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the seed into the realm of the spirit.
“Only the Lord knows! He searches all hearts and examines deepest motives so he can give to each person his right reward, according to his deeds.” Jer 17:10 TLB
If you are giving just so you can get, what you are really sowing is selfishness. That is what reg...
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3. You have heard is said, give your offering a name; tie it to something you want from God. Also you have heard it said, “remind God of all your offerings and tithes when you want to pray.”
From what we have seen in the earlier 2 points, there is no need to say much further in answer to ...
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g so he can get. He or she is just a person of faith who knows that God is good. Giving to God is a sign of faith, a sign of our love for God and obedience to His word; it is not a means of demanding.
For more on this subject, please get the book, “Grace to Prosper” by Pastor Bankie. Also read the ...
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ill succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.” Eccl 11:6 NASB
Truth: The key to receiving from God is asking in faith.
2. You have heard it said, “if you need money, you must give money.”
Again, this statement appears true at first, especially because it is supposedly based upon the pr...
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YOUR MONEY - Getting Value For Your Seed
The matter of money is a crucial part of life, and in fact God judges your spirituality partly from the assessment of your ability to handle money. In the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, “… if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you wi...
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very clearly.
“…you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives…” James 4:2-3 NASB
The key to receiving is asking, asking in faith (James 1:6).
We are forbidden from bargaining with God with of our good works. Good works are not to be done fo...
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But that's because God has made another plan, which you should step into. I hope you get my point. All right. The Lord is good. I said, the Lord is good. All right. I said, we should open somewhere. Let's continue this matter of money that we're talking about. Second Corinthians chapter what? Nine. ...
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Now, here's what I want to say about the matter of money for Christians. Please don't forget details and other perspectives or other points you will find in those materials. There's a particular CD we have titled, what? Your Money. There's another one titled, that's MP3, Many Messages in Need. There...
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So the first alumni convention I attended, I put up my hand. I said, it's not fair. We can't have levies. I said, look at these fingers. Are they equal? No. I said, we all know. I pointed to one brother. I said, that brother works in Shell. He's been working in Shell before I entered University of B...
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what do you call it, a dove, be wise as a serpent, but be harmless as a dove. What Jesus was saying in effect is that there are traits in a dove which has to do with gentility and harmlessness that you must learn. At the same time, there's a trait of camouflage, all right, and subterfuge that you mu...
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When you see a lot of people abroad, these white people in the advanced countries, they are very generous. Some of those generosities are not out of the richness of Christ in them. They are born out of the fact that if they don't give it, government will take it. Because what government does, anythi...
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You understand what I'm saying there? That is, if I'm going and somebody needs money and I give the person maybe a thousand or two thousand or one hundred thousand, whatever it is, I'm not expecting the person to give back to me or help me with connections or necessarily even pray for me. As long as...
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It's a huge amount of money, 20 bucks. If a man earning 5 million gives 10%, it's pocket change. That's reality. That is why in advanced societies, taxes are not equal. If you earn a little, you pay nothing. If you earn small, you pay a small fraction. If you earn more, you pay a higher proportion. ...
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whether my father in the Lord or my physical father, what I have sown is honor and I will reap honor. What a man sows, that shall he also reap. When I'm sowing into the false field of the spirit, I must sow spiritual substance. But spiritual substance always has a coating. So the coating can be mone...
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Why did I go into all of this? To let you know that to handle finances productively is one of the characters of a good Christian. As we go on, I'll mention it. I don't know how far we can go today. For example, you must know how not to owe money. It's important. Yes, because the servant, sorry, The ...
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These days, we pastors, we love to make it look like you don't need to plan. All right? You just suddenly wake up and start giving offerings. And I want to talk specifically about that as we go on. He said, it supplies seed to the sower and bread for food. What that tells us is this. It's a simple p...
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a new pair of shoes for 8,000. Right now, you are owing 12,000. I give you 25. When your sister called, you couldn't take the call because she begged you that her friend is wedding, and she wanted money to buy a new gown to join the wedding. You have used your money to buy shoes, buy a new Motorola....
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The foolishness of the heart of man did not allow him to realize that if one seed could produce this tree, every year hundreds of seeds come from that tree. But he collects all the seeds, the fruit, sells them, collects and eats the money. He was dependent on one tree. So that by the time somebody k...
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The pastor, in his wisdom, decided that the way to do it is to collect all their monthly salary. I think it's very wrong. I don't agree with him because you collect it in January. You say it was first fruit. You collect 10% every month. You say it's tight. You collect another 10% every month. You sa...
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But some people are not moving anywhere. Holy Spirit does not even know how to get them up their seats. Are you getting what I'm saying? What I'm telling you is let us have a culture first, based upon that which is written. If you work and you have an income, you must give to the poor regularly. You...
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You get my point? But if I turned around and gave somebody begging at the gate that 160 Naira and I walk away empty-handed, that's a spiritual seed. Now, my emphasis here is that every money you have, there is a portion that's spiritual seed and there is a portion that's physical seed and there is a...
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The unbelieving engineer says that I made the clutch cable. I don't know whether you get my point. A Christian knows what is right, and we follow the proper order of doing things. Then periodically, there are days that the clutch cable will cut. Are you getting what I'm saying? And you have to move....
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Okay, let's start from here. Second Corinthians chapter nine. Last time I began to speak about financial balance as part of our faith basic series. We've been talking about balance being the key to life. Don't ever forget the scripture. We read Ecclesiastes chapter seven. He said, try and maintain b...
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your brain starts shrinking. It's called disused atrophy in medicine. It starts shrinking when it starts working. What am I saying? When a man just thinks that he has got that enough, all right, so as to take care of himself, something is going to go seriously wrong. Let me leave that there, all rig...
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It does not even mean he's rejoicing his heart at that moment when he's giving. Go and read my tract. A cheerful giver, being a cheerful giver is a mindset, an attitude, it's a principle of faith in life. A cheerful giver is a man who knows, like I was telling the story of my friend. Wally and I con...
