Comments on: Unemployment, Tithing, and God’s Provision

By: Should You Tithe When Times are Hard?

Should You Tithe When Times are Hard? — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:14 +0000

[...] believe you will be provided for no matter what the circumstances. My friend Lynnae writes about Unemployment, Tithing, and God’s Provision. Her story is an anecdote about how God works in unexpected [...]

By: Lynnae

Lynnae — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:16:02 +0000

I just want to remind everyone that dissenting viewpoints are welcome on this site, as long as they are respectful. There seems to be a problem with that lately, so disrespectful comments and parts of comments have been deleted, as per my comment policy. http://beingfrugal.net/about/disclosure-policy/

This post is about my personal experience and was not meant to turn into a debate on religion. Since it is an old post, and only those who want to debate religion seem to be commenting anymore, I am closing the comments.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:16:00 +0000

I really get tired of reading comments of people that don’t believe there is a God that controls all, is the creator of all, and holds all of our fates in his hand.
As far as giving our money away, it wasn’t our money to begin with. Everything we have we owe to our God so what’s the big deal. My wife and I cheerfully give to the Lord every week. God is not a bad steward of something that is already His. He allows us to use it to further the work of the church in our respective areas.
Finally, I want to say that I am a 50 year old college student with a wife that works part time. We still give and will always give to our Lord’s treasury each first day of the week. 10% is NOT required so we give what we can cheerfully give and feel good in our hearts because God knows that we give all that we can. God bless you all, even those that don’t believe.

By: Randy SH

Randy SH — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:44:00 +0000

Dear Sheila, Yes I hear you loud and clear. God tells me to give more and more every time I talk to him. He says he and Jesus have big plans, and they need lots of money. My mamma always told me to give to the church, and that’s just what I do. God told me that paying child support was not as important as giving to the church. My ex-wife disagrees, but she will have to take that up with God in the afterlife. For now, the church gets her support checks. Praise his name oh Jesus.

By: Sheila C

Sheila C — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:38:32 +0000

I don’t have a lot of money. I’m a single mom of 3, and we barely make ends meet. However I was taught from an early age that the church needs my money more than I do. The church needs nice buildings to attract more people, and those people will give their money also. God and Jesus needs my money and the church needs my money. How can I argue with that. God tells me in my prayers that he wants more money than I’ve been giving, so of course I will give more. My kids don’t get hunger too often, and they understand. God knows what’s best, and he says that If I can’t make a rent payment or two, that’s ok, because he loves me. Everytime he asks for more money he says he loves me. He must really love me, because he sure asks for a lot of money.
Praise Jesus’s name

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:09:24 +0000

I remind myself that God has provided for us and will continue to do so. We’re also taking the time to continue to refine our spending and savings, not a bad thing.

By: Lynnae

Lynnae — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:26:14 +0000

@Anonymous – I pray that everything works out for you. As someone who’s been there, I believe God will provide for you. It might not be easy, and you might only be able to afford the basics, but you will have everything that you need.

Blessings to you, and thanks for sharing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:20:47 +0000

sorry but I had to make this Anonymous as the sensitive nature I can’t really talk about it on my blog either:( but trust me I’m a regular reader.

We’ve been hearing rumors for a while that my wife’s company (she’s the breadwinner) will be restructuring again. Nothing new happens all the time, expect this time she was asked to help out on a project who’s main focus is to eliminate her whole department. She also had to sign a non disclosure agreement (hence the reason for Anonymous) We simply don’t know if at the end she or any of her co-workers will have a jobs down the road. We both feel the chances are very very high that she will be unemployed sometime in the not to distant future.

Now the part regarding tithe. Recently my Wife and I started giving tithe and have seen God really pour out the blessings. We both felt that this fall we should up the ante and increase it. Now that the hard part. Keeping tithe going while we cut costs elsewhere trusting that God will provide. I’m 99% sure that God will provide but seen enough other Christians have financial problems that there is that small seed of doubt.

We both talked about it and decided to keep our previous commitment and take it month by month. I am going to put in more effort to cut costs ramp up our savings and get some more of our debt gone.

Ultimately we have to place our trust in Gods hands!

By: Suresh@Paid Surveys

Suresh@Paid Surveys — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:38:21 +0000

I’d really love to see some statistics to back that up. Mega-churches are becoming more common, but the vast majority of churches are still smaller churches with smaller budgets.

By: Carl Bahda

Carl Bahda — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:58:56 +0000

What?? you want a piece of me also?