Song: I have confidence in you.

Father me, forever you’ll father me…

Bless The Lord o my soul,
O o o o my soul,
Bless is His holy name….

Texts- Psalm 50:5 and Proverbs 11:24

We have discussed extensively the Abrahamic Covenant of blessing at one time this year.

As we end the year and we start to take stock of 2016 and plan for 2017, we need to know how to connect with that covenant and become wealthy. Otherwise, it would have been a futile effort to have studied the Abrahamic Covenant in the first place.

According to Deuteronomy 8:18

God has given you power to get wealth so that His covenant can be established. Established here means “founded and grounded financially so that no economic problems could ever uproot or overthrow the orderly operation of that covenant on the earth”.

God will never allow the state of the national or local economy to affect the operation of His church and chosen ministries. As far as God is concerned. His church must not be affected by the economic swings – good times, bad times, depression or recession, boom or burst.

Zechariah 1:17

But who makes up the church? You and I.

So, God has given every one of His children the power to get wealth so that they can be established financially to GENEROUSLY fund every need that arises for the operation of the covenant He made with Abraham.

So, wealth is given to the saints to PRIMARILY fund God’s kingdom on earth – the church and its operations to reach the less privileged, do crusades to win souls etc.

You should wonder why God gave the Israelites so much wealth when leaving Egypt to pass through the wilderness for about forty years. What would they need such wealth for in the wilderness? It was because God wanted them to use the wealth to build Him a sanctuary later on; which they did!

Once you are KINGDOM-MINDED, God will bless you abundantly so that ALL your needs are met too. And you lack NOTHING. Matthew 6:33.

So, how can we be kingdom-minded? The activators. These activators rest on a CATALYST called GIVING.

WITHOUT GIVING YOU CAN NEVER ACTIVATE THE COVENANT OF PROSPERITY. Luke 6:38; Galatians 6:7; Genesis 8:22.; 2 Corinthians 9:6. KJV. The message and amplified versions.

The activators.
1. PAYMENT OF TITHE. Malachi 3:8-12. Stanley Tams who wrote a book titled “God owns my business” gives 90% tithe and takes 10%. He became the richest man in his community.

Colgate toothpaste pays 30% of tithes.

When I was actively working and receiving salaries, my tithe was 30%. It’s back to 10% now; but as I trust God for increases and regular good income I want to get back to my 30%.

When you don’t pay your tithe, YOU CAN NEVER BE WEALTHY for two reasons.

1. God will not POUR YOU OUT A BLESSING. So, you will be struggling to make money. Men will not Favour you.

2. The devourer will also finish what you think you are saving by not paying tithe. There will be too much waste coming your way – cars will develop unnecessary faults, you cam fall sick or somebody close to you will be sick or your children and you keep spending unnecessary money.

Somebody say God forbid. But it’s up to us.

In our home we don’t visit hospitals. Even my aged mother that is 80 years old does not drain my money due to hospital expenses.

Tithing is an INSURANCE against waste.

2. FIRSTFRUITS. Proverbs 3:9, 10; Romans 11:16; Leviticus 23:10
Firstfruits are slightly different from tithe in that firstfruits are whole – THE FIRST OF WHAT you produce or earn.

See Nehemiah 10:35

So, if we take this then it is a year by year ordinance. It then means that you bring to God ALL THAT YOU FIRST EARNED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.

It could be your first salary in January for those who earn salary or first earning from your business or the first profit from your business.

What that means is that, you are bringing all your salary in January to church on first sunday in February or all your profits for January or your first earnings as a business man to church on the first sunday in February.

You don’t have to bring cash you can bring cheques or do transfers to fresh hope account. Farmers are to bring the Firstfruits of their farms. But then you can also convert it to cash and bring on the first sunday in February.

But once done, it guarantees an unusual dimension of blessing like never throughout that year.

After the Firstfruits for January, you then go back to paying your 10% or more from February as you earn profit or salaries.

Hope its clear.

This is the secret behind the wealth of some churches that are doing extremely well. Where members are heavily wealthy.

It shall be our portion here too.

3. VOW. Job 22:27-29
A vow is a solemn promise made to God to perform or to abstain from performing a certain thing.

It is a powerful weapon against delay and longstanding issues.

A good example is Jacob’s breakaway from longstanding life of cheating, supplanting and servitude.

Genesis 28:10-22

Note verses 20 and 22

See also Psalm 50:14,15

4. PLEDGE. A pledge is a security given for future payment. Genesis 38:17-24. Not a good example though.

But let me say this, God is not willing that we take pledges that we cannot pay.

So, I prefer we don’t take pledges but rather post- date cheques and submit them to church or whenever you have money for that thing we are raising money for, bring it to church or pay into our account.

Reason – Numbers 30:2, Ecclesiastes 5:4-6

Same warning goes for vows too.

Let me give you an opportunity to reflect back on any pledge or vow you are yet to pay and ask that God blesses you to pay them.

There are some that are so far back that we can’t even remember again, come before the altar and let us beg God to forgive us and show us mercy by the blood of Jesus.

