The blessing that has come from tithing is a little hard for me to put into words, because it was a total fulfillment of Phil. 2:13: "...for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." It never ceases to amaze me that when God wants me to do something, first He'll plant the desire in me, then He will bring it to pass. So weird! Makes me feel a little lazy. Justin and I used to tithe. But I was not exactly a hilarious giver... I was a crabby giver. It was a contract that I had with God, and the fine-print read something like this: "The Payer will submit payment on the first day of every new week, and the Receiver will prevent anything bad from happening to the Payer." Hence, my non-hilariousness. Bad stuff happened. Clearly, God was not holding up His end of our contract, and if He was not going to provide for my wants, (which I always considered needs), then I had no choice but to rend the contract and release myself from further financial obligation to this God who would not be obligated to me because of my weekly installments. That was years ago...

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So an amazing story of God's faithfulness as we commit to this 90 Day Challenge - we had an enormous amount of hospital bills after our daughter Madison was born 5 months ago. I called every single one of the bills to request financial assistance. 3 months ago I filled out a very extensive financial aid application, and this week when I called to make my $50 monthly payment, they let me know that the $3,000 debt had been completely canceled! It was then that I realized this was a testimony to God's faithfulness to our obedient and willing hearts as we commit to this 90 day challenge. We felt God calling us to give more than 10% and He totally blessed us by canceling this debt! Hope that encourages you as you commit to give abundantly back to Him!

-Sarah Sykes

Our family had been praying about doing the 90-day tithe challenge b/c our finances are ALWAYS a major stress to us and there never seems to be quite enough. While pondering this possibility about the 90 day challenge, we got a HUGE property tax bill in the mail...one we had never received before. This, of course, was a major stress b/c we already couldn't pay all the bills and we were wanting to be faithful about tithing, but this bill just seemed to take us, yet again, down the road of "we can tithe later...when we have the money to do so". Then, not 3 days later, we received a letter in the mail stating that the bill that was sent, was sent in error b/c we are paying our taxes through our mortgage company...So, bill taken care of and 90 day challenge...Here we come!! Not quite sure how things are going to go, but are quite sure about the God we serve!

Praise God!!

-Anonymous