BEWARE!!! THE god OF GOLD IS ON A HUNT FOR PRECIOUS SOULS; HE’S EVER SEEKING WORSHIP!
YOU DON’T DESPISE MONEY, YOU WILL WORSHIP IT
A GIANT DOES NOT GIVE BIRTH TO A DWARF. IT’S NOT NORMAL FOR YOU TO BE STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY IN THIS COMMISSION
WE WERE NOT RECEIVING OFFERING AT THE ONSET OF OUR MINISTRY, YET WE HAD NO LACK
AS YOU STAY GRAFTED TO THE GRACE OF GOD IN THIS COMMISSION, EVERY MANIFEST GRACE HERE SHALL BEGIN TO FIND REAL EXPRESSIONS IN YOUR LIFE. DON’T FAKE IT!
WHILE HAGIN WAS GOING TO HEAVEN GOD TOLD ME; CONNECTIVITY IS HONOURED BY GOD.
CONNECTIVITY ADDS VALUE – YOU ENTER INTO ANOTHER MAN’S LABOUR. YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL OVER AGAIN
VERY SOON ALL NATIONS WHETHER 1ST WORLD OR 3RD WORLD WILL NEED HELP AND NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO HELP ANOTHER
THEY WILL ALL RUN TO THE CHURCH SAYING COME AND HELP US
WITHOUT TAKING COVER IN THE COVENANT YOU WILL NATURALLY BE A VICTIM
YOU CAN’T CHOOSE GOD AND LACK GOOD AND YOU CAN’T CHOOSE MONEY AND NOT MOURN.
IF SATAN COULD TEMPT CHRIST TO WORSHIP THE god OF GOLD, JUST ANYONE ELSE CAN BE TEMPTED.
IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE COVENANT YOU CAN HAVE INDUSTRIES THAT LOOK LIKE CEMETERIES
THERE IS NO GANG UP OF HELL THAT CAN STOP THE PROSPERITY OF THIS COMMISSION. WE ARE UNDER A STRONG COVENANT COVERING
I’M TRYING TO HUMILIATE THE god OF GOLD THAT THERE IS NOTHING IN IT. I’VE NEVER HAD TO PRAY FOR MONEY – 41 YEARS
IF YOU GO OFF CONTENTMENT YOU GO INTO COVETOUSNESS AND YOU START PALPITATING
THE WORST OF ALL FAMINES IS THE FAMINE OF THE WORD OF GOD
MY WEALTH CANNOT BE CALCULATED BY ANYBODY BECAUSE I HAVE SUBSCRIBED TO THE LAW OF GIVING AND RECEIVING, ONCE AND AGAIN
MONEY ON ITS OWN IS NOT EVIL. IT’S WHEN IT BECOMES A god TO YOU THAT IT BECOMES THE ROOT OF ALL EVILS
– Bishop David Oyedepo on “BEWARE THE god OF GOLD IS ON THE HUNT FOR PRECIOUS SOULS” || AYAC 2023 – Breaking New Grounds (Day 4, Evening Session || 25th August, 2023 || Faith Tabernacle Canaanland, Ota
Every engrafted branch manifests the root and the fatness of the olive to which it is engrafted. As you stay grafted to the grace of God in this commission, every manifest grace of God in this commission shall begin to find real expressions in your life! just don’t fake it. Church Gist. You can’t fake it to make it. I am an open reflection of my prophetic roots – unashamed reflection of my prophetic roots because I have not faked it. You don’t need prayer; you just need genuine engraftment and the virtue begins to flow naturally.
A man of God was in the house, he’s gone to Heaven now and he read a few of my books while staying in our home. An American respected man of God and he said, I sensed the Spirit of Hagin on those pages. We’ve never talked about it before. He said, at a point I just saw you move into another realm – by reading the books, no discussion. Membership and connectivity are not the same. Church Gist. While Hagin was going to Heaven God told me here, “Someone as close to you as your cloth is coming home.” I said, my biological father? He said, “no, Hagin.” I told my wife, the Eagle is about to soar, let’s rush and meet with him. 2, 3 weeks after he was gone to Heaven. Connectivity is honoured by God. The sources to which you are connected to are not benefitting anything from you. Did Hagin benefit anything from me? How? The father ought to lay up for the children not the children for the father.
