MONEY NOT ENGAGED IN THE COVENANT IS HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE
YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE POOREST PIT AND CLIMB TO THE HEIGHT OF FINANCIAL FORTUNE BY DOING THE RIGHT THING WITH WHAT HE PRESENTLY GIVES YOU.
GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR TITHE, YOU NEED YOUR TITHE TO DELIVER YOU FROM FINANCIAL TENSION;
I HAVE NOT KNOWN TENSION IN 40 YEARS SINCE GOD SHOWED ME THIS
WE LIVE IN A KINGDOM THAT HAS RESPECT FOR KEYS.
THE WAY OUT OF EVERY FRUSTRATION IS TO ACCESS THE KEY OF THE KINGDOM TO WHATEVER PERTAINS TO YOU.
PEOPLE ARE JUST MISAPPLYING THINGS, YOU HAVE MANY KEYS ON YOUR BUNCH AND THEY OPEN SPECIFIC PLACES. THE KEY TO YOUR CAR WON’T OPEN YOUR HOUSE.
SO PRAYER AND FASTING FOR PROSPERITY IS A WASTE OF ENERGY, IT IS AN ACT OF IGNORANCE.
THAT YOU HAVE A KEY DOESN’T MEAN IT IS THE RIGHT KEY.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Covenant Day of Settlement || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland 1st Sunday Service
Your best days are ahead.
Matthew 11:28-29
So there is a way to that rest, come and learn the way to that rest. Knowledge is key in the Kingdom. Luke 11:52. Knowledge is the key to any door you desire to see open. There is a key to a world of rest, there is a key to settlement. May each one return with that key today. The key that will bring an end to all anxieties. The key that will settle you at work, settle you at home, settle you in all your businesses. There is a key to it.
I wanted to know who pays me. Now you have called me to full-time ministry, who pays me? Within two weeks, He gave me the key to my guaranteed pay from His word. It has never failed once, I have never had to beg once. We live in a Kingdom that has respect for keys. The key of revelation shows you how to get across to what belongs to you. I will give you rest, come and collect the key and you shall have rest for your souls. Church Gist. You don’t have to pray your head down to see success, just get the key. I called them buttons in that book “Success Buttons” if you know the correct buttons to press the door will open. Most of those doors in airports across the world are opened by numbers. Today, everybody is returning home with the key to settlement. God will settle every unsettled area of everyone’s life in the name of Jesus Christ.
Father honour your word today and let no one return without the key in their hand in Jesus precious name we pray.
The way out of every frustration is to access the key of the kingdom to whatever pertains to you. Matthew 16:19. He was talking to Peter in response to having declared Jesus the son of the living God. The way out of frustration is to access the keys of the kingdom as it relates to every area of interest to us. The days of frustrations are finally over in everyone’s life.
Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of the key that will secure their life, that will decorate their destiny. There is nothing like accessing the key to every area of interest to us as covered by the word of God.
We continue with our series on GATEWAYS TO FINANCIAL FORTUNE. Financial fortune in the Kingdom operates on the platform of the covenant. Deuteronomy 8:18. We are empowered for wealth on the platform of the covenant. That is: get to understand the terms of this empowerment. If you are interested then key into them and then you commit God’s integrity. The covenant is a deal enacted by God with well-defined terms and sealed by an oath. It is binding on God to perform. Church Gist. Psalm 89:34, Hebrews 6:12-18. That gets every covenant binding on God including the covenant of empowerment for wealth. So when a part of that covenant is discharged, God’s integrity is committed to confirming it. The covenant of wealth is not a promise so it doesn’t answer to prayer and fasting. 100 hundred days of prayer and fasting won’t change it. People are just misapplying things, you have many keys on your bunch and they open specific places. The key to your car won’t open your house. So prayer and fasting for prosperity is a waste of energy, it is an act of ignorance. It won’t move one thing. What is this covenant? Genesis 8:22. That is where the covenant of abundance was enacted. Where God averted the curse that was on the earth. He swore that to Noah and we saw He confirmed it in Abraham. Church Gist. He brought Abraham into a realm of generational fortune from the altar of sacrifice. Genesis 22:18. That covenant answers to our obedience to the terms thereof. If we are Abraham’s seed we are called to do the works of Abraham (John 8:39). Isaiah 51:1-3. That is God’s agenda, by walking the steps of Abraham we walk into the fortune of Abraham. Not just fortune in his lifetime, fortune in his lineage. There are people sitting down here, no one shall be mistaken for a pauper in your lineage not by leaving plenty of money for them like that rich fool but by commanding them to walk in the ways that have brought blessings in your life.
