POVERTY IS A THIEF
POVERTY IS EVIL AND WICKED
SOMETIMES YOU THINK THAT YOU NEED DELIVERANCE BUT WHAT YOU NEED IS A FINANCIAL DELIVERER
LIFE IS MEASURED BY DONATION NOT BY DURATION
IT IS GOOD TO LIVE LONG BUT DON’T LIVE LONG AND BE LIVING WRONG
UNTIL YOU BECOME AN OUTREACH YOU ARE NOT TRULY RICH
ANYTIME POOR PEOPLE CRY, ALWAYS SEE GOD CRYING
RELATIONSHIPS ARE RESOURCES
YOU DON’T LACK MONEY, WHAT YOU LACK ARE RELATIONSHIPS
MOST WOMEN DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM, THEIR ONLY PROBLEM IS REACTION TO POVERTY
THE OFFERING THAT WE GIVE TO GOD IS REWARDED TO US IN THE FORM OF THE GIFT OF MEN
DON’T BE LIVING FOR GOLD, BE LIVING FOR GOD
IF PASTORS HAVE BLESSED YOU SPIRITUALLY IT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR YOU TO MINISTER BACK TO THEM
-Bishop Wisdom Irabor on ‘FINANCIAL DELIVERER FOR UNUSUAL HARVEST’ at ‘Family Liberation Service” || Answers Assembly, Warri || 26th February, 2023|| First Service
This morning very briefly we are looking at the ‘FINANCIAL DELIVERER FOR UNUSUAL HARVEST’. God is interested in your prosperity Psalms 35:27. There is no time that God will teach you any lesson that makes you poor for you to understand what He is teaching you, that’s not how He operates. Poverty is a thief, it steals your vision and goal- You will have goals and visions but you can’t fulfil them. Church Gist. As difficult as it is to travel out of Nigeria, it is the easiest thing to do if there are resources. We have come to a point where there is even a global economic challenge that people sell opportunities to travel.
Somebody sold an opportunity to travel to a stranger instead of his younger brother because he (the younger brother) cannot afford the offer, that is how powerful prosperity is and how wicked poverty can be. Church Gist. It was poverty that made him abandon his younger brother.
-May God give you the grace not to lose good things because of poverty.
There are good things everywhere but poverty is wicked. A good school is not a choice, it is prosperity- Poverty has stolen visions, dreams and goals. Let me even shock you, poverty is wicked and it has also stolen many marriages. Church Gist. It steals respect and self-worth, it can even steal your marriage. In fact poverty also steals the opportunity for you to be a blessing to people! Poverty is wicked.
-May you not be a victim to the wickedness of poverty.
Sometimes you think that you need deliverance, what you need when it comes to finance is a financial deliverer. This painful season for so many citizens is the best for some people who have a financial deliverer. One of the presidential aspirants gave all his directors-general among his campaign team across the thirty six States of Nigeria the sum of one billion naira each. You may say they are bad people and that it’s Nigeria’s money but he is a financial deliverer to the person that he gave the money to. Church Gist. He will use five hundred million naira to carry out the assignment given to him and step down with the remaining money. You don’t have a problem with capital, you have a problem with a financial deliverer.
-May God send you a financial deliverer in this season.
One marriage was to break many years ago even though the thing still ended up breaking. As the marriage was heading towards the rock, a great man of God called the couple and said, ‘I know that your problem is poverty, stop quarelling! Madam, take this two million naira and start any business and let me know’! Church Gist. The woman came and said that she started a school with two million naira.
He said, ‘Take this eight million naira, go and rent a permanent site, I will build it for you’! The demon of quarrel that they thought was living with them left them. Most women don’t have a problem, their only problem is reaction to poverty. The woman they said was nagging collected two million naira and the nagging demon just reduced. Church Gist. When the money problem of a woman is solved, ninety percent of her wahala is taken care of, the other ten percent na from her village people.
It was so painful that the ten percent that money cannot handle still scattered the marriage, they still ended up in divorce. Church Gist. And I said, if money is enough to solve that problem, they will still be together but it’s beyond money but for the period that that money came it looked as if they were living peacefully.
-May God send you a financial deliverer.
May God give the wives their own money and give the husbands their own money.
The man come dey put eye to find out how she take spend the money and the woman said, ‘Okay, you wan put eye for money wey you no bring? Church Gist. Na em she run. You see? Poverty still entered. The man’s poverty still follow the matter and the thing come scatter. Poverty is wicked!
