SPENDING IT ALL

By Jeremy Burkes

Luke 15:13-14 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. (14) And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

We've all been there. We see something on a shelf that we just have to have and then we see a few other things and the next thing we know we have spent it all.
When it comes time to give back to the Lord we have nothing to give. We can be like the prodigal son and waste our money on things to make us feel good and then we forget where it came from in the first place. It is a lot harder to dig ourselves out of a hole than to avoid the hole in the first place.
We should remember that our tithes come first, then our bills and necessities and whatever is left over is ours.
Keep in mind that God does not need your money! He just wants you to put your trust in Him first.