GATEWAYS TO FINANCIAL FORTUNE
Let me begin with this good news, that everyone that ever gets on the go for Jesus is entitled to a lack free life.
He says this: you go after it,
He says that: you go after it,
He says the other one: you go after it,
You have committed His integrity to bless (Romans 6:16, Exodus 23:25-26).
Welcome to a life of fortune in the name of Jesus.
It’s obvious today that the world is going through perhaps the worst economic crisis in history, further complicated by corona virus alarm and from all prophetic scriptures, it is just the beginning of the woes that will be visiting the world before Jesus returns (Matthew 24:7-8, Joel 2:1-2).
In the midst of that thick darkness, a great people will rise (Joel 2:2,11). So, everyone in the army of the Lord will begin to manifest greatness in the midst of thick darkness
There will be two different worlds in the same world (Joel 2:3). There will be the garden realm and there will be the desolate realm where nothing works.
Malachi also painted the same picture (Malachi 4:1-2). We shall be going forth and growing up as calves of the stall.
Everything is burning down; some people are growing up.
Why? They are in the covenant of financial fortune (Malachi 3:10). Being in the covenant places a seal of exemption from the woes on your life. This is very important.
The covenant is simple: we have said; it is the covenant of giving and receiving.
Wait a minute; just like when you stop breathing, you start dying. When you stop giving, you start going down. It’s not something you do once and for all, it’s a once and again covenant. The reason why some people have testimonies today and don’t have another one till the next 10 years: they stopped.
You don’t need to take any drug to die, just stop breathing. You are wasting your time buying a rope to commit suicide, just stop breathing: you’ll die naturally, you’ll die softly, there won’t be any pain…are you sure you want to die? Stop breathing. Block your nose, close your mouth. You will die softly and noiselessly.
The same way, when you stop giving, you will start going down: not just in finance, you’ll start going down in virtually every area of your life.
John D Rockefeller was dying of cancer, he parted with 50% of his stakes in business to service the needs of the needy and God restored him back. That’s not money, that’s life. Misfortune crushed; new life released. He lived for 41 years, after the time he should have died. He wasn’t going to see his 52nd birthday they said, by medical verdict but by covenant, it was extended by 41 years, he lived to be 93 years.
That’s how powerful the giving covenant is. It is ordained to eradicate sorrows. It is ordained to establish you in the realm of no lack.
VITAL KEYS TO A WORLD OF FINANCIAL FORTUNE
1. Be spiritually minded: every provision in the Kingdom demands spirituality for delivery (Romans 8:6, 3 John 1:1-2). Your prosperity and my prosperity cannot outgrow our spirituality, there must be a balance. It’s not a game, it’s a walk with God. He told Abraham, our covenant father, “walk with me” (Genesis 17:1). It’s not a trade by barter, it’s not banking. You are not banking, you are engaging a covenant walk with God to maximise agenda for your life.
…to the level of your spiritual prosperity (3 John 1:2).
To access the realm of financial fortune and be established in that realm, we have to be spiritual, so we can continue to be guided and not run off course. We have to be spiritual (1 Timothy 4:8). It takes spirituality to maximise God’s financial fortune for His Church.
2. We must engage tirelessly in covenant practice: it’s not just hit and run. Covenant practice must become a lifestyle. You are not doing it officially, you are not doing it to be seen, it’s just what you have caught and you are engaging with in your walk with God.
…you sent unto my necessity once and again (Philippians 4:16).
You want a continuous flow of the blessing, then engage with continuous practice.
This Church has never known a setback once. No previous year has ever been brighter than the present. It’s always a buildup. Covenant practice does not permit you to suffer a setback. You keep changing position again and again: It’s your turn!
3. Walk in financial integrity: Financial fortune demands that we put iniquity far from our tabernacle.
…thou shall put INIQUITY far from thy tabernacle, then shall thou lay up gold as dust… (Job 22:21-25).
We must be committed to walking in financial integrity: no games, no gimmicks, no cheating on people, no ‘taking what is not yours’, no ‘changing books’, no ‘taking advantage of the poor’. We must be committed in walking in financial integrity. IT’S A MUST!
