Hey, welcome back to Limitless TV. Can you afford to pay tithing? Hey friends, Stephen
Michael Miller here and the question is, "Can I afford to pay tithing?" Well, my
question for you is, can you really afford not to pay tithing? And I'm going to,
I'm going to tackle this from a little bit of a different angle, right? I don't want
to get all religious on you. I do believe that tithing is a true principle. It's
one that we should do. And really, what it does is, it ties in to the law of
sacrifice. I'm going to talk about that in just a minute. Before I get to the law of
sacrifice though, I want to talk about the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. You're
probably asking yourself, "What do these two seas have to do with whether or not
I should have be able to afford or can't afford to pay tithing?" Well, I'm going to I'm
explaining this right now. The Dead Sea, if you understand what the Dead Sea is.
The Dead Sea has this inlet, right? There is water that flows into the Dead Sea
and then what happens is that water sits there and stagnates. Literally there is
little to no life in the Dead Sea. Water coming in and it's trapped in
this big, you know? Depository, right? It's just trapped there. It moves nowhere and
because of that, there's almost no plant life, there's almost no animal life and
it's just... it's there, it stings, it stagnates. Now, on the other hand, you've
got the Red Sea. And if you've ever studied the Red Sea, the red sea has got
this flow in, right? It has got this inlet and so, the water comes in,
Things flow into it. And then, it also has an outlet, right? And because of
that outlet, it has provided a space where animals flourish, plant life flourishes,
it's beautiful, it's amazing and you've got this this flow, right? In our
financial lives, in order to be able to afford more, we have to give more. This is
that law of sacrifice. The law of sacrifice really simply put is, in
order to receive more, you have to sacrifice. You have to give, right? You
actually, you give in order to receive. You
receive in order to give. And we often think about that counter-intuitively. We
often think to ourselves, "Well, man, if I had more, I would give more." And because
of that, we stop our progression. Because we say we would we would give if we had,
we stopped the inflow because we're not willing to give. Not understanding that
it's actually in the giving that we open up the ability for us to receive more.
This is interesting because you often will see this with people who are
hoarders. I know if you're like me and you liked you have a sick obsession with
watching that show, Hoarders sometimes, right? You got these individuals that
they have this constant inflow but nothing ever leaves and because of that
what do you get? You get stagnation, you get these stacks and stacks and stacks
and stacks of oftentimes, useless stuff that they just can't get rid of. And it
holds not just their space in jeopardy, you know, it doesn't just hold their
space at bay. But their mental state oftentimes, is also very stuck. They can't,
you know, life for them is that sort of a standstill. They don't invite people into
their space, they can't serve other people, they're just kind of stuck in
their zone and continue to accumulate, they're almost literally burying
themselves in this stuff. Yet, if they begin to learn to give or to even just
get rid of, to make space for the new then all of a sudden they start to clear
out all the clutter, all the junk and they invite those things that they want
into their space. I want to offer a challenge, actually, I want to challenge
any of you out there. If you want new clothes and maybe you've been holding
off on buying new clothes, maybe you've dropped some pounds or maybe you've
gained some weight, whatever. But you're at a new place and you want to get new
clothes. So often, we were in this fluctuation phase. We hang on, you know,
we've got these closets and they're full of things that I wore my 20's, right?
And then things that I wore my 30's and now I'm in my 40's and these are
things that you know. Or maybe my 50's , whatever? So, you've got these different
decades of clothes that you've just never gotten rid of and it's hard to get
new because the space is just not there for it. I want you try something. I want
you to try getting rid of the clothes that you haven't worn in 10 years. Just
get rid of them. I don't care if they're still good, I don't care if they still
fit you. Get rid of those clothes, go donate them
to somebody that, you know could actually wear them and fit them and enjoy
them. Maybe donate it to a Salvation Army or something like that, right? Go out
and donate those clothes. Make space, make room. And I believe that you'll be
surprised that all of a sudden you'll find opportunities, you'll find new
things coming into your space. It may not be right away as clothes but I've
actually done this. You know, the last probably a year and a half or so,
I've been really focusing on my health. I've dropped 40 pounds and I found out...
I realized that I was holding on to a lot of old things that I just, I wasn't
using. And those old things... I had some my old mentalities that were showing up for
me like, "Oh, I just can't rid of that because if I get rid
of that, what am I going to do?" I don't know. Really, really funny mentalities, right?
So, I decided, "Stephen, this is silly, you're not using that stuff anymore. Get rid of
it." And as I've been getting rid of more other opportunities have been showing up
for me. Obviously I've gotten a new clothes and you know it's not a big deal
to go buy new clothes necessarily. But but as I've been getting rid of the
clutter as I as I've given away what was what I was holding on to and hoarding,
it's opened up a world of possibilities for me to receive more. I've seen this in
business, I've seen this in relationships. Tithing is that same exact
principle. If you will allow yourself to give, even when you feel like you don't
have it, opens up this world of receiving. It opens up this world of
opportunity and possibility. If you give of your time, if you serve others, I mean
this is not a new principle and tithing is just one part of this, right?
This is just one of those things that someone has chosen to ask about. But
it's not just about the tithing. It's about being willing to give and to
serve, to put ourselves out there, to give creates the opportunity to receive. If
we're not willing to give, we're literally saying, "no, thank you."
We're stopping that receiving. So the question was can I afford to pay tithing?
My answer is you cannot afford not to pay tithing or not to give charitably,
to give of your time, not to give of yourself, not to give of your substance.
You can't afford not to because by doing so, you open up a world of opportunity
and possibility that right now is probably closed off to you.
So my recommendation, start giving, pay your tithing, give to charities, give of
yourself, go serve somebody and then just sit back and wait. Watch it happened.
You'll see it. I've experienced this so many times. If you will give more you
will absolutely receive more. Alright, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what
we just did here. I'd love to hear your comments, what you think about that. Maybe
what some of your goals are or maybe what some of even your struggles
are, please put them in the comments below. We'll respond and have a fantastic
day. We'll see you next time.