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ickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread cakes." Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf, and gave it to the servant; and he hurried to prepare it. And he took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he wa...
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g to escape from any one of these obligations. The fact that you gave to someone in need doesn’t mean you have now been freed from your obligation to your church and your minister of the gospel.
Sometimes, people ask whether students should tithe since they have no income but only depend on t...
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Can I give my tithe to someone? The first time I heard this question was about 26 years ago. I was on campus walking, and I saw a sister carrying quite some load, so I went and helped carry her stuff to her room. She was someone I knew rather well though not a member of my own fellowship group. We c...
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see that we are not following the codes of Moses. Yes, Abraham tithed before the Law and we are of the faith of Abraham. If we are tithing, we have to do it like Abraham and not as commanded by Moses. So, how did Abraham tithe? And Melchizedek, who was king of Salem and also a priest of the Most Hig...
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ng to a Christian in need, I have given it to the Lord Jesus Himself. No one can argue against that. All His children are priests under Him and are authorized therefore to receive gifts on His behalf. To insist that the tithe belongs to the “house of God,” or the storehouse, referring to...
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in his business is not because of the surrounding circumstances. It is something that is inside his heart. It's not because of the certificate he has to show. It is because of something that is inside his heart. Are you getting my point? And that God is concerned about blessing the realms of mankind...
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They asked the government once in the book of the second Kings chapter 6. They were asking the government. A woman shouted, help oh Lord the King. He said, from where do I help you? If God does not help you, how can I help you? A lot of us are asking for government. Listen to me. God said, I have gi...
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Do you get my point? He said, this is how a man is who is not rich towards God. How will he be rich towards God? He should have invested that money and created just for other people. He should have given out most of that food to the poor. That's how you are rich towards God. Lord put you, you pay th...
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Now, I have given you some money. You remember I said something that there are three things I'm going to talk about, all right? About what we do outwardly. Number one, talking about our skills. Now, I have now drifted gently into talking about what we do with money. Then we'll talk about diligence, ...
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Do you get the point? But I'm saying that everything must have its place. You must prioritize properly. Listen, you don't have to start a school yourself. You can finance one. I like one of my friends, a blessed man in the Lord, a co-worker in this ministry, told me one of the things he does, he wil...
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giving and receiving. Giving services and receiving money in return. Giving goods and receiving money in return. I emphasized last time that actually it's really a spiritual principle that we are operating. And that if a man sits down and commands so much resources and he has never really given anyt...
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He said, he had not called me in a while. If I was joking, I said, what did I do right yesterday that made you remember me today? He said, I just wanted to mark presence, sir. He made a joke of it. I said, so how is, so I'm so pleased where you are? He said, I'm no longer there, sir. I'm another par...
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I'll give myself as an example, not a testimony, just as an example. I work, I have a secular job, alright, and I get paid a salary regularly. I mean, every month. Do you get my point? Before the money is paid, I have already decided long before what is going to where. There was a time I was telling...
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Of course, we are talking about financial management, biblical financial management. That in every money that God gives you, there is what the Bible calls seed for the sower and there is bread for the eater or what the Bible calls bread for food is the same thing. The last time we established that t...
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I hope you are getting the point. Listen, this is sound doctrine. I told you last time that, in fact, interestingly enough, I was, I read a page in, there's a book my wife is reading now about Hudson Taylor. And one man said, made a statement there, that Christians often don't give because they are ...
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And whenever I finish my combination and permutation, I've lost appetite for the apple. But I will buy it. I will buy like 10, 20, carry it. You eat it, you will deny satisfaction. No. The extreme of my own was that. You will offer it to me. And I'll say, do you like it? You say yes. I say, in that ...
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Somebody there say, come on, like you mean you're able to, you know, that amount of money out of this little money that you have now listen, that is because I recognize that there is a spiritual side to life. Do you understand my point? Listen, I don't want to appear as if I'm sounding that giving c...
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primarily make a room. You must always make room for things. Things you don't make room for, you can't do them. I was telling you earlier that, you see, I am the one person that, that's why Kingsley takes announcements the way he does. This is Kingdom World Ministries. It is supported, it is funded ...
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Are you getting my point? There are people I know, committed ministers who are doing great works. Periodically I remember, oh, sorry, we have not done this for a while. I write a check, I post it. You know the interesting thing? I have never been so broke that I forgot. Are you hearing my point? No....