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What am I saying? That a Christian should learn how to manage money so that he won't be living beyond his means. That's what I'm trying to say about all of those. It's part of it. Those are the things that God expects us to do. I said we should open somewhere, right? So the points I made up till now...
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No matter how anointed you are, you come telling fantastic stories about how one person gave a head and got three heads. I won't answer you. But it's important I say the other side. I also learned long ago not to need anybody to tell stories before I do what is my responsibility. Are you getting wha...
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The guy will take the list, including going to buy groceries. Anything you want, let me just do it for you. What am I saying? You see, go and listen to our series, Creating the Opportunity for Prosperity. I defined a job there. That a job is the opportunity to be a blessing to somebody else's life. ...
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Now everybody can buy juice. There was a time that if you do a function, you save juice. Eh? That's canned juice or bottled juice, paper juice. You know what I'm saying? Juicy. Then it was just juice that time. It was like, my God, you guys spent money. He went for that kind of function. Then bottle...
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He was the only one that got in. Yet there were seven people that maintained for a long time being ahead of him in class. He said, you know, that made the difference. He said, I was the only one in that set that became anything in life. Now, we're talking, he said, I just know it's God. So I told hi...
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You must be a planned giver. Come on, you know how much you earn. Don't give by faith to, I don't believe in that one. You know what I'm saying? By faith not being in quote unquote. You are earning 20,000 Naira in a month and you make a pledge of 0.5 million. Please make that pledge at home. When Go...
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I sent you to buy a recharge card. You gave a hungry person money. Do you know, that's one thing about God. That recharge card was probably supposed to be her breakthrough. You don't know I kept her there waiting. I was going to make an important phone call. Do you understand the point? That would g...
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If you give to somebody you are supposed to honor, we'll break these things down maybe next time, a spiritual seed. If you give towards the preaching of the word of God, a spiritual seed. Anyway, cut a long story short, any money you give out, like we talk about giving, is what? Spiritual seed. Some...
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If the crusade costs us 10 million naira, I expect 10 people to have given me 1 million naira each ahead. I don't believe in generalized offering. You know what I believe? You want to hear me? God will prosper you so much. One day you say, Pastor, this preaching, we need to spread it further. Here, ...
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things that the spirit produces when you sow into it. Are you getting my point? So, physical money is not a seed in itself. It can't be. It is the spiritual principle behind the man that is giving. That is why I told you, you can give a dead seed. Therefore, the man who gives out of selfishness, his...
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creating the opportunities for prosperity. I say first and foremost, the opportunities for prosperity must first be created in your heart. What you actually experience outwardly, all right, is what is inside your heart. So if you have plenty of money, you never have to complain. That is not true. Th...
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Now, what is the fundamental doctrine? There are basic things you must know. Alright? Now, if you were not here, you can listen to our series, The Life of Grace, alright? Or The Will of God. I talked about first knowing that which is common before you go into the realm of that which is uncommon. Do ...
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No, what am I saying? I'm talking about your money. How to handle your money as a Christian, especially this emphasis has been on the matter of giving to the work of God and stuff like that. All right, what does God really expect? He said a man should have thought about it. All right, so Carnegie wa...
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That is, the woman and the husband had passed the age of childbearing. So the man is his uncle. Right now, they've come back from UK. They live in an Ambra state here. They have a home of their own, but they don't have a son or daughter that's theirs. So he says, he will come and say, Chief, please,...
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Let us begin today by reading from the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 9. Let me start from verse 6. It says, Now this I say, he who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully. Let each one, that's verse 7, do just as he has proposed in his heart,...
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Listen to me, money is not a seed, it is the water. You know, I told you something earlier. I said, when you're talking about the principle of types, listen to this one. Physical sowing and reaping involves physical things. Do you understand? So I sow a physical corn into a physical earth, it intera...
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You have lost. You haven't gained anything. If you wanted to give the money and it was 1,000 Naira, they only announce your name and you step forward, you change to 10,000. 9,000 Naira has been thrown away. God will accept your 1,000. When he checked your heart, that was what he saw there. Are you f...
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So I'm not intimidated by you at all. Listen, look, I didn't come to this life to impress anybody. At all. If you don't like me, don't. Look, there are people who don't like the sound of my voice. It's their loss, not mine. I'm going to ask those who know me, I don't harass anybody for not coming fo...
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One of the things I found out is that these days we like people to be impulsive. Don't think, just do it. Christians are one of the, that's Pentecostals. Nigerian Pentecostal, no, American when I see them on TV too. Not only Nigerians. Pentecostals of today are one of the craziest creatures on this ...
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He said, what? I said, the seed the Bible says is the word of God. You know, Ken Higgins was writing that in his book Midas Touch, one of the things I read in it. He said one day he was getting ready to go and preach or something, and the spirit of God told him that nobody gets a hundredfold return ...
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Christians should plan. Listen to me. You should have a projection, knowing that God will go beyond it. Do you get my point? That is, right now you say, God, I have only 50,000 here. When I make the money, stop eating everything you have. Ah! Stop! Apportion it appropriately. Don't ever forget to cu...
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You must make it a lifestyle and recognize that God is not, oh God, He's not only in church, He's everywhere. He's in your faculty. He's in your place of employment. Yes, they are doing Christmas party. You shouldn't pay the same amount of money as everybody else if you earn more than everybody else...
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but please don't plan to go and start harassing all your uncles and brothers for another one. One day somebody said, you see these students, there was one preacher that was talking, they are the greatest givers. I said, yes, because they are the most foolish of the people. Listen, they are the ones ...
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So now that I've explained that what's faithfulness, there's something I must say, I must say this before I go. How do I know which one is seed for the sower and bread for food in my money? Is that not a good question? Is that not a good question? How do I know? Pastor Banki, you have said everythin...
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Look, I told you, Kingdom of God ministries, there are certain offerings I reject in Jesus' name. The one that your father sold will be costing me and you together. I reject it in Jesus' name. How can somebody send you on an errand? Please let me go downstairs and buy you a recharge card. I give you...
