TITHING TO GROW IN CHRIST
DEVOTIONAL PRACTICAL STUDY
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PREFACE ‘Tithing to Grow in Christ: A Devotional Guide’ was God’s perfect and spiritual planned gift for you! Spiritual growth occurring in your life was an intention of God for establishing the practice of Church tithing with Abraham, as a God-focused relational way of giving for the purpose of Christ’s High Priestly Ministry to the Church on earth. Key Question: What do we mean by spiritual growth with regards to tithing? It simply means that: You will trust God more One of the spiritual benefits that occurred in Abraham’s life was his growth in trusting God, after his tithing by the principle of knowing and relating to God personally. Upon continued manifestation of the integrity of God’s personal presence and influence in his life, Abraham came to relate to God with a conditioned attitude of certainty in His integrity to work on his behalf in matters of his concern. With a couple of setbacks in his faith development, particularly in Genesis 16 and 20, we see Abraham’s trust in the Lord maturing as he gains grounds in his personal relations with God, as exhibited in Genesis 17, 21, 22, and 24. Your trust in God receives strength as you diligently continue to use the devotional guide Tithing to Grow in Christ as part of your preparation prior to giving your tithes at church. Trust is considered as a conditioned attitude of confidence that thrives on the consistent delivery of integrity. With that understanding, we can say that trusting God is our conditioned attitude of being certain concerning the ability of God to work on our behalf, based on our consistent experiencing of the integrity of His personal presence and influence in our lives. As a daily discipline, the Tithing to Grow in Christ Devotional Guide is designed to put you in an interpersonal communion with God to experience the consciousness of his personal presence in your life, which is aimed at developing your trust relations with Him. You will love God more A visible feature in Abraham’s life after his tithing by the principle of knowing and relating to God personally, was the demonstration of his exceptional love for the Lord. The growth of his love for God became evident by obeying the commandments of God to offer Isaac his beloved son as a sacrifice to Him (Genesis 22). As you relate to God personally by the devotional guide, Tithing to Grow in Christ, as part of your ritual in preparing to give your tithes at church, you will soon find the Holy Spirit ushering you into a flowing interactive communion with God that deepens an affection in you for Him. It tenders into an affection that would incline you to listening and hearing God speak to you. That interactive personal relation with God is aimed at spurring you on to loving Him by obediently receiving and doing the things that He commits to you to attend to (John 14:23-24). A key link in relating to God personally to grow in your love for him is in the exercise of cultivating His personal presence in your life, which is helped by the grace supplied to you by this devotional practice of tithing. You will live more holy to God The basis for God-controlled actions in our Christian living is the growing consciousness of His personal presence in our lives. The Bible says concerning Abraham, “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect,” (Genesis 17:1). Church tithing, having its roots in the Abrahamic model of tithing by the principle of knowing and relating to God personally is a fundamental component to the growing consciousness of God’s personal presence in our lives. It means that the habit of living in holiness to the Lord would have roots into the growing consciousness of God’s personal presence in our lives, which is strengthened by the daily use of this devotional practice of tithing. So that the devotional guide, Tithing to Grow in Christ. provides church tithers a practical means of cultivating their personal relations with God, with the aim of nurturing and increasing in this consciousness of holiness towards Him.
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YOU CAN MAKE YOUR TITHING COUNT FOR YOUR GROWTH IN CHRIST. I am guessing what your question is: How can I make my tithing count for my spiritual growth in Christ? The answer is simple. This devotional guide is created to exactly get you to have that experience with your tithing! Your Tithing to Grow in Christ is more than a book you read. It is a devotional practice of tithing designed to assist you into spiritually relating to God personally in connection with the giving of your tithes at church. In using this devotional guide in preparing to give your tithes to God at church, you will experience seven devotional things in relation to God and your tithing. These seven devotional things are as follows: • Getting closer to God • Thinking about God • Praying to God • Reading about God • Honoring God • Giving to God • Hearing from God Your spiritual growth in Christ in the areas of trusting, loving, and being holy to God is almost certain with your use of the Tithing to Grow in Christ devotional guide. The Tithing to Grow in Christ devotional guide will situate you into building strong personal relations with God and to nurture the integrity of the personal presence of God in your life. The integrity of the personal presence of God is what you need to be certain about the personal influence of God in your life. Having the certainty concerning the personal influence of God in your life puts you above, calms your anxieties, reduces your stress, and gives you the peace and boldness to face any challenging situation, as it was the case with David in going out to fight with Goliath. A GROUNDBREAKING DEVOTIONAL PRACTICE OF TITHING, FOR DEVELOPING STRONG PERSONAL RELATIONS TO GOD.
About the Author
Dr. Samuel Kirk Mills is the founder and president of Global Institute for Christian Living and Growth with the satellite ministry, the Church Tithing Institute. Dr. Mills studied at Moody Bible Institute, the Wheaton Graduate School as a Billy Graham Scholar, where he graduated with the master of arts degree in educational ministries. Dr. Mills subsequently earned his doctoral degree in education from Northern Illinois University. An astute teacher and speaker in the foundations of church ministry, Dr. Mills is charting a course for pastors that would equip them with a church tithing practicum to optimize the spiritual and financial solutions in their churches—supporting local churches to thrive for the cause of Christ and His kingdom. He is married to Nana Ama, with two children, Rachel Naa Koshie and Derek Nii Odartey.