{"podcast":{"title":"Thought For Today","slug":"thought-for-today-116948","podcast_index_feed_id":116948,"rss_url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today?format=rss","website_url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/","image_url":"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/1584448308250-HR2U7SIZFTDAC8P6TEJP/Option+4.png?format=1500w","author":"Shalom Ministries","episode_count":299,"summary":"A short, inspirational thought for today, from Angus Buchan.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:21:41.900981+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948"},"episode":{"title":"Tithes","slug":"tithes","published_at":"2026-06-22T03:10:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/tithes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948","url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/tithes","audio_url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/t/6a37f609630e7f6f211ecfff/1782148013285/TFT_220626.mp3","summary":"I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 22nd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 14:25: “…then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.” We are talking here about the tithe. That’s ten per cent of our income, which belongs to the Lord. When the Israelites had reaped their crop, they would take ten per cent to the Temple and give it to the Lord. What the Lord is saying, “but if you are far off, if you are in a far off place and you can’t get home, what you do is you sell ten per cent of your crop, take the money and with the money, you give it to the work of the Lord which the Lord will show you.”  Then we go to Malachi 3:8: “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. The Lord goes on in verse 10: “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house,…” Where is the storehouse? The storehouse is the place where you receive your bread, your spiritual food. He says: “And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.” He goes on in verse 11, He says: “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says the Lord of hosts;…” Oh, my dear friend, it’s very straightforward and it’s something we don’t like to talk about, isn't it? Some people are just continually losing out, but they will not give the Lord His tithe, which is ten per cent. You might say, ”But I…","meta_description":"I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 22nd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We sta…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":203,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thought-for-today-116948/episodes/tithes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/tithes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}