-Pastor David Ibiyeomie at 1st service, Salvation Ministries.
*Many are only poor because they are poor managers of resources.
*It is abnormal to expect abundance without giving,
The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof. In God’s agenda the end is always better. In man’s agenda it is the beginning. If you go for a wedding the first good meal is in the beginning. If you go late you’ll eat the remnants but in God’s agenda in the wedding it is in the ending part the best comes. Everything about God is towards the end the best comes.
Pray saying ‘Lord I have come to the end of the month, whatever you have for this month may the best be delivered to me because I have come before You’.
‘I have come to the end of the very last day in February, may the best You have for me be released today’.
Today is the last day in the month of the Manifestation of Your Sonship but we will be looking at:
‘SUPERNATURAL ABUNDANCE PART 1’
Everyone of you that went out yesterday I specially pray that God bless you in the mighty name of Jesus. Every suffering Christian is not on God’s payroll. When you go out for evangelism God pays you so if you’re suffering check if you’re going out for soul winning.
John 4:36
I decree that everyone that went out yesterday for soul winning, every reward of soul winning may your portion be delivered.
Everyone that went out, you are not ashamed of Jesus and you advertise the gospel, your reward will not be delayed in the precious name of Jesus.
Supernatural abundance is real. It is not gimmicks. One of the benefits of salvation is abundance.
Exodus 12:35-36
When Israel left Egypt, God made them to leave Egypt in abundance.
Psalm 105:7
One of the things that accompanies abundance is salvation. Everytime God wants to release His people from suffering He gives them abundance.
There are these four lepers in 2nd Kings 7
that enjoyed abundance. Abundance in the Bible is real. He fed the Israelites with manna for forty years. That’s why I know today ends the mark of suffering in someone’s life.
The word supernatural simply means something superior to the natural. It involves the power of God walking on behalf of men which beats all expectations of natural laws.
Abundance means having excess over and above our needs. So supernatural abundance means the power of God working on behalf of men to create surplus over and above our needs. How many would like to live in abundance? I discovered and noticed from God’s Word that if you’re not living in abundance you will be limited.
Life is not just about you having something but by you also blessing somebody. If you don’t have abundance how do you bless somebody? If you have limited resources you can’t bless someone.
Do you want to live your life not blessing anybody? That is a useless life. People will come to your house you can’t give them food to eat, is that the good life? They visit you, you can’t pay transport fare for them, is that the kind of life you’ll like to live?
Not everybody wants abundance. Is there anyone that don’t want abundance?
Abundance is good. Even as children would you like to go to school and your biscuits you don’t want anybody to eat it, do you like that kind of life where you will open biscuit at the back. If you were in school at our days and you open biscuit at the back just know that you have stinginess inside you. So you have to fight it. All of you that used to open biscuit from the back, stinginess is inside of you.
My provision used to finish on campus before any other person. I have been giving all my life, born again now just added to it. I have been a giver from childhood.
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUPERNATURAL ABUNDANCE
There are certain requirements if you want to enjoy supernatural abundance. What are the requirements? I’m going to give you six or seven of them. Glory to God. What are the benefits for supernatural abundance
1- The love of God.
Affection for God.
1st Chronicles 29:3
I have set my love for God so I’m ready to do anything for God. You know David in his time was the wealthiest king. Genuine love for God and the things of God gives way to access of supernatural abundance. Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard neither has He revealed to the hearts of men what God has prepared for them that love the Lord.
It is so big that when they see you they will be flabbergasted.
1st Corinthians 2:9
If you’re a lover of God you will become a marvel to your world. Everyone that wants to walk in abundance first and foremost the foundation must be the love of God.
Every covenant blessing takes its bearing from the Book of Mark and Matthew.
Matthew 22:37-39
Mark 12:30-31
So the foundation is love. So for everything to take place including supernatural abundance there must be love.
And Solomon loved the Lord. 1st Kings 3:3-5
Solomon never asked for abundance, God said I’m going to give it to you. Won’t you like that kind of Christianity? They don’t ask God for money. They love God to get money. From 1997 I’ve not prayed for money till date. You don’t pray for money, you love God and He gives you in abundance. If the foundation of love is not in place forget it you can fast from now till tomorrow it won’t work.
