The Consequences of Not Being Generous Towards God | 30th MAY 2021 | Pastor 'Tunde Bakare

my focus today especially is those who need deliverance from being stingy toward god i pray that such people will be delivered for their own good and we stop shipping themselves in their food in jesus mighty name i want to share three scriptures with you we meditate on them i'll ask you a couple of questions and i will make some profound statements that i want you to keep in your heart from this moment on when i was coming this morning i was going to ask for a bow or a calabash for water to be in it so that i can wash my hands and say i'm not guilty of your blood neither am i guilty of your lack but i won't do that because god has not given up on me i will not give up on you you are going to grow strong in the mighty name of jesus proverbs 11 24 25 there is one who scatters yet increases more by the time i come back to decode this for you what i will find this label there is one who scatters yet increases more and there is one who withholds more than is right but it leads to poverty and people don't know that they are digging their own financial grave when the holy spirit will tell them do this and they will hold back or it almost happened to me in 1985 i was building my first house at the camp then as i told you yesterday or last sunday and it was about the time to roof the building i told the builder assistant pastor lufun layer i mentioned a name so that people can cross-check to come the following day on monday to receive the money for the roof so that the house can be removed and i step into a place of prayer and the holy spirit said to me give everything you have in your account to the church i call god to be a witness that was a tough thing to do i don't share these things to excite anybody or make you do what you don't want to do will be tied to him that says god said when he has not spoken and i looked at what was in my account and i turned to god your word says before you start building a house can't they cause that will be overtaken you know what it didn't say anything to me i have told in case you are not aware i've told the builder to come on monday to collect this same money i kept it here for that purpose the lord did not say a word to me after that i later learned from dr sumra that god does not respond to stupidity i went to church that sunday i didn't give anything i kept the money for the roof this one is my money god it's meant for the roof about the evening my friend and best friend when i got married pastor sent someone from ibadah to me he said i was in prayers this morning and as i was praying for you the lord said to me you are struggling with him and he will wipe you out i can give you the phone number of femi fatima b in america my wife knows this very well when i heard from a total stranger coming to give me a message i carry my check i went to a buddha meta and i met with pastor akindele i was like what do you mean sir there is my check the lord said as you bring all this money to church it took it was ah this is the exact amount that we need for the assignment that you gave to us wow god will bless you i said don't leave me alone i am not a cheerful giver i felt like god robbed me right you ever give up it was that experience that made me realize you can never be a cheerful giver except you have been a cheerful giver because it's those who sow tears that will reap with joy you can't give cheerfully until you have given cheerfully as a matter of fact among the books of god one of them is called the book of tears see have you not written it in your book you have gathered my tears into a bottle i had nothing left so brother living life since i passed all of your life came to fall and said can i teach this or you want me to do gp because you have a problem and you don't know you have a problem every time there's a need and you are scratching your head you have a problem every time your hand touches the bottom of the barrel you have a problem how can god be your father and you are scratching and stretching it doesn't work that way something is not adding up can i continue you know i stopped teaching on finances a long time ago because of the abuses in the church and that's why i will never teach and send and give i said god do these things leave by them and when you get results remember god a loofah came the following day i say i'm sorry god took the money for his project end of story the house remained uncovered for a few weeks and then i lend the money if you remember ma'am the holy spirit said go to a hotel so i went to a hotel i didn't know what i was going to do i stood there and two men were pulling themselves a white man and a nigerian those of you who are with me tonight knows this story it's written in a book titled how to receive your own miracle and god said go and say to the matter now i left you look with you to go to a cold holiday in to standing there to go and separate two men who are fighting does it make sense to you this is why i made the statement back in 1989 the ridiculous will always go before the miraculous so i said yes stop stop and the man said what's your problem i'm his lawyer a man that never met in my life he said let's go to the financial controller we got to the financial controller and he said oh to nabi i said hello he said oh you may not know me i knew you encompassed you are the politician from the pulpit so i started this in a long time ago that was what they called me at the university of lagos he said what is the matter the man was checked into the hotel and paid naira in the days of buhari saying buhari and when they passed their law for anti whatever it is that foreigners must pay in foreign exchange and the controller said if cindy bakker is his lawyer let him recognize it is a very straightforward person that day i was jumping inside of my spirit that of bethesda the man said can i have your card i gave him my card his name mr start hunger his company morgan the wire holdings that it's 3 36 great default street you can get the ditches in london go and check it mrs bakary met them eventually he stepped into the lift i went off and i was standing there expecting some form of payment that he had gone up to write a check because he has my name trendy bakarian cool should i chambers five minutes 10 minutes 30 minutes one hour i remember clearly it was a friday the man did not come down i didn't collect his car so i did not know his name and had already heard they checked him into the hotel in the name of a nigerian company after i had stood there for a while i said okay yes i know who helped me let me go to the financial controller's office and tell him that the man if he could help me locate him i got to the office and say yes or the financial controllers oh he left for the mosque and he would go there go to his house from there i began to sweat i said god you brought me from my house to come to separate two fighting and there is no compensation for it this voice that i'm hearing is troubling me i eventually stepped into my car and left for the house mr i was here to say it is well how do you narrate this type of story somebody will