IN THESE LAST DAYS, THERE WILL BE A DISTINCTION AMONG THE SAINTS.
THE LAST DAY IS A SEASON WHERE GOD WILL BE USHERING HIS PEOPLE INTO SUPERNATURAL AFFLUENCE.
IN THE ENDTIME, EVERYTHING SHALL BE SHAKEN.
THE EARTH SHAKING MOVE OF THE ENDTIME REQUIRES HEAVY FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR DELIVERY.
GOD WILL BE RAISING ENTITIES OF GLOBAL RELEVANCE AMONG US NOT LOCAL CHAMPIONS.
GOD IS SAYING THAT WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN IN THE PAST IS GOOD BUT THERE ARE BETTER THINGS PACKAGED FOR US.
I GAVE MY LIFE TO CHRIST WHEN I WAS 9 YEARS OLD AND FROM THEN I HAVE BEEN WALKING WITH GOD ACCORDING TO THE LEVEL I COULD COMPREHEND PER TIME.
FROM A CHILD, ANY MONEY THAT ENTERS MY HAND, THE TITHE IS PUT ASIDE AND OFFERING IS PUT ASIDE.
THE PRACTICE OF THE COVENANT IS CONTRARY TO DEFICIENCY.
TAKING PICTURES AND OPPRESSING EVERYBODY ON INSTAGRAM IS NOT THE REASON FOR SUPERNATURAL WEALTH.
STINGINESS IS A TRAINING.
HONOUR YOUR PARENTS LAVISHLY.
I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT WHEN YOU ARE READY TO ADVANCE THE BUILDING OF GOD’s CHURCH, HE WILL BLESS YOU DANGEROUSLY.
THE PERSON WHO WILL NOT GIVE TITHE WILL STRUGGLE WITH OFFERING.
-Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr on ‘THE DAYS OF SUPERNATURAL WEALTH’ at Easter Youth Alive Conference 2023 tagged ‘A CHOSEN GENERATION, Day 3 Morning Session || 8th April 2023.
This morning, I give God the glory for the privilege of being here at this session of EYAC 2023 and for sharing God’s Word. And I appreciate God and my Father, God’s servant, Bishop David Oyedepo for this opportunity. Church Gist. Our theme for this conference has been ‘A Chosen Generation’ and this morning we are going to be looking briefly at the subject: ‘THE DAYS OF SUPERNATURAL WEALTH’.
Every believer as we have heard already is a chosen brand in his or her generation, 1 Peter 2:9 is our anchor Scripture for this Easter Youth Alive Conference. This connotes that we are appointed by God for such a time as this Esther 4:14. In fact God is so intentional in this that He said no matter what can be seen as feats and exploits in the past, God said that He has ordained you and me to surpass what has been seen Hebrews 11:39-40. Church Gist. God is saying that what has been seen in the past is good but there are better things packaged for us. This is why the Word of God made it clear that we are ordained for a dimension of breakthroughs that eyes have not seen 1 Corinthians 2:9.
We are ordained to operate in such dimensions that will cause the heart of the world to be attracted to our Light and glory Isaiah 60:2-3- That is the package of God for the Endtime Saints. These are the days with which we find ourselves, this is why we saw as we looked at yesterday that God will be raising entities of global relevance among us not local champions Zechariah 8:23. So you are not ordained to be a local champion but a global icon- That is God’s ordination for the Endtime Saints. That is why the Endtime can be described as we saw on the first night, as the golden age of the Church. It is a season when God will be ushering his people into Supernatural affluence.
-Somebody who will be part of that army, say a loud Amen!
Let’s take some pictures from the Scriptures Isaiah 9:11-17- That is a picture of affluence. Where brass should be found, God said, ‘I will bring gold’! Church Gist. Where there should be iron, ‘I will bring silver’! ‘I will exchange lower quality for greater quality, I will exalt you as far as your resources are concerned’!
-That will be someone’s experience from here!
So the Last days according to Biblical Prophecies are days of Supernatural affluence and why is it so important? Because in the Last days, there will be earth-shaking moves of God that will lead multitudes to Salvation Haggai 2:6, Micah 4:1-2. In fact the Bible makes us understand that everything shall be shaken Hebrews 12:26-28- That is what God has ordained for this Endtime but this earth-shaking move requires heavy financial resources for delivery! Church Gist. That’s why when you look at that Scripture from Haggai 2:7-9, God makes it very clear that in His Endtime agenda, there shall be a requirement for a heavy flow of financial resources.
