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e ing to a place you are not supposed to get to.
The problem is that we like to think we can use
these things to control every detail of life when
actually God has not given us that privilege or
duty.
Women have been counselled not to marry a non-
tither, as they are thieves, that they will continu...
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t of a proportion of one's
income as a part of worship was only found as part
of the laws of Moses. It never occurred anywhere in
* Mal 3:10
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the scriptures before or after the Law. All who gave
gifts in those times outside the law were che...
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does not make these things compulsory. Giving
10% of your income, in what we call tithing, is not
compulsory; any amount that your heart freely
gives to any cause is what He accepts.
Some say that a tenth of your income belongs to
God, and must be given to Him as a ma er of
priority. Now, that...
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% belonged to God, but a
Christian cannot say so and be correct. Some say it
is to be a starting point for generosity. In that case, it
is good, but it makes it a suggestion and not a
compulsory idea.
In most practical cases, a generous giver will give
far more than that proportion anyway, consider...
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to eat
and drink whatever it was that they liked; the only
rule was that they had to finish the whole tithe.*
Interestingly enough, that was the primary way the
tithe was spent under the Old Covenant.
Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be
conceited or to fix their hope on the un...
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studying the following por ons of the
scriptures: Deut 14: 22-28; Gen 14:19, 20; Gen 28:20-22; Mal 3:10.
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• Love for the poor and needy.
Anyone who takes care to do the above is fully
engaged in the spirit of tithing. The New Testament...
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ings and to men
of God, it is not because they are poor, but because
you are commanded to honour them. Everyone
loves a gift, even if they have already. Give to them
and they will bless you in return.
Many people, because they believe that their
parents are rich, keep taking from rather than
* 2 C...
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possible, each person
should give as they earn.
On every Lord's Day, each of you should put aside some
amount of money in relation to what you have earned
and save it for this offering. 1 Cor 16:2 NLT
If you are a monthly earner, then give your major
offerings monthly. Give to your church and also t...
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s His children. I am quite aware
that things like praise and thanksgiving are gifts
unto the Lord but here our focus is on giving of
material things.
The various ways of giving to God are as follows.
1. The Work of Ministry
Whenever the work of propagating the gospel is
being done, giving to it is...
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others.
God's Order – Seed and Bread
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food
will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and
increase the harvest of your righteousness. 2 Cor 9:10
Usually, anything God sends you has two
parts—seed and bread. The bread is the portion you
consume ...
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Psa 68:5
The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the
fatherless and the widow. Psa 146:9
One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD,
and He will repay him for his good deed. Prov 19:17
We need to know that whatever we do for the poor
is something that we are offering to the Lord. God...
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ches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat
from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his
labor; this is the gift of God. Eccl 5:19
A Covenant of Service 77
I have seen people who will give anything to
anybody but will not buy themselves even good
clothes...
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do not pick
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up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the
foreigners living among you. I am the Lord your God.
Lev 23:22 NLT
The Lord commanded His people to leave portions
of their fields unharvested. He also forbad them
fr...
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rding to your ability.
Tradition and First Fruits
There is a practice that is traditional in parts of
Nigeria which I pray we never lose. The spiritual
concept behind it is what I am expounding here.
It is customary for a young man or woman to give
the first wage earned (usually the first month's
2...
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e sowing corn. Some give out their old
cars just because they want God to return it as a new
one. Some will change naira to dollars and then use
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the la er as an offering in church. The reason is so
that God can pay them back in dollars. They kn...
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do not
understand think that it is because they have too
much money. The truth is that their faith is in God
and their main concern is to do the will of God; that
is why they give of their substance.
If you are one that is prone to doing such good,
please I implore you to continue and to disregard
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and material resources. For us, these things
do not validate us, they do not measure our worth,
and they do not determine if we are successful or
not. We see them as tools to serve the purpose of
God.
The purpose of wealth, as we have seen again and
again, is to be a blessing to others and to human...
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hat
you have heard.* All knowledge does is to puff you
up and deceive you into thinking you believe what
you really don't. The only way by which you can
know what you really believe is by your actions.
* Jam 1:22
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The Art Of
Giving To God ...
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of giving. We can
therefore say the other people got crumbs of power
but she got a substance of power.
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the
firstfruits of all thine increase. Prov 3:9 KJV
A substance is what you give to someone the Lord
has commanded you to honour. If you are giving to
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ed in life's
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ba les. Now that you have se led on your firm
ground, you must turn back to those places and
offer an offering to God on those altars.
Your father or uncle who paid your way through
school is more deserving of your first salary than
y...
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omes and to sponsor a poor child's
* Heb 7:7
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schooling are all given to the Lord and are not
inferior to giving to the work of ministry.
"Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come,
you who are blessed of My Father, inherit th...
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ers mean nothing! All I do
at those times when I'm asked to do so in church
services is just to give Him thanks for the ability He
has given me to give and for the faith that does not
trust in riches.
People are often encouraged to give their offering a
name before they give it; this name is suppose...
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d work.
He sca ered abroad, he gave to the poor, his
righteousness endures forever. 2 Cor 9:9
God will multiply his seed for sowing and increase
the harvest of his righteous deeds of liberal giving.
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for
food, will supply and multiply your seed for s...
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used to do a similar thing by giving to the poor.
The only other thing He did for them was to preach
the gospel to them. He never tried to get beggars off
the streets—it was not part of His assignment.
We tend to think sometimes that we can make a
poor man rich just by deciding to. No, you can't;
po...
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It is a product of our love for and trust in God.
Anyone who does not love God cannot effectively
lay up treasure in heaven. It is that confidence in
God that makes the child of God easily generous.
Another point to remember is that faith must work
together with love.* If you do not love the plac...
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er mites* and
definitely the thing with the widow of Zarephath
(who we shall examine shortly). It is the faith that
God is honouring and not the gift itself. God looks
at the heart and not the outside.
If you look at the case of the rich young ruler that
came to Jesus, the Lord wanted Him to be free...
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our that
makes it grow.
The first servant reported, 'Master, I invested your
money and made ten times the original amount!' 'Well
done!' the king exclaimed. 'You are a good servant….
Luke 19:16-17 NLT
As we have come to understand, what the Lord
doesn't want is the a itude of laying up money.
Our t...
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hat
that would not have been enough. The Lord's
emphasis was not just on giving God glory but on
turning back to do it.
“Was no one found who turned back to give glory to God,
except this foreigner?”
In my book, Great Faith Can Be Yours, I told a story
about a man of God who was called upon to
min...
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muddy water. The loaves were ruined. The
woman bent down, grabbed a nearby
sympathizer's hand and began to weep on it. It was
clear that she couldn't afford to take that loss for she
was a pe y trader.
My friend turned to me and said, “Are you thinking
what I am thinking?” I nodded. We estimated the...
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ew Covenant is the spreading
of the gospel of Jesus and the building up of the
saints of God. The growth of the temple of God on
* 1 Chrn 29:1-5
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the earth, which is the body of Christ, is by the
preaching of the word for the conversion of sinn...
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of poverty.
I will love you to go to the Lord in prayer at this
time, armed with the knowledge of the facts in this
chapter, and pledge to live your life within the
boundaries of this vow of poverty.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.
* 1 Tim 6:10
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of God which is yours in
abundance through the Lord Jesus Christ. Here,
your confidence for answered prayers is only
because you know the love of God and the work of
Jesus on your behalf. That is all.
I remember a conversation I had with a brother
while I was still a student in the university. A
pro...
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* For more on the ma er of giving to ministry and ministers, please
read my book, 'So, Who Will Pay For This?'
free e-book from pastor.ng
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The Art Of
Giving To God – 2
N ow, the forms of giving to the Lord we
examined in the previous chapter are very
import...
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uching his
life (recall that the Lord specifically forbade him
from killing Job).* Treasure in heaven preserves the
life of the one who owns it. It is something that we
must consciously seek to lay up.
It Must Be Bought
The Lord Jesus explained that the way by which
one lays up treasure in heaven is...
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clude giving; He condemned the practice of some
people who use the excuse of vowing what they
have to God to not give to their parents. He said
they were cancelling the word of God by those
practices.
You skillfully sidestep God's law in order to hold on to
your own tradition. For instance, Moses g...
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t the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of male goats? Psa 50:10-13
Any gift that will be pleasing to Him must be given
in accordance with His instructions. It is obedience
that actually pleases Him.
Please recall the case of Saul, how the Lord
instructed him to totally destroy the Amalekites
and ...
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things for God. God checks our motives.
I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to
give to each man according to his ways, according to the
results of his deeds. Jer 17:10
Allow me to set a few things straight.
The Law of Righteousness
Righteousness means to be accepte...
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otive behind what you do.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Ma 5:7
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…for those who honor Me I will honor. 1 Sam 2:30
It is a spiritual seed that counts. Honour and mercy
may manifest in different kinds of physical se...
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rvest for His sacrifice, but
His aim in giving Himself as a sacrifice was not at
all for His own la er gain; He was already great and
He couldn't ever be greater than He was before He
came to the earth.
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will
see His offspring, He will prolong His days,...
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our prayers. The reason He
answers your prayer is purely because of His love
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for you; it has nothing to do with your 'seed'
planted beforehand.
A Sign of Faith
Being a habitual giver is a result of faith—indeed it
is a sign of faith. For some...
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il 4:18 NLT
It was in response to this kind of dedication to the
Lord that Paul wrote that very famous line, that
“My God will supply all your needs according to His
riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
It is a fact that every work of God has a reward. The
reward tied to the ministry of preaching is ...
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because of his faith, which means that he has trust
that God is taking care of everything about his own
life. He is not afraid of tomorrow.
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Grace and Truth, the Basis of Cheerfulness
Being a cheerful giver is a result of the
transformatio...
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r, I invested your
money and made ten times the original amount!' 'Well
done!' the king exclaimed. 'You are a good servant. You
have been faithful with the li le I entrusted to you…'
Luke 19:16-17 NLT
God is pleased when we have the desire to be
fruitful. He wants to make us fruitful. He wants us
t...
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ng on the earth is temporal and
has uses determined by God.
But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus
Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to
return as our Savior. Phil 3:20 NLT
So, our hearts are on the things of heaven. We
know, however, that when Jesus comes, He will
check...
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the
mercy the Lord has shown to him in what he has.
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He is always full of thanksgiving and for this
reason he is forever ready to share.
A cheerful giver has a mentality that he is above
only and not beneath, and so is liberal in giving...
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ations as working and should expect to get
'paid' for it. This is what is meant by “the plowman
ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope
of sharing the crops.” It is a ma er of right.
Now, there were times that he and his co-workers
took up secular jobs, but it was a ma er of forgo...
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ces which have a positive impact on
the lives of people and on the environment. Money
is not wealth but may be used to measure it. It is
nothing unless it is a reflection of true wealth being
produced.
Most crooks and uninformed worldly people just
want money, but truly successful people have a
prod...
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parison,
while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen. 2 Cor 4:16-18
* Gen 8:22, 2 Cor 9:6, Luke 6:38
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The knowledge of the spiritual law of sowing and
reaping makes it possible for you to see the thin...
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to marry and a comment that
* Prov 19:6
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slipped from the fiancée's mouth showed that he
had not changed. I wondered why she was
marrying him.
You may wonder what such people do with their
money, and I will tell you. They love to count their
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Chapter 11: Rich Toward God ..............................143
Chapter 12: Why We Give to God........................151
Chapter 13: How to Receive from God ...............165
Chapter 14: God’s Love and the Cheerful
Giver .......................................................
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being disobedient and are missing out of
the blessing of God. If a minister has been a blessing
to you, then return to him a gift of material things.
Do it again and again; you will be blessed for it.
How was Jesus sustained in His ministry on the
earth? He and His disciples did not survive on
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h
the aim of receiving. By doing this, they miss a
major point which we saw earlier, which is that
motive counts with God. The motive for such giving
is therefore selfish, and cannot be blessed by God.