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Don't ever take an equal share. It's not right. Let me teach you principles. Look, let's forget law. You know, stop making law. Look, the other day we were in church. We had a small meeting, leaders, and someone was going to get married, a leader in the house. So they said, okay, hey, as far as we s...
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and the preachers like it. Today, you will do something dangerous and say, God, I will not be the same again after tonight. When I see it, I don't know. I think some pastors, they don't go to school. I'm sorry, God forgive me. When I say school, I don't mean physical school, you know what I'm saying...
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He said, yes, sir. He took the money, went to the market, bought the shoes, and showed it to me. I said, you can't wear it. I said, you know why I did that to you? I said, Pentecostal goat, if I give you that money now, you first remove a tight, put it in the offering basket. Meanwhile, I said, go a...
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It is a spiritual seed that you are sowing to God, not into Pentecostals. I think the real name, like somebody said, is Pentecostals. Irresponsible fellows. I have given to God. This is the right seed. It's on the altar of God. Listen, this is New Testament. There is no altar anywhere. How do you gi...
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He said, though he was rich, yet he became poor, that you and I may be made rich. Is that not the scriptures? Listen, my friend, stop insulting God with your cheap change and calling it a back-breaking offering. Listen to me, I'll tell you something. Faith is, look, a man who really understands that...
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Your father no go chop prostrate alone. You go just prostrate. He has money, I know. Scratch him a recharge card. You think he doesn't have a free recharge card? He says he uses only business time, business line. Surprising one, they pay his bill for the month before he pays. He has more than me. Li...
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It's not my fault, sir. There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding. I'm explaining to you that expect crazy things to happen in your business, in your academics, in your life, in your career. Doors will open that only you will see, and you won't know why y...
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Come from an annual convention. Feeding is free. Accommodation is free. How do we raise the money? We don't even get to... Everybody says, okay, pass the paper around, please. Write the money you are giving for the next year and then the next year's convention. We gather at the end of the day, we to...
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He said, I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over. Now let me read it again in New American Standard before I read it from the Message Bible. In verse seven it says, let each one do just as he has proposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful g...
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basically two portions, seed for the soil and bread for food. In seed for the soil, we now broke it into two, which is spiritual seed and then physical seed. Is that okay? Now, what is physical seed? I explained it before, let me just say it briefly. Physical seed is that which you literally invest....
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All right? People was kind of charged. You know what they call sob stories? Sob, S-O-B, stories. That is stories designed to stimulate, you know, your emotions. Thank you very much. That's what I was looking for. Stories designed to make you feel, oh, oh, you know that kind of thing. And that's why ...
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Now, listen to this. There are two realms in which you look at things. One, the spiritual realm in which you cannot physically see those things. Your eyes can't behold them. Do you understand? For example, faith is of the heart. So my eyes can't see faith. But then I can describe faith by what? The ...
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I mean, if you have been coming here for a while, you will notice my attitude, which is reflected in the attitude of those who speak here. I don't believe, number one, God is not a beggar. When I say my God is not a poor God, I believe it absolutely. He's not a beggar. And if I'm representing him, I...
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I'm not charring any cards, my friend. But that boy that I buy from, when he says, good morning, sir, his good morning, sir, is genuine. Just as I was parking, I called him, check my bag for me, because the place was tight. He will come over, check it, and walk away. He has never stuck a card in my ...
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So two of you, same brains, different opportunities. What each believer strives for is satisfaction and joy. After that, you use your money knowing that you have more responsibility than the other guy who doesn't earn as much. Do you get the point? That is one. I want to explain something. Let's ass...
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He can do a business, make a profit of 15 million naira. Next day, give out an offering of 15 million naira and doesn't bat an eyelid. I'll talk about that again today. I'll talk about seed for the sower, bread for food. Because he understands that, listen, that money is not my own. It has happened ...
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I expect something else, you know, something more human. Now, what am I going to explain? Now, all the people serving these people food, they didn't buy the food. Do you get my point? They didn't rent the house. They don't pay for the gas that they use to cook. They don't pay for anything. I do. All...
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Sometimes the students, they approach me. They give me a letter. Excuse me, sir. We're trying to raise money. What is it? Two million Naira fund for our next convention. I say, it's because you people don't work. That is why you just sit down and just draw a budget of two million. I say, yes, you do...
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that the boy is a year old. Now, are you following what I'm explaining? Therefore, you're supposed to either make pap for him, simple corn pap, or make serilac, or make, you know, there are different foods that you give to a child. And by 11 o'clock, you're saying you tried to give the child food, a...
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Father we thank you for a beautiful day because you have heard us, you have poured upon us the spirit of understanding, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of revelation. Thank you. Because by it we are being transformed into the image of Christ and we are filling our earth, our places of our boat, our...
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Now, I'm saying something because I have seen people who say that, look, ordinary tapes, see, please don't dub this tape. If you want another copy, come and ask us. We have produced introduction for our tapes, and at the beginning, it is a please, feel free to make copies of this tape for your frien...
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Notice that, do not seek what you shall eat, is a straightforward statement, and what you shall drink, and do not keep worrying. For all these things the nations of the Gentiles of the world eagerly seek, but your father knows that you need these things. What's the commandment for you to seek? But s...
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the quality of your life or to determine whether you are successful or not, it cannot be calculated by all these things I have mentioned. Even if I total everything and it appears like you have a total of about 5 million dollars. Jesus said it is not possible to determine exactly how successful you ...
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This is your foundation because from next time, you see, after today, if you remember, let me just really go over a few things. We laid a foundation talking about spiritual economics and we said we are going to talk about money, many things. But the first few, today is the third one, after that firs...
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The enemies will say, ah, do it, because they think you are going to fail. So they are not a problem. It's those that love you, those that want your good, that will explain to you that, no, what you are doing is not reasonable. I hope you are getting what I'm trying to say. And that's why I say we a...
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verse 12, Amplified Bible. He said, but if the eager readiness to give is there, then it is acceptable and welcomed in proportion to what a person has and not according to what he does not have. Now, what I want to bring out here is this. You know most people, not, sorry, I don't know what most, a l...
