TITHING (GIVING 10% OF YOUR INCOME TO CHARITY)

Tithing or giving 10% of your income to charity is the single and most important law of prosperity. Those who learn this law quickly and start practicing it will become wealthy very quickly. The most important thing that should be the foundation of success in life is giving of at least 10% of one's income to charity.

The famous authors: Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield started a series of books called “Chicken Soup for the Soul”, which sold well over 100 million copies, and became the #2 best seller ever. The only book that sold more copies was the Holy Bible. Mark Victor Hansen revealed how Jack and he were struggling authors, until someone gave them advice to start giving 10% of their income. They started doing it, got the idea for “Chicken Soup for the Soul”, and became successful very quickly. When authors try to find out Mark's secret for success, he always says that the #1 secret of his success is tithing. Mark Victor Hansen even wrote a book “Miracle of Tithing”. Felix Homogratus, the founder of Forex Peace Army and a wealthy Forex trader has this to say,” my secret of great financial success has very little to do with trading, but has a lot to do with tithing (giving of 10%)”.

If you ever read the best-selling book about money: “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, where Robert Kiyosaki shares the things that poor parents do not teach their children, tithing (giving of 10%), is one of those things. Perhaps you should also read about a billionaire Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Airlines, just to discover that giving to charity is the cornerstone of his success as well. Perhaps I should also mention the famous Forex investor George Soros, whose success is also founded on giving. Or how about the pioneer of high-yield mutual funds Sir John Marks Templeton, who says: “After helping hundreds of thousands of families with their investments, I have found no better investment than tithing. I myself have endeavored to donate, for every dollar I spend, ten dollars to causes that promote prosperity and spirituality.”

There once lived a wildly successful trader by the name of Gary, who made millions upon millions, and who helped hundreds if not thousands of ordinary people to retire through trading. This guy was a hard-core Christian, and once he made a fortune, he decided to share what he knows about trading with others by giving free seminars in his city. This man in one of his seminars said: “If you are still broke, it is because you do not give enough. I read the entire bible, and there is only a passage in the entire bible where God makes a promise and dares you to test him on that promise. It is this passage: Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the windows of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.” He told the people that giving of 10% (tithing) is the cornerstone of his trading success, and he tries to convince them that this is the most important thing that they should do in other to be successful.

There is a branch of modern psychology, which is called environmental psychology. And it came to a simple conclusion that every single thing in our environment has a tendency to program our subconscious mind. Now let’s analyze the no.1 thing our environment programs us for by looking at our bodies. First the body of the father produces sperm. It takes approximately 72 days for a male body to produce sperm. During this production, the best out of everything is taken from the male body and given to that sperm (you). Then the sperm ends up in the body of the mother, who gives it the best of what it got for more than 9 months. Then the baby comes out of the mother’s womb, and it grows by absorbing sunlight and consuming countless of bodies of plants and animals given to it for free by nature. This environment of unconditional giving that we grew up in programs every single one of us to unconditional giving. And such programming is not too difficult to test. Imagine a generous person, and you will naturally feel sympathy towards him or her. Imagine a greedy person, and you will have a tendency not to like him or her.

You can see that you are already programmed by nature to give regularly and unconditionally, and every day on this planet adds to that programming. If you don’t give regularly and unconditionally, you are living against your own belief, and your subconscious will continue to sabotage you.

NB: This article was inspired by Felix Homogratus.

Sincerely yours,