THE WISDOM OF THE CHURCH HAS BEEN HELPFUL IN A LOT OF PLACES BUT THERE IS NO WEALTH TO MATCH
NOW INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES ARE JUNKETING FOR JOBS AT THE ARK
THE VOICE OF THE POOR MAN IS NOT HEARD BUT THE VOICE OF THE END TIME CHURCH SHALL BE AMPLIFIED BY WEALTH
THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THE END TIME CHURCH WILL BE ACCOMPANIED ENVIABLY WITH HEAVENLY ORDER OF WEALTH BEYOND WHAT HUMAN CAPACITY CAN GARNER
IF YOU WON’T SERVE GOD WITH THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD, YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO THE ETERNAL WEALTH THAT IS COMING FROM ABOVE
YOUR TITHE IS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GOD’S BLESSINGS;
GOD WILL NEVER ASK YOU TO GIVE WHAT HE HAS NOT GIVEN YOU.
WEALTH IS NOT THE AMBITION OF THE BELIEVER, IT’S INSIGHT INTO GOD’S AGENDA AND PLUGGING INTO IT ACCORDINGLY FOR GOD TO PERFORM HIS WORD IN OUR LIVES
COVENANT PRACTICE WILL BE THE PLATFORM FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF WEALTH FOR THE END TIME CHURCH – NOT STEALING OR CUTTING CORNERS
GIVING IS THE ANCHOR LAW OF THE COVENANT OF WEALTH.
IT IS WISDOM TO WAKE UP INTO EVERY NEW YEAR WITH A BUDGET FOR JESUS AND THE INTEREST OF HIS KINGDOM
TITHING AND KINGDOM PROMOTION ARE 2 KEYS THAT OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN
WHEN KINGDOM PROMOTION WITH OUR GOD GIVEN FINANCIAL RESOURCES BECOMES OUR LIFESTYLE, SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS WILL CONTINUE TO POUR UPON OUR LIVES
YOU ARE NOT BLESSED TO BE BRAGGING AROUND TOWN BUT TO BE A PROMOTER OF THE KINGDOM
JESUS WILL NOT COME UNTIL THE CHURCH IS RULING AND REIGNING ON THE EARTH
JESUS IS COMING SOON AND SO WE ARE IN THE BREAKTHROUGH ERA OF THE CHURCH – THE CHURCH IS NOT A BUILDING, IT’S A PEOPLE
THIS END TIME ARMY THAT WILL BECOME THE CENTRE OF EVENTS ON THE EARTH WILL BE BORN ON THE COVENANT PLATFORM OF DELIGHTSOME OBEDIENCE OF FAITH
EVERY OF OUR INHERITANCE IN REDEMPTION IS TRANSMITTED THROUGH APPLIED REVELATIONS NOT THROUGH GROANINGS
KINGDOM STEWARDSHIP IS ORDAINED TO ENGENDER BREAKTHROUGHS IN THE LIVES OF ALL FAITHFUL STEWARDS
TRANSFORMATION WILL ONLY BE A RESULT OF ONE’S GENUINE CONNECTIVITY TO THE VINE
– Bishop David Oyedepo on UNVEILING THE BREAKTHROUGH POWER OF KINGDOM STEWARDSHIP 5 at Midweek Communion Service || 20th March 2024 || LFC Canaanland ||
No matter how close the charger of the battery is to the power source, until it is plugged, it’s never charged. Being around is not enough, being so close is not enough, it’s getting truly connected that matters. Until one is grafted to the vine, he cannot be a partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive. Engraftment – the only guarantee for advancement. Many hang around Jesus but they are not grafted into him. What he says does not matter to them, they’re entertained, may be informed, but they have not seen any form of transformation because that will only be a result of one’s genuine connectivity. Only those who ask questions are entitled to answers. Church Gist. If things are not working according to the Word that we have come to know and learn and understood by ourselves, we should ask ourselves why. Why is this thing not working? Most of the answers I have received in my life, they were responses to questions: Why is this Church not growing? Are you sure you want to know? 1, 2, 3, 4 (answers). Why is nothing happening in this place? 1, 2, 3. It’s time to ask questions – from the heart an she open to answer. But as far as God is concerned, your fortune package for the Year is settled.
– May each one be awake enough to take delivery of their portion!
