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ts; offerings being given when the fire of lack is
burning. God does not act impulsively; you must maintain a
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lifestyle before Him before you will get the fruit of it. You
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support those whose heart is completely His.
2 Chron 16:9
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Elijah was sent to the house in which God knew he would be
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith…
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Gal 5 22 KJV
The word ‘faith’ here is often translated as ‘faithfulness’ by
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the widow of Zarephath did, but I doubt whether the widow
had as much trouble obeying a stranger as she did.
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Now here is my simple and direct answer to the puzzle: the
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tailed description of how to
find his destination.
‘Thank you so much ma’am. But please could I get a little
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money from you to ride a bus with; as you can see I am really
worn out and have no money.’
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to the
spirit. Well, we have also established that acts of love are the
seeds that we sow into the spirit.
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10. The power of righteousness
In the last chapter I expounded about love and how acts of
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ings in life
despite what circumstances may try to say.
He made my wife conceive and bear children. He gave me
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money to be generous even when people are full of
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et us do good to all men,
and especially to those who are of the
household of the faith.
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Gal 6:6-10
Please don’t forget that your little faith is a seed while the
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the timing thereof but that it is a gift of God.
Do you have a vision concerning what you want to contribute
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to this life? No matter how great and unachievable it might
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but their spirit of righteousness.
I admire men who have made great sacrifices for their God
and their faith.
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I admire men who remained faithful all their lives to the wife
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ministrations in my heart. Oh, it is so great.
If you are in need of healing or the fruit of the womb or any
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such thing, it is not methods that you need, you need to be in
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nted to those
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who made the right choices for God when their little faith was
enough to handle the challenge.
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the God that we
cannot see when we have not demonstrated that love to the
people that we can see (1 John 4:20).
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Love is the power.
Let me get back to something that I said earlier about the faith
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th is that most times the whole
story is not told.
Am I saying that God does not reward such seed sowing with
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such harvests?
Precisely! He usually does not!
What about the widow of Zarephath?
To answer that I...
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Do you follow my point? Does not make money a seed. The reason being that that is a spiritual field you are sowing into. And money is not a seed in the realm of the Spirit. Love is a seed in the realm of the Spirit. Favor is a seed in the realm of the Spirit. Kindness is a seed in the realm of the S...
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Giving is good, but giving money is not a seed when you give. What is a seed when you give is the act, the spirit behind the giving. So if I see a man who is in need, or I see a young boy who is lacking, and I say, okay, you want to do work? Alright, you can pay the fees. Here is $20,000. Go and sor...
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I don't know whether you hear what I said. Go and read Romans chapter 12. You will discover that there he explained what you are supposed to do as a part of the body of Christ in building up other people. That's why I said this before. Please understand what I'm saying. There's no true man of faith ...
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Alright? Most of your life, what you do is you convert the value of it to cash. So, it reflects how you live your life according to a code. Alright? Most of the day, what you are doing is working and earning money in exchange for the work that you do. So, how you spend the money is a reflection of e...
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still explaining this for this reason i'm saying to you verse nine let us not lose heart in doing what good the doing of good is sowing into the realm of the spirit like we said at the beginning and he said for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. To explain it further, he says, so the...
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I don't know whether you hear what I said. But the other one, born of Christian parents, grew up, if he shouts, the mother will say, where is it? Who beat you? Is it the table? I beat the table back. You know, all those kind of things. He was a loved child. God said he had a hundred measures of love...
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And godliness is that you will say, I may not have a million naira to give these people. Here is my 500 naira. It will go a long way in supporting what is going on. That's how Christians think. But we preachers, we have messed everything up. We have encouraged stupidity and godliness amongst our bre...
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Now, please, I want you to understand that principle very well. Most of the things you are desiring in life, they are fruits. Do you get my point? What you do, what God gives to you as wisdom, is to know the right seeds to sow, so that you will get the fruits that you desire. Are you getting my poin...
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Do you understand what I'm saying? So if you want to sow yam, what do you go do? You go to the field. You cultivate the field. You till the land. You plant yam into the land and you nurture it. After nine months, you come back and you will harvest bigger tubers of yam than what you sowed. That's jus...
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There's one scripture we like to abnormally apply. So money answers all things. So you just sow money towards everything. I have explained to you already that when you are handling money, money in itself doesn't have any character. It is the heart of the person handling it that gives the character. ...
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And if we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another. Now please, there's one more scripture in this I want to read. Just quickly go down to verse six. So let the one who is taught the word share all good things with h...
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This was a scripture that was a bit difficult for me to understand many years ago. It's in modern times when I began to read again that the Lord helped me to see this thing. He said, the fruit of the spirit. People have said different things about that, but let me give you my own thoughts today, whi...
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I'm serious about what I'm saying. And if you have not been careful, you see, you understand what the Bible means when it says that mercy triumphs over judgment. Judgment, many things that could have led to it. I'm not discussing those in details now, because in the life of the believer, Christians,...
