* It is not bragging; it is access to secrets! See where we are today.
* When the Church income was 18,000 Naira in 1984, my tithes was there.
* Today we have a budget for health matters.
* The income of your Church last year was more than 2019.
* You can’t lock down the Covenant
* We gave out the highest last year and received the greatest last year.
* You are not down because of lock down, you are down because of your covenant breakdown.
* The larger your heart to bless, the larger your coast of blessings.
* My first phase of engagement in this Church building (project) is 100 Churches.
BIBLICAL WISDOM FOR BUSINESS BREAKTHROUGHS
Now let’s begin and I hope it will be tasteful to you because your change of story is in it.
Let’s look at some examples from scriptures of men that enjoyed supernatural breakthroughs in their endeavours.
Abraham
His strength is in his delightsome obedience to every commandment of the Lord.
“Get thee out of thy country” – He departed (Genesis 12:1)
“Circumcise all the male born in your home” – He went there. As soon as the instruction was over, he began (Genesis 17:10, 22-23).
“Take thy son, thy only son Isaac, offer him for a sacrifice upon the mountain I will show you” (Genesis 22:2) – he rose early in the morning, he went ahead (Genesis 22:3).
A die-hard servant of God (Romans 6:16)
Every genuine servant is a breakthrough candidate.
Well in Genesis chapter 14, he (Abraham) already had an army to himself (Genesis 14:14). In Luke chapter 16, Abraham was said by Christ to be enthroned and Lazarus was sitting in his bosom (Luke 16:23). Christ died to bring us to the blessing of Abraham (Galatians 3:13-14).
He (Abraham) just became God’s symbol of generational blessing.
Job
Then we have the example of Job. “Have you considered my servant Job, there is none like him on the earth” (Job 1:8-9).
What happened, he became the greatest of all men in the East (Job 1:1-3).
How did he get there? Access to the secret of God that he chose to engage with. It’s not just revealed to him, he chose to engage with that secret. “As I was in the days of my youth when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle”, that was his testimony (Job 29:4).
A man that feared God: the secret of God is with them that fear Him and He will show them His covenant (Job 1:1, Psalm 25:14).
Nothing enthrones like access to divine secrets.
One secret was revealed to Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar bowed down and worshipped him (Daniel 2:19, 46). You know what that means, “I surrender”
By one secret Daniel was enthroned in Babylon.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Inasmuch that God has revealed this to you, shown this, there is no one as wise and discreet as you are, take over the throne” (Genesis 41:39-40).
Nothing enthrones like access to divine secrets that is embraced and engaged with.
Behind every star in the Kingdom is Access to Divine Secrets and our access is principally through 3 avenues:
You want to access divine secrets,
Be in love with God because I call you no more servants but friends; for all I have heard of my Father, I have shown them unto you (John 15:15).
“Can I hide this thing that I do from Abraham, he is my friend, I have to tell him (Genesis 18:17, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10)
Let me tell you where my story is coming from in terms of divine supplies.
He said, “you have 2 eyes, anytime you look unto man, never claim to be looking unto Me but if you will look unto Me, you will never be ashamed” (Psalm 34:5).
From that day of 9th of September 1983, I don’t consider me or anybody for that matter, for whatever God wants to do. He just revealed the secret unto me.
I was on my way to Makurdi for a Businessmen Fellowship to minister there and the Lord said to me, “Tell them that far be it that I the Almighty God will depend upon your wretched purses but your wretched purses depend on Me for replenishing.”
He said, “My son, don’t raise money, raise men. You will have more money you will ever need for ministry.”
He reveals His secrets to those who love Him because He knows they won’t take advantage of anything; they won’t mess it up. It is not bragging; it is access to secrets! See where we are today because no man has what God has.
Every man is temporal, God is eternal.
There is no country that has no ex-President, that are still alive, but they are ex-Presidents.
I can tell you this, every divine secret is for your change of story.
Every divine secret you access is for your change of story.
You won’t miss it.
-The good news is I see global giants seated here today.
I see many of them across the Nations of the earth, hooked on to this service because from the loins of Abraham, only kings and nations are permitted to come out (Galatians 3:29). Church Gist. You have been listed among the kings and nations that are come out of Abraham (Genesis 17:5-7).
