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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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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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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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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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So you can sow mercy, you can sow faith, you can sow love, you can sow patience, you can sow forgiveness. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive. Are you getting what I'm trying to explain? When we are using the types of sowing and reaping, when we are on physical things, please let us limit to phy...
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What am I trying to explain? When it comes to the spiritual law of sowing and reaping, you cannot sow physical things. What do you sow? Listen. He that shows mercy shall obtain what? Mercy. Are you seeing? What are the spiritual things you can sow? You can sow love. You can sow faith. God looked at ...
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If your giving is not motivated by any of these things, you are not a cheerful giver. What do I mean by a work of the labor of love? That which I do for the purpose of blessing somebody else's life. But it's a labor of selfishness. When I give because I want something, and now listen, I think it's b...
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Few seconds, the whole thing popped up. And the first on the line says www.nch.com.au. I downloaded WavePad, which we still use still today. And I have taught multitudes of pastors on how to use it. Free of charge. OK, I added free download, audio, edit, MP3. Yes, I just put it like that. Free downl...
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There's what I call the priestly corner of life. I'll develop all of this. Come back in January. We're going to discuss that. Preparing for that particular one. See, I've been meditating and praying and reading and all of that. One of the things I've been investigating is where does money come from?...
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And Paul said it like this, that those things were shadows. They were not even an exact representation. When he was talking about the Old Covenant, the book of Hebrews, he said they were what? Shadows. You know what a shadow is? You know my shadow can take any different color. Depending on the color...
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I know that my wife is going to arrive, and I won't need these things. It's called a hope. So I tell you, you can have it. Do you get my point? I say, you can have it, because I know another one is coming. And that's what, listen, that was the third way by which the widow of Zarephath gave to Elijah...
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All right, quickly, open to the book of 1 Thessalonians chapter one. You'll see something that Paul said here. He said, we give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers. Please notice verse three. Constantly bearing in mind your work of faith. Please notice that numb...
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based on the power of the blood of Jesus. I'm putting many words to it now. We have been reconciled with you. We can enter boldly, all right, into the throne of grace. We can come into your presence without any condemnation in our hearts. Therefore, because we understand all these things, we have co...
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I said that, look, we read that from 2nd Corinthians chapter 9, it said God loves the cheerful giver. Remember what we said? When we say God loves, it doesn't mean that God is fond of. You know what I'm saying? If you see a young man who loves a young woman, you kind of see him hanging around her an...
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Do you follow what I'm trying to explain? So what do you mean by tapping the anointing? Oh, I want the same grace, the same grace that makes this man succeed fast to come upon me. So I give him a seed. Jesus said, you don't know what you're asking. One better night when the light is on, some time ag...
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Then you walk into church, you want to give a singular offering and get everybody's breakthrough. Even if you were God, you'd go green. Do you follow my point? The second reason again is that God infused her with the spirit of faith. Again, which was activated by her previous good works. Are you see...
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Anywesha, you are not going to get anything anyway, so why are we even talking about it? Naira, Japanese Yen, even Zimbabwean Dollar. Without value, you're not going to get. So, what you sow is mercy. This is the point. You can sow mercy by giving money. And God can repay you with mercy by deliverin...
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You are getting better at making. You look at a preacher and you like him. And then you want to be like, now God may not have called you into his office. Why do you want to take the grace upon me if God set you up to be an entrepreneur and a provider of jobs and a multimillionaire? Do you care what ...
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I said something to you last time, I said the day that the word was finally released, 25 years, God had been talking, 24 years, talking to Abraham, I will bless you, I will bless you, I will bless you, I will bless you, you will become a great nation. The man didn't have the promised child yet. And ...
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Are you getting what I'm trying to explain? So you see, when the clouds are full, Solomon said in the Ecclesiastes, they pour forth what? Rain. So God gives you the opportunity to do what? Fill your clouds. And what do I mean? He constantly gives you what? The opportunities to do good. We will exami...
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Why did God say they should do like that? He said that one is for those who don't have farm. That one is for those who don't have house. For the orphan, for the widow, for people like Ruth and Naomi, who have just arrived and they don't have anything. So you harvest, you don't finish it. So then, pe...
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Each man has to be faithful in what God called him to do. There are people that are musicians, and they are greater than a lot of pastors you know. Forget that one. It is God that blesses every one of us. Do you get my point? I'll explain principles to you. When we are talking about people being gre...
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Make me so rich that there will be no king as rich as I am. All right? Before now and even after now. And God will have said what? No problem. That is one way he could have gotten additions into his life. We already established that. I just want to prove it. But now listen to what God said. Verse 11...
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The grace I'm praying to God for is to start giving out my curse once I reach 9.1. Because you grow in grace. Go and check the scripture. 7 Peter chapter 3. You grow in grace. Read from 17, 18. You grow in grace and in the knowledge of God. I have already reached the level with that one with clothes...
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Do you get what I'm trying to explain? So if a man is giving, I want to know whether he's really giving or he's tempting the Lord his God. That's what a lot of us do. That is why you hear, you know, I call them Pentecostal jokes. Wave your tight booklet to God and say, I have done my part. You canno...
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There was one man who was using one old car. They used to do, you know, small, you know, those small, small vehicles, they took, do tags, you know, the old vehicle. He didn't have money to change the tires in his old tags. And he had admired my tire one day, the tire that I went to change. I said, g...
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He said, go and glean. What do they mean by gleaning? The law in the scriptures was this. If you are harvesting, I'm not talking about advice, it was a law. God gave Moses to give them as a law. When you are harvesting, are you following me? Once you pass row A, it is forbidden you go back to it. An...
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I'm going to explain something in all of these things. The way you see life, all right? Require and set is what decide how you handle issues. Let's get back to money matters. The way you see life, all right, is what decides how you handle your money. If you see this, and God has given me revelation ...
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You have been sowing seeds towards your company. It's wasted money. Listen to me, child of God. You don't have the ability to identify what the seed of today will produce tomorrow. God has not given that one to you. He has not given it to me. That's why, let me say it again. Get that message, the sw...
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You know what he said? He said, once and again, you have sent gifts for my necessity. He said, not that I desired a gift, but I seek fruits that will accrue to your account. He said, here and there, you were the only one that sent gifts to me. He said, therefore, my God shall supply all your needs a...
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If you drop a fine card to my office, you are looking for, assume I'm a financier, you are looking for 10 million Naira for your business, look at your card, look at it, I won't give you. If you really dare to take that card, go and give it to one bank, tell them this is collateral, give me money. O...
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You want to give to a man of God only for two reasons. I will discuss that one later. How to give to God. One, simply because he's a man of God. Because it's not every man of God that's blessing you. If somebody has been sent to go and collect all the witchcraft in secondary schools. I'm not in seco...
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If you let me say, the world works. Chair of brethren, I brought that thing from UniBear, from my fellowship on campus. Chair of brethren, the world works. The one day I preached a message, I called it, the world works. What do I mean? If Jesus had bowed down to Satan, he would have been the richest...
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Paul explained it in 1 Timothy chapter 4. He said godliness is a song. And obviously the inflection of his tone was that these people are erroneous. They have made a mistake. He said they suppose that godliness is a means of gain. That is doing good works we suppose is a means of gain. I will tell y...
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The wisdom to design buildings for an architect. The wisdom, all right, to build roads. The wisdom to take what God has taken. Ordinary earth, take it into a machine. Call it, you have taken iron ore. Refine it, do this and this, and come out with pure iron, and then put carbon in it and come out wi...