Many years ago, we were preparing for a meeting to host Benny Hinn and one of my mentors said “open that bag and take as much as you want” and I said I don’t want. He said, “you mean I can’t give you money”. I said don’t be offended but I prefer to learn how to get it. Now he has gone to heaven several years ago, imagine if he were my donor. I will be grounded eternally. You better learn how to get it. It is open to everybody. When you have the right key to a door, you don’t need permission to open it. The fact that you have the key in your hand means that you have access. People don’t want to learn anything but they want to get everything. Even when they learn, they are not interested in putting it to work but they want it to work. I said Sir, I prefer to learn how to get it. He kept quiet. So I sat down to learn and I found the key. I knew when I found the key. Church Gist. May you return with that key today. We tried to explore the various terms of this covenant beginning with tithing which is where Abraham’s journey into fortune began. Genesis 14:18-19. If you don’t believe that, good luck. I can’t force you to believe anything nor can God force you to believe what you don’t want to believe. That is where the journey of this village boy began into the realm of financial fortune. That is the trunk of the key before the designs come on it. Abraham began to display unusual liberality from that time on, he will see a stranger passing and offer them food. He didn’t know they were angels.
Proverbs 11:25. There is no method anybody can use, no anointing is a substitute. There are many anointed paupers in ministry. When they pray, the place shakes. Hot preaching, frozen giving. So they rely on members of the Church, friends and family, going about with cap in hand. It is not God’s fault. I know by grace how many we have been able to bail out of troubles in this place financially beginning from when the Church began. I was privileged to bail out. If you don’t get the giving demand of this covenant, all that we are teaching is nonsense. Church Gist. If you don’t get the giving demand, we are wasting time. All we need today is to demand for the giving grace to come upon us as it did for the Macedonian Church, even in their deep poverty, their liberality was intact. No one here will be robbed of his heritage of wealth. It is already credited to our account but we withdraw through giving. Can you draw money without your signature in your account? God was speaking to me humorously this morning, if you lay gold as dust, it won’t call for your attention. It is of no value to you. It is not something you are bowing to. Financial fortune will be like dust to many people here from this month if we choose to line up with the covenant. 1 John 5:3. God will never ask you to do what He has not enabled you to do, it is your choice that makes a difference. The days of financial stress and tension are over in your life.
The terms are simple:
- believe and engage in the tithing commandment.
(Malachi 3:8-10). That is the security factor in tithing, He rebukes the devourer for our sakes. It is tithing that insures God’s blessings in your life. It is blessing insurance. There is no other platform where we have that insurance in scriptures. - Kingdom investment keeps the heavens open
Haggai 1:3-13. People that don’t mind the kingdom don’t matter much. In the school of financial fortune, tithing opens the window. Kingdom investment keeps the windows open. They look so simple but that is it. These are the keys. Do you want the window to be open and remain open? Commit to tithing and kingdom advancement at your level. God is very interesting, as God has blessed everyone so also give. Deuteronomy 16:17. No tension, don’t give beyond my blessings in your life. The tithe of #100 is #10, there is no debate, and there is no mathematics about that. Not grudgingly or of necessity. God does not need your tithe, you need your tithe to deliver you from financial tension. Church Gist. I have not known tension in 40 years since He showed me this. 40 years is no yoke, abi na yoke? 40 years of not calling on anybody’s house. Pastor not industrialist. I have not sold one thing for money in my life. That I went somewhere and I came back with some ties and said “Friends, they are for $9 each” No! I got smarter than that by knowledge. I have not taken one dime of book money in my life since 1985 via the covenant. The books that I wrote myself when I am giving them to people, I pay for them. This thing doesn’t need gimmicks, simple obedience. They are building rural churches, if you can’t build a house then buy a block. It is the same you that is giving three blocks today that will build three churches tomorrow. You wake up in the morning and ask what are the things that we need in sanctuary keepers, you provide them for the next 6 months. You are displaying where your heart is and that is the way to go.