See, if love for God, for the people of God and the
work of God is not your motivation for giving,...
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he implication of “be fruitful and
multiply.” You are first fruitful in what the Lord has
given you as your own personal seed, then you
multiply by planting the seeds from your increase
here and there.
As an example, you may be fruitful as an author,
and from the money that comes to you as you do
yo...
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you, but who would not be able to afford
such on his income or allowance. Sometimes, you
may sell it to someone but at a very reduced price,
just to give the person the feeling of having
purchased it.
I remember once a young man who asked to buy an
old car I had. He later testified that he was led by...
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sends it through someone. He holds that
person accountable for delivery to the place where
the thing is needed. God is looking all the time for
faithful people who will deliver as appropriate.
Everything God places in your hands has specific
intended uses, and it is faithfulness to use them as
appro...
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ould learn to honour ministers. Paul had to tackle
this question at a time to se le the issue of ministers,
secular jobs and their rights to the support of the
saints. Here is a quote of what he said.
Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain
from working? Who at any time serves as a so...
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ve been sent to the
business world. This is how the influence of
righteousness will spread. It is the leaven principle.
* Eph 4:12
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More Than Church Activities
We Christians often forget the job outside the
church which the Lord g...
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y life and you
will be doing God service if you use some of the
money He has given you to do just that, among
other things.
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The Giving Lifestyle - 1
It is More Blessed
I believe one of the main purposes of this book is
to get us all as believers into the givi...
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y carried the ark of God on the new cart from
the house of Abinadab; Uzza and Ahio drove the
cart. Everyone was celebrating, but…
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When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza
put out his hand to hold the ark, because the...
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and I came to the conclusion that that was
not necessary. You see, giving is not about our
sense of accomplishment but about helping the
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person who needs it. A refugee is unlikely to be
interested in a pair of fancy shoes that cannot
wi...
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Jerusalem.” Zech 1:17
So, we have to do the good works associated with
spreading the kingdom. Paul said we will abound
unto every good work. For doing those great
works, we will have super-abundance.
Poor or just-sufficient people cannot give
scholarships to the poor nor can they adopt orphan
babies...
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offering the help that he can give. Jesus was such a
person; He often saw the needy and was moved by
compassion.
The labour of love, together with the work of faith,
is what the Lord rewards.
False Hope Corrupts Good Works
Just as faith is the confidence that stimulates giving,
a major reason w...
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. Your part is that of faithfulness, faith
and patience. Patience means to continue to do
what is right before the Lord no ma er how long it
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takes for any reward to come. Be faithful in giving
and leave the rest to the Lord.
I mentioned e...
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rom the
pulpit. The surest way to lose many during a
message is for the preacher to start talking about
money. They feel this way, not because they are
wicked, but because they think too much emphasis
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has been laid on the subject. This...
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is a generous spender.
The Lord has always emphasized on blessing
people in such abundant measure that they will
have much more than they can use or even
effectively store. He said to His people that…
…I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour
* Mark 14:6
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very commendable customs
in this regard. One example is that of giving gifts to
couples ge ing married. Another one is the custom
of giving gifts to new babies. These are common but
very good customs.
Now there is a custom we have in Nigeria which I
have deliberately stopped participating in becaus...
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I believe this word; it gives me confidence for the
future; I am not afraid. He has said, “do not worry
about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each
day has enough trouble of its own.”*
This is the reason I can relax. Jesus is saying here
that the Father will take care of all that I ...
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s rewarded by God. They call it seed-
sowing. No, that is not true Christianity.
In Christ, every true believer has been made to be a
liberal giver.
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Conclusion
H aving read all this, the summary in a few
words is to fear the Lord, obey His
comm...
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lking in the
love of God and how to interpret the scriptures
accurately on certain ma ers. Apparently, that did
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not sit well with some. Many however discovered
the liberty of the Spirit from it.
Those truths are still in this book; I have not had any
cause to change them over the years. I bel...
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ly cons tute themselves into heavy loads for the children to
carry, making excessive demands on them; this is not what the Lord
is suppor ng.
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person, but since you cannot see God and you want
to give to Him, then the person that He used is ...
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ood and faithful
servant. You have been faithful in handling this small
amount, so now I will give you many more
responsibilities.' Ma 25:23 NLT
This principle was demonstrated in the life of
Joseph.
Joseph was called of God to be a ruler, not to lord it
over people but to preserve lives. You see,...
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s life is not his own but must be lived in
a manner that is glorifying to the Lord.
You understand therefore that this person cannot
help but be a cheerful giver; after all, the money is
not his own.
Not Trusting in Money
This person knows that he or she has no special
advantages just because he h...
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Jesus, was that he laid up treasure for himself on the
earth and was not rich toward God.
It is clear from this parable that the opposite of
storing up treasure on the earth is being rich toward
God.
Now if you read the rest of that chapter of Luke,
you will find that the Lord told His disciples ma...
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ive to God so He can answer us. It is an
insult on the blood of Jesus and the work of Christ
on the cross to give something to God hoping that it
will make Him answer your prayers and meet your
needs.
God is our Father. We a ained that relationship
through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ. No real
Fa...
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e is to be your security for tomorrow. Your sense
of self-worth must come from your relationship
with Him. Knowing Him is what you may boast
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about—that is to be your confidence.* You must
understand that there is nothing the future can
frig...
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I, the LORD, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds. Jer 17:10
You see that a man's deed does not stand by itself in
the presence of the Lord but is judged in view of
what is in his heart. The reason...
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nts
would come through Isaac. So, he considered that
God was able to raise him up from the dead even if
the young man had to die.* It was a work of faith,
and it caused the Lord to swear to bless him.
By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you
have done this thing and have not withheld ...
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to God 155
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially
for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is
worse than an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5:8
We all do these works as a natural outflow of the
faith in our hearts. We are not trying to a ain
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have an eternal abode with God. It is the guarantee
that we will not be condemned with the devil and
his angels.* This is the most important form of
prosperity and the foundation of the other levels.
The next level of prosperity is that of the soul. It is a
prosperity of the heart and mind. It is t...
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o the word of
God. God rewards actions of faith.
Anytime God makes a demand on you by His word
and you obey, it is called the work of faith. This
widow believed the prophet of God and she
prospered.*
Labour of Love
We have already seen that love is a major valid
motivation for giving.
* Note also ...
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s that we fulfil and we are
judged to be faithful as servants of the Lord.
* Gal 6:6
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Now, there is another kind of seed that I need to
point out.
Creators of Wealth
You see, most times that God wants to give
anything into the earth, it comes as...
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Power Belongs to God 61
…and He died for all, so that they who live might no
longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose
again on their behalf. 2 Cor 5:15
As we shall see in a short while, God's abundance
will be released only upon those who have go en
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succeed. It is a spiritual substance
which confers upon a person the power of
fruitfulness and productivity. What Jesus is telling
us here is that the giver has more spiritual power
than the receiver.
A blessing does not only affect your finances but
also other parts of your life. It affects your heal...
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oung man that the Lord said should go
sell all that he had could not do. He did not have
this vow of poverty working in his life.
* Prov 18:11
The Vow of Poverty 133
Also, I recently heard the story of a young man
who, together with his friends and associates, own...
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t will own one because of you. This
will be a working person who can maintain the car.
Someone will own a house because of your
generosity.
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The Spirit of Ruth
Now, if you are in the Ruth stage of life, please don't
be ashamed to partake o...
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esources, which Paul called uncertain riches; I was
not trusting in God. I may have been praying, but
there was much unbelief in the picture.
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As soon as I realized this, I immediately took of the
money I had gathered and began to give out. ...
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his life..." 1 Sam 1:11
She consecrated the child to the Lord even before he
was born. By that dedication, she fi ed herself into
*Isa 6:8
A Covenant of Service 73
the order of God for His covenant people. God's
covenant people are people chosen to serve the
Lord...
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hings control the physical; the treasure
one has in heaven is fundamental to sustaining the
treasure on the earth. Treasure in heaven causes
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more to be produced on the earth and it preserves
the life of the owner of the treasure.
As a tru...
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rything, you may
have an abundance for every good deed… you will be
* 2 Cor 8:1,2
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enriched in everything for all liberality… 2 Cor 9:8,11
If you read the story of Elisha, you will notice that
God used a wealthy family to take care of hi...
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out clothing and in need of
daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be
warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what
is necessary for their body, what use is that? Jam 2:15-16
Even when you are not in a position to solve the
whole problem for someone, do what is in your
pow...
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keep
His commandments and do the things that are pleasing
in His sight. 1 John 3:22
And this is the confidence which we have before Him,
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that, if we ask anything according to His will, He
hears us. And if we know that He hears us in wha...
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surprised to see what the blessing of the Lord can
turn them out to be.
But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives
you the ability to produce wealth.
Friends, plant that seed in that vision. If it is born of
God, it will overcome. I am of the opini...
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witnessed the excesses of some preachers. We
should rather learn the balance of the word of God
on the subject. That is my aim in the following
chapters of this book.
Caution!
I understand that such a title as this book has will
a ract many covetous and worldly Christians, but
the work is not f...
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, and according to
Cheerful Givers and The Work of Faith 191
the promise of Jesus, he will receive.* This is why he
ties nothing to his gifts—it is not necessary; he just
loves the Lord.
I have described above the kind of person who is a
cheerful giver in the sight of the Lord. Whethe...
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* The second parable is in Ma 25
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master gave equal amounts to his servants as he
was leaving, and he commanded them to each use
it well.
He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went to a distant
country to receive a kingdom for himself, ...
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liever with the
word of God until his own thoughts, desires and
a ributes are exactly like that of the Lord Jesus
Himself. The result is that he does the will of God
naturally, without any compulsion.
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more than
enough for all good works. You are able to meet
needs that are not your own. To use the words of
Paul, it is having all sufficiency in everything and
having an abundance for every good deed.*
However, when you take a vow of poverty, you are
acknowledging and affirming that what you seem
to ow...
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is He
who is giving you power to make wealth…
As long as the person remembers and so gives all
the glory to God, that power will abide with him. If
he forgets, he stands the chance of losing it all.
A major way to constantly remember the Lord as
the source is in proper use of the wealth. Such a on...
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one with less material resources
is not necessarily inferior to the one with more.
Each person has a different assignment for their
life, and each must be careful to focus on and fulfil
the assignment.
What I am saying is that, as a child of God, you
cannot just decide to be rich and work hard to get...
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always a reward
tied to any discharge of the work of the ministry;
that 'prophet's reward' is for everyone who
partakes in the discharge of that assignment, both
the prophet and those who give to him.
The story of the Shunammite woman in 2 Kings
Chapter 4 illustrates it well. This woman used to
inv...
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lar season of life. Faith
is not designed to accommodate the pride of life.
Ruth's faith was shown in how she, with Naomi,
accepted her humble state and followed God's
order for supernatural supplies.
Circumstances can happen to anyone, and indeed it
is how God sometimes humbles people. He wants
yo...
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money just so you will
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have something to eat; He gave it so that you can
have resources to sow into the land and make the
land productive.
The man with the power of wealth is the one who
speaks in the world of economics and in the
markets...
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unnecessary. Wealth is an
endowment; it is not a product of struggles. You
can struggle for daily bread and a li le bit of extra,
but great wealth has to be given to you by a power
that is beyond you.
I want you to know at this time that God's covenant
with you is that kind that can take a person i...
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. She replied, “They told us that is
how to prosper.” Poor girl! She was deceived. I told
her God had heard her prayers and so sent her to
me for deliverance—deliverance by the knowledge
of the truth.
Those who give to get are not at all cheerful givers;
all they are doing is investing, and not giv...
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that saved us, and that grace
does many things for us as part of the salvation
package. Salvation includes ending poverty and
lack, and bringing the abundance of divine
provision to us. It is wri en:
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that
always having all sufficiency in everything,...
