The Benefits of Kingdom Stewardship

Messages for August 2018: Our Month of Stewardship

Message for Sunday 26^th August, 2018

Theme: Exploring the Adventures of Stewardship

Topic: The Benefits of Kingdom Stewardship

Introduction: By far the most viable place anyone could choose to serve is in the Kingdom of God. Like we have established since the beginning of this theme, no one pays like God would pay you for any kind of service. Service in God’s kingdom yields so much benefits which can be itemized as follow:

Divine presence: When the Lord gave the great commission in all the accounts of the gospel where they were recorded, He promised to be with them always even to the end of the age. He has since kept His word which is why the gospel has been kept till date even after 2,000 years of His departure. See Mt.28:18-20; Mk.16:15-20; Acts 4:33.

Divine Guidance: If God accept your stewardship, He will never leave you in the dark; He will guide you continually. This is because it is only God who knows what He wants us to do and where He wants us to do it. See Mk.16:20; Isa.58:11 and Acts 16:6-11.

Divine provision: When God finds your stewardship acceptable, He provides for you. There are three basic needs in a person’s life namely food, clothing and Shelter. Anyone whose stewardship is found acceptable by God would not lack these three at different levels of faith. For some, God may build houses and for others, provide the means to rent their own houses. He provides food and clothes all the time. In fact for the forty years God sent Moses to lead the Children of Israel to the Promised Land from Egypt, He cooked for them from heaven’s kitchen and rained the food down daily for them to gather and eat. This is so important to God that He promises to reward all those who are instrumental in meeting these kind of needs of His brethren. See Mt.25:31-46; Acts 2:44-45 and Ps.105:40-42.

Divine protection: This is one of the means by which God encourages those who serve Him. In 2Cor.5:20, we are called Ambassadors of Christ which indicate that we have Divine diplomatic immunity. Just like an Ambassador cannot be tried and judged in another nation but has to be recalled by the nation from where he came for any kind of perceived crime, likewise, the accusations of hell alone do not have power over us. They must seek the intervention of heaven. Heaven will never intervene against us but for us. This is why we must be obedient to the one who called us. See 1Cor.13:8; Jn.13:34-35; Gal.5:16, 21-24; Jas.4; and Rm.8:13.

Intimacy with God – Eternal life: This will guarantee that you will enjoy the presence of God all the time. There is no place like it. This explains the distress of the Lord on the Cross when the father turned His face from him. Contrary to the thinking of many, eternal life is not a place but a relationship. This relationship is defined by the Lord in one of His prayers in the book of John as the experiential knowledge of God and Jesus Christ. See John 17:3; Mt.27:46 and Mk.15:34

Great grace: As the early Church fathers concerned themselves with the testimony of the Resurrection, they prayed for boldness to keep testifying when they were threatened even by death and the Lord rewarded them with great grace such that many more people were won to Him through their testimony. It is grace that makes anyone anything in life. The greatness of anyone on earth today if it came by God is because of the grace of God. Grace is divine favor that attracts blessings to you and divine ability to retain the blessings.  The Acts of the Apostles Church had it which is why the Church of God has endured and keeps enlarging till date. See Acts 4:33-35; 1Pet.5:5-6 and Jas.4:6-10

Divine Health insurance: Serving God pays so much that He is able to keep you healthy. If your health is ever compromised, you will observe sin and carelessness in taking the time to rest as the reason. He promises to bless our food and water and keep sickness and miscarriage away from us. Also, there is provision for healing even though God’s chief desire is for us to be in health and prosper like our souls prosper. The difference between us and our health is faith. If you believe you will see the glory of God. See Ex.23:25-26; 15:26; 3Jn1:2; 1Pet.2:24 and Isa.53:1-5

Glorification and eternal abode in God’s Kingdom: In the book of Revelation, the Lord visited all the Churches in existence then and promised them some blessings if they overcame the adversary on the side of time until the end. These blessings are best reported the way the Lord described them because we cannot claim a full understanding of them in time. In Rev.2-3, we find these blessings promised the redeemed who endured till the end:

We are fed from the tree of life which is in the paradise of God. Rev.2:7

We receive a crown of life and we will not be hurt by the second death. Rev.2:17

Power over the nations and the morning star. Rev.2:26-28

We shall be clothed in white raiment and have our names written in the book of life. He would also introduce us to His father and holy angels. Rev.3:5

The Lord would prove His love for us and He would also Rev.3:9

We get to become pillars in the Temple of our God and He will give us a new name which is given by the father. Rev.3:12

We get to be enthroned with the Lord. Rev.3:21

More could be said here but for want of time and space we shall draw the curtain here for today. However, there is someone here would like to experience this new life. It starts only at new birth; if you want to be born again, please say the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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