The Blessedness of Generosity

And so very quickly, I want to look at a few scriptures, and then we we delve into the subject matter Glory to God, Praise God, Thank you Holy Spirit. Acts twenty verse. Thirty five, and perhaps eleven verse twenty five, and then Second Corinthians nine, verse six. This would be my introductor scriptures. Paul was speaking to the church, and he just chiptain and emphasis that Jesus himself was prone to advance in the course of his ministry. He said, I have showed you all things. How that's soul laboring. Ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus. How he said, it is more blessed to give than to receive. Post that the Lord Jesus. Showed us in the cause of his ethly ministry, that it is more blessed to give than to receive. And when you flip through the pages of scriptures, you see that this truth is corroborated by many other scriptures. For instance, in Provehaps eleven twenty five, the Bible made it clear. It said the liberal soul shall be made fat, and it said him that what are it shall by himself be watered onto. It's a principle of scripture that every time. Generosity is expressed, there is a recompense. From the Lord for that act of generosity. Every believer must understand that this is not just a revelation that you deal with if you want, or. Neglect if you don't. This is actually one of the foundational principles of lifting and empowerment in the Kingdom of God. In First Corinthians, chapter nine, Paul likened this principle to the operation of a farmer. Second Corinthians nine, verse six. No farmer. Will have any form of harvest if it does not. So it is foolishness to expect the harvest when you have not bestored labor in sewing, so Paul said. But this I say, he wished so at sparingly shall reap also sparingly. And he said he wished so at bountifully shall also reap bountifully. If we read this thing, this, this scripture the NLT, you would see the clarity will be more. But I don't have the time. Okay, remember this. A farmer who plans only few seeds will get small crop, but the one who plans generously will get generous crops. The seven and eight poor one further is that you must each decide in your heart how much to give, and don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure, for God loves a person who gives cheerfully. Don't give reluctantly, and also don't give out of pressure. Give cheerfully because God loves whoever gives cheerfully. If they and God will generously provide all you need, then you will also have ever freeting you need, and plenty leftovers to share with orders. So one of the principles of the Kingdom that translates into abundance, fruitfulness, and empowerment is the principle of generosity. If you started the Bible, you are going to discover that many great men in Scripture were generous, and there were others who became great on account of generosity. Tept For instance, you look at the life of Abraham, whom the Bible called the Father of Faith the Friend of God, and you see that one of the major things that defines the life of Abraham was a lifestyle of generosity. In Genesis chapter eighteen, verse one to eight, we saw that Abraham was so generous that even strangers that he didn't know or have relationship with he was so predisposed to demonstrating generosity beyond human comprehension, the Bible said, And the Lord appeared onto him in the planes of memory. And he sat in the tenth door in the heat of the day, and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and. Lo, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he had not discerned that this was God. This were strangers, as far as he was concerned. The Bible said. They ran to meet them from the tenth door, and bowed down himself towards the ground, and said, my Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, passed not away. I prayed thee from thy servant. This was just a gesture of a humble statesman. It was eventually, in the course of their conversation that they discerned that he was the Lord. Right. He said, let a little water, I pray you be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, and I will fetch a morsell of bread and comfort year your hearts. After that year, shall after that year shap pass on for dere. Four a year come to your salmant. And they said, so do as Dao has said he met strangers. He invited them in. He offered to give them water to wash their feet. He offered to give them food to eat. Then he proceeded to his wife. He said, and Abraham hastened. He was doing it with so much or gensy, And you are wondering as though this were special guests or guests. He was expecting these were strangers. But the man hastened into the tent onto Sarah and said, make ready quick, three majors, find me needed, and make cakes upon the heart. And Abraham ran into the head, ran hastied, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it on to a young man, and he hasted and dressed it. This this for strangers. This is what we will naturally do for special people who visit, from whom we expect the favor. But this was Abraham doing it for a total stranger. And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree, and they did it. He wasn't expecting anything in return. This was just his life. He was so generous that he could do this much for and to strangers, that was not all. If you study Genesis thirteen, verse edged to twelve. When God caught him to go to the land that he would show him, he took his nephew Lot with him. And because Lot was working with Abraham, Lot also began to prosper, And the Bible said, the heasman of Lord and the heathman of Abraham began to have altercations. They began to have. Disputes and quarrels, and it became impossible for them to dwell together. Now look at what Abraham did. Abraham was the one who picked Lot. Abram was the one training Lot. Lot has now become big. If you were the one, what would you do? A nature a man will say, so you too, you think you've become a big man? Right? You want to fight me? I will show you who made who, and you will make sure that Lot is granted. But not Abraham. Abraham did not just tell Lot to part ways with him. Abraham gave Lot the right to choose first. He thought, Lot, look at the land, any area that you want take it. When you choose that part, I will take the order. Is that how the share thing is? Is it not the elder that you take first? He has the right to be the first to choose. But Abraham, in his generosity, wanted the best for Lot, and he taught Lord to choose any side he wants. This was the character of Abraham. So when you see Abraham so big. Of course there was faith, of course there was the place of obedience. But one thing you can never take away from Abraham was the depth of his generosity. You will hardly find a great man in scripture who was not libra and generous. When the Bible said the libra so it is made fat, it's not, it's not it's not a cliche. It's a truth that is supported by principle. If you want God to make you. In addition to the many the things that scriptures recommend, and I will speak about them, from hard work to productivity to diligence. In addition to all of that, one thing you can never joke with is the spirit and the lifestyle of generosity. Take a look at David for instance. David was a great. Man and he was also a very generous person. In First Chronicles twenty nine, verse three to five, when God asked for a temple a tenth to be built, when you saw what David as one man gave. You will be shocked. What did he know? What was the texture of his heart that motivated this level of generosity? The Bible said moreover, this was David speaking. Because I have set my affection on the house of my God. I have made of my own prota good of God of silver, which I have given to the House of my God. Over and above all that I have prepared, prepared for the holy House. He prepared God. He prepared silver. Now look at the quantity, he said, even three thousand talents. Of gold and of God of. Offer, and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the wars of the. Houses with her. You can you can convert this in our today's currency. Try converting it to US dollars. Three thousand talents of gold in the days of David and seven thousand talents of silver. What is the value? At least I can help you. You got thig ai. But where's my technical guide? And it happens quickly. Just write three thousand talents of God in the days of David and seven thousand talents of silver. What is the dull equivalence? Now, people don't appear in these kingdoms. There is a protocol. You see. The reason why many can be great is that they undermine the principles of the kingdom. And David didn't stop there. He say, of God the things of God, that means anything that requires god decoration, I will provide it of silver, the things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. So he paid those who were laboring. