EMPOWERING LIVES WITH PURPOSE:
We are all familiar with God reminding us in His word that He is to receive our “first fruits.” What does this mean as we look a bit deeper?
God is important and deserves the first of everything He has so graciously given to us.
Pray to God and ask Him what to do with your resources He has given you. If you don’t understand first fruits, please do a study on it. There is so much about giving to God what we have been given.
Prepare a plan for giving just as farmers approach harvest time with a generous heart to give the world their fruits, so as we have been given from our work production, we prioritize giving back to God in the fruits of our labor, our money.
May we decide with God where to give our money back to Him that greatly makes an impact and continuously repeat the practice of giving our first fruits back to God each time. Its not just a one and done time. Although some may not like hearing this, pray God changes your heart to be giving. Give as you’ve been given.
Proverbs 22:8 “God loves a cheerful giver.”
Luke 6:38, Jesus says, “Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full”.
In Malachi 3:9-10, it says, “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.”
Your fruits are not your own. Everything belongs to God.
But in first fruits, “Give to God what belongs to God” Matthew 22:21 and Mark 12:17.