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Is it wrong? I said, it is not wrong. It is not wrong. Listen, it is not wrong. I said, but the Bible says when the crop permits, he puts in the sickle because the harvest has come. Then I quoted Rick Warren for the person who happened to be the one that told me that I must get the book. I said, Ric...
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The only time you'll have to give is, Abraham's blessings are mine, down to the front. Abraham, it's in that, it's only that offering basket where God is in. Sometimes God will be beside you, passing. God is inside the, you know, you have a pair of shoes at home. God is inside that, that is like, yo...
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The shoes we went to buy together. The socks, you know I paid one day, like 10 pairs of socks thick, drop out of my drawer. All these are old, old socks. This shirt, I think it will fit you. The trousers, you should have some new trousers. Are you getting what I'm saying? So let us assume now my wif...
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Are you getting my point? What he says is to continually do good. I said it is not right for you to say you want to tap grace from a man of God, therefore you give an offering to him. It is sorcery. You are trying to dictate your own inheritance from God. You can't do that. There are two reasons you...
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Don't forget, Elijah was sent to her house. Look, it was the house of the widow of Zarephath, which meant that he wasn't carrying a floating anointing. Let me ask you a question. After he multiplied food for the woman, do you think her neighbor could have walked in and said, good morning, sir? I hea...
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This is the way the world reads it. God gives what? Bread for food and then remnant to sow. So people give offerings out of change. Like I said last time, that's why I don't have time for offering time, blessing time. If you want to give, find your way to where they are giving. That's a matter of fa...
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So for us Christians, therefore, one of the motives for our giving is to be found faithful. To be found faithful is one of our motives for giving. We are found faithful. When Paul was speaking, he said those who are stealing should steal no more. They should go and do what? Walk with their hands. Wh...
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I was curious, why a primary school? You see, I had a way with children. That when they're around me, they get excited. There's something about me when I'm in their presence. I won't go and sit down with adults who don't respect my presence. My grace is not with them. Are you getting my point? Does ...
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That's why I'm doing a lot of repetition, until people are established in the truth. Our aim is that Christians must be generous and cheerful givers. Generous and ready to share. Romans chapter 12, I just want to pick up the scripture again. He said, we all have gifts that differ according to the gi...
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The principle here is simple. We used to think, until E.G. Links pointed this out to me when I was reading his book, I also used to think like that, that it's about proportions. But he pointed out that look at it, it's not about proportion, it's about what you have to live on. About what you have to...
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we give for the preparation of the gospel, we give to those God said we should honor. Every day you go home, honor your parents. I've said that one. I don't want to teach that message again. All right, help those who are in need. These are things, and like I said last time, these are things we deter...
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How many people give one million? Some people jump up quickly. Many people just stand up, all right? Be counted. Just stand up, be counted. That's it. I went to preach once. One brother was telling me, one of the people in their church, that that guy, they wanted to do a major, and he has money. The...
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Begin to give the Lord thanks. Begin to, everybody give God thanks. Say, Lord, thank you. Thank you for our ability. My own grace. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for our ability. Thank you for our ability. Thank you for our ability. Thank you for our ability. I release that giving grace to those wh...
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Now all of us will communicate the gospel. All of us will be able to teach the word of God to somebody. But we are not all teachers by our ministry and our gifts. In the same manner, every Christian should give. That's a matter of fact. Every Christian should give. What I've given us so far is the g...
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The real seed is what is inside my heart while I'm giving the money. Are you getting my point here? You can't sow 10,000 naira. That's not true. You can't do it. You can't do it. If you wanted to sow 10,000 naira, it means you bought 10,000 naira yam and you are bringing it from Benue to Enugu. That...
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Insulting the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the second sin. Instead of you to accept his forgiveness, that he has paid for by his blood, you are trying to give to do it. That's a wrong motive. We said, of course, also very importantly, which will surprise many Christians, another wrong motive is giving ...
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Because you folded the tracts. You have a website. In fact, one of my friends from the UK, he actually sent me, my classmate of mine is a minister, he's in UK, all right? He said, ah, he said, you have a very strong web presence. Apparently, he did a small search. Boom, we came out on top, top. All ...
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and then everything is like 300,000 there. And my siblings expect me alone to bring all the money. I think it's very wrong of them to expect you alone to bring all the money. But there may be a reason why they expect you alone to bring all the money. Are you getting my point? No, it's very important...
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You won't just be good on the road. You're here, boom, on your head. You look. You look on the floor, a bundle of Naira. And the angel says, my son, thus says the Lord, pick that money. That would be stealing. That's counterfeiting. The angels are now guilty of counterfeiting currency. Where did the...
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Like I said last time, you know the Brazilian head at Agbor is going to remove from some people's head. Six months, they are paying for Brazilian hair. And they say, go to jail. Say, I don't have money to give. How can you have money to give? You are giving the woman who is selling hair. But if you ...
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They come in here, they sit down. Everybody say, oh, we are hearing the word. Our seats are comfortable. The ambience is good. And they are thinking, I wonder how much they are paying to make the place comfortable. That's what he's thinking about. He doesn't have much. Sometimes he doesn't even have...
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So God said, I want to bless these people, but their minds is where? America. So once I give them small blessing, they used to buy printed notes. But that's not my main message is those who said, you are in the given ministry. By default, you are in the given ministry. How did you get into it by def...
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Are you okay? I said, well, let me think about it. I said, okay, what if we do like this? Oh, plan. Then at the end of the day, I collect my car and I come here. And they say, oh, Banky has a new car. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Did the car walk in here by itself? I proposed in my heart and I went ...
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You go to Joseph, pastor, how far, what's the budget? Pastor say, oh, everything we have since we were 15 million. Pastor, take the 15, don't announce the bad money again. Tell the agent, we know they buy again. It's a matter of fact that the material things are vanity. That's why God gave it the mo...
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They'll put in a hundred, they'll put in a million dollars, it'll turn to $400 million. It's called grace. It's not a principle of show and you shall reap. No, it's grace. And such people, one thing that will mark them, they are not, that's something you must understand about Christianity. Most of t...
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That is why, those of you who know me, know me well enough, I don't have time for all this, if you don't give God 10%, he will send you to hellfire. Because if you give me 10%, I will send you to the second hellfire. Because the amount of money I've given you, if you and me calculate the percentage,...
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What does it say? To put such a person in office, the people have to spend money. They have to spend money. They have to gather and put money down. So you see, God is interested in such things, so he also puts people there to do such things. So sometimes you find that people may have their grace in ...
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Henceforth, because of you, people won't talk about money again. Listen, it will come to a time, a pastor will know you and come to you and say, listen, we have a program next week, it's five million, how much are you bringing? You say, okay, I will give you the five million, but it's not good. So t...
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One of the other things we try to explain is that it's not only what we call spiritual that is the work of God. Because after we have walked in our hearts, God has something for us to do. But like we say here, we saw here, God has gifts for everybody and there are different types. It is not everybod...
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And now, it's not as if we're not enjoying, of course, you know. There's no enjoyment in it. But because we did that, God said, let us now add grace. I told you, testimony. We now have a quarterly program in Port Harcourt. The next one, you can mark the date, is February 3rd and February 4th. The ne...
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I'm not emphasizing that there are two, I'm emphasizing one part. This issue of grace. God, if he gives you a gift, he gives you the ability to exercise it. So such people, what he starts doing is that he starts pouring grace in their direction. For example, the more I preach, the more I teach the w...
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park the three of them here, let me share to me, and then like two cameras, put all of them together. Let a man of God drive, let the men in the ministry drive, before you start flying like an idiot around the place. We're flying anyhow. Rubbish flying. I mean, you cannot fly until everybody's walki...
