and this program is a little bit different usually you don't see me on set to but i'm here and i actually have my lovely father in love on the set with me dad welcome to the program thank you for having me does the roles have switched a little bit today because we want to talk about a very important topic that is not always discussed in that is discussed but is a lot of times it's been misunderstood among the body of crisis and we wanted to kind of clear that up especially among young people were really of all ages but i i started tithing and i started to learn the principle of it at a at a at a young age and it's helped me along on my marriage journey we are going to talk about tithing our way is that a right greasy is three and they're growing up so fast but pillars of the bit about the i mean the you are actually the host of your guest but the question tell us a little bit about the when the we talked to you like twelve years ago when the because the question what are you going to do with the money they do have to honor the lord or not right you ask because you saw your kids tithing and right that was something unusually for you to see them and it was it was it was something that i had heard of in the church and but i i didn't nobody had taken time to explain the meaning of it and the the the blessing that's attached to it it was just something that i had heard that and i really you know there wasn't much communication my in my house growing up so we didn't know i didn't know if my parents did it if they didn't do it if they did it sometimes it was just really not discussed it was one of those subjects that people call taboo you know it's not really something that you talk about but as as i was as i met you and as you know the family and as a mandolin i we started to spend more time together and to date and we you know all a lot of a lot of our a lot of our relationship was based on the word because i was guy was going in the ward and i was getting to know who god was and and i was getting to know who i was in the body of christ and what my role was in christ and and so i remember asking you and mom you you had come over well back then i called you john  alexandra but yeah but but now you know now it's mom and dad but i remember asking you and and saying you know i want you to explain this topic to me because i i've i've never done it before and  don't i really don't know what the bible says about it and and i remember you you know i know you had a lot of patience with me in the beginning i mean and you still do but i remember you you brought me to this verse and i remember the first time i read this verse and i try and i want to read it it's actually for malikai three three dozen verse eight it says will i'm reading from the amplified will a man rob or defraud god yet you rob and defraud me but you say in what way do we rob or defraud you you have withheld your tithes and offerings you are cursed with a curse for you are robbing me even this whole nation and then verse ten says bring all the types the whole tenth of your income not be room enough to receive it i want to stop right there i do want to keep going but i want to start right there because when i remember when i when you first showed me that verse and i remember thinking i am i really am i really robbing god you know  even though i'm young i hadn't heard the principle of it yet and it it moved something in me because i knew if god was was if god was so serious about  something and serious enough to say prove me now and i believe that this is the only place where we see in the bible god is actually telling telling us to prove him something to to to put him to the test in other  then then it must it must be something serious so i decided let me put this to work i i don't want to rob god and our first honestly it might have been out of fear that i was doing it because i thought well if i rob god then what does that really mean so the first part of that is that if we prove the lord is says that he will see if he will not open up the windows of heaven for you that he will pour out a blessing that there shall be no room enough to receive it so first of the first  blessing that is attached to it is that we will be we will have an overflow god will actually give us so much that we won't have room enough to receive it and the second is the last the the first experience was to have the beginning of the f ten thousand dollars in debt i was going out to eat for lunch i wasn't packing a lunch i was buying whatever i wanted to buy i really didn't withhold anything i didn't with me withhold anything for myself i think solomon says that he  care and so i got in debt but i you know i thought well i'll make minimum payments it'll be fine and so when it came to tithing i thought well how my you know pretty much every penny of my paycheck at that time and now i wasn't making much i was a receptionist at a an optometrist office how my how my even the take money out of my paycheck for it because every penny is going towards this credit card and that credit card and you know just to survive i mean i was still living with my parents but i was responsible for my gas and all that stuff and and for my own bills so i decided well i am that i want to do it the bible says i have to do it and i want to be obedient so i wrote my first check and i remember just thinking  well god i'm going to do this because the bible says to prove you first of all and secondly that i'm i second the i don't want to rob you that's a serious thing so i wrote my check and i remember so in my seed and just believe in god and  i not sure if it was the very first paycheck after that or the next one but it was within within that month that i received my paycheck and it was it was either exactly as much as i t no you would know believe me you would know if we got a raise and i said well there's i mean my checks are are higher i mean they're especially especially