Originally Posted by
lead-1
I try to stay away from posting in these threads because I feel unarmed, even though I have been going to church for over thirteen years now.
That said tithes is something I do try to stay as true as I can get to, meaning amount and on time. I look at it like this, to paraphrase the Bible says, to whom much is given much is required.
I had been disabled for roughly a year and the money train had stopped long before. I was able to keep utilities current but electric was getting ready to be a double bill which in my mind was a terrible thing, I said "nothing to anyone" but God. I had like fifteen bucks in my pocket and that was the last of it until the wife got her part time check in ten days or so, I kept five dollars to buy her a lunch at her work on Monday and one pack of smokes because she was still smoking at that time and I knew how hard she tried to quit and it was getting the best of her.
I dropped the rest in the offering plate not knowing how we would get by until payday, like I said, I told no one not even the wife of our situation and when leaving church one of the deacons caught me and ask me to shake hands and when he did he put $200 dollars in my hand and said it was in the offering plate with a note to pass the money on to my family.
Folks I'm almost in tears again typing this as I was that day but if that isn't answered prayers I don't know what is. I believe in paying my tithes that's for sure.