The Kingdom of God will advance on the wings of the resources of God Zechariah 1:17, this is why God is all out to empower His people for Supernatural wealth in these Last days so that they can become channels for the release of the gold and silver for the building of the Endtime Church. Malachi 3:17-18. This is God speaking to you and to me. So the Word of God makes it very clear that there will be a clear distinction. Please hear this, in these last days, there will be a distinction among the saints. God will be raising certain individuals that some others may have written off but He will be raising them as global treasure chests for kingdom resources. 2 Corinthians 4:6.
God puts His treasure inside human vessels. Ephesians 1:18 is a very puzzling scripture. Say with me ‘Lord open my eyes’. God’s inheritance in the saints. God keeps His inheritance in the saints. That means what belongs to God is to be found in you and me. We are God’s treasure chest that is why it says “We carry this treasure in earthen vessels.” So it is talking about a certain dimension of heavenly provision that is packaged inside the end-time saints. Church Gist. You are designed by God to be God’s treasure chest. God’s treasure is not in UBA, it is not in Ecobank, it is not in First Bank, GTB is not where God keeps his treasures. He keeps His treasures in the saints. They are packaged for the saints. They are packaged within the treasure chest of the humanity that God has sent here on assignment. This is the provision, this is the package, the question is how will this be actualized? Because there must be a synergy between heaven and earth for a free flow.
So how will this be actualized? It is important to note that this can only be brought to bear via the covenant of seedtime and harvest. Walking in supernatural wealth demands the engagement of the covenant of wealth and that covenant is the covenant of seedtime and harvest. Genesis 8:22. So the scriptures are very clear to you and me that when it comes to harvest, there is a demand for seed. 2 Corinthians 9:6-8. That means when I engage in the covenant of seedtime and harvest. God releases what He called in this scripture ‘all grace’ and the purpose of all grace is that you always have all sufficiency. Church Gist. It means that the engagement of this seedtime and harvest covenant answers to all deficiencies. It brings you and me to the realm of all sufficiency. This means if you are one that engages in this covenant, it is impossible for anything to finish in your hand.
The covenant terminates deficiency. It scatters the opportunity for deficiency. It terminates every opportunity for every kind of deficiency. Why is that so? The Bible says God makes all grace abound towards you. When that grace comes, it brings all the sufficiency you require. All that is needed to tackle whatever is required is channelled in your direction. If God could send the ravens to feed Elijah, He has too many ways to get resources in your direction. Church Gist. He has too many channels to get resources in your direction. Too many channels to get resources in your direction. When you are a covenant practitioner you are not permitted to suffer deficiency. This morning, I pray for you that as you enlist among those covenant practitioners, nothing will ever finish in your hands again. Nothing is permitted to finish in your hands again.
Deuteronomy 8:18. So the platform upon which God will empower you and me is the platform of the covenant. When you are a covenant practitioner, you are not permitted to experience deficiency. There is no way to escape this covenant platform when it comes to enjoying divine provision. The covenant is very simple, it is the covenant of seedtime and harvest and the foundation of the covenant is the covenant of tithing. Tithing is 10 per cent of God’s resources given to you. Church Gist. Engaging in it is the foundation. From tithing we talk about giving. Giving your worship offering, giving to the poor, giving to your parents and so forth. All of these platforms are platforms of seed time. The Bible says it is more blessed to give than to receive. If you want to enjoy the blessings that God has available for you and for me, the platform for it is engaging the covenant. It is not too early to start. Engage the covenant and do it with tenacity. When that takes place believe me, deficiency is not permitted.
I remember some years ago, I was driving back home and suddenly as I was driving I opened an account and I have been practising the covenant. I was raised in covenant practice. From a child, any money that enters my hand, the tithe is put aside, and offering is put aside. Everything is recorded. If Uncle comes and gives you so and so amount, Tithe is calculated and paid right from childhood. I gave my life to Christ when I was 9 years old and from then I have been walking with God according to the level I could comprehend per time. But the practice of the covenant was a practice that is automatic. It has been consistent from time and that day I opened an account and it was the end of the month or so and you know how the banks will send you these statements of accounts.