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Because out of the depth of their hearts, they are caring for the needy. Are you following what I'm saying? I'm not going to continue on this issue of laying out treasure in heaven after today. But today, I just felt like explaining to us that there is never excuse before God that I am not doing thi...
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Let's go back to verse 20. He said, God said, you fool, this very night your soul is required of you. And Jesus said, for that reason I am warning you ahead of time. Do not be anxious for your life as to what you shall eat, nor for your body as to what you shall put on. For life is more than food an...
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I have not fully understood it yet, but what I want to bring out is this. It appears to me that being very generous with money is something that helps you keep on track when it comes to financial integrity. Listen to what I'm saying. Now there was a time somebody invited Jesus into a house to come a...
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When he was watching people who came to put things in the temple, I will refer to it later, we all know the story about the widow. Now the widow put in two mites. Now those, and Jesus commented that that was worth more than what everybody else put in. Now imagine that somebody came to church, a woma...
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I read this Mcclellan chapter 11 so that we understand that there is never an excuse that I don't have anything. If you really understand the principle of laying up treasure in heaven, even if that's the last thing you have, you look for an opportunity to bless somebody with it. Are you getting the ...
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God emphasizes, maybe later on we might talk about that because of time, I may not say much today. But let me tell you what, giving with God, it appears to me, I've taught him the scriptures, that to him, what you give to somebody in need, do you follow my point? Carries more weight than what you gi...
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Listen to me, I am not saying give and God will multiply it back at all. I am not promising you that in any form. I am just telling you that as a child of God, you have to understand that if you are going to have a great future, you have to be laying treasure up where? In heaven. That Paul said that...
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Most times they don't know. The methods that people are using, they are observing in their lives and they are calling it the principle of success. I just think that God taught them to do because that in their hearts they are successful people and they will think that is the principle of success. It'...
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But you will remember that when the Lord will be giving parables about the king that gave the talents to his subjects, they were always rewarded in accordance with how they used the one that he gave to them. I hope you are following what I'm trying to say. I'm saying that what causes treasure in hea...
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and go and sweep, that God, this is what I have for today, because he trekked to church anyway, you understand, so, and he's going to trek back. So just trek in early and dust the chairs. What I've seen, that God has given everybody what? Something with which to lay up treasure in heaven. Listen, th...
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feed them. Verse 5, Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing such a great multitude, that a great multitude was coming up to him, said to Philip, Where are we to buy bread that these may eat? And this he was saying to test him, for he himself knew what he was intending to do. Philip answered ...
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He didn't say, lay it up there and it shall multiply. He said, put it there and moth, you understand, things will not break in, moth will not destroy. But what causes your treasure that is laid up in heaven to multiply? That was the question. That is faith. That is faithfulness. Let me give you an e...
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or covetousness. He said for not even when a man has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions or a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things that he possesses. Then he told them a parable saying the lamb of a certain rich man was very productive and he began reasoning t...
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I hope you are getting what I want to say. That is, you lay up your foundation in heaven, but that is what faith is. That is what makes you a believer, that you know that the things you cannot see, they are real. But what I want to say is this, you know, I said I want to talk about faith and not tre...
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When they share what they have, they don't become poorer, but indeed they become richer. That is when economy will turn down. In their own case, for one reason or the other, their own things will be getting better. Reason being that they have laid up their treasure in the spiritual. Let me tell you ...
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When you have taught them the law, after that they will be able, based upon the law, to make correct judgments. Now, if they are not able to do it, then you appoint for them judges who will be skilled in that law. And then when there is no precedence or straightforward instructions in the law that y...
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Don't close Luke chapter 12, put your hand there and open to 1 Timothy chapter 6. Now this one won't be as long as that, let me just read it so that we won't break the trend once we start speaking. 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 17. Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or...
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as it were, to multiply, was not that she is so deceitful, but that she obeyed the word of the prophet. Because we have the story of another prophet and another widow, that was Elisha, who the widow approached and said, my husband was one of the sons of the prophet, and he died. He was owing a lot o...
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So the man allowed her to be flying her car in front of his house. And she was selling and making some money. He said, one day, she suddenly had this impression that she should pack some macaroni and go and give the man. I heard this story from somewhere. I can't remember where. And she felt that, a...
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and then you are mapped out to start business and you have all these strategies and I start preaching. He said, listen, you don't need to know anybody. Meanwhile, you have three appointments with the three biggest men in this environment. And I explained to you that the day you join with people that...
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God's plan is that you always superabound to all good works. That is, you have so much that doing good works will not be a problem. However, life is in phases. There is a phase where a time will come where what you will give will be all that you have. Are you getting the point I'm making? It's impor...
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Let me explain what I'm trying to say. I was sharing with you last time that currently I write books, I write materials, but I have made up my mind before God, there is no copyright on them. That is, maybe you buy one of the books outside, they say, ah, ah, Mr. Banki, this book, I think it is too ex...
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There is a system by which things operate there and they have a banking system and they have currency that is spent. Do you understand my point? And it is possible for a man or a woman on this earth to live up and store up money in the heavens. Let me give you a very practical example. Now, we know ...
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I will start from verse 13. Now this is a very long one and I will pass some comments as I'm going on. In fact let me just tell you the title for today's teaching is Faith and That Treasure. Now we talked in the past about treasure in heaven. Let me just say one or two things. And we explained that ...
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Don't worry. Don't be afraid that you are going to follow the strategies that I'm giving you. It said, because this is the method by which God will bring you to the realm of abundance. It said, listen, it said, do not be afraid little flock for your father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. ...
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Are you driving fine motor when you have integrity at stake? Meanwhile, if you get money, you can solve all of these things. What are you doing driving? I said, come on. See how they can't solve these integrity issues. The Christian goes out to make a name for the Lord. And of course, last of all, y...
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Please, I hope you are getting my point. We dethrone Mammon. Remember, it's in our hearts. It's in our hearts. Mammon builds in the hearts. It's in the hearts we are dethroning Mammon. And that way by which we dethrone Mammon. Let's just read this one. 1 Timothy chapter 6. I'll stop in a moment if t...
