will "pour out such a blessing that there will not be room enough to hold it", & you'll have no complaints because you had to pay God first. (1Kg.17:14; Mal.3:10)
4. But if you DON'T put the Lord first & pay His tithe bill first, you're going to have plenty of complaints!--Because the Lord will not like it & He will not let you get away with it. You will suffer for it & you'll lose more, much more! That's the way God is: He's a strict Father & you've got to put Him first or else! He will not play second fiddle to anybody!
5. But if you put Him first & you pay His tithe, "He will pour out a blessing there will not be room enough to hold!"--He's promised it! It's His Word, it's a contract, & He cannot & will not violate it. He will do it just as sure as the Law of Gravity! It's His Law of Economics--if you put Him first & you pay your full tithe, God will bless you for it & He'll see to it that you have more than enough to pay the rest of your bills.
6. GOD COMES FIRST! "SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD & HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, & ALL THESE OTHER THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU!" (Mt.6:33) And if you don't learn any other lesson through tithing than that, you will have learned something that will benefit you for the rest of your life!--That if you put God first, He will see that you never lack for anything you need, & you'll have more than enough of everything else. It's His promise!--He's promised it in so many places! He says, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, & prove Me now herewith, if I will not open you the windows of Heaven & pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it!" (Mal.3:10)
7. That's His right, His due, & to His honour, & you owe Him more than you do anybody else. You owe it to Him first, & if you don't pay it you're going to find out that God will not take anything but first place. He will press you more than the other creditors, to where you won't be able to pay any of them.
8. So you had better pay God ON TIME, & RIGHT on time, or you're going to find out you can't get away with it! You cannot put God last somewhere down the line & everybody else first, or that's putting other gods before Him!--And He will not stand for it! He's a jealous God & He is going to visit your sins upon you & maybe even upon your generations if you keep it up, according to His Word. (Ex.20:5) So you'd better get busy & set God's tithe apart first, the minute you get it.
9. He insists on being in FIRST PLACE, not only in your heart & your life, but in your bill-paying as well!--And that's a pretty good thermometer & barometer of your spiritual temperature, as to whether you put God first in all areas of your life. If you don't pay God first & put Him first in line in your bills & payments, it's a pretty sure sign that you're not putting Him first in your life nor your family!
10. AND YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS FAMILY IF YOU PUT ANYTHING ELSE FIRST BEFORE GOD HIMSELF! He will not take any other place but first place--either in your life, heart, mind, family, strength, time or economics. His tithe is the first bill you should pay every month, & on the first of the month with your report, or you get no Mag.
11. Anybody can tithe! No matter how little you make or how little you get or how little income you receive, you can tithe 10% of it. Don't tell me you can't, because if you couldn't, God wouldn't have asked it of you! God would not be demanding at least 10% of your income if He didn't think you could give it.--10% is the least little beggarly miserly percentage of your income that you could possibly get away with giving to God, & absolutely no less!--You ought to be giving 100% & serving Him 100% of your time with 100% of your strength & 100% of your family, when you're trying to get away with only 10%!
12. If you don't pay that 10% at the very LEAST, then God is going to blow up! He's angry enough at you for not serving Him fulltime & putting Him first in everything, every area of your life.--"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart"--that's 100%--"& all thy strength"--that's 100%--"& all thy mind"--that's 100%! (Lk.10:27)--And that includes all your time too, that's 100%!--And all your income too, & that's 100%!
13. How the Hell do you think He's going to let you get away with giving less than 10%?--And that not even on time!--Because you're paying your other bills first & you're putting other people before Him & other gods before Him!--And that's what they become if you put them first! That means that you fear & serve & worship them more than you do God Himself, & He will not take it.
14. There's no excuse for anybody not paying their tithe on time! If you don't send your tithe in & put God first--& on the first of the month--you're not going to get your Magazine from us, & you're not going to get the blessing of God from Him!--And God only knows how much you're going to lose!
15. HAVE YOU PAID YOUR GOD'S BILL THIS MONTH?--ARE YOU PREPARED TO PAY GOD'S BILL FIRST? If you don't, you're in trouble with God & with us, & no report, no Mag, & no back Issues! So sorry! God bless you & Jesus help you, in Jesus' name, amen.--"No Tithe, No Blessings!"--And no Mag!--You just can't keep God--or us--WAITING! Tithe--& ON TIME--or no Mag!--And maybe no God! GHU!
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