“…and kings shall come out of thee” – not peasants, Kings, nations
He went on and was talking about Sarah
“Her name shall no longer be Sarai, but Sarah for a mother of many generations, for I will bless her…for she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her” - Genesis 17:15-16
That’s your root. By redemption, you are ordained to be reigning in that business endeavour.
Reigning: that is the world authorities in that field must look for you, they must look for you because that’s your root.
IF YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR ROOT, YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR FRUITS. When Jesus came, He came and just plugged us into that (Revelation 5:10).
This is to change our mentality; you are not slaves, you are redeemed as kings and in the Abrahamic covenant, you are either a King or a Nation.
Thank You Jesus.
We should also know that we are blessed primarily to be a blessing. Blessed to be a Blessing. Neither can anyone be blessed more than he is committed to being a blessing.
You want your business to be blessed into Next Levels, then increase your commitment to being a Blessing.
Don’t be like the rich fool who is just accumulating and accumulating like a man who eats and eats and never goes out to toilet, he will blow up and end his life (Luke 12:17-18).
“I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shall be a BLESSING” – Genesis 12:2
“…and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed” – Genesis 12:3
A heart to be a blessing is a covenant requirement for breakthroughs in our endeavours. It is not in your hand, but it is in your heart!!!
When I saw how Churches get slowly built, I wasn’t a Pastor, I wasn’t anything, I wasn’t called to Ministry, it grieved my soul. When I hear as poor as Church rat, my system is upset.
I remember saying to God, “if you ever bless me, I want to be part of building you Churches.”
My first phase of engagement in this Church building is 100 number, not 10.
Who dashed monkey banana? Obedience to the things of God. God does not need that from me, anyway, He has it already.
It’s not that God is knocking on your door…who gave you a door? Is it not God who gave you a door.
I told Jesus, “I want to build you minimum a 1000 Churches before I come home.” The journey has begun for sometime, moving step by step. I have no credit for it. It is from what He gave me. Zero credit for it but it’s been in my heart.
Until it is in your heart, it can’t be in your hand!!
He said, “give me your heart, watch how I will decorate your life” (Proverbs 23:26).
Your heart is panting after making a great name, becoming very big: you are chasing after the wind!!
But chasing after God compels goodness and mercy to keep following you all the days of your life.
-The good news is you will never know a dry season anymore in your life.
Just to think that “oh, I want to be a blessing to this children who are not in school” – then you find things expanding.
“Lord, thou I cannot build a rural Church yet, but help me to buy one plastic chair if that’s what they use there” – and from 1 plastic chair, it becomes 10 plastic chairs. From 10 plastic chairs, a Church building. From 1 Church building to 2; from 2 to 3; from 3 to 4.
Just have a heart to be a blessing. THE LARGER YOUR HEART TO BLESS, THE LARGER YOUR COAST OF BLESSINGS.
If I tell you where our scholarship scheme began in my family, you will laugh. You will say, “is that scholarship?” I don’t know but that’s what we call it, it is to help you go to school and what do you get in school, scholarship. Small by small and small by small, it began to grow.
Today we have a budget for health matters. Somebody is in need of something, you move in, it’s already in the budget and it is not one Million, not 10 Million, it’s not 20 Million, it’s not 30 Million. God wants them to live and live abundantly, so bail them out and you are bailing yourself out.
When Jesus told that man what to do, he went away sorrowful (Mark 10:22):
“Haba, I have a lot of needs. How will I be planning for somebody. I can’t plan for anybody.”
It’s up to you but your story is ordained for a change this time and you must have your Turnaround change in the name of Jesus.
-It is your turn to be blessed.
A genuine Kingdom dream is one way to take the limits off your breakthrough in life!! (1 Corinthians 2:9).
A commitment to be rich in good works, willing to distribute, ready to communicate, is what provokes God to sustain the believer in the realm of supernatural breakthroughs (1 Timothy 6:17-19)
“…nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us richly all things to enjoy” – 1 Timothy 6:17
There is nothing we have that is not given us; what have you that you have not received?