Luke 6:38. Do you now agree that poverty is evil? Church Gist. Poverty will make you treat malaria and typhoid without proper diagnosis and the thing disturbing you is not malaria and typhoid but poverty has complicated your life. Poverty is evil and wicked!
-I declare that you will conquer poverty! God will send you a financial deliverer.
The offering that we give to God is rewarded to us in the form of the gift of men Luke 6:38.
-May God give you the gift of men for your business, family and every need in your life!
So relationships are resources. You don’t lack money, what you lack is relationships.
-May God open the mouth of fishes (financial deliverers) for you! Matthew 17:27. Church Gist. For everyone here I declare that God will connect you to fishes, may the fish that carries your coin in its mouth locate your business this week.
So a financial deliverer is a special gift from God.
Who is a financial deliverer?
A financial deliverer is a special gift from God to you for moments of challenges.
-May you get a financial deliverer now!
2 Corinthians 7:5-6. There are men whose arrival is the revival that you are praying for. Church Gist. The financial revival that you are praying for is the arrival of those men that God is bringing into your life. They will come as your business partner, clients and helpers.
-Titus (financial deliverer) is coming to you this week 2 Corinthians 7:5-6.
Can I tell you? You can’t choose Titus on your behalf, they will mock you if you do. If you go about asking and choosing Titus, you will come back with shame, mockery and disgrace. Church Gist. We are not teaching you to go and beg, we are teaching you to position yourself in the covenant and then they have no choice just like a magnet attracts magnetic objects, you will begin to magnet them on their own. God will put it in their heart and they will have no rest.
Somebody said to me that, ‘I needed a gallon to go and buy fuel for my car, my car stopped close to your house’! And I said, ‘There is fuel in my gallon, take’! He didn’t beg for it. Church Gist. And I heard God say to me as a friend speaks to his friend ‘For this that you have done, you will never be stranded in this life’! I was not trying to be a good person. You don’t beg for a financial deliverer and destiny helper, you are comforted by the coming of Titus.
-This week, your Titus is coming! Anytime that they sleep, God will put it in their hearts to wake up and bless you.
With these four Scriptures, you will agree with me that financial deliverers are not only real but Scriptural.
-You will enjoy it this week!
Seven reasons God will give you a financial deliverer.
1. For you to have enough to serve God and the interest of His Kingdom Zechariah 1:17. If you are not yet blessed to the point where you are the answer to the financial question in the Ministry you worship with, your blessing is still kindergarten. Church Gist. One Pastor did a crusade in Warri here many years ago, a member asked him to do something that will make him popular, he said that it was a crusade- Take seventy million naira, go and do it! He paid for the crusade expenses. One member!
If you go and bring Chioma Jesus, Mercy Chinwo and Nathaniel Bassey to this altar on Sunday. The three of them are about six million naira but if you beg well or you were recommended by someone, all of them can be one million naira flat each of them! Church Gist. No prayer and fasting, just by putting them on the poster and saying these three faces are coming to Answers Assembly, we want to dance and thank God. Na you go tire for people! That is the essence of God’s blessings on your life.
So when you are dreaming to have finances, be dreaming Kingdom dreams- You say, ‘God, in my village, I will build a Church’, you might not enter the Church to worship but it must be a memorial. Church Gist. Anytime all those old women, witches and wizards enter to go and call ‘Jesus’, it is you and your unborn generations that they are praying for. Jesus was to pray for a man and they said, ‘Don’t pray for him he is a useless man’ and another person said, ‘He built a Synagogue for our people’ and Jesus said even if he is not qualified, I will pray.
This one that you are thinking of how to steal biscuits, drinks and offering from children’s Church, your head is not correct oo. You have not even started dreaming, you are still sleeping. Church Gist. When it comes to Kingdom dreams, ‘Lord, bless me to provide everything that every child in the Church will eat- I and my family will pay for them every Sunday’. That is why God will bless you.
One grandma is not coming to Church and you just heard that she was sick and you say, ‘The hospital bill? I will clear it! That is what we are talking about- That is the first reason why God will send you a financial deliverer and that is for you to have enough to serve God and the interest of His Kingdom. Church Gist. Some people think that I have plenty of money and that’s why I cleared the one million naira debt of my son, Deaconess Chekube and the husband Okafor, I just saw that he was depressed and I came to that Service and said, ‘That one million naira that I stood in for you, I have cleared it’!