because now i was looking ok my first one was higher ok but now my second one was also higher more than what my tithes check was so i asked her again are we sure are are are you sure that i didn't get a raise or anything no at the hourly was still minimum wage everything was still so i decided to ask my boss and i said you actually went to him toss it yeah i did because i didn't want to have to pay it back because i was i was always a mistake right so i went and i asked him i said if you don't mind doctor would you let me know if i if i got a raise or something or maybe there is a mistake so i don't want to have to pay you back later he looked at my check you go no there's no mistake you know what it's actually looks like there's something with your taxes or something that you're actually getting back more i mean you're claiming what you should be claiming signs are not the same or even if we don't have the same experiences i believe that in that very moment for god to show me hey you're on the right track and i will take care of you i will provide for you and i don't want to forget the second part of this because this is  first eleven says i will rebuke to devour insects and plagues for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of the your ground neither shall your vine drop its fruit before the time in the field says the lord of hosts so not only does he promise that he will pour out a blessing were there we where we will not have room enough to receive it but the second part says you were beauty devoured was the devour we know was satan himself so my  protection i believe that comes directly from from the throne of god himself because because we do it in obedience it comes over us and it protects us because satan comes to steal kill and destroy the jesus that i have come that they may have life and life more abundantly but what really struck me here is that hugh rebuked the devour got actually promised that if we are obedient to him and if we don't rob him and if we believe him and trust him that as we saw our seed we he will protect us and not only just protect us but rebuke to devour and rebuke sickness and disease and everything every plague that comes near our dwelling and you know that wasn't just the only experience i had there were so many other experiences that i had with god with with tithing and i may not be able to go into all of them but i remember when there was a time in our life where we didn't have any kids we were we were young we we were we had just gotten married and we kind of in between jobs and you know emanuel had a couple painting jobs here and there but i remember i was on my living room floor and i was weeping i was sobbing and i was looking at heaven and i was saying lord i know what the word says i know that i've seen it so many times but you know that our being account is there's nothing in it i want to give i have a desire to i don't want to stop i didn't want to break that cycle that i had with god for so long and this time in it i had it had seemed like the cycle was going to be broken i said lord if you will provide a seed for me i will sew it i will sew it i don't know how but if you provide it also it and i remember just bring down on my carpet there in the living room my husband was at work and i you know i ended the prayer and i believe that god looks at the heart you know although you know we make mistakes along the way we spend money we shouldn't spend but god looks at the heart and so i started doing laundry that day and sorting out the clothes and all of a sudden i was putting him in those jeans in the washer and i never do this because we don't put things in our pockets but i decided let me check the pockets and it was something that i never ever do this was something just supernatural i reach into the pocket and i said oh there's you know there's something that i thought was a tissue i pulled out and it was a fifty dollar bill i have no to this day we would i did i asked him i called him i said you know you're not going to believe this i hope that you weren't saving this for something but look what happened look what i did i prayed and and and i found this money and he goes i have no idea where that money came from first of all you know i don't carry cash secondly if i did it would be in my wallet it wouldn't be in my paint painter's pants they were full of paint and i took that seat and i remember sewing it and i just remember saying lord if we are because i was sincere in asking and because i you knew that i didn't have a seed but you knew that if you had given me one i would have sold it you provided it for me and that is such  were and i mean you have to be a sore in order to provide the seed that's right you have to have a desire to saw a new you did have a desire on that day to saw but you said i don't have anything to sow right now and lord if you give me a seed right and you never knew when you were going to get a paycheck you know it could have been at the end of the week it could have been another couple weeks but i often think back and and and i'm i'm sure that you know there are people who have maybe gone through this but i often think what if i had taken that and thought man are we don't we don't have any money to survive for the next week i probably need to use this money for myself i wonder i use it in the seed right and what is the seed means the ago where i was writing out my bills like i always do and writing down the due dates and i remember the first check i write you know is my type check and i wrote it and i  did all my other bills i paid all my other bills online wrote all my other checks and i looked and i thought this isn't this isn't good with there's not there isn't that much left over and i remember taking my tight check and kind of putting it eyes off of the promise which is we read two promises just now and to look at the problem in the problem for me was that well i'm going to