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day onto the Lord David was willing to pay for it. You now look at David. You say he's annointed. He says, sam is go and sing. You will know that beyond the gift of singing, there are laws that are principles. They are protocols. Have you got in a figure? What do you have? This generation of ai is carry you? This would have been a serious mathematical issue. What did there? I said, seven point four billion US dollars? Hey, no, no, let's. Seven point nine billion US dollars. Only God help me help me have my faith? Was me? Do I need faith? How about the fielver two hundred and sixteen million dollars. So he gave almost eight point seven billion dollars. That was only for the household God. You know, he said, they want to take my money, and you have ten thousand. This is what David gave in his generation for God. I've seen man who give eight points something billion in the days of David. Is it the same? God? You're not come. Like I said, I want to buy ever size it because this subject has been bassadored. First us who teach it that that doesn't bring money? I'm not. Nobody is the king money today. I just need you to understand that this thing God generosity. Is a mystery. Eight point nine billion dollars or eight billion dollars one man. And you think it became great by chance. No. When David went to offer to the Lord, he said, I will not give to the Lord anything that costs me nothing. He insisted that he should cost him something. And it was not just to God, even to people. If you stirty seconds some nine verse one to seven, David said, because of Jonathan, they should look for any body in source liliage that a way bless And they went and brought mel Fibushet, who was crippled. Now in the days of kings, those who have bladishes don't sit on tables with royals. But David's heart was large enough. He accommodated Melfibuschet and Melphyboschat was giving a place all the days of his life. Such was the generosity of David. And then you think that that was it. You now get down to Solomon in First King, Chapter three, from verse three to five. Solomon now said he was going for a tranksgiving service like you came for tonight. Now see what Solomon brought. And Solomon loved the lord walking in the statues of David his father. Are you saying that this was motivated by love? Nobody preach you must give or you won't be. Probably that's what they're saying here. He loved the Lord walking in the statute. That is, he laned the ways of God according to the ordinances that God revealed to David. And he said only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. Verse four. The king went to Gibbon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. A thousand bond offerings the Solomon offer upon the order one thousand cows. How much do there's the cows? Now I'm trying to help somebody's mind how much. A proper cow, because these guys get good offering one three point five cow? Cow? Are you serious? May God help this country? Coward is three point five million? No, let's do one point five confind the other prize letter. Now multiply one point five by one thousand. That's one point six billion, right is there? One point six billion that was solo? Most of free. It's not see. Lend the truth. It will change your life. You know, some of us. The only thing we know about church. How God helps people is man of God. Pray for me. Man of God, lay hands on me. You will know non No, God, are not plenty the genuine ones to pray for you. That's why you have to lend principles. There are principles you understand. Even if nobody prays for you, you will go up. I've taught you here Faithfulness. For instance, if a man is faithful, God lives him up. You don't need anybody to profit side. He said. If you are faithfully in needle, you are faithfully much so anybody who is faithful must go up. For instance, diligence opens doors is if a man is diligent in his business, he willsturn before kings. You may not need a prophecy to say I commandos to open us. Be diligent. Diligence has a power to open doors. Faithfulness has a power to lift service has a power to make you great. So in case there's nobody to prophesy to you or lay hands on you, they have principles that has given you insurance. And this is how generosity is one of it. Now that are those in scripture that nothing would have made them become great, but generosity made them great. So you don't just find generosity with two people who are already great. Even those who are not great, generosity had the capacity to. Make them become great. For instance, they shoulder might second king start the fathers eat. There's no way that woman would have been a relevant entity. There's no way she would have been captured in scripture, for the Bible said something about her. Every time Elisha passed to Shunem where was there was a great woman, and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was as often as he passed by, he turned. Teether to eat bread. She didn't know Elijah. She just perceived that this guy is a man of God. So every time Elisha was passive. She said, you must eat food. This was the disposition of these people. If you read verse nine and ten. When she noticed that Elisha became frequent, guess what she did. She said not to her husband. Behold, now I perceive so at first she saw him as a stranger. But now I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passed by us continually. Because I I said that it's a holy man, he said, let us make a little chamber. I prayed it on the wall, left us set him there a bed, a table is two and a candlestick, and it shall be when he come to us he would turn there. She got a house for him just because she felt this was a man of God. Today her name is in scripture. She's not just great, but she's great with God. Take and look at Mary, the sister of Matter Matthew twenty sixth Verst. Thirteen. When she broke the Alabasta box at the feet of Jesus. Jesus made a statement. He said, fairyly, I say on to you where read that this gospel shall be preached in the whole world. He said, there shall also. Be this that this woman had done, be told for a memory of her, the woman we have the longevity that the Gospel has because of the act of generosity. Her name was immortalized by generosity. She will behead, her story will be told as a memorial. Take a look at Cornelius, a gentile. Through generosity, he didn't just open the door of the gospel. He became the gate through which the Gospel got to the gentiles. Acts of the Apostles, Chapter ten, Verse one to two. He became the gate through which Gospel got to the gentiles. The Bible said there was a settle man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centuron of the band called the Italian band. Verse tuo. A devout man, one that feared God with all his house, which gave much arms to the people, and