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Ah, the bank lent him money. He gave it out. God replenished it. He said, I want to see how much a man who grew up in poverty can give in a lifetime. Only I tell you, Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. Don't mind those things. That man, nobody knows how much he has given because he's not ou...
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Iranians run to America, Syrians run to America, Afghans run to America, Saudis run to America. Everybody wants to go to America. And once everybody wants to go there, they will not be poor. I see the way we talk, you know, dollar, dollar. I say, why is dollar our international measure of wealth? Wh...
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What he did not tell you is that for the last 15 years, there has been no currency change in the world that the angels of God did not inform me about at least six months ahead. That's what he didn't tell you. What he wouldn't tell you is that he would tell you, I know the day they are going to dereg...
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The Bible says, quench not the spirit, don't obstruct the flow of his grace. Don't cancel him away from his grace. That's why I need to teach this, because a lot of Christians don't know, they have that grace. They are not exercising it, so God is not adding to it. Let's talk about this, because as ...
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And when he's going out, he whoosh, Corolla, Toyota Corolla, model, seven years old. So you've not changed your car, are you still walking well? He doesn't see why he should change it. God didn't give him money for changing cars. He gave him money to preach the gospel, feed the poor, educate, that i...
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I'm not a musician, I don't know much about music market and all of that, but I will teach. Somebody will get inspiration to record music. Someone will get inspiration to market music in a different way. That's what's gonna happen. Please don't miss it. The laws of fruitfulness. Let's give the Lord ...
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He's not only preaching spending money on. He's spending money on feeding the poor. He's spending money on the homeless. He's spending money on the fatherless, the motherless, you know, the orphans. God is spending money on different things. Listen to this to surprise some people. He's even spending...
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His friends tell him that, you always give, you always give. I mean, what you don't have? God sends $20,000 into his hands, and his friends say, listen, this is time for you to buy a new pair of shoes or change your phone or something like that. And they come. Okay, let's go and buy the phone. Say, ...
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Those are the things you use to kindle your spirit. Are you getting my point here? You kindle something inside the ghost that says, hey, Joseph, wait, don't mind those boys. You know what they are saying? You just see one paper, you see one hidden column in which somebody expresses something. And th...
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There was less than 200,000 a year. And there was no money. Personally, I didn't have, ministry did not have. If I had personally, that's what ministry was at the beginning. My wife and I paid for everything. I didn't have, ministry did not have. I was praying, ah, father. Then I was lying on my sta...
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He says, since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly. If prophecy, each person is to exercise his gift according to the proportion of his faith. If service, exercise your gift in your serving, in your serving according to the proport...
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Giving a man, have a young man, a young woman make 15 million every weekend is as easy. After all, what is, by grace we understand. It's not understand, you understood. In the same manner, he can give you information. Invest in this. And you're not a gambler. Gamblers are those who don't know what's...
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Now what I'm going to say, let me just read my main message, OK? And that's the fact that, listen, OK? This is a fact. It is not a part-time job. It's an important job. If you see somebody who decides to do it well, honor the person. This world makes it look like, oh, you see a woman, she has achiev...
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And he will stand. What is the Lord saying? The Lord says, I want you to stop investing here. Henceforth, all your investment go to this side. Do you get the point? You say, yes, I do. And the angel will carry his briefcase and walk out through the wall. And the man will call the board meeting the n...
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I will make you so rich, you will be embarrassed. You know the kind of riches that embarrass you? You see the people who say that countries are countries, and you are wondering, how can a country be hard? I just made 500 million yesterday, and I didn't even leave my house. You know that's what I cal...
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They have 5,000, they gladly give out four. They have 10,000, sometimes they've given out everything before they realize they've started giving. Listen, that grace is amplified now in the name of Jesus. Lord, send financial laborers into the harvest field. Father, release those laborers now as a res...
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in the name of Jesus Christ. Alright, the Lord is good. I said the Lord is good. Now let's open our Bibles to the book of Romans chapter 12. I just want to take a text of scripture for us to start with and then we will take a small review. Then I teach what I have for us for today and then of course...
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They have bills to pay. If they write a letter to Dangote, it is a sin to come and help. Yeah, it's true, it's a sin to come and help them pay. It is those who are there that God expects. No, your pastor shouldn't be every time believing God for money. Yeah, I'm not saying you should not believe God...
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Grace for abundance. Grace for abundance. Yeah, that's what we're talking about. Let's leave it there so we can go home. Let's have some food. I want us to pray. Let's just take a few minutes and pray. I feel that this is one ministry that pastors have not taught well, mostly because they are not we...
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to support the work of the ministry. 90%, 90. There was a time he sold his old company, was worth many millions of dollars in the 70s, and then he took everything, it was in the news, that this crazy man, they knew him to be a crazy fellow, but this new one he was doing was the height of madness. He...
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Tonight, those who want release, they will put 50 or the amplification of 50. If you put in 5,000, God said he will save everybody in your house. I say, yeah. Have you not heard it? But I've explained to you, don't be angry. Again, be angry on the other side. That God, please, give me money to shut ...
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Amen. May you be that kind of pastor in Jesus' name. That's my desire too. But there's another side. Not all men have faith. People have different levels of faith. When school fees is due, they start preaching all kinds of doctrines. In the name of Jesus, as you sow into the life of the man of God, ...
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But God can't bring it to an end until he shares all this grace in the hearts of his people. The one pastor who wants to start a radio. We thank God, at the end of the day, we preach for five minutes and beg for five minutes. That is the embarrassment. I wish I had money to send all of that. Please,...
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You wanted to give it before, but because they said cement went up because of recession, you caught the offering of the man of God. You now provoked him to lie. I will flog him for lying. But you, for inciting lying. Listen to me, before you start criticizing the man of God, ask yourself, am I part ...
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is the spiritual substance inside it, because you are sowing into the realm of the spirit. Are you getting what I'm trying to make there? So this is how it is. When I give, alright, whether it's naira or dollar or corn, whatever it is that I'm giving, it is the motivation behind my mind that counts ...
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For by the standard of measure that is used, it will be measured to you in return. Now people say that what Jesus was saying is go out, give so that you can get. I said no. He did not say give so it can be given to you. He said give and it shall be given to you. What was he saying? It's a principle....
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The woman looked, I should come into this car. She entered the car. The guy dropped her in the village. The woman looked and said, God, that God bless you. Only God knows how he's going to bless you. That is, I don't know what else to say. Listen to me. I said before, your life, listen to me, God ne...
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You can read the book of Leviticus 23, but let me just read verse 22. It says, when you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor gather the glen of your harvest. You are to leave them for the needy and the alien. He says, I am the Lord your G...
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And he's looking for people who contribute money for him. He didn't understand what was going on in my mind. I jumped up, opened my box, looked for the money I had, and quickly gave it to him. One of my friends was there. He was wondering, like, wait, what just happened? I said, I just gave that guy...
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that because of the multitude of their joy, they were extremely generous. Anybody can be generous. I remember many years ago, Somebody, now, this was many years ago. This was around 1989, 89, 90. I was in the university then. And if you don't understand, students don't have money. Most students don'...
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We don't give to God. I've been explaining that for the last few broadcasts now. We don't give to God because we want to get from him. We don't give to God because we want to receive a blessing. It is not possible to deliberately. Listen, I need to emphasize this. Even though I know it's very common...
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He said, I know. This is the time to sell it. He was trying to say something. Now this is what he was saying. He said, sell it at a very good price. That is a very low price. Let the person who buy from you, let him be happy. That was some time ago. I didn't complain to him that the car had a proble...
