which circumstances create. Neither can you say, “I’ll serve You, Lord, if You do such and such for me.” Almost everything that God commands with a promise of blessing, He first requires you to do without the blessing. If you look into the past of people who tithe and are blessed financially today, you will find there was a period in which they stood on a promise: “See if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive” (Malachi 3:10).