God does not need your money. That's right, we've been told time and time again by preachers, teachers and churches that we must sacrifice and give our money to build a church to build God's work. But the truth is, on the contrary. Let's turn to first Timothy Chapter six verse 10 for the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. And it is through its craving that many have wandered away from their faith in Christ and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Misunderstanding the purpose of money and the use of money in our life and messing up our relationship with God causes a lot of pain and sorrow and agony that is inescapable. We all suffer under this pressure. Hebrews 13 five tells us, keep your life free from the love of money. Be content with what you have for God has said I will never leave you or forsake you. What does it mean? God's presence with us, is everything.

God is our provider. He is our protector. He is the source of every good blessing. That is why the Psalmist in Verse one of Chapter 23. The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want. In other words, God is my shepherd who cares for me, He tends to all my needs and I have everything I need. We have a beautiful promise in Philippians four, 19. My God will supply every need of yours according to His riches. That's right. His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. God is the source of every blessing, my friend. And God is not dependent on your money.

Now that we discussed all of that, you might have a question. Why does the Bible teach us to tithe and give offering to the church if God does not need our money? Here's the deal. Don't get confused. Proverbs three, nine tells honor the Lord with your wealth and the best part of everything you produce.

Remember Cain and Abel? Abel gave the first-born lambs as sacrifice to God. God has blessed you with everything you have. I'm just going to give you a very simple analogy here. Imagine this. If I gave you an advice to invest a thousand dollars into a business, right. And you just trusted me and invested a thousand dollars into a business and five years later, you got ten million dollars out of it, wouldn't you, with great joy, come to me and say, hey, you know what? I heard your advice, and I was blessed and I'm going to give you a million dollars. You would do that joyfully because you know that if I hadn't told you about the investment, you would have never made it.

Now, what am I trying to tell you here? God is the source of every blessing, even the very breath that you are breathing this moment, your heartbeat that is going on inside you. It is from God. You haven't done anything. You and I haven't paid anybody. You and I haven't worked to be worthy of this life that God has given us. Our life is so much more worth than money. Think about it. Not even worth ten million dollars, can you buy life? That is purely God's mercy and blessing, and if God has blessed us with so many rich blessings in our life, should we not be glad and cheerful to honor the Lord?  It is our rightful duty.

It is our rightful duty to honor God, not only with our wealth, with our talent, with our time, with everything we have in everything we do. The best belongs to God because it is our duty and not because God needs it. Understand this today, make no mistake, it is your duty to honor the Lord, not to be slaves of false teaching, but to honor the Lord for all the goodness that he has given you. Let's pray.

Father, we thank you that you are a good and merciful Father. You have blessed us with a gift of life. You have blessed us with all the resources that we have helped us Lord to honor you with our time, with our tithe and our talent. Lord everything we have is yours, and we want to honor you. Give us the grace, the humility and the courage to honor your name and live for your glory in Jesus name. Amen.