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Grace says, the only reason why I'm free is because I was told by God that I'm free. What did you do to purchase freedom? Nothing. I just believed that they said that I'm free. You get my point? I'm sorry to say this, but this is why it is so easy to make a merchandise of the gospel, if you are anoi...
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It is not as if he needs bribery. It is just that if you walk in a particular fashion, it is clear that you are not believing God for blessing, that your prosperity, your promotion is not coming from God. And God, therefore, he's not compelled to bless you. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? He...
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Are you getting my point? What about the guy next door, who you know that this guy, the reason why this young man is not making any progress is because nobody's helping him. So you call the young man, you give him advice, you know, are you getting what I'm trying to say? That is, you help somebody, ...
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After all, the time that God commanded them every year was supposed to be eaten by them. It's different from food. That's not what I'm saying. But food, maybe let me just use a minute, because I want to close now, to explain this. I said there is seed for the sower, and there are two kinds of seed. ...
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This man had been laboring and working for God for more than 10 years. What am I saying? Years before that, nobody knew him now. Decades he had been preaching and managing. But the time for harvest came, but physical investment was needed to ignite that harvest. do you understand my point? That is, ...
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Are you getting my point? Why? Because I have already made room in my heart for that expenditure. That's what I want to emphasize. Most people cannot operate their priestly offices. You know what I mean? They cannot service their priestly altars because they don't make room. You know, one of the pro...
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do you understand what I'm trying to say? That's all that God is saying. God is not like, come and bribe me. No, I have to know that it's from my hands that you're expecting blessing. Remember what I said? God is not demanding, therefore, that you should be impulsive. This impulsive attitude is not ...
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Only for me to open the door and find it was not him. Then it made sense that I can look at, stand at the door, knocking, saying that it's not him. He kicks the door down. You understand my point? Interestingly, if for any reason the door is locked, he will get there, push the door, the door will op...
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Okay, now today we are going to continue again as usual in what we have been discussing in the last few, today will be third day. Remember we started this season, we said we are discussing what we called financial management for Christians. Do you remember that? So let's quickly just remember that w...
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there is a world of difference. I hope you are getting my point. I'm talking about honoring God. I'm not finished. Now, this guy said something and that was wrong. Sorry, I have to give the gist. So, actually, he came to see me because he came to give me some money. So, that's for Kingdom World. So,...
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very, very, very sound. Why? Because the Bible said that if I am a father, God was talking about it. He said, where is my honor? He was talking about sacrifices that you bring me this, bring me that, bring me that. Can you give it to your governor? He said, take it to your governor. Whether he would...
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Yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich. That is the covenant of God. One of my favorite verses says, Behold, I cause prosperity to flow towards you like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream. That is the covenant of God. Now, I'...
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The pledge, the oath they are taking, they wanted to release her, but she refused to be released. So she paid the money, even though she planned to go and pay the money, even though she was going to borrow it. And of course, she finally did. But before she even left her house to go to the bank to co...
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You will not get anything. I'm not killing your faith. I'm helping your faith. I'm telling you the truth so that your faith will not be undermined when you sow seeds that will not produce anything for you. Why is that you will not get anything? Because the people you think you are copying did not do...
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I'm telling you to be very annoyed because you can't remember what last happened to you. Somebody say amen. Amen. Back to our teacher. What am I trying to say? If the need is real to you, are you getting my point? Don't worry about the prophecy behind it. That's what I'm trying to explain. If the ne...
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What am I saying? She did that for Elijah, Elisha, without any desire for any reward. Yet the prophet said, no, we must do something. Let me not finish the rest of the story. We all know most of the rest of it. That's what I'm trying to emphasize. How is it that we will not, I mean, I began this tim...
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Many people would have followed to the house of the widow of Zarephath, giving to Elijah. And they would have gotten nothing. Why? This time around, they are sown to the flesh. They do not have the faith that brought Elijah to the doorsteps of that woman in the first place. Please, I hope you all ge...
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or to honor a man like Alexander Darwin, the story that I told, or a neighbor is actually hungry. A young man needs to pay fees for school. Somebody is sick in the hospital, doesn't have money to buy drugs. I happen to know about it because my life is not tied to the 10,000 I give. Am I giving so th...