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So number two reason Christians do business is to establish righteousness, the right way of doing things. Number three reason, to improve your own life, all right? Because it's as you interact with people that you keep getting better as an individual. That's number three I've mentioned, right? Then ...
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I wonder he came in the likeness of man. He came down to this earth and walked the streets of Judea that time. And we call his name Jesus Christ. It's the reason why we worship him. And we are rejecting every other god. I just like to describe the atheism god for us to understand how it works. So th...
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If only you had paid attention to my commandments, then your well-being will have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. That's one thing I don't want to hear when I get to heaven. I want to hear it now. I hope you're getting my point. I want to correct myself now. I wa...
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to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share. When they do this, what are they doing? Storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed. What Paul said to Timothy here, I'll say this and then I'll close. ...
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You collect the bonus. As soon as you pay, they collect their money back. It's not an algorithm. They know the bonus money they gave you. As soon as you put that in there, they say, collect our money back. And if you win with that money, you can be sure that they have sunk a demonic spirit into your...
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So when Jesus said to us in that book of Matthew, in chapter six, take no thought for the moral, what you shall eat, what you shall drink, wherewith shall you be clothed. He said, after all these things the Gentiles seek. He said, you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all othe...
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is being diluted. So the wealthy families that got government relief pumped all their money into the stock market, thereby increasing the value of all the stocks, especially the more happening ones like Tesla, like Amazon, Microsoft. Microsoft makes money all the time. They make money all the time. ...
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I'm going to give all these children a commandment. Honor your father and your mother. Having read my Bible, that was God's pension scheme. That was God's pension scheme. Say, why are you laying no treasure on the earth? For what? Say, just bless people and live your life. I will take care of you. I...
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We have to show that we are not people's daughters. We own the money. So you're not going to buy a Bugatti. The whole idea about having a Bugatti is having a Bugatti. Doesn't mean you're going anywhere. Where do you want to go? The car is incredibly, unbelievably, that is, fast. I don't know how to ...
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If it seems that you have reached a place in your life where you have laid up enough treasure on the earth to be able to survive without Him, and it's in your heart. Now, I need to say that the foolish man doesn't go outside on the road shouting, necessarily, there's no God. Where does he say it? In...
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Say amen. Amen. That car you bought with the rest of the money, it will jam. You will survive, but it will catch fire and explode. You will miraculously survive. Why? You went and stole, and you now give to us to preach. Now we provoke. We're angry with you, evil spirit. No, there are people, like m...
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You know what it means, you know? Okay, people don't know. If your eye is making you stumble, block it out. Your right hand, block it out. Your testicles, do the will of God. So you can be sure, passport is the smallest thing that God collects. He says, give me the passport. You took that fire, thro...
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If you have a major problem, you have a legal problem, you have a serious disease, and your health insurance can no longer be covered by your pension payment. There are so many things that make their own not as good as the British one. But where I'm going is that the world actually has so many syste...
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If you are a pastor of the devil, don't come and call my name. I said, I listen to you a lot. And you are impregnating young girls. You listen to me a lot. You have told me my ministry is ineffective. Because if my ministry was effective in your life, you would have been potent by now. You will be d...
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the head here, the part of the right limb and torso here, and then like that. Under an earthquake robo, we'll investigate murder. I mean, the other dead people around. But that this one was properly caught into five parts could not have happened by chance. The earthquake just tried to cover the crim...
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He had the opportunity to escape. He gave the missionaries his wife and his children. They put them on helicopters. Americans evacuated them. What about you? He said, maybe I'll be able to win one communist. That's all he wanted. He didn't think he was going to live. And really, one hour later, he w...
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Books that we needed to read were not available. So I started looking for space. I said I wanted to open a bookshop. I wasn't looking for money. I just said, ah, ah, a whole city like this. And I was not joking about it. I meant it. I was not looking for money. I just wanted to make books available ...
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And then I dropped my idea. Now, I'm just as an illustration to let you know that sometimes you can do something because you want to bless people. That should be the first. There are times people want to start a business. Like, OK, why this one? I mean, show me something you want to add. You want to...
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You'll have had this kind of ease. You were walking from this time to this time. I did not expect you to walk that long. You're supposed to have two extra hours of sleep. One hour of laughing with your wife or your friends, on the average, every day. You're supposed to get this extra amount of time ...
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One of the ways you know you are worshipping mammon is you love quick money. Number one way to dethrone mammon, hate... No, see, I didn't say don't love quick money. Did I say so? What did I say? Spell it. H-A-T-E. H-A-T-E. Hate. Hate quick gain. If they tell you, oh boy, find 100,000. We'll put it ...
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Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you, by being worried, can add a single hour to his life? And why are you worried about closing? Observe now the lilies of the field grow. They do not toil, nor do they spin. Yet I said to you that if not even Solomon, in all his glory, clothed himse...
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We'll sit down, we'll just drink, just eat. Say, today's my birthday plus six weeks, so just come. I want to thank God that we did not die on the birthday. Six weeks later, we are still alive. Come and get everybody, meet in my house. They won't know what you are doing. Just want to say shame on mon...
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But what pension pays, gives her in a month is not close to what I own a loan give. I don't know what my other siblings give. They say, ah, this is my phone, Seth. I tell my present, Seth, sorry, I couldn't answer you because this phone is not so responsive anymore. I called one of my siblings. Go t...
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Whatever you are doing, see it as a source of faithfulness, as a place of faithfulness. As a place in which you are emitting blessing to people. Let's go over some rules we have discussed here many times before. I hope I can remember them. And I will remember a number of them. So why do Christians d...
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for all these
actions. These are the things that will spill out of
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you, as it is written that, the mouth speaks out of that
which fills the heart. *
The Habit of Thanksgiving
Always giving thanks for all things in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ ...
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, spirits and others—to hear. We
call Him names as revealed to us in the scriptures.
The following are examples:
For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor
among the nations. Psa 22:28 KJV
The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness...
