KEYS TO UNLOCK GOD'S BLESSINGS IN OUR LIFE - GIVING

The speaker welcomes everyone to the last fellowship of the year and discusses the keys to unlocking God's blessings. They talk about prayer, obedience, and giving as important factors. They emphasize the importance of tithing and giving good quality offerings to show appreciation to God. They also stress the importance of giving to the poor. The speaker believes that by following these principles, one can unlock God's blessings in their life. It is okay. I welcome all of us to the last fellowship of the year 2022. And it is my prayer that the Lord will surely bless us together today in Jesus name. For the past three weeks, there is something we have been discussing here. And the Lord has laid in my mind that I should continue that discussion which I know somebody here will benefit from. We have been talking about keys to unlock the blessings of God upon God's children. And once again this moment, I want to remind you and affirm that it is the mind of God that you as a person should be blessed. That whatever thing you lay your hands on to do, it will prosper. We started saying that number one key, if you must unlock the blessings of God upon your life is prayer. Prayer, all kinds of prayer. If there are forces limiting you, limiting your family, limiting your business, we have enough strength in the word of God and the power of prayer to change those stories. And we are able to discover from the scripture what and what are necessary to do that. Last Sunday we went on to key number two. And key number two we discussed obedience. Somebody say obedience. Come and talk to me. Obedience. If any man or woman wants to unlock the blessings of God, they must be ready at all times to be obedient to God and to his word. And this afternoon by the grace of God, we will be looking at part three of our discussion of keys to unlock God's blessings upon our lives. And key number three is giving. Somebody say giving. Say it, let me hear you now. Say it loud and clear. Giving is key number three in our series of discussion to unlock the blessings of God upon our lives. What is giving? It's a reflection of a grateful heart that wants to give back to God a portion of what he has given us. John 3.16 says, For God so loved the world that he did what he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him will not perish but will have everlasting life. The motivation for giving is love. And when you have been motivated to give in love, God in turn gives us a son in response to the need of man. Man needed God. Without the death of Jesus on the cross of Calvary, there is nothing like redemption. And because if there is no redemption, myself and yourselves today, we cannot have the privilege of calling ourselves children of who? Children of God. So giving is a reflection of a grateful heart. Any man or woman who is grateful unto God or grateful unto men, and you want to give back to them what God has given you, out of all he has given you, you just take a portion. Let me also say it here tonight or this afternoon, there are many people who work with big men in their various offices, businessmen, employees of labor or whatever, that at a time like this, you don't see the need of giving your organ something. I want to teach you this afternoon, even if your organ is a billionaire, out of all he has given you, do what? Take a little portion and do what? And give back to him. It shows a sense of what? Appreciation. Most of these big men, they don't need it, but they always appreciate it. What are they appreciating? Your thoughtfulness. Your what? Talk to me. Your what? Your thoughtfulness. Recognizing that this man or this woman or this person has been helpful to me from the beginning of the year, and in turn, I will also do what? I will give him or her something. Giving is an opportunity to show to God that he is first in our life. Giving is an opportunity to show to God that he is first in our life. The Bible says the earth is first, and the first, the fullness thereof. There is nothing anybody here wants to give to God that God is in need of. But when I give to God or you give to God, we in turn enjoy the blessings of God because it is an opportunity to show to God that I recognize what you have done for me, and in turn, I am returning something back unto you. Hear me, child of God. The starting point in a discipleship understanding of giving is the recognition that everything that you have comes from who? Comes from who? Comes from who? Comes from God. I think we used to give that simple illustration of a woman or a father giving biscuits to who? To your child. And you are asking your child to bring what? Just one. You say, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. I'll be going and I'll be running. He or she has forgotten and the father who has given her that biscuit can give her a complete packet, not even one. But because of the attitude of life, such a child will miss even other things that will have come along. The Lord will help us in Jesus' name. Giving is an expression of our obedience to who? To God. And I want to say to us this afternoon, beloved, this is one of the keys that unlocks the blessings of God upon your life and makes you to remain perpetually blessed forever. I am not talking of something that sometimes we have some of our members live in prosperity for a while. After some years, you will see them living in what? In penury. And I have shown up to us and I have told us again and again, I discovered from the scripture that the mind of God for me is to move from one level of glory to what? To another. And if there is any force or power and that is where the place of what? Prayer comes in. If you are to move up and there is a power that says you have to go down, then you take your place of what? Prayer. But the Bible says, we are not fighting against flesh or blood, but what? Against principalities and what? Power. The Lord will help us in Jesus' name. Giving is an investment that we use dividends and records. Whether you give to God, whether you give to man, whether you give to your neighbor, giving is what? Is an investment that we use what? Dividends. That we use the results in what? In return. There are men today who gave to some people in the past and things are not really working out for them. And those men and women they have helped in the past, they are now in turn doing what? Helping them. Thank you man. If you have not been able to help somebody in the past, and now things are not working, you will not expect such a man or woman to help you. Where will the person help you from? And that is why you must listen very attentively today. When we talk about giving as a way to unlock God's presence upon our lives, we are talking about giving of our time, giving of our work. When you give your time to counsel people, when you give your time to give people opportunity to express themselves, that