If you watch the testimony of Job in Job 31, you will see integrity. You saw the wife said, “are you still holding on to your integrity” (Job 2:9).
Open air integrity, known to the root in the family and you saw his testimony all through Job 31; clean integrity and he became the greatest of all men in the East (Job 1:3).
Yes, challenged but he came out triumphant and had double what he had before (Job 42:10).
Integrity is needed today more than ever in our covenant walk with God. Integrity is needed today more than any other time in history.
When we were growing up, you call somebody a Christian, you can trust him with anything:
“Oh, he is a believer”
“Oh, he is an S.U”
When they say S.U, it means integrity. S.U connotes integrity.
You now have believers picking people’s pockets, people’s bags in Church, not in town!
That’s why this flow has not found full blast expression: lack of financial integrity, always hunting for who to cheat, always hunting for who to rob.
A mechanic workshop gives you an old spare part and collect money for brand new.
Or cleans the one they removed from your own and they will be swearing! All over town. Just an example.
They are many areas that are of grave concern today!
4. We must be committed to be a blessing: when you stop being a blessing, you are no longer qualified for His blessing. I told the story one time of one typical Elephant (I saw the write up).
This Elephant consumed 140 pounds of straw a day but discharges 100 pounds of manure per day. It’s the only way to remain alive.
As God has blessed everybody, even so let him give (Deuteronomy 16:17).
The moment you see a cow excreting as a cat, it is on the way to the grave.
The more we are blessed, the more we are expected to be a blessing. When that stops, the blessing will stop.
Do you drive your car to a Filling station when you have not used the fuel inside? You are not qualified for refueling until you have dispensed the one you have in your tank (Proverbs 11:24).
We are blessed to be a blessing (Genesis 12:2). The blessing will stop when we stop being a blessing!
Please understand, covenant practice is not banking!
Covenant practice is not trade by barter!
Covenant practice is not Bureau de change!
It’s a spiritual walk with God that is sold out to obedience as a lifestyle.
You saw the fortune of Job (Job 29:4,6-17). He found the secret of financial fortune:
– Keep blessing the helpless.
– Keep blessing humanity.
I (God) will keep enlarging your coast of blessing. We must remain committed to be a blessing or the blessing will stop.
5. To walk in financial fortune, we must seek continuous guidance in our endeavours. Remember they thirsted not WHEN HE LED THEM through the desert (Isaiah 48:21).
He (God) led Abraham to the realm of fortune (Galatians 3:29, John 8:39). We must be committed to continuous guidance so as not to run into a desert.
He said to Isaac, “don’t go down to Egypt, that’s where everybody is running to. Stay here in the land” and He turned him into a nation by reason of blessing (Genesis 26:2-3, 12).
…the Philistines envied him because he was walking by divine guidance (Genesis 26:14).
*Watch: as an aftermath of this awesome revival season, many shall receive some strange guidance that will lead them to realms of fortune.
…cast your net on the right side (John 21:5); one instruction, the heavens opened.
6. Be committed to thinking and speaking covenant rooted words (Proverbs 23:7)
Somebody would say, “I don’t have a dime anywhere both in heaven and on earth” and he is a tither; he has cancelled his tithes account with his mouth.
“There is nothing, nothing, nothing. I don’t think I believe in this prosperity message anymore”: he has cancelled all of his investment with his mouth.
Have you not heard the Lord say, “life and death are in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs 18:21). You can destroy anything with your tongue (Mark 11:23).
…you shall have whatsoever you say – whether you say it as a slang or you say it naturally or you are joking.
Our tongue has capacity to destroy the works of our hands (Ecclesiastes 5:6).
Be committed to thinking and speaking covenant rooted words. We serve a covenant keeping God.
…keep your heart with all diligence because out of it are the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23). It is what you think that determines what you say (Matthew 12:34).
You can think right and talk wrong!
You can’t talk right while you are thinking wrong!
…LET THEM SAY CONTINUALLY (Psalm 35:27). For everyone favouring His righteous cause .
Let them say continually: in season and out of season.
Let them say continually: in spite of what might be happening around them.
LET THE LORD BE MAGNIFIED WHICH TAKETH PLEASURE IN THE PROSPERITY OF HIS SERVANTS.