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What about her son? She said, I have enough just to make a meal for two people, my son and myself. The prophet said, but I am hungry. I said, OK, you can have my own. Are you getting my point? She said, look, listen, it is possible to give out of the depths of your own poverty. And I can prove that ...
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But I'm going to explain something. God is everywhere and we must recognize it. That's why along the line we're talking about the fact that it is not only preachers that are working for God, even secular people, all right? A policeman is supposed to be working for God, all right? A taxi driver is wo...
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When my steps, please notice this, when my steps were bathed in butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil, he said, when I went out to the gates of the city, describing all the glory around him, the young men saw me, I'm jumping verses now, and hid themselves, and the old men arose and s...
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So he put a rope there, and he said, the only things I have left in life are these two wraps of Moi Moi. So let me eat my Moi Moi first, and then I will go and hang myself, because I want to depart from this wicked, wicked world. And as he was eating his Moi Moi, one man was standing that far, watch...
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You don't rob Peter to pay Paul. What belongs to the poor, you don't give to the man of God. What belongs to the man of God, you don't give to your parents. What belongs to your parents, you don't give to the preaching of the gospel. As we go on, we'll see it. It is spiritual intelligence to know ho...
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Let it increase. Let the time come also that you'll watch a TV. After two, three years of watching a 23 or 21 inch tube TV, God now increases you. You buy a bigger one, or you now buy a flat screen TV. Some people now carry the old one and go to the market and say, how much can you give me for it? G...
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You saw somebody who was thirsty, you did not give him water to drink. You saw a stranger that was stranded or somebody who was naked, you were not of help to that person. Then you are coming before me, I said, Lord, I've done a lot of things for you. God said, no. The very day I came and I needed s...
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A lot of people believe they are not idolaters because they do not have a shigiri in the house. You know what I'm saying? They do not have an idol somewhere that they bow to. They do not have a stone upon which they pour libation or sacrifice a cock every month. They don't have all those things. So ...
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Welcome to this time of Refreshing. This is a radio message that was pitched from the platform of Kingdom Word Ministries by Pastor Banki. We are speaking on how to walk for God and I'd like to remind everybody again that I have a book out there titled How to Walk for God. The book is, I wrote a lot...
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So the man started chasing the dog. He said, bingo, bingo, come back here. The man showed the bingo thinking. He said, who's that? I think I'm going to sit down here and you're going to take Ogboju and chop my portion. You've eaten the meat, I'm not talking. It's time for the bone. Come on, leave it...
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He said, depart from me. Why should they depart? And go into eternal fire, which has been prepared for the devil and his angels. This is the reason I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger, and you did not invite me in. And the s...
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Nevertheless, you have done well to share with me my affliction. You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you alone. For even in Thessalonica, you sent a gift more than ...
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How can you spend 100,000 Naira on hair? And you're not giving double that as a regular offering. That's what I mean. You're a sinner. Father God, whoever is like that, may teeth yank it off as she's walking on the road. Otherwise, there's repentance. You can redeem your hair. It's very simple. Go o...
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is because they don't want to stop stealing. Many criminals give to church. Those gifts are not acceptable. Are you getting my point? There are so many of them, we don't want to get, start talking about them. Oh, let me just say this. Even when you have repented, truly repented, you're no longer a s...
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you will see the reward is really not even what the person did. A woman came and honored the man of God, Elisha. Elisha, he didn't sow a child into her life, into his life. And it's when he blessed him back, she delivered the son. That's what Elisha did. And that's why Paul said that my God shall su...
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I like the food. But if my wife decides to save double portion of what I really want to eat, and I say, okay, I've eaten enough. And she says, no, instead of made food, wait for this house. Belen must have lost. Then she stands there and she stands there and says, my husband, there's no wastage. You...
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There are different people you give to, and it's that you are giving to God. Let me just explain something again. We are debunking things. Giving is a work of God, amen? Amen. Giving is a work of God, and God loves a cheerful giver. I need to emphasize something to us again. God is not only in churc...
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It is relevant. It is relevant. What I produce for you or not does not determine the fertility of the ground. What makes a fertile ground is whether the fellow is in need or is not in need. Do you get my point? Are you able to say that, listen, the good place to plant in this ministry that's winning...
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God said, you bring to me animals with defects. He said, take them to your governor. Malachi was talking to the people of Israel. That tells us something. He said, take them to your governors. Will they accept those things from your hands? What does that tell you? It tells us something. You say, oka...
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He's still flying first class. That's why in Christianity, laws are so difficult. One of our brothers, he lives in a company where, he laughs when they say that your tithe is not complete, he laughs. He said, I earn well, I thank God. He said, my friends who live outside here, earn the same amount o...
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Everything we do in life as believers, like I said, motive counts. They must be propelled by faith. And the Bible says faith works by love. So everything is because of the love of God and the love of the brethren. That's it. Everything is deciphered from inside those two things. Upon these two comma...
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We are at the place we give to, and we say we are giving to God. That's what I want to just bring out here. How to give, which proportion to give, we'll talk about later. Let me just drop this proportion thing for us, and we'll see, it's interesting. I learned this one from E.G. Links. Let me ask yo...
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So we're not giving to him because we want protection. Very important we understand that. Our motives count. Why are we giving to God? The simple reason, I'll put it in two areas. The simple reason why we are giving is one, we love God. Two, we love the brethren. Every other thing is a manifestation...
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Even though he has given 90%, E.G. Link said he has not given as much as a person who had 50,000 and gave 10,000. Because living on 40,000, or when you have two children that are going to school, is hard. He proved it from scripture. He said, Jesus said, this woman gave all she had to live on. He sa...
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500,000, stand up. Now, I'm not saying it's always totally wrong. There will be occasions once in a while, maybe you are close brethren together, you want to be sure the money is complete, and it's not like we are sowing seed, offering, okay, how much are you going to give? You give us 5,000, all ri...
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because the Lord does not see as man sees. Man looks at the outside. God was saying to Samuel, but I, the Lord, I look at the heart. Peter called the inward man of the heart. So the man, when God says somebody's a cheerful giver, it means he's not a dancer. He's not the, okay, today let's dance as w...
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In God's word, in his totality. And then apportion resources according to the needs that God gives, makes clear to you. Apportion people's monies equally. Are you getting my point? That's one major thing you need wisdom for. To set your money down and say, this one belongs to here, it belongs to her...
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That's the offerings of honor is not offering of lack. Not if a person is hungry, no. When you're honoring people, what they have is irrelevant. Therefore, you give to the poor, the needy. And one of them is widows of your household. We'll talk about that. What are the widows of your household? Youn...
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I allow it to flow. So as a preacher, what do you do? You make sure all the time you are well fed with God's word. You keep on filling your heart with understanding, filling your heart with information, filling your heart with the knowledge of God. So that, what that does is to boost, listen, I'm no...
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It's not the thing itself. It is the spirit. When we're talking about giving and working for God. How to give and it is a work of God. Remember, it is the spirit. It is not the flesh. When you are giving, it is not money. Money in itself is nothing. When you are giving, it is not food. Food, bread i...
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Are we getting my point here? It's important. Let's get it clear. It's so important. You see, if you don't understand these things, serving God is going to be burdensome. Now listen to this. Our motives count with God. So we must get our motives right. We must get our motives right. And I've been ex...
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That's why James said it, you have not because you ask not. And when you do ask, you don't get because you ask wrongly. What is it? You are competing. So I'm gonna emphasize to us, when it comes to working for God and the area of giving, the motives we have in our hearts, they count. So we must have...
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I said, she's selling bread. So what? Never ask a person if they sell better bread. Did I say she opens her way to the Bible? Let's read Philippians chapter 4 and continue our journey. I'm saying all of this to let us understand and listen. That's why faith is weak many times. People really, their h...
