The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Malachi 3:7-10, “From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. ‘Return to Me, and I will return to you,'” says the LORD of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?'”

8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed Thee?’ In tithes and offerings.

9 “You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!”

10 “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.”

Everything we possess has come from the hand of the LORD! “Oh, I bought this myself,” you say. Did you really? Yes, the money was in your possession and transferred to the seller. Still, have you considered how you came to possess sufficient money for the purchase? Yes, you worked and saved until you had sufficient funds to buy the item you wanted. Still, who gave you the strength for the work for which you were paid?

I have never been able to out-give the LORD! When He lays it upon my heart to give, there is always sufficient money. When it appeared that there was an insufficient amount for something needed, He always assessed whether I truly needed it, and if so, He provides the necessary funds. Does He not say, “And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive”? (Matt. 21:22).

“So then, let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God” (I Cor. 3:21-23).

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We will never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom