LEARN TO GIVE WHEN YOU ARE IN LACK, I HAVE NEVER BEGGED ANY MEMBER FOR MONEY SINCE THIS CHURCH STARTED BECAUSE I KNOW THE PRINCIPLES TO APPLY
IF YOU ALLOW HARDSHIP TO STOP YOU FROM GIVING, YOU HAVE SIGNED ETERNALLY FOR POVERTY
I OPENED MY HEAVENS FINANCIALLY WITH FIFTY NAIRA
-Pastor David Ibiyeomie
I remember taking a project somewhere and my architect who designed the project brought me a bill of close to half a billion naira for the project. While he gave me the bill, the money I kept for the project was nothing to write home about. It could not match the bill. In the natural, you know the principle is that I should call some of you, that’s the natural way. “You know what? I am the one blessing you, I have this project so send one trailer of cement”. The day I do that you won’t respect me again. I have never begged any member in this church since this church started, even when there was no time I know what to do. I will never beg, if you like let your money reach heaven, I will never beg you. I know what to do.
So since the money was not enough, what I told the architect was “Architect before you start my own building, start the church first”. I gave him the money for the church, I was to break a fixed deposit I had to do the project because the money I had was nothing to write home about. So I said instead let me use it to finance this project. The moment I said “start the church”, I had not touched one dime and money was tumbling upon each other. Before you ask me for the next money, I have it. One day it was so touching, he told me the exact amount that he was coming to collect the next day and I told my P.A. “I need one hundred million today before he comes tomorrow” and by 6pm somebody walked in with physical cash hundred million.
I asked God and God said “There are people who don’t bother and you are one of them. Just tell me what you want”. If I had not given to the church, I won’t have gotten it. If I begin to observe the clouds and say “things are one kind, make I wait till I get plenty”, poverty would have continued. No luck here, Mr Lucky. Even if your name is Goodluck, no be everytime luck dey work oh.
Now Listen, 2 Corinthians 9:6 you know why I got the money? I gave to the gospel first. Of recent I showed them something again, they gave me a bill that was very big and I had put some money aside for the project but I said no, instead let me use the money to start a satellite church, when I start the church the money will come back. I know this principle, there is no luck here, you either do it and heaven will respond or you don’t do it and remain in poverty. Stop looking to any mortal man for your supplies, my help cometh from who? Not from even David Ibiyeomie. I am not your supplier, it is not scriptural to look up to me. My Lord shall supply all your needs not my Pastor shall supply. So do what I did.
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. (2 Corinthians 9:6)
In the Kingdom of God where do you plant? The gospel. Learn to give when you are in Lack. It is when you are in lack that you should give.
In 1 Kings 17:8-17, there was a widow called the Widow of Zarephath. This widow was in lack and she said “I am going to eat this last meal and die because things are so tough”. That was how bad her situation was. Elisha said she should give him that last meal. It’s only in Nigeria that widows beg men of God. In the Bible widows give to men of God. I can help you but it would never bring you out of poverty.
- We don’t use prayer to come out of hardship, we use seed to come out of hardship
- No man of God can lay hands on you and you come out of hardship, there must be a point of contact.
- Every poor man did not give when he was supposed to give. God will give you an opportunity to release.
You will see somebody who is very rich, who has plenty of money, will come to church with 5 Naira. The man who is blessing the offering will never give offering. Since I was born, I never saw the people there give offering, with their cassocks, they would just lift their hands, ‘Now, Lord bless the offering’. He would not give o, so, the people will just remain poor. They are the Melchizedeks. Poverty ehn, is a bad thing.
Look at 1 Kings 17: 12, she said, ‘It’s so tough, things are so tough, we will eat and die’. Verse 14-16, Then Elijah said, ’Thus saith the Lord’. This is the word of God, there was no Bible then. He said, ‘Bring what you have first, release it first’. She released all that she had first, and God miraculously met her needs. May God meet your needs.
There was something she did, she refused to observe the winds and the clouds of famine. There was hardship, she was to die, but she did not allow that situation stop her from giving. If you allow hardship to stop you from giving, you have signed eternally for poverty. ChurchGist. If you want to come out of poverty, listen, listen carefully, listen, I don’t care how you may talk but I must tell you this truth because people keep doing as if God is wicked. They don’t teach such o, I’m an authority in this field.
As a married man, husband and wife, all we had was 50 Naira, my wife is here before the Holy Ghost, 1997, and then I had deep understanding as I’m talking now. All we had, bank, home, abroad – 50 Naira. Do you know what it meant to have 50 Naira? You could do that as a bachelor but when you get married, it was bad. And I got deep revelation that if you don’t give, you would not come out of poverty. I packaged the 50 Naira, gave it out, heavens opened. If I had said, ‘God, you know things are tough, and you know I don’t have’, I would have been poor till today. Every poor man did not give when he was supposed to give. God will give you an opportunity to release. This my wife, 1997, she had no money in any account, I had no money in any account, and as married people, all we had was 50 naira at home, and light came, and I said, ‘My wife, give me that 50 naira’, I enveloped it. ChurchGist. The moment I enveloped it, heavens opened. I enveloped it, in less than 6 hours, somebody knocked on my door and said, ‘Sir, God told me to give you 2000 Naira’. From 50 Naira, and that has how I’ve been up till today.
Boy, in the hard times when you sow, if you don’t sow, you will never come out of hardship. There is no shortcut, I don’t care the man of God you meet, the principle cannot change. They don’t use prayer to come out of hardship, they use seed to come out of hardship. If this widow never sowed, she would have died of hunger. Say, ‘I hear’. Are you hearing this complete truth? It may sound hard, but it’s the truth, take it raw and swallow it I like that, it may be the bitter pill that will bring you out of the hardship.
I didn’t come out of hardship by Oyedepo laying hands on me o. Ah, let me tell you, it will shock you. No man of God can lay hands on you and you come out of hardship, there must be a point of contact. If Elijah prophesied without giving, his prophecies would have been hanging, Elijah’s prophecies worked because she believed something. Do you understand how it works?
Man of God pray for me. They have been praying for you, you’ve run to 5 churches, none is working. Won’t you sit down and hear the truth? You left one church for another, the man of God prayed, this one prayed. If church is not working, sit down and hear somebody who has had proofs. ChurchGist. You are not the first to be poor o, your own I’m sure, it’s not 50 Naira you have, so don’t think that I got here by luck. Don’t think that ‘He’s very lucky’, I’m sharing my testimony, how I came out of poverty. Most of you have up to 100 Naira.
When you are planting, plant on a good ground. Make sure that because I said sow, you don’t sow everywhere, plant on a good ground. Mark 4: 8 Plant your seed into a Church of Christ that believes in soulwinning, they have the word of God undiluted and they judiciously manage God’s resources.
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