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But your own mercy, when it's gonna come back, is coming back as something else. I read a story, Kenneth Higgins described how God showed him, I'm giving my own words now, mercy in the greater outpouring of the anointing upon his life. Because if you are doing anything in life, you want that thing t...
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with a crash helmet on his head. Believe me. And there are times you say that the meeting place is not too far. Boys, let us strike. Yes. That's what he would have been like. Do you follow the principle there? All right? So please, I'm just explaining some principle. I hope I don't get too carried a...
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I've established, I'm sure you understood that, that he that sows that, when we're talking about sowing into the spirit, we saw from Galatians chapter six, that he was talking about doing good works, as a way of sowing to the spirit. Because he talked about giving to those who minister to you, he ta...
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to me is the most interesting read of all of them. By the way, I'm recommending once again that everybody get a copy of Great Faith Can Be Yours and some of the things you read in there, you will see me explain them further today. And then of course, previous teachings that we've had on faith, one w...
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For God so loved that he gave, all right? It's only because of that they might not perish, but they might have everlasting life. Kindness is part of the spirit of Christ. It's part of Christianity. And we must show kindness. You can't have money and be rich. I used to say, jokingly, that a lot of pe...
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I mean, you go to university, your father is well-to-do, he supplies you very well with money, all right? And you think it's your duty not to go to school and be wearing expensive clothes and expensive shoes. May they steal those shoes two days after you buy them in the name of Jesus Christ, when yo...
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But if a man, God gives him a gift, he gives him a dose of faith, he gives him a dose of love. So he says, in my life, listen, and this is what I'm telling you, I believe it totally. That is what Christianity is. The man says, okay, my life. This is our faith basics thing. I will talk again about ma...
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to be a man of truth, to be a woman of integrity. Are you getting my point? Those things produce more, more power towards financial prosperity than selfish giving. I don't want to go over that. Anytime I get there, I get stuck. Yeah, I get stuck because I hear it all the time. I always get stuck. So...
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I want to pray about this relationship. The Holy Spirit has been speaking to me. The spirit of widowhood, I reject it in the name of Jesus Christ. Primarily honoring your father and your mother, also standing for respect for authority. Do you get my point? In life, it's one of the seeds that we at l...
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what well I have a number of things I will give us give us as examples all right of what it is that means to sew into the realm of the spirit let me say something if you want plenty of mango is that okay you must start with mango all right mango is a fruit but you must start with the first one the s...
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Paul said, they shall not inherit the kingdom of God. That is the manifestation of God's power in their lives. Is that okay? Is hindered because they do the works that are wrong. Therefore, Paul said, what are we supposed to do? He said, what we do is walk in the Spirit or walk by the Spirit and you...
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But if you bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another. Now, this is our emphasis from verse 16. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. Now, this is a problem in Christianity. The flesh, it says in verse 17, sets its desire a...
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So there's, look, there's cause for that. Look, why is it God? Why me? Where were you? Were you injured, sleeping? This motorway fine like this? What's it happen? What's it happen? What's it happen? We're here on Tuesday. We're talking about Jonah again. You know Jonah? If you whine like that, fish ...
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So I said, this is how a man, a woman sows into the realm of the Spirit. He understands that, like Paul said in Romans chapter 12, that grace has been given to me according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Therefore, there are things I have that I can use to bless other people. And I said, the ...
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People, some of the fears that they talk to, say, God, all the investment I made into the realm of the spirit, how far? That is why you came here today. This is part of the fruit of your investment, amen? That is to liberate you from wrong practices. No, Christians, what do we do? We continually do ...
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Do you understand my point? Are you saying that we cannot sow and give to God? You can. But that is a spiritual field. And in a spiritual field, what matters or what is recognized is a spiritual seed. So if you give money with the wrong motive, what ends
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Believe that you have received them and they shall be granted you. How do you receive from God? You ask in faith. You ask in faith. The key to receiving from God is asking, and that is asking correctly. So you see, when we have gotten that right, I said something earlier. Paul said it was for freedo...
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not according to your seed. Christians talk as if God supplies according to the seed. He does not. He supplies according to the need. You must get this thing correctly. Some people there, they are sitting and saying, my God, I've been wasting a lot of time. Yes, that's why God brought you mercy toda...
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so that you may spend on your pleasures as part of your competition, your envy, alright, and your fighting and your quarrel. What am I saying? What is the third reason why... I'm going to stop with that third one. What's the third reason why God gives to us is because we ask with right motives. Numb...
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Welcome to this time of Refreshing. This is a radio message that was put from the platform of Kingdom Word Ministries by Pastor Banki. I will continue our discussion on how to work for God, which we have been on for a while. It is a continuation of what we were discussing before concerning the purpo...