UNVEILING THE BREAKTHROUGH POWER OF KINGDOM STEWARDSHIP. Job 36:11. So Kingdom Stewardship is ordained to engender breakthroughs in the lives of all faithful stewards. He has not come to seek for sympathizers, he has come to give us life and life at its best. We are not redeemed as riff-raffs, we are redeemed as the light of the world, the salt of the Earth, a city set on an hill that cannot be hidden. Matthew 5:13-14. Every child of God is redeemed a breakthrough entity – redeemed a pacesetter, a pathfinder, a trailblazer, but every of our inheritance in redemption is transmitted through revelations not through groanings. Isaiah 60:1-3. Church Gist. Every of our inheritance in the Kingdom is transmitted through revelations. So when you are revelation weary, you sell off your inheritance without knowing. Ephesians 20:32. Our inheritance is distributed through revelation. Not just accessing revelation but applied revelation. Putting to work what is revealed to you so as to take delivery of what belongs to you.
There are too many sympathizers in the body of Christ. “Well, you see I’ve done all that he said I should do.” – you didn’t! Those who did what they are told to do, they have a change of story. Stop commending yourself. People have walked out of more terrible things than you are in by doing the thing that Jesus told them. If you find a failing student saying, “I’ve done my best,” he won’t succeed. Your best is not good enough so it’s not your best. You’re better than this. Church Gist. Your best can’t be failure. There is no one’s story that will not change this season if you will hearken to this thing that looks like rebukes, harsh corrections. There are things I read in my Bible and I will write, “boy, you should be smarter than this.” It’s time to be open to the realities of Kingdom life.
Like we have been told severally, the end time Church is ordained a breakthrough Church. Micah 4:1-2 – That’s a description of breakthrough. “It shall come to pass in the last days that the Church shall become the breakthrough symbol of Heaven on the Earth” and we are in the last days. Acts 2:17. So we’ve been having that outpouring of the last days 2000 years ahead. Church Gist. So we are moving towards the end of the last days. We are in the breakthrough era of the Church – the Church is not a building, it’s a people. So the Church of Christ is in her breakthrough season, her breakthrough era. May you never miss your place in it! By paying close attention to the revelation of the truth for the purpose of application.
Jesus is coming for a ruling and reigning Church. Psalm 110:1-2. Jesus will not come until the Church is ruling and reigning on the Earth and if he is coming soon, then we are in our reigning, ruling season. Church Gist. Daniel 7:27 – that’s the era! Beautiful time! Calling for everyone’s spiritual awakening so as not to miss his or her portion. We are in a most enviable season in the history of the Church of Christ on the Earth. Joel 2:1-3. There is the kind of breakthrough ordained for the end time, never seen before. Joel 2:11. So it’s a divine agenda to be executed by God in the end time. A people rising, the kind that have never seen before neither there will be any kind like them, till the end of many generations. End of age! That’s the kind of awesome season we are living in – please be awake!
This dimension of breakthrough answers only to our obedience of faith , our unreserved obedience, our total obedience, obedience to the full, obedience to the end. How do I mean? Deuteronomy 28:1. So this end time army that will be above all nations, that will become the centre of events on the Earth will be born on the covenant platform of delightsome obedience of faith. Whatever God says, they respond to it with delight. They are not airing their view – “in my opinion…” Your opinion and my opinion is irrelevant when it comes to the truth. 2 Corinthians 13:8. Your opinion, our opinion, are public views. Church Gist. Our general view as winners won’t change the world. That Winners have come to a conclusion that the following verses of Scriptures are not true – that is their own cup of tea. We are too small to appraise God. The truth is not subject to human appraisal. No intellectual capacity can appraise the truth. It’s deeper than man. The wisdom of Scriptures is not found in the land of the living – no! …and that’s why it’s important to respond genuinely to every truth of Scriptures revealed by the Holy Ghost to you either through your personal studies, ministrations in services like this, listening to spiritual resources available to you, watching the videos of teachings and respond to them. It’s amazing! Every revelation of truth is an opportunity knock on the door of your heart – “hey, I have this for you if you’re interested.” Let’s be awake!
