Category:
All
Bible Exegesis
Exhortations
Faith and the Power of God
Foundation and Walking in Faith
Lessons from Faith's Hall of Fame
Money, Economics and Productivity
New Creation Realities
Purpose and Will of God
School of Prayers
The Word
Way of Success
Found 1,431 matching passages
across 101 items
10ms (cached)
57:00
Last week, the total I gave you was 2,500. That's my hundredfold return. Repent and be saved. Amen? Amen. May you stop sowing dangerous seeds because it's not helping you. They are really dangerous. They are literally dangerous for your health, dangerous for your prosperity. You are a giver. Amen? A...
40%
55:30
You know, there are people who buy cars to go and show off. You get my point? But your own, you have it too. Or you'll be so embarrassed, say, let's go to village, no, call taxi. Let's go, now your car is good. You don't understand. Just leave it, leave it. That is, you know what they call embarrass...
38%
51:00
our share. I have no problem with giving him money. This is a man who walks up to me and says, weekend is dry. And I give him money. The jobs are open beyond his salary. I just say, Elgar, we can do this thing now. How much? We negotiate. They walk the bus. I was going to give the job to somebody el...
38%
13:30
a crate of eggs in the U.S. as an example. I'm not very certain. Assume it's $5. You've got to buy organic eggs. It would be like 20. For the little money you do not have, you start pursuing things you cannot afford. Why? You want to live long. You have enough food to live long, but too little money...
36%
58:30
Those people took a precious thing. Today you would take something precious. I'll keep on saying that. Pastor, understand it well. I agree with you. I'm not disagreeing. But when Mary took that thing, was it Mary or Martha? When she took it, she took it from the shelf. I don't know whether you conne...
35%
1:10:30
Are you getting what I'm saying? Occasionally one scripture will wake up like this. When does, hold it for a long time, once the other one comes to replace it. It's not just a declaring nebulously, just declare, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not worry. It's good, it's good. But there are times th...
34%
1:00:00
They superabounded towards good works. Say it again. God will make all grace abound towards me. I will have all sufficiency in all things. And I will superabound to every good work. In the name of Jesus Christ. Listen, many of you listening to me, listen to this. One day you will start a company. Yo...
34%
15:00
We can't complain. They want to say, we would like more salt. The man says, I don't want anything. Leave this food. Once I say, Father, I thank you in the name of Jesus. I'm eating it. If there's stone inside, the stone was meant to cleanse my intestine. The man will eat the stone. It sounds extreme...
34%
54:00
problem. Just wake up in the morning, it's okay. Who else? School fees, give them. Give, just give, give, give. Job well done, just do it. And then, and it's not as if, thank you sir. Thank you, thank me for what? Oh, oh, oh, no, just thank God, don't worry about it. That is the level of wealth you ...
31%
22:30
He said, he can't be 52, because I've been hearing him preach for 50 years. Do two-year-old boys preach? How do we accomplish that? We start telling it now. We start discussing it now. What is my word to you today? When you wake up every morning, talk to your cell phone. Before you book a appointmen...
31%
1:09:00
Let me summarize. The testimony of Joseph will happen to somebody here in the name of Jesus. You will go to sleep one day. You will wake up the next day. It will take you a week to be able to rearrange where you are. event will have so happened you will have been elevated beyond your dreams beyond y...
31%
30:00
The devil has never been able to mistakenly, by chance, paradventure in the midst of my drinking, drunken sleep, in which I sniffed cocaine inside the dream, and I fell into another dream, and I used heroin inside that other one. Has never convinced me one day to regret marrying my wife. It has neve...
31%
31:30
You know I'm hungry. Give me food. I'm giving you this money so that you remember me. That's not Christianity. What did I say? What did I say? Let me tell you the real seed. The seed, the Bible says, is what? The word of God. So how do I sow a seed for prosperity? I declare that word. And when I'm g...
31%
me, it is a very productive way of getting the word into
me. Every time you enter my car you will always find enough
teaching tapes to keep you busy for the next 6 hours at least. I
80
Pastor Bankie
soak my environment with it. I hardly can be found without a
book. My reason is that I may have to...
39%
the Lord
Jesus would say again and again, “he that has ears, let him hear.”
You can imagine that the people already heard with their ears, but
He is demanding that there be a second level of hearing.
The second level of hearing is the one that one has when he has
made up his mind that this is the v...
34%
ly
subjecting themselves to the Lordship of Jesus by obedience to the
word of God. As this kingdom is released into anyone’s life, he
begins to experience the promises that are to be revealed therein.
53
He that believes
Long life is my portion....
33%
He will cause all kinds of grace to
abound towards me so that not only will I have all sufficiency in
training those that are mine but also I will super-abound to train
many who are not so privileged.
In recent times, the Lord has caused me to understand that any
seed I plant in the land in the tim...