This covenant is not limited to material or financial benefits, it covers every area of human needs. When the Bible says money answers all things, don’t make a mistake. Money has no answer by itself, it is putting money to work according to God’s purpose that provides answers to all things. Psalm 41:1. People are running after money in this country, young people. “I must get money” “I am talking money”. So he goes to carry drugs and they arrest him and lock him up. Is that life? Ecclesiastes 10:19. Money answers all things, not on its own, it is when money is engaged in covenant practices that bring answers to all things. One man heaped up so much that he didn’t need to work anymore till he dies, and God said “tonight your soul shall be required of you”. Why didn’t money deliver him? Money that is not engaged in the covenant is highly destructive. 1 Timothy 6:10. Money does not answer anything on its own except when engaged in the covenant. Psalm 41:1-3. They couldn’t destroy Job you know why? He was after the poor. The poor was his objective in business. His flesh was reduced to bones, his friends came and couldn’t recognise him and no one could say anything for 7 days. Job has lost figure, he has lost everything but they can’t kill him. Psalm 41 was in the force. Job 29;10-13 you see Job just out to rescue the needy from the mouth of he that wants to devour him. That is how money answers to all things. Church Gist. You put money in tithing, He rebukes the devourer for your sake. You keep advancing the kingdom of God with money, He keeps your heaven open, with no dry season. The choice is yours. I am not a teacher or a preacher of prosperity, I am a prophet. He sent me “go back home and make my people rich”. I heard Him so clearly, you can’t hear from God and be ashamed of what you heard. For anyone who cares to subscribe today to the covenant terms of tithing and kingdom advancement endeavours, your best days are finally here.
When you tithe your personal tithe without your business tithe, you come under an open heaven and when the devourer hits your business, your open heaven has to go there then you and the business start afresh. If I remove my seed from this Church, it doesn’t show. If all these heavy pastors who are addicted givers hold a meeting after this service that they are not giving again and every one of them signs the pact with full name and signature. You know I won’t pray about it. It is not our giving as Pastors that prospers the Church, it is the giving of the Church that opens the heavens over the Church. Church Gist. They are all heavy givers but it doesn’t change anything. They are all giving out of what He gave them, so why should they pull their shoulder and say they are the one giving God. No one here will ever beg for bread ever. You can get out of that poorest pit and climb to the height of financial fortune by doing the right thing with what He presently gives you. J.C. Penney went down bankrupt and started from bankruptcy to climb up again. Anybody can start when he chooses to.
To somebody: “that church, they are full of charms”. We are full of obedience. We are in covenant mentality consciousness. It makes you look like a magician. Somebody’s story has just changed.
Among others, covenant practice procures favour. Psalm 35:27. God takes pleasure in blessing those who favour His kingdom. Psalm 102:13-15. Fearful favour is the lot of every committed covenant practitioner. Indescribable favour, out of this world kind of favour, that is your portion.
