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It All Belongs To God: Giving Of Our First Fruits

By Peter Anderson 1 Comment - The content of this website often contains affiliate links and I may be compensated if you buy through those links (at no cost to you!). Learn more about how we make money. Last edited February 11, 2014.

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‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. Haggai 2:8

 

It All Belongs To God

This verse brings home to me the fact that no matter how much money I get, or how many things I collect, that it all belongs to God. It isn’t mine, its His. Because of that I need to try and remember what God’s priorities for His money are, and what mine should be.

We just started doing Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University this past week, and one of the first things we had to do was create a “quickie budget”. We needed to look at what our expenses were, what our income was, and then create a budget of what we were going to spend.

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When your giving isn’t as much as you thought it was

In looking at our spending for the past year I realized that we had been woefully inadequate in the areas of giving. It felt like we had given quite a bit, but when we looked deeper at it, we had given in spurts – and the grand total wasn’t all that grand.

We should be giving with a joyful heart, giving first before we spend on our bills, our saving and our discretionary spending. No matter how things are going, we need to be giving back, using God’s money for his purposes.

Dave Ramsey talks about this in his seminar. He says that before you even look at your bills and other expenses, you need to first set aside your giving (in the form of tithes, charity, etc) and your saving. This shouldn’t even be factored into your budget, its coming out before you even get started.

We’ll be consciously working on this, and trying our best to be giving our tithe to our church and other local charities before we even look at the rest of our bills. I think we’re considering actually doing an automatic funds transfer for our tithe so that it takes out the human “I forgot the check this week” factor. I don’t like doing automatic deductions normally, but in this case I think we may need to take the leap of faith, and make sure to give first – in thanks for what we’ve been given.

What are your thoughts on giving back first?

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Last Edited: 11th February 2014 The content of biblemoneymatters.com is for general information purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Visitors to biblemoneymatters.com should not act upon the content or information without first seeking appropriate professional advice. In accordance with the latest FTC guidelines, we declare that we have a financial relationship with every company mentioned on this site.

This article is about: Bible Verse, Christianity, finance

About Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson is a Christian, husband to his beautiful wife Maria, and father to his 2 children. He loves reading and writing about personal finance, and also enjoys a good board game every now and again. You can find out more about him on the about page. Don't forget to say hi on Pinterest, Twitter or Facebook!

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  1. David Mynhardt says

    Money is a manmade comodity and perse doesn’t belong to God . If it does belong can He make a deposit to my account when I am in need and pray ? The earth , minerals , livestock and things He made belongs to Him . Money is also not a seed . Yes we must use the money we earn responsible Many rich christians maybe dont give generously because we all buy what we want or can afford instead of strictly what we need

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