33%
someone about issues of life and when they give
you their reasons for taking the decisions they are taking, you do
not hear one single consideration of the counsel of God. I had one
42
Pastor Bankie
of such discussions recently with a brother who had just made a
major decision that would affect h...
33%
that should become you attitude towards
the word.
Know for sure that the voice that your second-hear is the one that
will determine your experience in life. Remember the issue of
Peter on the waters.
Peter stepped out according to the word of Jesus. He had told him,
‘Come.’ With his focus on that ...
33%
That is the way by which the real faith is manifested. This is why
Paul used the expression, hearing and hearing.
So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the
word of God. Rom 10:17 KJV
Many people who go to church are only involved with the first
level of hearing, and that is why th...
33%
70
Pastor Bankie
that God would raise him from the dead if necessary. It was this
faith that he demonstrated in God that excited God about him. It
was the reason why God began to swear to bless him.
That inherent propelling power that is in faith and which moves
the person of faith into automatic...
33%
the
word of God. Rom 10:17 KJV
There are two things that bring faith into your heart, and then into
your words and actions. One, hearing and hearing, and two, the
word of God. Let me explain.
‘Hearing and hearing’ does not necessarily connote a continual
listening; rather, it is a principl...
33%
od with
repentance from unbelief in your mouth, committing your life to
faith, and He will give you the spirit of faith, a heart force that
easily takes the word of God and real.
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
The second thing that is important is the knowledge of the word of
God. However I need to point ou...
32%
and saved Noah and his family by an ark.
We know he believed all these and yet was not declared righteous
as a consequence. What was it then that he believed that caused
him to be declared righteous?
You have given me no children, so one of my servants
will have to be my heir."
Then...
31%
delight.
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the
counsel of the wicked…,
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night. Ps 1:1-2
What you enjoy is what your have made up your mind to enjoy.
Think about those who smoke and drink...
31%
the sake of the kingdom.’ No, He is saying that, for
you, His way is the sure way to abundance and His path will lead
you to the breakthrough that will be far above what you could
ever have dreamt of.
Again I say, there is a counsel of God for every situation. The word
of God, applied to any issue ...
31%
to the king of Sodom.
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn
to the LORD God Most High, possessor of heaven and
earth, that I will not take a thread or a sandal thong
69
He that believes
or anything that is you...
31%
en of God, however, it is simply living
below the glory. If you behave thus, you are simply not a believer.
43
He that believes
PRACTICAL LIFE
Many people, when they talk like this, claim they are being
practical. To them, faith in God is ju...
31%
ed for, the
evidence of things not seen. Heb 11:1 KJV
Of course we know that the faith being spoken of here is faith in
God. We know that it was by it that God judged the people as
righteous.
Here we see faith described in two distinct forms. It is,
1. The substance (or solid base and evi...
30%
Pastor Bankie Olusina
He that believes
HE THAT BELIEVES!
Dr D. B Olusina
Bible quotations marked NLT are from The Holy Bible, New Living
Translation ©1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. All rights reserved
Bible quotations marked AMP are from ...
30%
s questioned concerning how He got
results when He cursed the tree, His answer was simple: “Take
your faith away from all the other things that you hitherto had
faith in, and place that faith in God.”
It follows first that a believer has placed in faith in God. But if I say
that I am a Christian an...
30%
re, but in the light of the promise of God, he understood
that God would have to raise him up from the dead. This is faith as
the substance of things hoped for. No wonder God got so excited
about him.
Those who have taught that faith is present tense are very right;
but they should not have been so...
30%
I totally agree with him.
Buy truth, and do not sell it,
81
He that believes
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding. Prov
23:23
The way to be strong in faith is to be filled at all times with this
word. There is no other way. ...
30%
ts; offerings being given when the fire of lack is
burning. God does not act impulsively; you must maintain a
kwm.com.ng 38
Great Faith Can be Yours
lifestyle before Him before you will get the fruit of it. You
cannot just give once and then expec...
39%
ple
draw near with their words And honor Me
with their lip service, But they remove their
kwm.com.ng 8
Great Faith Can be Yours
hearts far from Me, And their reverence for
Me consists of tradition learned by rote
...
38%
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith…
kwm.com.ng 46
Great Faith Can be Yours
Gal 5 22 KJV
The word ‘faith’ here is often translated as ‘faithfulness’ by
some translations but the li...
36%
support those whose heart is completely His.
2 Chron 16:9
kwm.com.ng 37
Great Faith Can be Yours
Elijah was sent to the house in which God knew he would be
welcome because other hungry people had been welco...
