Applying the keys of the kingdom of God for your prosperity Pt.2

Messages for December 2017: Our Month of Jubilee

Message for Sunday 17^th December, 2017

Theme: Understanding the Keys of the Kingdom of God

Topic: Applying the keys of the kingdom of God for your prosperity Pt.2

Introduction: Last week, we began looking at this topic and we saw that prosperity is all encompassing; it covers the entire human; nature spirit, soul and body.  We saw the definition of prosperity as to be whole with nothing missing and nothing broken. We also established that prosperity is a covenant and that until your part is played, God is not obligated to keep the promise. We began to look at the terms of the covenant and we saw that the covenant demands that for there to be harvest, there must be seed time. This means if seeds are sown, there would be harvest. In other words, if seeds are not sown, there would be no harvest. Then we began to look at the different levels of seeds sown. We saw that the foundation for prosperity is tithing; this is what makes all the other seeds sown work. Then we began to look at offerings which are free will offerings which we are expected to bring every time we gather at the feet of the Lord to worship Him.

Today, we shall continue to look at different dimensions of giving. This is why I always talk about giving constructively. When we give constructively, it means we are giving according to the leading of the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that knows when and what we should give and to whom. Basically though, we can know the different kinds of seeds we need to sow. This is why we are going to be looking at the different dimensions of giving today. See Jn.16:13; 1Jn,2:27 and Rm.8:14-16.

Different dimensions of giving: Every offering you give comes with returns of rewards on your investments. This is why I believe that the best company to invest in is the company of God. God’s company never runs dry and His stock market never crashes. Just like you need guidance to invest wisely in stock markets, you need guidance to invest wisely in God’s business and His principal products are people. When you invest prayer and the word in the lives of people, you are giving an offering. Prayer investments enable you to make spiritual investments in people’s lives for the fulfilment of their destinies. The word investment enables you to build up people for the prosperity of their souls to the end that they would cause their souls to be united to their spirits for the fulfilment of their destinies. So contrary to what many believe, your investment in the kingdom is going to be much more than money. However, today, I want to look at different offerings converted to money and what our returns on such offerings could be. If you do not know this, then you cannot effectively use it for you spiritual benefits.

General offerings: This is the free will offering we give in Church every time we gather there. The Lord has said the children of Israel should not come before him empty. Thus if you go to Church and you are not doing any service in Church for instance, you are coming before the Lord empty. This explains why we gather here before Sunday service to pray in tongues for thirty minutes preceding the service to render some offering of our time to God. Also, when God puts money in our hands; no matter how little, we are expected to bring the tithe of it to him and some free will offering. We looked at tithing and the general offerings last week. Today still looking at offerings, we shall continue looking at some dimensions of offerings and the different returns we can receive on our investments.

Giving to our parents: The bible commands us to honor our fathers and mothers so that our days may be long on the earth which the Lord has given to us. In the New Testament, we are taught that when we do this, it shall be well with us and we would live long. In other words this kind of giving guarantees longevity. It is not optional but a covenant of longevity guaranteed. If it is not done, we make ourselves vulnerable to the spirit of untimely death. Instead of praying to live long, just honor God by giving to your parents because the word translated honor the Lord with your substance in Prv.3:9 is the same as honor your father and mother. This means to support your parents financially in honor of the Lord; it does not matter whether they are financially comfortable or not. It also does not matter whether they treated you well or not. It is a spiritual transaction between you and God. But give your size per time. Do not try to show off; cut your coat according to your cloth because life is in phases and men are in sizes.

The New Testament also teaches about giving to your spiritual parents or your parents in the Lord. God is the father of us all as Jesus taught in Mt.23:9 but along the path of our destinies, He has designated certain people as shepherds over us and some play the role of spiritual parenthood while others act as guides or teachers at specific times. This is why apostle Paul told the Church at Corinth that they had many teachers but only one spiritual parent and that in Christ Jesus He begat them in the gospel. That made him their spiritual parent. As a parent, there was a time he told the Church at Rome that he longed to see them to impart spiritual gifts to them to the end that they may be established. Only a spiritual parent can help you to become established in faith. This is why we need to belong to a Church family where God Himself has planted us. See Ex.20:12; Eph.6:1-3; Rm.1:11 and 1Cor.4:15.

Giving to the poor: So many people despise the poor; meanwhile, anytime the poor come to you for help, God is giving you the opportunity to make Him [God] owe you. The bible teaches that when we give to the poor, we lend to God and God is no man’s debtor; He will always out give you. When you do this, you open up yourself to the blessing of God because God hears the cry of the poor. In addition, God will not give you over to the will of your enemy because He is a good God. If you are given over to the will of your enemy, there are not many like you and the cry of the poor would prevent the will of your enemies from finding expression in your life. Our chief enemy is Satan. His human agents are his cohorts and they are all under your feet because God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ. One of the means by which we bring down those blessings is giving to the poor.  Another thing we enjoy giving to the poor is healing from our afflictions. Please understand that this is not the same thing that spiritists do transferring your affliction to others; God is too awesome not to be able to take care of you through and through. The transfer of infirmity to innocent people is the work of the thief who comes to steal, kill and destroy. God has more than enough healing to give to you and besides Jesus Christ paid the full price for our redemption which includes healing in the package. Giving to the poor would have averted the madness of Nebuchadnezzar but he did not listen to the counsel of Daniel. Another benefit of giving to the poor is that your light will break forth as the noon day meaning you will not be in the dark about the events of your life so you will always find a way out no matter what. See Dan.4:27-28; Ps.41:1-3; Isa.58:6-11 and Prv.19:17. 

Giving to widows and the fatherless: At the time of the putting together of the Law of Moses, the widows and their children were much more vulnerable than others. For this cause, God set up a system for them to be cared for. The people of Israel were to consciously leave part of their harvest in their fields for them to reap because they had no land of their own or other calamities may have befallen them like was the case of Naomi in the book of Ruth. Boaz helped them and God rewarded him with a virtuous wife even though was never married and his wife who never had a child in her previous marriage was given conception by God and she had a son for him and they became part of the ancestry of the seed of Abraham Jesus Christ! What a legacy!!! So what happens if you give to widows?

1.     God will protect you

2.     God will consider Himself indebted to you and will definitely repay you.

3.     God will keep your spouse alive and cause you to enjoy him or her.

4.     God will see that your children do not become fatherless.   

Giving to widows and the poor was the secret of Job’s success that enabled him to become the richest man in the ancient world. You will find this key in Job 29. He was reminiscing there about the days of his youth when the secret of God was upon his tabernacle and he reached out to the poor and widows. Job.29:12-13; Ex.22:22-24; 1Tim.5:16 and Jas.1:27.

For want of time and space, we shall stop here for now. We shall continue next week by God’s grace along the line of what we are seeing today. Meanwhile, someone is reading this blog that is yet to receive Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, you can do so right away because you do not qualify to enter into this covenant without first receiving Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. If you want to do so based on this understanding, you can do so right away by saying the following prayers out loud in faith and you will be saved:

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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