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He saw that this man was broke, you understand? It's like maybe you come to see me one day and say, Pastor Panga, I've been teaching for years then. Something happened, they sacked me from here, which will not happen, amen? And that's him sitting there one day, very broke. And you needed money to go...
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You know what God said, Jeremiah? I have put my word in your mouth. He said, go down, go there. You do six things. What are the first four? Break down, uproot, destroy, overthrow. Then build and what? Plant. Four walks of breakdown and two jobs of building up. The reason is because the rot was so ba...
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The real faith of a believer is that he knows that God meets my need. Do you get my point? For that reason, what I have is not my God. I don't know whether you saw the way I turned it. The common teaching in Christianity is that you give because by that God meets your need. And I say no. That is not...
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And on God's behalf, I declare to you, your sins are forgiven. You have no right to be angry. You are the sinner. Are you getting what I'm saying? Nobody defrauded you. You sinned. Now we are forgiving you. You should be happy. What I'm telling you is very important. Let me make you feel worse again...
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When an adult is telling you like that, he doesn't want to tell you the real reason. You're not sitting there and say, tell me, what's going on? Say, actually, sir, you know my dad is late. My mother is the one that's supposed to pay the money. But my younger brother, he has to pay his WASC fees. An...
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is evil thereof. That money was given to you to solve that boy's problem. Now listen to this, this is where the problem is. Because, now listen, because you understood this, and remember you were praying, remember? You were casting all your cares upon the Lord. When the workman came and gave you a b...
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You know, he said, oh, I don't have a car. And I said, what happened to your car? And the car was a very nice car he has. Very, very, very beautiful car, right? Body brand, just not too long ago, a few months ago. And I said, oh, did you give it as an offering? He now said to me, he said, ah, Oga, G...
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When we are using this, I'm not worried about tomorrow. We are taking the need of the day. It's the need that we are solving with the resources of today. That is a sign that we are not concerned about tomorrow. So you get home. The children say that, ah, mommy, it's only rice this evening. There's n...
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You hear what I said? Just forget it, alright? God is not angry. You two don't be angry. Say, Father Banki, it was my two years savings I gave that man that day. God has delivered you from faithlessness. You should be grateful. If you are saving for two years, for what? So I was planning to buy a ca...
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The fellow telling me the story, I met him in Nigeria, but he said this happened, I think, in Ghana or one of these West African countries. He said there was a man, a white man, I think from Germany or something. The man came and saw that the rural pastures didn't have motorcycles to move about, and...
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You get there, and your experience has taught you. You say, ah, but when I go to listen to Pastor Bang, these things don't happen. You're not called Israel. You say, why doesn't this happen? You say, ah, it's not a spiritual matter. It's the quality of the microphone that you bought. If you don't wa...
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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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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
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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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s. We will find
ourselves accomplishing great things for the Lord
in different areas of life and ministry, and we will
not even know when we started it.
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Operations and Manifestations of the S...
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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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LAYING ON
OF HANDS
Contact Transmits the Spirit
There are differe...
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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ongues only,
but earnestly desire the manifestation of more gifts
in your life. Expect the manifestations of these gifts
of the Spirit. They are the effect of the presence of
the Holy Spirit with you.
Visions and Revelations
I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 Cor
12:1 KJV
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effective for the transfer of the Spirit of grace. If
indeed you are a parent full of the Spirit of God,
then it is certainly not just a ceremony but a
requirement for the tangible transfer of divine
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they ...
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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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If she had called to say, Pastor, now I spit for your face. And I say, yes, you are a daughter of mine. Are you getting my point? He said he started feeling bad that, ha, what did I do all these months that this girl was under my tutelage, that she did not have enough understanding, that she has to ...
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your account with God. Money giving deliberately, so God can multiply it and then give something to you. Money giving because you need a car, so you go and take money that is the size, that is enough to buy tires. You now see it as a seed and say, God will multiply my seed and give me a car. Those a...
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If you believe it, so that will be your portion in the name of Jesus Christ. All right, can I just greet two or three people beside you, tell them you are very wise with God's wisdom. Everyone is speaking to you today. Everyone is speaking to you today in the name of Jesus Christ. The Lord is good. ...
