Category Archives: Finances
The First
‘And [we obligate ourselves] to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first of all the fruit of all the trees year by year to the house of the Lord’ Neh.10:35 [AMP]
On Wednesday, I started telling you about how God convicted me. At the beginning of 2012 I struggled with paying my first fruit. I am sure this will shock a lot of you but even men of God must be honest with their struggles. I had a lot of bills to pay so I said to the Lord, you will understand. Then a lady came to my office, she wanted me to pray over her first fruit but she also wanted to tell me the story behind her first fruit. When she left my office, I was convicted and I said to myself, you are Read the rest of this entry
You Will Obey!
‘Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! “But you ask, ‘What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?’ “You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me’ Mal.3:8
Sadly, not every Christian will prosper and I will show you why. ‘…there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess…’ ‘But if there are any poor Israelites… in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tightfisted toward them’ ‘There will always be some in the land who are poor. That is why I am commanding you to share freely with the poor and with Read the rest of this entry
Levels
‘This was their song: “Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands!”’ 1Sam.18:7
The fourth truth about money is money has levels. Prosperity has levels. The different levels are: the poverty level -every one that is struggling with poverty Jesus will set you free today. The lack level – this is when the person is not poor but is in lack. The comfortable level – the person is not in poverty but the person is not in riches either, they are just comfortable. The problem with being comfortable is that one disaster can send you back to poverty. When the psalmist Read the rest of this entry
On A Mission
‘There were no needy people among them, because those who owned land or houses would sell them and bring the money to the apostles to give to those in need’ Acts 4:34-35
On the website called “Global rich list’, if you earn fifty thousand naira a month you are in the top 14.63% richest people in the world. Let me just break this down with this illustration. If your child is in a class of a hundred students and he comes in at the 15th position will you punish him? I don’t think so. Pay attention to all the things you need to be thankful for. If you ask me, I’d say that’s just about everything. If you earn a hundred thousand a Read the rest of this entry
In Trust
‘Before he left, he called together ten of his servants and divided among them ten pounds of silver, saying, ‘invest this for me while I am gone’ Luke 19:13
If you examine the words of Jesus, you will discover that He spoke more about money than anything else. Jesus spoke more about money than He did about healing or about heaven. In fact, many times when Jesus spoke about heaven He used money to illustrate. ‘A man was going to a far country and he gave his servants five talents, two talents…’ Talents are silver, the currency in those days. Yet a lot of people have an issue with the church talking Read the rest of this entry
Family Finances
‘Wisdom is even better when you have money. Both are a benefit as you go trough life. Wisdom and money can get you almost anything but only wisdom can save your life’ Ecc.7:11-12
Marriage is God’s gift of two to us because the Bible states clearly that two are better than one. Money is good but wisdom can save your life. Wives listen to your husbands and husbands listen to your wives. What they say could very well save your life. We must also remember that marriage is God’s gift to us here on earth. Scripture says there is no marriage in heaven, so make the best of this gift while you are here and glorify God by leveraging the strength of two that He has given you. You do not have to see eye to eye in Read the rest of this entry
Maturity
‘Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need’ Matt.6:33
A lot of people and even Christians are concerned about the effects that wealth can have on true love especially since the Bible says ‘there will always be some poor among you’. If you read the preceding scriptures it also states that ‘There should be no poor among you, for the Lord your God will greatly bless you in the land He is giving you as a special possession’ Deut.15:4. Yes some Christians will be in lack because of the decisions they have taken by themselves. Some will also be rich because of the decisions they have taken Read the rest of this entry
Secret Saving
‘So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband’ Eph.5:33.
Every Christian home should have a sense of security and it is the responsibility of the husband to provide that security. So, it does not come as a shock to me when a woman asks if it is acceptable to have a secret saving account. Some even want to know if they are really required to tell their husbands their exact wage. The reason why this question pops up varies from one woman to the next but the underlining emotion that drives it is security. With one woman, as soon as she got married, her mum began to pump her with the Read the rest of this entry
Expect God To Multiply
‘Jesus took the five loaves and two fish… and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples… and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish’ Mark 6:41&43
The final thing we have to do to prepare for a miracle is expect God to multiply it. We must expect God to multiply our sacrificial seed – we must expect a miracle. So when you give what you are giving, expect a two-fold miracle. Firstly, expect a miracle for us as a church based on your lunch box – on your seed. Secondly, expect a miracle for yourself, for the land that you are believing God for. Like we said previously, land for you could represent fruitfulness, business, health, or education. Expect multiplication in the area you desire Read the rest of this entry
Error To Avoid I
‘This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God’ Luke 12:21
‘But God said to him, You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ In learning from the man in the parable Jesus told, the next step to growing financial roots is do not love wealth. Don’t love money. The Bible says that ‘the love of money Read the rest of this entry