limit god because this is all the money that i have in my account so i was actually telling god well god because this is all i have and you can't do more than what i have then i'm not going to so my seed and the the biggest mistake is is looking at the situation and that your problem instead of looking at the promised focusing our shit in our eyes away from the word and into our reality and into our bank accounts and into what you know what our savings account look like oh i had to dip into my savings account i had to dip into my car fund but with god it's everything is possible everything is possible and with god we have to look at the bigger picture it's not god is not confined to a bank account i am learning that so much especially this year and at the end of last year god is so much bigger than and then whatever we can fill in the blanks to whatever god is so much bigger than me lou getting to him to a new car or let me limiting to him two to having a new job he's so much bigger than that and if we focus on sowing our seed in good  ground and naming our seed according to our need then we will be able to and so i did that i put my i don't want to get off topic but i put my check underneath and i went to bed that night and it was bothering me but it wasn't you know but i was still looking at my situation and sort of looking at the promise of course as we often do and i had a dream that night and who was in my dream but actually you were in my dream and i and i remember you were sitting down you were writing your  bills exactly the same thing i was doing you were writing your bills and you were looking at it you got up and i remember you and mom were there and mom goes will let let's pray over this you know over the bills is pray over everything and and mom was asking you well what's the situation you know all the bills are paid how how's everything looking and i'll never forget and i was i don't i just always in the newsroom right i don't think in the dream i was actually a president i think i was just a just seeing it from afar i was just kind of observing but i remember you you got up and you said you know what it doesn't matter it doesn't matter because i'm going to soul my seed for my need towards my need i am going to sew my seed towards my need and i woke up and i thought well i don't know if there is any if there is a more clear answer than this and i will quickly to and bread for eating will also provide in multiply your resources for sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness which manifest itself in active goodness kindness and charity through not only does he provide seed for the sower solar takes is time and so is the seed and ploughs is out with the world for plows the ground and and does all that stuff that's how serious we should take our sewing because not only are we are of course we're giving to god but to sew it in good ground means to sew it into a place where you are being fed spiritually and there are so many people that feel like you know because of religious reasons or because of obligations or because of the way that they were brought up they have to so in this specific church or organization or or or whatever it is but i want to let our viewers know that sewing is something that god takes so seriously it's such a sacred  a holy act and and when we take that seed and we we pray over it and we believe god and we see so it towards our need we believe all the promises but also we saw it in good ground and good ground is is the  place where you are being fed spiritually whether it's your local church whether it's a ministry that you watch on television or on on you tube or on on roku or whichever wherever you're getting fed whatever your calling maybe for prayer be it this ministry be it any other ministry you have to so is there because that is that is the good ground that is the good ground that you where your s belongs and not only does it well god bless you but you are a blessing to those two to two that particular ministry or that particular church so it's very important to you to prove prayerfully prayerfully consider where you send your seat that that that's something that i was and i wasn't you know i wasn't taught i wasn't it was almost as as an obligation that will you you go you belong you are a member in this church even though you may never even go to that church where you have to so and there but the bible doesn't talk about that you we have to so where god and the holy spirit leads us to so in that place we're going to lead absolutely and then you have the opportunity to and i never lack anything and i decided to continue to sow my seed in this ministry because that's what i receive my my food in a daily basis actually because they were watching me in the you tube we have when you do hundreds of exactly while i look at typing in two different ways i look at it as if it's a way for god to bless me and and protect me and also i'm simply giving god back what belongs to him and that ten percent is not ours to begin with it's not it's not our money to do as we please because we know we re from the word and word says every good and perfect gift gift comes down from the father lights and so if we believe that we believe that our paychecks or any other resources any other funds that we have where we are blessed financially that comes from god and so god doesn't require you know fifty percent it doesn't require seventy percent of people or it's not the other way around where it's give god ninety percent and keep the rest it's giving god his heart his heart back of what he gave you got that part belongs to him and  you do that and if you faithfully so your seed in that good ground believing and staying in that malak three promise and putting your eyes on it as you and mom always teach us you you you say go over there put your finger on and put your eyes on it and read it because then it becomes real to you and then that's when