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By Hazel Holland

I hadn’t known the joy of Spirit-led giving until about ten years ago when I was moved by the Spirit during a time of prayer to give money to a sister in the church who was about to lose her home. Having grown up believing that the tithe belonged to the Lord and should only be given to the local church, I was taken by surprise when I was prompted by the Spirit to give my tithe to help relieve my sister’s financial stress after the Lord showed me in a vision of how believers in the early church helped one another and gave to anyone as they had need (Acts 2: 32-35 NIV).

Immediately I began to weep as I experienced the Father’s heart of compassion for His hurting daughter who had not been able to work for a number of months because of a work-related back injury. For several months God compelled me to give to her in this way as He did several other members in the church. Eventually she was back on her feet and able to resume her job. Knowing that God had specifically prompted me to play a part in helping to bear my sister’s financial burden brought me great joy.

Thus began my journey, prompted by the Holy Spirit, to start studying the whole subject of giving, and more specifically tithing. Since God had opened the door for me to question the practice of tithing for the support of the ministry of the church, I wanted to know why the church (who teaches that we are no longer under law but grace) continues to espouse the old covenant practice of law-based giving when it comes to tithe...

IN DEBT TO TITHING
RELEASE THE CAPTIVES!
TRANSFORMED BY TRUTH
"Transformed By Truth" - a booklet by Hazel Holland
http://transformed-by-truth.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html

"About Christian Tithing" - a worksheet study by Ramone Romero
http://transformed-by-truth.blogspot.com/p/worksheet-study.html