36%
nted to those
kwm.com.ng 44
Great Faith Can be Yours
who made the right choices for God when their little faith was
enough to handle the challenge.
kwm.com.ng 45
Great Faith Can be Yours
8. Faith ...
35%
the widow of Zarephath did, but I doubt whether the widow
had as much trouble obeying a stranger as she did.
kwm.com.ng 34
Great Faith Can be Yours
Now here is my simple and direct answer to the puzzle: the
widow of Zarephath most likely had no wa...
34%
to the
spirit. Well, we have also established that acts of love are the
seeds that we sow into the spirit.
kwm.com.ng 58
Great Faith Can be Yours
10. The power of righteousness
In the last chapter I expounded about love and how acts of
love are ...
34%
24
Great Faith Can be Yours
with our lives so that the spirit of faith will be imparted to us.
kwm.com.ng 25
Great Faith Can be Yours
5. The double hearing
However, they did not all heed the glad
tidings; for Isaiah says, "Lord, wh...
34%
for God, and this is
kwm.com.ng 6
Great Faith Can be Yours
what is called worship in spirit.
Let us see more on this concept of worship in spirit.
kwm.com.ng 7
Great Faith Can be Yours
2. Worship in...
34%
et us do good to all men,
and especially to those who are of the
household of the faith.
kwm.com.ng 47
Great Faith Can be Yours
Gal 6:6-10
Please don’t forget that your little faith is a seed while the
great faith you are desi...
34%
rit of faith is the portion of
those who delight in the law of the Lord and so meditates in it
day and night.
kwm.com.ng 69
Great Faith Can be Yours
Let me explain what it means to meditate.
It means more than just to think, though that is a cruci...
33%
thought I was doing rote worship when in actual fact
what I was doing was true worship. This is just a simple
kwm.com.ng 10
Great Faith Can be Yours
illustration.
True worship are those words and actions that come out of
you because you have a rel...
33%
n all respects,
bearing fruit in every good work and
increasing in the knowledge of God.
kwm.com.ng 4
Great Faith Can be Yours
Col 1:10
Now, that is the main importance of faith—it is the way of
walking which pleases the Lord...
33%
en Christianity and other
religions, and is why we say truthfully again and again that it
is not a religion.
kwm.com.ng 5
Great Faith Can be Yours
Religion emphasizes what you do. It emphasizes how you pay
your tithes and offer your sacrifices. ...
33%
ctual fervent
pray of the righteous avails much. The Amplified Bible adds
the word heartfelt to the fervent.
kwm.com.ng 55
Great Faith Can be Yours
Many times, I see people run up and down complaining about
how their country is bad, how they must...
33%
ord of God. The key expression there is actually
‘hearing and hearing’. It is a clear case of double emphasis
kwm.com.ng 26
Great Faith Can be Yours
which was used a lot in those days. To lay emphasis on an
important subject, the speaker would oft...
33%
ack of ability, but at least I am ready.
Paul said once the readiness is there, it is acceptable according
kwm.com.ng 27
Great Faith Can be Yours
to what one can perform.
In support of this doctrine, we need to note this interesting
fact about ...
32%
tailed description of how to
find his destination.
‘Thank you so much ma’am. But please could I get a little
kwm.com.ng 32
Great Faith Can be Yours
money from you to ride a bus with; as you can see I am really
worn out and have no money.’
‘I’m so...
32%
t something, we
begin to like the thing. Whatever you pay attention to is the
direction your desires take.
kwm.com.ng 66
Great Faith Can be Yours
Now, after making your choice to like something, you
naturally begin to practice or use it and the...
32%
r the alien by
giving him food and clothing.
Deut 10:18
kwm.com.ng 59
Great Faith Can be Yours
In the same manner, defining the love of man for God will be
by practical things.
“If an...
31%
, and he who had received
the promises was offering up his only
begotten son. Heb 11:17
kwm.com.ng 12
Great Faith Can be Yours
This is the place of works my brethren. It is only acceptable to
God as a demonstration of your fa...
31%
answers; one theoretical, the other practical.
The theoretical answer is this: If she has refused, it would
kwm.com.ng 39
Great Faith Can be Yours
have been a sign that she did not believe him as he said, ‘for
thus says the Lord.’ Please note th...
31%
th is that most times the whole
story is not told.
Am I saying that God does not reward such seed sowing with
kwm.com.ng 35
Great Faith Can be Yours
such harvests?
Precisely! He usually does not!
What about the widow of Zarephath?
To answer that I...
31%
ear this point.
Dear Cornelius
The story this time is that of Cornelius and is found in Acts
chapter 10.
kwm.com.ng 48
Great Faith Can be Yours
Before relating the story we must bear in mind a few points.
One is that salvation is never by wor...
31%
mandments, they are there to serve as a guide concerning
controlling the spirit. This is the worship in spirit.
kwm.com.ng 9
Great Faith Can be Yours
Worshipping in spirit does not at all imply that you have lost
control, are ‘lost in the spirit’, ...
31%
will testify against you;
I am God, your God.