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r li le, then they will
not give much out of their abundance. It is in the
A Covenant of Service 83
li le that you will demonstrate what you will do
with the abundance.
This is why those who are not givers may not
receive abundant blessings from the Lord. It is not
t...
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ather He looks at the inward person,
which is the heart. The true person is in how the
heart operates.**
* 1 Sam 16:7
** 1 Pet 3:4, Prov 23:7
God’s Love and The Cheerful Giver 179
So, when the Lord describes a cheerful giver, He is
not describing external a ributes. He does not...
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d but it is inferior to giving. On the
other hand, taking is a terrible habit. No one loves
the company of anyone who is always taking from
them.
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You see, giving is one of the foundations of life.
Anyone that does not give does not radiate life...
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the power
to get wealth comes in many forms. The Lord may
give someone the ability to make inventions that
* Gen 12:1, Gen 28:15, 1 Kgs 17:8
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will constitute huge wealth. He may bless through
creative ability in the arts, such as music. It m...
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f
poverty is supposed to be. I was indeed surprised
to see that it was perfectly in line with the principles
of being a disciple of Christ, as I understood it. To
me, it was a sound biblical teaching.
I found out that, if taken in the proper light and
applied correctly, it is not a vow reserved for...
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He lives and does not
die. He seems to be able to gain the earth and
retains his soul. He lies down and sleeps because
the Lord alone causes him to dwell in prosperity.
It is the power to get wealth.
Examples
To show the way this power to get wealth works, I
will tell a story of a brother. He test...
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eople—the church. That is His first
choice.
A Covenant of Prosperity 19
Now, the summary of the purpose of God on the
earth is the establishment of His kingdom
everywhere.
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of
our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall re...
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o make them materially
prosperous. We need to go beyond just telling
ourselves that we believe in prosperity; we need to
know that the power of God to make His children
abundant in goods is available.
Let us be clear that we are discussing the viewpoint
of the Lord and not that of the world. Wealth...
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gineering, into
law, into medicine, and into the creation of wealth.
That is when we will see what is called the glory of
God.
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The Vow of Poverty
M any years ago, as a young student of the
word under the Word of Faith movement, I
le...
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around you.
And indeed if they had been thinking of that country
from which they went out, they would have had
opportunity to return. Heb 11:15
The Vow of Prosperity 103
How you think decides the opportunities that come
to you. If you think in accordance with the
abund...
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Dr. Bankole Olusina, fondly called Pastor Bankie, is a
teacher of the Word of God. He teaches from the platform of
Kingdom-Word Ministries. The emphasis of his teachings is
the separation of the church from the world by the obedience
to the truths of Go...
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eanings, such as old
clothes. Gleanings, in my understanding and
personal practice, are different from crumbs, and
are not meant primarily for beggars, but one may
occasionally allow them have of them.
A beggar begs from many and is therefore not your
full responsibility; you are to give to him a li...
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You do not have to drive a hard
bargain with a low-paid worker. You don't have to
extract all the value in your purchases for yourself.
When you pay more than a labourer's due wages, it
is gleaning.
When you give out your used clothes, which are
still good enough for you to wear, it is gleaning.
P...
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is preach the gospel
and the people that hear it are moved by the Spirit
to give generously to them. They do not cajole
anyone, neither do they have to use specially
designed fables to raise offerings.
You have to understand that the person that has the
power to get wealth sleeps well. This power is...
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ed. The
things around him seem to love to cooperate to
make him succeed. Everywhere may be dry, but
when he plants, it begins to rain.
The story of Isaac in Genesis 26 is a good
illustration of this.
There was famine in the land, so Isaac went to Gerar
in the land of the Philistines. There the Lor...
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d that He will wipe out lack from
your life, and make you so abundant that you will
be helping others. You must accept that He is taking
you somewhere great. You must forsake the lies of
the ignorant.
Yes, we may have trying times as part of the trial of
our faith, but we must never think that pove...
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ore to your fathers, as
it is this day. Deut 8:18
What God gives is the power to make wealth. The
literal meaning of that word wealth is strength. It is
the material ability to get great things done.
Many Christians claim to believe in prosperity but
do not yet fully grasp that there is a realm in...
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When the Lord gave the Israelites the land He
promised to their ancestors, He told them to go in
and take possession of it. It was not going to fall into
their arms just because they came near there.
“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you
cross over the Jordan into the land of Cana...
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ual and physical exhaustion. He has
literally laid down his life for others, howbeit
unknowingly. The scripture is then fulfilled that
says, “He amasses riches and does not know who will
gather them.”*
Beware lest it be that you are burning up your soul-
life in exchange for material wealth. It may ...
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as in them, and it grew wild
and out of control. That is why they wandered from
the faith. That is why they look like children of the
devil.
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It is important that we bear in mind that the seed of
the love of money is in many more people tha...
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s natural
background or environmental condition; it is an
endowment from God. Either He gives it, or He
does not. You cannot lay claim to it because you
think you are smart or you are strong. Only God
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decides who He will give it to. Ther...
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tree." Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the
Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham,
so that we who are believers might receive the promised
Holy Spirit through faith. Gal 3:13-14
Because of Christ Jesus, no one is more blessed than
another, but all are blessed only in Christ.
S...
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e health of
the drinkers of it. God caused him to prosper. He
and his descendants became renowned for their
acts of great generosity. Their wealth sponsored
many missionaries and took care of charity.
I am telling his story to bring a point out. I read that
because of his philanthropy and the use o...
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to love money and put their
hands into evil. It is all a product of a lack of
understanding. Abraham did not love money nor
did he do evil, yet God made him very great. That
was the story of Job, too.
There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of
Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete int...
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is
faithful to God. It is not Christian to give because
you are broke and want to get, but you can give
despite the fact that you are broke knowing that
God is faithful. It is all a ma er of a itude.
What a child of God must do in the ma er of good
works is to make giving a habit. It is the secret ...
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we all
understand that he wants her for himself, for
example in marriage, because he feels strongly that
marrying her will bring him much joy and
happiness. So, basically, human love is self-
centred.
God's Love
Now, God's love is different. If the Lord says that
He loves something or someone, He is...
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his came as a result of the fact that hope
is set on God and not on those material things that
the fellow possesses. Hope is a person's
expectation. It is a result of evidence or information
believed.
The wealth that a man has speaks to him; it tells him
what his future will be like. If he is a ric...
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eful and in it you are
faithful. It also helps you know deep inside that He
is planning to increase you at a due time—the time
He will be 'back.'
“Do business with this until I come back.” Luke 19:13
A complacent person, on the other hand, is the
person who buries the talent the master gave him.
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finitely
favoured before Him.
We also see that when the Lord loved Jacob, as it is
wri en, “…Jacob have I loved…”, He gave him the
blessing and appointed him a superior forever
above his brother Esau.
This tells me that the cheerful giver, who God loves,
is above only and not beneath. He, like Solo...
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e opportunities and righteously earn huge
sums of money. I saw people use information and
earn what I could only earn after some ten years of
working as a young doctor, and they did it in a few
weeks.
See, I did not get anything materially at that time; in
fact, it was a season in which I was on a ...
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e late one morning, smoking a
pipe.
“Why are you not out fishing?” he asked.
“Because I have already caught enough fish,” came
the reply.
“Go and catch more fish,” he advised.
“What would I do with it?”
The rich man went on to explain to this man how he
could sell the excess fish and possibly buy an e...
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to see that they are just
walking directly out of the will of God.
Do you want a rich husband? Love the Lord and
marry a man that loves Him too, and the Lord will
cause you both to prosper together.
Let me tell you something about wealth: it has
wings and it can fly! Make sure that God is causing
i...
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arn from
him the path they should follow. Psa 25:12 GNT
A lot of people are living life using wrong principles.
It is called walking in darkness. But that is not to be
our portion as children of God.
The second advantage we have as believers is that
we have the grace to do what is right. Knowing
s...
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ny tree in your father's compound. If
that tree is the problem, it will die from the roots on
its own because of the blessing of God in your life.
That blessing will kill it as it overcomes the curse.
Many times, I hear pastors say they want to deliver
someone from a curse of poverty and bad luck, ...
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een broken
by the shed blood of Christ Jesus. It is part of that
spiritual foundation of prosperity we mentioned in
the previous chapter. This is a fact, no ma er what
your experience might have been.
Curses are Real
Let me state that curses are real. It is not possible to
believe in spiritual thin...
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s to receive the opposite of their
prevailing condition. It was sight to the blind,
release to captives, and freedom to the oppressed. It
follows therefore that, for the poor, it had to be
prosperity.
See, the gospel to the poor is that they can have
God's abundance. Poverty is a curse and is a lon...
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Him (Dt 14:23). Anyone there who wanted to serve God
had to run the errand of delivering the tithes to the
proper places.
It is that spirit behind the law of tithing that Christians
are supposed to learn. The reason is t...
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o the subjects of his
generosity. The true Christian giver is just a messenger
of God.
If you study the laws of Moses, you will see this
principle underlying all the commanded generosity of
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the people. The Lord i...
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nd to persons he is
commanded to honour, such as parents. We will see
more of this in the next chapter.
A similar law to the law of tithing is to be found in the
law of gleaning.
THE LAW OF GLEANING
‘When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall
not reap to the very corners of your ...
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th him. The fact is that
most decent ministers will not demand their rights, just
like Paul wrote in that first letter to the Corinthians, but
Christians must still recognize their duties and do them.
Some only give to preachers like they would give to the
needy, that is because they are poor. No, ...
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n of resources
according to the situations we are faced with. This is as
long as we consciously put the knowledge of truth into
our hearts (which is what you are doing right now by
reading this book).
As I mentioned earlier, many insist that every Christian
must give a tenth of their income to thei...
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e people to go
visit other churches may mean the membership will
reduce. But they are wrong; a man can receive nothing
except it is given to him from above. If God gave them to
you, they will be back.
Let me conclude by saying that there is a duty to rest as
you do the work of God. Plan a restful h...
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ssure from a
preacher who wants him to quickly make a
commitment. If what you will receive is what is in your
mind as you are giving, you are not giving to God but
are essentially throwing away money.
ACHANNEL OF BLESSING
The basic understanding that every believer must have
is that God has appoin...
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tly pursue it. Our giving
must be as instructed in the word of God. You are
working for God when you give as He instructed in His
word.
So, how has He instructed us believers to give?
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WHERE TO GIVE TO GOD
n talking about how to give t...
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paid.
But he is forbidden from charging for his services (even
though some have resorted to charging, for various
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reasons); God expects Christians to voluntarily pay the
people for the service they are doing to th...
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oever else their sponsor is. (This is
the problem with legalism; it easily entraps in
arguments about letters of the law which nobody can
truly win.)
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I explained to the person asking that I do not believe in...
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hatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the
presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your
household. Also you shall not neglect the Levite who is in
your town... Deut 14:26,27
Many times when we celebrate in thanksgiving to the
Lord (like when there is a new child), and we ...
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is a holy man of God. Let's build a small
room for him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, a table, a
chair, and a lamp. Then he will have a place to stay whenever
he comes by.” 2 Kings 4:9-10 NLT
She was not trying to get anything from the prophet; in
fact when he called her to ask what she wou...
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giving is because you have not made it a
matter of importance. I believe that is one of the
ungodly attributes of the natural man which every
Christian must strive to overcome with the Spirit of
God.
That same depraved human nature is expressed often
in life in the fact that most people do not unde...
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ce.
And I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the
grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground
produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your
hands.” Hag 1:9-11
If you read the whole portion of that book of Haggai
you will see that the people were suffering a...
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from
him. He was not just spontaneous, rather he took time
to prepare. Let us follow this example of David.
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Set an ambitious target for your giving. Say to yourself,
“This year I will like to give a million ...
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HOW TO GIVE TO GOD
have outlined the people we should give to as
channels of giving money and material things to
God; what I want to describe next is how to decide
what to give to different people.