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Well, if you think that yes way is seed, you say, look, it doesn't work like that. Let's get it clear. All those stories you hear pastors tell, those stories you hear. 96% is a lie. Either total lie or the whole truth was not told. Let me not mention this. One day I heard one American preacher talki...
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We just take testimonies. It's as if all it needed was my $1,000 seed. And by next week, dollars was raining. I had to call the other boats, come, we're fishing for dollar, come and help me. No, you know, so please, all these stories you hear, I just gave one offering, and next you have given offeri...
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Yes, kings will come for your children's wedding. Amen. A few will surprise you on your birthday. Why? Because such will be your influence. Just a man of influence, a woman of influence in that country will hear that the birthday is tomorrow. Let us go and give him a high surprise. And you are here,...
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your key to multiplying your own seed. It was the love that you have for me that you kindled. Do you follow my point? Go and check it in Galatians chapter 6. They explain it there also. All right? Those that are sold to the flesh from the flesh-ripped corruption. So it was love that they kindled in ...
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d there was a lot to say; this is recorded in Job
29: 1-11. At the end of this he explained how it came
to be.
Because I delivered the poor who cried for
help,
And the orphan who had no helper.
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The blessing of the one ready to perish came
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And I made the wid...
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them, choosing rather to give them back to the
king of Sodom. He knew that this blessing will soon
produce an abundance of wealth for him and he
didn’t want anyone mistaking the source of the
wealth.
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Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn
to the LOR...
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ss my wife properly and to pronounce
upon her all that she might ever wish for and that I
might ever want in her. I still do it regularly; I bless
her day; I bless her womb; I entreat the Lord for her
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sake. In fact, if I don’t do it for some time, she calls
my a...
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seasons of learning, but he or she cannot ever
fail. The emphasis with the Lord has always been
that people will be blessed. What the Lord wishes to
give to people is the thing called ‘the blessing.’
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It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich…
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fe. Thinking
about it, he remembered once when he and his
brothers and sisters ganged up against their parents
and had a heated disagreement over an issue. It
must have been a serious event because he
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recollected that after the whole thing was over he
was deeply troubled in his hea...
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en his descendants would partake of this
blessing. His environment would catch its own part
of it. If it was a dry land, it had to become a well
watered garden. The issue was just to get the
blessing.
Now may God give you of the dew of heaven,
And of the fatness of the earth,
And an abundance...
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Words like these are better words to speak
than words of complaining about the wrong things in
life. They impart blessings into your surroundings.
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THE RELEASE
Having said all we have so far, I believe the
importance of blessings should have become clear
to everyone...
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water,
That extends its roots by a stream
And will not fear when the heat comes; But its
leaves will be green,
And it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit.
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Like we mentioned sometime earlier, it is vital
to note...
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e little God-bless-you’s you get here and
there will amount to a great thing in your life. It will
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deliver you in time of trouble; it will give you favour
before men.
Bless yourself
The words you speak over your life are just as
important as the words spoken by others, if not mor...
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8. Grace to live by
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10. How to Work for God
11. So, Who Will Pay For This?
Minibooks by Pastor Bankie include
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anywhere because you think there are
greener pastures there; the blessing of God in you
will cause a barren ground to blossom for your sake.
The Lord has promised again and again that he will
do this.
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"The beasts of the field will glorify Me; The
jackals and the ostriches;
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iss it at the last moment. This is like what was
happening to the children of Israel at a time when
the Lord withheld blessing from them.
…he who earns, earns wages to put into a
purse with holes.
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Hag 1:6
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e to get it because you
understand it is the most precious thing that a
person can ever hope to possess.
Please let me explain something that is
expressed in the above quoted passage of scripture:
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When the Bible says that something is reserved in
heaven for ...
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of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord…
that I may know Him and the power of His
resurrection…
Phil 3:7-10
This is why faith in God appears to be easier
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for those that do not have much to trust in the flesh;
they do not have rich pare...
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He understood
the value of the blessing of God and lived a life full
of the expectation of the release of that blessing.
This was why he could refuse what looked like an
opportunity.
A small caution
There is something we need to know about the
riches that you get in life as a believer that do not
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nerations after you.
This is why you need to be careful to ensure that it is
the blessing of God that is making you rich.
Anything produced from the struggles of the
flesh will not stand testing.