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Giving is good, please. Giving is part of the life of a Christian. The Bible says it is more blessed to give than to receive. A Christian should be a giver. We must be like our father. He said, be holy as your heavenly father is holy. Be righteous as your heavenly father is righteous. Be imitators o...
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Are you getting the point? So that's number two reason why God gives to us, because we ask in faith. And the faith is that we have that confidence that He loves us. So that faith is just a recognition of fact number one. Fact number one, He gives to us because He loves us. Fact number two is that we...
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the price that Jesus paid. And Jesus said something, listen, this is the way you are going to get things from the Father. You must come in my name. What do we do? We want to come in the power of our good works. I was somewhere once, a man was preaching. He said, I know God is going to bless me. He s...
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Now, my intention is to go and explain them one by one, but because of an important thing that I omitted to explain then, I think I should go back and explain that one first before we now return to the matter of how to give to God. Because it's very important that we understand, like I said at the b...
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Grace means it is what God has promised. Are you getting my point? Which I have activated by faith. That's what grace means. And the life of the Christian is a life of grace. Number one reason why God gives to his children is in the book of John chapter 16. Let's quickly read that. The Lord Jesus wa...
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is that we believe in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in the son who he sent. Now number two reason why God gives to us in response to our prayers is in the book of James chapter one. Let's quickly read that. James chapter one, it says from verse five, but if anyone of you lacks wisdom...
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is justifying himself or herself and the person will not be justified. The Bible says the person will be humbled. What it means to be humbled is to be brought lower than the position that you were before. The other person who humbles himself, the Bible says, he will be exalted. That is, whatever pos...
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that I'm a more serious evangelist. After all, when pastor says in church, how many people, are you getting my point? Have preached to anybody, and people have given their lives to Christ in the last one week. If you have won five souls to God, put up your hand. You put up your hand. That guy never ...
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so that he would do something for me back. And I laughed. I had a very good laugh. But actually it's not funny. It's not funny because that is a common thing in today's Christianity. There are statements like these I have heard and I want to say to you today that they are not correct. One of them is...
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Are you getting my point? What it means is this. If you are going to sow a seed, like we like to say today, because you want a car, God is saying to you, fine, there are principles like that, because you see, there's something about the Bible. In the scriptures, you can study a lot of spiritual prin...
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Are you getting my point? He said, who has given to him that he might demand back? We don't come to God because we want to get from him, therefore we give to him. People say all the time, it's very common in Christianity today, when you want to give an offering, they say, give your offering a name. ...
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oned that the disciples must have remembered that the Lord described it as a blessed thing to be persecuted for His name’s sake. Now the word ‘blessed’ brings me to another example of a source of joy.
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hat she broke the sound-barrier. I challenge you too to break the sound-barrier of your giving. Not for personal gain of seed-sowing for an intended harvest, but just be able to rejoice in good works.
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forgone a business deal to attend a teaching meeting and you were so happy you did even though that did cost you a huge sum in lost opportunity? Don’t worry, you are not crazy; it is the will of God.
“I rejoice at Thy word, as one who finds great spoil.” Ps 119:162
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Please, I need to emphasize that. So you realize that we're talking about why we are trying to get the reasons out of the way. The wrong reasons why people give to God. We're going to talk in detail, like I said, about how to give to God. We will just get it right so we'll get our motives right. We ...
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You give to your parents because they are your parents. You give to your friends because they are in need. You give to the work of God because you believe the gospel is indeed the light of the nations. If you are not giving towards the preaching of the gospel, it means you don't believe it. That's a...
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It is recognized in the realm of the Spirit and it produces decay in your body because anything you sow will be multiplied back to you. If you sow honor, the Lord said it like this, he that honors me, I will honor. God refers Samuel there. Now you find that in the book of 1 Samuel chapter 2 in verse...
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Listen, in fact, the time came that her land was lost. God restored wealth back to her through a miraculous intervention. She came to the king when Gehazi was telling her story. Are you getting my point? What did she sow? Honor. And he that honors me, I will honor. That's what God has said. Listen, ...
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Are you getting my point? There is nothing you can give that he did not give you first. So if I give to God, it's part of it. Like if you're in church on Sunday, and you say, OK, come and give an offering, like some pastors will say, and I believe it's so serious, the law of church will say it, that...
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then you will receive from God, because if you waver, you are not, you know, you cannot receive from God. That's a summary of HMO asking faith. And number three reason, James said in James chapter 4, that what happens is that some people ask, but they don't receive, because the motivation is because...
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Are you getting my point? And when we give to God, that's the kind of thing we are saying. We are not trying to bribe him for the next harvest. We are thanking him for this current harvest. You know part of the problem is that human beings, they think God is like them. You understand what I'm saying...
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Welcome to this time of refreshing. This is a radio message that was switched from the platform of Kingdom Word Ministries by Pastor Banki. To continue what we have been discussing about how to work for God, today we are going to continue from the book of Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 10. That was where...