Many think it’s giving money that makes you get money. That’s not the foundation. The foundation is love. Until you have the revelation of love, you are not qualified for abundance. Men are struggling because they don’t know that this is the foundation for abundance. Not singing love but understanding love.
2- Now listen carefully, why you need to listen carefully is because the two young people who type my messages, very sound young men, they don’t have understanding, they don’t give. If you type someone’s message does not mean you understand the message. He is not a giver, he is hearing me where he is.
He struggles to give but when I say prepare message he can just stay and prepare all my messages.
That you carry all the books does not mean you understand it. He has no understanding of prosperity otherwise how can somebody be close to me and not give?
The first thing you will learn from me if you are close to me is giving. If anybody close to me struggles to give, you will never give anywhere in this world. Understand love.
Go for personal insight or revelation. Supernatural abundance is our heritage but we need knowledge to access it.
Job 22:21-25
Store your heart with the Word of God. Many are poor because of ignorance. He said my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6
If you heap up God’s Word in your heart, He will heap up abundance in your life. The knowledge you have from God’s Word will determine your perspective and your level of abundance you have. That is why you must have knowledge. It makes you talk with audacity, having Holy Ghost arrogance.
‘I can’t be poor’. You can’t say that without knowledge. I have been saying that when my salary was 1500. You are not begging because of how much they pay you, you are begging because of what you don’t know that you need to know.
My first salary in this ministry was 1500. My last salary in this ministry was 15,000. I told them don’t pay me again, I want to prove what I preach. Don’t get confused, I don’t use Church money for feeding. I use my money. 15,000 was my last salary, I was living with crowd without begging, without touching offering. If you have the knowledge I have you will never be under pressure.
Pressure is a sign that you are not pleasurable in knowledge. If you know what I know no economy can keep you down. Money is a major challenge. There is no shortcut. All your grammar will mean nothing if you are not knowledgeable.
I can’t imagine after you preach you say ‘can you find me transport money? The whole of the anointing will just end in annoyance.
3- Be a giver.
Only givers are qualified to receive. Give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaking together and running over shall men give to your bosom.
Luke 6:38
So if you don’t give you will never get. Giving is your covenant channel to supernatural abundance.
Genesis 8:22
In this Kingdom no one prospers by gathering, you prosper by scattering.
Proverbs 11-24-25
Every poor man is not a giver. You can’t come out of poverty until you are a giver. ‘God knows I don’t have’, you have signed for total poverty for life.
Proverbs 11:24
If things are going down, check your giving level. So supernatural abundance is for those who are ready to give.
4- Speak right.
You must know how to talk. It is not enough to give. Those who talk abundance enjoy abundance. What you say determines your pay. You shall have whatsoever you say.
Mark 11:23
If you want to live right you must speak right.
You can’t joke with your words and expect to experience supernatural abundance. ‘All things are tough’, that’s the end, toughness has started. ‘This country is too hard’, even if God wants to bless you tomorrow your Heaven will close. ‘Nothing works in Nigeria’, nothing will work for you again. ‘You know nothing is working here? Who told you? Things are working. ‘Nobody can be rich in this country o, except you are a thief’, then you have to be a thief before you will be rich. You know God cannot bless a thief so you have stopped God being your source of blessing from your mouth.
You must know how to talk. Many of you are good givers but poor talkers.
Joshua 1:8
Your prosperity is tied to your mouth. Learn to speak and talk in line with Scriptures. Many can give but the way they talk. Some confidential talks have kept you where you are. You know whether you say it in secret or not God will hear it.
Do you want sympathy or you want blessing? Life and death are in the power of the tongue. Some of you close your Heavens with this mouth. In the midst of lack say with your mouth ‘It is well’. ‘I know things will change’, ‘I know my God shall supply all my needs’. I used my mouth to shape my destiny. Your future is sharpened from your tongue. Stop talking poverty and expect to see riches. If you want to see riches talk riches.
