So it’s not that tithing changes our budget; instead, it changes us. It puts our lives in perspective and helps us better understand our relationship with God: He is the giver of all that we have. This relationship is the basis of self-reliance. When we do the spiritual things first, the temporal (or physical and practical) things will work out better for us. If we continue to obey God’s commandment to pay tithing, He will continue to help and bless us.