Contrary to w...
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both alike will be good. Eccl
11:6 AMP
Whenever you give there is a reward, that is if you do it
with the right motive and in obedience to God's due
order.
So, what are the right motives?
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MOTIVES FOR GIVING
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fulfilment.
Give Him no rest until He establishes...
Pray for your nation.
Pray for your local church.
Pray for your friend.
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Pray for your husband or wife.
Pray for your fiancée.
Pray for those that you love.
It is difficu...
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budget,
just like you budget for your other obligations. Don't
wait till a special offering is being collected. The man
blesses you or has blessed you; go to him and settle your
debt.
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s:
1. The work of the ministry of the Word.
2. The ministers of the word of God.
3. Those who God commanded us to honour,
especially parents.
4. 'Widows of your household.’
5. The poor and needy.
When you divide the portion of your money that is
called seed-for-the-sower to these places, then ...
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hildren from giving to their parents. Gifts stimulated
by need are different from those stimulated by honour.
When you are honouring God by honouring your
parents, it has little to do with their need.
Of course if you have parents who are in need, it means
your responsibility now has a double-barre...
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ysical
law does not accept spiritual seed; for example you
cannot sow words into your farm, or good deeds or
prayer, and expect corn to come to fruit. You must sow
physical corn to reap physical corn.
On the spiritual side the same principle applies; you
cannot sow physical things into the realm of...
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. Love for God is actually defined
by obedience to His commandments and His precepts;
therefore a person who is serving God in the area of
giving is using his money as the Lord desires that he
should.
One thing many Christians do not realize is that the
only thing that we can actually give to God i...
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ians in Phil 4:19.
Every Christian who has anything must be actively
financially involved in the propagation of the word of
God as one of the fundamental things in their lives. It is
the work of God!
Next, let us see the second way of giving as working for
God.
THE MINISTERS OF THE WORD OF GOD
A...
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close relatives who are
inneed. It is all those poor close relatives that I refer to as
‘widows of your household.’ Please bear in mind that
we, as Christians, are to practice piety in regard to them.
It’s not an accident, or the fact that you are smarter than
all else, that made you richer and ear...
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ch one of us take a good portion
of the money in our pockets and make the sponsorship
of the gospel a project.
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LET US PREPARE
Notice that I said it is to be a project. One of the reasons
why we don't have the so-called offer...
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sonal
and managerial discipline on the part of the minister,
we will discover that begging is not necessary.
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This is why I never push for offerings or make pleas for
donations either for myself or for Kingdo...
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ong and
does not produce any profit with God. Unfortunately it
is that wrong motive that is being taught in many places
today.
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The practice of giving so that you may receive is not
godly; it is selfish and is not acceptable b...
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amous but mostly misinterpreted
statement:
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for
those of his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse
than an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5:8-9
We usually quote this to instruct men to take care of
their wives and children, but that is a misi...
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o not
come only to those who want to do them but also to
anyone engaged in things which constitute their roots.
This is what Paul was explaining to Timothy when he
was warning concerning covetousness.
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by
longing for it have wandered awa...
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s
purposes. You will deny yourself certain pleasures and
human promotions so that you can take hold of the
Spirit. It is those things that are the real tests of your
seriousness.
FAKE CONSCIENCE BALM
I have found out that many people use this working-
for-God thing as a form of atonement for their...
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tian.
I think it will be perfect to end this chapter with a
Biblical example of secular work as God's work.
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GOD AND POLITICAL POWER
We all acknowledge and take example from the life of
Joseph, as being an example of a man of God. ...
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n his serving; or he who
teaches, in his teaching; or he who exhorts, in his exhortation;
he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he
who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. Rom 12:6-8
In the previous section, my emphasis was to help us
understand that secular work is part of God's ...
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before which we must all
appear, you will be judged a failure. In all the parables
of Jesus about talents and minas, the Lord always asked
the servants to show what they did with what He gave
to them.
In the New American Standard Bible rendering of Luke
19:13, the thought is so beautifully expresse...
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egularly for the teachings
which we hold twice a week at the ministry office, and
that it is as they do this that the external work will
eventually manifest. That is the way it works.
GOOD CO-WORKERS
I like the kind of men that I have, people who love the
teaching more than the work. I have severa...
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rking For God ¢
of Luke; you will see that what the Lord said is “Give
and it will be given...” and not “Give, so that it will be
given...” There is a world of difference between the two
expressions.
“Give and it will be given...” is describing a law of life
while “Give, so that it will be given.....
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We'll answer that in a short while but first let me explain
the meaning of these words: gift, calling, and ministry.
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GIFTS, CALLINGS
AND MINISTRIES
nd since we have gi...
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he use of unrighteous mammon,
who will entrust the true riches to you? And if you have not
been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will
give you that which is your own?” Luke 16:10-13
In the previous chapter we saw that God has a plan for
the world as we know it and that the work o...
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ndment
on the Christian to take a compulsory seventh-day rest,
the principle of rest will manifest in your life if you are
of faith by your taking specific days to rest. It is part of the
work of God.
After God allowed me the understanding concerning
the death of Moses that I shared in the previous...
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Chapter 7: The Word and Spiritual Progress............. 63
SECTION 2: SECULAR WORK IS ALSO GOD'S WORK.
Chapter 8: God’s Plan for the World
Chapter 9: The Lord Checks at the Business Office. 85
Chapter 10: Growth is a Divine Assignment............. 93
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CHAPTER 14
WHAT A CALLING IS
trictly speaking, the word 'calling' is used in the
New Testament to reflect the life and purpose
which the Lord brought us all into according to
His plan. For example, all believers are said to b...
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ur time; abide within the realm of
your calling.
IT's A MATTER OF LONG LIFE
When I say ‘don't die before your time’ I mean it literally.
One of the greatest teachers in my life in the matters of
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God in a manner
pleasing to Him. Among the things explained are:
* Transformation into the image of Christ as the first work of
God for everyone.
* How our secular jobs relate to the service of God.
* Howto pray as a service to God.
* The true role of giving in serving God.
* The place of resti...
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les that they should freely ask
God for whatever they needed and expect answers
simply because the Father loves them (John 16:26,27).
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broadcast. At that time,
Kingdom-Word Ministries was just starting and he so
could not see any organized setup backing me with the
funds. The man was surprised I was paying to preach
the word of God.
I came to the conclusion that many Christians think
there are unseen forces paying bills for minist...
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ification of our beings from all defilement
of flesh and spirit. It is done with the instrument of the
word of God which we pay the greatest attention to.
That is the first and primary work.
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far beyond these proportions I have suggested and
actually do not calculate proportions — they just give.
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THE GIVING MINISTRY
There are persons whose specific ministry from God is
to give; Paul described this ministry in Rom...
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t was always with him. The zeal was consuming
him. He initially tried by his own hands and failed;
afterwards the Lord sent him with His mighty hand.
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ted through us.
It is the work of God and the work of ministry to put
excellence into all that we do.
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SOUL-WINNING TOOLS
Aman came to see me once and he told me that until he
started listening to my messages he did not ...
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r regular jobs and duties. We cannot feign
faithfulness to God by doing well in church because He
does not look there only. He would have first checked
us out at our regular jobs before anywhere else.
One of the things we Christians must learn is that the
Lord has a method for judging those invisib...
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there is an issue I'll like to
tackle. If someone is already in something,
how can he or she decide if that is the right calling, and if
it is not, what can be done to change into the right
calling?
To answer this we must first see why someone may be in
the wrong calling in the first place. The re...
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CHAPTER 11
MIND THE BOUNDARIES
here is one problem that exists in the body of
Christ today, and which many do not realize is a
problem, and this is the problem of breaking of
ranks.
When I say breaking of ranks, what I'm referring to is
when people who are not at all called by th...
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ugh them in the Church, and number
three, what He wants to do through them in the world.
The way by which we do outward work for God is to
use the gifts that He placed inside us so as to bless
people.
There is something that other people need that is found
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f
many.
It is interesting to note that the people who Jesus called
and made apostles were all doing something when he
called them. They were not idle people who were
supposedly waiting upon the Lord.
What I have tried to explain in this chapter is that
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to relax and to take His meals whenever He was in
Bethany. John's gospel testifies of how He loved
Lazarus.
On this particular day the Lord Jesus was around and
Martha was up and about trying to fix a meal ...
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meone
who he hardly knew. I charged him to forget all about
church work and to begin to concentrate on learning,
not for the purpose of working or preaching, but simply
for the purpose of knowing God.
God was calling him to come closer to Him, but he had
been coming closer to service; he had missed...
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believers and I continually make prayers to God for
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them, but the majority of believers still have the
‘mission project’ mentality.
The expression 'mission project’ is one I heard from
Babbie Mason, the gospel musician, who said t...
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to be able to make petitions before
God. Situations sometimes come in life when you are
just without strength even to pray. Like David once said,
the heart can be overwhelmed (Ps 61:2). Eli was tired.
Spiritual exhaustion was what led Solomon to support
idolatry in his latter days. He was never an ...
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postles, and some as prophets, and
some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the
equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building
up of the body of Christ. Eph 4:11-12
What these ministers (apostles, prophets, evangelists,
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in his life, but more importantly it was to keep him
talking while I connected in my spirit with the word of
the Lord for him.
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As he spoke I realized he loved his profession, he was
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st rule to apply to this thing
so as to make prayer unnecessary; all the things I have
explained are to help each person know how to
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approach the throne of God, as Solomon said in
Ecclesiastes 5. The Bible says you are to take word...
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es of the ministry
include weekly Bible classes at the ministry
office, publication of free teaching tracts
and books, radio/TV broadcasts and
organizing teaching seminars in various
towns and cities.
Pastor Bankie's catalogue of audio
messages includes hundreds of messages
which are available on C...
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The senior pastor of the
church called me one day and asked me to choose
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options were presented and I jumped at the one that
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We all need this because
there must be no end to the increase of the government
of Christ; that is the only way by which peace, real and
enduring peace, will come to the earth.
THE HOPE OF THE WORLD
The hope that the world has is for the sons of God to
increase and by their increase drive out the ...
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nds of copies in the initial period of some
months. The tracts were distributed free. The summary
is that my guiding attitude was to exercise my gift as I
am given the opportunity.
EXERCISE YOUR GIFT
This is the point where many people miss it, especially
when their gifts are more secular than spi...
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today were written in those days, and
as at the time of writing this I still have so many
unpublished materials from the same period.
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is my point: root, or seed, is easy to tackle, but fruit
is outside our control. Whatever we desire, we must
observe to tackle it from the root. So it is with working
for God.
THE ROOT OF GOOD WORKS
In all endeavours of life, Jesus declared, only one thing
is needful. It was that thing that Mary c...
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prophets. We just need opened
eyes, and we will see the truth about the Christ in
everything in the Law and the Prophets. After this I
read the book of Isaiah until the pages in my Bible
became brown.
I learnt the role of sufferings in the life of the believer. I
understood for the first time what ...
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CHAPTER 5
HERE IS WORSHIP
ut an hour is coming, and now is, when the true
worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and
truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His
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and expect God to bless it. It is still the
work of God to take care of your parents. We'll see a bit
more about this as we examine the matter of 'widows of
your household.'
WIDOWS OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD
This expression, widows of your household, is derived
from the instructions concerning church
admin...
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The
functional word here is learn. The proper way to serve
God does not come naturally; it is something that we
must make the effort to learn. He said to 'draw near to
listen.' David said it this way:
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of
the LORD. Ps 34:11
He was saying i...
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to know God personally. It is that knowledge and
relationship that provokes the work that you do. You do
Christian work out of love for the brethren and out of
the knowledge of your gifts and calling.
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ons. They think it is
a sign of commitment but it is totally rubbish. These
things offend the Lord.
Read here the verdict of the Lord Jesus on such things.
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THE START
uard your steps as you go to the house of God, and
draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice
of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil.