Today is our Covenant Day of Settlement, let me show you one secret. You know something about divine secrets is that it turns people’s destiny and life favourably around. Job 29:4, Deuteronomy 29:29. We serve a God of secrets and He has asked me to unveil to you one secret that guarantees all-time settlement. As long as you maintain that covenant in your walk with God, you enjoy all-time settlement. Not settlement for a while and unsettlement afterwards. Remember what we need after we are born again to access the things that belong to us is the key of knowledge. What is this one thing that guarantees all-time settlement? Our genuine love for God is the mystery behind all-around settlement for every child of God. Romans 8:28, Mark 12:30-31. It gives you ultimate command over the affairs of life. Songs of Solomon 8:6-7. When one’s life is rooted and grounded in love many waters cannot quench it nor can the flood drown it. That shows you how love puts you above all circumstances of life. You are in love with God, you are on top of all circumstances of life and things must end up turning in your favour. Abraham never staggered at the promise of God, James 2:23. Abraham was the friend of God, Abraham the man in love with God. Church Gist. Romans 6:16. Abraham was one obedient prompt friend of God. John 14:21. Nothing settles a believer than his genuine love for God. Being grounded and rooted in God settles believers supernaturally. I have zero fears for tomorrow, I have no space for it. The one that holds today holds tomorrow. There are many believers like that today, they have crossed Jordan to their Promised Land by their hearts for God. That is the master key to a world of settlement.
Those folks were so peaceful, three Hebrew boys had no apprehension, they were going to cast them into the fire. You know love is as strong as death. Death couldn’t jitter them. Church Gist. Even if the fire becomes seven thousand times hotter, we will never bow to your graven image, we are in love. They triumphed supernaturally and a whole nation turned to God by their strong stand for God.
I said to God during the time of my wife’s health challenge, “that you heal her is not what makes you God, whether you heal her or not, you are my God. I am going nowhere”. Settled! All these contractual faith won’t work. “Lord if you do this then, I do this. I have many other alternatives”. Real love has zero alternatives to God. Whatever you cannot do Jesus, let it remain undone. I am settled with where you put me. Whatever you can’t give me let me never have it, it is dangerous for me. Wherever you can’t take me, may I never get there. Church Gist. A heart for God is the platform for our supernatural settlement. Job 13:15, 14:14. That’s the platform of settlement. Job was settled despite his challenges and he came out triumphant. Proverbs 23:26, 1 Corinthians 2:9. Do you want God to settle you? Settle with Him. Let His settled world, settle you. Psalm 119:89. God’s word settles people when you choose to believe in it. What kind of love are we talking about?
• Unreserved love (Matthew 19:28-29).
• Unconditional love (Romans 8:35-40)
• Sacrificial love
• Sold out love (Matthew 6:33. Genesis 22:12)
• Non-pretentious love (1 John 3:17).
My prayer is that the windows that God is opening to you today will never be shut. You will be drawing from it forever.
2 Chronicles 15:13-15,19.
They entered into that covenant in the 15th year of his being on the throne and the covenant was delivering actively for 20 years until King Asa shifted his ground and began to oppress the people. Then God smote his leg to bring him back but he did not come back. You saw the end. As long as you maintain this covenant of delightsome stewardship as proof of your covenant, all-round rest and end to wars is your portion. People may be fighting us as a commission, we don’t know. They came here to say we won one case, I said did we have any case? I didn’t know. They don’t bring cases to me. They took our property in one of those places, I said God is big enough to defend them. No more war! I decree that over your family.
That’s why that is the platform for lifelong settlement, just sign up. It is within your reach if you so desire.
By the anointing, I decree fresh grace upon everyone to settle in truth and indeed with God so He can settle their life and grace to sustain that till the end.
Sir, we are not fighting but we are winning all the time as a Church. If they fight us in one way, they flee seven ways. We are not fighting anyone. They send quite a few things to leaders of Churches but they don’t send them to me. I can’t be harassed. They tell them “don’t send to him, it will spoil if you send to him”. You get to a point where battles start to fear you. From today, every battle harassing your life starts to fear you. There was no more war! At home, on your journey, in your business and career. No more war. Roundabout rest. No more war. Roundabout rest.
If you need to renew your commitment to delightsome stewardship, do it now. The word you don’t act upon won’t benefit you.
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