Tithing

The time came to sell Cheno. He is a horse we bought from Randy Pitchford a few  years ago. He is a good horse but he wasn't working for Lucy and Carly for rodeo. As Traci Aipperspach said, "Cheno knows how to get fired from every job."

So we found a buyer - Tyler Bevans. Tyler is so happy with Cheno.

We sold Cheno for the same price we bought him for - $5500.  So we do pay tithing on that money? Is it an increase?

I suggested we did pay tithing and test this principle:

• Malachi 3:10

  10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

The next day Austin decided we should pay tithing and gave me $500 cash to pay tithing.  So we took it to church and paid our tithing.

The next day we had a southern circuit rodeo (Monday was Family Day).  At the end of the rodeo, our family had earned $567 in prize money. That has never happened before.  We are lucky to break even with our entry fees.  The very next rodeo we had earned $165 in prize money.  We were definitely blessed that day for paying our tithing.

On another note, we sold Cheno so we could buy another horse for Lucy.  Austin saw a flyer for one he wanted to try from British Columbia. The  owners brought that horse for us to try that same day.  But during the rodeo, a horse named Happy ran the barrels.  Monica Wilson said to Austin, "You should buy that horse, It is for sale."  A family from Saskatchewan had brought it to the rodeo for another family to look at.  After a day of negotiating, the other family didn't want Happy and Austin bought her.  She is the perfect horse for Lucy!!!