say you are crazy two weeks after more or less i got a letter from great default street morgan the wild holdings peter abrams signed the letter these things are in my head because they happened to me he said we want to thank you for the assistant legal assistant you rendered to our executive director mr strattongate while he was in nigeria please go to social place and collect your ticket to come tonight to london we want to retain you as a lawyer that was my first first class ticket in life do you know how much i gave to the church you want me to tell you the amount so big thirteen thousand naira do you know how much gave me back 286 thousand dollars that's why i don't share my own testimonies because you think it must be fairy tale there are living witnesses to this if you saw the speed that way that house was completed ah that was when i remember that is good also to have mercedes benz there is he who scatters yet increases and there is he who withdraws more than his right but it leads to poverty the general soul will be very rich and evil waters will also be watered himself if you are not a receptacle if you are a channel and water is passing through you you cannot be dry for as long as you continue to carry the water do you understand me do you realize that as a woman was pouring oil in those empty vessels they all kept on pouring until they said no more version and they always stayed may all your oil not stay i want to encourage you to keep on doing good even when it is not convenient because anything you give that does not hurt you is a dash you don't get it i've given this illustration several times and i'm going to demonstrate it again this morning sir how much have you given to god this year do you have an idea no but you have been given to god lady b how much have you given to god this year i have no idea sir you're a smart person you've been to israel you've been to america how much have you given this year to god i don't know thank you madam how many children do you have three if i put your three children in the midst of three million people would you recognize your children why they are your children that's why you recognize them don't people look alike the reason you will know it costs blood water pain tear do you understand me to bring forth everyone whenever you give what does not cost you anything you don't remember i know how much i gave this past week i know because i felt it you know many of us just trip god when we hear things like this let me write a check of a hundred thousand that's good enough we are many it doesn't go that way next set of scripture number two the difference between a stingy man and a generous man isaiah 32 5-8 isaiah 32 5-8 the foolish person will no longer be called generous do you remember any foolish person in the bible who was acting like generous i'll come back to them the first couple to commit suicide in the bible ananias and sapphira pretentious givers the foolish person will no longer be called generous neither the messiah said to be bountiful for the foolish person who speaks foolishness and his heart will work iniquity to practice on godliness to utter error against the lord to keep the hungry unsatisfied and it will cause a drink of the thirsty to fail why because it uses money to control them also the schemes of the schema are evil it devises weaker plans to destroy the poor with lying words even when the needy speaks justice read verse 32 with me but read it clearly but a generous man devises generous schemes and by his generosity he will stand let me give you an idea of what that is how many of you are business people here how many of you are professional people who have your own practices okay when you started that business be honest with me was god at the back of your mind the deal started just for the sake of the kingdom or a means of livelihood god's children want to prosper using god someone wrote a book the man god uses and i've been challenging you elvis maybe you write this the god man uses not just a man god you should be the god man use it we want to use him now look at peter for example he toyed all night and caught nothing and at the time jesus said can i borrow your body he said by all means i mean take the boat stand anywhere you like and after jesus had used the boat he said i don't owe anyone anything i want you to let down the nets and catch a drop he said i need to give you a lecture here at the very best you grew up in nazareth you're a carpenter i'm a professional fisherman i've been fishing all my life luke chapter five the best time to fish was in the night and we toiled all night we cut nothing but i've been listening to what you are seeing i recognize this authority in your world never the nurse at your world i would obey you partially i will let down the light say let down the night he knew what was coming and then the night began to break and they brought all the fish into the boats and the boats began to sink and some idiots said there's a boat sinking net breaking miracle that's a disaster the fish is getting back into water and your capital is about to drown because you didn't obey fully do you know he had to sit for that exam again in john 21 say i go out fishing and they caught nothing all night and jesus came and said maybe you will pass your exam this time i pray you keep you will stop failing and pass this exam once and for all in the name of jesus christ why did they catch such humongous harvest of fish in luke 5 his business became a platform for jesus to be seen and a platform for jesus to be heard when what you are doing for the sake of the kingdom you don't look for fish fish we look for you a generous man devises generous schemes and by his generosity he will stand time had come for you to start thinking what business venture could i do to begin like mr caldwell to bankroll the gospel like mr guinness to bankroll the gospel mr guinness saw that irish people were always drunk and he said god give me something to deliver them you walked with guinness go read the story google it he was a christian it was sponsoring missionaries give me what will reduce this drunkiness in our land and god gave him the composition and he made humongous profit from it by crueling the gospel mr colgate was given ten percent to god and then he said lord how can i be given tempest unto you you desire 90 and he gave 90 to god and 10 percent was too much for him to handle read the story i don't know what converges men have done to you that you think everybody is trying to take advantage of you it's your business to advance god's kingdom is your profession to advance god's kingdom oh just to make both ends meet what do you do for a living i do nothing i live the spirit of god has made me the breath of the almighty has given i walk yes very hard but that's not my source god remains my source do you understand me so it is impossible for me not to prosper i know how to as huge as this project has been has it affected your allowance at any time your housekeeping have you been fasting and praying to hold hands together no i bear my knees to god and my knees bow to me very simple my need is not in my seed your need is in your