ACTS 6:1-8
PROSPERITY IS GUARDED BY 3 LAWS:
ABSOLUTE SURRENDER AND OBIDIENCE TO GOD’S VOICE AND WILL
JOHN 11:25 “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:”
LAW OF TITHING
DO NOT STOP TITHING, SETTLE DOWN AND GET THE REVELATION
ON TITHING
IT IS THE LAW OF OPEN HEAVENS
MAL 3:8-12 “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me.But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.9: Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.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. 11: And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.12: And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
WHAT IS A STORE HOUSE – PLACE OF PRIMARY SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT
IT IS A PLACE THAT IS ACTIVELY COMMITED TO SAVING SOULS AND EQUIPPING OF SAINTS
A MINISTER CAN BE CALLED A STORE HOUSE
TITHE IS NOT JUST ABOUT MONEY LEVITICUS 27:30 “And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.
A LOT OF MISUSE AND EXTRAVAGANCE OF GOD’S MONEY HAS LED PEOPLE TO TALK WRONG THINGS ABOUT TITHING
HOPHINI AND PHINEHAS WERE ABUSING THE OFFERINGS IN GOD’S HOUSE AND GOD KILLED THEM
IT IS NOT JUST THE PRIESTHOOD THAT CAN ABUSE OFFERINGS AND TITHES ,MANY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO JUST COME TO GOD’S HOUSE FOR MONEY ARE GUILTY OF THE SAME SIN
THERE MUST BE INTERGRITY IN THE HANDLING OF GOD’S MONEY
TITHE IS JUST 10% NOT 50% OR 80%
10% OF INCOME WHEN IT IS COMBINED BY FAITHFUL PEOPLE IS A LOT
IT SHOULD CATER FOR PRIESTHOOD AND GOD’S HOUSE
DO NOT STOP TITHING IF YOU WANT TO PROPER ALL ROUN,BUT DON’T DO IT RELIGIOUSLY
AS A MINISTRY WE TITHE AS INDIVIDUALS WE ALL SHOULD TITHE
AM A TITHING PERSON
THERE ARE 7 PROPHETIC BLESSINGS FOR ALL REGULAR TITHERS
- WINDOWS OF HEAVEN WILL BE OPEN TO THEM
- NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR ALL YOUR BLESSINGS
- DEVOURERS THAT COME LEGALLY TO WASTE YOU WILL BE REBUKED
- ISAIAH 49:24-26 “Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25: But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.26: And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
- YOUR GROUND WILL BE FRUITFUL, YOUR GROUND IS ANYWHERE YOU SOW, BUSINESS, JOB
- NEITHER SHALL YOUR VINE CAST HER FRUIT BEFORE THE TIME, NO MISCARRIAGE,NO WASTAGE
- ALL NATIONS SHALL CALL YOU BLESSED
- AND YE SHALL BE A DELIGHTSOME LAND
- THESE ARE 7 PROPHETIC BLESSING ACCORDING TO GOD’S WORD
- WHEN JESUS WAS REBUKING THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES FOR BEING HYPOCRITICAL IN” HE DID NOT NEGATE TITHING
- HE SAID THEY TITHED AND DID OTHER THINGS BUT NEGLECTED THE WEIGHTIER MATTER OF LOVE , FORGIVENESS AND TOTAL OBIDIENCE AND HOLINESSMATHEW 23:23 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone
3. THE LAW OF GIVING –
IT IS LAW OF SEED TIME AND HARVEST
- LUKE 6:38 WHEN YOU GIVE MEN SHALL GIVE TO YOU
- THE LAW OF GIVING IS A FOUNDATIONAL LAW OF PROSPERITY BY RECEIVING
- GENESIS 8:22 NOAH RAISED A SACRIFICE TO GOD THAT PLEASED GOD AND GOD BLESSED THE EARTH
- THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF GOD’S KINGDOM RUNS ON THE LAW OF SOWING AND REAPING AND THE LAW OFGIVING AND RECEIVING
- ANYTHING YOU DON’T HAVE SIMPLY MEANS YOU DID NOT PLANT THE SEEDS FOR IT
- SEED DOES NOT JUST MEAN MONEY
- IF YOU WANT THE HARVEST OF KINDNESS, SOW THE SEED OF KINDNESS
- SEEDS HAVE THEIR CORRESPONDING HARVESTS WHAT YOU SOW IS WHAT YOU REAP
- HONOUR IS THE SEED FOR THE HARVEST OF ACCESS
- GOOD UNDERSTANDING IS THE SEED FOR THE FAVOUR
- DILIGENCE IS THE SEED FOR PROMOTION
- THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GIVING
- GIVING AND RECEIVING IS ACTUALLY SOWING AND REAPING
- IN THIS KINGDOM EVERYTIME YOU GIVE YOU ARE A FARMER WHO IS SOWING 2 COR. 9:6-14
- 2 COR. 9:6-14 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7: Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 8: And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 9: (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 10: Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) 11: Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. 12: For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 13: Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; 14: And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
- DON’T GIVE GRUDGINGLY VERSE 6-7
- GOD MINISTERS SEED TO THE SOWER AND BREAD TO THE EATER 2 COR. 9:8-11
- GOD OPERATES A VERY POWERFUL SYSTEM OF GIVING AND RECEIVING VERSE 12-14
- GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER
- VERSE 8 GOD WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALWAYS HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH
- IT IS CALLED THE GRACE OF SUFFICIENCY
THERE ARE DIFFERENT AVENUES FOR GIVING AND RECEIVING
1. WORSHIP OFFERING DEUT 16:16-17 “16: Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17: Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.”