"I do not reprove you for your sacrifices,
kwm.com.ng 115
Great Faith Can be Yours
And your burnt offerings are continually
before Me.
"I shall take no young bull...
31%
s is
righteous, just as He is righteous.
1 John 3:7
kwm.com.ng 64
Great Faith Can be Yours
11. What do you love? (The
power of passion)
This time I am not referring to love for someone or G...
31%
the God that we
cannot see when we have not demonstrated that love to the
people that we can see (1 John 4:20).
kwm.com.ng 57
Great Faith Can be Yours
Love is the power.
Let me get back to something that I said earlier about the faith
of the widow of...
31%
ings in life
despite what circumstances may try to say.
He made my wife conceive and bear children. He gave me
kwm.com.ng 114
Great Faith Can be Yours
money to be generous even when people are full of
grumbling. He keeps me confident even when many ...
31%
their training in faith. There are steps you
take in desperation which are serving to help you discover the
kwm.com.ng 112
Great Faith Can be Yours
power of God, and so strengthen your faith. After that, you
will build an altar like Abraham and ca...
31%
the
one we have; at such times there is a manifestation of the
Spirit if we are worthy of it at that time.
kwm.com.ng 40
Great Faith Can be Yours
7. The manifestation of faith
I have explained that faith is often a manifestation of the
Spirit. W...
30%
Until the time that his word came to pass.
Ps 105:18-19
kwm.com.ng 117
Great Faith Can be Yours
18. Due season and faith
If the clouds are full, they pour out rain
upon the earth.
...
30%
with God; and he was not, for
God took him.
Gen 5:24
kwm.com.ng 13
Great Faith Can be Yours
…for he obtained the witness that before his
being taken up he was pleasing to God. And
...
30%
ite, read the books; their great spirits drop
into your life. When you can get hold of their audio, don’t let
kwm.com.ng 92
Great Faith Can be Yours
it pass you by. There is a connection to a spiritual gift as those
words flow through you.
kwm.co...
30%
aved.
My summary from Cornelius? His good works worked with
his prayers to produce the fruit of faith for him.
kwm.com.ng 50
Great Faith Can be Yours
9. The force of love
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three;
but the gre...
30%
• And how you too can achieve faith of a like
magnitude as this Roman.
kwm.com.ng 3
Great Faith Can be Yours
1. Faith is the central matter
In these modern days, I have noticed that a lot of the things
being emphasized in the teachings that co...
30%
25:30
who listens to and believes and practices the things that have been so truthfully elaborated, will also be established on the throne of David. And anyone that follows them will be established on the throne of David. Then after a while the whole world will say, come let us go to the house of the Lord...
39%
27:00
If you go in the Bible, vows actually in the scriptures, mean only one thing. I will acknowledge you as the one who did it. That's all it means. Because God said, if I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you. You know, we don't understand. We don't say, ah, Jacob was living. They made a vow. Anything that ...
36%
24:00
So I get up and begin to teach so as to correct. And I say it openly. You know why I'm saying it? Because these are the issues. And I perceive that we don't understand it. So let me begin to say it and teach it. But it's different from when I come and say, ah, how much? We need five million. What is...
35%
28:30
It is that you truthfully walk in integrity before Him daily. Because the mistake we make with some promising God material things, thinking that that's the passport to increase, to establishment on the throne. God says, no, I want a good representative. I want somebody conformed with the image of Je...
31%
22:30
What am I saying? As a preacher, there are things I'm not supposed to do. That's why I use it as an illustration. For example, I'm not allowed to use this microphone. The fact that you're all seated here to pass my agenda to you, crafts me. I'm not allowed. Sometimes I say some things. In fact, you ...
31%
31:30
Will we finish them? He said, yes. Will we flood them? Yes. Will we threaten them? Yes. Will we escort them? Yes. Will we collect all our taxes? He said, yes. So they went and said, listen, it is about me and my throne and my friends. They are for all of you. Let me tell you, if you say my father's ...
31%
30:00
We can break that down into the life of a wife. What are the things that make the fulfillment of a covenant as a wife? We can break that down into business. What is it that an entrepreneur will say is the fulfillment of covenant? It is not the making of promises to God. I hope you got my point. Thos...
30%
13:30
I've been saying again and again and again, that the work of God is not church work. That church is where you come to learn how to do the work of God. That when you gather in a place like this, the only person really... Okay, let me not sit like that, you don't get me confused. The main work of God ...
30%
for more on this.
Thought For The Morrow
We saw a little bit about the god called
mammon earlier, but we need to examine it
some more as it is one of the major voices
people obey and so disobey God.
Mammon is one of those very sly things in
life. People who serve it do not even realize
they are s...
39%
shall bind
them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be
as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.