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Nobody practices like that. James said, you have not because you ask not. When you ask, you don't get, it is because you ask wrongly. Your motives are wrong. And we're going to see it. He said, I, the Lord, I test the heart. I want to emphasize that. As Christians, listen, it's very important. As Ch...
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Why? It's free will. Let me get back to it again. We began like this. For us Christians, we don't do it because we're trying to, what am I saying now? We walk in a manner pleasing to God all the time, but we're not doing this because we want to get something out of him. We're not doing this because ...
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I will not neglect to remind you of these things. So for those of us who have been together here, what I'll be doing today is reminding us of these things. But for everybody else, if you are new, then maybe you are hearing our own opinion, which is the Word of God we believe for the first time. But ...
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God saw that they were showing love to the saints. Are you getting my point here? It was that love they were showing to the saints that he was focusing on. People think that the principle of give, you just give and God will just reward it back. I will explain the principle again. When it comes to mo...
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How many books should be in my office here? So that I had compassion. You know, when you're in something, are you getting my point? You feel for people. Why am I saying all of these things? Sometimes that is where the problem with not being a giver reflects our lack of faith. That's why I so thoroug...
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This is what I would like done. I've told us before, the most important thing about this, our prayer, we are praying all the time is to cleanse our hearts of all defilement. Because when we come to God and say, Lord, I need a new car. I need a new car. He's looking at you. This boy doesn't need a ne...
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Lord, I thank you. Jesus has paid for everything. Thank you, it's free. Thank you. I am your child. Jesus paid for everything. I'm serving you because you own me. Not because I want to get something from you, but because you own me totally. Oh Lord, thank you, thank you, thank you. I worship you, yo...
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Like I said at the beginning, this series is titled The True Service of God. That's what I've been looking at. And what we are talking about is, again, just using different words to explain how people are supposed to work for God. We're just teaching how to work for God, how people are supposed to d...
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You buy cosmetics. Oh, let's not talk about your hair. You know women and hair. Thank God for natural hair is raining now. Somebody say amen. For maintaining natural hair, you wish that they would use Brazilian hair. This natural hair. My mom brought coconut oil the other day. It be like eye drop, 3...
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And you see, under the new covenant, all right, let me just really say this, people will ask the question, why did God not receive the sacrifice of Cain? Was it because, all right, he was not a blood sacrifice? Was it because he was not the best? And I've heard those arguments, that if it is not the...
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You are using phone as if you are Don Capro. You know Don Capro? There's one guy who I read his blog. He writes on, you know, tech things. You are using phone like Don Capro. He does that because he has to write. One of my friends said that, he said that, my son is with my Note 4. I said, wait, how ...
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Now listen, let me tell you something about burden. For us Christians, our things must be spiritual. Are you getting my point? It is not about cash. It's not about cash. Because listen, a man can have a million and give a 100%, but it's not burdensome. Do you know why? Because the Bible says it's as...
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It's like everything that goes up must come down. That particular principle did not talk about motive. And God said, however, I, the Lord, let's read that. Very important, in the match of the 17. For time's sake, I just read out to you because mine is already open. From verse nine, he said, the hear...
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That was the only thing he said. Listen, because of course you can understand there are many reasons for it, but one of them, well let me not even go into the reason. But generally, that's how God is. So let us bear this in mind. So it's not every sacrifice that he accepts. So the problem therefore ...
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if the gospel is being preached, and I'm a true believer, and I'm gonna talk about that one of these days. See, giving is a sign of faith. Go and listen to the series we taught here earlier on this year, Total Faith. If you listen to that message, that series, you realize a lot of Christians don't h...
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If you could jump inside and save all of them, would you like to do it?" The son said, yes. He said, what if I told you to do it, you would become a fish and remain a fish forever? The boy looked like he did joke. I would die for a fish, stay with them permanently? Forget, fish, all of them are peri...
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was transportation money to put fuel inside our big vehicle to carry four of us and our equipment. And then we paid to Magic FM to run the adverts for one week. Because the cover, I mean, it's just 15 minutes from Riversdale, you know? So they covered that place very well. We didn't spend a cobble b...
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Sunday, you shine it again and it starts again. It's called Kakaroro, otherwise known as never say die. Are you getting my point? When you have something like that, okay, that is when you give. You see, you check the need. You're not trying to impress anybody. You check the need. The person you are ...
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rior personality.
“So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs but on God who has mercy.”
That is why He can give freely, and the Lord loves him for it.
Be a cheerful giver.
An average person you meet is a cheerful and excited receiver. To correct this, Jesus had to expla...
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is one sure way that you can put yourself in a place that is beyond average with God.
“He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, his righteousness abides forever.”
Who is a cheerful giver?
A cheerful giver is one who knows that of all the resources that come into his hands, a portion is ...
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snacks and ice cream after the service. I am of the opinion that you should prepare your offering together as a family so that the children will see the respect with which you give to God’s assembly.
Let me state again that you must also give to yourself, and to your spouse. It was OK to pinch penn...
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CHEERFUL GIVER
The Bible tells us clearly the attitude of God towards the cheerful giver. It says in 2Corinthians 9,7 that“…God loves a cheerful giver.”
Now, we have to understand that when God loves, it is not with the same attitude and effect as when man loves. You see, if I told you I love a la...
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e made it clear that the word of God is that a man must give to his parents. Study Malachi 1,6-8 and you will see that the Lord expects you to honour your parents by giving to them good quality gifts.
Crumbs are what you give to beggars; that was all that Lazarus desired from the rich man at whose ...
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For example, the world says you are to save up for the rainy day, but God says
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
These are the words from the mouth of the Lord Jesus Himself. He started that sentence with “theref...
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t will make you happy; get some good luxuries in life. No matter how much we have ridiculed the statement from the mouth of prosperity preachers, it is still the truth that “my God is not a poor God.”
There is no glory in poverty; the only glory while in poverty is the glory that you have in hope. ...
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at God admires a cheerful giver; it does not mean He loves to see them in church. No. Rather you understand that it means that God delights in adding His blessings to the one that is a cheerful giver.
Let me quickly add something here. See, if the Bible took the space to tell us that God loves a ch...
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But anytime we are doing in life, we are doing because we are born servants of Christ. He said he died for all, so that those who live will no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose again on their behalf. When we are living, we are living for him. That's what we are talking about....
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Being a giver is what we must become. That's what the spirit of Christ in us has made us. We are givers. We are givers. Say, Lord, I thank you. Lord, I thank you. Lord, I thank you. Lord, we thank you. Lord, we thank you. Let's commit ourselves again. Say, Lord, we are givers. Say, Lord, I am a give...
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Paul was emphatic about it. He said, let him walk so he will have something to give. He took it for granted that the purpose for having is so you can give. Come on, make allowance for generosity. That's what I'm talking about. Let me close, the Lord is good. Now as you are doing this, that you are w...
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It's not only when you come to church that you are giving to God. When you are doing all of these other things, you are giving to God. When you are giving towards the advancement of the gospel, you are giving to God. When you are honoring people you are supposed to honor, you are giving to God. When...
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All right, if you want to be a giver, be a giver. I said these are the reasons that Christians give. Number one, because God has given to them. That's one. He gave us first before we can give back to him. We don't give him so he can give back to us. No, he gave us, that's why we can give to him. Go ...
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giving so as to attain righteousness. What I mean is that when I finish giving, God will look at me and know I'm a good child. Again, that is not acceptable to God. The one that is very popular, I wanted to leave it till last, but that's the next I have to say, and that is giving so that you can pro...
