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Breaking the Curse of Poverty  David K. Owusu

complicated and ill-informed doctrines.

Every believer should therefore diligently get themselves acquainted
with the proper understanding of this subject so as to enable proper
application and thus break the curse of poverty. The subject of tithe
is one that has more spiritual background and the next few pages
will be able to elaborate and make it clear as to what amounts to the
proper doctrine and what amounts to fallacies.

We all understand that nothing there is or ever will be is existent
outside of God, this includes our very existence, the form and
substance thereof. The earth and everything there is in the first
place is God’s and so is the cattle of a thousand hills; why then
would a sovereign Lord, ask man for the tenth of the ground and
all of his increase? Rhetorically repeating the same to man in that
He is sovereign and that He is in no need of anything that man has
to offer.

“For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a
thousand hills or upon the mountains where thousands are…I
know and I am acquainted with all the birds of the mountain
and the wild animals of the field are Mine and are with Me, in
my mind…if I were hungry, I would not tell you for the world
and the fullness are Mine…” Psalm 50: 10-12 [AMPC]

In ordinary sense then it would beat every sense and reason to say
that the same God would ask man to give unto Him that which He
has made available and to a fraction as insignificant as ten (10%)
per cent. Why?

The key questions that the believer would want to understand here

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