The other prophet God sent to me stood on this altar and said, you read this book, Understanding Financial Prosperity, you will be out of it. Connectivity adds value – you enter into another man’s labour. You don’t have to go through all over again. Luke 4:38. Malachi 4:6. To be fatherless is to be an orphan. Church Gist. You go through the whole process by yourself – you may not have enough time on Earth to do that. I remember looking at Hagin and I said, Jesus, whatever makes Hagin Hagin, I want it. I’ve never mimicked him in my life but I have replicated him. Mimicking him is just entertainment but replication of grace is tangible. I’ve never seen a giant give birth to a dwarf. I can’t imagine you struggling financially in this commission – it’s not normal!
We were not receiving offering at the onset of our ministry, we just say, well, there’s a box outside there, after the service you have anything you brought for the Lord you drop it there. God bless you, Amen. Yet we had no lack. How can you be guessing in your walk of life? I’ve been hearing from God directly from 22. “Go forward, make left, now another left,” and he led me in a town to where some folks I was looking for where living without any human guide – efficient GPS never lacks power to manifest. Church Gist. Imagine these thousands on ground and several thousands in their multiplied form around the world tap into this grace to which I also tapped into, plus the little one on me and all the ones I have collected, you now tap into all of that? You can’t be ordinary! Proximity does not connote connectivity. You can be right here on the Faith arm, I am facing you on the altar, it doesn’t guarantee a change. Somebody is connected from Japan and he is tapping. May be I sat with Hagin 3 times in my entire life but soul-spirit connected and so the resources, the virtues in the means began to flow. Church Gist. I sat with the man of God Copeland for the first time after 30 years and I have been reading him and connecting to him. It’s your turn!
– Nobody will doubt your identity as a Winner again!
Someone went for an interview and people with connections were all going inside and then someone appeared to him in white and said, follow me. He went through the gate and when he got inside they said, let them start coming in from the back. So he was the last to come and the first to be called. Church Gist. That’s where you are!
– As the Lord lives, everyone on the line for miracle jobs in the precious name of Jesus Christ, you’re returning to Shiloh with your change of story testimony!
– Some of you will become employers of labour between now and then!
– Divine ideas will visit you!
– You won’t make money by all means but by legitimate means!
Since God opened my eyes -1982 on the mystery of prosperity I have never begged or borrowed. I didn’t have anything when he opened my eyes to it but light first. Genesis 13:15.
Tonight we will be looking at this very interesting subject, BEWARE THE god OF GOLD IS ON THE HUNT FOR PRECIOUS SOULS. When you see ‘beware’ around any electrical installation means, do you want your life? Stay off or you will be cut off. They put a skull and a cross. Do you want to become a skull? Then dare it. Beware, the god of gold is on a hunt for precious souls. Acts 20:31. Church Gist. He’s ever seeking for worship, even went as far as tempting Jesus to bow down and worship him upon showing him the Kingdoms of the world and the glory there of. Matthew 4:8-11. If he could get to tempt Jesus, anyone can be tempted. Matthew 6:24. You don’t despise money, you will worship it. Nature abhors vacuum, there are 2 contending forces over our life – God and Mammon or the demon of money. You can’t be on 2 sides at the same time. You have to choose one and ignore the other.
I once said to God, “Whatever you will give me in my life that will disconnect me from you, please don’t give me. Church Gist. I am the one begging you. Your presence is more valuable to me than all the treasures of the world put together.” It was between me and God.