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He lost both ways. That's when he wrote. He said, what will I do? We replied him and said, you see, God has now saved you. He has delivered you from wrong doctrines. If you had given what you were asking for, you would have said, I got this by the strength of my principles for the glory of my knowle...
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The Lord is good. I feel like praying. God will lift you up to that level in Jesus name. Giving will be your habit in the name of Jesus. I said giving will be your habit in the name of Jesus. God will lift you to that level in Jesus name. Poverty is not your portion in the name of Jesus. Your hand w...
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That's what, look, if we live like this, you will see the power of God released into our finances. The reason why, God, these guys, they are praying, praying every day. I said, let me say, I said, you should listen to, okay, I think they have some of them produced that I preached last Sunday in Mako...
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If they know the truth, it will be difficult for them to be tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. So that's what we need to do. We need to spend time again to teach people how do you give as a way of working for God so that they will know the right thing to do. because many people, they have ...
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The field for multiplying money is business, banking, investments. That is a field. So if you say, this 1,000 Naira hack, I will make it 10,000. We say, OK, let us go and be idiots and join MMM Nigeria. Are you getting my point? We can do that one. But at least they are dealing in what? In money. So...
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If I work hard, I get maybe, I get to do a job and all of that, and they pay me, and I get a million, as an example. It's nice, amen? But as a preacher, if somebody you bless give you 10,000 Naira, it tastes different. There was a time I told my wife, if they give me drink, nobody should open before...
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So we give. Loving is part of us. So giving is an expression of our love. That is why you cannot give because you want to get. Otherwise, that wouldn't be love. That would be selfishness. The seed that is behind the substance in that situation is selfishness. It's not the spirit of love. And Paul sa...
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for it. We prepare for it. And I believe that that's how Christians should give. That's just my own. Prepare also. Stop, you know, people say that should Christians, you know, you can't give if you don't have. I agree. I know you can't borrow to give, I agree. But listen to me. If you borrow to spen...
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to excuse yourself from attending a wedding. Amen. A young man, a young woman, they'll come to invite you for the wedding and say, ah, you will look your wife, look your husband. How do we do this? We can't attend. Ah, they will feel bad though. You know, they really, really respect us. Ah, how do w...
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If giving is not a habit, you're not come to give to a man of God, a pastor, a prophet. Think you'll reap something. Know the truth, you won't reap anything. You are an idolater. You must first be a giver before your giving counts. Did you hear that? He said, ask for Cain and his offering. God accep...
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What she didn't say, which is good she didn't say it, is you people won't live forever, you know? She shouldn't say that, but that was the idea. It's true. Your parents are not going to live forever. So you can't live annoying them till when everything is settled. When you finish building your house...
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It's one day when your parents are having grandchildren, that's why you know you give them some, that is when you're having children, you know, they're not grandparents. As soon as you left school, settle them. Make it priority. The fellowship you attended on campus, you graduated. Honor them, they ...
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He honors his maker. So don't forget that when we are giving to people who are in need, that's another way by which a Christian gives to God. Let me take it and let me interrupt somewhere, please. I'll come back to this in a moment. There's something I wanted to emphasize as I was going on. Those of...
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It's not wickedness. No, it's not wickedness. Like they say, in that condition, make refuge, bend for back. It's not wickedness. So they know that if the guy gets admission, my stomach and my pocket will get recession. So they are trying to balance the two. Like one man, the wife was in labor. The w...
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There's what they call the law of gleaning. There are times you are the one collecting gleaning. The time will come, you are the one gleaning. Just know you're facing that, there's no need to quarrel. You want to show that your boss in the office that anybody can do it. Your boss, you know the Bible...
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So I have to ask for money. My own money comes free will offering. Now I'm not, now please get me, all right? I'm not trying to say I agree with all the methods that my brethren use. I'm not saying that. But the need is real. I'm not teaching today now specifically on how to give to the work of mini...
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Now, what I'm trying to say is that those days I used to walk on fours. But does that make me a donkey? I'm not a donkey. I can walk on fours, and children will climb my back. I will be laughing all over the house, and I'll be walking. But that doesn't make me a donkey. So like somebody said, just b...
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So if you're in the 30% tax bracket, then to honor God, you give American government 30%, then you have to find a way to route 30% to God. Otherwise, you're a thief and you're a robber. I'm sure you don't want to tie it again. After the one I've said, you're not interested anymore. Yes, and that's w...
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Your landlord gave you notice 12 months ago. I hope you know that. It's not when it's time to pay, you not start telling him stories. He gave you notice 12 months ago. His rent started becoming due all of a sudden. Like the man that said, doesn't know what's going on. This is 24 hours, not the last ...
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And that's why occasionally, I don't, it's not as if I say that you must celebrate birthdays, but let celebration be around you once in a while. Let your neighbors come to your house and eat. Find an excuse. Call it Thanksgiving. I moved into a new house, not your house you rented, but you just move...
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Listen, I want to dare somebody here. Tomorrow, give three times what you have ever given before, whatever. We won't be open tomorrow, so I'm not raising an offering here, as you can see. Tomorrow, give three times what you have ever given, and say to the Lord, thank you for that privilege. It feels...
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I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me. Then, man, let's notice. Then the righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you? Or ...
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No, Steve gave me this one. Everybody knows he can buy 10,000. We know. But let him be able to say, Steve gave me this one. It's called honor. There's pride in it. Are you getting my point here? So my father doesn't need my money. It's irrelevant. Gifts of honor are not dictated by need. When they b...
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You are getting my principle here. They were ready to move. So if you have to go to the Lord to say, I have done something, you are careful to end with, Lord, I hope we did it well. Is there another thing you want us to do? So you give an offering, 50,000 Naira. Say, Lord, thank you. I saw when I gi...
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How did he pay it? When he came back, if he had 100,000 sheep, he took 10,000 sheep, he and his servants took a day, and they slaughtered all of them, put them in a heap and burnt them to ashes. That was how he gave it to God. And the Lord smelt a sweet-smelling savor in heaven. He wasted it. That's...
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I was laughing. I said, this one has not prayed this morning. He's joking. This one has not fasted. He's joking. This one has not blessed the Lord. He's joking. He wants to live long. God said, get away from there. If you want to live long, kneel down. Let's talk. Listen, you don't go to God. I said...
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For that reason, if I say I love somebody, there is a tangible way it will express itself. If I say I'm honoring somebody, there is a tangible way it will express itself. For that reason, we're talking about giving now, so let me stay on it. So when I am giving, therefore, when I'm giving, it is not...
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That was a commandment. It's not the same that we practice now. That's why I'm saying that. For that reason, Christians have learned this habit of giving as if it's a joke. People who want to give to ministry, you pay the same amount for gala. The same attitude. I'm sorry, that's my problem. That's ...
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What are you doing with all this, your GT bank app, Zenit bank app, Access bank app? You should have coded your church or ministry, whatever you are giving to, one of you, what do you call them now? Registered beneficiary. They should be a regularly registered beneficiary. And as soon as they pay th...
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Even though Elijah Ali Kodango is the richest Nigerian, we will not go to him and say, sir, we want to preach. He said he was a Christian. What's his title? Elijah. Which church is that? It's not a Christian, so we won't go to him. We will not go to him. When it comes to the preaching of the gospel,...
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But then, that's what we are talking about, there are also other areas. A giver handles every area and does not have the mind locked on, let me do the one that God sees, because God sees everyone. That's what I'm trying to emphasize. That's why we read that portion, that the time that they did those...
