Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr at CHoP
Shall we lift our hands to Heaven this morning and begin to give glory to God from the depth of our hearts and praise that is due unto Him from the depth of your heart.
Give Him the praise and the glory, appreciate Him from the depth of your heart for the awesome testimonies that we have heard this morning, they’re the doings of the Lord and they are marvelous in our eyes. Celebrate Him from the depth of your heart, give Him all the praise and glory that is due unto Him.
Father we thank You, we celebrate You, You are worthy of praise, You are worthy of glory. Are you giving thanks to God? Also thank Him for answers to all your prayers, intercession, supplication, He has heard you this morning. Father we thank You.
Now let’s begin to ask Him to speak to us this morning. Lord I want to hear from You, I’ve come to be taught by You, speak to me this morning by Your Word. It’s Your voice I’ve come to hear today. Thank You Father and thank You Lord in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Father in the name of Jesus we thank You for the blessing of being in Your presence. Thank You for all that You have done, for the answers You have given to our prayers and the awesomeness of Your mighty hand in our midst. We give You all the praise. This morning our eyes are upon You. We give You praise and glory in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
We began yesterday looking at this line of exhortation titled
ENGAGING BIBLICAL MENTALITY IN STEWARDSHIP
We began by recognizing that destiny answers largely to mentality.
Proverbs 23:7
Your mentality ultimately determines your experience. What becomes of you and me in our adventure with God is ultimately determined by our mentality.
Proverbs 4:23
So what becomes of life is the product of the ongoings of the heart and that is why our mentality becomes vital and critical to determining our ultimate experience in our walk with God.
No one can ever arrive at a future that he or she cannot see.
The Bible says as far as your eyes can see it will be given unto you. So our mentality is a vital pointer to determining our ultimate reality. In our walk with God we must become conscious in working on our mentality. Infact the Bible gives us a very strong admonition, making us realize that for anyone to enjoy the best of God in their walk with God they must be conscious of working on their mentality.
Romans 12:2
So you and I have a responsibility to renew our mindset as it concerns anything that has to do with our walk with God. Infact very strikingly in
Philemon 1:14
So mindset is vital in determining the outcome of our lives. That is why when it comes to our stewardship we must begin to adopt the Biblical perspective in order to maximize the outcome and the output of our engagement.
Isaiah 55:8-9
So you and I require a reorientation of our mind in order to make the most of our stewardship adventure with God. We began to look at the various mentalities that you and I must have to view our walk with God.
Yesterday we saw that we must possess a sower’s mentality and this morning we are going to go further as we look at the fact that we must possess an investors mentality. To make the most of our walk with God we require an investors mentality. Why is this so?
Luke 2:49
So Kingdom stewardship according to Scriptures is recognized as business and not just any business but a big business.
Romans 12:11
So our stewardship to God is described as business. That means that every input into the business is an investment into the business. Those who will reap an outcome of any business are those who have invested into it.
Now in the physical and in the natural in many businesses we have shareholders and the shareholders are usually not shareholders just by allocation but by investment. There is something that is out into the business in order to have a share out of the business.
If you and I are going to have any output from the Kingdom business we must have input into the Kingdom business. It is our investment that ultimately determines our experience.
Galatians 6:7-8
If you look at those two words, it says to his flesh, his flesh means to himself, but when he talks about the Spirit it’s in capital S which means he’s not investing as it were in your spirit but in the things of the Spirit and the Bible says you will reap out of it. There is an outcome for everyone’s adequate investment in Kingdom advancement.
When we look at the Scripture we discover that the outcome of the dividence that comes out of this business are incalculable. They address every aspect of human experience. That is why it becomes important to have the investment mentality. Everytime you stand to pray see yourself investing into the Kingdom venture.
Everytime you go out there on the harvest field see yourself as investing into the Kingdom venture and recognize that there is no investment that is profitable that will not return with rewards.
1st Corinthians 9:10
God’s expectation is that for everyone of us there should be a consciousness of something to return. Usually you discover in business that there are dividends that come in, they are returns that are given to the investors and the dividends are continuous. That’s why you discover that they want to secure their future financially, they invest expecting that there are particular returns that will keep coming their way in order to sustain their tomorrow.
It may cost something today but it will pay something tomorrow. It is the perspective you and I must have when it comes to serving God. That it may cost me something today to pay me something tomorrow.
You heard the testimony of the individual who said that he lost his job as the result of the pandemic but began to engage in the pursuit of the lost and saw souls saved and then suddenly God turned his story into a testimony.
For somebody here I see that becoming your experience in the name of Jesus Christ.
Why is it so important to maintain an investors mentality? Because what you are not conscious of you can be cheated of. If you don’t have a clear understanding of the value of your investment you can be cheated of the dividends if your investment. This is so important.
Out in the world we have so many people that claim dividends and are not conscious of what is given to them. They can be cheated of it. What you are not conscious of you may be cheated of. If you are not aware that your investment has a return then the enemy may continue to cheat you of it so it becomes vital and important.
There’s a story I heard of a woman who served a monarch, a queen. She served faithfully for many years and after her long tenure of service, the queen was so pleased with her and gave her something that looked like a certificate and this woman took that certificate and put it on the wall in her house. Then everything began to go down for the woman, she became very sick and was near to death and suddenly a doctor came to pay a house call, while trying to attend to the woman in her condition asked the woman “what is that on the wall? She said I served many years with the queen and she gave me this as a recognition of my service. The doctor said “can I look at it?He went to it and picked up that thing she had framed and when he looked at it carefully he discovered that this woman has been willed the property of the queen but she did not know. She was dying in penury, because of what she did not know. She was cheated of what belonged to her. The doctor said “this is not a certificate, this is ownership. You have been given rights and ownerships that you have not been able to take advantage of.
Many of us in the Kingdom serve with all of our hearts but we are not conscious of our dividends. What God is saying is that you must serve Me but recognize that you have rights with Me.
Job 36:11
There is no one who serves God for nothing but your conscious determines your ultimate experience.
Today I see each one of us receiving grace to maintain our dividends consciousness to serving the Lord and as we do so everything that belongs to you in Christ I see it finding practical expression in your life.
The Bible says he that plougheth should plough with hope, which means as you are threshing remain expectant, as you are ploughing remain expectant, as you are praying remain expectant, as you are going remain expectant and that expectation of your heart is what God guarantees will return as a testimony.
Lift your hand before the Lord and pray saying Lord I receive grace from You this morning to be dividend conscious in my stewardship to maintain a dividend consciousness as an investor in the advancement of Your Kingdom, investing my time, my resources, my strength, investing all that I have in the pursuit of your Kingdom and in the advancement of Your cause.
I receive grace to maintain a dividend consciousness to see my engagement as investment. I receive that grace.
Lift up your voice this morning and pray from the depth of your heart. Father thank You, blessed be Your holy name in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Take note that serving God is not wasting time, he said concerning Job, he said “does Job serve you for nothing? Even satan is aware. So you and I must maintain our consciousness. I am not wasting my time serving God. I am investing into my future and as we continue with that mentality we shall begin to experience supernatural returns in the name of Jesus Christ.
SPEAK TO THE DAY
Make your decree. Whatever you declare is what God will deliver. Speak to the day right now. Make your decrees and declarations. You shall decree a thing and it shall be established. Thank You Father in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
As you have declared this morning so shall it be. Every one of your declarations for today shall be supernaturally delivered in the name of Jesus Christ.
Therefore remain active for God, engaging in prayer, engaging on the harvest field, just going all out investing into the future and watch what God makes of you. Welcome to another season of unusual blessing In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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