And you shall write them upon the doorposts of
your house and on your gates. Deut 6:6-9 AMP
When you do this with prayers, having
dedicated yourself to the Lord, you are
setting yourself up ...
38%
nd spiritual
songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts
to God. And whatever you do in word or deed, do
all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
through Him to God the Father. Col 3:16-17
If you are student, you must study. As a
disciple, the Word must be a constant
companion. You are ...
38%
moved on to
other more available persons and to maybe
another generation. Very likely He would no
longer be interested in your services.
Signs Of Mammon
What else may be the signs of serving
mammon?
Once your prayers and spiritual activities
focus on what we shall eat, etc., you are not
serving th...
36%
add to the troubles each
day brings.” Matt 6:19-34 GNT
I have omitted a few lines in the portion
quoted above so as to save space, but I
encourage everyone to read the complete
thing in their Bibles.
What is mammon? Mammon is anything
material that is trusted in. Simply put, it is
material and fina...
35%
bout our attitude to God.
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary,
the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking
someone to devour. But resist him, firm in your
faith… 1 Peter 5:8-9
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he
will flee from you. James 4:7-8
James said to sub...
34%
making decisions
primarily with that
in mind, no matter
how good a person
you are, you are serving mammon but you
do not know it.
Once the primary assignment of God for
your life is not first and foremost in your
mind but you are m...
34%
on,
even though many Christians are controlled
by mammon, they do not know it. They feel
righteous while serving another god.
So what are these voices we obey that result
in disobedience to the Lord?
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the
world, and none of them is without significati...
31%
ay good-bye to those at home." But Jesus
said to him, "No one, after putting his hand to the
plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of
God." Luke 9:59-62 (NASB, explanation in
parenthesis added)
So you see that anyone walking by faith may
appear unreasonable except for the word of
God that is...
31%
some income and to qualify for the continued support of the church. They
had rented a place for him to live in.
19
Beyond Gifts and Talents Pastor Bankie
I spoke with this man and gave him some counsel about life, but he seemed
determined to leave the ...
39%
type that Paul commanded that whosoever would not work should not
eat. He became unhappy when someone tried to make him responsible. The
problem was not at all his calling or passion; it was laziness.
The passion for every idle man especially when he is hungry must be for
labour. If he is indeed no...
37%
ze that if they must disobey God, it is better
to disobey him by honest labour rather than by begging or being dishonest.
Even if both of these constitute disobedience, one is definitely a lesser sin.
I am not at all saying that people should not pursue their missions of life; I am
just saying that...
37%
quired holiness for fulfilment and for sustaining
that fulfilment.
24
Beyond Gifts and Talents Pastor Bankie
8
FINAL WORDS
We must pursue personal godly character in all that we do. That is the
foundation for succeeding i...
36%
kie
There he met a Jew named Aquila… with his wife Priscilla... Paul went to see
them, and stayed and worked with them, because he earned his living by
making tents, just as they did. Acts 18:2-4 GNT
There is no indication that making tents was apostle Paul's calling or that he
had a passion for t...
36%
fail even though they have a special calling and are heavily
endowed with divine power.
25
Beyond Gifts and Talents Pastor Bankie
PS
Choosing To Follow Jesus
Jesus died to save us all from our sins and from everlasting damnation;
He came to make us children...
35%
ver (Heb 12:1).
Flee from sexual immorality (2 Tim. 2:22).
Cultivate faithfulness. Seek it and practice it.
Learn diligence, integrity, good manners and every virtue just like every
Christians should.
Make sure you take your eyes away from your special call as if it is a guarantee
of success; it di...
35%
3
Chapter 1 4
Chapter 2 6
Chapter 3 8
Chapter 4 10
Chapter 5 13
Chapter 6 17
Chapter 7 22
Chapter 8 25
2
Beyond Gifts and Talents Pastor Bankie
INTRODUCTION...
34%
o succeed in
the ministry.
Yes, every gift has its temptations.
When you work in a quarry, stones might fall and crush you. When you chop
wood, there is danger with each stroke of your ax. Eccl 10:9
What Solomon was writing here is that each profession has a danger, and
when John the Baptist call...
33%
that reason they close doors against themselves
so often.
The second verse is this:
Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will stand before kings;
He will not stand before obscure men. Prov 22:29
What I want to bring out from this verse is the meaning or implication of the
word 'skill.' If you ...
32%
. No, learning
the subject of physics or mathematics may not have much to do with the
preaching anointing, but it has everything to do with succeeding in life and
surviving the glory of the anointing.
The good thing about having a calling or gift in an area of life is that the calling
comes with a ...
32%
eared, saying, 'Master, your mina has made ten minas more.'
And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in
a very little thing, be in authority over ten cities.' vs16-18
The better any of these men did in what could have been considered
mundane, the greater the place ...
32%
her the character
and discipline that people develop into their lives. Gifts do not make a man,
character does.