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Listen to me, we are talking Christianity. You either pray in the name of your vow or you pray in the name of Jesus. Listen, I'm trying to explain something here. We said we are discussing how to give to God and I want to explain first how we don't give to God. why we don't give to God. That is the ...
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It does not work like that. If you are going to be pleasing to God in the matter of giving, you must learn, I'll discuss it in details as we go on, you must learn how to share things equitably. If something belongs to a particular group, you don't give it to another. Are you getting my point? If you...
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Are you following the point I'm trying to make? That's what Christianity is about. We must get it clear. We don't receive from God because of what we give to him. We receive from him in answer to prayers offered in faith. Now having established that, we're not teaching details now on money. I don't ...
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Some things are types. They are types. There's a principle of seed time and harvest. And that what a man sows, he shall reap. But you must understand how to interpret it. We are talking about physical things, all right? When you sow corn, you will reap corn. We are talking about things that are half...
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So the Bible says you should provide for those of your household. So she pockets all her money. And the man who's barely earning about the same amount of money because they have the same level of rights in life, the man has to provide school fees for those of his household. He has to provide accommo...
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That is the only thing you can give to him. It is obedience. If God says, go this way, you go that way. That's the only thing you really can give to him. Every other gifts that you quote are given, are you getting me? You have to give through somebody before it gets to God. And those are the things ...
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the ministers of the word of God. If somebody has been a blessing to you, don't just pass by. You're chopping all the blessings that God has brought into your life through his ministrations. You don't give him anything. Bible says that you should return, all right, to such a place and give to God th...
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And that's what Christians are making as a mistake today. They sow selfishness, and they expect God to reward it. So a man gets up and says, I need more money, so let me give money. He's sowing self-centeredness. Then he walks past somebody who is in need, and he does not give the person. Please, I ...
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If they sent you into political office, you, be a House of Assembly member, be a councillor, be a senator, be a governor, whatever it is that God gave you the opportunity to be. It is so that you can be a blessing to people. If you still want it there, you come back to church and say you are returni...
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The person who has paid for the forgiveness of sin is Jesus Christ. Listen, except you believe, you will likewise perish. Except you repent, Jesus said, you will likewise perish, no matter what you have given. I know people are listening to this, so I need to emphasize it. Please, you cannot give Go...
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explain. Quickly let us go to the book of 2nd Corinthians chapter 9. I will read from verse 10. Now, here Paul was teaching people about generosity. I remember last time I talked about the matter of having treasure in heaven. Generosity is a sign that your faith is in God. He said in 1 Timothy chapt...
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and lead to also, but what am I trying to say in all of these things? When we're talking about financial prosperity, however, listen, first and foremost, I said this before, God must be able to birth contentment in your life. Do you get my point? Paul said, having food and raiment, that is having th...
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that I'm saying, God, I recognize you are the one giving it to me. Please, we must get this thing very clear. Those little things, don't let us ever take them for granted. Believe me, one of the reasons why people have serious problems in life is because they don't know how to appreciate God in smal...
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We are not teaching worldliness. We are not trying to use another method to achieve what the world is trying to achieve. Please, this thing is very important, because there is a mistake we make, both as Christians and as ministers of the world, to try and teach people how to get the results of the w...
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by which you will build a house that will compete with that of your cousin in the village or bigger than his own. Listen, I am not teaching you that. You are alone in that quest. Do you follow what I'm trying to explain? We are not teaching the principles by which you gratify your loss. That is what...
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But the fact is that the people that really can't do anything, you know, if I cheat this one, he doesn't have anybody to speak for him. God says, no problem. That is the reason why I will kill you suddenly. You just wake up at night, one day you have a headache, suddenly you have a stroke, you are d...
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put it there, but please don't put airplanes and cars and houses, all right, as a picture of success. They are not the picture of success at all. They are not. So when we're talking about financial prosperity, I like the definition of Derek Prince. Derek Prince said that prosperity is having all tha...
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Because what was happening to them, alright? It happens in different ways to different people. But to them, what was happening was simple. They were ministering by their gift to the saints. Do you understand my point? And God was bringing fruit for them from somewhere else. I used that to explain so...
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Welcome to the Way of Success. Pastor Banki is teaching the principles of life established in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose kingdom indeed reigns over all. Relax and listen, and you will be blessed by this message. Alright, let's begin today by reading from the book of Romans chapter 12,...
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You can label in one direction, and God gives you fruit from another direction. It is because what God is doing with his children is this. He will put something in your hand and say, occupy with this until I come. And then even you are doing may not be directly producing plenty of fruit. You get my ...
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Now the point I'm making here is this, you see that Paul said it very clearly that you'll be enriched in everything for all liberality. That is to have plenty is what makes it easy, all right, to be generous, even though generosity must be practiced in the midst of little. Because if you read the pr...