You allow God to guide you and goodness and mercy will be following you all the days of your life. You can’t choose gold or money and not mourn.1 Timothy 6:10. You can’t choose God and lack good and you can’t choose money and not mourn. There are too many worshippers of gold in church, their primary concern is what to have, where to live. Some are renting houses beyond their income. Their income for the year is less than the rent of the house that they live in. What a world that we live in. What an insanity. Beware! The god of gold is ever seeking for worship, he is ever on the hunt for precious souls but you have escaped. The Bible defined the worship of the god of gold as a great sin. Exodus 32:31. Exodus 32:26. Only the Levites responded. If Satan could tempt Christ to worship the god of gold, just anyone else could be tempted. Church Gist. God is not against our prosperity, it is part and parcel of our inheritance in redemption. He became poor so that we through his poverty might be rich. He obtained for us at his resurrection: power, riches, wisdom, glory, honour, strength and blessings. Revelation 5:12. It is not our ambition, it is our birthright in redemption. Wealth is not my ambition, it is my birthright in redemption.
It takes revelation to access this inheritance. Acts 20:32. We access our inheritance through the Word. Acts 20:32. 2 Peter 1:3. All we need is to be educated in the covenant of abundance and be committed to walking in it and you become a surprise to your world. While revelation gives us access, applied revelation is required to experience it. Revelation shows you here is the provision, these are the conditions to meet to take delivery of this provision. Church Gist. Money will not trouble you again. Achan troubled his entire lineage through the inordinate love for money. Everyone connected to him and their livestock were stoned to death and heaped stones on them and set them on fire. A whole lineage perished to a crave after the god of gold. This is your best season to get oriented on the right path of life. You will have rest.
Now I am not just teaching this because it is what I want to teach, I have it as a mandate. Get back home and make my people rich. I have seen a bit of it as God confirms His Word in the lives of those who care to receive this Word and engage with it according to the rules. We are in a new Kingdom guided by the new constitution according to the rules. You can be in church for a hundred years and never taste prosperity in your life because you don’t know it. Revelation 2:8. But you are rich but you don’t know it. You keep running from pillar to post, from church to professional prophets because you don’t know it. No anointed man can impart you with prosperity, it is not impartible. Church Gist. You can’t impart it. Can I impart you now to become a pilot? You receive grace to go and register in a flying school if you are not too old for it. If you are too old forever that is all. My prayer is that tonight will break the siege of the God of gold on your life. He has given us the oil of joy for mourning. We are not permitted to be among the mourners. Isaiah 61:3. We are not permitted to be depressed by the god of gold.
Applied revelation. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. Matthew 7:24-25. James 1:22-25. It is the doing of it. It is not what we know that changes us but what we do with what we know. What we do will never change our story but what we do with what we know. Therefore we must take covenant cover in the Word to realize our financial fortune right in these times of uncertainties, anxieties, dispel and intending global economic holocaust that is currently hitting the world subtlety and for most parts unnoticed. Church Gist. Psalm 89:34. Jeremiah 33:20-22. We have been redeemed as kings and priests, God’s covenant for us cannot be broken by any human or circumstantial force under heaven.
We also have discovered that famine is synonymous with every generation in Bible history. There was famine in the time of Abraham (Genesis 12:10). Famine in the time of Isaac (Genesis 26:1-6), there was famine in the time of Jacob (Genesis 42:1, 43:1). So there is nothing strange about it. All famines recorded in scriptures had one nation or another to run to for succour. They heard that there was corn in Egypt and Jacob sent his sons to go and buy. In this end time, all nations will need help. How many? All nations will need help and no one will be able to help another. All nations will need help because the earth will burn like an oven. Church Gist. Not one nation, not the first world, not the third world, not the black world. The earth will burn like an oven. This is God’s eternal agenda. What about the Church? Those are just clowns. You will know whether we are clowns or we are crowned. You will know. All the proud. Yeah, we are the first world. They are the third world or no world. All nations will flow into Church saying teach us His ways. The last days will humble the pride of the world. White, black and yellow, If you are not a Zionist you are off. Church Gist. I am privileged to have insights from scriptures on God’s agenda for the end time. All this jumping around from one nation to another won’t help you at all. You will be running from pillar to post, without taking a covenant cover you are a victim. The god of gold does not qualify for your worship. He does not have a place in God’s end time agenda. He is not part of the equation. The devil is not part of God’s agenda for the end time and he is the one behind the god of gold. He does not qualify for your worship or your recognition, God’s Covenant delivers without the devil in the equation. Only the devil that can stop the sun from going up and the moon from showing up in its time can stop God’s covenant from working. Woe unto them that go down to Eygpt for help.