seed my need is not in my seed if you can sow your seed then god will meet your need no i didn't hear that i didn't read that he gives seed to this world and he gives bread to the eater and he multiplies the seed you have sown and then increase the fruit of your righteousness and when it sees consistency it releases all grace for all sufficiency that you having all sufficiency in all things will abandon to every good work very simple so how do i meet my need my god supplies my need he owns the seed that he gives me he takes care of the seed it takes care of the need in between my responsibility is to be a steward that's all so i don't go to a meeting or church and say let me show you street because we have a major need in our family if i can show this now don't drop don't rub yourself don't break god just show because you are sure because he has given you seed to soul and don't let anyone manipulate you and that god said to me there are some of you who give ten thousand today then they will reduce it to hundred naira okay when i was coming the lord said to me ten people will give one million when they don't say that okay five hundred thousand god stop playing god this is not casino this is church of the living god can i hear amen you know honestly i don't care if you don't give a dime today and i want you to get the word say you mean a generous man devise his generous king and by his generosity he will stand what is the word of that generosity same isaiah 32 the last two verses isaiah 32 verse 18 19 to 23 verses listen to it when you are saying all is well are you generous to god is that my people would dwell where in a peaceful habitation in secure dwellings and in quite resting places when everybody experience that no the hell comes down on the forest and the city is brought low in humiliation blessed are you who sow beside all waters we send out freely the feet of the ox apostolic ministry do not muscle the oxen the tradicon donkey prophetic ministry they are boarding carriers those who support this ministry blessed are those who sow beside our waters and who sent out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey you keep mission work going you look for every opportunity to do that then your habitation will be peaceful can i hear amen one last scripture before i go into my exegesis of these three powerful scriptures and let you realize areas where you have been shortchanging yourself luke chapter 16 verse 10 to 13. i hope i'm making sense to you this is not my plan for today god changed everything last night ready read he who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in march and it was unjust in what is least is unjust also in march therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous moment who will commit to your trust that you reaches and if you have not been faithful in what is another means who will give you what's your own no servant can serve two masters for either if we hear the one and love the other or else to be loyal to the one and despise the other ready read you cannot serve god and mama i have three questions to ask you and i will attempt to answer them question number one do you love money or do you love the lord don't answer me just ponder think do you love money or do you love the lord do you know how to find out who you love mom take your checks up when you get home today see what you have written for yourself what you have written for your projects and what you have written for god because where your treasure is there your heart will be just take your checkbook see what you have given this is not trying to cycle it's not psychology do you love god more or do you love money question number two is money your master or is jesus christ the lord your savior a master the answer to the question is very simple whoever is your master is the one you will love and whoever is your master is the one you will serve and honor with your substance is he okay this is all i do today hello is this all right by you because i don't want to i don't want to truncate this i want to do it thoroughly do you love god or do you love money his money your master is jesus your master and i gave a simple answer to both questions whoever is your master is the one you will love and he's the one you will 700 with your substance give me mark 14 and then i will go to luke 7 36 to 50. look mark 14 1-11 let's see what happened here after two days it was a passover and the feast of unleavened bread and the chief prisoner describes sort how they might take him by trickery and put him to death but he said not during the feast let there be an opera of the people if somebody comes to attack me here what's going to happen to the person huh if someone is coming and running towards him what do you think will happen to the person left right and center they will pin him down do you understand so they will not come when they know you in the midst of your people that's why you can't afford to be alone and being in bethany at the hands of simon the leper as he sat at the table a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil a spike land go and do research and see how much it would cost so a cheaper fuel a cheap oil then she broke the flask and poured it on his head but there was some who are indignant among themselves and said why was this fragrant oil wasted do you love money or do you love god when you love god and pour out yourself those who hate god will call it waste why this waste for it might have been sold for more than three hundred daily you see how much it would of course what a pot wants on the head of the master and given to the poor and they criticized her sharply but jesus said let her alone why do you trouble her she has done a good work for me for you have the poor with you always and whenever you wish you may do them good but me you do not have always in this passage of scripture who love god more the woman how about those criticizing her they love money she has done what she called she has come beforehand to anoint not just my head my body for burial by the time mary and the rest of them were not looking for strikeness to pour on him he's already been done he would never suffer declared because god will not allow him the only one to see corruption or to suffer corruption it's already been anointed as surely i said to you wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world like inside the cgcc tattoo could not ability way wherever this gospel is preaching the whole world what this woman has done will always be told as a memorial to her long after jesus had come and gone do you have such memorial now may god to remember your descendants before god do you do you have such relationship memorial with god that wherever in the whole world what's the name of the woman do your research you know who we're still mentioning it today give me the question then judas is carrying out one of the twelve went to the chief priest to betray him to them and when they heard it they were glad and promised to give him money so he sought how he might conveniently betray him see he's this was a the devil that followed jesus now you will let us find out that this woman who did