5
Beyond Gifts and Talents Pastor Bankie
2
TWO IMPORTANT VERSES
Let us quickly examine the following two verses of sc...
32%
ar, and we
never heard of them again. They did not allow the vision to put restraint into
them; a great ministry thus dies or is never born. The deliverance of God is
thus being delayed for the earth.
We need to know that every call or promise of God has conditions implicit in
them. The Lord may no...
31%
ult of a deliberate action by the Lord. The Lord refused
to lift them up because they failed in the small things.
22
Beyond Gifts and Talents Pastor Bankie
How you are doing right where you are as a student or as a worker in another
person's business is ...
31%
minister.
These are all things that could have been cured off him if he had stayed longer
under the structure of a school system, under the authority of a corporate
environment or under a human boss.
Sometimes I see a jobless and hungry man and he either tells me that the
work available is not his ...
30%
, Acquire Life
8. Grace to live by
9. Grace to Prosper
10. How to Work for God
11. So, Who Will Pay For This?
Minibooks by Pastor Bankie include
1. The Righteousness of God
2. Prophesy!
3. Your Greatness Has Been Prepared
4. What is God’s Will Here?
48
39%
Words like these are better words to speak
than words of complaining about the wrong things in
life. They impart blessings into your surroundings.
38
The Blessing
CHAPTER 6
THE RELEASE
Having said all we have so far, I believe the
importance of blessings should have become clear
to everyone...
38%
them, choosing rather to give them back to the
king of Sodom. He knew that this blessing will soon
produce an abundance of wealth for him and he
didn’t want anyone mistaking the source of the
wealth.
5
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn
to the LOR...
38%
d there was a lot to say; this is recorded in Job
29: 1-11. At the end of this he explained how it came
to be.
Because I delivered the poor who cried for
help,
And the orphan who had no helper.
34
The Blessing
The blessing of the one ready to perish came
upon me,
And I made the wid...
38%
e to get it because you
understand it is the most precious thing that a
person can ever hope to possess.
Please let me explain something that is
expressed in the above quoted passage of scripture:
25
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
When the Bible says that something is reserved in
heaven for ...
37%
ss my wife properly and to pronounce
upon her all that she might ever wish for and that I
might ever want in her. I still do it regularly; I bless
her day; I bless her womb; I entreat the Lord for her
33
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
sake. In fact, if I don’t do it for some time, she calls
my a...
36%
prayers.
"But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and
who trembles at My word.
Isa 66:2
Please do not forget:
“…blessed are those who hear the word of God
and observe it”
Faith
Blessed is the man who trus...
36%
Pastor Bankie
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
© 2002 Dr D. B. Olusina
Published in Nigeria by Bezalel Enlite. P.O. Box 2273 Enugu, Nigeria.
Unless otherwise stated, all Bible quotations are from the New American
Standard Bible © The lockman foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971,
1973, 1977, 19...
35%
iss it at the last moment. This is like what was
happening to the children of Israel at a time when
the Lord withheld blessing from them.
…he who earns, earns wages to put into a
purse with holes.
31
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
Hag 1:6
Liste...
34%
fe. Thinking
about it, he remembered once when he and his
brothers and sisters ganged up against their parents
and had a heated disagreement over an issue. It
must have been a serious event because he
30
The Blessing
recollected that after the whole thing was over he
was deeply troubled in his hea...
34%
t us labour therefore to enter into that rest…
Heb 4:10-11 KJV
Friends, our pursuit must be to enter into this
rest where we are truly blessed.
Labour to enter
Mike Murdoch made a statement that the proof
of desire is pursuit. That means that there are thing...
33%
)
Eccl 3:1,11
Beloved, let me emphasise to you that the Lord
cannot ever fail to come through; He is worth waiting
for; He will not fail.
46
The Blessing
Dr. Bankole Olusina, fondly called
Pastor Bankie, is a teacher of the
...
33%
hat our actions by
themselves invoke blessings or curses on us. In
fact, it seems to me that the words of a man only
affirm those blessings or curses. We can see this
from the life of the sons of Eli.
For I have told him that I am about to judge his
house forever for the iniquity which he knew,
...
33%
e Lord has created; it is like an extension of
the Spirit of God that maintains all that He made.
This life affects the environment around the one that
has it. It affects the very earth upon which you
15
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
stand. It is the solution to all sicknesses and failures;
the...
33%
Heb 12:16
It also good to note that this same portion of
scripture called this birth-right that he missed ‘the
19
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
blessing’.
For you know that even afterwards, when he
desired to inherit the blessing, he was
rejected…
...
33%
e little God-bless-you’s you get here and
there will amount to a great thing in your life. It will
36
The Blessing
deliver you in time of trouble; it will give you favour
before men.
Bless yourself
The words you speak over your life are just as
important as the words spoken by others, if not mor...