5. FREEWILL OFFERING. Leviticus 22:17-22; Exodus 35:29

It is a voluntary religious contribution made in addition to what may be expected or required.

That’s why we put this box out here.

It is not for pledge, vow. Normal offering or tithe – but for Freewill offering. It is there to give to God over and above all you have given – WILLINGLY. Anytime you are happy you just salute God and drop an offering.

It provokes God’s OVERJARA GRACE for you for uncommon accomplishments.

6. NORMAL CHURCH OFFERING. Malachi 3:8.

Offerings are also a part of worship. The Bible says honour The Lord with your substance (money or other materials). Proverbs 3:9.

In the New Testament, we hear Apostle Paul admonishing the people to keep by them in store offerings to give in church first day of the week.

Attitude to offering is what is important here so that we can get a reward for this service from God. 2 Corinthians 9:7, 2 Corinthians 8:7.

Three facts emerge here.
1. Give what you are happy to give from your heart. Not forcefully.
2. Abound in giving. Promote your giving.
3. Give yourself to God FIRST before your offering is acceptable to God.

7. GIVING TO THE POOR. Proverbs 19:17

Giving to the needy and the poor is a command. Because, the bible says the poor we will ALWAYS have in our midst.

That’s why we take welfare offerings.

Let us step it up.

Shall we pray?

Pray that you will be faithful in all these areas of giving in 2017 and the rest of your life.

Receive grace to give. Come against the spirit of stinginess.

The bible says there is that scattereth and increaseth. But there is that withhold etch more than is meet and it tendeth to poverty.

Pray that God will make you a giver.

There is somebody here, God says He is giving you a change of garment.

Why do we pray at all? Because prayer changes things.

The story of Dan Crawford a missionary will interest you.

He was returning to his mission field and it was necessary for him to cross a deep stream and there was no boat to use. So he and his people camped and prayed. As they prayed, a tall tree near the stream began to totter and fall. It fell right across the stream! The royal engineers of heaven had laid a bridge for God’stime servants.

Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE for our God to do.

Hear me, on this mountain, you will take delivery of your destiny by fire by force!

Examples:

– Saul – 1 Samuel 9:1-21

– Moses – Exodus 3:1-11

– David – 1 Samuel 16:1-13

– Joseph – Genesis 37:1-11

– Gideon – Judges 6:11-16

– Jephthah – Judges 11:1-11

From the examples of men who grabbed their destinies as shown above, what lessons are to be learnt?

Saul – an errand that he did not refuse, brought him to kingship.
– prayer: May God order my steps aright, to my prepared place of blessing and destiny.

Moses – upon all his disability and shortcomings as a murderer and a stutterer yet, God bypassed all to make him the best leader in history after our lord Jesus Christ.
– prayer: Bring forth my hidden ability out of my disability and let your glory fall on me to produce a champion out of me.

David – a consistent and dutiful david was brought to destiny from obscurity.
– prayer: As I consistently serve you lord, though I am not known now, but bring me to divine limelight for divine placement.

Joseph – from dreaming to destiny. Despite all the attempts to bury his destiny which God had revealed to him in a dream. He still attained destiny.
– prayer: every dream killer. Every destiny killer, assigned from the pit of hell, against my rising, be roasted by the fire of the Holy Ghost now!

Gideon – from hiding, from being a nonentity, from a notoriously poor and humble background, a man of velour emerged! That’s your story.
– prayer: Oh God, you are the one that lift up the poor, out of the dung hill of life, and position them among princes. It is my turn to experience such divine lifting.

Jephtah – he became a leader and captain of the people, though an outcast and a product of harlotry.
– prayer: Oh my father, as white pap comes out from a black pot, let me emerge from my inglorious past and background into your divine placement for me.

As we close tonight, we will pray one final prayer:
– Oh God visit my foundation with your fire and root out everything that militate against my glorious destiny.

God has reserved money and the wealth of the sinner for His harvest in the last days. Money has a mission and it is crying out to be in the hands of the righteous and not the wicked. This end time transfer of wealth into the Body of Christ has already started. As we understand what God has promised in His Word to the harvesting generation and begin to believe Him both individually and corporately for our part in this transfer, this wealth will increasingly find and overtake us for we know its purpose: to establish God’s Covenant in the earth [Deut. 8:18; Jas. 5:1-8. See The Coming Events In Bible Prophecy].

Joseph in Egypt: through seven years of great prosperity followed by seven years of great famine, the wealth of Egypt and the world was brought into the hands of Joseph [Gen. 47:13-26]

The reason God did what He did in Egypt by transferring all the wealth of the Egyptians to Israelites in Exodus 12:35,36 was to show us physically, what He planned to do this end-time.

The coming wealth transfer is getting very close!

Jeremiah 30:21 – nobles within us.

John 6:9 – there is a LAD not a full-grown man here….that holds the key to the solution of this church – financially. There is a LAD here. This is prophetic.

