AS A YOUNG COUNCILMAN JOE

AND REBECCA WENT TO CHURCH

AND

MADE IT A PRIORITY, BUT

TITHING WAS ANOTHER MATTER.

YOU GIVE WHATEVER IS IN

YOUR POCKET. YOU DON'T HAVE

TO

GIVE THAT. YOU GIVE WHATEVER

YOU WANT TO GIVE.

THEY FELT THEY SHOULD GIVE

MORE BUT THEY DIDN'T.

I FELT LIKE I WAS LIVING

PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK AND

COULDN'T GIVE 10 PERCENT. WE

HAD NO INTEREST PAYMENTS ON

FURNITURE BILLS AND STUFF

LIKE

THAT. ALL IN ALL WE WERE

EASILY A COUPLE HUNDRED

THOUSAND IN DEBT.

THEY HADN'T LEARNED TO

TRUST GOD WITH THEIR FINANCES.

WE WERE THINK IT WAS STILL

OUR MONEY.

THE COUPLE FOUGHT HARD.

I WOULD SAY THIS IS THE

MONEY GOING FOR THIS AND HE

WOULD SAY WE DON'T HAVE IT

AND

WE WOULD ARGUE AND FIGHT

ABOUT

THAT.

IN 2005 THEY STARTED GOING

TO A DIFFERENT CHURCH.

THE MESSAGE IS BEING ALL

IN

FOR HIM NOT JUST GOING TO

CHURCH, BUT THE WAY YOU RAISE

YOUR FAMILY AND HOW YOU ARE

THE MAN OF GOD AND HOW YOU

NEED TO REPRESENT HIM. THAT

GOT ME TO WHERE I WAS LIKE,

WE

HAVE TO DO THIS.

NOW WE INVITED HIM INTO

OUR

FINANCES BECAUSE WE WERE

TRUSTING HIM WITH THEM.

THEY SAID ONCE THEY

STARTED

TITHING, THEY SAW CHANGES.

I GOT A CALL THAT SAID WE

WANT YOU TO BE DIRECTOR OF

SALES IN OUR BRANCH 6 MONTHS

LATER I HAD ANOTHER PROMOTION

TO BE THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF

SALES FOR THAT REGION.

WE HAD MORE MONEY TO PAY

BILLS AND WE ENDED UP REALLY

FOCUSING ON OUR DEBT.

OVER THE YEARS THEY BEGAN

CHIPPING AWAY AT THEIR DEBIT.

TODAY THEY ARE NEARLY DEBT

FREE.

I FEEL OUR FINANCES ARE IN

ORDER, WE FEEL CONFIDENT AND

COMFORTABLE THAT GOD

CONTINUES

TO PROVIDE FOR US.

HE TEST US IN THAT

SPECIFIC

THING, OUR FINANCES BECAUSE

OF

HIS DESIRE TO SHOW HIS

FAITHFULNESS.