– IT IS NOT COMPULSORY , IT IS BASED ON REVELATION AS PROOF OF YOUR LOVE FOR GOD
2. KINGDOM INVESTMENT – THIS IS THE MAJOR PLATFORM FOR WEALTH AND ABUNDANCE HAGGAI 1:2-14 INTERGRITY “ 2: Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built. 3: Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4: Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? 5: Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 6: Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7: Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
3. Hag:1:8: Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. 9: Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10: Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.11: And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. 12: Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. 13: Then spake Haggai the LORD’s messenger in the LORD’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. 14: And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,”
4. SEED FAITH – YOU CAN USE YOUR SEED TO KILL NEGATIVE SEASONS IN YOUR LIFE
– IT IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF DEATH AND RESURRECTION 1 COR. 15:35-43 “But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?:36: Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:37: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:38: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.39: All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.40: There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.41: There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.42: So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
- THIS IS WHY IT IS DANGEROUS TO STEAL MONEY IN CHURCH
- IT IS EVEN MORE DANGEROUS OR EVEN MISUSE CHURCH FUNDS
- MANY PEOPLE PUT SEASONS THAT THEY DON’T WANT IN THEIR LIVES IN THE CHURCH OFFERING
- POVERTY, SICKNESS, DISEASE, CURSES ARE SPOKEN AGAINST DURING OFFERING TIME
- ASK GEHAZI – THE LEPROSY OF NAAMAN STUCK TO HIM AND HIS FAMILY
5. PROPHET OFFERING
- YOU SHOULD ACTUALLY NEVER GO SEE A PROPHET EMPTY HANDED
- I DON’T CARE IF YOU WALK INTO MY OFFICE OR HOUSE EMPTY HANDED AND EXPECTING TO EVEN GAIN FROM ME
- BUT SCRIPTURALLY YOU NEED TO HONOUR YOUR PROPHET
- MATHEW 10:40-42 “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. 41: He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. 42: And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
– IT IS A KINGDOM CULTURE YOU SHOULD LEARN
6. SOWING TO PARENTS BOTH SPIRITUAL AND BIOLOGICAL IS A SURE PATH TO BLESSING
7. ALSO FIRST-FRUIT THOUGH ALSO BEING ABUSED PROV 3 :9-10 EZEKIEL 44:30
- THERE ARE OTHER AVENUES FOR GIVING AND RECEIVING
- FOR EXAMPLE GIVING TO THE POOR AND NEEDY PROV.19:17
- SACRIFICES , VOWS, PSALM 20:1-4, The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2: Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3: Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. 4: Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. :
- PSALM 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
NOW IF YOU REALLY WANT GOD TO EMPOWER YOU FOR WEALTH. PRAY FOR REVELATIONAL KNOWLEDGE PRAY FOR IN THESE 3 AREAS
– BE ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN GOD’S WORK, FINANCIALLY, PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY AND SPIRITUALLY . PLEASE LET YOUR MOTIVE BE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.MATT 6:33
2 PROPHET OFFERING – SOW INTO PEOPLE’S ANOINTING FOR YOR PERSONAL LIFTING
3 SEED FAITH – I PRACTICE THESE THREE ALL THE TIME
– THIS MINISTRY HAS PRACTISED THESE
– RETURN CHANNELS
– 3 PRINCIPAL WAYS THAT GOD RETURNS YOUR OFFERING TO YOU
1. FAVOUR WITH GOD AND MEN
– THIS IS THE FIRST RETURN CHANNEL TO THE SAINTS ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU INVEST IN GOD’S KINGDOM
– FAVOUR IS POWERFUL, PROOF OF FAVOUR, IS NOT JUST MONEY
– ACCESS TO GOD’S HEART AND THE HEARTS OF MEN
– THE SECOND RETURN CHANNEL THAT COMES TO YOU IS WISDOM, IF YOU ACTIVATE THESE SPIRITUAL LAWS
– THE FAVOUR OF GOD IS VERY POWERFUL, YOU CAN SLEEP IN PRISON ONE NIGHT AND BECOME PRIME MINISTER THE FOLLOWING MORNING
– MANY OF US WANT LAND AND HOUSES AND BUILDINGS
– THEY ARE ALL ACQUIRED BY GOD’S FAVOUR PSALM 44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them”. “ ESTHER 2:15-17 “Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.16: So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 17: And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
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– EXODUS 3:21 “And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
– EMPTINESS HAS AN EXPLANATION,IT SIMPLY MEANS DIVINE FAVOUR IS MISSING IN YOUR LIFE
– WHEN FAVOUR IS ON YOU IT SPEAKS IMMEDIATELY
– 2 WISDOM WISDOM HAS 5 DIMENSIONS BUT TWO OF THEM ARE IMPORTANT WHEN GOD WANTS TO GIVE WEALTH
– DIVINE DIRECTION
– DIVINE STRATEGY,
– IF THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT JOB 29:1-4 “Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2: Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3: When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4: As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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– WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL THINGS PROVERBS 4:5-7 “ 5: Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.6: Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.7: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding., PROVERBS 8:18 “Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.”