And for him not to think that I did not clear it I sent the receipt to him immediately! What are we trying to do? We are practicing being millionaires (Apprentice millionaires), that is the life that we want to live. That a time will come, I will just come to the Church and say, ‘Pastor, look at the face of everybody and find out who is depressed including what is making them look that way’! Church Gist. That’s where we are going and not the ‘I, me, myself thing’. No, it doesn’t work again. You don’t give because you have, you give because it is the reason why God gave you in the first place.
2. For you to have enough to take care of your family obligation
-For every family represented in Answers Assembly, may God do for you what you cannot do for yourself.
3. For you to have enough to help the poor.
‘Papa na people I want live for? That’s the life that we are living’! Because by the end of the day when you die, what will they remember you for? You will only be remembered to the extent that you touch lives, every other thing is rubbish. Ah! Dorcas is dead and the widows and women are crying! Church Gist. They said, ‘Apostle Peter, you no go fit bury this one, we no gree, she made the clothes that we are wearing’! On the weight of her relevance to the widows she jerked back to life! So if you die today, who will miss you? The people that will miss you are people whose lives you have impacted.
Life is measured by donation not by duration. It is good to live long but don’t live long and be living wrong because until you become an outreach you are not truly rich. I saw one of my members buying something somewhere and as I was going there, I knew that he would pay. I turned my back saying, ‘This is a tough season, I don’t want free things’! Church Gist. I went to another place and bought what I needed. That is even the kind of mind that we have, I said to myself, ‘I have enough for myself and the little that I can touch, I will touch’!
But some people will have all the food at home and will still visit who no get food, to clear the person’s house- You are saving your own against April in case the problem reaches that time. Church Gist. Most of the people who are givers are not the ones who have, that are those who have the heart to give. The real people who have are stingy and greedy. Some people can give thirty thousand naira from their forty thousand naira while some cannot give one thousand naira from their hundred thousand naira.
On Papa Ibiyeomie’s birthday three years ago, God said, ‘Now, sow a seed for your next level’! All I was having was two hundred and fifty two thousand naira, I pulled out fifty thousand naira and He said, ‘No! That’s not a sacrifice’! I’m already in the next level- That’s the house that we moved into. Church Gist. I wrote two hundred and fifty thousand naira leaving with me a balance of two thousand naira. When the property came, can I compare the seed to the figure of the property?
So when you see me give two hundred and fifty thousand naira, it’s not because I have two million naira or hundred million naira. Another person can have one million naira and somebody will need two thousand naira and he won’t pull it out. So if you are asking God for a financial deliverer ask yourself if you fit into the qualification. Proverb 19:17, can you see that sometimes when you give to the poor, who did you give to? God. Church Gist. Anytime poor people cry, always see God crying! That’s why I said that if you are not an outreach, you are not truly rich.
4. For you to have enough to fulfill your God-given destiny.
As a man, you have money and you cannot take care of your wife and children, you have failed the purpose for the money. We got into the car one day and Mama said that she needed to buy something and I had no cash on me. Church Gist. She went ahead and bought all the things that she needed and I got a text message saying, ‘This is the amount of money that I spent, transfer it into my account’! Some families will quarrel oo but we didn’t quarrel and I paid. That is the purpose for money as a man.
So as a man, if you are praying for a breakthrough and there is no place in your heart for your family, your prayer for breakthrough can never be answered. Check the qualification, know the areas that you are not doing well and wake up. As a married man if you don’t have a dream to do your best for your family you will die poor. Church Gist. The happiness of your family is what aaReill bring the money and when they are not happy the money won’t come. From Ecclesiastes 10:19, money helps you to fulfil your God-given destiny.
5. For you to have enough to leave an inheritance.
All these things that we are working hard for and gathering are for our children. If you die now what will your children fall back on? Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo preached last year in Warri, he said, ‘I have paid the school fees of anybody that bears ‘Ashimolowo’ till this world will end including my children and great grandchildren! He said that the money there (Fixed deposit account) is not to be withdrawn but to pay for school fees- That’s the essence of wealth! Not that husband get money, em go dey hide am. If you cannot take care of your own, is it the next generation that you want to plan for? Some men don’t know that they hate their children, that’s the truth!