prayed to God always. He gave much Alm verse three. When the Angel appeared, the Angel acknowledged that not just his prayers, but also his arms giving has laden to heaven as a memorial. He saw in a vision, evidently about the ninth hour of the day, an Angel of the Lord coming to him and saying not to him Cornelius. This was a. Gentile at this time. If you invite the disciples of Jesus to prey to a gentile, they would refuse. They wanted Christianity that have been only for the Jews. This guy told the door open. They had to send and missiories from heaven to force the apostles to bring the Gospel to the gentiles because of his prayer and his arms giving. In fact, he took. Three vis songs for Peter to pay attention. If not that he refused until God commanded him, two men are waiting for you. Follow them then will never get to the juentis. And even when Peter did it, after he saw the holy Gol's for his thick came to Jerusalem and explained himself, it was God that told me to go, and when I went, the Holy Gold fellow on them like a fellow on us. So you people should not ostracize me. Peter, do this thing next grade. This is why Satan is fighting it the same way set and fights prayer fights holiness. That's how he fights giving a generosity. And like I said, people have bastardized it, but it doesn't change the fact that this is a force that God has made available. For your blessing. There's four at ten. Look at what the angel said, and when he looked on him, he was afraid and said, what is it? Lord? And he said to him, thy prayers and thy arms come up to heaven before God as a memorial. So there were people that had no business becoming great who became great true generosity. And you will hardly find great men in scripture who were not generous. This is why it's important for every believer not just to be pressured to give. It should be a lifestyle. And I'm gonna show you what you give, where you give, how you give, and why giving matters to God. Praise God. Now, when we teach like this, there are people who want to assume that we are suggesting that Christians should not be hard working or productive, but just give and go and rely on God to live them. That's not what we are saying. We believe in working hard, we believe in working smartly, we believe in being productive. But we also know that in addition to all of that, there is an advantage you have as a believer. The guy who goes to consult in the shrine, he doesn't just come to his room and expect money. He's this such a sistence, but he knows that in addition to the work, there is something dispirit that he has sacrificed to can do to give him an advantage. So very quickly, let me show. You that although God blesses supernaturally, God also expects you to be hardworking. He never will take the place of hard work, diligence, faithfulness, or productivity glory to God. Let's look at the few scriptures. Hmm. Tennis is two verse fifteen. The first man God created, God gave him work. To let you know that God is an advocate of work. And I've taught you before that walk in the kingdom is not just about. Labor for reward. I've taught you before that the origin of work is transformation. When you find the root meaning. Of the word work is the word ergone, and the word ergone means to be transformed. That's why on your job you gain experience. On your job, you gain your lend skills. On your job, you develop character. Some of you would not be disrespected except that you started walking. Some of you would not have been tempted to compromise except that you started walking. So what gives you the opportunity for transformation before it is even an instrument of blessing. So the first man God created had everything he would ever want. Yet God kept him in the guardian to walk. The Bible said, the Lord God took the man and put him in the guardian of Eden to dress it and to keep it, to dress it and to keep it. So God expected the man to walk, So he wasn't working for food. Food was already available. Work is beyond having something to eat. Work is part of life. This is why God encourages work. Praise God. So when we take supernatural blessing, we are not trying to say work. We be substituted. Even when you are blessed, you will see work. I don't think there's anybody materially speaking who has been more blessed than Eden. The whole act belonged to him, Yet he was working, So what was he looking for? Because it's an act of worship, because. It's a part of life, God orchestrated it to engender transformation, and it is consistent in scriptures. If you studied the Trauna Mechapter twenty Adverse twelve, God said I will bless you, but I won't just bless you habitually. In said I will bless the works of your hands. So God expects you to work for him to bless you. I will bless all the works of dying hand. So God is an advocate of work. In Proverbs fourteen twenty three, the Bible said, for every label there is profit. In Second Tarsalonians three, verse ten, Paul said, if you don't work, don't eat. So God does not end us laziness. God does not endorse unproductivity. God is an advocate of work, and not just work, but hard walk. And not just hard work, but smart work. And not just smart work, but productive work. This is what God advocates for. He said, if you don't walk, don't eat, you have to and what you eat God, we never. Substitute walk from our everyday life. Nonetheless, he still blesses us because in this world you are not just dealing with policies, systems by men. You are dealing with spirits. So if you think only hard work is enough, you are joking. It's unless you have not yet come to the reader of the devil. The Bible says, Saturn is prowling like a roaring lion, seeking whom in my devour. The Bible said, there is an evil day for men. The Bible said in John ten ten, the teeth come make not but for to kill, to steal, and to destroy. So how can you how can you withstand a spiritual adversary that already made up his mind to steal from you, to destroy you, and to kill you without God's in fu So when spirits are involved, you need something beyond your ability. This is why, in addition to God's advocacy for hard work on the part of men, God has also created systems of blessing men's supernaturally. One does not substitute the order. All of them exist simultaneously. Can I list some of those systems for you quickly? Number one supernatural systems for blessing. Number one is prayer and supplication. When men pray, they shift things in the spirit. Prayer provokes possibilities. Look at Paul Philippians for nineteen. He was praying for a church to be blessed materially. This is the same point that said if you don't work, don't it. But Paul knows that beyond work you need God's intervention. Concerning the Philippian Chord, he said. My God shad supply all your. Needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. So there is a regis that comes from investment. There is a rigies that comes from inheritance. There is riches that comes from hard work. But there's another one that comes from glory. So you need all of them because and then they come when even they edged where you're working, can come on the attack. Will we say prosper This is why these things are important. So prayer provokes possibilities. When they were in the wilderness coming out of Egypt, where were they're. Going to sow to reap. In the wilderness under the scotching heat of the song we are every nation wanted to prey on them, predate on them. How were they going to sow and reap in the wilderness? So what did God do? When most is cry to God, God brought man from heaven. It doesn't mean God does not advocate at all. When they entered the promised rank, God told them to start walking. So there is a place for supernatural provisions, and one of the provokers is prayer. Number two, faith and obedience. If you read First Kings, chapter seven, from verse