– THERE IS A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WISDOM AND WEALTH
– 3RD KEY
– THE BLESSING OF GOD
– GOD’S BLESSING ATTRACT PEOPLE, OPPORTUNITY AND RESOURSES
– GOD’S BLESSINGS ARE ACTIVATED BY GOD AS WE PRACTISE THESE PRINCIPLES
– THERE IS GRACE CALLED BLESSING THAT DRAWS FAVOURS TO KINGDOM MINDED BELIEVERS
– WE HAVE TO PRAY GOD’S BLESSING ON OUR LIVES
– WHEN YOU COMMIT YOURSELF TO THE LAW OF SPIRITUAL WEALTH AND ABUNDANCE YOU WILL BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE DURABLE PROSPERITY AND FINANCIAL BLESSINGS
– THEN YOU MUST ALSO RECEIVE WISDOM FOR MANAGEMENT AND REPLENISHMENT
– YOU CANNOT BE WEALTH IF YOU ARE ONLY FRUIFULL BUT WASTEFUL
– YOU MUST HAVE ABILITY TO REPLENISH AND MANAGE
– THE WAY OUT IS NOT JUST BUSINESS OR JOB BUT REVELATION OF GOD’S WAYS
– ALL WEALTH COMES FROM GOD AND BELONGS TO HIM
– ALL WEALTH COMES FROM GOD THROUGH MEN TO YOU
– YOU ARE ONLY GIVEN STEWARDSHIP OVER THE WEALTH AND ABUNDANCE IN THIS KINGDOM SO I MUST BE HUMBLE AND GRATEFUL
– GOD’S KINGDOM IF FOUNDED ON LAWS NOT SUPERSTITION
– WHAT IS SUPERSTITION? IT IS IRRATIONAL BELIEF IN SUPERNATURAL INFLUENCES ABOUT BLESSINGS OR JUST LUCK
– THIS IS WHY AFRICANS KEEP SUFFERING WE JUST WANT TO BE LUCKY AND BLESSED WITHOUT ANY EFFORT
– WE LEAVE THINGS TO CHANCES, MIRACLES ETC
– BUT FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD, BEING ALONE JAMES 1:19-25 “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21: Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23: For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25: But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.,
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– JAMES 2:14-26 “What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15: If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16: And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17: Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18: Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19: Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20: But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21: Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22: Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23: And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. 24: Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25: Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26: For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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–GOD HAS SET HIS LAWS IN MOTION, IF YOU WANT TO BE BLESSED YOU MUST RECEIVE THE WORD WITH GLADNESS OF HEART
1. THE LAW OF ABSOLUTE SURRENDER
2. THE LAW OF TITHING
3. THE LAW OF GIVING AND RECEIVING
– AS YOU OBEY THESE LAWS, FAVOUR AND WISDOM WILL COME TO YOU
– ALL OF A SUDDEN FINANCIAL RESOURCES WILL COME YOUR WAY
– 430 YEARS OF SLAVERY AND CAPTIVITY WAS OVERTURNED OVERNIGHT
– KING AHAZAERUS COULD NOT SLEEP TILL HE BLESSED MORDECAI
– GOD KNOWS HOW TO LIFT YOU, YOURS IS TO TRUST HIM AND OBEY
– NOW THAT YE KNOW THESE THING, HAPPY ARE YE IF YOU DO THEM
PRAYER – JOHN 13:17 “: If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
OBTAIN THE GRACE TO THIS MESSAGE OVER AND OVER AGAIN