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation, that makes them unshakable, under all circumstances, against the time to come (1 Timothy 6:19)
You know the income of your Church last year was more than 2019, satan is crying. YOU CAN’T LOCK DOWN THE COVENANT!!
Sir, nobody is down because there was a lock down, it’s your covenant break down that is responsible.
We gave out the highest last year and received the greatest last year.
Can I tell you this, in 40 years, we have not been less in one year than the previous. That’s how sustainable the Covenant is.
-You know from this year onward, you will never record in your life again a better last year.
-Your business will never record again a better last year.
-No situation or circumstances will render the Covenant of no effect in your life.
-Just keep engaging and God won’t stop blessing. That’s the way it works.
Keep engaging and God won’t stop blessing.
There are 2 vital mysteries for ever increasing and sustainable business breakthroughs.
Tithing: It is not that much tasteful today particularly because of prevailing economic circumstances that has prevailed against many people.
“I will do it when things get clear” – it gets darker and dimmer by the day.
We have some striking examples in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Abraham paid the tithes of all and received the blessing (Genesis 14:20).
Tithing destroys the activities of the devourers around your life.
“Blessed be Abraham of God, possessor of heaven and earth” – Genesis 14:19. It just translates your life into another realm.
Prove me now if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing until there shall not be room enough to receive it and I will rebuke the devourers for your sake (Malachi 3:10-11).
What tithing does is to stop a reversal of your blessing; it is to secure God’s blessing in your life; it is to keep the devourers away from your territory. It unleashes the blessing and preserves the blessing.
Isaac by extension because the Lord said, “I know him that he will Command his children to walk in His ways”, so Isaac must be a tither (Genesis 18:19).
We have it clearly stated about Jacob (Genesis 28:20-22).
Now who taught him? Abraham must have taught Isaac, Isaac taught Jacob.
Abraham a Nation; Isaac a Nation; and Jacob a Nation.
That’s how tithing changes people’s story and preserves it. He rebukes the devourer for your sake.
-No more loss!!
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not (Malachi 3:18). So tithing is a means of stewardship.
I call it (tithing) an acknowledgement of God’s blessing in your life so He can send more blessings. If He doesn’t see it, He believes your address has changed and God hates waste, He may not send anymore.
Be committed with delight to personal tithing, it will secure God’s blessing in your life.
Then God said, the tithes that Abraham paid was not his personal tithe but his company’s tithe. He went with 318 (men) to war and paid the tithes of all the war to Melchizedek, Jesus in the figure (Hebrews 7:2,4).
See the generation of Abraham still causing waves on the earth today: Transgenerational blessings.
Here businesses don’t last beyond the lifespan of the founders. Something must change, it must begin with you. That if Jesus tarries, in 500 years, the work you have started is still growing.
One of the greatest businessman in history is John Rockefeller, a die-hard tither. He began tithing from his first paycheck of 7 dollars 50 cents. Tithed his way through life. So much in love with God, at a time he gave $140 Million for Kingdom promotion, to the education fund of his Church. 140 Million Dollars.
Somebody says, “I want to be able to do that someday.” – if it is genuine, the someday will come faster than you think!!
If it is truly genuine, that someday you want to promote the wellbeing of people through education and that as the Lord blesses you, you look forward to the day where you put down a Hundred Million Naira, then another Hundred Million then another Hundred Million and then someday a Hundred Million Dollars: it is the way it starts. Start from somewhere.
The covenant walk demands that you start from where you are, so stop trying to climb the tree from the top. Start from where you are.
You can’t part with 10,000 Naira today, to pay for a child in Primary School, you are not the one who will give 10 Million tomorrow. You are not the one, stop guessing.
But in the name of Jesus, the veil that is spread over your heart is broken finally today. Church Gist.
Just like your personal tithing opens the heaven over your life, your business tithes open the heavens over your businesses; make your choice!
We had the example of J.C Penny, it is a laboratory experience. He began tithing at the beginning of his business: it was blowing and blowing and blowing. At a point, he said, “Ahhh, this tithe is too much.” He began rationalizing, cutting down, his business was going down and going down! He was down and finally out:
“Oh God, Oh God”
He (God) said, “You better check where you are fallen”; he came back in his bankruptcy and began to pay his 10 Kobo tithes: he began to rise again.
