Everyone wants to have the life of abundance and prosperity. The best paying job or business, to live in a luxury house, to be promoted. Who doesn’t want to have and give the best to their family and children? To be healthy and strong, free from medications and treatments. People want the dream life.

However, the same people do not obey the voice of God. For example, many are those who see the tithe as something created by man, by the church or an institution. They don’t see the tithe as something holy, as the first fruits to the Lord. That is why they don’t obey. They say, “I don’t give tithe to the church”, and they are right, you should not give tithe to the church. But you should return to God what is His, the first fruits that belong to Him. 

He is the one that gives you strength to earn wages. Health to go to work each day. The sun during the day and the moon to light your way at night. Not to mention the countless opportunities He has given to you. He does much more for us, then we do for Him. And He says to us:

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land. Isaiah 1:19

But most people are not eating the good, just like the children of Israel. The promised land was there waiting for them, but they were there in the wilderness because they did not submit to God. They even wished to go back to Egypt. Well, when you obey the voice of God and you return to Him what is His, He takes you to the promised land, and the promised land is even greater than the paradise that God planted for Adam and Eve because that promised land was physical and the promised land now is spiritual. It is the Kingdom of Heaven. But here on earth, we have to obey and then He gives us life more abundantly here on earth and eternal life in heaven. 

May the God of the Bible bless all of you

Bishop Bira Fonseca