Giving of our finances to God is a biblical principle that predates any covenant with God, that is, it is a life principle and not an old or New Testament principle.

 

Acts 4:32-37 highlights that the first believers shared all they had and that in doing so no-one among them had any need. The money was brought to the Apostles to be shared out. Barnabas sells his field to give to the Apostles for them to use in helping others.

Paul’s comments on the riches of God’s love for us and for him becoming ‘rich’ in God is a state of internal change and blessing not necessarily an external one.

2 Corinthians 6:10 says:

‘...as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything’.