this was a sinner judas was an apostle give me the passage in luke 14. let's read luke 7 i beg your pardon one of the pharisees asked him to eat with him and he went to the pharisees house and sat down to eat and behold the woman in this city who was hello righteous people are you listening righteous broke and behold a woman in the city was a sinner when she knew that jesus sat at the table in the pharisee's house brought another bastard flash of fragrant oil and stood at his feet behind him weeping and she began to wash his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head as she kissed his feet and anointed them with the fragrance thank god it was public space hello one of the assignments i don't want god to give me if he does he will grab me grace is to go to a widow's house who will sustain me in a farming and there'll be only one boy in the house i'm not sure because when tongues will begin to work well it will lead to yellow thank god this was in public space let's read further now when the pharisee was invited him saw this he spoke to who i can hear you now this is a man who invited you to come and eat in his house and now you are being anointed and being celebrated now when the pharisees were invited himself he spoke to himself and said this man evie why a prophet who knows who and what manner of woman this is who is touching him for she is a sin as he prayed as he patronized her before hello this woman was notorious it was well known and jesus answered and said to him simon he was a leopard a leopard that was healed that's not looking down other people simon have something to say to you so he said teacher say it there was a certain creditor who had two debtors one hold 500 denarii and the other 50 and when they had nothing with which to repeat it freely forgive them both tell me therefore which of them will i can hear you see where love comes from in this matter which one will love him more simon answered i know that that's a simple thing i suppose the one whom he forgave more so he said to him you have rightly george you are a plastic saint simon you are holier than thou you have been forgiven very little only that person was healed i'm not sure your heart is even right because of the way you are thinking so you are forgiven little so you love little you turn to the woman said to simon do you see this woman i entered your house you gave me no water for my feet but just washed my feet with their tears and wiped them with the hair of my head i had a hair without glory you gave me no keys but this woman has not ceased to kiss my feet since the time i came in you did not anoint my head with oil but this woman has anointed my feet with fragrant point therefore i say to you as sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loves little he said to her your sins are forgiven and those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves who is this who even forgives sins then he said to the woman your faith has saved you go in peace all life with the presence of god in that meeting that woman because he can separate the presence of god from his peace from his power from his protection from his provision god in peace your faith has made you there are many many many many people with a chip in their shooter and look at them empty barrels holding to what they cannot keep and that woman demonstrated a lot it is impossible for you to love god and not be generous towards him are you hearing me are you listening all right second question or is it the third question the third thank you oh i put this here this is important you cannot love god and not give to him if you don't give to god you are simply not an imitator of god if you don't give to god generously you are not an imitator of god john 3 16 for god who loved the world that he did what he gave give me ephesians 5 1 and 2 if you love god you give like it does therefore be imitators of god as their children and working love as christ also has loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to god for a sweet smelling aroma question number three why are people tight-fisted toward god it is because they forget is the one who has given us all things to freely enjoy along with christ now you know my style i will tell you whenever we have to give in this church i said please don't give your children school fees please don't give your house rent don't give god a bad name god knows where you are don't despise your seed i'll keep on doing that and don't go and steal to bring because if you give what is stolen to god you bring a curse upon yourself but why is it that people are tight-fisted toward god they don't recognize that their lives all they have and all their belong to him that they are mere stewards or stewards don't own my car my house my money no they're not yours you're a steward you're going to give account of what you do with those things you're splitting your hands romans chapter 8 verse 31 to 32 what then shall we say to these things if god is for us okay jesus says if god be for us i love that who can be against us next verse he would not spare his own son but deliver them all for us all how shall he not with him this is the problem we want those things without him how shall he not with him also freely give us i can't hear you tell your neighbor what you are looking for is not lost first corinthians chapter 2 9-11 first corinthians 2 9-11 but as it is written i has not seen not heard now enter into the heart of man the things with god has prepared for those who i can't hear you say with me i have not seen here has no hurt neither does it enter into the heart of man the things that the lord has prepared for them that love him do you love god if you do where are the things prepared for you let's read further but god has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit searches all things yes the deep things of god for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him even so no one knows the things of god except the spirit of god next verse ready read with me now somebody say no am i speaking to the now church shout it loud now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spiritual is from god that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by god if you don't know those things you don't love god god gives freely without attaching conditions but he gives along with christ and i reveal them to you season from season to season from season to season he will tell you what to do you'll get results it will give you ideas that command resources it will enlighten your eyes of understanding you will bring men to you bring you to men men will give into your bosom because you love god listen to me if you cannot freely give to god the monetary resources you have freely received from him then you don't owe your money your money owns you and that's a maximum pleasing worse than kirikori and no right thinking believer should save any time there i'll give you three powerful thoughts and i'll close this exaltation number one please note that you cannot give to god what you like it's not your meat do you understand me he's not begging you you can give to god what you like though we sometimes say it is