Let's talk about what offerings really are. In short, an offering is an act of worship and devotion given out of your own free will (Exodus 36:3). And since an offering is given out of your own free will, it is above and beyond the tithe, which belongs to God.
Now there are different types of offerngs that can be given for different reasons to different people and places, which I'll cover in the next Post. But I want to close this Post with a quote from C. Peter Wagners book Discover Your Spiritual Gifts - "True giving only starts with our offerings from the 90% God has given to us." This is when we really start to get blessed, when out of a heart for God we sow into the Kingdom over and above what is God's (the tithe). As it says in Malachi 3, we have robbed God not only of the tithe, but of offerings as well. The tithe opens the windows of heaven for God to bless us, but it's the offering that multiplies those blessings.
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