two to verse twelve, you see that God directed Elijah. Elijah was the one that came to the King and said, before God, do mynderstand? There shall be no rain or deal? Now are you going to survive? God gave him precise instructions. On where to go. And when Elijah went to where God directed him, he sat there and ravens brought him food. Ravens some people say ravens are the most dingy animals on earth. And ravens didn't bring food for two days. For two years, ravens were bringing bread two years. Who was backing the bread? Where was the raven carrying it from? How did the ravens get intelligence to locate Elijah with their jockey? It says only it's only hard work. They're saying, is let's come that the warfare hits you, you will look for the truth. Ravens fared him for two years just because he followed define instruction. Even in your business, there are times when God will tell you go and invested. It would not make sense, and then your biggest thing will come from there. So if you neget divine instructions, you will be void of divine provisions. Number three, how does God bless supernatural when we're praising? The Bible said, let the act praising, and they said they eat share you their increase. Let the people praise it. They act share you their increase. That means supernaturally praise can bring increase. What is it that happened to the ad certainly that they began to bring increase the people praise God. Look at Jesus in John chapter six. They were in the wilderness. He needed to feed five thousand men, not counting women and children. All they had was a young boy's launch. What do you have, say, five loaves and two fish. Jesus said, bring it. Then people started advising him, We know a need to about the economics. Even one year wage will suffice. Let these people go home, Jesus said, But they will be hungry, and they will fence on the road. If de fend, their relatives will find them. Jesus said, bring what you have, and they brought five loves and two fish. Why was Jesus not in timidated? He knew that in addition to so in and repeat, there's supernatural provision. And Jesus lifted the five loaves and gave tanks and said give them. They fed five thousand men, not counting women and children. They left over field twelve baskets. See work hard, but in addition to your working hard, the prayer fool, in addition to your herd walk, be obedient to divine direction, in addition to your heart walk praise and thanksgiving to your life. Your salary can sustain you, even that your job is not the one sustaining you. Work as hard as. Possible, but never against supernatural Provision number four, How does God bless. Supernaturally through favor? As touch after two verse seventeen, she became a queen through favor? And then they wanted to annihilate Israel. The plot of Heyman and Esther suddenly realize that if Israel will be spared, they will need something from God to make the difference. And in est first sixteen, she said, first for me for three days, and me too away. First let's provoke something else from heaven. After they first ed in as touch apter five, verse two, the Bible said, Esther obtained favor from the king. Guess what the king said, whatever you want, I will give you, even if it is up to half. Of my kingdom. Now what walk will you do for a king to promise you that up to half? So Esther by faivor would that procure half of a kingdom, and you'll tell me that God does not bless supernaturally as the dost that twelve verst. Thirty six, The Bible said God gave favor to the Israelites, and they spoiled the Egyptians. They left Egypt with wealth. You know what happened. These people leveled and toiled for the Egyptians for over three hundred. And ninety years. They couldn't give them anything to satisfy them. But the moment Faithor came, the Egyptian gave them their whole wealth. So what they could do end by decades of labor, Faithor gave them one day. Please listen, don't neglect divine provisions. That something has been wrongly emphasized does not mean you should cut it off. Learn how it works so that you receive the blessing. Otherwise in your lifetime you will tell the difference. Number on now. Prophetic declarations, Second King Chapter six. You read the story of the people of Israel. A nation besieged them and they could not do business. So a point came from mine hit the land. Guess what the people were doing. Women were eating their children. Two women come together once, Let's eat your son today tomorrow will eat my child because money failed, the economy failed, the system failed. And you know, among men, the purest love that exists is not between man and women. You're the one who think you love your wife. They really love that exists among men is between more than children. If you want to find pure love, go and carry a woman and the child. You will find. The best form of love you can find among men is between mother and child. That's why the Bible said, can the woman forget a sockling child? No need to call a man, because yes, a. Woman may on that the thing condition, But that's the. Hardest that will happen. Yet, situation was so bad that women were eating their children. When they didn't know what to do. They now sent for the prophet, and Licha said in Second King seven, verse one, by this time tomorrow, oh my God, a Christian should not be disadvantaged. A Christian is disadvantage only when he permits, either through ignorance or rebellion. Then Elisha said, here, yeah, the word of the Lord. Don't hear the Lord tomorrow? About this time, should a measure of fine flow be sold for a shake, and two measures of balley be showed for one checkare at the gate of some hear what the prime minister said. Those who think that they can trap God this had their brain. Then a lord, on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, behold, you know some people think they know God. They've got to scriptures out of context and talk nonsense. Said behold, if the Lord will open the windows of heaven, do you see how this man on the mind God? He said, might these things be? And Elisha responded, he said, behold, thou shallt see it with thy eyes, but you not eat thereof That's why those who keep arguing this thing don't respond to them their experiences. We answer them, you'll just be enjoying your blessings. Let them saying it's not possible. It's a lie. No problem. All of us who be moving our experiences, we tell whether it is true of us? Who did God use lepers? So that only him we take the glory? No wonder. The Bible said, believe in the Lord your God, so shaye be established. Believe also his prophets, so shah Yeh prospers. God prosperst men supernaturally through prophetic decrease. By prophetic decrease, dry bones can become a great army. What you call impossibility does not exist in that realm. Number seven, How does God bless supernaturally through divine messy and compassion? In Romance nine fifteen and sixteen, he says, not of him that will it, nor of him that run it. He said, it is of the Lord that showed mercy. When God shows messy to people, they are not consumed. Rather, they are sufficed on a daily basis. Lamen Sessions three, twenty two and twenty three. He says for the lost message that we are not consumed His compassion failed God. His messies are knew every morning on the strength of God's messy. In Look one fifty two fifty three, he said, He has filled the hungry with good things, and he has exhorted the lowly, so God bless his supernaturally because of his mercy. I'm showing you these things so that you can exercise your faith. And finally, God bless his supernaturally through covenant. When you enter into covenant with God, or when you take advantage of the covenants of God, you can lack Chanessis twenty two sixteen to eighteen, when Noah caught a covenant with God. It's as long as they ear three minute, he says. See time and harvests, cold