…All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like
the flower of the field.
The grass withe...
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Heb 12:16
It also good to note that this same portion of
scripture called this birth-right that he missed ‘the
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blessing’.
For you know that even afterwards, when he
desired to inherit the blessing, he was
rejected…
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d.
Blessedness is a state you exist in, not just a
chance occurrence in your life. A man that is
blessed is blessed; for him there is nothing like
“opportunity comes but once”. What happened once
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can and will happen again and again.
For this reason, a blessed person is not...
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hat our actions by
themselves invoke blessings or curses on us. In
fact, it seems to me that the words of a man only
affirm those blessings or curses. We can see this
from the life of the sons of Eli.
For I have told him that I am about to judge his
house forever for the iniquity which he knew,
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Not everybody, some people. They know themselves, I'm saying it. You have been given very regularly. And God say, no, I don't want your money again. Go and eat it. Say, but what do you mean? Because anytime he wants to pray, that is confidence. Because I want to break that confidence. Yes, be selfis...
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They all want their results in a year. They all want their results in two years. They want the results in five years. After that, God, how far did you forget? Pass me not, O gentle Savior. We start singing funny songs. Sometimes the rewards of God don't come in 15 years. They don't. I've seen a man ...
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He made into a brown because he had faith. So he was a type of a Christian. The rich man is a type of the world, typical. No faith in God, doesn't care about the poor. But he was rich. You can be a non-believer and be rich. But what made Lazarus' case wrong, I'll tell you. The Bible says he desired ...
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that his audible voices, dreams, and visions is not a common thing. He doesn't often use it to give us direction. What he uses most times is to teach us what is right and what is wrong, then expose us to circumstances in which we take that wealth of knowledge of his precepts to make the decision. An...
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Jesus took bread, what's the first thing he did, the day of communion, what's the first thing he did? He blessed it. The first thing he did was to bless the bread. The next thing, he broke it. The next, he gave it. That's what he did with the bread. So T.D.J. said, there's a stage in your life God w...
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Now, please, I don't want to teach business principles there. I want to teach spiritual principles from there. I hope you're getting my point. He said, I need you to come. The man said, that's the problem everybody has. You are laboring now, please, because of time. I'll just summarize it. You are l...
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Just saying that, no, let me give. I tell young people, when you get a job, you leave school. You quickly rush to go and buy an expensive phone. You quickly go and rush to go and buy a car. Don't be stupid. That's how not to be blessed in this life. As soon as you leave school, didn't you go to a fe...
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You wake up in the morning, sweep the compound, do this, do that, vacuum, remove cobweb, wash toilet, do everything. And you have not eaten, no. There's a roaster who washes plates. One day I was in the house. I saw our housekeeper carrying food. My children were watching TV. She was carrying food. ...
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So when I found out most of them just wanted to buy land to hold and then maybe to appreciate it and not sell it, I pulled out. I said, I thought you wanted to buy land so that we'll all build there together. This was years ago. It was cheap. I said, I'm not buying. It's price will go up. I said, no...
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Listen, it may cost you to save for months, but just a note, let me bless this man. Let me put a smile on his face. Your mother loves jewelry. She doesn't have it because you are going to school. All that money, she joined Deeper Life. It's not out of conviction. It's so that you can go to school. J...
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for the kingdom's sake. That's time to rejoice. Listen, God said, you will be fruitful. Listen to me, the meaning of fruitful. Fruitful, so when God said, be fruitful, it wasn't advice, say, Adamu, try you, be fruitful. My counsel is multiply. No, God's words are what? Power. You understand my point...
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that listen, we'll talk about that kind of seed. Because everybody, God has dropped a seed inside you. I have given you a gift, you're an author, you say start writing. God, I have to get a good job and it is a listen, get a bad job that gives you all your afternoon and nights free and please start ...
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the capitalization of banks or something like that, okay. Now, some banks may appear to be coughing, you understand, because of that. Then they'll start issuing shares. Listen to me, I think Nigerians should buy those shares so that the banks will have money to do business. That is what is called so...
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might as well pick a seed in his hand and say, if I show you this, what is this? Everybody will say it's a seed. He said, but in reality, if you want to look at it, that I have in my hand a forest. Because that tree, in the right place, can germinate and produce, and that seed will produce a tree, w...