Isaiah 31:1-3. You’re a child of destiny you can’t afford to be living like a destitute. God has a settled plan for your life, seek the Lord to locate it. Verse 3 – there will be no where to hide outside God.
There is coming a global economic holocaust where the whole world shall begin to burn like an oven. Malachi 4:1-2; Genesis 47:14-15, 27 – That is the exemption mystery of the Covenant. Joel 2:1-3. Church Gist. There is no gang up of hell that can stop the prosperity of this commission because we are under a strong covenant covering. As the economy began to grow worse we are building more Churches. Say, exemption!
– That’s how your life will be!
Take a genuine cover in the Covenant. The anointing will not be a substitute. You can be anointed and be a pauper. You can have industries and it is like cemeteries – zero rest, gasping. “Will you eat? – no” His blessings make rich and it adds no sorrow. Proverbs 10:22. I still sleep like a baby o and I walk like a horse and zero pressure – all of you around me know. The day I won’t laugh will not meet me on this Earth. I just laugh everyday. Your coat, shirt and waist coat that has covered your belly require laughter. That’s when you’re under God’s blessings – it adds no sorrow. I’m trying to humiliate the god of gold that there is nothing in it. Church Gist. Men and brethren, I’ve never had to pray for money – 41 years. I’ve never been tempted to pray for it. Having food and raiment, therewith be content because by the time you go off contentment you go into covetousness and you start palpitating. Any car you see you stretch your neck until you have neck pain. I’ve never seen a plane in my dream – there’s no space for it.
If you won’t despise the god of gold you will worship it. Anything of no value to you cannot secure your worship. Church Gist. You will command extreme financial fortune by your correct positioning in the Covenant. This is Father and children talk.
But the worst of all famines is the famine of the Word of God because man shall live by every Word that comes out of the mouth of the Lord and now there’s no access to the Word. Amos 8:11-12. What the devil is doing by all these teachings of ‘you can do just anything’ is to block people’s access to the Word because the secret of God is with them that fear him. Psalm 25:14. He’s old in the game so he knows what he is doing. It takes the fear of God to acces the covenant otherwise you will use your little intellect to be appraising it. Church Gist. One day one of my sons called me from outside the country he said, “Sir have you noticed something? Have you seen something on the net?” I said, no, what am I doing there? I am working. He said, you have been named the richest pastor in the world. I said they are not lying but to say I am worth one stupid amount? That’s not my worth – you don’t know my worth. My wealth is according to his riches in glory; it cannot be calculated by anybody because I have subscribed to the law of giving and receiving and once and again not once and for all. Philippians 4:15-19 – giving and receiving, launching men, ordinary people like us, into realms of the riches of his glory. Please note: money is not evil but the love of money is the root of all evils. 1 Timothy 6:10.
Why is money not evil? 1 Timothy 6:6-10, 17-19. Verse 17: shows that rich people are in Church. Money is not evil. God dwells in Heaven where the streets are paved with gold. The foundation of the mansions they are of costly stones. The walls are diamonds as clean as glass. Haggai 2:8. Christ came down here, there was no need to ask where do we get money? Where do we get bread to buy for 5,000 people minus women and children. They had enough money to feed them. He never lies. He was going about with convoy of boats in his ministry. Whether you lease it or you buy it, it’s a lot of money. Church Gist. He told Judas what you do, do quickly; they said it’s either to go and buy something. Jesus never begged what to give to the poor. So Jesus commanded wealth and yet he knew no sin. John 8:46. So money on its own is not evil. It’s when it becomes a god to you that it becomes the root of all evils because you do anything to get it. Some have killed their children to make money. You say, where? All over the world. Some have killed their spouses. They took knife and cut their neck yet she’s his darling. The god of gold has possessed him – you know possession? They say,this thing cannot work except you bring your wife. “Ah, that’s the only wife I have.” “That’s the only way o” – they reply. “If you don’t bring her we kill you because we have told you what to do now.” (Crying) you now look at your wife, “I am to bring you.” For money; nonsense money! I can tell you money is nonsense.