free will offering yet god specifies and dictates what he wants exodus chapter 25 verse 1-9 exodus 25 free will offering here let's see whether everybody just came and said take take take then the last spoke to most is saying speak to the children of israel that they bring me an offering from everyone who gives it how willingly with his heart you shall take my offering why hurt heart is involved because that's the source of love that's where you love with your heart and this is the offering hello who is now dictating what they will give you i thought it's free will you and this is the offering which is a take from them gold silver bronze and so on and so forth so that you build me a sanctuary that i may dwell amongst them is it free will offering but who dictated what to give no you can't give him what you like that's what you've been doing that's why you can't recognize it it's like just finished eating and tip someone i've demonstrated this many years ago because pastors have a way of tricking the church the church now have developed a way of tricking the pastor they know it's going to take five offerings they had wanted to go to give 500 naira that day but they know it would take five offerings so they divided into five pockets first offering 100 second hovering hundred why not give the 500 at a time and some of you when it's time to give you know what to do i surrender i surrender one thousand with you not today unto thee my blessed savior with you 20 23 i'm sorry that i surrender eyes are laying down no you can't give him what you like he owns everything it's a privilege for him to ask you to give to the one who owns everything it's a miracle that you are given to god proverbs chapter 3 verses 9 and 10. this is where the robber will meet the room for so many of you honor the lord with your huh i'm not the lord with your possessions do you know what that word in hebrew is do you know what it is in kjv substance that was what the prodigal son wasted the ability to reproduce yourself in others the ability to infect others with your generosity the ability to demonstrate it before your children so that they know this is the way you have prospered hold up the lord with your possessions and with the second fruits with the first fruits of all your increase that was what started the trouble in the first instance between cain and abel we'll get there later so your balance will be filled with plenty and your verse will overflow with new one listen to me who make your band to be filled with plenty huh it's god harness the lord with your substance and with the first fruit of your increased soul so if they are not filled who is responsible you because you are given what you like to god okay i'm boring christian sweeney you're tired of poverty and luck well we brought nothing in today's world it is certain we can take nothing out of this world therefore you are going to take things out of this world you if you don't know you are miseducated when you think you are taking nothing out of this world for in revelation 36 blessed are the dead who who were dead blessed are the dead in christ for deceased from their labor and their deeds follow them what you do with your resources here we follow you there that's why in heaven you see people it has happened to us several times even on earth here one card you know many years ago i was preaching for a depot donkey years ago and it was after service i was walking and this boy started pursuing us greeting my wife mommy daddy i said sorry i don't know you do you remember this incident in cardinal say i don't know you say no you don't know me sir but you know my mother mama deeper so i turned to my wife who is my my deeper i mentioned the name of the woman from deeper life who comes sometimes to assist you somewhat i said oh you guys saw he said yes i just want to announce to you i'm here for my nyc you paid my fees throughout university and law school i'm doing my nyc and i said oh nice meeting you do it for somebody else one of my sons here chica needed help i stretched out my neck and called you to give him that loan that i was thank guarantee for him that's that's what it for him he was tough it was a business he needed breakthrough we did it and one day chicken came to my house we don't know how to thank you our business is booming our business is for me i looked at him as i look for two people and go do what i've done for you to them that's my reward you'll be amazed when you get to heaven and many people don't want to hear this everyone will get his own crown if you walk for it and you can be without crown so it's your headache but you'll be amazed when you get to heaven and they're about to give the reward of all that i've done to acknowledge you will get the reward for it and i will say for the exploits of tunde bakery across the nations of the earth the first person with nato honor is reverend emmanuel alabi who preached the day he got born again because without that he will not have received christ and then they will call redeemed christian church of god with them with a marvelous job they have done across the nation said the reward for death will first go who do you think they'll mention by parking diamond oh i wish you will get silver pastor deborah you will get bronze that's why there will be surprises in heaven your deeds are following you these are messages i preach that get enemies for me i'm not saying you will not be rewarded but you will not be where you are if someone did not pay the price say nothing is following you to heaven because you did nothing here there are people who hold you by the skirt i was at your birthday recently when you turned 60. i saw people who are saying thank you mommy for your i didn't know you never told anybody but it came acknowledging what you did for them how you stood with them in the hospital how you took their children on how the one that was a single parent you took on the child you think god does not see those things the one who created the eyes will he not see that's why your breakthrough must come in the water shall be watered a libra soul shall be made fart see how many people are benefiting from your from your what you call it okay whatever the outfit is there are many of you everything about your life is i me myself and what is yes one more mine oh i say i'm hungry i me mine and myself i think you're not interested in this message you're sinking sinking where into your heart your eyes are opening that you have been shooting yourself in the foot okay first thought that i want you to meditate upon you cannot give to god what you like malachi chapter 1 verse 6 to 11 and then i'll read verse 14 malachi 1 6 to 11 as son honors his father when he say hannah the lord with your substance is now explaining the honor when you give naira give stalin give everything god is not can't he's not spending money it is doors he has entrusted with ministry that will give account for what has come into their hand every time you give and you don't give accurately god has nothing to take from that offering because it is honor that he's looking for that's what he gets hannah a son harness his father and a servant is master