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I want to read from verse 10. It says, for God is not unjust, Hebrews chapter six, verse 10. For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward his name in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. Let me emphasize that again. Here, what the peop...
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Listen, I keep on saying this, preachers listen to it, people of God listen to it. We will still do good works as Christians. The reason why some of these things I say is not popular is because people are afraid because the only motivation they know for Christians giving is simply because of what th...
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One boy, one boy in school there, he did that thing, I shook my head. That's when I started believing somewhere. I stopped believing. If I couldn't ever believe, it just not... This is just, it didn't tie with the doctrine of Christ that I understood. He said he stole his thing. And then he went to ...
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Just get up and say, well, I don't have much. All I have is this 10,000 Naira everywhere. Let us share it. Take this 5,000. The other brother say, you bring 5,000. How much you to pay the root 50? You contribute. If you have the 50, and another thing as Christians, listen to me. If you have the 50, ...
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Listen, we must always tell the truth. It's not whether I'm poor or rich, that's not the issue. We must always tell the truth. I will never, because of what I'm going to gain personally, refuse to tell you the truth. Because one day I have to stand before the judgment seat of Christ. I hope you are ...
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That's why I'm recommending for you again, please. I'm not selling it, alright? It's free of charge. Pick it as you are going out. In case you haven't read it, read it. If you have read it, read it again. If you have read it, pick it and give it to somebody. How to receive from God, so that people w...
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I just remember one scripture now. He said, provoke one another unto what? Love and good works. So it's good. If you don't give me space, how will I be provoked? Do you understand my point? Everybody, I mean, only you. Because God has blessed you. They said that in your church, they need $100,000. O...
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I said something earlier, let me say it again. It will help you in life. It will be the guiding principle of your life. Somebody comes, promises heaven and earth for the seed you're about to sow, don't answer. That is a revelation for this season. It's a prophetic word. Sounds funny, but I mean it. ...
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As a Christian, if I am not doing good works, I'm not behaving like my father who is in heaven. If I see the hungry, I should feed him. If I see the naked, I must clothe him. If the gospel of God needs to be preached, I must contribute my quota. It is wrong for Christians to gather around unbeliever...
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I said, I don't care what anybody says. It took me one whole year's income, working in the teaching hospital as a consultant to pay for it. It wasn't like it was cheap. Why? A son honors his father. There's no other reason. Did I go to God and then I say, God, you know, I do care of my father. He wi...
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OK, so let me just say it again. Please, I want each person to go with at least two of these. It's titled, How to Receive from God. That's what I've just been talking about. Let me say it again. God has already blessed you in Christ Jesus. Let me say it again, God is not blessing you because of what...
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You deliver me today because I gave an offering last week. Because they better go and get offerings ready. Because next week, there's going to be a tsunami. They're going to sow a seed for tsunami? Oh, I forgot. That your heartbeat we calculated. I've checked the seed. When I multiply your seed 100-...
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The righteous has to go to the wicked to beg for it, as if that's what the Bible was talking about. So if the unbeliever will not give to the preaching of the gospel, who will? It is you and me. And because we are responsible children of God, we do the things that responsible children do. We are not...
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My father said it's my own. He has no right to tell me not to take from it until I put into it. Jesus paid for me. There is nothing I can do to make God owe me anything more than what Jesus has done to make God owe me everything. God, listen, his riches are packaged in promises. Are you hearing what...
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We are not allowed. We are not allowed to look out and say, Bicklin's guest pays a million dollars. We are not allowed to charge. This man, Peter Daniels, who got paid for, is it 10 or 30 minutes talk, $1 million, does not charge if he's going to a church. He's not even a preacher. He's a business d...
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Are you getting my point? Anything you want in life, Jesus has paid for it. Download it from heaven by faith. My father cannot be a billionaire, deposit 1.9 billion into an account for me and the bank manager will say I should put in something before I can withdraw. Won't I report him to EFCC? Ah, m...
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1:13:30
In the presence of my enemies. I always like to say this, those who are afraid of enemies, listen, enemies don't have to die before God can bless you. This scripture makes it clear to us that He prepares a table before us in their presence. Say, He has anointed my head with oil. Now listen to this, ...
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So I said, oh, how is practice? He said, no, he's not been practicing. And why have you not been practicing? He does this ministry work full time now. I said, oh, so this is the only work you do currently? He goes around preaching, preaching here and there. He said, yes. Instantly, I went. I don't k...
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Yeah, we're already blessed in Christ Jesus. We're already blessed. We're already blessed. What we just need to do is to focus on the Word of God. Don't take our eyes away from it, no matter what the circumstances around say. Don't forget, I began from this, it is not because of what you did or what...
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1:16:30
I said, luck is not your portion in Jesus' name. God will make all grace abound towards you. You will have all sufficiency in all things, and you are bound to every good work. Say after me, surely, goodness, mercies will follow me all the days of my life, and I will abide under the shadow of the Alm...