Among the factors that will enthrone the Saints in the last days is wealth – heavenly order of wealth. Proverbs 22:7. Kingdom enthronement is accompanied with wealth. So the enthronement of the end time Church will be accompanied enviably with heavenly order of wealth beyond what human capacity can garner. Ecclesiastes 9:14-15. The wisdom of the Church has been helping quite in a lot of places but there is no wealth to match. Ecclesiastes 9:16. Church Gist. Now, God’s agenda is that what he tells us in secret should be shouted on the house tops. That means, he will give the Church a voice by wealth. The voice of the end time Church shall be amplified by wealth. That’s why you find international companies coming to line up, junketing for jobs at the Ark. You can’t be set aside with means – no! You can’t enter to somewhere and they say, “no, he’s from Africa.” Which Africa? It’s money you’re looking for. …and you’re in that plan, that agenda. So it’s not about, “let’s have something to eat, something to drink,” something to rule the world with.
So we need to know how to connect with that flow. There’s a day in God’s agenda called the day of his wealth. Malachi 3:17-18. You know tonight, I can see somebody just jumping out of the pit of frustration into the realm of celebrations – unending celebrations. There’s no short cut. If you won’t serve God with the unrighteous mammon wealth compared with the reality, the true wealth, the uncertain wealth, the wealth of the world, you don’t serve him with it, you’re not entitled to the eternal wealth that is coming from above. Sir, many people will serve God to the end but not with their means. Church Gist. It’s a negotiation of the devil to keep the individuals down. When the children of Israel were going to get out of Egypt, he (Pharaoh) said, “you may go, but leave your cattles here.” Moses said, we are going with everything not a hoof will be left here. Satan doesn’t want you to serve God with the means he gave you so he can keep you seeking for survival. Wake up my friend!
“As God has blessed everyone” so it’s not as you have acquired or achieved. Deuteronomy 16:17. So what you’re giving is from God’s blessings. You say, “my money.” Which my money? Were you born with money? No! If God takes his hand off any of us now, we are empty, become totally vulnerable, everything loses value. So it’s not giving something that nobody has ever done, it’s from what he blesses you with. God will never ask you to give what he has not given you. Church Gist. Until he gave Abraham Isaac he can’t say, bring Isaac. Where will he get him from? God gives you and me first before he asks us to give to acknowledge what he gave us. So your tithe is an acknowledgement of God’s blessings. It’s not that you have done what nobody has done in the world. “Is it the tithe I gave the other time – 100,000?” From where did you get it? From what he gave you. Isn’t it?
So you should be comfortable, be relaxed Sir. This God never lies. We just heard that powerful ministration from the praise team – amazing. You need the verses of those songs to sing to yourself over and again. All these playing religion and … it won’t work, it has never worked. Church Gist. Religion relegates people. You’re struggling to please God without obeying him – that’s religion. Redemption is about doing whatever he tells you to do. John 8:29. We are not trying to play around God to win his favour, no, we are doing what he says to experience what he has promised.
Please note that wealth is not the ambition of the believer, it’s insight into God’s agenda and plugging into it accordingly for God to perform his Word in our lives. Prosperity in the Kingdom is not a promise, so it doesn’t answer to prayers. There are many prayer giants in the body of Christ who are not givers. Sir, you can never pray into prosperity. You know that’s my small area of grace in terms of insight that came early. Nobody under heaven can pray to prosperity. If you engage with the covenant, no witch, no wizard in your family, lineage, neighbourhood, office, can stop you. Church Gist. The Covenant is stronger than the most wicked devil. The devil that can’t stop the day and the night can’t stop the covenant from working. So forget about somebody is chasing you, stop chasing yourself. “It was one woman like that who told me something years ago that I will not do well, that’s what’s affecting me now.” Okay, where’s the woman? He said she’s dead. Then you’re dead because she can’t reverse it. (Laughing). Deuteronomy 8:18. So the end time Church shall be empowered for wealth on the basis of the Covenant.
That is, Covenant practice will be the platform for the empowerment of wealth for the end time Church. Not stealing o, not cutting corners, not changing books, not playing out your business partners, not swearing falsely for gain. I asked the Lord, “how reliable is this covenant?” Then heaven answered. Jeremiah 33:20-21. That is, my covenant with the Redeemed is as standing and unbreakable as my covenant of the day and of the night. Revelation 5:10. Church Gist. The Lord said to me, when you wake up in the morning and see the Sun, know that my covenant is still in force. Look up in the night and you see the moon, know that my covenant is still in force. It remains till the end of the age. That’s how valid and powerful God’s covenant is including his covenant for wealth. Many shall be so marvellously empowered this end time without human hand by walking faithfully in the covenant of financial stewardship. That’s you!