32%
And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth shall be
blessed."
Gen 12:1-3
41
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
No matter how much the Lord desired to bless
Abram, nothin...
32%
of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord…
that I may know Him and the power of His
resurrection…
Phil 3:7-10
This is why faith in God appears to be easier
24
The Blessing
for those that do not have much to trust in the flesh;
they do not have rich pare...
32%
seasons of learning, but he or she cannot ever
fail. The emphasis with the Lord has always been
that people will be blessed. What the Lord wishes to
give to people is the thing called ‘the blessing.’
3
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich…
...
32%
water,
That extends its roots by a stream
And will not fear when the heat comes; But its
leaves will be green,
And it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit.
43
Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
Like we mentioned sometime earlier, it is vital
to note...
32%
it is the main blessing or other kinds of
blessings, the implication of a blessing is still the
same; it is an empowerment to succeed and to
prosper.
The impartation of blessings- The power of
words
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, "Thus
you shal...
31%
anywhere because you think there are
greener pastures there; the blessing of God in you
will cause a barren ground to blossom for your sake.
The Lord has promised again and again that he will
do this.
6
The Blessing
"The beasts of the field will glorify Me; The
jackals and the ostriches;
...
31%
lso the tongue is a small part of the body,
and yet it boasts of great things.
Behold how great a forest is set aflame by such
a small fire!
James 3:4-5
28
The Blessing
When the above portion of the scriptures says
that the tongue boasts of grea...
30%
6:00
there's a work to do to possess that which God has given you and to retain, you know, possessing first. There's a first time possession and then there is a principle of always laying hold of that which God has given you. Let's open your Bibles again to the book of Matthew chapter 11. There's just on...
39%
1:37:30
So if I mention his name or mention Jonathan's name, have I done anything bad? The Lord is good. So don't worry. This is what we want to preach. Last week we were trying to preach. We will get there. But let me just drop the thing I wanted to say. You have to fight for what is yours. Do you follow m...
36%
1:10:30
and I'm looking at you like, are you considering what you are doing? That God has given you the ability to gather this, so what gives you the impression this good Lord is going to retire when his kids grow up? And brethren, you either believe in God or you don't. Because you can't use faith to live ...
36%
0:00
The Lord is good. I said the Lord is good. If you believe that, can you say a very warm Amen? Yeah, that was very warm. Alright, the Lord is good. I will continue to pray in a moment, but first let's take some instruction from the Word of God. It's a school of prayer. As usual, we gather to hear ins...
33%
4:30
So whatever the Lord our God has driven out before us, we will possess. Whatever the Lord our God has driven out before us, it is our responsibility to step in and possess that land. You have to understand how God does things. He will say to the people of Israel, I have given you this particular lan...
33%
1:40:30
Oh, you are my sustenance, and I have full sustenance in you, even today, even right now. Say, Lord, I thank you. Father, we thank you. Oh, let's thank him, because thank him again, because the author of your life is the one who plots your life, who plots your destiny. Say, Lord, I thank you. You ar...
32%
7:30
or shortly after. I know that he said he digs that observes the clouds will not rip. Now notice what he said. If you watch the wind, you will not sow. Now what that means is that after you have finished sowing, there's still some work to do in the time of harvest to take that which God has given. Re...
32%
18:00
My mind is English, you speak. I'm talking to those who speak Igbo. You think in Igbo? You do? After all these years of educating you, this is where your work remains. So this man was just describing the things that his governor is doing. Now the person describing, for your information, is not a sma...
30%
1:12:00
Real Christianity, the truth is that we undermine it every day. We undermine true Christianity every day. Your assignment is just be faithful. Train yourself in faithfulness. No matter how careless you look concerning your life, don't worry about it. God is arranging what will come to you. As a matt...
38%
1:07:30
That's why I tell Christians, eat your money if that's what you want. If your soul can be happy eating your money alone, you're a sinner, so enjoy your sin. I don't know whether you caught what I said there. Because if I give you the liberty to eat your money and say, if I eat it, nothing will happe...
36%
1:06:00
That gospel is so terrible. That's that teaching. It's not a gospel. It's another gospel. It's so terrible. It undermines the faith of Christians. It does. Remember, God calls all things to work together for good. To them that do what? Love God. You have to bear that in mind because many people, the...
36%
28:30
Then I realized that what I was trying to teach had to do with trusting in God and as a result of that being thankful all the time. So I don't know the exact topic I'll give this, let's just tie everything together. So in it there is thanksgiving, in it there is constant trusting in the Lord, but th...
35%
1:10:30
That has helped me. And from my personal experience, it's been like that too. That look, stop looking at that thing that you are doing as if it is God. Just be faithful in whatever I place in your hands. Just be faithful. Why am I saying this? You know, God is arranging every fine detail of our live...