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Now notice verse 5 carefully. He said, those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. He said, he who goes to and fro, weeping, carrying his bag of seed, shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. Let me just read that verse from New Living Translation. I'll...
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Now, most times this has been quoted. People have said they'll come and give offering now. I'm not saying those things are wrong, okay? But that's not what I'm trying to talk about today. What I want you to understand is that the... No, no, don't twist your face. It's just because... We have to bala...
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male and female he created them and God blessed them and said to them be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth then God said behold I have given you every plant yieldi...
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Isaiah 30 verse 23. What he's saying here is this. The men are sowing in the dry ground. But once God sees that they are sowing, what's the next thing he will do? He will give rain for that seed that he has planted in the ground. That's what men need to pray for. Pray for rain. Rain. That is this th...
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Even the so-called richest man in the world today, Bill Gates, he was sowing seed again in dry ground. I hope you know that. When he started what he's doing now, people were not making money per se from it. He could have joined his friends too and taken a lucrative job because he was a sharp young m...
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Give us the good things of life. Enable us to be so prosperous that we'll be able to do what you want us to do in this country. That is, not only do I want to eat and drink and be merry and rejoice, but I want to be able to provide, like the tree, enough shade for all the birds of the air to come an...
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No, really, Nigerians are very generous, okay? Nigerians are very generous, Americans are also very generous, but white men, I mean Europeans, these guys are bad, you know? No, it's part of the, it's part of the culture, you know? It's part of the culture, it's a part of the, they never seem to, loo...
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1:16:30
and wrote it himself. Are you following? Then gave it back to them. I guess he didn't like it. And they said, well, if they are going to print it, you should bring money. Ha! He said, he looked at them and said, I thought you guys said we should do this. So he said, he's not doing. He said, then the...
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He said, restore our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south. Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. Those who go to and fro weeping, he who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves or his harvest with...
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and is spent until they came out of depression. Listen, there is he that withholdeth more than his meat. What happens to him? He turns towards poverty. It is always more blessed to give. Even if he is into the soil, God says it is better. Look, some of the men I have been reading, they will tell you...
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One of his uncles, he tried to arrange to get him into either Mobil or one of these big companies to become company secretary. He said, he told the man that, I didn't study law because I wanted to become company secretary. I wanted to practice law. That's why I studied it. He told the man, sorry, he...
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that let's assume now that they farm a lot of, this was in those days, so they farm a lot of cocoa there, alright? So it was given as an example. That here they farm a lot of cocoa, so people go to their farm and produce that. That is the degree of wealth, you understand? But then most of the time i...
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I'm being honest with you, God is my witness since then, since then. Because of that foundation, God has not allowed me ever to save money to buy a car, ever. Listen to me, I have dashed people three. None of them did I save for, never. Because from the beginning, I said, no, it's not worth it. I sa...
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If you remember, on Genesis chapter 1, He spoke to them, He said what? Be fruitful and multiply. What I want to get across to us this evening is the fact that when God said be fruitful, I was explaining that God uses the seed principle, okay? But this great thing that God wants to do on the earth, H...
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that cannot wear out, alright? He said, a treasure that is laid up in heaven. You remember the rich young ruler? That is us to go and sell all you have and you will have treasure in heaven So we emphasize in the first two days of this series that treasure in heaven is what we need. You understand th...
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The only film that has beaten the Titanic cost almost $300 million to make. His own cost just about $30 million. Do I have to tell you that he that goes forth, toe and through, carrying his bag of seeds shall indeed come again with shouts of joy, bringing his sheep with him? Do I have to tell you th...
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Are you getting me? Okay. Now, I was saying that, so in the time of the difficulty, what God expects men to do is to do what? Plant seed. I hope you are following me. Now, when I'm talking about plant seed, we're talking about economics, we're talking about real things. Because in recent times, God ...
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like in a small village, in his small house. And at night, the man will be picking nuts. So what are those nuts? He's planting them. So when his animals are grazing, he has the nuts in the bag and he just plants them. He's planting. What happened? About 50 years down the line, he mentioned the name ...
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precious baby. You understand my point? That's what God is talking about seed here. Seed that is jealously gathered because we don't have many of it. But people will have to sow that seed and because of the preciousness of the seed, they are crying. Are you getting the point I am making? But this is...
