Today I just want to share my testimony about tithing over the years and how I came to the place I am now.
Two years before my daughter was born I got a very lucrative job offer from a huge company in the town where I lived. At that point the Lord was really trying to draw me closer to Him and I knew I had to start tithing, I heard about tithing mostly from my mother in law and the church we attended on and off at that stage, years before I found RMI. So I made a commitment to start tithing to my church (my storehouse at that stage) when I accepted the job offer. And I paid my tithes faithfully until my daughter was born. One of the perks at this company was that you get 4 months’ maternity leave with 80% of your salary. I couldn’t claim the 20% maternity benefit from the unemployment fund because I didn’t belong to this fund for 4 years uninterrupted. And that 20% affected my budget a lot and not trusting Him enough, I started to only give only 5%. After my maternity leave and all the extra expenses that came with having a baby, I eventually stopped tithing! And that is when everything started to go wrong in my life and in my marriage. My fh fell into adultery and financial difficulties, leaving me with more and more things to pay.
Then, not knowing the adultery was continuing, I quit my job to help my fh in his business. I knew I had to start tithing again, but by that time my fh was reduced to a slice of bread and the business failed.
When I found RMI and read the lessons on tithing I knew I had to start tithing again, but I lost everything and had no income. I started to help my aunt at her crèche in the afternoons, I did sewing, nails and baked in the mornings and evenings. And I started to tithe to RMI, my storehouse, from all those little bits of income, as well as the grocery money my fh paid each month, that was the only money he paid into my account, the rest of what he agreed to pay during the divorce, he paid directly to the providers. I started to get more orders for making clothes, even some orders for custom corporate clothing since I also had an embroidery machine and the software to convert logos to stitches. This time I made a commitment to not stop tithing again!
Each month I was able to pay everything, we never lacked anything, no we did not have a lot of luxuries, but we had what we needed plus a little extra. Then the pandemic hit and everything stopped, I did not get any orders, couldn’t do nails and my aunt had to close the crèche during the lockdown. But He had another plan, He provided an opportunity to proofread for RMI and over time I got more tasks and I was still able to pay everything every month.
Now I am committed to continue tithing to my storehouse (RMI) every month, no matter what, because I have seen how He opened the windows of heaven over me and my children when I had absolutely nothing, I’ve seen Him providing over the last 3 years in amazing ways. If I have to write down everything it will fill a book 
BUT I have also experienced the destruction when you don’t give your tithes and open the doors wide open for the devourer!
'“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you! Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the Lord of hosts.' M38
Thank you so much for sharing dear Adina. I was so scared when I started tithing, because being a single mother and my eh refusing to pay me any money, I didn’t know how I will do it but since I started tithing my HH has been providing for me and and my kids.
Yes Janine as a single mom it is scary and we want to fall into the Poverty Mentality immediately, as if poverty is automatically linked to being a single mom! But as His brides we do not fit into the stereotype of being a single mom, because we are not, we have Him as our Husband!
For me it was easy to tithe when I received a huge paycheck, but when I had nothing it was scary, but I knew I had to trust Him, I had no other choice but to trust Him!
Thank you for sharing Adina, isn’t it amazing how He provides when we trust Him with everything in our lives? Wow, it is such an amazing testimony. I have tears in my eyes. Yes, if we write down everything He does for us, it will fill a book. 💗
Wow, Adina, that was one of the best tiny testimonies I’ve ever enjoyed, listening to and reading. It just brought me back to when I first began tithing. I too was a single mother of four small children and complete poverty with no income whatsoever. My ties began with the only source of income which wasn’t money, but food from our leftover food stamps. My grown children still love to talk about how excited they were to go to the bulk grocery store and buy huge bags of rice and beans and giant cans of vegetables and fruit that we would drive over to the local homeless kitchen. We would also stay and clean up or serve – – and honestly it was the best day of our entire month.
One time we were able to bless a family we found out didn’t have anything to eat. The little girl who my boys had played with us invited for lunch and I could tell she was very very hungry. Long story short we were able to bring groceries and fill their pantry. And they’re pantry when we got there were two packages of Ramen noodles. This I understand now was are offering because it wasn’t at the end of the month.
Shortly after giving the first time, I was led to tutor children at a nearby, daycare and reading, and it provided as much income, no actually more income than if I had worked full-time at minimum wage. Yet I was only gone for one hour twice a week!
To be honest, I have no idea how we began accumulating enough money to buy beds so the children didn’t sleep on the floor and near the end of this season of restoration, we actually began feeding my EH and OW!!
Adina, thank you for providing a platform for me to go back in my mind to remember the beginning of my tithing journey and share it here 🥳
Adina, I just had to return to share how kind and loving and sweet and generous my husband is because just after posting my comment, I noticed the picture below Give to love at last 💝 and I knew I was finally able to give my offering to you along with being able to leave you a very nice note – – how fun and how exciting to be able to give to the individual Ministries and Ministers!
I had imagined going “shopping” 🛒🛍️ on https://restoreministriesinternational.com/ as my husband led me to open up one Give 💝 link after another until I’d spent/paid my 10% offering. I’ve mentally satisfied since getting my paycheck. But this was way way way better… Much more fun 🤩 “thank you my Darling”
Awwh, thank you Erin!
Oh wow, what an amazing testimony of His faithfulness to provide if we are faithful to give our tithes and offerings! And He provides more than enough for us to also help others which is a blessing on top of a blessing!
“To be honest, I have no idea how we began accumulating enough money to buy beds…” Looking back I also have no idea how we came through the most difficult times, but He made a way!
Wow Adina!!! Tithing is one of the most powerful principles that we could learn!!
Just obeying and recognizing that He is the one that provides for us changes everything!!!
You are a living proof of what this principle can do for us, and one of the most important things is breaking free of the Poverty Mentality!!
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Thanks for sharing Adina. I went through almost exactly like you. I had a high salary, I knew about tithing, but I didn’t know the principle of tithing with a right heart, which is the firstfruits. And when I started tithing before I paid anything, He filled my barns, supplied all my needs, and even overflowed my barns. For a single mother, without help from my earthly ex-husband with expenses, I was even able to buy land to expand my backyard… and today I know that everything was out of obedience and faith in Him, because when I thought I wasn’t going to have money to the bills, He came and gave me what I needed and beyond.
Only He can do that for us!
Thank you so much for sharing your testimony Marta! Being a “single mom” does not mean we are poor, not if we are His bride and is obedient and faithful to give our tithes and with the right heart.
Thanks for sharing. I have been keeping focused and not letting the enemy tell me “if you don’t tithe, you’d have enough money for that utility bill” believe me, he has tried. Atarah has been posting about tithing and Poverty Mentality that has kept me encouraged hearing her stories lately and I just recently posted at H@L my letter from the Lord.
https://hopeatlast.com/letter-from-the-lord-finances/
Thanks again 🙂
That was a beautiful and encouraging letter my dearest Hope, filled with His promises that we can remind ourselves of each and every day. And the enemy will try to convince you that if you tithe you will not have enough, but by pushing through no matter how empty your account/purse may “look”, being obedient, He will provide in the most unbelievable ways!