“How can she have given more than them all? She gave so little, and they gave so much.” He said, “She gave out of her want,” or she gave out of her need.
Well, the first thought that crossed my mind concerning a divine moment is, what need are you facing tonight? Now when we’re headed toward $5-a-gallon gasoline, there’s going to be a problem in the natural in the United States. If that happens, it’s going to slow commerce down. It’s going to slow business down.
And when you have what appears to be a recession coming, that’s when people do the absolute worst thing they could possibly do. They turn God off, and they look to their natural circumstances. “I can’t afford to do this.”
It reminds me of the story—I don’t know if you ever heard it—my dad used to tell it about this guy who was earning $70 a week, and he began to tithe. He was giving his $7. And he was doing just fine. And God began to increase him, and suddenly he was making $700 a week. And so he gave his $70 tithe. And he was doing fine, and then God took him up to $7,000 a week.
And he realized his tithe was $700. And he said, “Wow! I can’t afford to give $700 a week. That’s just too much.”
So he went to his pastor, said, “Pastor, I have a problem.” “What’s your problem?” He said, “Well, I was fine, you know, before with a $7 tithe and a $70 tithe, but now it’s a $700 tithe. What do I do? I don’t know what to do. I can’t afford it.”
The pastor said, “I know how to solve your problem. Get down on your knees.” And he did. He laid his hands on him, said, “God, he has such a problem now. He was okay when he was giving $7. He was okay when he was giving $70. But now that it’s a $700 tithe, he just can’t handle it. So would You please take him back to $70 a week so he can afford to give $70?”
Richard Roberts – Worship can be defined as expressing love to God for who He is, for what He said and for what He is doing.
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