if then i am the father not a father even i am the father where is my honor and if i'm a master where is my reverence says a lot of us to you principle despite my name yet you say in what way have we despise your name you offer the five food on my altar but say in what way have we defiled you by saying the table of the lord is contemptible and when you offer the blind as a sacrifice is it not evil and when you offer the lame and sick is it now evil offer it then to your governor will he be pleased with you will he accept you favorably says the lord of hosts hey listen if you are going to give a gift to the governor of lagos state you buy a corn on the road or plantain and wrap it inside youtube and say monica what can you govern will you do that but you do it to god all the time i had a struggle with some of the leaders when they said we need to start printing envelopes for these people to put money in that envelope and said ha where is honor huh will you go to your government say this check is for you or even your local government chairman i was passing through here and i hide as your body by jackie what you will not do to a governor why do it to god i hope i'm understood i know there are plastic envelopes that they do i say don't take it away me get your envelope kneel down let him say to you what he wants he will never ask you what you don't have and if he ever asks you what you don't have is because you're about to provide it but now entry god's favor that he may be gracious to us while this has been done by your hands at the same time you're praying for god's favor but you are dealing with him without honor will he accept you favorably says a lot of whose who is there among you who will shut the door so that you will not kind of fire my altering vein i have no pleasure in you says the lord of hosts nor will i accept an offering from your hands for even from the rising of the sun from the rising of the sun eventually it's going down my name shall be great among the gentiles in every place incense shall be offered to my name prayers an appeal offering for my name shall be great among the nations says the lord of hosts give me the last verse there cursed the curse be the deceiver who has in his flock a male and takes a vow by sacrifice to the lord what is blemish from a great king that's what it means to give sparingly to give spirulina is not to give little no to give spirulina is to see what is strong what is healthy and this one is not for god this one that is blind you have spared the good for yourself and kept what is not good for him do you understand this that's what he means to give spiritually not just little if lead to means to give spiritually then the widow the counter attention of jesus should not have caught his attention she gave her all are you with me oh this is getting too tough for you all right second thought you can give god what you like or noise involved number two although this exhortation is not given to us to put you under any pressure to give or to instill any kind of fear in you or manipulate you yet i consider it important to remind you that the first homicide case in all of human history centered around offering to god and so did the first families reside in the new testament involving a couple who were pretentious givers the first homicide case took place when cain killed abel his brother over an acceptable offering to god the stories in genesis chapter 4 verse 1 to 12 you can take time to read it cain gave god what cain wanted abel gave god what god wanted god accepted the person of abel and did not accept the person of king and envy setting he killed his brother and oh he's my brother i can't kill me oh oh you have not read human history you have not read genesis brother killed brother there and the blood was crying from the ground this is why i'm sorry for those who share the innocent blood and think they will get away with it for every blood you have shared you will pay for it except you receive god's mercy and cry for help if you kill others violently you two will die violently the second involved analysis and sapphire who thought they could lie to the holy spirit about their given and got away with it the story is in acts of the apostles chapter 5 1-12 please i appeal to you by the mercies of god do not end up in your life like the fool who was not rich towards god and also was required the same night he thought is a burden required has started his enjoyment plenty enjoyment has started luke chapter 12 13-21 i will read that you can read the story of cain and abel yourself and that of ananias and sapphira the one from the crowd said to him teacher tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me but he said to him man who made me a judge an arbitrator over you and he said to them take heed and be aware of covetousness for once life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses then he spoke a parable to them saying the ground you know we are talking about the earth i should have focused on that today but what happened in the session i had with those in diaspora yesterday i do not want to change you you must receive your own portion of that grace and that dimension of grace so that things begin to work for you and things come into alignment for you in the name of jesus christ and he spoke a parable to them saying the ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully what yielded plentifully the ground i showed you last sunday you scatter your seed you you sleep and you wake up you don't even know that the ground has been he came to bring for you fought for you plentifully and he thought within himself saying what shall i do since i have no room to store my crops so he said i will do this hello i will i will you will see all the i will there is i mean mine myself i will do this i'll pull down my burns and build greater and there we store all my crops and my goods and i will say to my soul so you have many goods laid out for many years take your ease eat drink and be married but god said to him full this night your soul will be required of you then whose will those things be which you have provided read the next line with me so is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich to what god don't die like this fool because you'll be very lucky like a dog don't die like him number three people of god is up to you to decide on how you want god to take you or how high you want him to take you by painting the portrait of your finances as you like with him you're going to write your ticket with god today tomorrow whenever the brush is in your hand the canvas also has been given to you as they say both the knife and the yam are in your hands ii corinthians chapter 9 6-8 you are going to write your own ticket with god but this i say evil souls i can't hear you evil souls sparingly we also reap sparingly and evil souls bountifully we also reap bountifully so let each one give as he purposes in his heart not grudgingly or of necessity for god loves a cheerful giver and god is able who believes that say amen god is able to make all grace are bound to all grace all grace i bound toward you that you always not sometimes you always