-May God deliver children from the hand of the fathers who act as their enemies Proverb 13:22.
-You no go die now because if you die na problem your children wan inherit. Even the house wey you live now, you dey owe six months rent.
That’s why anytime you eat your chest dey always pain you because na free food wey you no give your wife money to cook dey cause am. Even aboki wey dey pack dirty, you are owing him for three months, you wan die leave the dirty? I go put am for your grave! Yeye!
6. For you to have enough to be a blessing to your man of God.
I won’t say that so much before you say, ‘Papa is trying to tell us to give him money! No! Chop your own make I chop my own’! 1 Corinthians 9:11. Church Gist. I just thought last week, ‘What will I do for my assistant Pastors and their wives because this season is very hard for everybody’! Okay! I bought a hundred bags of water and shared ten bags each to them. It may serve them for one week or two weeks but at least I have done something!
The account that I took that twenty thousand naira from was twenty four thousand naira, as I pulled the twenty thousand naira, I had just four thousand left! So we don’t give because we have but when you are a Kingdom driven person, you are constantly giving from an account that is not well funded and God will always provide for you to do what you need to do at every point in time. Church Gist. That account now has grown from four thousand naira to three hundred thousand naira plus.
Somebody can say, ‘What is water? I asked one of my Pastors and said, ‘I hope it will even serve for some days? He said, ‘Anyhow for one week we won’t talk about water’, and I was happy and said, ‘If God helps me, I can be doing it weekly or monthly’! Are they my Bishops, general overseer of Spiritual fathers? Church Gist. No! They are my assistant Pastors but I’m teaching you how to sow to your Pastors! If Pastors have blessed you Spiritually it is an obligation for you to minister back to them, they are not ministering to me spiritually, I am the one blessing them spiritually yet I’m still ministering to them physically.
My media guy said, ‘Papa, my phone is bad’! I said, Come! And I removed my SIM card and gave it to him. I bought that phone for maybe one hundred and fifty thousand naira plus- It’s an Oppo phone, you need it more than myself in the media unit. Is he my Pastor? No! I don’t only bless up, I also bless down. It is the life that we have chosen to live. I don’t just bless my mentors, fathers and superior, I also bless those who are coming behind me. That’s why I’m different. Church Gist. Some people only bless those at the top and don’t bless those at the bottom. When you bless those at the top you will go up and when you bless those at the bottom you will never go down! I won’t fall to the point where I will be looking for someone who will give me a phone and remove the SIM card immediately.
7. For you to have enough to enjoy the good life 1 Timothy 6:17.
-You will be rich in this world.
Don’t be high minded- Papa should still be able to call you to order. Not trust in your riches- You can sleep as a billionaire and wake up as a poor man. Church Gist. In the life that we have lived in the last three weeks money has failed, the only thing that is working now is your relationship with God. Don’t be living for gold, be living for God. Trust the living God, not your living gold. Enjoy everything but don’t allow it to define you or take your heart away from God.
Only few can still arrive at prosperity and still be with God in eternity. That’s the danger of riches. If you ask three men to become wealthy now, two of them must marry a second wife, have too many side chicks, fail God and destinies. Some will even get to the point of buying juju with the money. That’s why sometimes if God loves and trusts you, He will give you wealth but if He loves you and does not trust you, He will see you serve Him in poverty. That your girlfriend, you think she loves you? Na your money she loves. If you were poor would she be your friend? So the money God gave you has become the problem that you are having. But God is saying, ‘I want to make men wealthy so that they will still love their wives, believe in their marriage and be under control’!
-May God find those kinds of men in this Church.
-Money will not have you, you will have money.
Once in a while try to travel and go on vacation, lick ice cream, drink tiger but drink, buy suya, chop fish because if you die dem go chop am. Enjoy! I don dey call good drinks, I never call your brand and you say, ‘Papa, go deeper’! I no go go deeper! A man had an accident and became unconscious and they took him to the hospital and while they were going, he said that in that state he asked himself a question, ‘If I die like this, who go chop my money wey dey for account? As he asked that question in an unconscious state, energy came and he jumped back to life! He’s about 65 to 66 years now. He’s somebody that I know very well. He was telling us this story while in Bible school.
-You will enjoy life.
———-PRAISES———
-This is the week where God will send you a financial deliverer!
-No pain, poverty, struggles, stress and hardship this week!
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