YOU DON’T LOVE GOD WHEN YOU PAY TITHES BECAUSE TITHES IS HIS OWN. TITHING IS A DEMONSTRATION OF MY OBEDIENCE TO GOD. YOUR GIVING IS A DEMONSTRATION OF YOUR LOVE FOR GOD.
MANY OF US IN GIVING STARTS COMPLAINING SO WE DON’T SEE THE RESULTS OF THE GIVING.
ANY LOVE THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE YOUR MONEY IS FAKE. EVEN IN A MARRIAGE, WHERE THERE IS NO FINANCE THERE CANNOT BE ROMANCE.
- Pastor David Ibiyeomie at Shiloh 2021 || Day Four, Hour of Visitation.
ENGAGING THE COVENANT POWER OF WEALTH
What you don’t hate you can’t conquer. If you don’t hate poverty, you can’t conquer it. Church Gist. If you pamper with poverty, it will tamper with your destiny. Poverty is wickedness.
When I was born again and I came to the Living Faith Church, is saw my father Bishop David Oyedepo put his hands in his pocket and say, “I can’t be poor. I am not depending on you. I am telling you what I know” I was wondering if anyone could talk like that.
In the Bible School, he and others taught us prosperity. To be taught prosperity does not mean you have known it. Even though I was taught, I knew I had not known it because the poverty was still there. After Bible school, I picked his book “Breaking Financial Hardship” sat with it for seven days. Church Gist. And I ate to a point, I got my personal revelation because you don’t drive with another man’s headlamp.
I could see why Bishop David Oyedepo was making such bold declaration. And the covenant is superior to any economic challenge.
The gospel of Jesus has two parts: the person of Jesus and the principles of Jesus. The person of Jesus guarantees your heaven and the principles guarantees your success and prosperity. God took his Son Jesus but He left His book. Many have taken the Son but have neglected the principles so they cannot be principals over principalities.
Joshua 1:8
Your success is not in the hands of God anymore. You determine it. If you are poor today, the devil is not your problem. Church Gist.It is God’s desire that you prosper so that you can carry out His Great Commission on the earth. Without prosperity, the gospel cannot spread.
When you are poor even, you even think your dressing doesn’t fit. It is not the devil. It is your thinking. God wants you to enjoy life not endure life. – John 10:10
Redemption is for you to enjoy life. God wants you to be prosperous so that you can be a blessing to other and provide for your family.
Men stay poor because they can’t trust the character of God – who God is.
Numbers 23:19
If God has said anything, then don’t doubt Him. It pains Him when you doubt Him; it gladdens Him when you trust Him.
No matter where you are on earth, you can prosper. The richest church here on earth are all in Nigeria.
Acts 10:34-35; Romans 10:12
Don’t leave where you and travel to go and wash plates in the name of travelling except God told you.
If you are failing here, when you go to UK you still fail. It is said nations do not make people. It is people that make nations. Church Gist.We all have equal opportunity on earth. – Ecclesiastes 5:9
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law and one is poverty to enjoy the blessings of Abraham. To remain in poverty means you are saying redemption is not real. God has given us the Bible containing His principles for prosperity.
There are three types of people in very society including the church.
- Those who depend on people to always help them. e.g. Lazarus in the Bible
Luke 16:20-21 - Those who talk about the happenings around – talking about prosperity of others. They don’t have value for wealth. They belong to the class of the average. Deuteronomy 28:13
- Kingdom investor – they are kingdom promoters. They go for ideas from God’s Word that will change their lives. They are the wealthy. They may not have money right now but they know where they are going.
LOVE FOR GOD IS THE FIRST KEY TO ENGAGE THE COVENANT POWER OF WEALTH
The love of God is the one God showed to us. The Love for God is the one we show to Him
Romans 5:5; Mark 12:30
Any love that does not involve your money is fake. The proof of love is the passion to give. Even in a marriage, where there is no finance there cannot be romance. I can’t say I love God with my strength and I am struggling to tithe. Church Gist. Tithing is a demonstration of my obedience to God. Your giving is a demonstration of your love for God. You don’t love God when you pay tithes because tithes is His own.
John 3:16; Ephesians 5:1; 1st Corinthians 2:9; Malachi 3:10
If you don’t tithe, you don’t have a foundation for prosperity.
Every time God tells you to sow, he has a harvest in mind for you. Genesis 8:22
When a seed leaves your hands, it doesn’t leave your hands. It goes into the future for God to multiply and give it back to you. Your seed is a photograph of your faith. God will never expect you to give what he has not given to you in the first place. He never asked Abraham to give Him his son until He gave him a son. Start from where you are. Church Gist. The first offering that we had that brought us out of poverty was 50 naira. It is not the amount. Start from where you are and remain faithful, rising from one level to another.
Tithing can be likened to a man who wants to farm and builds a fence around the land to prevent encroachment. Church Gist. The fencing is the tithing. But that does not mean crops will grow. You have to plant. The planting is your offering. Many give offering but don’t to the so there is nothing protecting it. Some also give tithes but no offering.
God treasures every giver. The quality of your seed determines the quality of your harvest. The only way to overcome greed is to become a giver.
WHY YOU DON’T SEE RESULTS AFTER GIVING
- Many of us in giving starts complaining so we don’t see the results. 2 Corinthians 9:7
- Many are also impatient when we give. If you plant something on a day, you don’t go uprooting it that same day when you are hungry. Hebrews 10:26; Galatians 6:9.
- There is also the factor of the wrong use of words- Mark 11:23; Proverbs 13:2;Proverbs 12:14
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