having all sufficiency in all things may have an abundance for every good work can i hear amen saints and strangers brothers and sisters people of god i see three scenarios all dimensions in the habits that people receive in life based on their response to the word of god especially in their finances these scenarios or dimensions are based on the parable of this world as captured by matthew mark and luke many of you have read the parable of this world sometimes i don't think i've really taught you what i'm about to teach you now i've mentioned it here and there when you read that story in the first dimension the soil went to sow yes or no and there are kinds of soil by the way and the rock in the midst of towns which is nothing but the cares of this world the deceivers of riches but in the good soil so i'm not interested on the west side those who fell underwater i'm not interested they are by the way people i'm not interested on those who fell on the rock because they have no depth they can't even carry they can't understand what we are saying and what we are doing here and i'm not interested in those who are long terms i remember my sword wrote text mama shall i say it yes he said yes he was about six years old then he went the uk and was doing bible study and he said he yelled and he showed he choked and yelled i said no and we had to tell him how to pronounce don't worry lady b she now speaks he speaks better english i'm not interested in those who fell among tons i'm interested in you the good soil are you ready are you ready are you ready for this in the first dimension when you receive the word into good soil you receive and embrace it like paul said to the galatians you receive it as if god has spoken to you you get up and run with it come you hit the peak and people are looking at you you become like sign and wonder look at this fellow man he came only yesterday blah blah blah why because in matthew those who sold received a hundredfold then 60 food then 30 fold shall we read it you do not know you are declining because you are no longer sustaining the way you obtained i'm not sure you are getting me oh you used to have money but now it's decreasing you used to live in gre but now you have moved to okay i won't say it i don't want to offend anybody you understand me you used to drive your car now he's driving you you know how car drives people you get down in the middle of the road about me you are no longer driving the car is driving you crazy matthew the first dimension 13 23 it's a good soil but he will receive seed on the good ground as he will hear the word and understand it we indeed best fruit and produces some a hundred fold some 60 psalm 30 is that increase or decrease i'm not sure you are getting me you hit the peak and you are celebrated every book launched you are the chairman every fundraising you have to you're called la la to rookie that's not the purpose of which god gave you the money that could be just addendum but that's all you are doing now or you're beyond you are the one musicians are thinking about shikishi mommy and the first dimension you got it right you had understanding you listen to the word but you receive a hundred fold but you do not know how to maintain what you have obtained and then 60 fold and then 30 food is this something isn't it is it something you are not completely down that's why you are powerful be broke in the second dimension mark caught that these are slow starters mark chapter 4 verse 20 are you following me shine your eyes mark 4 20. but these are the ones on where on good ground is your ground good i can't hear you anymore those who hear the word accept it and bear fruit some 30-fold and what 64 and what a hundred fold they grow in grace till they operate maximally many of these are brought from obscurity into prominence as a growing grace they are beginning maybe small but their latter end will greatly increase which one do you fit into here are you alone ex-millionaire once upon a time is that you i used to be rich 1988 morocco like the church he said and do you understand me well it's better not to have money to become ex-millionaires i'm telling you but if care is not taken boom you hit it it's called windfall hundredfold hallelujah you give testimony everywhere about photon deep rivers flow with majestic silence you don't even know they have anything a hundred forty dilemma but what kept what brought you up you are no longer maintaining it so in sixty quarters but now i went all along uh tell me about why with timber if there is life there is hope it's not too bad he's not too bad he's already back take the two away but look at mark you're growing grace your beginning is small 30 fold 60-foot 100 foot but there's still a third dimension these are peak performers top shaped believers always on top not beneath always heard and naughty because of their love for god demonstrated by their obedience and their generosity they are not wandering stairs they are not follisters they are constant shining stairs they are hundred fold company all the time this is the picture of an all-weather plant you find in someone blesses the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly not stand in the way of sinners not sitting in the seat of this comfort with some of the messages god gave me for this year that is coming to you is hey do not associate with comfort men if the light is in the love of the lord and in history meditate there are not he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth his fruit in season and his leaves shall not wither whether it's summer whether it's winter whether it's spring whether it's autumn easily shall not wither whatsoever it does shall prosper peak performance always at the top who are they who are this wonderful company luke chapter 8 i'm going to read from verse 1 to 18. luke 8 1-18 now i came to pass afterward that he went through every city and village preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of god and the twelve were with him now do you do you sometimes think that these 12 will have to stay somewhere or are they lying down in open fields every night there must be some motors or motels or some private homes they will have to eat it took them everywhere let's read and certain women who have been healed of evil spirits and infirmities mary she specializes in anointing the head of jesus mary called magdalene one out of whom had come seven demons and joanna the wife of chooser hero steward and susana and many others who provided for him from there they provided for him from there so they just said to the lord you know what all the cares of hotel motel food arrangement transportation living with us we will be at the bottom it's no longer yours and when a great multitude had gathered and they had come to him from every city he spoke by a parable a sword went out of sowing sea and as he saw some fell by the west side and was trampled down and the birds of the air divided some fell on rock and as soon as it sprang up it weathered away because it lacked moisture and some fell among thongs and the things sprang up with it and shook it and choked it and choked it but others fell on good