Obadiah 17- end

The basis for our wealth as believers – Romans 8:32

The wealth of the sinners are laid up for the just …..- Proverbs 13:22

To heap up and to gather and to leave them for those who help the needy…..Ecclesiastes 2:26

The forces of the Gentiles shall come unto me….Isaiah 60:5

Isaiah 45:14….the Gentiles shall be subject unto me….they will come to me with all their merchandise, and it will be mine….they will follow me as prisoners in chain…..they will fall before me on their knees and say ‘God is with you and He is the only God’.

Isaiah 61:5….Foreigners will be your servants. They will feed your flocks and plow your fields and tender your vine yards.

Give me this mountain…..Caleb….joshua 14:12

I HAVE GIVEN unto you EVERY herb …..Genesis 1:29

God HAS GIVEN unto us ALL THINGS that pertaineth unto life and godliness..2 Peter 1:3

That ye may know that which has been FREELY GIVEN unto you….1 Corinthians 2:12

The bible says give and it shall be given unto you…..this condition is also crucial in taking what belongs to us…..Luke 6:38

Revelation 1:6; 5:10…. We r made priests and kings and to reign on the earth. For most parts we know how to be priests but we don’t know how to be kings.
Priests serve God and receive revelations from heaven. But kings financed the ministry and the vision of the priests..

The Cyrus encounter. Isaiah 45:1-3.

The moral to all I have taught us tonight is that we MUST shun SIN in its ENTIRETY and be OUTSTANDINGLY RIGHTEOUS to escape the looming punishment of sinners ( Gentiles ) and attract the wealth laid up for us by them.

Prayer:

1. My father, my father, help me to be righteous altogether and shun sin in its entirety, in jesus name.

2. Wealth of the Gentiles, locate me in jesus name.

3. Father, endue me with incredible and baffling Favour that will cause the wealth of sinners to be converted unto me in jesus name

Song: Egyptians are not God in my life –

– Jeremiah 51:20-23

God will teach my hands to war and my fingers to fight.
– Psalm 144:1

So, Ab initio, God wants me to be an active participant in this war. Even though, He WILL fight the battle and i will hold my peace; nonetheless, He must fight the battle with weapons.

Holding your peace in this context means that you are not the strategist. You are not to bother your head how the battle will be fought and won. That is God’s business not yours.

And guess what – YOU AND I ARE THE WEAPONS!

The bible says the weapons of our warfare are mighty..2 Corinthians 10:4..When God decides to use you as a weapon, you become MIGHTY in His hands.

May God use somebody here tonight.

Isaiah 41:14-16- God said He has made me a sharp threshing instrument….

Why this battle by the way? And why use me as His weapon of war?

With the intent to do two major things:
1. Deal deadly blows at the devil and his cohorts and thus wreck havoc in the kingdom of darkness.

2. Bring down the glory of God and His presence for gifts and manifestation of the Holy Spirit that will result into great penitence/repentance from sins/ evil works – with sober weeping unto salvation and receiving the FULLNESS of the Holy Spirit.

Example the Hindu girls that prayed.

The first is to DE-POPULATE as it were the kingdom of darkness.

The latter is to POPULATE the kingdom of God and expand His territories.

Now hear this:
If David could win EVERY battle when Jesus and the Holy Spirit had not yet manifested, I stand a far better chance to win the devil now.

With Jesus’ victory on the cross of Calvary, already secured, this is a battle from victory to victory. Moreover, I have power, help and guidance of the Holy Spirit so what am I waiting for?

But TAKE NOTE OF THIS:
All weapons don’t perform the same way in the hands of a great warrior.

A warrior has preference for some weapons over the others. True or false?

There are one or two weapons out of many that a great warrior is very comfortable with above others.

David was one such highly performing weapon in the hand of our Father -God. But must he be the only one who falls into that category? Why not me?

The thing again is, the more God uses you in battles the more your profile rises.

The questions are:
1. How READILY AVAILABLE am i for God’s use?
2. How effective and lethal and sharp am i as a weapon?
3. When God uses me to do battle, will He and His kingdom not suffer much casualties? Or will He triumph in war as He uses you?

These are very deep and penetrating soul- searching questions that beg for answer.

The answer to these questions will determine how READILY God uses a man or a woman.

The more He uses you, the more glory you carry.
Remember the donkey that jesus rode on.

But, the interesting part of this is: it is left to the weapon to request from the trinity to be sharpened. The trinity will not force any weapon to be sharpened. It is up to me and you to present ourselves to the trinity for sharpening – thru Bible reading/study, fasting, prayers, meditations, evangelism, fellowships etc……

Herein lies the UNDOING of most people.

But I challenge you today to present yourself as a ready weapon in the hands of your father-God.

When you get to this point, no adversary can mess you up, but God is with you.

Jeremiah 20:11.

Song: If you can use anything Lord, you can use me.

Let us pray.

1. Let all the affairs of my life be too hot for any evil power to manipulate in the name of Jesus.

2. As The Lord confused the tongues of the builders of Tower of Babel; let my adversaries go into irresolvable confusion in jesus name.

3. Oh Lord, make me a sharp threshing instrument with teeth to devour all my adversaries.