Deuteronomy 26 is the tithing chapter! Leviticus 27:30b tells us that the tithe is "holy" to the LORD! That means HE sees it as set apart from the world and set apart as HIS! Malachi 3:10 tells us that we must bring the tithe into the storehouse, and also gives us the promise of what God does for the tither! Deuteronomy 26 tells us HOW to tithe!
1WHEN YOU have come into the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance and possess it and live in it,
2You shall take some of the first of all the produce of the soil which you harvest from the land the Lord your God gives you and put it in a basket, and go to the place [the sanctuary] which the Lord your God has chosen as the abiding place for His Name [and His Presence].
3And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and say to him, I give thanks this day to the Lord your God that I have come to the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.
4And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
5And you shall say before the Lord your God, A wandering and lost Aramean ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.
6And the Egyptians treated us very badly and afflicted us and laid upon us hard bondage.
7And when we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our [cruel] oppression;
8And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, and with great (awesome) power and with signs and with wonders;
9And He brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10And now, behold, I bring the firstfruits of the ground which You, O Lord, have given me. And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God;
11And you and the Levite and the stranger and the sojourner among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given you and your household.
12When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger and the sojourner, the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your towns and be filled,
13Then you shall say before the Lord your God, I have brought the hallowed things (the tithe) out of my house and moreover have given them to the Levite, to the stranger and the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed any of Your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
14I have not eaten of the tithe in my mourning [making the tithe unclean], nor have I handled any of it when I was unclean, nor given any of it to the dead. I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.
15Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us as You swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey
16This day the Lord your God has commanded you to do these statutes and ordinances. Therefore you shall keep and do them with all your [mind and] heart and with all your being
17You have [openly] declared the Lord this day to be your God, [pledging] to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes and His commandments and His precepts, and to hearken to His voice.
18And the Lord has declared this day that you are His peculiar people as He promised you, and you are to keep all His commandments;
19And He will make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise and in fame and in honor, and that you shall be a holy people to the Lord your God, as He has spoken.
Now this is the way it was done under the Old Covenant, but we have a better Covenant, based on better promises (Hebrews 8:6)! WE should pray this way in presenting our tithe into the hands of OUR High Priest, Jesus of Nazareth!
"We profess this day unto the Lord God that we have come into the inheritance which the Lord swore to give us. We are in the land which You have provided for us in Jesus Christ, the kingdom of Almighty God (Colossians 1:13). We were sinners serving Satan; he was our god, but we called upon the name of Jesus and You heard our cry and delivered us from the power and authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of Your dear Son."
"Jesus, as our Lord and High Priest, we bring the firstfruits of our income to You and worship the Lord our God with it. We rejoice in all the good which You have given to us and our household. We have hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God and have done according to all that He has commanded us. Now look down from Your holy habitation from heaven and bless us as You said in Deuteronomy 26:15 and Malachi 3:10-11."
Don't rob God! Present YOUR tithes to Jesus and then bring them to a local church that qualifies as a Scriptural storehouse! That would be one that teaches the Word of God, provides Spiritual food for the congregation, and takes part in seeing that the Gospel is spread around the world. I KNOW that The Spoken Word Church is such a Storehouse! Then stand on God's promises in Malachi and EXPECT to see the results! he WILL NOT fail YOU! Amen! Be blessed by Shirley Caesar singing about "Tithes and Offerings"!Shalom in Him!
