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Listening to Joyce Meyer speak on “giving” several years ago, I heard her suggestion about “giving” to those from whom you receive the gospel. This concept is very in line with what the church teaches: give and tithe unto others, specially “me” the church (1).

If we apply her suggestion from the slight shift in which an individual has learned to hear the Father from within, then it follows that one would tithe and give to the Father and to himself. Tithing to the Father is done in the form of Thanks Giving in Joyful appreciation for that which is received. Tithing to ourselves is to stop taking our first fruits to an external altar / place / institution / individual. It is to keep our first fruits for ourselves so that we have Abundant Measure to do that which is before us to do in our Walk with the Father. In this, we no longer walk in spiritual destitution and we become responsible for our own life.

This is a teaching Father had been sharing with Linda and I for a while, but it wasn’t until I listened to Joyce Meyer and had the “aha” moment, that I finally got it.

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(1) It is interesting to note however that the church does not give freely to other churches as one pastor we met explained to us. He was in need of bibles and went to churches to ask for old bibles and their response was “buy them from us.”