INTRODUCTION

When it comes to money, God promises that if you do not without your tithe or your offerings then he will prosper you and protect your money.

A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

During the week of June 25th, my church hosted another church from out of state to train them on outreach and evangelism. We had many events planned to give them a broad taste of different forms of reaching the people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One of these events was ministering to the children at the Boys and Girls Club of America. We had brought in a wide variety of things to do including face painting, games, worship and food. The main goal was to show the children and any parents who came out that Jesus loves them no matter what the world does to them and it was an amazing success.

On the way home, my family and I decided to get pizza for dinner because it was cheap and easy. We had taken out some money from the bank and got our pizza. While there, my wife helped out another couple by trading their one hundred dollar bill for five twenties because the pizza place did not take hundred dollar bills. After we paid for the pizza, my wife put the money in her pocket and we took the pizza home. We enjoyed our dinner.

Later that night, my wife went to empty her pockets and the money was missing. She immediately did a search to find the money and came up empty. She began to be positive that the money that she put in her pocket, and shoved to the bottom of the pocket, while in the pizza place must have fallen out and therefore be on the floor of the pizza place. I told my wife that even if that was true, God had promised to protect our money and that we would not accept that the enemy could just steal from us at will because we know that we are not under his will, but God’s. I even told my wife that if God needed to take the money from the floor of the pizza place and transport it into our hands, then he would do that for us.

We prayed.

I felt in my spirit that I should check the car. I took the dog out for a walk as I went and checked on my wife’s side of the car. As I opened the door, laying right there in the door frame was the money waiting for me. Now, you have to realize that my wife had placed the money in her pocket in the pizza place. The fact that it was in the car was really not possible. Furthermore, where the money was in the door frame of the car was not possible by just falling out of my wife’s pocket because the simple fact of her exiting the car as we got home would have had the money fall onto the ground. From there it was several hours before I went out and only God knows what would have happened to that money if it had fallen on the ground.

The only answer was that God placed the money there from wherever it had fallen out because he was protecting our money.

SCRIPTURE

The enemy tried to steal from us, but we are tithers and God promises here in Malachi that he would protect the money of those who tithe.

God watches over his word and is quick to perform it if we stand on his promises in faith. Which is what we did in this situation and God honored that by returning the money to us.

CONCLUSION

God is awesome in his love and care for us. Put your trust and faith in him and he will be quick to perform the promises in his word for you.

Until Next Time,

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