ground sprung up and yielded a crop a hundred fo where is the sixty where the thirty he shared this parable within the context of those who dedicated their substance for kingdom advice their big performances are now rising today falling tomorrow rising today falling tomorrow but others fell on good ground sprung up and yielded a crop a hundred fold when he had said these things he cried he who heist he didn't just say to you he cried he who has ears let him hear don't stop there you will not get the jesus let's unveil unveiling then his disciples asked him saying what does this parable mean as he asked as they answered matthew with also mark here is luke and he said to you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god but to the rest it is given in parables that sin they may not see and hearing they may not understand now the parable is the seed is the word of god go on those by the wayside are the ones who hear then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts let they should believe and be saved the pastor also injury of a race no i don't raise money i raise people but the ones on the rock are those who when they hear receive the word with joy and this have no root we'll believe for a while and in time of temptation folly we also why do we need this type of chair but why do we need this type of thing is this not too expensive hold on not very basically just sit in a room you ain't joking now the ones who fell amongst those who when they've heard go out and choke with cares riches and pleasures of life and bring no fruit to maturity the chairman of this chairman of that chairman of this one chairman of that one they crash and there's no trace that they were once reached but the ones that fell on the good ground are those who haven't heard the world weight and noble and good heart keep it and bear fruit with patience no one when he has little lamb covers it with a vessel or under a bed but says it's on a lampstand that those who enter may see the light for nothing is secret that will not be revealed not anything hidden that will not be known and come to light therefore take heed hello therefore take heed how you here for whoever has to hymnal will be given and whoever does not have even what it seems to have will be taken that's how money departs from you because you hear this now you hold on to it then you get home somebody says something else you drop that and you pick another you do not wait patiently with patience to let it be a fruit so i can be a big performer you all know where you are now by god's grace whether you are 100 food 64 34 or 34 60 food or 100 food or you want to be a peak performer 100 percent hundred fold all the time i want you to listen to the admonition of paul as i close listen to what paul said that you can write your own ticket with god it was using the example of the church in macedonia in second corinthians chapter eight i'll read from verse 1 to 15. ii corinthians 8 1-15 moreover brethren listening is not about poverty it's not about being poor it's not about not having enough it's about attitude it's a heart attitude the people that paul was about to talk and use as more than an example here were poor people you can be rich and stingy you can be poor and generous and if you are poor and strange you already destroy yourself moreover brethren will make known to you the grace of god bestowed on churches of macedonia that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty one will have to cancel the other they're going to give to god with abundance of joy but they want deep poverty the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality for bear witness according to their ability yes and beyond their ability they were freely willing implanting us with much urgency that we will receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministry into the saints and not only as we had hoped but they first did what this is the problem the reason you hold the internationally to little that you have is because god does not own you when god owns you and he owns all that you have you become liberal you know he will always provide he will come on the side of his own and not only as we had hoped but they first gave themselves to the lord and then to us by the will of god do not give or do anything outside of the will of god so we urge titles that as he had begun so he will also complete this grace in you as well you can receive partial graceful when it's not completed when you don't know all the nitty-gritty of how to walk in it but as you abound in everything in faith in speech in knowledge in all diligence and in your love for us see that you are bound in disgrace also this is grace for wealth i speak not by commandment but i'm testing the sincerity of your love do you love god by the diligence of others for you know the grace of our lord jesus christ that though he was reached yet for your sakes he became poor that you through his poverty might become rich that's why i requested the book operating high finances i retitled it you cannot afford to be poor jesus died to make you rich and in this i give advice it is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began don't stop it if you want to be a big performer and i've given you i'm tired oh good morning what are they asking you for and they in this i give advice it is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and what desiring to do a year ago but now you must also complete the dream of it that as there was a readiness to desire it so there also may be a completion out of what you have hello friends did we all desire the citadel is it named after me is my name in the title deed am i the only one enjoying it why are you making me the only one to pay for it for if there is first a willing mind it's accepted according to what one has and not according to what he does not have that's why i don't encourage you to give pledges that you will not be able to keep and get into prison i do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened by by an equality that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack that their abundance also may supply your luck that there may be equality as it is written evil gathered much had nothing left over and he will get a little had no luck in the name of jesus christ as you embrace this word i banish luck out of your life luck will be a thing of the past you will always have all sufficiency in all things and you are bound onto every good walk stand to your feet lord i thank you for the entrance of your word that brings light and understanding to the simple thank you for what you have done from my life you brought me from obscurity from nowhere and you brought me into prominence you knew who i was and where i was when i got to lagos july 13 1973. i see what you have done in my life today lord i ask because you are able to do for all what you have done for one do for my people let them grow in grace let them go from 34 to 64 to 100 fold and let them stay there never decline again in the mighty name of jesus give them noble hearts that will love god in jesus mighty name we pray amen

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