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We are removing from the name of Jesus if we have something else in our mind apart from what he did. In this season, Christ must be magnified again. He must be magnified. In churches, we have taken too much of him away. We have magnified principles. We have magnified principles too much. God is a pe...
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You decide by yourself. You take that, you put it in. Oh, this man has been a blessing. Oh, Pastor Banki has blessed me. I would like to buy him recharge card. Okay, I don't want to do it every month. Once in a while, this is what I will give. Know that my pastor special, I know that I'm part of the...
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So this is how good servants behave. They say we are unworthy servants, unprofitable, understand? King James say we are unprofitable servants. We have only done that which we are supposed to do. The word unprofitable doesn't mean we are useless. It just means that there's no profit for us in what we...
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So she did a little shopping, she cooled, and went back home. Next day, waiting for the Lord, the Lord didn't show up. She saw him at that note. And the Lord said, it was nice meeting you again. Thank you for the money. And that quote was very helpful. Did you get the gist? Thank you for the money. ...
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And the people that did the things that were evil did not even know when they did them too. Listen, let's digress again. Make the doing of good a habit. You don't know when it's being counted. I am certain of what I want to say. Once you deliberately give an offering for a purpose, it cannot count. ...
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It's true. When I say the new one has come, I say the old one is still working. Thank you very much. And you are saying it because you know everything about scale of preference. You put things on their proper positions. This idea of new phone doesn't fit. You take the old one, buy new battery for it...
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I just want to bring a principle from it. God was talking about the offerings and sacrifices that he commanded them to give. But there was something he now said. Verse six. He said, a son honors his father. Malachi chapter one, verse six. A servant honors his master. He said, then if I am a father, ...
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I'm telling you, it's not like, look, the only reason why you're eating, just want to waste, it's a waste. You know that, if you give me this 15,000, I know what I will cook in the house. We know. It's just that it's a deal of waste. I'm just watching my time. There are things we do for the Lord, an...
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One temple is under the law. They say it's not under the law, it was before the law. There are two sides. There was Abraham titled before the law, but the title we preach today is the one under the law. Because the title of Abraham was voluntary, it was not compulsory. It had the blessing, it didn't...
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things except you are first put seed in the ground. That thing is not true. You can't give to God until he has given to you. God only accepts things that he has put into your life. That's just the way it is. What God expects from his children is faithfulness. What God expects from his children is fa...
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Welcome to this time of Refreshing. This is a radio message that was pitched from the platform of Kingdom Word Ministries by Pastor Banki. Now we've been speaking about how to work for God, and we've been focusing on giving and working for God. I've taken up the assignment of trying to correct some ...
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as a way by which we practice generosity. Generosity must be practiced. Are you getting my point? God expects us to be faithful in handling his resources. And part of our assignment is to be generous. We are not doing it because we want to get. We are doing it because God is the one that gives to us...
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honor. And if you do it, that honor involves giving. That's what we just read from the scriptures. It does. When you do it, you are doing it for god. It's one of the ways by which you give to god. We'll continue from that point next time. You have just listened to a radio message by Pastor Banki. Mo...
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He was saying that if you have a close relative and you don't help the person, even though you have the means, he said you are worse. Listen, you have denied the faith and you are worse than an unbeliever. Go to church tomorrow and start wondering how many people in that church, including you, yours...
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What am I trying to say? There are those that God commanded that you should honor as people. The Bible says it clearly. It is, therefore, a commandment of God that you must give to God through them. Do you know the way I put it? You know, let me just say this. A friend of mine the other day, he call...
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that have the means to take care of her, she's not a widow indeed. He said, such people, that is those her children or close relatives, they should practice generosity first, like I was saying, towards her, such a person. He said, listen to what he said. If any widow has children or grandchildren, l...
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or she's a businesswoman. She can be anything. And then she's earning money. Then at the end of the month, she tells her husband, where is job money? Children are going back to school. Where is the school fees? It's time to pay rent. Where is rent money? And the husband is not allowed to talk becaus...
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And he who speaks evil of father and mother, let him be put to death. Those are the commandments of God. Now, but how did they overturn the commandments of God? If you read verse 11, it says, but you say, if a man says to his father or his mother, anything of mine you might have been helped by is co...
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n that money right now to this ministry or this TV station. As we are preaching the word of God with your money, God will be moving in your business. Get ready for a message that will save your home.”
“Your seed must be painful for it to bear fruit for you. Can’t you see that these people gave what...
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her mind or actions (Ps 15:1,4). She also had a passion for the progress of work in her assembly. She did not for once think of getting millions in return even though that was what she ended up with.
The second person gave because he had compassion on a man used greatly by God. His gift to God thro...
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God who can carry His glory. That was His satisfaction. If you are going to be sowing into the spirit, you must learn to enjoy seeing your money bring forth good results in the lives of other people.
Another point we must highlight from the stories we saw earlier is that in both cases, the persons ...
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nt. The one who will be blessed is the person who sowed to the spirit.
What does it mean to sow to the flesh as against sowing to the spirit?
I want to tell two stories here to illustrate the answer.
There was a woman, May Kay Ash, of the Mary Kay Cosmetics fame; one day her pastor requested her t...
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Note why this woman gave her gift to the Lord and what, if anything, she was expecting from the Lord for it. Please keep the story in mind because I will refer to it after narrating a second one.
There was a great man of God, John Alexander Dowie, who lived around the turn of the 19th into the...
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Sowing to the spirit or sowing to the flesh
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not...
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imaginations, she expected nothing more than 10,000 dollars or thereabout, after all the contributions hardly ever totalled more than 2,000 dollars in previous times when such an appeal had been made.
The next day came and she got a phone call informing her that the sum collected was 106,000 dollar...
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You are getting the point I'm trying to explain. So, that's what I mean by faith. I understood then that he said Isaiah chapter 66 to me, verse 12. Behold, I cause prosperity to flow towards you like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream. I believe it. So when I make my p...
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And you, young men, do that to a young woman that God is speaking to you about. She'll plot a surprise. You know that kind of thing. It's good, but God, when you reach God, don't even try it at all. You must find out what He really wants. What does He really delight in? Like someone said to So, has ...
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Now, that's what I want to say. Now, how do I give to God? I'll run through about six methods as I go on. If any other new one comes up, we'll add to it. So let me just run through it and give you the different methods so that I'll be forced to explain all of them one by one. Number one, you give to...
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So really, in reality, you really can't give to God per se. The only thing you can give, it appears like, let's say give now to God is obedience, we'll say that. In reality, the only thing you can give to God is obedience. In fact, somebody quoted Avanzini, I heard it, and said that the only thing t...
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Let me explain. Let us assume now that this is, we want to do work. Next year, we are making projections for the work of Kingdom World. We want to do TV, radio, and that's okay. We want to take offering for it. If I say, please, those who want to give to us, please just write it down so that we'll k...
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And having left that, you say, okay, what can I do? Can I really give anything to God? Well, the main thing that God asks from anybody, only one thing. You say, what has God asked from you, oh man? Other than the fact that you should obey His words. That's all. The only thing that God has asked from...
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He doesn't care. The man he's doing the good for, he's not expecting any good from the person in return. And let me add it to it, he's not even making a demand of God. I said the knowledge of the law of sowing and reaping is to encourage the good man's heart. It doesn't mean an incentive for the wic...
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Even if you don't want to give to Pastor Banki personally, say, where's Kingdom World Ministries account? We'll never ask for it, of course. But I tell you that these are the proper things to do. You finish school, your father sweated, your mother helped you over the years. The first salary you paid...