Just follow God patiently, enjoyably, enjoy your stage per time. Church Gist. You are going somewhere. I am yet to feel sorry for any stage of my life.
We were living in the office, my family. Only one toilet for the entire Church, what a blessing. But, when I’m teaching, you will think that I’m coming from a mansion. With all zeal and zest without a sorry in my mind or my spirit for myself. Church Gist. We used to take our guests to the motor park in Kaduna, you enter the vehicle, “see you another time”. Praise God! You think we started flying like that? No. This Church was in a store with a cross ventilation, you sweat out of your three piece coat. Then we graduated into a grass cathedral, my God, you know the promotion? Because there’s ventilation all around that one, we were choking there, now, there’s fresh air coming through the grasses. Church Gist. Then, God blessed us so much and we had iron sheets on top of it with several poles of wood. One time, we got to Church and water was flowing from the altar, I said, “this is the river of life”. I never said to God once, “but why are we at this level?” No, that’s the level we should be. You don’t start 100 level as a toddler even if your father is the owner of the university. Church Gist. You must pass through your creche, go to primaries and pass through and go to secondary and go through. You won’t smell 100 level until you go through all that. But, you don’t want to go through primary, you want to start in PG school. They say, “what’s happening?” You say, “I want to register for a course”. They say, “which course?” “Masters in Engineering”. The first lecture will scatter your head because you’re not hearing anything. Church Gist. Headache, boom, boom (Laughs) because you’re too ‘smart’ to follow the process.
No one is born a giant, you grow into gianthood. As a young man you’re looking for a house and where you wanted it is Victoria Island and you want 3-bedroom there, that’s where you will bury your destiny. Church Gist. Because you don’t have the capacity for it. You better live your life and settle down. Listen to me, we could not rent a house of 45,000 naira per annum in Lagos in 1989. No, that’s too much, they will send for me from the village, “if you don’t know what you’re doing, please return home”. I wouldn’t dare it.
One of my sons, I asked him to buy me shoes, he brought one, he said, “this is very good”. I said, “how much?” He said 700 naira. “700 naira? Does it have enje?” And then, someone is buying shoes on credit, are you sick? Church Gist. Has anybody ever asked you in your life how much is your shoe? It’s your cup of tea. If you like be walking in debt all around your life. Life is in phases and men in sizes.
– you story is changing!
It is this hurrying syndrome that has sent many into horror. “All my friends have built estates”, go and collect it. If they tell you what to do and you subscribe to it, bye bye to eternity. Church Gist. That my son had a house in Ikeja, the one that was pushing drugs till Jesus rescued him. Upon vanity, selling drugs to destroy the destiny of others, how can you have rest? The good news is, you have escaped!
– the god of gold will not hold anyone here captive anymore!
Wealth is our portion in redemption, not our ambition, it’s alloted us in redemption. 2 Corinthians 8:9. Revelations 5:12. The possession of money is not evil but the love and worship of money is evil. Church Gist. Some fellows in this Church, God helped from Heaven and they saw money and fled, a number of them are smelling now. You better take cover, the moment you go off the covenant path, you have registered for crises. It’s not a curse, it’s a covenant. Psalm 16:4. That man in the parable of Christ, the Rich Fool, he went away sorrowful. The love of money makes people sorrowful. Church Gist. You can be laughing in the public oh but inside of your inside is sorrow, a deep-rooted sorrow. Because, the quest after money knows no end. It creates an unending crave for more until individuals fall into a ditch.
– we will never be that!
Do you know how despised money is in this ministry? You’ve never heard any prayer raised on money here, have you ever heard it? “Oh Lord, remember Ark building, remember other Church buildings, show yourself, manifest yourself, don’t forget. We remind you now, we remind you again because you can forget many things, you have many things to do” (laughs). Yet, we are in command of financial fortune.
