CHICK-FIL-A A CHRISTIAN FAMILY OWNED AND TOP RANKED FAST FOOD IN USA DOES NOT OPEN OUTLETS ON SUNDAYS THOUGH MORE SALES ARE MADE ON SUNDAYS
WHEN YOU OPERATE WITH THE LAW OF LOVE, GOD WILL MAKE YOU A LIVING WONDER ON EARTH
-Pastor David Ibiyeomie on “Love and Prosperity” at SMHOS Sunday Service (First Service)
Lord, give us an encounter of a life time in this service. Give a big hand and be seated. I want your heart to be set this morning.
When people hear prosperity, what they always think is money. You can have money and not prosper. You can have a large amount of money but a larger amount of debt.
Prosperity is having enough divine provision to complete a divine instruction. You are not prosperous just having money. Prosperity is not having a large amount in your account. It simply means being able to carry out your dad vine instruction through God’s provision. Every lover of God is a wonder to the world. 1 Corinthians 2:9. If you are a lover of God, your heart will move towards God. Jesus stated love has the greatest of all commandments. Your heart is always with anything you love. Matthew 22:37-40.
When you operate with the law of love, God will make you a living wonder on earth. In Matthew 6:24, It talks about not being able to serve God and money. There are two things that move a man, it is either money of God. If a man sits and say my tomorrow is sure if I have money, it means you have missed it. It means you are no longer seeking God for sufficiency. You must be God dependent. What you need for assurance and security is God not money and this is what God frowns at. Your future is secured with God not wealth.
The ways of God are contained in the word of God. When you put his ways to work, you command supernatural prosperity. If a born again Christian is stagnated, it means something is wrong.
The major law that controls prosperity is love. What connects love and prosperity? Giving is not the first thing. In John 3:16, what moved God to give Jesus to the world is Love. It is not giving first, the foundation has to be love. Many people give and complain and this is why they receive nothing. You can give without loving but you can’t love without giving. Giving is a Biblical proof of genuine love. 2 Corinthians 8:8. There is no love that will not be proved. Giving is a sign that you have conquered greed. It is not because you don’t have.
1 Chronicles 29:3-12, 15-17. David loved God so much that he provided everything needed to build a house for God despite the fact that God said he should not build a house for him. The motivating force that made David to give is love. This man goes before the 10 times a day even as a King. He said whatever he has came from God. There is a fast food in the United States called Chick-fil-a. It does not open on Sundays. The owner is a born again Christian. Chick-fil-a is the richest fast food in the United States. In America, it is believed that Sunday is the day you make the highest sales, buy for the Love for God, the fast food does not open.
Love God with all your heart. Let us go to King Solomon, the wealthiest man in the Bible. 1 Kings 3:3. Solomon followed the same steps of his father. It is not the giving first. It is love first then giving. If you don’t understand love, your giving will be wasted. People who love God and give don’t pray for money. I have not prayed for money from 1997 till date but I understand the secret of wealth. And in all humility, I am one of the wealthiest preachers. I have not asked any member including you (in case you are angry, put your money in your pocket.) to help me or for any assistance. I have not called any member on phone to help me. And don’t think it is your church money that I depend on, I am blessed of God. So that you don’t say what is he talking, is it not our tithe and offering? Go and ask those in charge of money here. I know the secret of Kingdom wealth. I am not preaching theory, I am preaching what my hands have handled. I discovered the secret of Kingdom wealth is to love him first.
Love-motivated giving is the covenant gateway to Kingdom prosperity. You have to give something special to get something great from God. Your level of love is what defines the level of prosperity you can access. Every provision of scripture leaves you with a responsibility. God says I will prosper you, then you must decided to obey and love him. With the love of God at the foundation, no force can stop you.
How does Love give you access to prosperity?
- Revelation. Those who truly love God don’t lack ideas. They flow in supernatural revelations. 1 Corinthians 2:10-12. If you are in business, your love of God can make God give you an idea that will change your life forever. I was walking with my wife and one of my cousins last week. I just showed him a concept and told him that if he does it, he will become a billionaire. Church Gist.Business thrives on ideas. You need the secret but it won’t come without you loving. Lovers of God get secret without looking for it.
- Divine Wisdom. Solomon loved the Lord and he got divine wisdom. 1 Kings 3:3,12. Do you know wealth is a product of Wisdom Proverbs 8:12,18. The foundation for wealth is love. When you love God, you will become super wise and this will command wealth for you. Sleep is a sign of poverty. Poor people sleep a lot. You will never see a the rich sleep when serious things are being discussed. Anybody you see sleeping in church is someone who wants to beg. I hate poverty with everything inside me because I have been poor before. You will never change if you don’t tell yourself the truth. Nobody’s preaching can change you until you tell yourself the truth.
I didn’t come out of prosperity until I told myself the truth. Bishop Oyedepo taught us prosperity in Bible School, in the Kingdom of God today, Oyedepo is the Headquarters of prosperity. For him to to teach you prosperity, you are not supposed to be poor because he is an epitome of Kingdom wealth. This man’s teaching will make you come out of poverty even if your name was poverty. He taught us in Bible School with markers and board, as the first set of students in the school. Church Gist. After Bible School, I told myself the truth that I didn’t understand prosperity yet, because after I came under heavy financial prosperity, I was soliciting funds. I had to tell myself the truth and sat down to find the truth on my own. I caught the light and my first offering was to that light was fifty naira. Last year I discovered that my offering to the same source that I sowed fifty naira was already 3.5 million dollars. It does not take century, it takes light. It does not take time, it takes the truth. Time does not bring change. If you are still begging mortal men for assistance, you have not known it. You can’t use another man’s headlamp to drive a car.
- Divine Favour. Love is the principal thing to divine favour. Psalm 102:13-14. When you take pleasure in the things of God, God will take pleasure in my things. Obedience to God’s word will shorten the distance to any miracle I am seeking. You didn’t struggle to give out to anyone you love.
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