I pray that each one’s thoughts and tongue will be tamed by the Holy Ghost from now.
Let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified which taketh pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
7. Keep rejoicing to access your returns. The Bible says, “I pray thee, receive the law” (Job 22:22). The law is the law of giving and receiving but the Word of the Lord that will make the law deliver maximally are the ones we are examining.
Deuteronomy 28:47-48
One of the things that stimulate joy is seeing the reality of the end (Hebrews 12:2). Being able to see the reality of the covenant, the reality of what awaits you: the reality!
You must have heard me say, time and again, “I am not surprised at where we are. We bless the Lord for making it happen, but I would have been surprised if it didn’t happen.”
Why? Because I saw it from scriptures: walking with God will take you from level to level. Keep doing what He says to do, just enjoy doing it and He will be taking you there one level after the other.
Philippians 4:4, 18. Paul knew the secret of returns (1 Thessalonians 5:16).
All the harvest of the field is perished because joy is withered away from the sons of men (Joel 1:12). Where joy stops, it’s where the harvest perishes. You want your harvest to keep flowing, keep rejoicing in the Lord always and ever in the name of Jesus.
In the revival chapter of scriptures that we have been dealing with (Habakkuk 3:17-19)
…yet I will joy in the Lord of my salvation then the Lord will step in. It takes joy to invoke divine intervention.
Rejoice in the Lord in spite of what might be happening, then He will make your feet like hind’s feet and get you to walk upon your high places.
Well, that’s God’s agenda.
That’s what makes it happen but please take this from me, that giving is living and because it is breathing that guarantees living, it is giving that guarantees access to a world of financial fortune.
Again, the purpose of Kingdom wealth is Kingdom promotion. That’s the capital purpose of Kingdom wealth (Haggai 1:8,10).
God is out, releasing His jewels on the latter house, may you be found a worthy channel.
The bigger your Kingdom dream, the greater the dimension of financial boom you are entitled to experience.
Keep dreaming Kingdom promotion dreams!
Keep dreaming Kingdom advancement dreams!
Keep dreaming of building Churches for Jesus!
Keep dreaming of investing into Missions!
We just had 40 new Churches planted in Ghana. Amen. Over 1,600 in Nigeria within the last 8 weeks to the glory of God. Amen.
80% of these Churches are in the rural areas so it is our privilege to build these Churches for these wonderful precious village people. Give them a sense of worth, we are going to the same Heaven. Villagers will have mansions in Heaven just like city dwellers.
We will sit at the same table with Jesus when we get to Heaven. So, it’s our privilege!
I’m expecting you to start writing, “please which churches are ready to be built?”
Just yesterday, we concluded that we must buy land in every place, so that those who want to build won’t be looking for where to start from.
It is a thing of joy. The first time I thought of building a Church, I had no bank account. Jesus if you bless me, I want to be part of building you Churches. There was no place that I could buy 1 square meter of land but Jesus knows how many He has engraced us to build from what He gave us. So, there is nothing to brag about. It’s from what He gave us that we gave back to Him; it’s not an achievement.
The moment you know, everything in your coffer is as He gave it to you (John 3:27, 1 Chronicles 29:14). He (God) owns it, we are giving it back to Him as He gave it to us.
So, I will like you to start dreaming. You have an unlimited opportunity in this Commission to be a part of promoting the Kingdom real life.
You dream it today; He delivers it tomorrow (1 Kings 8:17-18).
Every Kingdom dream makes you do well in life!!!
You want to walk in financial fortune, that’s the way to do it.
…In our family, we are building 20 new Churches this year by the grace of God; out of what He gave us because all of us including those village dwellers, are going to the same Heaven. We will be eating of the same Manna. We will be wearing same white garment, celebrating with Jesus at the same level. There will be no President there, no governor, we are just all the saints of the Most High God. To Him be the Praise.
Lift up your right hand and thank God for showing you the way to the realm of financial fortune.
I am going to ask you for something as a stepping stone to this realm:
– Every month have a little budget for Mission. The one who will build a Church tomorrow will have some input today. If it’s 2 Naira.
Let me tell you this: we don’t need it, He doesn’t need it either, but you need it. The way to get to building a house is to first know how to buy a block.
