The Daily Ricky

April 7th

Let me share a story about tithing. It really happened to my wife and me.

We lived in Texas and we were in church, but not tithing our money. One week, we had bought $200 of groceries and baby food, we had a four month old baby.

We went on vacation to Mississippi, we were gone nine days. When we got back, the refrigerator had died and all the food and baby milk we had spoiled. The month before, our car had blown an engine. It took all our savings to repair.

Now here we were, broke and no fridge and our car blew a second engine! Before we left, a couple of weeks before, we felt convicted and started tithing

For the first week, we used a cooler and I thumbed a ride to work. That Sunday, I was not going to tithe but, my wife made me! The second week, I had Saturday off. That Friday, a man I did not even know, gave us a refrigerator! That Saturday, a knock came at are door at 6 a.m. There stood my brother and a friend and my brother gave us a truck.

I truly believe, it’s because we started trusting God with our finances. If you are not tithing, I encourage you to stretch your faith and trust Him. Lord make us good stewards of all we have, not just our money.

RL