34%
27:00
Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you, by being worried, can add a single hour to his life? And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow. They do not toil, nor do they spin. Yet I say to you that not even Solomon, in all his glory, clothed himself ...
34%
25:30
You're talking to somebody, I like this one, I like this one. This one ministered to me many years ago when I was sick in this particular way, and God helped me. Then the fellow read the scriptures for a few days. If along the line, it now sounds wise to go and see a doctor, then you go. It could be...
34%
19:30
He said, there are people who have obeyed God, and that's why they suffer. Suffering because you obeyed God is a blessing. Didn't you hear what I said? You think it's everybody that obeyed God that I began to enjoy? Obedience sometimes leads to suffering. God told me to sell my car and give it out a...
33%
30:00
that God causes all things to work together. Now, if you have a King James, it says all things work together for good. We have a new American standard here, and it says God causes all things to work together. And I think that that is a real sense, because New Living Translation says the same thing, ...
32%
1:09:00
And they do those things even though they have been told they can eat their money up by themselves. Listen to me, they are the kind of people that God blesses. Because they are not looking out for the blessed. But you know the truth? We're talking about trusting God. Even we pastors, to trust God is...
32%
15:00
It's important. It's important. And if you're a wife or a husband, make sure your spouse does not need to put you out. I tell you, you have to pray seriously. So, J. Legzai, he went out to go and lie down there. He said, sit down under the tree. He fell asleep there. Then sometime during the night, ...
32%
6:00
After a few weeks, he's broke. Now, in the few weeks that he had that money, everybody will love him. If any of the children mistakenly have a birthday around that time, they'll say, this is correct, daddy. Anything they want. You say, kill a cow for the birthday. Why not? This boy has been a good b...
31%
48:00
I said, but this is the thing I play every day. They abuse me every day when I play this thing. What just happened was the first time she played it, the first thing I heard was, God, you have been so good to me. I like the way you have been doing me. Money everywhere. Promotion everywhere. And I sai...
31%
1:33:00
If I resign a job, not because I want to get a bigger one, but because I love you and I believe that I'm working according to your pleasure. Lord, let me love you in everything. That's my desire. My desire is to love you. Is to love you. Not to be a God user, but to be a God lover. Lord, I yield my ...
31%
1:28:30
When did we see you? You will not get up for a poor person, then get up for an anointed man. All he will tell you is God bless you. And there's no more than normal God bless you. Nothing, you think he's anointing for wealth. See, those who really, those who are really seeking this material blessings...
30%
12:00
They want to employ you as an officer in a bank. You know what they are going to ask? Are you getting my point? Therefore, you wear a particular kind of suit, a particular kind of tie. You want to pass across a kind of image. But this man didn't tell them why he was doing what he was doing. They tho...
38%
34:30
that will give you one billionaire to spread the gospel all over the world. Right now, they threat to hear the word of the kingdom and they threat back home. Right now, they can't change their shirts because God, this is how God is. It is that he has blessed you. After he causes your wife to conceiv...
34%
9:00
Let's start from 12. It says, so he said, a noble man went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself and then return. And he caught 10 of his slaves and gave them 10 minas, or 10 pounds of silver, and said to them, do business with this until I come. Now, so as to save time, I will jump ...
34%
7:30
And the battle is not to the warriors or the strong, King James says, my version is a new American standard. And neither is bread to the wise, nor wealth to the discerning, nor favor to men of ability. For time and chance overtake them all. That is, they plan their own things, But the events of life...
34%
10:30
of miners, money to 10 different ones of his servants. The reason why he did that is that he didn't tell them why he was doing it. He just told them, do business with this. I like that expression in my Bible, until I come back. He didn't tell them why. He just said, do business with this until I com...
32%
36:00
In the name of Jesus, I break the bounds of poverty. In the name of Jesus, I break the bounds of mercy. In the name of Jesus. God used me to conceive something for a group of friends recently. I told my wife, I said, there was a sign. In my opinion, there was a sign. The banking and profiting. So wh...
31%
15:00
but that it was an overflow of what was inside his heart. A lot of us want to utter when there is nothing inside. Are you getting what I'm saying? Listen, that is what is called double-mindedness. You say one thing, you expect another. Follow what I'm saying. Before you will say, and it will come to...
31%
33:00
You are praying for the missionaries in Rwanda. Listen, bros, I won't join you. Nothing wrong with it, though. Maybe you belong to a group of people that God gave a burden to cry about Rwanda. But right now, the missionaries in Lagos worry me more than the missionaries in Rwanda. See, I mean what I'...
31%
4:30
Are you following my point? That is, the one who is blessed is the one that right now God is keeping quiet concerning him. But the vision of God, the plan of God for his heart, for the person's life, is being Christialized. The one that God will aim. Listen, you can never predict what tomorrow will ...
30%