REWARDS IN SERVING GOD 2
1 PRAISE THE LORD! HOW JOYFUL ARE THOSE WHO FEAR THE LORD AND DELIGHT IN OBEYING HIS COMMANDS.
2 THEIR CHILDREN WILL BE SUCCESSFUL EVERYWHERE; AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF GODLY PEOPLE WILL BE BLESSED.
3 THEY THEMSELVES WILL BE WEALTHY, AND THEIR GOOD DEEDS WILL LAST FOREVER.
4 Light shines in the darkness for the godly. They are generous, compassionate, and righteous.
5 GOOD COMES TO THOSE WHO LEND MONEY GENEROUSLY AND CONDUCT THEIR BUSINESS FAIRLY.
6 SUCH PEOPLE WILL NOT BE OVERCOME BY EVIL. Those who are righteous will be long remembered.
7 They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the LORD to care for them.
8 THEY ARE CONFIDENT AND FEARLESS AND CAN FACE THEIR FOES TRIUMPHANTLY."
Psalm 112:1-8 (NLT)
• The charismatic move and the preaching or teaching of Prosperity.
• How it started.
- The move of seed-sowing was started by Oral Robert. The revelation was given to him. He shared in his book how he gave his stipend that was usually given to him for his upkeep in the small Church he was pastoring in a rural area.
HE gave the money As a seed or offering to get an accomodation for him and his family. They had been on it for a while, and that faithful day, whilst he was leaving home for church, the wife told him If he did not come back with any tangible result about their accomodation, she would leave with the children for her parents' place.
WHEN Oral Robert and the church board had a meeting after the service, they were still giving excuses and talking about lack of money. He decided to take the bull by the horns, he said, this is my weekly stipend, I am dropping it for the accomodation rent, and whoever wants to do that should follow suit.
HE said when he got home and told the wife about what transpired in the meeting and what he did, that he dropped the weekly stipend for the house rent. The wife was not happy with what he did, she said there would be no money for groceries!
HE said, the next morning, one of the members of the church woke them up At dawn, came with hundreds of dollars bills. Telling him that God instructed him to come and give him the money.
HE said in those days people hardly get or give hundred dollars bills As a gift because it was a depression time.
ORAL Robert said he saw the goodness of God, the seed of his weekly stipend which he sowed the previous night provoked God to move or stir the man's heart, the church member, to come and give him the money. He said the man, a farmer, had kept the money for a long time. Nobody knew the man had such a money, and he did not give it all the time they had been talking about pastor's accomodation. - So, Oral Robert started teaching about a thousand times more, based on Deuteronomy 1:11. And God started backing the Word up with signs and Wonders, testimony of financial success or Blessing.
- But many believers or preachers have turned this to another thing today. They have abused it, the principle. They have bastardized it, abused it, and used it to take money dubiously from sincere believers who wanted to obey and give to God.
• Note: the principle of Giving or seed-sowing or financial prosperity is real and biblical (Genesis 8:22). It works and produces results If you practiced It in the Bible way.
- There are basic things about the principle:
a. A minister who does not rise or who is not a Giver himself or herself cannot have the Anointing for financial success or Blessing or Prosperity.
THE person might have the Anointing on healing, and other things, but such might not know anything about financial success or blessing or prosperity.
THERE are ministers who are highly anointed, but the Anointing on their lives is not for financial success or Blessing or Prosperity at all. If such a minister raises money or calls that people should give, and told them they would be blessed, the truth is that nothing will happen. Because, they themselves are not doing it—they are not practicing Giving. What you do not do or practice As a Believer or Minister, the Anointing or Authority for it would not be on your life.
THOSE who had the Anointing for financial success or Blessing or Prosperity are called financial deliverers. They are raised for the Body of Christ.
THOSE who had this Anointing, financial success Anointing or Grace, were poor when they started. Their rising or blessings was a result of this principle of Giving or seed-sowing.
b. If you sow or give to the life or ministry of someone or a minister who does not believe and practice this biblical principle of Giving or financial prosperity or seed-sowing—because you wanted a financial success or turn around—you may not get it or receive anything. Such a person's life or ministry is a dry land when it comes to financial success or blessing or prosperity.
- BUT when you Sow on the area of his or her Anointing, you would get results.
If you Sow because of the need which the particular Anointing on his or her life can solve or meet, you would get the results; that could be on healing or any other thing or whatever.
A MINISTER who does not rise or become big or great through this principle, or who is not a Giver, cannot have the Grace or the Anointing on his or her life for it—prosperity. - Someone may be angry or may not like it, or may criticize it; but the truth is, the principle of Giving, financial success, is genuine and biblical. It is God's principle and He wants it. You should not allow envy or bitterness in your heart.
• You will not fail in Jesus' name.
- If you are having any ailment in your body As you read this piece, receive your healing now in Jesus' name.
- Whatever is contrary to your health, which God has not planted in you, such is cursed and uprooted completely in Jesus' name.
Peace!
TO BE CONTINUED
STEPS TO SALVATION
• Take notice of this:
IF you are yet to take the step of salvation, that is, yet to be born-again, do it now, tomorrow might be too late (2 Corinthians 6:1,2; Hebrews 3:7,8,15).
a. Acknowledge that you are a sinner and confess your Sins (1 John 1:9); And ask Jesus Christ to come into your life (Revelation 3:20).
b. Confess that you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that you confess it with your mouth, Thus, you accept Him As your Lord and Saviour (Romans 10:9,10).
c. As you took the steps A and B your name is written in the Book of Life (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:8).
- If you took the steps As highlighted above, congratulations, It means you are saved—born-again. Join a Word based church in your area and Town or city, and be part of whatever they are doing there. Peace!