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October 18, 2009 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Interesting day.
  • Had all kinds of little problems getting ready for today.
  • I hate the little fixable ones more than when the big unexpected ones hit.
  • In the midst of all that I grabbed the wrong mic pack for me.
  • Imagine my surprise when I wasn’t getting sound.
  • Even more imagine my surprise when I feel Chris lifting up my shirt to check the pack in the midst of trying to speak.
  • Once we got that all worked out, the rest of the first Experience and all of the second went really well.
  • Fun having Aaron with us today!
  • Andrea absolutely crushed it with the new song, “It’s Your Love”…awesome!
  • I haven’t been feeling good all week, so the message today drained me big time.
  • Especially since I was dropping the hammer hard.
  • Again let me reiterate a few points:
    • You don’t own anything, it all belongs to God.
    • God wants you to prove to Him that you believe that by giving back 10% of your income to Him in what is called a tithe.
    • If you don’t tithe, God says your stealing, robbing and embezzling money from Him.
    • He says in fact that there is a curse on your money.
    • So 90% of your income with God’s blessing on it is greater than 100% of your income with God’s curse on it.
    • If you don’t tithe it’s not that you can’t afford it, but rather you choose to be disobedient to God.  (listen to this section of the message for some thought provoking challenges).
    • Last but not least…
      • God doesn’t need your money…He owns it all anyway.
      • We don’t need your money…giving has been up the last few years…we’re seeing a surplus each month…we’ve added staff in the midst of a terrible economic downturn in our country…
      • This is all about vision…we want to reach as many people for Jesus as possible and that takes money…the more we have the more we’ll be able to reach.
      • So Jesus said, “Where your money is at is where your heart (passion, attention) will be as well.
    • So take the 90 day tithe challenge.
    • This is the only thing in all of scripture that God said you can test Him in.
    • He said to tithe and see if He doesn’t throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing on you that you don’t have enough room to contain it all.
  • Sorry to re-preach this, but I’m sick and tired of seeing Christians devote their time and money to things that just don’t matter.
  • Alright time for a nap…not feeling good at all…please pray.

Filed Under: Inside Today's Experience's Tagged With: Aaron Schwindt, Andrea Miller, Chris Short, gilbert thurston, money, tithe, United Worship Experience

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