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Now you know why, it's simple. Kingdom World Expenditure has grown, but so also have the people that give towards it and the amount they give towards it. People give us $10, $20, $15, $100, $1,000, $10,000, but then people also give $100,000 and a millionaire. Do you follow what I'm trying to explai...
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There is a portion for the needy. Ask my wife, it's Christmas time. There are charity homes who are already packaging gifts that will carry to Christmas. And I mean, when I say gifts, I write fast checks. My wife will do a full day's shopping. That is, it's a full carload when she's going to deliver...
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You say, what are you saying? Just bear that one in mind. I've given you six different ways, all right? Walk of the ministry, that's the expansion of the gospel of God. The ministers of the walk, that's what we've already discussed a bit about that when we were talking about the prophet's reward. Is...
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In fact, this shoe I'm wearing today, thank God it's new. It's a good time to talk about it. My shoe is new. Amen. I got it this week. My wife bought it for me recently. There is a difference between the poor and people you are supposed to honor. You honor a man of God, you don't give to him because...
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free tracts. Why should you send Nigeria free tracts? I wish somebody would tell these Americans, you know, they think that we are sitting in the bush. We don't know, they don't know we can, look, if I want 100,000 tracts tomorrow, I will just lock the door. But I might collect 1,000 from all of you...
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thinking that's the key to prosperity is not the key to prosperity. For example, I have explained a number of things. Number one, I said that you cannot sow a seed deliberately towards a particular kind of harvest. You know the interesting thing? There was a book I bought, My Dad's Torch by Kenneth ...
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Listen, let me tell you the truth. The major good that God will reward you for, interestingly enough, you would not even be aware enough to ask for a reward for it. You wouldn't even know that you need a reward for it. What God rewards you openly for was done in secret. Sometimes it's so secretly do...
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Yes, I know you have money for a car. It's not yet time. Do you get what I'm explaining? You deny yourself. You don't deny your father because you want to honor the man of God. You deny yourself. But like I said, best of all, I portion it. It can be 10,000 Naira. Look, say 500 Naira for this, 500 Na...
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Now, for those who normally have all their income in their pockets, you can make the demand. But for me, you woke up to me make that demand, I have to deny somebody else to answer you. I already have a habit. Now, get what I'm saying. I'm talking about cultivating a habit, which must be based upon G...
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No, there were people there publicly. He just knelt down in the center of the place to say thank you. But why did I treat him like that? The young man was not a beggar, really. He wasn't. Because he didn't used to go from one person to the other. He only used to call me occasionally when he's in dis...
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He walked in, um, he was cool in his suit. He came from the village, he rode, jumped, everything, now managed to get himself admission into the university, and nobody's giving him a dime. Nobody! So, he just came that day and said, please, sir, do you work here? This is in the hotel there, where my ...
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I want to just introduce this, and then I'll close. The next time, I will finish what I began today. This is what we're talking about to sow spiritual seeds. That's what I'm talking about. And don't forget, my emphasis is on cultivating what? A lifestyle. A habit. A habit. Cultivating a habit. Luke ...
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But under such circumstances, you become a person I can call, demand I want to know how you spend your money. Yesterday, I saw you wearing a new shirt. Where did you get it? There's a different thing there. Do you follow what I'm saying? I mean, you're suddenly accountable to me. I'm meeting all you...
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The human body responds to the absence of rest. No, physical fever. I told some of you before, I don't watch football. Part of it being that God hasn't given me the ability to stand the stress that goes with when your team is about to be scored against. When I'm watching touch my body, I literally g...
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I will answer it for you because our time is gone. I'll pick up from there next time. The fact is that to give God glory when somebody directly blesses you is not accepted anywhere else except in the person's presence, unless it is not possible. We have a culture in Africa. Stick by it. Don't ever r...
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Anything God commands you to do, listen to this, is for your own benefit. Listen, let me say clearly. I won't explain it in details, but just hear it clearly. Anything that God commands you to do is for your benefit. It is never for his benefit, never, ever. God doesn't get better. If he says, prais...
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for that one time. After that, he's back to square zero. If you are like that, hear it from me again, you've given nothing, you get no reward. Nothing, nothing. What you can't continue, don't start. People do that kind of epileptic giving, it's not right. Today somebody winds you with a very powerfu...
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Because for you to walk like that, you must have an absolute assurance that tomorrow is secure. And brethren, that one, I have. Do you get my point? Now, I digress there. I hope somebody was blessed. I hope you learned a thing or two from that. Alright, so let's go on. I've clearly talked about givi...
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Jesus appeared to me last night and said, I should tell you that he likes you very much. So he wants you to know ahead of time that January 16th, 2009, he's going to come back. Do you think I will stop everything I'm doing now? No, I won't. The plans for Christmas will continue as usual. The people ...
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Do you follow? Now, so that's the thing. But then the problem with when you say things too many times is that it gets reinforced in your heart. You hear so much, it becomes a part of you. Unfortunately, a lie can be a part of somebody. And that's what we are saying should not be the case. And we are...
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That's my own. Once, the battery doesn't start one day. They say go and change the acid and put it on fire. It's against Pastor Banki's religion. I drop the battery there. I put another one. That's why all the cars I drive are automatic. You can't even, you know, you can't risk it. Why did I become ...
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You guys decide to bite more than you can chew, I won't chew it for you. Next time, when 1,000 people want to gather, and you're only 15, tell them we don't have accommodation for 1,000 people. No, listen, he said, but Jesus multiplied bread for 5,000. How many people did he go discussing with? The ...
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Good afternoon, sir. Your message has been a blessing. Very nice. Please, it's the money we are trying to raise. Listen, let me just tell you and I'll tell your friend. Anybody that wants to raise money from me must never tell me my message has been blessing him. It turns me off. When my message has...
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Yes, you must learn, that's what I'm trying to get us to understand. Talk about this money issue. You should have a habit for how you spend your money. Or how you apportion your money. You must have it. That way, you will not be tossed to and fro by every window of doctrine. One day a man walked up ...
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which is that when you earn, you apportion each portion to each person. Do you get what I'm explaining? And if God has placed us in your heart, prepare for it. Do you get what I'm saying? You don't come and expect him to be tickling you one day. Tickle you, you jerk, money will drop. That is why we ...
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Go and meet the real people that work. They know they cut 2.5 million with mouth, that's not, they didn't sanctify, they will first anoint their hand. Or cut 2.5 like this. You just see small, small boys and girls carry paper. Good morning, sir. They have to know our budget is 3.5 million. 3.5 milli...
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That is what Christianity is. Look, the widow of Zarephath is a good example. Having understood all these principles, that's why I am persuaded that it was not a single offering that she gave to Elijah that gave her a breakthrough. It was a final straw that broke the camel's back. Do you understand ...
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Do you get what I'm trying to explain? Listen, as a matter... You know, I told you that people make me laugh sometimes. They come up to me and say, sir, those two messages have been a blessing. Let me tell you the truth. Divine order. Until the message produces physical results in your life, you are...
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There's a coming of the Lord in which you are the one that comes to meet the Lord. Do you understand my point? Yes. You just die one day, yes? And there's no warning. You are getting what I'm trying to explain. I'm emphasizing the fact that Christians must cultivate everything as a habit, a good cul...
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to this message was for me. I came back from work crying. I've been crying since I came back from work. He said, this message wiped away my tears. I said, oh God, thank you very much. That message was worth it. The hassle was worth it. Are you getting my point? The harassment was worth it. For me, w...
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I'm in Africa, I was in my house, and she and the Jose in Africa were about to leave the house. And I said, sir, have you dropped the CD for Cosmo for that program for that night? That was when it hit me that I hadn't. It wasn't ready. The message had been preached. It had not been edited for radio....
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