It is past 12 noon on Sunday and I just woke up which means, I am not going to church and I am not going to pay any tithes to a pastor or an institution called CHURCH. This means, I am cursed and will probably see no peace in my life so says prophet Prophet Owusu Ansa (quoting from the Bible) who wrote the piece below…
In fact, my cousin needs that money better since she wants to start her own little trade to be able to take care of her two fatherless children.
I find it very hypocritical and insulting that even those who claim to be Christians and believe in the tithe doctrine do not actually pay the right amount—when it becomes even tough, some postpone their tithe obligations. But as a strict commandment, you have no choice than to follow it—at least the wording depicts so.
This means, if your mother is sick and all your salary cannot take care of her, you will still have to pay tithes from the little you have which is not even enough to carter for your mother. It sounds like those who will follow this commandment have suspended their thinking faculty and are those cursed to be irrational, not those of us who will not pay out.
I have outstanding credit card bills and fees to pay, who will pay those for me? I prefer to be cursed, after all, from birth the same Bible says we’ve all sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God— pretty much been cursed from birth.
Let me add that, the same Bible offers a salvation for the by-birth sinners and cursed at a cheaper rate of paying tithes and surrounding their thinking faculty to the church, which makes it easy to believe some non-connecting stories told by the Bible.
Anyway read the article below and let me know if you are cursed too, we may organize ‘cursed people party’ soon!
*”Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse – the whole nation of you – because you are robbing me.” (Malachi 3:8, 9)*
If you don’t pay tithe, the Bible says you are robbing God and you are under a curse. This curse cannot be removed by your good works or the fact that you are born again. You can only reverse this curse if you start paying tithe. Tithe is the only key to prosperity and God’s blessing. The Bible is very clear about this and there is no way around it. You have to choose between being under God’s curse and God’s blessings, so abundant and uncountable. Those who don’t pay tithe are robbing God because all income is from God. All God asks is 10%, not 50%, not 90%. God the giver of all just wants a little portion to take care of the men of God and help spread the gospel.
The curse of the lord can be poverty, financial instability, disease, failed marriages, childlessness or things just going very bad in life for you. If your life is going nowhere, and failure has become your middle name, paying tithe can reverse all that. The curse of God means you block God’s blessing from reaching you. How you worship truthfully does not matter, God says if you withhold tithes from him you are cursed. When your business fails, the promotion does not come, disease and misfortunate ravages your family, it is the curse of the Lord. Paying tithe can put an end to that. Stealing from God has serious consequences.
Tithe is received by Levites in the Old Testament because they dedicated themselves to God’s work. So for the Levites to be comfortable and live well God gave them the tithe as their portion. All working Israelites paid tithes to the temple which was used to care for the Levites and their families. Farmers, traders, soldiers, shepherds, fishermen, metal workers paid 10% of their income so the Levites don’t have to worry about making a living. Pastors, as the Levites of today, do not work and dedicate themselves to God’s work, so tithe is paid to them so that the gospel can be spread far and wide. Pastors also use some of the tithe for charity work.
All men of God in the Bible- prophets, apostles, priests and disciples benefited from the tithe. So there is no doubt Jesus benefitted from tithes too. The prophets in the Bible could not have survived without tithes. Paul and the disciples of Jesus all were blessed by the tithes that the church paid. How could they spread the gospel of Jesus to the rest of the world? It is the tithe that made this possible. If Jesus and his apostles received tithe from the people, the same applies to pastors and teachers of the gospel today.
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Poverty is the portion of those who have no favor with the Lord. It is those who rob God by not paying tithes who suffer lack and want. Prosperity is for those whose give to God what belongs to God. If you take from God, God would take from you. If you plant a seed, He would multiply it. As a result of tithe, not only the tithers were blessed but the whole nation of Israel was also touched by the hand of God. God can touch our nation Ghana if we become a tithe-paying people. Prosperity can become our portion. Just look at the nation of Israel today, it is the miracle of what tithe can do.
When things go bad financially, this is the time to be steadfast in your tithes. Give the tithe to your church and see the financial miracle that God manifests in your life. Tough times are times of trial and tribulation. Do not hold back on your tithes. Don’t backslide in your faith in God’s goodness. You hold back on your tithes you hold back on your blessings. Being poor or having financial problems is no excuse for not paying tithe. It might not make sense to the carnal mind, but it is the wisdom of God. Paying tithes is not only on your salary. You must tithe everything that comes into your hands. That includes salary, wages, overtime pay, bonuses, unemployment benefit, child support, business profits, pensions, allowances, bank account interest, inheritance, prizes, commission and gifts.