Please recognize that giving is the anchor law of the covenant of wealth. Genesis 8:22; 2 Corinthians 9:6-7; Philippians 4:15-16, 19. Heavenly wealth by engaging the covenant of giving and receiving. Job 22:21-22. You engage with the law according to the rules of the Word. You engage willingly, cheerfully, sacrificially, tirelessly. Job 22:23-25. There’s a law that commands it. Until you discover that law and begin to engage with it, forget it! But this time, you have caught it. May giving become your life long delight so that receiving becomes your new experience! Church Gist. You’re not receiving from the economy of the world but from his riches in glory! Your Church is operating from his riches in glory. No private telephone calls to anybody within or outside the country. No sending to foreign mission, “come on now we are doing Faith Tabernacle or whatever… The Ark, come let God lead you.” This thing doesn’t happen over night. It’s a walk. Genesis 17:1. The more qualitative our walk with God, the greater the speed of delivery. So it’s not Kalo Kalo. It’s a walk.
When Kingdom promotion becomes our lifestyle, with our God given financial resources, showers of blessings will continue to pour upon our lives. We need to emphasize that to all business folks, men of skill, that God never asks from you except from what he has given you. Church Gist. If that settles in your heart, you will celebrate God in giving your tithe as acknowledgement of his blessings received. You will invest to the source that supplies your need with joy.
Here is what the Lord told me this evening while coming down here: he said the reason why people don’t get committed is: they can’t see the end. Hebrews 12:1-2. I was too sure that is the launching pad to a world of humbling wealth. You can’t see well and not have strong faith. Church Gist. Nobody doubts what he can see. Please see well. No believer is meant to be a burden but a blessing and that’s what you shall be. No winner will suffer the plague of lack in these hard times. “Oh I wish I knew” now that you know, start. It’s never late to be right. Start now.
Very important: why this wealth? Zechariah 1:17; Haggai 2:8-9. So he is now looking for channels through whom to pass this heavenly order of wealth to execute the agenda of the spread of the Gospel. Church Gist. Matthew 24:14. Like my friend, Myles Munroe will say, “when purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.” You’re not blessed to be bragging around town, you’re blessed to be a promoter of the Kingdom. So the blessing can keep flowing and then the blessing begins to spread and your life begins to advance, that’s what it is.
So it’s wisdom to wake up into every new year with a budget – a budget for Jesus and the interest of his kingdom and receive grace to apply yourself to it from where you are. Tithe – non-negotiable; in fact, that’s the foundation. You’re not a tither forget it; the windows are shut. You’re a kingdom promoter? Church Gist. Get set, the windows are opened wider. Haggai 1:3-11. There are 2 keys that opens the windows of heaven – tithing and kingdom promotion. Haggai 1:3-11. You want showers of blessings, then be committed to kingdom promotion endeavours with your resources.
I wil appeal to you to play this message over and again because God is speaking to you in person. I have no business being here this evening – we are quite in some meetings but I felt the urge by the Holy Spirit to come and speak prophetically to our lives, all those who are hearing me around the world. It’s not late to be right, no one can play games around God. Church Gist. He knows all things, even our thoughts afar off. He knows what you may be saying now, “enough.” “You’re just lucky, there’s nothing there,” he knows it. “I’ve tried that before,” no, we are not asking people to try. They that put their trust in the Lord shall not be ashamed. You can’t be trying God, it won’t work. Trust him!
Financial fortune in the Kingdom is entrusted, cannot be achieved. Luke 16:11-12. You’re faithful in serving God with your carnal resources, earthly resources, then you qualify to be entrusted with true riches from heaven where the moth and dust cannot reach. Church Gist. Where termites cannot get to, the economy never runs down. Psalm 37:18-19.
– No one here will be a beggar!
– You won’t sell your house to eat!
– You won’t sell your business to survive!
Say with me, “Financial Fortune is my portion, so help me Lord to take my strong position in the Covenant of Wealth as laid out in Scriptures. Church Gist. Help me Jesus to engage with the anchor law of giving and receiving to open up my financial destiny. Help me Jesus to be consistent in my covenant walk with you in this area.”
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