– it’s your turn!
Gehazi went after unrighteous gain and returned with leprosy.
– that will not be your portion!
Judas was a land speculator, he was stealing to buy land, he now had a land to buy and there was no money that he could steal. Church Gist. The eyes of Peter, James and John were on the money, he said, “I better sell Jesus and buy this land. I don’t want to miss this land”. He sold his Master, because (the love of money) makes you mad. John 12:6. Jesus knew that Judas was a thief but if He ever mentioned it, Peter will cut his neck. Church Gist. He repented too late, he went and hung himself. He threw the money down oh, late repentance.
– somebody is free here!
Any illegitimate business that anyone is involved in here is digging your grace without knowing. Yahoo yahoo manipulations, you’re digging your grave without knowing, get out of it! Church Gist. There are decent legitimate ways to add genuine income and be at peace.
– that’s the kind you will have from now!
Important things to note in engaging the covenant of wealth. I’m not a teacher of prosperity, I’m a messenger. “Get back home and make my people rich”. Church Gist. I abandoned everything I had to do and rushed back to Nigeria and I thought I was going to press a button and then everything would begin to happen.
1. The day of His jewels shall precede the day of His coming. You know why? The endtime Church is to rule in the midst of our enemies and the rich is one that will rule over the poor. Psalm 110:1-2. Proverbs 22:7. Church Gist. So, God is going to unleash Heavenly wealth on the earth to position the Church to rule in the midst of our enemies. Malachi 3:17-18.
A sharp difference is coming oh. Don’t let any devil dissuade you from serving God in truth and in deed including with your God given resources. Don’t let any devil confuse you. Church Gist. A day is coming that will be a clear difference between those who are on key with Jesus and those who are not. That day is coming, you will be on the positive side of it in the name of Jesus.
The last days shall be days of darkness and gloominess for the world but days of men to be wondered at for the saints. Men to be wondered at. They will think you are a magician by virtue of God’s favour on your life haven walked with Him from phase to phase. Zechariah 3:5. Men to be wondered at. Just like they said Jesus had a demon, they won’t believe that you are a natural man. You have escaped the natural realm you are operating at the heavenly realm. So everything is happening to you at a heavenly rate. You know Jesus built this church building without a budget and without begging, without a temptation to borrow within one year. Church Gist. Fear God! The Ark Project is going on. A lot of my sons are here who are youth pastors of various churches. Have they ever announced that they should give? Even here do we announce? How is He building it? Dollars tumbled and tumbled but blessings are also tumbling. We are not part of this economic system here. The devil himself knows. If you ask him, he will say we are not. We have seen a lot of economic adjustments and misadjustment in this country and it didn’t affect us. It is your turn. If you care to settle with the covenant of abundance, you will emerge a wonder among men. Money does not qualify for your worship and should not be given any feeling that it does. No!
The prosperity of the end time Church is ordained to humble the pride of the world. Joel 2:26-27. The end time Church will bear no shame of lack and want not by any magical thing but by following the dictates of the covenant. Zephaniah 3:17. Jesus is coming for a vibrant church, we are in that revival now and we are not going to step out of it. Zephaniah 3:17-20. Among all people of the earth. Whether they be black or green or yellow, forget it. Now listen young people: there is no Forex input from outside the country in the Ark Project. Fear God! There is no pressure on any one of us in leadership. Fear God! It is more real than the day. The day may pass away but this covenant stands. Church Gist. It is so real among all people of the earth. It is not only those who came here to the project site that are surprised, we here are surprised. That is how your life will be springing surprises. All you need is to learn how to apply the revelation of God’s agenda and then your life will take a new turn. 1 John 2:14. You better get smarter than the devil lest he captures you.