Paying tithes is the only way to financial prosperity and God’s divine favor. In whatever business you are in, God pours his blessing on you. You give to God so that god gives back to you tenfold, a thousand fold. When you hold back from God, God holds back from you. You are planting a seed when you pay tithes. The harvest is greater than the seed. The seed is small but the harvest is big. That is the divine miracle of tithes some like Brother Amartey fail to understand. Your breakthrough comes when you pay tithe.
When Pastors misuse your tithe, do not lose faith in God. Continue to pay your tithe because you are not the judge. Judgment is the Lord’s. You faithfully obey the law of God and leave the rest to God. Do not let any pastor’s misbehavior separate you from God. Pay faithfully and let God handle the rest.
Giving free-will offering to your church is not enough. Giving is physical, tithing is spiritual. Only in tithe did God say we should test Him. Tithe is the gateway to God’s blessings. It is a covenant between God and the Christian. The miracle in tithe is that you are banking in God’s promise. A promise that he would open the windows of heaven and pour torrents of blessings on you.
Tithes did not start with us today. Abraham was a faithful tithe payer and God mightily blessed him. All his life Abraham paid his tithes faithfully to God, just as Jacob did. If God blessed Abraham for paying tithes, surely he would bless those who pay tithes today. All his life Jacob was faithful in his tithes and Yahweh never left his side. Is there a curse on those who don’t pay tithe? The answer to this question is not from me, it is from God. Yes, you are cursed if you don’t pay tithe.
By: Prophet Owusu Ansa
The bible is not a literal book but most of these so pastors who don’t have a clue about the book use this to scare people and then take their money. The whole idea of the tithe is a spiritual symbolic act which means you give 10percent of your thoughts, which is of the ground or the earth and in turn God will open the right side of the brain which is 90percent. In reality we are all functioning on 10percent of our brain which is the left side. All Jesus is saying is give me 10percent of your thoughts and I will open the right hand side of God the father almighty where all your problems and the storms in your life will be purged away or you will find answers to. it is the same when Jesus told the fishermen to cast their nets to the right and the caught many fishes. The right hemisphere of the brain is the untapped part which most people are not even aware of coz the church wouldn’t dare tell you that otherwise the church will be empty. PEOPLE, SEEK TRUTH and ye shall find!
All i will say is there is a verse that follows the curse part that i.e. the curse part is in Malachi 3:8-9 but if you were to read on to Malachi 3:10-12 : “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty. 12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.” This is the part i would encourage you to take the Lord on because it is one of the few places that God actually says we can TEST Him. Mind you there many verses that says do not TEST God but this is one of the two verses in the Bible that God invites us as Christians to test Him. The other is in Romans 12:2 where we can test God’s will…so to answer your question,yes if all my money left is not enough and I have to pay tithe and my mum is sick,i will pay my Tithe and send whatever is left to my mum because My God shall supply all my needs according to His Riches and He is Jehovah Rafah and by His stripes my mum will be healed and yes i may be in debt,but i will Tithe my way out of debt because I will say of My God,you are my refuge and fortress ,my God in whom i trust. I am not to be anxious about anything but in everything with Prayer and supplication ,i will let my requests be known to God. God never harms His children,infact He says He has Good plans for us ,plans to prosper us and not to harm us but to give us hope and a future. If you look at it this way; it is God that gives you the money in the first place,so why not give his 10% by tithe because it is His money in the first place. I invite you to take God on this test and see debt and lack lifted from your life and your every need supplied by the Almighty who loved us so much that he sent His only Son to die for us,that is the best present God could have given to us
Again the bible is not a literal book but rather a spiritual book with hidden meanings. Even Paul says in 2nd Corinthians “who has also made us able ministers of the new testament;not of the letter, but the spirit: for the letter kills but the spirit gives life. The whole bible has to do with the evolution of consciousness right from genesis to revelation and until you know yourself and also understand the 12 signs of the zodiac, you will take the bible literally and things won’t fulfill for you. It is all to do with the mind and those who cannot undo the programming and social conditioning picked up from home, church, work and religion will never understand how the universe works. Jesus is only telling us to do just what he did and even do better but people have been mislead by the church in order to control the masses. Which is why Romans 12:2 says “Do not be conformed to this world(illusions of this world) but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. You can not pay your way out to God. God doesn’t need money. Money was made by man and why would God need money and for what? Only you can ascertain your own true will, no god, no man, no nation or institution surpasses your Holy authority over yourself.