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1:15:00
Your friend has been annoying you for a long time. You are lucky his bed is just around the corner. And that is surprising. Let him wonder what is going on. Are you getting my point? Paul said, I can do all of these things through Christ who strengthens me. When Paul made that statement in the book ...
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f us examine our own selves:
1. If you expect God’s blessings because of your gifts, you are not generous. NB: A Christian can only expect things because of God’s love, mercy and the grace of Christ.
2. If you recall your gifts and offerings to mind when praying and overtly or subtly mention them ...
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d is to be found in churches alone but not around you every day. (The truth is that God often shows up as a needy insignificant person who carries no ministerial anointing. Prov 19:17; Matt 25:42-45.)
11. In this same light, if the only person that can testify to your generosity is your pastor and ...
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“So is the man who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” Luke 12:21 NASB
The verse above is the end of the parable of the Lord Jesus about the rich fool. I have quoted it to highlight the concept of being rich towards God. As one can easily understand by reading the whole parab...
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1:52:30
Because if we learn to do good, like Paul said, with contentment, you can never stop. Do you get my point? Every day, my children bleed me in quotes of money. Apart from basic food, though. Of course, one day somebody entered my house. He saw a sack of milk. He said, what is that? I said, milk. He's...
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1:06:00
I said he was talking in context. Is that okay? I just stopped that to quickly explain the issue of first fruits and how to give God things by thanking the person he used to bless you. And that was the principle upon which he wrote verse six. To let the one who is taught the world share all good thi...
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1:46:30
I will cause corruption. All right? But if indeed you give out your hundred Naira because you look and say, yes, this person needs it more than I do. Or he doesn't have the God that I have. My God shall supply all my needs. I'm not sure whether Guru Maharaj Ji will answer him when he needs him. So I...
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That's so ungodly that selfishness is the only reason why we can't even say that it's not good. That the reason why we give is because we want to collect. It's not a good thing. Now, so God gave them those laws, all right? Because the people, they are not nice people at all. A few people who had the...
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Let's build three tabernacles here. One for the male rats, one for the female rats, and then one for the children that we'll give birth to. These guys are good. Do you follow what I'm saying? So that's the same thing when it comes to demons. If you don't tell lies, if you don't do bad, they will lea...
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God is not only in church. I hope you are getting the point. God is in the life of those people he used to bless you. Please oh, I am not saying don't give money to church. Did I say that? And me, I'm a pastor. Kingdom well-being is run by offerings. But like I always say, I don't want to collect yo...
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1:48:00
And the man took it and said, my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. And a day or two after that, that other man, he happened to have a wealthy uncle who just, God just moved upon that man and said, call up your nephew and pay off his mortgage. And the g...
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1:49:30
It's not the cash in itself. They will say, I need a car, I need a car, I need a car. I drop the money. Selfishness is what I'm dropping into an offering basket. I'm dropping, I'm thinking of myself alone into an offering basket. Do you get my point? But like the story I told you, the man sowed love...
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And Jesus answered, and this is where my question is, or my point, verse 17. Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine, where are they? Was no one found who turned back to give glory to God except this foreigner? And he said to him, rise and go your way, your faith has made you well. Now this is the...
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Now all those things brought forth a lot into her life later, but don't ever forget that she did not do that thing for that purpose. She did it for the love of God, for the love, for the honor that she had for the man of God. Do you understand that point? All right, now it's very, very important. So...
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1:25:30
as redemption for our firstborns. Therefore we do this to remember, call to remembrance, do this. As long as they do that, they will be giving God thanks all the time and they will never enter into captivity. But if they forget, Walla they come. That's what God will say. So people get used to the bl...
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1:12:00
Let's not grow tired of doing good. What does that mean? Doing good does not bear quick results. So you either make it a habit or you forget it entirely. If you are not willing to make doing good a habit, don't bother starting. You say, today I'm going to do something that will challenge God. You se...
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this is how you sow into the spirit, that is how to sow properly, is by doing good, not only to the person who has blessed you, but to everyone who God brings to you as an opportunity. He said, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. Do you get my point?...
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1:13:30
That's why the motive for what you are doing is very important. If your motive is really to do good. Let me tell you the truth. No matter how broke I become, my children will eat. You know that. Their food, it won't drop in quality. If I have to sell my shoes and my shirt, they must work. Because gi...
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2:28:30
into the realm of the Spirit. Now listen to this. He said, those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them and upon the Israel of God. Now when Paul said this, let me explain. When he said Israel of God, he said that Israel of God, because if he said, and peace be upon Israel, you wil...
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49:30
There's a way, there's a prayer which I just dropped in the world, not his fault. But there's a time which he starts producing. Listen, unless you don't believe in God, then you must be a real ingrate. Because if it is the word of God that produced in your life, then when it's time to share, you sha...
