Giving is worship, not a lever you pull on God. He is a Father, not a vending machine. Your breakthrough was already purchased at the cross; you cannot buy from God what He has already given you for free.
The Grace Answer
This teaching sounds spiritual, and the people who preach it are often sincere. But underneath it is an idea the New Covenant will not support: that you can move money into God's hands and trigger a return, as if faith were a currency and God were an investor obligated to pay out. That is not faith. That is a transaction, and it quietly turns the Father into a market.
Faith is not a force you aim at God to make things happen. Faith is trust. It rests on what God has already said and already done, and its object is a Person, not an outcome you are trying to engineer. The moment your giving becomes a down payment on a breakthrough, you have stopped trusting God and started negotiating with Him.
What the cross already settled
Here is what quietly gets lost: your breakthrough is not for sale, because it was already bought. “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” Freely. Not in exchange for a seed. If God already gave you His Son and, with Him, all things, then no offering you make is purchasing His favor. You already have it.
None of this means giving is wrong or that God does not provide. He is generous beyond measure, and generosity delights Him. But give as worship, from a heart that is already full, not as a bet placed in hope of a payout. When you give to get, disappointment is almost guaranteed, and it usually gets blamed on your faith being too small. The truth is gentler and stronger: you were never meant to leverage God. You were meant to trust Him, and He was already for you before you gave a dime. Stop trying to bank with God and start resting in Him, and giving becomes joy again instead of anxiety dressed up as faith.