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As far as Babylon is concerned, the girl was just an astute manager. I hope you are getting my point. When they think about Daniel, they just think that, look, when we have problems, that's the guy that will solve it. Do you follow me? That's why you will see what the Bible will say in Ephesians cha...
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He now said that the principle by which God will do it is this. Listen, while we are in the desert, we will plant our seeds and they will be precious seeds, meaning that now I would love to eat this, but I have to let it go because of the vision I have for the future. Are you getting the point I'm m...
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and that they had never been heard of, that men were banks' canvas for customers. He would go house to house and say, what is your problem? What were you doing before? OK, what if I give you $500? How would that help? Of course, they thought he would go down. He didn't go down. The man works great. ...
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Because of this thing that you are doing today and today, I said one day somebody will call you lucky. I said this thing that you are doing, one day you will become a consultant to WHO. You will become a consultant to UNICEF. I don't mean you will work for them. That is, they will be happy to have y...
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A man that is not febrile, okay, does it mean, can you say categorically that he is healthy? If he doesn't have a fever, his body is not hot. Are you sure the man is healthy? No. There are many people who don't have a fever and they are not healthy. But everybody that has a fever has a problem. Do y...
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1:19:30
You will give. It is more blessed to give. You will give jobs. Let me tell you what. A time will come, listen to me, I'm giving you this word in fact prophetically. People will be begging to talk to you because they know once they talk to you, their joblessness has ended. Who's talking about, I want...
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1:21:00
When this man is going off, his investment is there. You don't have to pay him money. Once you give him his gratuity, bye-bye. You're not paying him every month. He's coming to kill a guy in my pension. And listen, the two Naira you gave him every month, by the time he's leaving, it will have multip...
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Do you understand the point I'm making? That is what wealth is. And what God gives us really is the power to do that thing, to produce wealth. We read from Romans chapter 8, it said that it is the Lord, verse 18, thy God that giveth thee what? The ability to produce. I hope somebody has an NIV today...
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Now, that is what we are talking about, abundance. It's not just like, praise the Lord, hallelujah, I just bought a new car. What do you call a new car? A white man drove it for 10 years, got tired, and sold it very cheap. He bought the car for $25,000, sold it at $1,000. What does that tell you? He...
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biblical principles, eg the biblical truth of sowing and reaping, however our application is mostly erroneous and does not correctly express the truth of the grace that in to be found in Christ Jesus.
Let us get this thing called the grace of Jesus clear. The basis of God’s blessings in your life i...
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and all that I command you, you shall speak.” Jer 1:7
“… and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.” 2 Cor 5:15
The only agreement you can make with God is that of total commitment to obey and to serve Him in e...
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TO RECEIVE FROM GOD
Something burns in me which I wish to teach on here; it is nothing new but that which I have written and preached about here and there.
Recently a man died, a good man and a Christian at that, and people were contemplating how such things could happen. A young woman was contemp...
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elieve yet or you are ignorant of the kind of spirit you have.
“You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good…” Acts 10:38
We do not say because we are prosperous by His promise we will stop giving. No, no! That is sensel...
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s sons but to the field as servants. Prosperity is a promise as we saw earlier. We should claim those promises.
STUDY
“They do not know nor do they understand; they walk about in darkness.” Ps 82:5
Ignorance of the promises of God can be as devastating for us as if the Lord never made those prom...
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of God over everything.
Say to your body. You are well because Jesus died to make me free. The spirit of Him who raised Christ Jesus dwells in me and is giving life and health to my body (Rom 8:11).
Declare to your business and to your pocket, “prosperity flows toward me like a river, and the weal...
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why we are joint-heirs with Him.
“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.” Rom 8:16-17
Christ is not just a name or a person; Christ is also a principle. Christ Jesus is the personal su...
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e blessings to others. That is the Abrahamic and Christ order; our faith implies that we must spread the blessings. The blessing did not come because we activated any other principle beyond believing.
I am emphasizing this because I see a lot of people behave as if God already owes them something f...
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y have to do something special for God.
As Christians, we do our good works naturally and as much as we have opportunity. We are also careful to pursue our specific purposes in life.
WHY THIS SERMON
This message is similar to the one I wrote titled “Works or Faith, the doctrine of mercy.” The mai...
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