You buy a block first: this month I have 10 Naira – ‘mission seed’; you are on your way to building a Church.
Your 10 Naira becomes 20 Naira by reason of His blessing and His blessing comes again on you, then you move forward.
Get involved.
I know what came into my life through (AGIP)- Mission to Africa.
I knew where I started from and I knew where God said, “it is enough, don’t give again to it; we announced in Church.”
This Mission is ongoing. We are doing 10,000 Churches this year. We don’t have any pressure, there is no pressure anywhere: ZERO PRESSURE and I am telling you the truth in Christ but I want you to plug into it. It is the continuity of our engagement that enhances our access and sustains us when we get there.
Your own account – ‘Mission Fund’, ‘Monthly Mission Seed’
Have a clean budget of helping the needy, no matter how small if it’s 10 Naira, 20 Naira.
These are the ways to do it. You can’t get at God on your own terms (Psalm 112:5). He knows what it takes to get at what God has provided. Thank You Jesus.
I want you to become Big Time Kingdom Dreamers. Just register as a big time Kingdom dreamer and watch what God will do with your life.
For every soul brought into the Kingdom during this ‘Midst of the Year’ revival season, not one shall be lost.
Everyone of them will appear in Heaven when we meet Jesus.
Everyone that you have brought into this Church during this season shall abide here for life.
Everyone yet to respond will respond.
*Your reward will also be in the open in the name of Jesus. So shall it be.
I can tell you this: it works. Do I have a witness in the house? It works! Many of you know it works, you have seen that in your life.
Don’t ever joke with your tithe, it’s God’s master key to an open order of blessings.
Don’t joke with Kingdom promotion.
Don’t joke with helping the needy.
You say, “if you do all of that, what remains?” Blessing.
What remains? Blessing.
I once told you a story, I gave a seed to my grandmother, my beloved grandmother, she was an angel sent to me, she guided me thoroughly, I adore her. I honoured her with a set of furniture at the age of 20.
She said to me: how are you going to eat?
I said: The Lord will provide
She looked at me, “you shall be great”
Can you buy that with money?
You can’t fight divine blessing; you will be wasting your life.
One of my God sent prophet said to me, “you will do more than 20 times wherever I stop”, triggered by a seed.
Whatever blessing proceeds from Heaven, let no devil attempt to fight it, he will be crushed.
“My son, David, even if you don’t want to be rich, it’s too late”: it’s a sworn blessing, I heard from Heaven in response to a sacrifice, 1987.
“My son, David, even if you don’t want to be rich, it’s too late”: I heard it from God.
*Many will hit that realm of sworn blessing here in return of your labour in the name of Jesus.
Very quickly, before we have the prophetic blessing that will release you.
I understand that there are many of us who are in the covenant but are confronted by some demonic strongholds from accessing the blessing that pertains to us. Those strongholds will be crushed today.
Zechariah 1:19,21, 20 – well I am privileged to be one of those carpenters.
Whatever the devil has resisted from going through in your life, it must be cleared off the way today.
There are the horns of the gentiles whose mission is to see that no one’s head is lifted up, they are there pressing down on God’s people (Zechariah 1:21). Just like Pharaoh and the task masters were pressing down on covenant people until God sent His prophet Moses and bailed them out by a strong hand, an outstretched arm as God worked through him.
It’s important to learn all you can learn.
I asked Jesus, give us 3,000 souls in this season: lock down season. Jesus, there must be a way forward. You know why I’m sharing this testimony; God will beat your imagination. He will go beyond what you ever ask or think.
To the glory of God, two of the weeks within these 8 weeks, we had 4,000 plus each. I asked God for 3,000, for 8 weeks.
Jesus gave us 18, 550
Converts that came: 3,900
Family members: 6,738
Total: 10,638
‘O se mi l’anu…’
‘I wo l’Oba, Olorun agbaye, I wo l’Oba’
I want all the devils to know, you can’t lock down Jesus.
2015: we had only 11,628 new converts the whole year, the year of ‘Wonder Double’.
The year of ‘Lock Down’ in 2 months: 18,000 and 10,000 at our various fellowship centres.
‘E ba mi gbe Jesu ga…’
Go in peace and the blessing of this revival starts speaking in your life from today.
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