"God is withholding provision because I didn't tithe faithfully when I was working."
How it sounds in your head: I wasn't consistent with tithing during my working years. There were months I kept it for bills. Now I'm broke and it feels like God is settling accounts. I robbed God and now He's robbing me back.
"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work."
-- 2 Corinthians 9:8Source: Religious teaching about tithing as requirement, Malachi misapplied to New Covenant, transactional view of God, karma theology.
She remembers specific times she didn't tithe and preachers warned about being cursed with a curse for robbing God. Her current lack feels like divine payback for past financial disobedience.
He never tithed a day in his life, hung dying as a criminal, contributed nothing to God's kingdom, and Jesus said 'TODAY you will be with Me in Paradise.' Full acceptance with ZERO religious performance or giving.
I REFUSE the lie that God withholds because of past tithing failures. IT IS WRITTEN that God makes all grace ABOUND toward me—I always have all sufficiency in all things. I am not under LAW but under GRACE. Christ redeemed me from every curse, including financial curses tied to Old Covenant requirements. The BARAK blessing is mine by covenant with Jesus, not by my giving record. IT IS WRITTEN there is NO CONDEMNATION for those in Christ Jesus—that includes financial condemnation. Like the thief on the cross who gave NOTHING and received EVERYTHING, my Father's provision flows from HIS GOODNESS, not my past performance.
Your Father isn't reviewing your giving statements from 30 years ago—He's looking at the BLOOD of Jesus that qualifies you completely. The same grace that saved you freely PROVIDES for you freely, with no back payments required.