God’s covenant of seed time and harvest is what governs our access to the realm of fortune. We need an understanding of God’s covenant of seed time and harvest to access the realms of financial fortune. Genesis 8:22. Deuteronomy 8:18. God still confirms that Covenant forever. Seed time before harvest. No seed, no harvest. What is seed time and harvest? Sowing and reaping. 2 Corinthians 9:6-8. Sowing is giving, returns from your giving is harvest. Reaping is returns on your giving which equals abundance of financial fortune. Philippians 4:15-19. Once and again not once and for all. Continuity. If all the farmers back out this year, hunger will strike the entire world next year. Everybody will go into famine. They farm once and again to keep food in the store. When you stop farming, hunger will strike. When you stop giving lack will come in. Once and again. By His grace, my tithing has been consistent from the time He showed me, including my wife. My kingdom promotion addiction has been undying, when it is gone everything goes. Yet we have not lacked once. It is a once-and-again covenant mentality that we need. Church Gist. We need to sustain the giving grace in our life not that you give your tithe two months and forget the remaining ten months because things are tough. You will make them tougher, the window is shut. Somebody’s story is changing. You have heard more than what I have heard. What I have heard that changed my life is not up to one-third of what I have told you now, go and use it.
The law of giving and receiving is a must for any believer to operate in the realm of financial fortune. It must remain a way of life for any believer to operate in the realm of financial fortune. Job 22:21-25. You shall lay up gold as dust. Dust doesn’t hold any value. The Lord shall be thy defence so no anger of the enemy can tamper with it. When God blesses you forget about the enemy, he can’t come near. Also, note that God will entrust true riches into the hands of those He can trust to use such for His purpose in this end time. Church Gist. Luke 16:11. Wealth is an entrustment in the Kingdom and not an achievement. Heaven’s order of wealth is an entrustment, not an achievement. He gave them the gold in Egypt because they would need it to build the Tabernacle in the wilderness. Those who held on to their gold perished with it. Those who gave it liberally they lived. It is an entrustment.
Our giving is not a financial donation to help any church or ministry but to secure our own financial heritage in Christ. If you don’t help us, we can’t go on. That is not correct. Luke 22:35. Don’t do what you are not sent to do, if you are in ministry just do what he asks you to do. Somebody asked me how we do things so cheaply. I said we just do what He commands. When you live as commanded you remain in command. Church Gist. When you live as commanded, God who commanded it will back it up to deliver it. Somebody’s story is changing. Psalm 50:14. God will never need human help to be God. Whether you are there or not, God is God. He is the I AM THAT I AM. The silver and gold are mine, I am looking for trusted channels to pass it through. May you be found worthy.
It is also important to know that our giving is a spiritual transaction that provokes divine favour which includes financial fortune. Noah reared an altar of sacrifice and God spoke from heaven. The sacrifice spoke in heaven and God responded. Genesis 8:20-22. Abraham took Isaac to the altar of sacrifice and God spoke twice from heaven. Church Gist. The sacrifice answered in heaven. Solomon reared an altar of sacrifice in Gibeon and God came down to say what do you want me to do for you. Our giving is a spiritual transaction that for provoking divine favour which includes financial fortune.
Remember we are also redeemed as a blessing to our world and not a burden. No one here shall be a burden to anyone else. From this time on, you will be a blessing. Wherever you appear joy will be stirred up. Genesis 12:3. Church Gist. We are Abraham’s seed, we are to be a blessing and not a burden. No one shall be a burden anymore. So what makes rich young people is not skill or strength, it is the blessing of the Lord. Proverbs 10:22. You won’t suffer sorrow again in your life.
Some fringe benefits of covenant practice.
It is not just money that comes back to us amazing things that money cannot buy comes along with it.
1. It procures divine favour
2. It engenders supernatural fruitfulness.
It was in response to the hospitality of Abraham and Sarah that the prophetic word came that by this time next year, you will carry a baby. Exodus 23:25-26.
3. It secures divine protection
Psalm 20:1. He defends us, He protects us in remembrance of our offerings. You are in that practice then Lord shall be your defence and you will command plenty of silver. Church Gist. So no harassment of kidnappers, no harassment of armed robbers because the Lord is your defence.
