Devotion of the Week
January 8, 2005
By: Hugh Webb, Pastor
Lynch United Methodist Church
Lynch, Kentucky

Isaiah 6:13 "But yet it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten, as a tiel tree as an Oak, whose substance is in them, when hen they cast their leaves, so shall the Holy seed be the substance thereof."

We always want more than we have, whatever financial situation you are in, don't depend on money to make you happy, instead use what you have for the Lord.

When we give we further the work of the coming kingdom of the Lord. It is when we fail to give that things begin begin to go down hill. And the result that God's blessings begin to wane.

A small country church had been sadly neglected, the members being too poor to keep it up, walls needed paint, windows were broken, the steps were rotten and the roof leaked. The Church was heavily in debt and the treasury was empty. Church officers meets together to discuss a seemingly hopeless situation. But one of them, a grain mill operator had an offer to make. If you will leave Church finances to me for the next year, and not ask any questions about how I will do it, we will pay off all the Church debt, repair the building and pay the Pastor's salary.

Everyone was curious, but they all gladly consented to his proposal. As the weeks went by members noticed a change, repairs were made, money was given to missions. As the year ended all bills were paid with money in the treasury.

" How did you do it", everyone asked. The the grain mill operator told this story.

When you brought your corn and wheat to the mill to be ground into flour, I just too one tenth from each and put it in the Lord;'s bin. You didn't miss it, nut the tenth take out regularly provided an abundance for God's house.