and heat, summer and winter shall not sease covenant. And genders provision covenant. So there are supernatural ways through with God sustains us. So what should the believer do? Lend the balance, don't choose one and leave the other. Should they believer work hard, very very well. In fact, he should. Work harder than the own believer because he has character. The own believer can be negligent in his work. The own believer can be careless in his work. But not a believer because while believer, whatsoever he does, he does in the name of the Lord. So he will be diligent, he will be careful, he will be committed because work is an opportunity for him to express his character. You don't need to follow up a believer to give his best. So long as he tells you he will do that job, he will do it with the whole of his heart. So a believer should I must work hard. But why a believer is working hard? Should he neglect the supernatural channels that God has made for supernatural blessing? No, because that is his advantage. In case. He gets into a warfare, hardwork alone won't be enough because so long as he names the name of the Lord, he's an enemy of Satan and certain. Came to kill, to steal, and to destroy, So he. Needs the insurance systems that God makes available. So a believer should work hard and also trust God for supernatural provision. And on the other hand, a believer who is trusting God for supernatural provision should not become a religious by God and become unproductive. Why declaring that God to provide for him? Because God also is an advocate of hard work. So it's like using will in two weapons, hard work on the right, supernatural provision on the left. That is the balance. Now that you understand this, let's speak generosity as one of the mysteries of supernatural. Provision and thrush into it a little bit. Why is generosity such a force that blesses I give you five reasons quickly. Number one, generosity is one of the instruments of establishment in the Kingdom of God. That's why it is the force of blessing. When you want to find a man whom God will establish, one of the attributes God looks for in that man is generosity Genesis chapter twelve. From bese one, look at God speaking to Abraham, promising him heaven, and heard now the Lord had said on to Abraham, get THEE out of thy country, out of thy kindred, and from thy father's house onto the land, that we show thee. Obedience and see the impact. God said, and I we make THEE a great nation, and I we bless THEE, and I we make thy name great, and thou. Shall be a blessing. Next verse, and I we bless them the blessed THEE, cast them the cost THEE. And in THEE, should all the families of the earth be blessed? Should this might not begin to celebrate that He has made it. But this promise, although it came from God, needed to be established. Where did God establish this promise? When Abraham finally leaned not just faith but generosity. When he land faith Isaac came when in land generosity he was established. Twenty two. God thought Abraham from verse one, that child that faith gave you is a go and offer him as a sacrifice. And it came to pass after these things that God dedtermed Abraham and sat down to him Abraham, and he said, behold here I am, And he said, take now thy song. The only song Isai, whom thou lovest. Get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a bond. Offer him upon one of the mountains which are wei showing. Imagine if Abraham said, Lord, are you the one talking? Is this not the child you said you were going to give me? Is that not how children behave? My boy who is one year? How many months? If you see him a point like this decies He used to put the finger. What is it? Is a kit kit kit it? You know what he's saying, besquits. Kit kit? Why are you now giving give me back? Why? So they believe that you can give them when they ask, they have it. But when you say bring it, they don't have generosity. That's why they are children. Nothing great can ever be committed to them. So when God wants to establish you, it's not just your faith he looks at it's your generosity. When Abraham or bad God. See what Abraham called it Genesis twenty two, verse five. Abraham called it an act of worship. They say, and we go up. Abrahm said to the young man, I buy thee here with the ass and we go up with the young lad and worship. He called his generosity an act of worship. When more man God saw it Verse fifteen, God could hold himself that promise. I promise you now I want to swear. We don't know how the kingdom works. You see stingy people. God carry hey head the scriptures and reciting it and reciting it. And the Angel of the Lord called onto him Abraham out of heaven the second time when. He wanted to author Isai and said, by myself, have I sworn. Say the Lord, because thou hast done this, he said, And as not with herald, thy only son. Here what God goes verdicts in blessing, I will bless thee immortiplying. I have multiplied thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sun will then be upon the shores of the earth, and thy seed shall possess the games of thy enemies. He's the he's a carrie stone the wind. That that song thing. This establishment, the promise was established because generosity was demonstrated. Some of you listening to me, now, the kind of promise is God that's given you. If you started saying it, people will look at you and say is it you are? Was that appossible? Or God's worked to. It will be mind blowing, But we can't see it because your heart has not demonstrated the virtue that will make God establish it. This guy was so blessed that even his children could not become small. But what motivated that establishment generosity? Because you have done this and you did not. We told your only begott in soul. Even blessing God said I have swamp by myself. He didn't have need to swear. How does God sweart to a creation? There are things that move him so much he can't hold himself. His ward is his law. He doesn't need to swear, but he could hold himself. Imagine God comes to you and saying, I swear nothing, Well stop you in this life? Hi? Are your prayer about which is? Village? People is over? Don't know? Need? Are your prayer? God lives me. That's no need I swear, don't dare you must make it. Makakaya God, Holley. Yah Hei. Halli hey Holley, Yeah, hey. Holly, that's wrong. Let's wrong. Our time is short for here this is somebody will walk out of this Savis, and the hand of God will establish you. I say, you will walk out of this Savis. The hand of God will establish you. You will not appreciate when God establishes a man or the damb man goes through affair. The things that kill or us, the. Things that break orders, they become the same things that live him up in the name of. Jesus, the hand of God will establish you. Three down for a moment. Number two wise generosity so powerful it three us moultiplication. You saw in that scripture Genesis two twenty two, after I Abraham gave Isaac verse sixteen, in multiplying, and we multiply you. Everywhere there is generosity, there's multiplication. Genesis two twenty two. Sixteen was occasioned by Genesis twenty two five, I will give Isaac. As a sacrifice, and God responded in multiplying, I will multiply you. It's the code Jesus was speaking. Now this was in the context of judgment, but this they brought this principle into it. In Luke six thirty eight, Jesus was teaching on judgment that the way you charge others, that's how you be charged. But they now add that this principle, because it's a universal principle. It's that give. It should be keyful on to you good measure, pressed down, checking together, running over, Sha man, give to. Your bosom in the measure you gave. That measure shall be meted onto you. But when it is being meted, it is pressed down, it is shacking together, it is running over. So you use one bucket to give