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shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. It means, Paul said, Godliness is indeed the means of great gain if it is accompanied with contentment. God has helped me to understand that thing. What it means is that if I was given 500 out of my 10,000 and I increase i...
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So I don't pray for people. I instruct them and bye-bye. All right? So one guy said that, look, God, there is asking for God to open a door for him that now he has a visa to go to China to come and buy stuff. Now, and that's a totally long story, but that what he now needs is money, that God will sh...
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1:51:00
Motive is good. Do you follow my point? Somebody say, look, they see the word of God come from the mouth of a prophet like Elijah. Good. Obedience to it. That is the seed. And that's what produces harvest. So Paul said, He that sows to the flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. And I like to say...
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1:10:30
Therefore God manifested in his life in such a man that he could not doubt. You need to be a real wicked soul for an angel to appear before your presence, telling you of how God loves you and that you should seek for somebody to come and tell you the truth and you still don't believe the person when...
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Though I've heard the man say it before, and he wasn't joking. But I just said that, no sir, this man cannot be serious. He's joking. He said this, the Bible says you're a thief and you're a robber. And all these thieves and robbers are going to hell. So you two go join. But anyway, he wasn't talkin...
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I felt like drawing a king, facing his pastor first, because that's the house I came from. Flogging his pastor thoroughly. Who is sitting down there and watching this kind of nonsense being uttered in his presence. They have now turned to him and beat him too. That you are a fool. You just sat here ...
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This portion goes, this one goes here, this one goes here. You would divide it to the various places. My wife does business, the same thing. Anytime she does calculation, profits, this one goes here, this one goes here, this one goes there. The proportion at the end of the day, I don't relate it to ...
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or problems and decay, but the one who is source to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the...
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And God is my witness. There are times I have waxed my box alone. Because sometimes the opportunity, if I tell you this will make you laugh, it's a very interesting story. But listen to it. I think I've told you before. Now, this will make you laugh. Pastor, what are you talking about? It's a small ...
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2:31:30
If they give me money, if it's a matter of interest basis, I will pay them their interest. If it's a matter of bringing goods for me, I will deliver their goods. That is, in fact, I told him, tell God, repaying them will be priority. The point I said to myself. I said, if you say that from a sincere...
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love somebody you'll be willing to give the person, even if it's your last meal. No, that's the point. So, and people just know that, ah, wait till, anybody that's willing to give up the last that they have for you, alright, somebody that's really concerned about you. Well, go and look at the genera...
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is a pediatrician. So one of my kids, some of my kids were ill. So I went to his house. I beg, let me look at these children. All right. So when I got there, ah, somebody saw me coming to their church to preach and he was excited. And then the guy listened to me on radio. He began telling me, if I s...
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1:19:30
They know everything. Their knowledge is too much. If they need money, their father is rich. Their mother knows people or something. They know where to just rush and go and get it. Like one woman said once on TV. Now this is not my message for today. Let me just not get carried away by it. One woman...
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1:09:00
People think that it's just one offering and her life changed. I said, no. Elijah came to her house to receive that one offering. Why didn't he go somewhere else? And Jesus said it clearly. There were many widows in Israel. To none of them was Elijah sent. That is, Elijah didn't stumble on her by ch...
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2:10:30
What kind of funny bedtime story is this? That's all they are looking at. So after they say, I hope you enjoy today's message. Yo man! Ok, you don't go multiply bread tonight or more go buy. After they've all gone, disciples now come and say, Ok, thank you for the sermon. I hope you know you didn't ...
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1:45:00
Peter saw Jesus, I also did. He saw him before he died, and after he died, I got it from him after he died. So please, and rose again from the dead. Please, nobody should come harassing me. I know the truth, and that's what I'm passing across. The God we are serving, all right, he walked with the Je...
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begged one of the drivers to please quit driving to the island. And we took that round trip, Western Avenue to Lagos Island, bought a pair of shoes, and came back in one hour to show that it was an anointed trip. The trip was anointed. If you know the way Lagos is, that was an anointed trip. And in ...
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1:16:30
And that's what I'm going to go on with you next time. There are three ways you spend your money. According to the word of God, we analyze it next time. I'm going to just summarize it to tell you what I'm going to discuss next time. Every money that God gives you, the Bible said there is seed for th...
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1:22:30
Like the man who said, I don't have. It is because he knows I don't have, I don't have. But if you made up your mind that God, no matter how bad it is, no matter how bad it is, minimum of 12% of whatever you give me, I will give as spiritual seed. When God gives you $100, you give $12,000. When God ...
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That is, you give only because you believe that you will get more. That is, the beginning of your giving was yourself, the end of it was yourself. They say, for God so loved, he gave, and he got many children back. I say, you forgot the first expression. He gave that they might not perish, not that ...
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1:06:00
The Bible kept on saying, Jesus said it. Paul explained it. Paul said it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he pledges by faith. Do you get what I'm trying to say? The foundation I'm laying today is that stop being impulsive. I've said it to people that ideally, like le...
