{"id":8095,"date":"2025-06-22T13:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T13:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8095"},"modified":"2025-06-22T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T13:46:54","slug":"tithing-to-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/tithing-to-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Tithing to the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Hebrews 7:2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated \u201cking of righteousness,\u201d and then also king of Salem, meaning \u201cking of peace,\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Observation: People say they don\u2019t mention tithing in the New Testament, but here it is.  Abraham gave a tenth to Melchizedek who it says is Jesus.  So according to Hebrews we are called to give to Jesus a tithe.  How do we give Jesus a tithe?  In the gospel Jesus states whomever gives to the least of these brothers is doing unto Him.  Each person should give as their heart guides them.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I feel God is calling me to give to those who needs it most in this world.  I give to an organization that is trying to stop child trafficking, a Rescue Mission and a ministry that goes throughout the world helping to feed those that are starving.  <\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord all that I have is yours.  Guide me on how you want me to use the blessing you\u2019ve given me to bless others.  The most important thing I have is the time you have given me may I use it to glorify you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Hebrews 7:2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated \u201cking of righteousness,\u201d and then also king of Salem, meaning \u201cking of peace,\u201d Observation: People say they don\u2019t mention tithing in the New Testament, but here it is. Abraham gave a tenth to Melchizedek who it says is Jesus. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8097,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions\/8097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}