Eccl 5:1
THE ART OF LEARNING
Learning is the foundation of real spiritual work; our
first emphasis must be to learn. It must no...
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wer, you are rewarded by the Lord
separately from the answer.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who love you.
“May peace be within your walls,
And prosperity within your palaces.”
For the sake of my brothers and my friends...
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God...
Ps ...
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n. The Lord is
watching and is judging us in how we are handling our
secular duties.
And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is
another's, who will give you that which is your own?
True riches is given to those who have proved faithful in
what belongs to another person. In this ...
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from putting in the necessary effort into his studies to
make him succeed. He was thankful the man left.
At other times we are trying to be something to please,
say, our parents. Some are doctors just be...
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eople; it
is then that the Lord will move you into your ministry.
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for
that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. 1
Tim 1:12 KJV
Ministry simply means that God has committed a
specific assignment into your hands; it is almost t...
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his times to explain away his
actions. God says, “Only acknowledge your iniquity!”
The man committing adultery uses his wife's bad
attitude as his excuse. God says, “Only acknowledge
your iniquity!”
One major reason why people try to justify their actions
is that they do not know how to stop doing...
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t must be in the heart of every
child of God as they seek to do any business in this life.
We must forsake the doctrine of I-don't-want-much
which we had held on to supposedly as a matter of
humility.
In my book, Grace to Prosper, [explained that wealth and
prosperity are not about self-pleasure bu...
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PREFACE
he initial edition of this book was first released
in 2009. Before then I had written a few books,
and I have also released some more since then.
However, I consider 'How to Work for God' to be the...
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to a lonely place and rest a while.” (For there were
many people coming and going, and they did not even have
time to eat.) And they went away in the boat to a lonely place
by themselves. Mark 6:30-32
The passage above describes what happened upon the
return of the twelve apostles of the Lord after...
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sleep. Ps 127:2
The productivity of the earth is tied to our allowing the
earth to enjoy sabbath. Everything in life must enjoy its
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sabbath-rest. If we do not allow things enjoy sabbath we
soon lose them. The Lord gave the Promise...
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blood of Jesus. I
do good works because it is my nature to do them. It is
very much like a mother nursing her child; it is the
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nature of the mother, not because she is trying to get
something from the child or the child's fat...
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think he deserved to
be answered as he hardly did anything for God. That
was a real surprise to me, and it was funny too, so I
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laughed very much. He was someone who knew me
well, so l asked him to tell me what my sons do for ...
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tried to
correct, who claim they have a particular gift and I
wonder who lied to them. That very thing that they are
trying to do is what turns people off from them, and yet
they think they can doit.
Ona personal note, before I began to think I could teach,
I heard other people, mostly my seniors, ...
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ave recommended here, he is automatically promoted
to ranks outside his calling. There are many 'pastors' I
have met who are such only by promotion, and this was
given asa reward for diligent service.
Many have been encouraged to forsake their businesses
and professions to head church branches just...
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et and you
will have a reward before God.
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CHAPTER 21
THE RIGHTEOUS
INTERCESSOR
am explaining that the prayer of intercession is
hard work, and a persistent one at that. When yo...
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r ministers for ministers;
they minister to prepare ministers. Every believer is a
minister, either in service or in training.
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matters of the
Law. In all of this he attained many natural advantages
which unfortunately turned out to constitute stumbling
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blocks to his becoming anything in Christ Jesus. There
is a goal that God has set for every single ...
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ally show in our inability to do many things even
though we might be willing still. Itis so easy to overlook
imbibing your vitamins, but the effect will eventually
manifest.
LIKE VITAMIN TO YOUR SOUL
Just like vitamin deficiency in the body, the
manifestation of lack of rest is often not so quickl...
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ptance. They are done as a natural manifestation of
the new life in Christ. You are doing works you were
created to do; they are not done to gain acceptance. Let
me use the following story to explain.
Many years ago my friend and I attended the same
church (that was the church I mentioned that the ...
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their
shoulders, with the poles thereon as Moses had commanded
according to the word of the LORD. 1 Chron 15:12-15
So we see that problems sometimes can be that of the
methods that one is employing.
Once, I heard a message preached by a seasoned elder
in the faith, and he was talking on this calli...
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nd
the cares of this world, we will find Him leading each
one of us automatically into the right place. That is part
of what is meant by ‘He leads me in the path of
righteousness for His name’s sake.”
The Spirit of God will lead you concerning the steps to
take so as to progress from whichever stat...
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people
obviously expected to hear what they were supposed to
do as outward works, but the Lord turned their
attention to the place that the work of God really starts
from — inside.
THE WORKIS BELIEVE
Jesus said that the work of God is to believe. Believing is
something that has to do with the stat...
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teacher and prophet.
He had been a pastor for about twelve years and had
pastored different kinds of churches. At this point he
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was the pastor of the best church he had ever pastored
and was living more comfortably than he had...
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is word, simply go to Him in prayer and acknowledge
that you have a problem in that area. He said all you
have to do is acknowledge (Jer 3:13), and He will take
care of the spiritual healing.
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The problem with people is stubbornness;...
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e ability to teach (a gift) may be
called to teach secular academic work, or to teach the
word of God. The ability to teach is one thing; the field
in which to use it is another.
ITUs NOT IN THE NAME
From what we have seen here, it is obvious that it is
easier to identify a gift than to locate a c...
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e said to the Master, “your mina has made ten
more!” And the Lord called him a good and faithful
servant.
There is a danger in complacency; the servant who
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refused to work so as to multiply that which he was
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Opportunity to minister the word was produced as a
result of teaching a medical subject.
ALIGHT SHINING
You see why it is ministry to live an honest and decent
life, to abhor what is evil and to succeed...
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ernment affairs; but they could find no ground of
accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was
faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be
found in him. Dan 6:3-4
WHERE IT MATTERS
It is interesting to note that the place that the people
around (the unbelievers, as we call them)...
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res, both in your mind and brain, which
you have and others don't. This gift, though spiritual in
foundation, affects your physical body. David
explained it thus:
For Thou didst form my inward parts;
Thou didst weave me in my mother's womb.
I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonde...
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ain is dulled
temporarily, the wounded person is deceived into
thinking that the wound is completely gone. But, of
course, the day will come in which the effects of a deep
unhealed wound will be felt.
THE PROBLEM WITH RELIGION
Religion heals our wounds superficially. We do what we
think pleases God...
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e department of the church he was
working in, but he continued going to that same church
regularly and for a long time too. Some people began to
wonder about his 'newfound freedom,’ as they called it.
Now, am I saying that everyone who learns truth
should stop working in church? No! But for him it ...
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of Christians. If we understand it, we will
tackle ours job with prayer and meditation and not with
the crass un-spirituality that most of us are guilty of.
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TEACHER BY CALLING
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listened to
The Gospel of Abundance by David Oyedepo more than
70 times before I lost the tape. Yet at this time I was
having a craving for something more. I did not even
know what this something was.
It was about this time I told myself that I had to get
involved in ministry work. I must have thou...
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nd in our manner of doing things.
The plan of God is to train us first before employing us
outwardly, and the period of training is considered by
Him as a valid period of working, howbeit spiritually.
Remember my answer to Roseline, the lady who
wanted to know how involved I was in my church then,
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hoice
making process, then God is second or maybe even last,
and once God is not first, consider Him totally absent. In
the words of Oswald J. Smith, “He is either Lord of all or
Heisnot Lord at all.”
Callings demand sacrifice, and if you are not willing to
make the necessary sacrifices you will mi...
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n and
many other outward shows of dedication even if there
is no proof of character improvement and increasing
godliness in the lives of the people. They are interested
in the outward and little else.
Yes, it feels good to have people all around you running
up and down at your command, but you are ...
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ch.
We Christians must stop seeing our jobs merely as the
means of earning money for other things; rather we
must see those normal, everyday jobs as the mission
fields in which we are working for God.
Many people have a limited vision of this mission field
thing. They instantly assume, when they he...
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o God on their behalf, put the Lord to
remembrance concerning His promises and request a
fulfilment.
You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves; and
give Him no rest until He establishes...
It does not require the speaking of big words or much of
praying in tongues (unless the Spirit com...
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e would not be much effect to your
prayer because it is not being backed by a fervency of
spirit. It is the earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of the
righteous man that avails much (James 5:17 AMP).
The Lord Jesus kept awake in intercession for people,
and He is still doing that today. The Bible ...
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e
step into the world.
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
among whom ye shine as lights in the world. Phil 2:15 KJV
Please notice that the shining of the child of God is not in
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in those accounts
happened literally in the course of everyday life. Let us
not forget what I explained earlier about Joseph, that he
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it means to work for God and
be free from every kind of bondage to human ideas. I
pray that no one will exercise himself or herself
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needlessly thinking that they are pleasing God. I also
pray that those who may have been going the ...
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n had to pray
to get a decent believer to have as a friend. I served
somewhere far away from civilization in the barracks of
a battalion of the Nigerian Army in a predominantly
Muslim part of Nigeria.
This story is leading somewhere and that place is of two
different encounters I had with two ladie...
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the world in his
temptation of Jesus, but God in His wisdom is
honouring the faith which the Lord Jesus showed when
He refused to bow down; He is doing that by handing
over everything to Him forever.
Now, in everything the Lord wants to do on this earth
He uses people, and to take over all the king...
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nterprises therein to your possession. It
is actually a divine assignment!
Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Thine
inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Thy possession.
Ps 2:8
The lawyer is not to be in practice just so as to earn a
wage, or even just to help people get acc...
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e by the teaching of the word.
Believe me, it worked.
The word of God is interesting; it first shows us our
shortcomings, where we are living below the glory of
God, before it begins to transform us.
For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than
the sharpest knife, cutting deep i...
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ly made his drink full of
nutrients and low in alcohol as a means of delivering his
countrymen from addiction to whiskey. The following
is quoted from a web article concerning him (from
www.iccc.net).
He was elevated to the House of Lords because of his
philanthropy and because of his wealth and he...
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CHAPTER 17
THE ZIPPORAH
PHENOMENON
hen I said that he, Kenneth Hagin, almost
died in the process I am referring to when
he decided to pull out of itinerant ministry
and settle down like 'everybody else.’ Now this was i...
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allowed people to ask
questions and raise issues so I could help answer them.
As one person after another spoke, I noticed that the
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get a new car, what I
would have obtained is an answer. But if lasked God for
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outward
work that we might ever do. Once it is being well done,
then outward works will come out without much effort
and without the risk of running contrary to the order of
God.
DOING THE MAIN WORK
To be transformed into the image of Christ is the main work
which we have to do as believers. When ...
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e in
Him. Believing in Jesus allows you to be called a
righteous person, even though you are not perfect; all
the shortcomings are covered by the blood of Jesus, as
long as you remain of faith in Him.
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and most important, is the internal work, and that is the
foundation for the latter two, which are the external
things as God works through the believer.
My purpose in this section is to help Christians
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ng to a Christian in need, I have given it to the Lord Jesus Himself. No one can argue against that. All His children are priests under Him and are authorized therefore to receive gifts on His behalf. To insist that the tithe belongs to the “house of God,” or the storehouse, referring to...
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Can I give my tithe to someone? The first time I heard this question was about 26 years ago. I was on campus walking, and I saw a sister carrying quite some load, so I went and helped carry her stuff to her room. She was someone I knew rather well though not a member of my own fellowship group. We c...
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g to escape from any one of these obligations. The fact that you gave to someone in need doesn’t mean you have now been freed from your obligation to your church and your minister of the gospel.
Sometimes, people ask whether students should tithe since they have no income but only depend on t...
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see that we are not following the codes of Moses. Yes, Abraham tithed before the Law and we are of the faith of Abraham. If we are tithing, we have to do it like Abraham and not as commanded by Moses. So, how did Abraham tithe? And Melchizedek, who was king of Salem and also a priest of the Most Hig...
