Topic: Position Yourself For Increase [Sunday June 17, 2018]
“There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.” Proverbs 11:24
God wants you to enjoy increase and abundance, but you must be positioned to receive. Develop the habit of quick response to the payment of your vows. Don’t make vows that you do not intend to redeem. Take a quality decision to always give your best in your offering. Give proportionately to how much He has blessed you. Honour Him in your offering. Why should you come to church and you are unable to give God a quality offering. Quality is not about what you gave, but what you have left. If you cannot give God a quality offering, it shows that you placed no value on Christ.
It is so true that where your treasure is, there your heart is also. God saved you and brought you into the Kingdom of abundance. That is your abode! That is your home. Now if you are in the kingdom and you are suffering, it is not God’s fault. God has made all things available to you. Indeed, all things are yours, but you must be rightly positioned. I believe that the widow of Zarephath to whom God sent prophet Elijah was a giver. That was why the man of God told her what to do and she did not argue. If you do not have the heart of a giver, you will argue every instruction to give.
God so loved the world that He gave. If you love God, give to Him. If you love Him, sow into His kingdom. No one, including students, should come into His church and say: “I don’t have anything to give”, you go home and you are happy. If you are a student and you have pocket money, give tithe from it and give offering from it. Practise giving from now because God is building you up to become a billionaire. How can you get there when you are already holding back from God? You must learn it from now.
Further Reading: Malachi 3:10-12, Mark 10:28-31
Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Nehemiah 7-9; Evening- Acts 3
Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.