your faith is activated because you get so a seed not believing that that you're ever going to get anything out of it and many people make this mistake or they say well i'm going to so but i don't expect anything back from god but if god promises that he will that he will pour out a blessing to us that he promises that he's going to use then he will hold his end of the bargain but we have to so if you record any doubt if you've ever had any questions about god or not you know about tithing you can rest assured that because his word his work in the bible says that everything else will pass away but his word will never pass away if we stand in that promise believing god will come through for you and he's come through for us so many times those are just a few we've found money and places where we didn't expect it we've seen god come through supernaturally checks in the mail from from taxes that we we didn't even know we had that we had overpaid god wants to bless you but he has to be honored first so i encourage you to honor god with his part what are you going to do another program for blessed day if you would like to receive our monthly newsletter please call us at our toll free number eight six two two five seven eight eight or new e mail us at john montoro at yahoo dot com will be measured back to you hugh weeks ago i did a bible study and i was talking with a group of of brothers and sisters which they were so interested learn what it means to give what is the importance of giving to the kingdom of god what is the first for the to be able to understand when you give old tired enough for him to reaching souls for the kingdom of god we actually from the bottom of a heart for all those people which they keep us going over there why is that because of me is because of him first and because of you as faithful partners with so many times that or put in your heart to be part of this ministry and from any every nation of this world which the gospel is going and i know we broadcast and europe and both language through the internet in english and also through the through the television station which we have a romania which is in a satellite and all over the world that television station can be watch internet stream but also there are people who wish they are populate the kingdom of god and that's my desire that's my investment i invest everything i invest my life for the last forty years i can say almost forty years since i preach the gospel i like to invest in the kingdom of god and souls to getting saved touch restore and deliver and the last several years since we reach millions of people every week with the gospel we saw so many people giving their life to the lord their lives change restore marriage been restored health coming to their body and many times i was asking the lord and i was own gain is that for my own gain in my own personal benefit by these for the kingdom of god people to be saved and that's when not too long ago we been celebrate the day of t when you have an appointment with god when you let god to to be present in a minute when you bring that up for him before the lord and that africa is like a good smelling out all month and that time when you have the right appointment with him is that because we don't have an appointment every day with god and our prayer but in those holiday the deal passover the day of pentecost and the specific holiday in the old testament which god says i will do a special appointment with you and don't come with empty handed that says this don't come with empty handed always bring something to the lord as a good smelling at all much because in that time i am willing to bless you are willing to bless your your hands and willing to bless your crap willing to bless your your family i'm willing to bless need what is the purpose to give it to you in order for you to praise him and put him number one in your life other group of people there are people who is dating if i give gnome god will forgive my  will take away my my my wrong desires and i will be set free and then after he will he will get set free he will forget all about to the lord and those people are so they are not in the good the good place to do but the target a group of people it is those people who wish to give from your heart to under the lord because the law of the lord has to be number one in their life when god is number one in your through the lens of the word of god then your words be bring life to your mouth and life and that is in your mouth then when you speak the words the words become alive in the front of you when you so you see and you say lord i want you to be number one in my life when god says to be number one in your life he wants you to under his holy days whenever he said i want to have an appointment with him first beside your bills beside your house payment beside your food beside your clothes beside your fleshly desire that's why when you put him first in that area then that ten percent whatever you give to the lord is going like a good smelling aroma before the lord and the ninety percent which is left would be bless how many believe that the ninety percent doesn't belong to either you say wait a minute but i give got ten percent but who give you the hundred percent to you is that god give you hell give you the ability give you the would like to receive our monthly newsletter please call us at our toll free number eight eight six two two five seven eight eight or new mail us at john notaro at yahoo dot com you will be up to date on our mission  suction and i want to pay your word i want to do everything i can on my own power to feed myself from your work and my desire is would like to receive our monthly newsletter please call us at our toll free number eight eight six two two five seven eight eight or new mail us at john tyro at yahoo dot com you will be up to date on our mission one hour television ministry and a work to blast and encourage you