Once beaten, twice shy. He did that for the rest of his life.
Very clean example: don’t close the heaven over your life. You have the opportunity.
Somebody gave you a hundred Naira and He said give me 10 to prove that you receive it; You say, “No, No. I can’t, I can’t do that. Please go to somewhere else.”
He is the one who gave you the hundred Naira. If He didn’t give you, can you challenge Him? Can you take Him to court?
Just simple, simple sitting down to reason.
Do you know when our Church income was 18,000 plus in 1984, my tithes was there! I am telling you the truth, that was our level, all of us: President, Founder, Member; all of us, that was our level but by consistency, people began to change level. Church Gist. People who were consistent began to change level.
The Church began to change level as light was coming. As light was coming, the Church began to change level, we began to change level.
-From today, that shall be your experience.
Well I want you to take from here today:
The Bigger my Kingdom Dream, the Larger my Business Blessings.
The bigger my Kingdom dream, the larger my coast of blessings in business. You are changing level.
Watch: whatever God blesses enriches. The blessing of the Lord, it makes rich and it adds no sorrow to it (Proverbs 10:22).
Exodus 23:25, Job 36:11
We secure His blessings through stewardship:
Serving God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Doing the will of God from the heart not with eye service.
It entitles you to His blessings on your life and the work of your hands. You shall never miss it
QUICK WARNINGS
Many know how to walk in the covenant but they don’t know how to access their covenant returns.
Watch: nothing multiplies without thanksgiving. Murmurers and complainers unconsciously keep messing up their situations and complicating their matters.
Neither murmur ye: every day be full of thanksgiving for God’s good hand on your life and the works of your hand (1 Corinthians 10:10)
Jesus gave thanks and the bread and the fish multiplied supernaturally (John 6:11). We need to learn this and engage with it
Keep rejoicing in the Lord or you will destroy your harvest without knowing (Joel 1:12, Psalm 67:6-7, Philippians 4:4, Psalm 42:5).
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul?...Hope thou in God” – He is coming in; He is stepping in; it is not over; you are changing level.
GRATITUDE IS YOUR GUARANTEE FOR CHANGE OF ALTITUDE. If you will not be grateful, you can’t taste it (Deuteronomy 28:48).
It takes joy to secure the hand of God on your life.
It takes rejoicing not to destroy your harvest by your own hand.
Finally, very important. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the seat of the scornful (Psalm 1:1)
“Are you still coming from Church? – what ‘dem dey give you for that Church sef? (What do they give you from the Church?) You travel so far”: cut him off, kick him out of your way. You have one life to live, don’t mess it up. You don’t have a spare.
Somebody is scorning your God, you are saying, “my friend don’t talk like that again”: No SHUT UP!
The way you will say it Sir, he won’t come near you again.
If you hang around scorners, they will push you to a corner where they live.
Can anybody talk low of Jesus and expect my respect? ‘Haba’, you will see my red eye, you will stay clear for life. I’ll say, “If I see you around me again. What nonsense, who are you?”
The One who decorates my life.
Or You are going somewhere, you hide your Bible: God will hide also from you. You are ashamed of Me, I will be ashamed of you.
These are all covenant technicalities, you need to connect with them.
“Where are you coming from?” From somewhere. You can’t say you are coming from Church. From somewhere, what kind of Christian? Coming from somewhere!
“Where are you coming from?” I am coming from Church, I have been in 4 Services.
Response: Ahhh
If you are ashamed of Me and of my Word, I will be ashamed of you (Mark 8:38).
All this modern Christianity where you are doing, ‘I want to be social in life, I want to be a Christian’: you are wasting your life.
Make Him your choice: If God be God, serve Him. If it be baal, follow him (1 Kings 18:21)
There is nowhere I don’t make altar call, no matter who I am with: “I want to pray for you, but you know something, the prayers will only be answered if you are saved. Bow down, let me pray with you.”
The way I look at you, you are not saved yet.
They know what to expect, so they will be surprised if they don’t find it.
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