what they bring. When they bring the bucket back, is overflowing NonStop? Is that now one bucket? That's now an overflowing bocket. A river can flow through it, a river can flow through it. You check is a farmer? Pa was using second correnthi As ninety six to teach us about the farmer. A farmer carries a cup of rice, goes to farm, he plants it. Then he comes to har vest and bags what happened? Because your seed where has a body. The body of your seed is called the harvest. Every seed you saw has the potential to multiply, but not in your hand. Your hand is an obstruction to the potential of your seed. If you want to unleash the potential of your seed, sow it. That means you are a limitation to yourself when you keep to yourself. He said in Probabs the level twenty five, the Leprasso shabby made fat. God taught to me these principles early. I've not even started repeat it, but I can't tell you that in the walk. There. People who give to me, they're not ill. Ask yourself, how many of you give me? I'm not even looking forward to it. I teach you for your own blessings. More than seventy percent of the people I teach are young people. They don't have yet. That's what I'm teaching them. So I'm not teaching it expecting anything. But the people who give me. Oh, if we start sharing testimony to a piacana, my wife will tell me many times, how do you get money? I say, as the wind blow it now listen, now, listen. That's not from where's it? Comment? Oh? Wait? Going? So there that a bomb by this period who sunly travels with me, he will tell you. We just went to Legos for a senior minister's wedding. A man caught me a day before that. Please, he wants to see me. So when he heard that I was coming to Lego, he offered to drive me. So he took me to the wedding and brought me back after we're going, He said, the mansion up to his friend that he saw me. Guess what their friend reached. Out to me. I don't want to Coffieg goes. Your head will blow. They don't come to this charge. It's not about who comes here. People think he's offering that sustain George start one. There are principles. We know. The charge is built on the revelation of Christ, that is his life and his principles. Then he charge that viol lets the essence and the principles of Christ. We shut down because you will see the. Kids of hell. We just came from Tanzania. Ask for so sonny. How many people were queuing up to come and see me. It's not good. After NUSA, we're not talking with Danza. No. The few that we gave access to when we were coming, we were looking for how not to become graduate tres with the immigration because I don't travel with money. I don't want problem. How do you know you know how to do it with the finance man? See grow up this for your own good. Number three giving on locks favor. That's why it is powerful. It's on lock favor faithor can you know what favor, dolls. Can I show you three things several dogs. Number one, it commands the allegiance of men when a man has faivor or the men saw me to him, Men were o me to you for favor. Did you read about David? He said, Daily men came to David untie. His host became like the host of God. Men left so to meet David. So was the king on the throne. David was a boy running in the widerness to survive. How we men leave a king to meet him in favor? His host, the Bible said, was like the host of God. The second thing fatheral dolls is that it breaks protocols. When Esther went to see the king, the. Bible said in Esther five to two that it was against the law of the meadists and the patience. And the Bible said, the loss of the meadis and the patience or parad not. That's why John the Baptist said. Did we give you the head of the person when the God is it couldn't stop himself. The law don't change. When they proclaim a law in that region, the only way you can stop it is to proclaim another law. The laws don't change. If the king doesn't invite you, when you come, you are beheaded. But esther war faithor and showed up. And the king forgot the law and said, whatever you want, I will give you Faithor breaks protocols Number three Faivor provokes wealth transfer Exodus twelfth, that is six, he gave Israel only faith. That was enough people who were slaves for over four hundred years. The Egyptian packed their wealth and gave him and number four faithor and genders and countess evil spirits, respect. Faithor hell, Mary full of grace. The Lord is with you. What did Mary have? She was not the only vegin, she was favored. And the moment she was favored, the angel and act angel came to salute Mota, thou art highly favored among women. So you are not just the only vegan, but you are the highly favored one. So when a man carries favor man from me to him, he breaks protocous wealth is transferred to him. And this felit is open to him. But guess one of the things that on locks favor generosity. Generosity it on locks favor. As Chapter ten, verse one to four. How did Cornelius get favored with God? He said, thy prayer and thy arms giving three and four now has ascended to heaven, as the memorial Thy prayer and thy arms giving it opened to heaven and brought the fragrance to the brother. So when a man is generous, he is provocking favor, favor that three girls wealth transfer, favor that breaks protocous favor, the causes even encounters to happen, and favor that commands their legions of men. You don't know what it means. When you have the allegiance of men, see your life, you will have rest. David fort sixty six battles. Solomon didn't need to fight one the same piece. David had Solomon have one fought out his whole life. The other one was enjoying because he had a Legionce the are legions of men. I was supposed to be in a meeting in my courdy yesterday because of logistics. Issues, I couldn't make it. Guess what. The Man of God was so shocked, that's my friend, He said, what is on your life? People who have never come to his short showed up and said, please, who want to pay for all the hotel bees? Or that people were coming to suggest if the same pee for them to handle. If a person is coming, It was like, is it not the same gospel we are preaching, as they I don't know. People who have never come to his church. The church was choked. He was sending me pictures of overflow. He said, what what is on your life? As I don't know, And it's not Benue. We just came from Tanzania. They exhausted the whole capacity of the environment. They passed or looked at me, said when they heard you were coming. He said, people were calling from everywhere that they want to be part of it. And you think I want that father to go down. If you will advance kingdom, you need strength on every side. And one of the strengths you we have is the legiance of men. Wow. The Bible spoke about the men that came to David. He said of the sons of the Gadites, he said, they were like lyons. Oh, my God. He said they could sling with the right hand, with the left hand. He said they were men of war. He said they moved upon the mountains like gazelles. Those where warriors. Oh, he said, Tony, the night he handled despair, he slew a hundred men. He said, Shammar, the son of Aka. The guy fought from money to night. The army of Israel ran his cookies, clown one man for the soldier. So when they said war, then you can't sleep. When the where the nephew of Goliath wanted to fight David, the Bible said, this soul were three hundreds of silver as the Daya showed them and fought the guy and killed it and said, you will no more go to battle. Let the light of God in Israels put out. David has warns, they don't fight, we will fight for you. How do you think David. Became mighty because there were some people called the mighty men of the feat Oh, there was a time David said he desired to drink water from the wear that was the sapuk of Rachel in. The garrisons of the Petishtine. The Bible said, three men jeoparadized their