Prayer for December 3rd, 2024
Good morning, God —thank you!!
Your covenant through Moses included promises in response to obedience. However, the new laws of love were fulfilled through Jesus Christ when the church grew to reach Jews and Gentiles, all people. Leaders struggled with whether or not to command these new believers to follow the Mosaic Law. But you have given less impossible rules for peace, and tithing was not among them. You opened the windows of Heaven! Believers should want to provide for the needs of others and help to expand Christian outreach because we love you/Jesus. No specific amount or percentage is commanded. Our love for you naturally makes us want to help meet the needs of others without reluctance. Thank you, Father, for the love, compassion, and generosity in my heart. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
12 The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
7 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.