I saw in that particular account, that there was no activity. I said No! The word says “The gates shall be open continually that the forces of the gentiles may be brought in”. I said deficiency is not permitted and before I arrived home Gbam! Something has landed. Church Gist. Why? Because the practice of the covenant is contrary to deficiency. Please hear me and hear me very well, these things are not gimmicks. These things are not gimmicks, practice it as a lifestyle. Any time your fist is tight to give, your life will be tight financially. We must develop the propensity for the engagement of the details of the covenant. That is what makes a difference in our adventure on the earth. I pray that for each one of us from this day onward, this covenant mindset will come alive in each one of us.
1. Your tithe
He said, ‘Bring all the tithes to the storehouse’ (Malachi 3:10-11)- You bring your tithe into the storehouse.
2. Your worship offering
Make it a lifestyle that you appear before God and that you don’t appear before Him empty. Church Gist. God knows your size so start from where you are!
3. Honour your parents
You must honour your parents according to the Scriptures. No matter what they have, the blessings in their heart are what you need. Honour them lavishly! Ephesians 6:1-3. Church Gist. Take whatever God has given to you at your level and put it in their hands as a seed- Make it a seed of honour, do that regularly according to whatever blessing God has given unto you!
4. Engage in Kingdom sacrifices of various order
We saw that in the life of David 1 Chronicles 29:3. Church Gist. For your sacrifices unto God, make it a lifestyle. There are things that you will do today that seem to draw from you, but it positions you well for tomorrow.
5. Give to the poor
No matter what it is that you think you lack, there is what you have that somebody else lacks! Learn to be a giver, seek those who are around you and see how you can be a blessing unto them. This is the task of every believer. Church Gist. I have discovered that when it comes to stinginess, anyone who is stingy as a child except God intervenes, will continue to be stingy because stinginess is a training. For those of you who are stingy, when you were a child-You were not giving other people biscuits and now you have graduated! You have been trained into stinginess!
Some time ago, a Man of God came around and he asked my son for something. He said, ‘Will you give me this thing? He said, ‘Yes, I will give it to you’! And the Man of God said to me, ‘This is a sign that this boy’s parents are not stingy’! He said to my son, ‘Will you bring more? And he said, ‘Yes, I will go and bring more’! Church Gist. Then the Man of God said, ‘When you are stingy, and you have trained the boy in stinginess, for what he has first, he will keep to himself and for the one at home, there is no way he can go and bring it’! But when you are a giver, there is nothing the child cannot give out! Why? Because he has been trained in liberality.
So, that stinginess you have been practicing from when you were in Primary School till you graduate from Secondary School, you have also carried it to the University. Church Gist. For some of you in the university, when you are eating, you eat in secret and in dark places just to ensure that nobody is bringing an extra spoon. Have you noticed that there are people who are alive and you have never seen them when they are eating? Some of you are here, you are not fasting but nobody has seen you eating!
-May you be delivered from stinginess!
But hear this, if you are going to operate in affluence you must understand that there is a Covenant dimension of wealth which you must be wholly engaged in to enjoy what God has in store for you! Now, why such stupendous wealth? Because I saw a picture from the Scripture that God will bless His people to the point that it will annoy people. Church Gist. You know? There is a blessing that is okay for people to tolerate and there is another person that is getting them annoyed; when they look at you, they are just angry- How can somebody be so blessed?
That’s the kind that I am registering for, I don’t know about you. Because I am already blessed and it’s causing small small annoyances but I just started. They will be very angry! Because the Bible said, ‘The wicked shall see it and gnash their teeth Psalms 112:10. So until somebody is angry, you have not started! That means they can be angry but you are untouchable, that is what God has packaged for this Endtime. Church Gist. But the question is, ‘Why is God going to release such wealth, is it for the purpose of Instagram? So that you can take pictures and become an oppressor of everybody, is that the reason? Some of us can take pictures even with things that don’t belong to us. You snap pictures beside somebody’s car, house and even in their clothes- That’s not the reason for this wealth.
Why is God releasing this dimension of wealth in this season?
1. For the spread of the Gospel before Jesus returns Matthew 24:14.
You see, the preaching of the Gospel requires resources. The fliers you carry are not free, they are printed with money. Church Gist. We go out and make follow-up calls and send text messages, the calls and text messages are not free, it is with money. We transport new converts, their transportation is not free, it’s with money. We take care of the welfare of our new converts, it is not free but with money. So there are resources required for the spread of the Gospel, so He is looking for people who will channel the resources in the direction of His purpose.