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in Christ Jesus. Forgiveness of sins is a major one
of them. We are redeemed in Christ. We have been
purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. We are a
new creation in Him; old things have passed away.
Paul was very profuse in giving thanks for the
churches; I think we should learn from that. He
gave...
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d;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth quakes,
And the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Jer 10:10
* Deut 8:18
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Then he told me, "Son of man, I will make food very
scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out wi...
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d
multiplied food for the widow when she was
visited by the prophet during famine, until food
returned to the land. This was not done for the sake
of Elijah the prophet, but to save the woman's life.*
When I was young, a man of God told us of how
God multiplied food for him and his household.
They ...
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do it
* Col 1.8, Acts 19:21, Gal 5:16, Rev 1:10, Eph 6:18, John 4:24
** 1 Cor 14:14
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from the bottom of your heart, like we say, or with a
whole heart.
When the Lord Jesus said that the Father is seeking
those who will worship Him in spirit and in tr...
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n, who knows he is
to bring it all to God in prayer. He fulfils the words
of the Lord Jesus who taught us that we ought
always to pray and not to lose heart. Paul said we
are to pray without ceasing.*
As we have already seen, the prayer of worship,
which includes praise and thanksgiving, is an
impo...
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und
in the lives of children of God. These things
seriously grieve the Spirit of God and cause a drain
on the anointing. You cannot be full of the Spirit
and your mouth will not be a fountain of life.
I have found grumbling, which is an expression of
lack of thanksgiving, to be a very potent killer...
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m of the spirit that we also
do. These include meditations, confession of the word and declarations.
Many times, we lump all of them together as prayer but, strictly speaking,
they are not all prayer.
** Note that spirit or Spirit is not distinguished in the original text of the New
Testament; when...
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ainable way to do this is
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by regularly filling up with the word of Christ with
the purpose of drinking in the Spirit within. It is the
way of victory.
A Sense of Value
The word of God is not just about intellectual
knowledge. It is the transmission ...
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ages that are available on
the website and on portable digital media.
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of audio messages, books and short sermons,
please visit pastor.ng (pastorbankie.org)
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2. Here on Purpose
3. The Law of Life
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tudy
and praying, before setting out. That is the kind of
thing you do when you are tarrying for the Spirit.
Jesus first gave the disciples understanding when
He told them to wait for the gift of God.
When you would have learnt, then you will be
ready to receive the Spirit. A heart must be
prepared...
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er to
keep the switch of faith turned on, and to employ
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all the other means for being filled, which we have
seen, as the Lord will make them available.
The truth is that the Lord may choose different
methods to perfect what He began at that time of
p...
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th your Holy
Spirit. I open my heart to receive. In the name of
Jesus.”
4. Receive with Thanksgiving
Now, know for sure He has heard you, and His
Spirit is flowing into you now. If you believe that,
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then a sign of your faith is thanksgiving.
Beg...
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God in psalms, hymns and
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spiritual songs. We must continually make melody
in our hearts to the Lord. We must meditate on the
word of God continually.
Lord, thank you for what you have made me in Christ.
Thank you for you have a purpose for my life, ...
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use I am a believer in Christ Jesus and a
messenger of the New Covenant.
By the laying on of my hands, the sick are healed. I speak
with new tongues. If I drink any deadly thing, I will not
be harmed.
All My Needs Are Supplied*
The Lord is my Shepherd, so I lack nothing
He makes all grace abound to...
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in Christ. You
are a new creature, and you have been made
righteous.
Meditate on His power working through you.
Let me summarise the things we are to meditate on
and confess, using the words of Paul:
…how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his
people, and how very great is his power at w...
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ey
could take the land from the giants. That was not
hearing with faith. The word therefore could not
release to them the Spirit or power in it—the power
that would have made them overcome the giants.
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive
anything from the Lord, being a double-minde...
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Chapter 12: MEET THE HOLY SPIRIT.......................133
Chapter 13: KEEP BEING FILLED - 1.........................141
Chapter 14: KEEP BEING FILLED - 2.........................151
Chapter 15: KEEP BEING FILLED - 3.........................159
Chapter 16: QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT ....
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make us win when everyone thinks we
should lose.
It will make us prosper in the midst of economic
hardship.
It will make all grace abound towards us so that we
will have all sufficiency in all things.
The power in the word will heal all our diseases.
That power is for those who treat the word with
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t 6:6-9
These verses show us how to generate the right
spiritual atmosphere. It is generated by the words
that come from our mouths. The word of God and
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the praises of the Almighty must first be in our
hearts, then we must allow them flow often from
o...
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, we can easily understand that a
major killer of the anointing is negligence.
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and
through idleness of the hands the house droppeth
through. Eccl 10:18 KJV
Anyone who is not taking the filling of the Spirit as
a serious agenda in his life is actually gui...
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hing about the
Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a
foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith
toward God, of instruction about washings and laying
on of hands… Heb 6:1-2
Laying on of hands is a foundational doctrine of
Christianity. I believe this is because many
bles...
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nt things, and that includes to be filled with
the Spirit, when it is necessary. The waiting period
is for the preparation of the person to be ready to
receive.
So, what do we do when we are waiting?
The first thing is to get detailed knowledge of what
our assignment is. Waiting is not an idle pro...
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all
genuine prayers that get the attention of Heaven,
are prayers of faith. Whether it is intercession or
supplication or worship; they are all prayers of
faith, otherwise they would not be effective.
…pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and
restored... The earnest (heartfelt, conti...
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hurch.
Let us recall the time when Peter and his friends
were threatened by the elders and rulers of
Jerusalem, and warned not to preach any longer in
the name of Jesus. We remember that they went to
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their own company of believers to report what the
...
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utterance with the
laying on of hands by the presbytery. 1 Tim 4:14
Usually when hands are being laid, prophetic
declaration would accompany, indicating what the
laying on of hands is to accomplish.
Let us get it clear; prophecy is not the same as fore-
telling of future occurrences. Prophecy simp...
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thee, 'tis, 'ol, etc. No, we can use modern English and
yet hardly change the sentences. I thank God for
modern hymn writers; there are so many of these
modern hymns these days. They are so spiritual.