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ickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread cakes." Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf, and gave it to the servant; and he hurried to prepare it. And he took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he wa...
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the
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amount of money that flows toward you as a child of God, the
greater the responsibility that you must carry financially.
The error that the world sold to us is that we think ourselves lucky
when we are rich and so take a...
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unity where the priesthood, the poor,
the widows and the strangers were sustained. The storehouse
therefore describes charity work generally. (For more on this,
please read my book, Grace to Prosper).
Please I am not saying you must not give ten percent to your
church if you desire; only note that ...
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istry and give it. For those who are my
co-workers it is compulsory that they determine it at the
beginning of every year and give it regularly. The amount is
totally voluntary but it must be regular.
Most of the people who give to our ministry do so once a month.
We don't need to spend our time co...
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ltiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest
of your righteousness. 2 Cor 9:10
Please notice that Paul was teaching that in every material thing
of your life there is seed and there is bread.
Seed, in the context of the subject of this book, is that which you
give to support the work of Go...
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ptable according to
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your current level. God will give you a place where your little
money will count. But you will increase.
A man who I read of and who I believe has this kind of grace is
Peter J. Daniels, the Australian C...
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give but their own remarkable degree of
commitment will be in other areas as their gifts indicate. We must
recognize this fact.
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Please don't get me wrong; I am not saying Christians should not
be very generous, but I am talkin...
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t
may just be a sign to you that you actually do not believe
that word contains the life that the world and even the
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church needs. The preacher should accept the offerings
because it is God's way of paying him.
...
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om.ng
acquiring material things so as to enjoy life and we have in the
process forsaken the kingdom of God and the spread of it. We
have not been careful to help spread the word of God as a priority.
Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'This people says, "The time has not
come, even the time for the hous...
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Herod's steward, and
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Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support
out of their private means. Luke 8:1-3
The ministry of Jesus did not depend on begging those he was
reaching out to for offerings. He had...
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on is
wrong, they get nothing from the Lord. Be careful that you do not
have fleshly desire for self-preservation as the motive for your
giving; if you do, you are wasting a lot of time and resources.
The real motive for giving, especially in the context of the subject
of this book, is faithfulness...
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kindness is a spiritual seed. The
Lord Jesus gave a long list of spiritual seeds in the Sermon on the
Mount in Matthew 5. It is important I point out that negative
attributes are also spiritual seeds.
Having said this however, I must also point out the fact that
though spiritual seeds are spiritual...
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one
developed country to another, Seoul to Sydney, and check him
into a YMCA room? Something is wrong there. A friend of mine
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was actually checked by his hosts into something more like a
brothel – those low-level hotels that...
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ot holding unto what we have
but rather being ready to give up things for greater purposes. That
is the heart of Christianity; once we start drifting from it we start
drifting into error and apostasy.
Like I have pointed out here and there in this book and in others,
it is not right to use selfish ...
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Matt 9:38). Pray that God will bless them, keep them and make
them be of a willing heart. Pray for those who financially work
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with you so that they might prosper much more. That is part of
your duties. Just preach and pray; ...
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About the Book
Why do you do what you do? You may be a great giver, but are
you aware that the Lord does not rewa...
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Giving is the life of a believer. The main reason why God gave
you resources is so that you can be a blessing to others. Giving to
the work of the ministry is a crucial part of your giving life. You
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cannot afford to make th...
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otivation for
giving to a prophet (which stands for all ministers of the word of
God), He emphasized that the motivation must be 'because he is a
prophet.' No other motivation gets a prophet's reward.
There are several funny reasons why people give to prophets.
Commonest these days is the idea of t...
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S?
Every believer will participate to varying degrees in performing
all these functions, but there is specialization in a specific area for
each person, and that is what we call a gift and a calling.
There is a specialization called giving, and there are people called
into that ministry. These peo...
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wered.
It is clear therefore that giving so as to get is not only wrong, it is
unnecessary.
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CHAPTER THREE
THE SPIRITUAL SEED
I want to continue what I was teaching in the first chapter about
sowing our financial seeds corre...
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ion of manna by the nation of Israel in the wilderness. We
see in Exodus chapter 16 that manna used to fall in the morning.
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The Israelites were meant to gather only what they could consume
in a day. They were forbidden to ...
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e in
any act of righteousness is what the Bible calls patience. You are
said to be walking in patience when you identify what is good and
you continue to do it whether you see a reward quickly or not.
that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through
faith and patience inherit the pr...
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ng because of what we want to get, we are practising the
'labour of selfishness,' instead of the labour of love (1 Thess 1:3,
Heb 6:10). We are also by this practising ‘godliness without
contentment.’
When I say godliness without contentment, I am reversing what
Paul said in the first letter to Tim...
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be in vain.
I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,
but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear
that I might be running, or had run, in vain. Gal 2:2-3
I encourage you to open your heart to correction so that your
labour for the Lord will not be in v...
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once basic needs are taken care of, the proportion that can
be parted with to other people increases as the total increases.
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As an illustration, Ted Turner, founder of CNN, gave out a billion
dollars to a United Nations age...
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10.
Paying Your Preacher
1. Have A Right Motive
11. Pride, Humility and Responsibility
2. How To Receive From God
3. The Spiritual Seed
12. The Work of Ministry
4. Walking in the Light
13. Shine Your Eyes
5. We Have A Dut...
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different from theirs, and since He is the law-giver, they
must learn his ways, one way or another. I chose the easier way; I
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dropped pride and started accepting offerings early. And God has
been merciful.* [*Please note that...
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the Lord affords them will be given to the
preaching of the word. I do not believe that we should leave this
matter to impulse alone. We must plan ahead and disburse these
monies as soon as they come.
I mentioned earlier that at Kingdom-Word Ministries we never
announce 'offering time;' the reason ...
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.
13 Don't you know that those who work in the Temple get their
meals from the food brought to the Temple as offerings? And
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those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial
offerings. 14 In the same way, the Lor...
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:2).
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Refusal to accept gifts is not a thing to be praised in the life of a
minister. It does not show he is spiritual at all.
Please understand me; I am not saying preachers should be
grabby. Many times I return offerings gi...
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teed any special portion of the reward. He rather
receives only according to his labour.
…but each will receive his own reward according to his own
labor. For we are God's fellow workers. 1 Cor 3:8-9
The prophet's rewards belongs to the prophet and anyone who
will participate in one way or another...
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…Am I not an apostle?...2 Even if others think I am not an
apostle, I certainly am to you, for you are living proof that I am
the Lord's apostle.
This is my answer to those who question my authority as an
apostle. 4 Don't we have the right to live in your homes and share
your meals? 5 D...
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he plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh
in hope of sharing the crops. If we sowed spiritual things in you,
is it too much if we should reap material things from you? 1 Cor
9:10-12
If a teacher of the word has touched you with God's word, then
you must reciprocate with material ...
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done, but that we have come trusting that our sins are forgiven
and that Jesus has enough credit with the Father that we can draw
on.
So, we do not do things for the reward.
Now please note this: Even though we do not give so that it will
be given to us, the Lord however ...
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ve in prosperity… Not
that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases
to your account. Phil 4:11,12,17
I am not saying this for any other reason other than because it is
right.
See, there was a time I went to preach for a fellow minister who
was doing a lot of work among you...
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s that
may have come because they heard that testimony would most
likely have not received anything. It was not the offering; it was
the faith. The testimony should teach them about the God of
Elijah.
Copying acts of giving because you want to receive the same
blessing someone else got is a waste o...
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IMPORTANT WORD
Before we leave this chapter I wish to add a few words directed at
those who host ministers of the gospel. Many of these are other
ministers or church councils.
There have been many situations I have heard of, and been a
victim of, in which the visiting preac...
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gain will get
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nothing. The sincere ones will get correction as a reward. The
Lord will not encourage the perpetuation of errors.
The main issue is that we have forsaken the doctrine of sacrifice
in the following of Christ. We a...
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never see yourself as deserving of any praise for it. You
were blessed for a certain reason. You have no right to
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live large and expect the responsibilities to be shared
equally, either in your natural family ...
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d
don't always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by
being at the right place at the right time. Eccl 9:11
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We definitely have different graces and abilities when it comes to
financial matters, just like we...
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rship of the gospel!
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall
yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and
shall yet choose Jerusalem. Zech 1:17 KJV
SUMMARY
There are a number of things I want to point out from these last
things I discussed.
1. If yo...
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crificial giving. They preach that God will also bless you as
He blessed them with finances. But that is not the whole truth.
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It is true that faithfulness in using their gifts will make the grace
increase, but it is not true...
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s very
sick." John 11:1-3 NLT
This Lazarus became the man that Jesus raised from the dead as a
sign of His Sonship!
Selfless giving is a sign of true love and devotion; it is indeed a
sign of faith.
Abraham's gift of Isaac was a sign of his faith, and it caused God
to pronounce huge blessings on ...
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preaching of the word.
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CHAPTER TWELVE
THE WORK OF THE
MINISTRY
I need to emphasize something about the work of ministry.
We often speak about whether it is right or wrong for ministers to
work, and by this we mean doing ...
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orget that there is beauty in consistency. Try to be
consistent in your giving life.
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
THE MINISTRY OF GIVING
This book is to every Christian and describes an area of the
operation of the spirit of Christ – t...
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ing of that sentence. It shows that
there was something going on before it. That prayer was prayed
particularly for the Philippians because they had been so active in
supporting Paul and his ministry.
…you have done well to share with me in my affliction. And you
yourselves also know, Philippians, ...
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No, it is not
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right. They will not get a prophets' reward. Unfortunately a great
number of Christians are in this category.
There are many I have encountered. They are tremendously
blessed by the word I preach, and they kn...
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their own needs. They have bought cars and built houses and
travelled all over the world. They are just having a good time.
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Meanwhile the work of God that should have prospered by their
hands is suffering. They are being ve...
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e
Philippians saying,
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And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19-20
The manifestation of the fruit is determined by the need and not
the seed. Their needs could be an...
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m strongly inclined to believe that, despite the fact that we
will be reaching millions of people, the greater proportion of the
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money will come from a maximum of twelve people. These are
people that He called to give just as I...
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by
her giving to him material things like food and shelter. We know
it was honour since she did it purely because he was a man of
God. When the Lord was going to pay her back, what did He
give? A son!
God did not decide to give her more rooms because that was what
she gave Elisha. If the law worked...
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e would not want to be a part of keeping the work going as the
Lord gives him the ability. Yet again he said yes. I told him that
that would be a righteous motive for giving—to keep a good work
going.
To explain to this man further, I wanted to know what his
response would be if on his way back hom...
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sed
to come out to preach in a meeting he organised until the crowd
contributed enough money to pay all outstanding bills. The
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meetings had been going on for days and the people were being
tremendously blessed, but the bills ...
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appropriate field. The law of sowing and reaping as it applies to
giving is an operation of the spiritual field. When applying this
law to the spiritual field, the seeds must necessarily be spiritual.
To illustrate, physical corn can only be planted into a physical
soil. You cannot sow corn into th...
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d it like a servant of God. God will
bless her and multiply her. It was not about my need at all.
Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which
increases to your account. Phil 4:17
Whichever way she learnt it, she did what was right.
Most other people I meet love to tell me all ...
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HER
Let me develop further something I briefly discussed earlier on
giving to the preacher because he has blessed you with the word.
Let us see that portion of Paul's letter to the Corinthians again.
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle the ox
while he is threshing." God is...
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CHAPTER SEVEN
YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
ENDURES FOREVER
I thank God for brethren who have a right spirit about these
things. I thank God they understand.
I run a ministry in which as a matter of principle we never make
any drive for money. And it is against my personal religio...
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ved Son, in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Col 1:13-14
In praying in the name of Jesus, we are again saying that the
Father loves us because we believe in Jesus, and even before we
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believed. We are ascri...
