Genesis 12:2
When it is clear that God wants to empower His people with resources, is it just for the sake of materialism so that people can boast of what they have?
What is the purpose? Because there is a lot of confusion in the Church, that to have money means to end in hell and that money shouldn’t be talked about at all.
There are Two Reasons Why This is Important
i) The Understanding of Purpose is Critical to the Pursuit of Purpose
- Whatever is not understood can never be pursued or taken serious
If you know why God wants you to have resources, you will vow against poverty, you will reject empty-handedness.
ii) The Understanding of Purpose is the Seed for the Fulfillment of Purpose
- When you understand the purpose for anything, the seed for the fulfillment of the purpose of that thing has been planted
WHAT IS THE BLESSING OF GOD DESIGNED TO ACHIEVE IN THE LIFE OF HIS CHILDREN?
What is the necessity of the blessing of God?
1) Our Identity as the Children of the Owner of the Universe (Psalms 24:1 Isaiah 61:9)
- When you see the wife of a loaded man, financially-loaded and who has a good heart, you will see the decoration on her
- When you see the children of a royal family you will see them decorated
I happen to come from some form of royal family, my father was a paramount ruler of the whole of our Local Government and had been chief for years. I knew that when you go through the village, there is a way people looked at you, ‘that is the son of the Chief’. ChurchGist. That thing knocked off every trace of inferiority from my life.
Is it a pride for you or a shame, for your children to walk on the road, wretched and naked, looking beggarly and pitiable? The one who has lack of nothing, the Jehovah God who owns the Heavens and the Earth to have children that are looking pitiable and beggarly on the Earth, is an abomination of identification.
The last time you looked unlike your Father shall be the last forever!
The last time people looked at you and pitied you and you looked ashamed and reproached shall be the last forever!
2) Deliverance From the Distraction and Destruction of Lack and Scarcity (Proverbs 10:15)
- Poverty and the devil are not far from each other
- The devil came to destroy and according to the Scripture above, poverty also came to destroy
- You know how many people have gone to the grave because of money problems? How many people have committed suicide because of money problems? “I can’t watch my situation like this and my dear ones like this” and then, suicide!
How many people have died because they could not afford hospital bills?
- Stop looking at scarcity as a situation, look at it as an affliction
- How many people have in the name of going abroad passed through Sahara Desert and wasted their lives?
- Everything that is seeking to destroy your life, every curse, every ancestral scarcity, lack and shortage is over forever!
3) For Existence as a Generational Blessing (Genesis 12:2)
- You exist as a flowing river
- Whether you are a blessing or a burden can be a matter of substance
You know there are people loaded enough who pay their siblings salaries. You can’t claim to be connected to them and be living in poverty.
4) For the Purpose of Spreading the Gospel Around the Earth (Zechariah 1:17)
- Those who don’t know anything don’t know how expensive the Gospel is
- We don’t take one dime of offering from crusade ground because we came for their souls not their money!
God who sees the end from the beginning knows massive resources will be needed. If you are going to places like South-East Asia, you might need cargo to carry equipment.
5) The Purpose of Giving Voice to the Gospel and the Kingdom on the Earth
- You need resources so that the gospel can be given a voice
- When there was no resources in the Church, they used to say as poor as church rat, today, nobody can say that because rats can’t survive here. That was how they used to refer to the Church in those days because poverty was synonymous with spirituality.
Look at what the Bible said, the poor man’s voice is not heard:
Ecclesiastes 9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless THE POOR MAN’S WISDOM IS DESPISED, and his words are not heard.
- a poor church’s wisdom is despised
- poor members’ wisdom is despised
That is why the devil wants to keep the Church poor and keep the people of the Church poor so that when you talk, they will say “what are these ones talking? It is only clap they know how to clap”
But those days are over forever!
God will bless you and put you in charge of your realm, in charge of the financial realm, in charge of the Oil and Gas realm, in charge of the Academic area, where you are, they will place you in charge of the Agricultural sector and place you in charge of your field or industry, that nobody can say “what is this one saying?”
We need to come to the point where the Church will speak and the land will shake!
The children of the devil shouldn’t have more voice than the children of the Kingdom!
6) The Purpose of Enjoying and not Enduring the Earth (1 Timothy 6:17)
Does God believe in giving people Riches? Yes!
Does God believe in His people enjoying life? Yes!
The First Class cabin does not only belong to the people of the world, neither the premium cabin nor the private aircraft. ChurchGist. Who told you that such things don’t belong to the people of God?
The devil that has convinced us to leave these things is a total bastard!
I want your mind to be corrected, I want you to react and say “devil you can’t tie my life down, even if I don’t need to the resources for myself, I will conquer it and give to God for souls to be rescued from hell!”
More good can be done with sufficient resources than without it.
It is a new day for you!
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