You can’t talk lack and expect to see abundance.
5- Be a worker.
Only legitimate workers are qualified to prosper. Work does not kill. There is dignity in labour.
Proverbs 22:29
Do you want God to bless you? Many persons have refused to work but they desire supernatural abundance. It is abnormal. It is abnormal to expect abundance without working.
Find something legitimate to do. You are permitted to start small but think big and then grow bigger. When you are not working you close the channel of blessings. Your giving is like water getting into a tank. Now your tank is your giving. Now If I have water coming to my house and I don’t have any pipe to connect to my house can the water be supplied? Now the connection to your house is work. Your giving is the major supply which is the tank. Your major supply is your work so God can open the Heavens. Gid will not have the channels to bless you because there is nothing you are doing.
Check very well if you are not working you will not get money until you beg. Except you beg money, it will not come on it’s own to you because God will not have a source to bless you. That is why you must not stay a day without doing something otherwise there will be no channel for flow.
There is nothing God will bless when there is no work. You don’t look for work. You have to get up to create work. But as long as you are not working there will be no channel of blessing. That channel is the distributive network for blessings to flow.
Even as a pastor I consciously work because if I don’t work there will be no channel for blessings. Even if I am a giver, I have to work. Every Christian must be a worker so don’t say I’m looking for work, no. So when God blesses your giving He goes to your tank. Your working is the channel God will use to distribute your blessing to you.
6- Be a good financial manager.
God hates waste. After you have done all avoid waste.
John 6:12
Now when God blesses you, He expects you not to waste His blessings. Is that clear? Because wasting leads to want. The challenge with many is that they lack good financial management. It is not the lack of money but good financial management. Many are good sowers but poor resource managers. Waste is an enemy of supernatural abundance. Develop supernatural wisdom. God hates waste.
You may not know, the small small money you are wasting is the reason you are not going up. Nigeria is the highest wasters in the world. No country wastes like Nigeria. Nigerian currency was stronger than the dollar. When we left school you can use 11,000 to go to the United States. Nobody ever struggled for Visa. They never turned anybody back for Visa. Infact you don’t need to get your WAEC results before they admit you into the best universities. It was 70 kobo to a dollar. From here to United Kingdom was 700 naira with the Nigerian airways. But Nigeria did FESTAC, the festival of Nigerian masquerades and wasted money and the money did not bring back any profits. Check all the countries that went into ventures that did not bring back any money, the economy crashes.
Nations that do such and don’t crash they already have facilities. Nigeria is number one. We will hold a festival of masquerades with billions and have not paid lecturers, that is why poverty is increasing.
When God gives you money also watch wether you are wasting it. You go to the second burial of your mother, second burial, continue with the second burial, you will bury all your money. Do you know that there are Christians who do second burial? It is not Scriptural to do second burial. Your phone call is already enough to start a business center.
7- Learn to always trust God. If you want to prosper, if you want to have abundance. The secret of supernatural abundance is absolute confidence and dependency on God. God is not limited by the worlds economy.
Haggai 2:8
Those who made God their source of abundance never loose resources.
Numbers 23:19
Never rely on your skill or job. Don’t rely on your business or contracts, you will be insulting God to think that that is where your source will come from.
Jeremiah 17:5-6
Struggle takes over when you begin to trust in yourself and not in God. Learn to trust God with the work of your hands. The secret of this Church is absolute dependency on God.
God is your source, He can use any mortal man as a channel but don’t put your eyes in men , put your eyes in God and then He can decide to use whoever He wants. People are not your source. It is God you focus on and then He can decide to use anybody He likes.
Do you want to be blessed?
Love God, go for personal revelation, be a giver, be a talker, be a worker, be a good a financial manager and trust God.
These are the requirements for you to enjoy supernatural abundance.
Pray saying ‘Father I receive grace to put to practice the things I have heard and then Lord show me the seeds I need to sow to move me to the next level because without a seed you cannot move to the next phase.
Pray saying ‘Lord as I obey let my blessings come. ‘Release my blessings as I obey You.
Your blessings will be released to you in Jesus name.
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