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Effective sowing and preserving the fruits
of your financial seeds
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proper thing to do. When you are blessed from a
place, send your testimony back there. If you were blessed
materially and financially, send a portion to the one God used. It
is the proper thing to do.
This man I am speaking of should have done that. I can imagine if
it was me; I would have gone to ...
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ding for their children. They do not do it because of what
they will get but simple because it is their duty; if they do not do
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it nobody will do it for them. Paul said everyone should bear his
own load (Gal 6:5). The preachin...
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he will of God in using His word to manipulate
people. This last option is what many preachers chose to do, but
that is the very thing not to do as God never accepts excuses for
adulterating His word.
"Behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who
use their tongues and declare, 'The L...
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is not right, it is not possible. I explained about this
in the book Grace to Prosper. Seeds deliberately tied to personal
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expected rewards are dead on planting. They produce nothing.
The reason is that in doing that we au...
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ndously with the
ministrations of the word of God.
What was the reward this man felt was perfect for me? He wanted
me to give him at least two tapes! Why? Because those tapes
would further bless him.
I felt sorry for him, deeply sorry. I had no tapes with me there and
then to give to anybody, but ...
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ey.
And when they had assembled with the elders and counseled
together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, and
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said, "You are to say, 'His disciples came by night and stole Him
away while we were asleep.' "And...
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brethren with the right spirit.
Among the first mails we got after going on radio was one which
had a cheque for 5000 naira included; it was from a student. May
God increase him and people like him.
Many times people have walked up to me and asked, 'how do you
pay for all these?' and they have don...
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s, preachers
are forbidden from charging for their services, but I do expect
those who use their services to be reasonable.)
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For anyone to speak disparagingly of the work of the ministry is
to come close to blaspheming the ...
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it cost the organizers a lot of
money. When you enter a hall for a meeting and it is a nice place,
well air-conditioned with a good sound system, never overlook
the fact that those things cost money.
I remember once when we organized a programme on a university
campus. I asked the young man who tra...
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money to it. Their money carries their
spirits of goodwill. Every work needs this goodwill spirit
like it needs prayers.
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• A preacher should not go around begging for money. For
his personal sustenance, or in time...
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ve something.
When it comes to ministries I am encouraging believers to look
out for how to be a blessing. That is what the Nigerian slang
'shine your eyes' means. It means to look out with keenness.
Ministry costs money. Things that come to us free actually cost
money. The costs of those TV progr...
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Therefore I follow the injunction of Solomon which says,
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not be idle in the evening,
for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will
succeed… Eccl 11:6
I follow that and I say to you that,
The key to the release of God's favour is the continual doing...
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e
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ministry and city he built and would often be alone at home. He
was forgotten by most people and was often without any money.
It was in those days that a man who had always loved and
admired this man of God from a distance h...
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the Philippians.
And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19
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MY GOD
Note that he said, 'my God.' Is it not the same God he had
preached to the Philippians, and indeed ...
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e mouth of Paul that God gives
us richly everything to enjoy. I believe that poverty is not the plan
of God. I believe that God still materially blesses those who obey
Him.
I hope you believe it too.
However to speak as if that is all the Lord is doing makes such a
beautiful truth become error. Hi...
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Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double
honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and
teaching. 1 Tim 5:17
I think this one makes it even clearer. Preaching and teaching is
really hard work, when done properly. Ministering to people the
power of God is hard ...
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you all to know that you have a part in the prophet's
reward.
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CHAPTER EIGHT
THE PROPHET’S REWARD
What is a prophet's reward?
"He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me
receives Him who sent Me. "He who receive...
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y were men who are too lazy to work and were only
leeching on hard-working people. For this reason we became
ashamed to become like one of them and so started to harbour
thoughts against divine order.
The Lord has had a lot of work in removing those thoughts from
the hearts of a lot of men and wome...
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n someone
buys something or acquires a new addition of any sort, we ask
them to 'wash' it. 'Washing it' simply means that the person should
spend money to entertain us so as to celebrate the increase.
I teach people to look at life from a different perspective. Why
don't you wash it for them? That ...
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t,
please let me state some truths.
Ministry is expensive and it is forbidden that you put extra
burdens on the minister and the ministry organization beyond that
which the Lord has placed upon them.
Please I am not saying ministries do not do charity work. If it is
part of their own commission, t...
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nd self-righteousness before God in
prayer is the way by which you exalt yourself, and the Lord Jesus
said you will be frustrated and disappointed. That is what it means
to be humbled in this context.
See, good works have their reward, but we are not to look to the
reward or plead the good works wi...
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blessings by faith. If the cause of the gospel requires a life that
appears like a life of poverty, then we must take it as true soldiers
of Christ.
We all love to quote what Paul said, "I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me." In quoting it we must be careful to
note the...
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wrong motive is because they have been taught wrongly
concerning how to receive from God. They have been taught that
the basis for getting from God is what they have given to Him
before coming to ask.
It is often said that "nothing leaves God's hand until something
leaves your hand." I heard a prea...
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teach
us its own ideas – ideas that may not be in agreement with God's
order. I say this because the wages of a preacher have generated a
lot of controversy.
Let me first say something about myself.
I am a specialist doctor; I work in the university as a lecturer and
in the hospital as a consultan...
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things are meant to cure people, so they try to deliver them
in the purest forms. How much more seriously should those who
handle the word of God take care to ensure it is delivered in its
pure form.
Many who listen to the word of God and who are sensitive are
often alarmed when they see pollution ...
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o one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-
abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on
visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
Col 2:18-19
It is our duty to pursue truth and to walk in it. This is why we
must pray all the time that God w...
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have the capacity to preach many more
messages and put them on air for longer times; it is the money
that is the rate-limiting factor, like we say in Chemistry. Like Paul
used to say, we are hindered.
Others have written that we should bring the programmes to
stations covering their respective area...
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e ministry to pick the bill when they
wanted to speak to us. (There were no toll-free lines in Nigeria
except to the phone companies). One of my men used to answer
simply, “I am not calling you back.”
What have I not seen? There were these two young men who
travelled down to Enugu to attend a semin...
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eded help in
Elijah's time… yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent
instead to a widow of Zarephath — a foreigner in the land of
Sidon. Luke 4:25-26 NLT
So why did God send Elijah to her?
The truth is that the woman would have given to Elijah even if he
did not promise anything. It was...
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he money he gave was previously meant for a mortgage
payment but God supernaturally paid up the whole outstanding
bill on the house for him.
We may not know what the reward is, but there is a reward.
We cannot decide what the reward will be, but there is a reward.
The reward is bigger and better t...
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ch man had enough
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for his household. Paul applied this when collecting relief money
for the trouble in Jerusalem as follows.
For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by
way of equality — at this p...
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3 TEV
So Paul was not talking about the ability to get things at all; rather
he was teaching on the ability to endure both prosperity and
adversity. The key word here is 'endure.' He said to Timothy,
Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:3 NLT
So we see that e...
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o Africa.
There was a time that most mission work was funded by
Europeans and Americans and most activities of evangelism came
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to us free of charge. We got free Bibles, free books, free tapes and
free everything. Many even ga...
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is the reason why these Christian stations do fund raising
programmes because that is where they get funds from. I may
disagree with some of the methods I see some people employ, but
the need is real.
Until our talk he had no idea ministries had to pay to broadcast
the word. He thought all you need...
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act, I used to refuse them. Later the Holy Spirit
taught me the right thing and I realized that it is a matter of what
is right. It has less to do with me as a person but was more about
what is right.
That is a very common error among people who God called into
the ministry of the word. They often ...
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and stating the need of a network that propagates the gospel
of Christ is not bad at all. But to use personal gain as the main
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motivation is to live below the glory of God and to reject the
mind of Christ.
As I watched that d...
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Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase: So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine. Pro 3:9-10 BBE
Should I give my whole first month’s salary to my church as ‘first-fruit’? Usually when I...
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y and material things is generosity and not trusting in those things. We are to be careful to trust in God alone. Every Christian must be generous continuously and make giving priority in their lives. In what the Lord gives to us, seed for sowing is before bread for eating (2 Cor 9:10). That tells u...
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What we learn from the Law is the spirit of that commandment. The spirit is that of acknowledging God. It is that of giving Him the praise and glory for all that He has done and is doing in our lives. It is the habit of gratitude that the Lord was teaching Israel. It was one of those ordinances He g...
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ever spoke about whether Christians should do it or not. Total silence. It is NOT a fundamental doctrine of Christianity, and so we should be able to disagree and still get along with each other fine. It is therefore very wrong for some of us pastors to insist it is the passport to prosperity or tha...
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collects His gifts and offerings through various means. A church, a ministry, preachers, the needy, giving to your parents and everyone else you are to honour are all valid. Do all these things. O, even the thanksgiving parties in which we ‘blow money’ in celebration of His blessin...
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There's been so much talk in social media in recent times about the issue of tithing. It's not been pleasant too. But I guess it's because we Christians have made a big deal of a small matter, and so the backlash. Here are a few points I shared on a live radio program about the subject and I wish fo...
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How many of you have heard of first fruits? It's very popular today in Christianity, first fruits. Yeah, you know why it's very popular? It makes a lot of money for the church. I know it sounds like a joke, but that's a matter of fact. That's why it becomes, things like that always become more popul...
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belongs to God. When you are saying to God that you are our refuge, it's not the community police. Are you getting my point? It's not rapid response squad. The security of our lives is God. You understand? Because you have made the Lord the master your dwelling place. All right? You have made him yo...
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You don't eat them. You don't throw them away. You don't feed anybody. You don't feed yourself, your children, your laborers. You took them to the temple. You may have 10 million baskets coming. That's not the point. God doesn't want a second one. He wanted what? The first one. Now, what I'm talking...
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is God that you need. Amen. What is praise? Praise is to wake up in the morning and say, Lord I need you. Lord I need you. Lord I need you. I don't need any man. It says send us help from above for vain is the help of man. If God wants to send a friend, he will send it. If he wants to send an enemy,...
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I'll just say that if you leave me, I will die. Just talking about it. How can people say things like that? You leave me, I'm not going to die. I'll feel bad for two days and after I'll get over it. Simple guys don't say that. It's not good. I didn't know it was a bad thing. I said, So next day, she...
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I have a friend, he's a comedian. He's the one that did that one. What am I saying? It's not the speed of the song. It's not the speed of the song at all. What is worship? No, actually. The Lord is good. All right. The Lord is good. Now what am I saying? We sing a song slow or fast, does it make you...
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So ministry needs to expand. You know what God is saying? Grab the Bible and talk some more. Teach some more. If you are teaching three times a week before, increase that to five. You are getting what I'm saying? This is not time to... We need to raise partners. Praise God. We raise partners because...
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Enter his courts, gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Let's talk about it really, really strictly speaking. That was literally talking about the temple, right? Talking about the tabernacle. As we enter the outer court and all of that, right? I said, that's the temple of God. I said, ...
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And I said something to us before that, if you raise your children with this understanding, they will never lack in life. When they see food, it is not because daddy works or because mommy works. It is because God gave us food. That was why Jesus, I noticed it, he never forgot, he never put anything...
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He said, sir, I'm very, very sorry. Just by the way, sir, that statement is not correct. No, really, really. No matter how powerfully pleased he is, explain to him nicely. Very nicely. Sir, I'm very sorry. I'm very sorry you're angry. But just by the way, sir, it's not good for you to say things lik...
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And I say, ah, when you see that brother worshiping, hallelujah. He worships God from the bottom of his heart. Go home and ask his wife. Forget all this church thing. Ask his wife, but then I worship, but don't be worship. True worshipers. It's not a song. It can express itself in a song. It's a lif...
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You will not lack a pair of shoes. I will get you a pair of shoes. God is a supplier. God is good. You will have a pair of shoes. Just wait. Are you getting what I'm saying? But I don't know what's going on in this country. Shoes are getting too expensive. And these children these days, they ought t...
