Fountain of Hope Ministries International
(City of Champions)
Douala, Cameroon
2 Corinthians 9:6-7
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
The fact that many people have castigated giving to the church doesn’t make it powerless.
The fact that people have insulted givers doesn’t make it powerless. The fact that men of God have been stoned verbally on social media concerning giving doesn’t make it useless.
Anyone who thinks giving is useless is saying God is useless. Because God is the one who taught us how to give. He is the first giver and the best giver and he has never stopped giving till today.
Even in all man’s wickedness, He still gives rain to the good and bad. If you say giving is bad, you mean God knows nothing. God gave you life and the air you breathe is His gift. In Genesis, God created man and breathed into his nostrils and man became a living being.
If God didn’t give us breathe we would never have existed. There is no way we can take the command to give lightly. Giving is living. He who doesn’t give is not living. When you have not yet had a child, they say your womb is not living. But when you have given birth and given life to the world, they say your womb is living.
Anyone who fails to give has decided to be a failure in life. He who gives sparingly receives sparingly and he who gives bountifully received in like manner.
In giving, there are precepts and principles. There is a way it is supposed to be done. and there is a way you receive when you do it, giving is not done haphazardly.There is a way you give.
In normal life we say what you give is what you receive, but with God what you receive is never what you give. If you doubt this ask yourself, do you deserve life, good health, preservation etc ??
With God, we don’t receive as we give. He gives us beyond, pressed down, shaken together and running over.
He gives us beyond what money can buy.
He gives us beyond what our salaries can provide. The good health that keeps us away from hospital.
Reasons Why People Don’t Give In Church:
1) They think they are Enriching the pastor when they give:
I tell you the truth, the pastor becomes rich by what he gives to God and church and not what he receives. You don’t become rich by what you receive or amass but by what you give.
When you don’t give, you don’t receive just like the scripture we read in Corinthians said.
The reason why some of us own things as shoes sometimes for twelve years and even boast about keeping things is because we cannot give the shoe out and so God cannot replace it. When you can’t give that dress out God cannot replace it.
In those days it was a joy to show off keeping things for years upon years but not again with understanding.
May the Lord help you to be a giver in Jesus name.
2) Because They Think They Have Given Too Much Already:
Why do you keep using the toilet? Why not keep the stool? Because it becomes dangerous to the human body.
Same thing with our spiritual lives. The more you give the more you need to give and should give. The more you worship, love God, the more you need to do it.
3) Because They Feel Those Who Give Are Foolish Have Been Brainwashed.
This is because they lack comprehension. Ask God to open your eyes to see what He sees so that you can begin to give like Him.
4) Some Think God is not Faithfull.
Some say since I have given what I have received? Have you forgotten that some of your friends are in the grave early? You forgot you visited your age mate in a critical condition in the hospital ? Did you forget that on that road you drive in daily, some people’s legs have been amputated because of accidents?
God is not a money doubler. Some of us give God 10,000Frs and expect 20,000Frs.
When you give Him, He gives you beyond.
He can give you money in return but 90% of the time what God gives you is beyond what your money can give. I pray for you today, let every veil and scale truly fall off your eyes.
Now with dedication to giving, you cannot be truly dedicated to something until you give into it. The sign that you are dedicated to something is how much you give into it.
Three Aspects Prove Your Dedication To God
1) Giving Your Heart, Body and Soul Entirely:
2 Corinthians 8:3-5
In the King James Version we see that the people were pleading to give even beyond their ability and capacity.
They were not only willing to give their physical substance. They first gave themselves to the Lord.You cannot be a physical giver without giving yourself to the Lord. You become a dedicated giver by first giving yourself to the Lord.
Proverbs 23: 26 says give Ye your heart.
God first needs your heart before your money. Without your heart, your money is useless to God. God says give me your heart and let your eyes observe my way.
The children of Israel had not given their hearts to God. This explains why in the wilderness, it was easy for them to give in their finances to make a calve.
Dedication is giving. Whatever you are dedicated to, you give yourself to. If you have not given yourself you cannot give any other thing wholeheartedly and selflessly. If you are struggling to pay tithes, you have not yet given yourself enough. Some give one leg and pull it back.God is too serious to play with jokers.