lives and broke him and brought water. When baby saw that, what I said, No, this is not water, this is the applaud. He parted as Oblassho, a man is alive. All the men want to die for him. What is on him? You think kingdom just advanced. You need the allegiance of men, and you need the allegiance of philis. Go find out how the borough fought. You think they just fought because they were judges, the Bible said, in the days when the borough was fighting, he said, the stars were fighting from their constellation and just were two instants. Why why by. The stars? Ah see, the border was fighting. The stars were fighting with her from their cosses. You God, find out the king that the butter for sin Sarah. He had chariots of iron. Nobody telled him. But when the butter showed up, they starts were fighting. And when the bora finished, she stood she head. God has raised me as a mother in Israel. And she was coffee man with the constellation. He said, coffee marors more talks like that. I professih over someone the favor of God will come on your life today. I said, the favor of God will come on your life today. In the nave of Jesus Christ. Some of you looking at me now, many families, they are destiny depends on you. But one man just sat in the office. I say, will sign the fighter will change your life. And he has sat on it for ten years. So people are dying. People are not going to school because one man sat on your destiny. I stand here as a priest, and I claim of are. You whatever is required to approve such entities. Let it happen now, Ah, sit down, let's lando so there is no revival. So there's no revival. Please please, God give it. Don't joke with it. Generosity, don't joke with it. It will change your life. Telling you number five, it provokes divine presence some one one two, verse five. If you could get it in the n ivy, he said, God will come to. Those who are generous and length training. God will come to them. And it's not a lie. First kings three, there's three to four. Solomon loved the Lord. They gave a thousand bond offree that night, God kill what do you want? So people who are generous, they command the presence. Command the carried just the same way prayer for fasting people carried the carry. Presence shows. So he said, he will send you help from his sanctuary because if you remember what you put on the order. And then finally, generosity has eternal reward. Somebody said one of the words to invest in eternity maternially is fue generosity. Jesus was speaking in Matthew six nineteen to twenty one. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the head. We are Mott and ross. Dot corrupt, and we are thieves breakthrough to steal, he said, But lay of treasures in heaven we need them, nor rock dot corrupt or we actives breaking to steal. What are those treasures? Rest? What do you want? It's a way in man's treasure is That's where his artist. So anything of value that you can give, Jesus said, it has a recompense in eternity, from your time, to your worship, to your service, to your resources. And of course when we talk generosity, we know we are not just talking money. We're talking time, We're talking energy, we are talking expertise, we are talking worship, we are talking service. We are talking resources and as money. But not only money. But his generosity is about the soul. They need brassole as a round up. Why is this thing so important to God? Number one, God sees it as worship. He doesn't see your time, your energy, your money has time energy, your money. He sees it as waship. And that's how the spirit recognizes it. Remember, Abram was going to offer isais what did he call it? Genesis twenty two five waship? Say what Paul said about the Philippian church Philippians four verse fifteen to eighteen, Say what Paul said, notwithstanding you have no fifteen he said? Now, yeah, Philippians know also that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving. But you only. Now go to verse eighteen. What's the implication? It said? But I have all and abound. I am fool having received. Of a perferdictors the things which you sent me. What did Paul now call those things? An order of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God. So everything you give God calls it worship, an order a sweet s man, a sacrifice acceptable to God. That's why God always wants you to give your best, and God wants you to give it cheerfully, and God wants you to pay attention to it because it's an act of worship. Don't do it carelessly. Listen, I'm teaching you. God taught me how to give no plastocle convinced me to give. What did I have to give? Before you start preathing giving, I'll just locked my heart. God told me to give ten ira. I struggled. He moved it to twenty. I struggled. He moved it to fifty. He moved it too hundred. I almost died when God told me to give hundred. Mirrah as a universities today, how can I give hundred narra every week? How much did they give me for the first thing is that we started going to church once if we have The second thing is any time it's hard any pocket that has money pulling keep a tone. We're the one that doesn't have money. So when you come to church, you and God know that you. Didn't come with money. You know, but God will stop. He moved it to one thousand when I was struggling. He moved it to ten thousand. When I was struggling with ten thousand. That was when I was going for NYC and I saw it passed on who was giving a hundred thousands for offering? And it was we had service twice a week. I almost wainted. How where is it working? Where's the money? I didn't know that the liberals so should be made for that. I didn't know, but that guy motivated me. Today I speak over someone, you will see the reality of these things. Why is it important to God? Number one? God sees it as worship. Number two, God sees it as o no no hoor the Lord. Not by just bending down Proverbs three nine. With your substance, Oh no, that's how God sees it, honor the Lord, with your substance, with the first foot of your increase. And then he added, here, so shall thy buds we feed with plenty, and thy presses burst forward with new ones. If you're studying Malachichater one, verse eight, you see that God was so particular. He say, if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sik, is he not efu or fight to your governor if you will coll let it. So God sees as honor. That's why it's important to God. Number three. God sees it as a demonstration of your heart of responsibility for his kingdom, because you are giving for the advancement of his kingdom. So he knows that you see yourself as a part of the kingdom, and you feel responsible towards the Kingdom. We give to advance the Kingdom. And that's what Paul said in Philippians four fifteen concerning giving and receiving from the beginning of the Gospel. This is why God doesn't discourage even widows from giving. They will not just be blessed. He shows that they are responsible, and it is of the Kingdom. Even Jesus, they gave for kingdom to advance. Look Chapter eight, Verse one. The Bible said, Jesus went to cities and villages. You think he was by located. And it came to pass after ward that he went through every city and every village, pretain and showing the glad Titians of the Kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him. How was he going? Verst three? See how he was going? Verse two. Certain women go back Verse two. Certain women which had. Been healed of evil spirit and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom seven demos went out verse three. And Joanna, the. Wife of Choosa, Herold Steward, and Susannah, and many orders ministered on to him of their substance. Kingdom advanced because they gave. That's why the Cariersuntin said, cry out don't hide it. He said, my. Kingdom to prosperity spread abroad. They followed me. At eighteen he said, you shall remember the