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That's what praise is. If you give the power to God by your words. Remember what he said, he that dwells in the secret place of the most high shall do what? Shall abide. Now, the next thing is that how do they abide? I will say of the Lord. That's what locates them in places. What do they say? Just ...
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Just for emphasis for those who do not know, people say that, now, if you've heard me long enough, you've heard me explain this, but we just need to keep saying these things. Let me just take a small detour and explain this, then we'll continue. You hear the word worship, praise, thanksgiving, Allah...
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Praise is not a song. You can express praise in a song. Do you understand my point? It's not a song that has a praise. It is just one way of expressing. Because one day I thought about it. I said, why did God invent singing? And I understood. Because it's very difficult for you to just get up and be...
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No, answer me. Was it? How come he still gave thanks every time he had to eat? So if they give you a tie, collect the tie and say, Lord, forget tie, handkerchief. Because there was a time, I told you, men used to bet with clothing. You want to read the story of Samson? If you can get this, you give ...
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These 10,000 tons, all right, they are not coming because of my strength. They are coming because of divine favor. The law of first fruit was very different from the law of tithing, under the old covenant. It was very different. The laws were different. The law of first fruit was a will of saying, a...
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What I'm saying is that a Christian that has the understanding that I'm teaching is superior to a man who believes in titans. That's what I'm saying. And he's, anyway, I'm not talking about money now. In the same manner, so when we were talking about first place, I was saying, hey, hey, hey. Pastor,...
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It wasn't the volume. It had to be what? The first. And it was a statement that this field is not fruitful because I know the laws of agriculture. It was a statement that this field is not fruitful because I am so righteous and I know how to do everything properly. That this field is fruitful becaus...
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Nada is a god of stupidity. Amen? He is not a god of stupidity. But he is a god of wise and foolish and stupid and good and big and small. He is a god of everybody who will drop their natural disadvantages and their natural advantages and hold to the power that is in Christ. Do you understand that? ...
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of me not to believe in it. As I go around with photographs of diseases, I look at those pictures. They were downloaded from books, I'm sure. People are criminals. You see them there. God forgive me. The pictures are so good. And they have different diseases. You know how my pathology is? I know whe...
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And I cannot say, listen, if you want God to increase you next month, right now pledge the amount of increase you want on a monthly basis. Pledge it now. I am going to anoint your hands and receive it from you. Let me tell you the truth. Once somebody does like that, the person has deceived you. Fat...
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He didn't do anything. On the side he just said, Oh, I'm so sorry, sir. This is against my conscience, against my principles. I can't do it. Ah, tomorrow you will come asking for help again. My help comes from the Lord, who makes the heavens and the earth. Are you getting my point? Hey, tomorrow you...
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I see that's actually what I meditate about it. And that's what actually underlies praise and thanksgiving. So it's the same thing. Here and there, we talk about thanksgiving, talk about praise, what it means to praise God. But I want to emphasize something along that line today. Not some weeks ago,...
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No, you've heard this question before, the law of first fruits. You've heard of first fruits? Yeah, Christians introduced it into Pentecostal churches about four years ago, and it has been growing since that time. It has been growing since. Yeah, it's been growing because it brings a lot of income t...
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I'm going to just share something with us briefly, and then we'll probably pray with it again. Of course, nothing new, just the same thing we have been saying. I just want to share something with us briefly based on many things we have said here and there, but especially from one scripture. Well, no...
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And people didn't mind. The point I'm making is that it was just how many Tibbers? One. The law was how many Tibbers? How many Tibbers? One. It was one. What's the principle? That you are saying and recognize that it is God. That's what I'm saying. I have a friend. Anywhere he goes to minister for t...
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the time I have to study and to pray now. Lord, thank you for this. For the little money I have now, thank you for it. For the word you are giving me in this season, Lord, thank you for it. A time will come you will need three, five times this effort to be able to hear a quarter of the word you are ...
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A child that grows up knowing that bread, food, basic food, biscuits, sweets, as common as it is, is a gift from God, is supplied by God. That listen, you see those birds on the express route that dive, dive, dive and pick the carcass from the ground and disappear. See the kite that hover around whe...
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Yeah, we'll discuss that then. Now what I want to talk about today, like I said, is something related to that and how we respond to things. But I want to talk about the law of appreciation. Now if you were here last week when we were doing our radio recording, we were there for Tuesday, Wednesday, T...
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And that was why when they said, turn these stones to bread, he said, you don't understand, bread does not come from my work. I don't know what the hell I said. It doesn't come from my own striving. It does not come from the use of my own power. It comes from God. So any bread I have to multiply wit...
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I love to live in a very nice flat wall furnished with a small 32-inch LCD TV, you know, raw sitting room, nice cool music, but I don't have it yet. But have you noticed I've not been sleeping outside? I've had the roof over my head. It's not by chance. It's not by chance. Lord, I appreciate that. I...
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If it was one million Naira that day, that was my one million bucks gone. Because, you know what I'm saying? Before I came, I made up my mind. You know why? I just found myself feeling happy. Once I thought like that, I said, no, that thinking must disappear. That thinking must come to an end. So I ...
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You sold your father's land to buy visa. Poverty. Oh, my father in heaven. You need repentance. You need, listen, you need to see me and pray so I will lay hands on you. Let me ask God for special mercy for you. Not because selling of land is bad. If you need money, you can sell land, amen? But beca...
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The Mary Kay story that I tell all the time, she was not trying to get, she thought all she, listen, when God spoke to her, she said, if people say God speaks to them, this is the closest I ever came to it. She was dressing up, applying makeup in the morning, and the voice said, her pastor said, ple...
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When you enter your wardrobe now, how many shares did you have? Now only two and a half. Why is it half? The third one, you had to remove the collar and cut the hands. As you reach house today, you know what I'm going to do? Father, I thank you for Bible study today. I thank you for that Bible study...
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like my wife was leading the prayer earlier, said, thank him because he has kept you up till now. I want us to do it again. It was not by chance you were not knocked down by that car. You know, the other day, one of our friends, her brother died, her only surviving brother, a senior person, not a ch...
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So it's okay. You bring a tithe. So every third year you do this. When you want to start your harvest, the first thing you harvest, now just for those who want to know, it's not a large amount. You know, sometimes you have churches who say that your first year salary is your first fruit. That thing,...
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where he has to wake us up like you woke us up, like they agreed to wake, all right, is every day, you rehearse what he has done. Every day, you meditate on the scriptures. Every day, you talk about the Lord. You don't let the blessing that God has given you wear out your faith. Like I said, God's b...
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fills the basket and takes it to the temple. It doesn't come to any significant proportion, but it has to be the first. You will not finish harvesting the third day you do that, no. The moment you start the harvest, and I hope you know it was not only Israel that had it, and if you know about Africa...
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The point I'm making is that, you see, it was just one tuba. And some of them had, they were going to harvest a thousand. Big farmers will harvest 2,000. But they were supposed to take what? The first. So it's a principle everywhere. First fruits. If you wish to now, it's not compulsory. Look, the N...
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Do you get my point? What did I say? I didn't say we don't give heavily. There's a world of difference. It's not burdensome. Like paying your children's school fees, is it burdensome? If you don't own the house you live in, you have to pay rent, is it burdensome? You do it because you know I have to...
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That she took her general salary to church. But before dropping it, she calculated transport fare for the next month to go to work and removed it and brought the balance and told pastor, this is the first fruit. Pastor now found out that she had taken some out for transportation for the month of Feb...
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thanksgiving and praise, and the fourth one is what? Meditations. Meditations. And I'm saying, ah, God, I feel like saying it again. You will see the power, how do I say it? You will see the manifestation of the spirit of God. That's what I'm saying. You will prophesy, you will know that this is the...
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For example, if it's an assembly church, I make everybody aware of what we spend. Then if you like, then of course I will teach. Now, you will not say because somebody else will pay, you won't contribute. That would be irresponsibility. That's not Christianity. So I will teach you how to do that. He...
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let me say the Bible says that you, you say I. Turn around, talk to yourself in it. He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High say, I dwell consciously in the secret place of the Most High. Therefore, I will abide under the shadow of the Almighty. How do I dwell? He said, I will say of the ...
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it's already broken. For every believer, curses have been broken. Yeah. So, when we go to pray like that, this is what I want to say, okay? That principle that I said, I believe by the Holy Spirit that spend more time hearing from him than praying to him about things. Again, like I said, it does not...
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if you read the scriptures, Paul will explain. In the night he was betrayed, first he will tell you what I'm giving to you I did not receive from anybody. The Lord gave it to me by revelation. As I receive from the Lord, let me give to you that the night he was betrayed, he took the bread, he broke ...
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and be generous and ready to share. So I was explaining that you see a sign that your faith is not, anyway, I was teaching her. And as I was going on and on and on, and I realized that I was, you know what I was doing? I was speaking to myself. I was speaking to myself. By the time I finished sharin...
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If a person is sick, chronically sick, hypertensive, gout, diabetes, glaucoma. These are diseases that doctors don't cure. They control. Yeah, this woman said she was building a house and could not buy her own medicine. Did you get my point? That's the place who will help me. Who will help you with ...
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to next time be able to withstand that. That's what God does. Is that okay? Now, having said that, Christians, we should never, please don't say there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus and therefore continue walking in sin. Do we continue in sin so that grace may abound? God forbid...
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by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed. You have to say, oh, amen for them. Because the stripes of that Jesus is keeping you healthy. But you will have forgotten. That's the problem with prosperity. It makes you forget. It makes you, blessings are notorious for wiping our faith. That's why God had to ...
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the small fellowships are best. In my opinion, like I said, I'm not being dogmatic about that. So most of those large churches, they have, units, they have home cells and all of that. And I don't even like in large congregations where half of those who come are not even born again. Are you not aware...
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Now, what I realized is that when you put all these things together, I was rebuking myself today. I said, Vanki, I don't think you do enough meditation. I thought about it. I said, I listen to messages a lot, but I don't do enough meditation. Listening to messages is different from doing meditation....
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It should be your ringtone. That's a better one. Somebody should record it for you as your phone rings. Reverend, if you don't treat your wife well, stop praying, the Lord will not hear. You know, many of us want to skirt around the commandments that God gave or the precept that he set in place. Say...
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I can trust him. The man had never met me, but he believed. I'm talking about favor. Then, when he came, he said, the man says it's okay. I said, okay. By the way, shimmy, it's end of the week. I said, what if I give him half now? That was less than half of the whole money. And I have the half now. ...
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I am that fool. She got healed. The woman was shouting, young lady, I am that fool. I am that fool. That's how she got her healing. There's no faith you will teach that one if you didn't shout I am that fool. She's not getting anything. So in our meditations, what do we do? As much as we meditate on...
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What is it they buy to show that they have a new car? Fire extinguisher, thank you. You buy fire extinguisher and sea cushion, triangular reflector. So what are these things for? Praise God, it's a sign of faith. No, that's not it. Let me tell you the sign of faith that you are believing God for tha...
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s government deliberately erode the value of currency all the time. America was doing it to the tune of almost 100 billion dollars a month in ‘Quantitative Easing’ to come out of recession. Not funny!
35. You cannot give a portion of your income and think you have settled God. That is not Christian...
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51 RANDOM TRUTHS EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MONEY
1. Money is a means of exchange but a poor store of value. Any money simply stored up is either stolen or gradually eroded away. “Moths destroy and thieves do break in and steal.”
2. What you do with your money shows what you believe and wha...
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s, and the forgiveness therein, is not acquired by money.
20. Money gifts convey the spiritual substance in the heart of the giver. There is no guarantee that you will receive money for giving money.
21. Give and don’t expect anything in return. Expecting something when you give is not the way fai...
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47. You cannot inform God of what you gave so that He will give you back. It is a fatal error.
48. Investing your money so it can grow is godly, but don’t use that as a means of securing tomorrow.
49. A life spent chasing money is a wasted life, even if the person got plenty of it.
50. Having ...
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