The pastor of a North Carolina church says the key to fixing your financial situation is to begin tithing. Financial stability can be a tenuous thing. Sometimes it doesn’t take much to bring a person to the brink of financial disaster.
If you find yourself living from paycheck to paycheck or unable to make ends meet, you might need to “fix the flow,” according to Elevation Church Senior Pastor Steven Furtick.
He recently told his congregation “When your life is in a place of shortage, it’s because you’ve got a flow in the wrong direction.” His advice, “Fix the flow. There is a broken flow and the solution is faith,” adding “I want you to understand today that God has a solution for every shortage in your life.”
Furtick says putting God first when it comes to money can change your circumstances. The pastor explained that tithing is a demonstration of trust and encouraged christians to tithe as an act of worship.
He said, “The tithe is the place where God gets your grip right, and opens your hands so that you don’t hold on to stuff to the point that stuff ultimately has a hold on you.”
Elevation Church was one of the top 100 fastest-growing churches in the U.S. from 2007 to 2010, according to Outreach Magazine. Founded in 2006 by Senior Pastor Furtick, his wife, Holly, and seven other families, the North Carolina-based assembly currently has 14 locations and a congregation total of more than 15,000 parishioners