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Some people leave for themselves a loan that they will be saving up money for months, years to buy a car. They have never even given out a spare tire. So I said, before you even think about buying yourself a car, buy somebody a tire for goodness sake. That before you buy yourself an expensive phone,...
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1:13:30
Are you getting my point? Listen, I'm just about to explain that it is not pure righteousness. Do you get my point? To just be impulsive every time. There's a reason why I'm saying this. Because a lot of people, and I want to conclude with this, a lot of people who don't have to give is because they...
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1:15:00
Now, there's what I call, you know, first, I've said that, one, being impulsive should be an exception, not a rule in your life. Do you understand my point? Therefore, that's why we read that scripture, which says that, which amongst you who wants to build a tower, Jesus said, does not first sit dow...
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1:21:00
Who will create a job if you don't create a job? That's what God is saying. Are you getting my point? That why is everybody looking for work? Nobody is trying to create work. Do you get what I'm saying? That is, I gave you 50,000 Naira, you have given your spiritual seed, praise God. You have met yo...
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1:18:00
There is spiritual seed, and there is physical seed. Spiritual seed is the one that I call the priestly part of your life. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? That the spiritual seed is the one that you give in what you call charitable offerings, uh, givings. That's what you call offering, the...
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1:07:30
Yes, if I must give impulsively from the rest, it's out of my food. You get my point. Out of my food. I do. I'm not saying I don't. I do. Every Sunday, you pass offering basket around, I drop what they call a perfunctory offering. Lest you give people offense. You understand? You just drop a little ...
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instantly. I won't give her money again. No, no, no, no, no, I will. But her portion of my life is a crumb portion now. If she comes again, I will never give her anything that's more than 20 Naira, never. Actually, it's 10 Naira is what I will give. No, I've seen it. A woman also stopped my friend a...
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1:03:00
Now, what am I saying? If I see that woman again, will I give her money? Yes. Next time. But 10 Naira. Not enough money to get two people from here to Abakuliki. Do you know why? I have recognized that she's a beggar. What do I mean? I owe a beggar a fraction of a meal. It's called a crumb. Because ...
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1:04:30
Are you getting my principle? Now, Kesley, where did we get there? Okay, I was talking about impulsive living. Yeah, there's something that just led me off the track there. But I'm explaining some principles of financial management. Number one, you're not supposed to be an impulse person. And it is ...
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55:30
But however, if you are a sensible person, that place will never lack money. That is suffering to whip up emotions. Let me get back to the main thing I want to say. The main thing I'm saying is that Christians are not supposed to be impulsive. Are you getting my point? There are occasions in which s...
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And the person who we see good, like David said, he was talking about coming and listening and learning the fear of God. He said, I want the man who desires life and the length of days that he might see good to come and listen to me. That's what he was trying to say. That is, if you expect good in a...
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Now there's a fine line between those three. What I want to tell you is that Christians are generally taught to be impulsive. Are you getting my point? I've heard people say that a good Christian comes to church with his checkbook. I say that is nonsense. What am I coming to church with my checkbook...
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They have come to learn it. All the rich men on earth have come to learn it. That if you want to sustain wealth, you must be a charitable giver. Listen, I told you before that treasure in heaven, we discussed on that spiritual economics, if you remember, there's what the Bible calls treasure in heav...
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1:12:00
I said, wait, come, come read that again. You mean Jesus had a plan of omissions? He had this itinerary planned. I said, Billy Graham did nothing. you get the point I'm making. That Jesus planned that, okay, Peter, when we leave Iconium, no, sorry, Iconium is not part of it, that was for Paul uncle....
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Now there's something I've been threatening to speak about for a very long time. And I think the Lord finally gave the go-ahead. And that's what I call, if you remember, the financial management for Christians. Sounds like a classroom topic. That's where I'm going to tackle it. Financial management ...
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1:19:30
I hope you are getting my point. You know now, I know myself. One thing I don't ever say is I know myself. Like I told you earlier, you know I was saying something earlier. I said that God knows me. I said no, it's not because I trust myself, but because I have done it before. Are you getting the po...
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Are you getting the point I'm making? That is why it is so important. You know, for a long time I've wanted to explain these things. You know, but we just never got around to it. But I'm happy that we're doing it at the end of the year. After this, we close. Alright? For the year. I'm just explainin...
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46:30
The preacher said, you had better start giving. He helped him. Then the man set up the Rockefeller Foundation and began to give as a vocation. That is, I wake up in the morning, let me see how I can give. He became well. He died at the age of 90-something. Then he didn't need bodyguards. He didn't n...
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Are you getting my point? That's what Jesus was saying. That is, he is looking for those who have really learnt the fear of God and do things because of the fear of God, not because of commandment. I hope you are following my point. There is a reason why I'm saying this, because as I go on, I am goi...
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