The Ambience of Faith
Apart from church services, the company we keep
is so important, as we have ...
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ows into many. “Receive the Holy
Spirit” was first used by the Lord Jesus to impart
life into the disciples,* and it is still a way by which
*John 20:22
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the Spirit will flow into many today. It is to you
according to your faith. As those words are bei...
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n Paul was
going to impart to Timothy the ability to function in
that apostolic-pastoral office, that was the method
which the Lord manifested through.
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For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of
God which is in you through the laying o...
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ly recycled through
our mouths if we want the power therein to
continue to flow through us.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth,
but you shall meditate on it day and night… Josh 1:8
If you ever wondered why the contrast is between
meditating and the word departing from your
mouth...
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the upper room, on
that day of Pentecost, and in the house of Cornelius.
We know of the upper room and the house of
Cornelius quite well, but we often forget about that
of the Lord Jesus and of Paul.
When Paul was first filled with the Holy Spirit,
there was nothing dramatic to herald it, apart fro...
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ality, but in holiness. So then, whoever rejects
this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God,
who gives you his Holy Spirit. 1 Thess 4:3-8 GNT
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Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed
among you. Such sins have no place among God...
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devices around you. Fill your air
literally with the word of God and the Spirit of God
will be present too; they go together.
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Contact Transmits the Spirit
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word of God for
the purpose of drinking the Spirit in it.
Also, fill your environment with the right
influences, just as we earlier saw. Be deliberate to
obey the word which David admonished us with.
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel
of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of si...
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resurrection. He spoke of the
encounters of the disciples with Him after the
resurrection until the ascension. He also told of
how the Father appointed Him, Jesus, as judge of
the living and the dead.
Peter continued to speak, and the household of
Cornelius continued to hear with faith, until there...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Now this is where Christianity is beautiful. This is where Christianity is different. God doesn't have any law on it that applies to everybody. He does not have. If I go and read the Romans chapter 12, there is a ministry called the giving ministry. A number of Christians are in that ministry. And t...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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from the income. You can pray, you know, God is wonderful. Somebody can just, you can just win a MTM promo one day, sell Italian suits, you go and collect and wear. Are you getting my point? Don't go and be, you know, there are things you shouldn't do on credit. Brasilia here on credit made cat fire...
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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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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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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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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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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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I said amen. I said amen. Understand it's your portion today in Jesus name. Revelation will come to you today in the name of Jesus. Wisdom, which is the ability to apply a specific word into the area in which you need it, will come to you today in the name of Jesus Christ. All right, the Lord is goo...
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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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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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And as they should hear, in the name of Jesus, no birds will go to her farm. And the villagers testified. They did everything they had to do. Assuming her farm was number F on the block, the birds will eat on plot A, plot B, plot C, plot D, plot E. They get to F. They will jump over F. and go to G. ...
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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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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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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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If you are saying, I need a million, that's why I brought this 10,000, you just push your hand and say, why don't you just ask for a million? I was teaching my wife today, I said, God does not make deals. God does not negotiate. Forget those things, you know, when we were children, we learned a lot ...
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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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Let me just say something again. Please try and prioritize what is important in your life. What do I mean by that? A lot of young men, young women, they finish school, they get their first job. And the first thing they are thinking about is not to buy a car. That's very irresponsible. You trekked fo...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is also the gift to God. Very important. Let nobody tell you that that one is just dash, that one is just scatter. You know, when I hear some people preach it, I know that members of that church will really have problems in life. Because if mouths don't bless you, your father never rose up one da...
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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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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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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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A lot of us knew these things. What we did not know, that we're doing it, that we do such things also for God. I'm sorry to say it like this, a lot of our pastors do not know. So if you tell them you are doing something like that, they say you have not built the house of God. Listen, that one is als...
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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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That is, before I do anything, I must put a proper house that has zinc on top of it. I told him, please, when you want to paint it, let me know. No matter how small, I must add something. Also, when it was time for painting, I told him, I can't have small money. Please, you should buy one or two buc...
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This is when I was in secondary school. The man was so nice. My friends and I used to go to his house. That's how we used to stay. They would say it and pass. The guy just bought a car two weeks ago. He bought it for six million Naira. He would say it and pass. I've discovered human beings don't kno...
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Did you hear what I said? In fact, let me prove it. Let me prove it. Let's not even waste time. Because we are going to refer to this again and again. Let me just show it to you. You see the Lord Jesus was speaking and telling a principle. He healed ten people, ten lepers, and he said to them, when ...
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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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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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.”
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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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eir hope on the uncertainty of riches,
but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be
generous and ready to share. 1 Tim 6:17-19
The major manifestations of the right spirit toward
money and material things are contentment and
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methods; we don't try to trick anyone or distort the word of
God' (2 Cor 4:2 NLT).
This is a major problem today. Many ministers do not
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Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied
with what you have. For God has said, "I will never leave
you; Iwill never abandon you.” Heb 13:5 GNT
Contentment and generosity are two major things
that show that a believer has a right spirit in th...
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houghts. She knew it had to
be the Spirit of God. When she was called up to speak,
after going here and there with her speech, she finally
made the offer as instructed and the result was
overwhelming.
Previously, on good days, they would collect about
500 dollars after much motivation, so no one ex...
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scriptures and observing life's experiences, I can only
say I do not understand it to be so. Of course we do
*Dt 29:29; Acts 1:7
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not have the Urim and Thummim or the Ephod,*
which were parts of the instruments of worship in
Isr...
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deliverance while their wives are at home. In
summary, the ‘witch’ and the channel through which
the evil spirits come into his life is the person who
escorts him to prayer, how can he be delivered?
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affect his body; but the man who is guilty ...
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rit of God, these
are sons of God.’
In the Life of Jesus
Let us see how the presence of this spirit that came
out of God manifested in the life of Jesus Christ. Paul
described it to the Philippians.
Let this same attitude and purpose and humble mind be in
you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, ...
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supernaturally.
First, let us see how the early church followed this
principle of diligently applying the precepts.