4. It averts plagues
2 Samuel 12:24. Every satanic plague on people’s lives comes to an end through the covenant of giving and receiving.
5. It secures longevity
Abram, our covenant father lived to be 175 years. We saw the same grace in Isaac 180 years, we saw the same grace in Jacob 147 years. Church Gist. Isaiah 65:20-24.
6. Provoke divine ideas
As you give your tithe He opens the windows of Heaven, what comes down there, like we saw among others is a rain of divine ideas. Church Gist. The Holy Spirit quickens our understanding, He comes down with creative triggers to launch us into God’s agenda for our lives.
7. It secures posterity
A generation after us. Psalm 112:1-3.
-No one in your generation will be a pauper. Church Gist. No one will be a beggar! The quality of your covenant walk with God will make a difference in their lives.
I close with this and it will help you! Devastation of the god of gold. 1 Timothy 6:9-10. We have this famous Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago which was the site of the 1923 meeting of some of the world’s most powerful financiers. Watch! In attendance was Charles Schwab, the President of the largest Independent Steel Company and then we have Samuel Insull, the President of the largest Utility Company. Church Gist. Now! Howard Hopson the President of the largest Gas Company, Arthur Cutten, the greatest Wheat Speculator, Richard Whitney, the President of New York Stock Exchange, Albert Fall, a member of the President’s Cabinet, Jesse Livermore, the greatest Bear on Wall Street, Leon Fraser, the President of the Bank of International Settlement and Ivan Kreugar, the Head of the World’s Largest Monopoly. Now, collectively, they control more wealth than there was in the United States Treasury yet for all their financial expertise, theirs was not a pleasant story for they each came to a bitter end.
-You won’t come to a bitter end.
After living on borrowed money for the last five years of his life, Schwab died penniless. What? Insull also died destitute, a fugitive from justice in a foreign country. Insanity claimed Hopson while Cutten died abroad insolvent. Both Richard, Whitney and Albert Fall ended up in prison while Livermore, Fraser and Kreuger all committed suicide. Church Gist. Although the details of their disastrous demise vary from individual to individual, the similarities give us a reason to pause and consider. They were addicted to wealth and the power it represented and in the end, this was their undoing. Had they heeded the Scriptural warnings about materialism, they might have escaped their tragic fate. Caution! I said earlier, your choice for God puts you in command of good but your choice for the god of gold makes men mourn. A word is enough for the wise!
Give God thanks because you have just escaped.
Now! Can I tell you what I see? I see an army of financial giants riding on covenant wings. Church Gist. I see an army of men and women empowered for supernatural wealth in this Endtime. I see an army of Kingdom-addicted promoters.
John D. Rockefeller was a tither from his first pay cheque of seven dollars, fifty cents a week. He ended up the first American billionaire in history. He one time gave 140 thousand million dollars to his Church Education Fund, he served as Church Warden a few times. To be the first American billionaire in history means to be the wealthiest man in America. He was tithe raised, tithe groomed and tithe sustained. Kingdom sacrifice promoted. I can give you a whole list of them.
-You will come on that list.
People don’t lack what they give, they only lack what they keep. Proverbs 11:24. 1983, I told our young leaders about six of us, I said: Now that we are all at the same level, because we were all at the same level. Some of them their level was higher than mine, joyfully so! ‘If I have this money that we are talking about, God won’t appeal to me to give it but now that we are all at the same level understand what I’m saying because a time is coming some of us will be taken off in the air and you will be wondering: What are they using? They are using charm, they are using magic’. I said: ‘I’m sold out to God’! You can’t be sold out to God and not stand out in life.
Grace to be sold out to God! Come on receive it right now!
——–PRAYER AND ALTAR CALL——
Can I tell you this, the Church is taking the stage this Endtime – It’s not a political statement, it’s a prophetic agenda. The Church will become the pride of the world in this Endtime. Everybody would be humbled by the hand of God upon His Church. And His Church is not a building, it’s the people. I said: Your enemies will be humbled regarding the hand of God on your life because things will be changing at a frequency beyond human capacity.
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