Lord your God. It is seemed that given the power to get well, to establish his covenants, which we give your father even this day, if we don't give kingdom moon advanced. So people who fight generosity, especially in the house of God, you think they're being holy and righteous. It's an anti christ minity. From the days of. Moses to the days of Jesus is too giving for kingdom to advance. Now that some people have bastardized, it does not mean. The principle we change. So God says it as worship, he says it as honor, he sees it as responsibility, and then number four he says it as love. The greatest motivation for consecration is love. The Bible said the love of Christ constrained us. Second Corrige Thats five, fourteen and fifteen. He said, for we doest charge that if one gave his life for us, is the way that leaves you not live for ourselves, but we should leave for him. So it's love that constraints giving. And that's why Matthew six twenty one. He said, way a man's heart is, don't look for his treasure. His treasure is already there. So when you give, God is seen your heart, not what you gave. It's a testimony that you love him. There are people who cry and cry in a moment, they say, let's pray, let's wash it. They start crying drums of tears, but they never give to God. One of the words God's check your heart for him is say you're giving. When God teaches you this thing, you will look for opportunities to give. I'm telling you from my own experience. Sometimes i just see it. I credit meanings into mission's account. I just call it love for free. Sometimes I call it onor of free. There's no name to even attached. I just give it. Nobody is seeing. What you are giving is a heart his heart, And then finally is a not of faith. If you don't trust God, you can't give to him because you have a lot of things to do. Oh, there are many things, mainly legitimate things. The reason we give our predominant challenge is notwithstanding is because we believe that God is our supplier. We believe we are not the ones sustaining ourselves. And when God sees that hat in moving, oh, he moves God and moves God. I remember a youth Coppler. After I started being inspired by this pastor and started giving aggressively, I gave I don't do it. Though I was inspired, I had faith. I gave almost all my a lobbi for missions. Those were the day I paid for Bibles to be sent to India. Today people build friendship, make cause to be invited. Our table is full. No we don't. We don't pray for that. I have invitations for twenty twenty seven. This is twenty twenty five. I have invitations twenty twenty seven. There are nations where people say, please, when are you coming? As I'm talking to you now, a politician in Holland snap three holes and send pick one. We want to pay where we fly. You come and do a Postolic invasion in Holand. How do you explain it? When we were sending those Bibles to those nations, the gates opened. God taught me the things people buy will be giving to you for free. I was in Tanzania three days ago. A man called me and said, which guy's your wife driving? He said he saw in a vision that he needs the car. I said, yes, you are correct. What should I have said? People can't restore on their own. They are say visions. This israelmans a mystic realm. Don't live it naturally. You are spirit being in the name of Jesus. The Lord will lift you of supernaturally. I said, the Lord will lift you of supernaturally in Jesus mighty name. I don't have time. I would have shown you the five places we give to We give to beggars, those who have need. The Bible say, him that give it to the poor lends death to the Lord. And they said, of the Lord is our receiver. Recompense. Number two, we give to parents and families. If you say you are spiritual man, and you don't know your father and your mother, by giving to them hypocrite. If you have the heart, you can't neglect your parents. The Bible said a child should remember his mother when she's old. He say, oh, no, your father and your mother, so that your days may belong. Now, all of these kinds of giving have their blessings. When you give to the paw, God will give you a reward. When you give to parents, they say, your days will belong Epicial sixth, verse two. And then you give two ministers of God. The Bible said, if you give to a prophet in the name of a prophet, you receive a prophet's award. Number four you give in the House of God, so that there. Is meet in the House of God. Everything we do here requires resources. And then number five you give for missions, missions, missions, So you give to the paw of fans, widows and strangers, that's their category. You give to parents and to family. Your give to ministers of God. You saw the Shunamite woman. Your gift to for the House of God. And then your give for missions and kingdom advancement. These are five areas you give. But we don't have time. As you leave this service, make it a lifetime. You may not have one million. I started from ten ira. It was difficult, but today it's easier for me to give fifty million ones than it was for me to give tenn ira. Without with no prayer. This guy stay with me. I signed checks every day millions. I'm not even bad if my account is empty. No, the libras solshall be made fast. My money comes. Oh, let me leave it. Let me leave it. If you know how many people are waiting now. Please want to buy your books. As I'm talking to you, more than ten persons have transcribed my messages. Put my picture and turned it to book. Please, Man of God, put this out let people by, and I already told my people that when we start selling the book one night, I won't come to me the home one you'll go for missions. I'm blessed. I don't need book. Anybody can become great with God, both in the spirit and in the natural for their principles. 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Thank you for deliverance. I would say, thousands falls by your side, ten thousand by your right hand, it shall not come near you, So. That I eleven thousands attacks your dodge that you don't know. You are counting the ones you know. Eight thousands by your right, ten thousands by your right It was not allowed to come near you. So the things you went through that you thought were difficult, and the ones allowed eleven thousand were not allowed. Thank him. Holliluja holy holy Honi y yeah honly. Ahh aheah Ahly Father, we thank you. We don't take for granted your hand on our lives. We don't take for granted your preservation. We don't take your granted for granted your provisions. We don't take for granted your interventions in our relationships, our careers, our ministries that you're graciously entrusted to us. And we don't take you for granted. Your presence in our lives. Help us never to become familiar, but to always acknowledge you as God, to reverence you and save you that at the end of time will not miss out on that which you have planned ultimately for us. Let your name be glorified in Jesus' much less name. Amen, Now as we round up, the best thing you can give to God is yourself. He has his life for you. You receive that life, and you surrender to him. If you are here tonight, you are not sure where you are going. If the world ends now, there's no need to continue the gam Lift your right hand and surrender to Jesus. Lift it up wherever you are seeing hands at the back. Place that hand on your chest, and said, dear heavenly Father, I believe with all my. Heart that Jesus is your son. I confess with my mouth today that him who died, who was buried, and who rose from the dead is my Lord and civil I receive eternal life into my spirit. Thank you Father for accepting me. In Jesus' name, I have declared my faith. May the Lord keep and preserve you. Made the Lord cause you to walk always in the light of his countenance. And may the Lord bless you all the days of your life in Jesus mighty name.