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Time to Make a Choice
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inher on the Holy Spirit, by that putting the poor lady
into distress for the fear of disobeying God. We must
renounce all these things so that we can really hear
what the Spiritis saying to us.
The businessman must not lie with his adverts if he's
walking by grace. Forget what the world call...
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questions about the
situation so that we might judge them with the Word.
All we want is to pray and let God speak, and we
*Prov 3:5,6
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think it is spirituality. But it is not spirituality at all; it
is spiritual laziness, and is not t...
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usion: Fear God and obey his
commands, for this is everyone's duty. Eccl 12:13-14 NLT
Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether
my teaching is from God or is merely my own. Jn 7:17 NLT
If we truly fear God, and we are obeying His known
commandments; if we really want to do His will ...
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them. All is because the people have never said that
‘Father, if you will not bring the money, we will not
need it and we will not spend it.'
Churches and Christians have now gone to the world
to learn their methods. PR and branding are now...
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better method as it couldn't be polluted by our
personal thoughts. The word of God is still true that
says, 'We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how
they fall.’
Casting Lots, Not Everyday
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Follow thee more nearly
Day by day
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The Voice of the Spirit
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just an impression or perception; sometimes the
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hast ordained Thy precepts, that we should keep them
diligently.
Oh that my ways may be established to keep Thy statutes!
Then I shall not be ashamed when I look upon all Thy
commandments. Ps 119:4-6
The principle is this: if I observe the precepts and
statutes, applying them diligently, then the ...
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profess to be
believers.
Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us
be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy
fear and awe. For our God is a devouring fire. Heb 12:28-29
*Ez 14:4,5
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We know that if peopl...
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s thoughts. When it does this,
what we are to do is to confess them as sin and ask the
Lord for forgiveness and cleansing. This is so crucial.
There is no other way to free our spirits from
pollution.
After reasoning about it, | summarized the different
parts of our lives that we need to deliberate...
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these came upon her because she had just seen the
demonstration of God's power to bless. She
explained, in effect, that success is a gift of God and
that was why she said, 'You can't out-give God.’
Ihave told this story here to illustrate how someone
may hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. A numb...
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said it this way:
Open to me the gates of righteousness;
Ishall enter through them, I shall give thanks to the Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord;
The righteous will enter through it. Ps 118:19-20
Even if what we are seeking to enter is a good thing,
we still must enter through the gates of God....
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ded to know the hearts of these men,
but only the Lord has such knowledge, just as Peter
acknowledged in his prayer. They came to the point
of lacking wisdom, at which point James said we are
to pray.
Another point is that there will be some things the
Lord may want us to do but which may not be on...
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the prophetic unction must strive more
than anyone else to keep a clear head in the midst of
the noise. The church as a whole is supposed to be a
prophetic people. We all need to be careful therefore.
Many times Christians are so occupied with the
media reports of what is going on in the world. The...
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why I say this is because these
impressions of the heart can be closely mimicked by
very many other things so that many times they may
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actually be inaccurate. Many young Christian men
have had such impressions with several sisters; t...
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money at all. Without the knowledge of this, every
other thing someone is supposedly hearing is not the
will of God, even if an angel were to appear and
speak.
The system of the world tells us that the more the
number of ‘powerful’ people a person knows, the...
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use the word of God says it
works.
The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly of the
Lord... Prov 16:33 AMP
We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they
fall. Prov 16:33 NLT
The Lord spoke in the lots cast. Let us bear in mind
however that they didn't start with casting l...
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reach for special communications when the general
rules are not clear to us. We are not to use special
revelations to subvert the general rule.
Notice what He said through David to us in Ps 119v4
which was quoted earlier. He said we are to kee...
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which we navigate in that realm. The physical five
other senses, when they are too active, tend to reduce
perception with our spirits.
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Many times people are taught to develop their spirits
so they can perceive things more, but caution...
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ple up.* He can doit anywhere as long as
they are where He ordained for them to be. The child
of God learns that people are not blessed because of
places but that places are blessed because of people.
By imbibing the word of God, he learns how to wait
on God, practice faithfulness and walk in faith...
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y, and began to weep. The lady was in
dire need and the money was an answer to prayer.
The Lord actually impressed that upon his heart.
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Now, that was easy to 'risk' obeying because giving is
basically good. Would that response have be...
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for
temptation. It is not his nature.
Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for
God's very nature is in them; and because God is their
Father, they cannot continue to sin. 1 Jn3:9 GNT
It is only when the spirit has been defiled that
children of God start walking in sin and away fro...
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eople have failed, even though they thought
they had a revelation concerning what they are
doing. But the hand of the Lord was against them.
They came to prayer with idols and iniquity in their
lives.
Idols are preconceived ideas in people's hearts. We
looked at that matter when we were examining t...
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ason. I took that as the confirmation
Ineeded from the Lord.
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Beware of Divination
I want to conclude this book by warning about
divination.
When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives
you, you shall not learn to imitate the dete...
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houghts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way. Ps 139:23-24
Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying,
‘What are we going to have to eat?’ Matt 6:31 AMP
When there are anxious thoughts in the heart, the
spirit is polluted. A believer then operates wit...
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cration for this young lady?
It is to accept correction. It is to confess her sin of
having a wrong expectation for solving the poverty
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problem. She should look back in her mind at the
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d we will not be like that.
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The Precepts and the Commandments
Thou hast ordained Thy precepts,
That we should keep them diligently. Ps 119:4
We saw in the earlier chapters of this book that what
the Lord wants for His children is that they...
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is not the
usual. We discover His preordained plan through
reasoning with our sanctified minds, just like Peter
and co did. The coming of the Holy Spirit on the day
of Pentecost didn't take that away.
After reasonably eliminating some and checking
others, we came up with just two sets of dates, and...
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ourself
up in the knowledge of His word. Walking in God's
will is a consequence of renewing our minds with
heavenly wisdom and understanding. Paul made
this very clear as he prayed for the Colossians.
...(we) ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His
will in all spiritual wisdom and unde...
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