When myself and my team go out for outreach, we go out with quite a number of people, we take vehicles which use fuel. Both the vehicles and fuel cost money to buy, maintain and run. The people who are going must be refreshed because we go for a long time. And we discovered that if they are not well fed even the phone numbers will not be written correctly. Church Gist. When we finish our outreach, we run Foundation School for our new converts on the spot, so for them to concentrate, they must eat and drink something if not the Foundation Class will pass and the foundation will not be set (Laughing)- All of that costs money! So every movement of the Gospel demands resources and that is why God releases it. So until you are ready to advance the Gospel with the resources, you are not a candidate for it.
So people just see you going for outreach and they say, ‘I took one thousand fliers, the one thousand fliers costs money oo, it is not one thousand naira. So there must be a consciousness that the advancement of the Gospel requires money.
2. For the building of His Church Zechariah 1:17.
And the focus of Jesus in His Church is for the building of Churches Matthew 16:18.
I have discovered that when you are ready to advance the building of His Church, watch it God will bless you dangerously. I shared this testimony before, that a Zone was building a Church and they got to a point that they could not finish it and they sent in a paper to the office. Church Gist. When I got the document, I saw, ‘I want you to assist us’! And inside me, I had the witness of the Spirit that I am the one to finish this zone’!
And I put the paper aside because I had what I intended to use for the building but when the call for building the Zone came, the money for the building was more than the money that I had at that time. Church Gist. I said, ‘Lord, what do I do? And the witness was already there saying, ‘This is your own duty’! You see? It is not satan that is witnessing you to do good things. Church Gist. Many of us will say, ‘I bind you satan! It’s not the devil! It is the Holy Spirit! So I said, ‘Lord, what do I do? And I had a car at that time. He said, ‘Sell the car, use the money to build it’! And I sold the car and used the money to complete the building of the Zone and the people entered into it. Till today, they are not aware of where the resources came from to complete that Zone but from that day, a blessing dimension began to flow.
First of all, cars have never been a problem since then, that’s the truth. Cars started coming- Both the ones that were bought and those received as a gift in their own accord were far better than what went out at that time. Church Gist. Because I realised that it was for the building of the Church and from that time, God has engraced me to go beyond building or completing what was started but starting to completion, and this time, without having nothing to sell. You see? God changes your level as you commit to Him.
As I conclude this morning, let’s take note of this, the ultimate platform when it comes to you and me accessing this wealth is entrustment. God will not release His resources to a man or woman He cannot trust. And the proof of your trust is on the engagement of your resources for the purposes of Heaven Luke 16:11, so there is what the Bible calls true riches and that one is committed to those that God can trust, so start from where you are! Church Gist. The person who will not give tithe will struggle with offering and the one who will not give offering will definitely struggle with sacrifices. Start from where you are! God is my witness, there is nothing that I have that cannot go for Him. In fact my practice is that, anything that I start liking too much, I give it to God.
Some years ago, somebody gave me a very beautiful watch that I like so much, I like it so much that I didn’t wear it and I kept it somewhere inside my cupboard. I will open the cupboard, admire the watch and close it back. Church Gist. I did that the first, second and third day and I said to myself, ‘This is an idol, it must go now’! It is only a shrine that somebody goes and looks at that way. And instantly, it disappeared!- I quickly released it. Why? Because I don’t want to be possessed by possessions. I want to use possessions to advance the course of God.
So start from where you are! Start paying your tithe and offering now! Don’t pretend that you can’t see the basket when it is passing! You see somebody that you can help, start helping them now! You may not be able to pay somebody’s school fees now. Can you not buy them a plate of food? Church Gist. Can you not share your food into two and give to them? You won’t die from eating half of the plate!- Some people act as if they will faint and die, you won’t die! Learn to practice the Covenant from here. There are people watching me and I know what I am saying. Church Gist.
-Within five years, for some of you hearing me, your names will be sounding in far places.
Look at this Commission, it is Covenant practice that made this Commision. Church Gist. And hear me oo, let me tell you the truth, this Commission is confusingly blessed- The kind of blessing that we who are inside are confused about.
-That’s where somebody is going from now!
——–PRAYER——–
-By the engagement of the Covenant from this season onward, walk into realms of Heavenly blessings. In your hands, nothing will finish again!
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