If you want to do it, do it well. If you don’t want to do it, don’t do it at all. If you are struggling to be in church, you are not yet dedicated. Dedication is simply giving your all to the Lord.
If you have five rooms and clean three rooms you have not cleaned the house. Some of us have given our lives to Jesus only when it relates to church. But we have not given our jobs, family life etc to God.
Some of us have given our parlours to God for prayer but our rooms do not concern him, no prayer there. That is the place for pornograohy, masturbation etc etc
Dedication means I am a child of God in the room, parlour, toilet, Church , in or out of the country etc.There are many people who are born again but their mobile phones, iphones are not born again.
If they open some of your phones some of us will run, the picture, music etc. You look Holy but your phone is unholy. What you think is written in your telephone. Your mind is seen in your phone. The songs you dance and sing tell a story about you.
You have given your heart to Jesus but there is a part of you, you have not completely given.
2) Dedication Is For Lovers of God.
Dedication is affection. Anyone who is affectionate is a giver. If you say you are dedicated you will love God. No dedicated persons withholds. In Genesis God asked Abraham to give His only unique son, the one he waited for, for over twenty-five years, to give this son as a sacrifice. Abraham departed with His only son, ready to sacrifice.
If Abaraham did not love God, he would not give His son. Some of us came to church and left our kids to watch television. May the Lord help you.
Psalms 42:1-2
David was a dedicated giver. As the deer panteth for water so does my heart pant for thee.
When it was time to build the house of God he gave more than everyone. From his youth he loved God. The proof of your dedication to God is the giving of your substance. Sometimes I ask myself how much do I even have, what have I done that He has found me worthy, qualified to be a channel. If you love God you will give.
Solomon slaughtered one thousand cows just to tell God ‘I love you.’
There is no dedicated giver who can give successfully without loving God.The proof of your dedication and love for God is your giving to God.
There is nothing you have that God didn’t give you. If you think you got it by your strength or capacity or intelligence ask those who are intelligent out there, diplomats crying in madness behind houses. Hard Workers dying in poverty and hardship.
All you have was given to you by God. When you realise this, you would not find it hard to give God. Giving is an escape route. If you want to live well, healthy and joyful, be a giver. Do you want to have enough to take care of children, give. Don’t give because you expect God to give you money back.Give because you know that what God gives you is beyond all you can give. Give because you love God.
Have you noticed how the rich try to give to orphanages etc. Because they know it is a great source of blessing. You want to live long. Give!! Multiplication in the world means keeping. In the Christianity it is giving. In the kingdom, what you keep rusts. Your heart is where your treasure is.
3) Dedication is an Addiction.
When you are truly dedicated, you become addicted. A drunkard is dedicated to his alcohol and no matter how much he has he must take a sip whether his kids have eaten or not. Alcohol first and every other thing comes after. Some people can buy you a drink so you drink with them and can buy you wine for hundreds of thousands but can’t give you the money to start a business. Some men are addicted to strange women, even if you give them the best Cameroonian woman, it would never be enough, his money must first go to strange women till the money finishes before he sees clearly.
Matthew 6:21
Everything you are addicted to, you depend on. Where your treasure is there would your heart be. There are women who cannot do without new shoes. If money enters their hand they start with a shoe. Cooking money is for shoes.
Sometimes we have bosses addicted to different things and we cannot talk them out of it but how come unbelievers talk us out of our stand with God. With all bad things said of doctors and policemen have you seen them resign? But why do we withhold our dedication and energy to fulfil God’s purposes because of talks.
You cannot talk me out of devotion to God ,or stop me from doing what I have to do for God. because I am not doing what I am doing because of you. No it was not a man that told me to do it. It’s God, it’s because I love God and I am dedicated to God.
When you are addicted to something. All that you have goes to that thing .
If you are addicted to God. All that you have becomes available for God’s use.
Like our father always says, there are people who pray for the gospel, those who preach and those who give towards it. You can dedicate yourself to all three.
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