time is an award, is an investment. When you give your talent, your skill to assist people, when you give your skill to do one thing or the other to enable another person to assess the presence of God, you are doing something. So we are expected to give our time, we are expected to give our talent, we are expected to give our treasure. When we are able to do this, then with all these things, we have the power to unlock God's blessings upon our lives. I want to stand on this altar as God's sovereign place over your lives. You will not end 2023 empty handed. If you are the one I am talking about, let me hear a believing amen. We are now moving to the month of December. It is a month of celebration. Where everybody will rejoice. People will begin to buy things to make their family to be happy. It is not that time your whole family will be in sorrow. It is not that time you will not have what it takes to feed your children. Because the God that we serve, He is a living God. And He will make provision for you in the mighty name of Jesus. Giving us a key to unlock God's blessings. Can we turn to the book of Luke chapter 6 verse 38. It is a very popular scripture. And we will start from that. We will read a lot today. It is a gift. And it will be given to us. A good word. Prayer. Shaking. And running. We work. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. Praise God. I think it is no more common now. But those days, those of our mommies here used to go to the bush market. To buy gari. You will carry the bowl. I know some mommies who are here now. They don't go to the bush market. You will carry the bowl and put what? The gari. And do what? Press it. And shake it. Shake it. Shake it. Again and again and again. The scripture says give. And it was. It shall be given back unto you. A good measure. Press down. Shaking what? And running over. We be poured into your world. Love. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back all to you. The Lord will help us in Jesus name. Now. In giving in the church, the first one that is the foundation of all giving is tithe. Somebody say tithe. Say it. Let me hear you. Say it again. Tithe is the number one thing that everybody is expected to give as a key to unlock God's word. Bless you. And that is the only one God says, I will rebuke the devourer on your word, on your sake. Let's quickly go to the book of Malachi chapter three. We'll be reading a lot today. So please, if I am you, I will pick my pen and write some of them down. Will a man rob God? Will a man rob God? Man ought not to rob God, but men are robbing God. And the scriptures say, yes, you are robbing me. Now, I will always explain the difference between a robber and a thief. Hello? There is a difference between who? A robber and who? A thief. If a thief comes to your house, a thief normally don't use the weapon. They will watch very closely. If you are not there, they will do what? They will move in and take whatever they want to take. That is a thief. But when a robber comes, he comes with what? With the weapon that whatever happens, he is ready to do away even with the owner of the property in order to get the property. And God says, you are who? A robber. Anybody who is robbing God in tithing, such a person is telling God, what can you do? And many so-called children of God today have faith in their word, in their giving of word, tithe. And the scripture says here, let's read it further. It says, Will a man rob God? Yes, you are robbing me. You ask, how do we rob you? By not making the payment of ten percent and the contributions. You are suffering under a curse. You are what? Yes, you, the whole nation, are still robbing me. You are under a curse already and yet you are still robbing me. And God is saying, bring the full ten percent into the storehouse so that there may be food in my world, in my house. Test me in this way. Praise God. Throughout the scripture, that is the only place God will test me. God didn't ask you to test him whether he has power to heal. Hello? He didn't ask you to test him whether he has power to deliver. He didn't ask you to test him whether he can perform miracles. No. But when it comes to issue of giving and issue of tithing, God says what? Test me. Whether I will be able to do what? I will be able to help you or not. I pray that the Lord will help us in Jesus name. Somebody gave us an illustration sometime ago that when you have your tithe, like in our church here, we always drop our tithe on where? On the altar. The remaining ninety percent of those words belongs to you. And he gave us an illustration of ten oranges. The one you place on the altar, he is the one that we track others. We call it, well, spiritual tracking. There are some things some of us may not know, but there is something we call tracker today in our various cars. Anybody who can afford to put it in your car. While I am here, my car can be at VI or Abifuta and I will know where my car is. It is on some phones today. If you have a terrible driver, if he drives your car out of your house and you want to know his movement, if you can afford to pay for it, they will put it on your phone. Right inside your room, you know the streets and all the places your driver has taken your car to. They call it what? Car tracker. And this man was telling us, this one on the altar, we track other nine ones that are left with you. With this one that the hand of God is on, nothing will happen to the remaining ones. Nine. Because what? You have recognized the place of God and you have placed his own on his what? On his altar. Somebody also gave us another illustration of ten oranges. The man was made to understand three is for you to eat. You will invest the three for your shelter. You will invest also three for your what? For your clothing. The three basic needs of man. Now, the first three for your feeding. The second three for what? For your shelter. The other three for your what? For your clothing. The remaining ones. The remaining ones. That one belongs to who? To God. So this man went on to say that this very person after he has eaten the three for his feeding, he has invested the other three for his housing, he has invested the other three for his what? For his clothing. He looked around, he looked around. There's nothing he could do again. He has to go and what? And pick that one that belongs to who? That belongs to God. And that is how many of us today have lost the blessings of God against ourselves. But the essence of this teaching this afternoon is that God will enable you to listen attentively and follow the word of God and you will on your own unlock the blessings of God upon your life in the mighty name of Jesus. Tithing is the foundation of all giving. There are people who give offerings. All kind of offerings. We have given several today. And as you give all these kind of offerings, the number one one that you're supposed to give which is your word, tithe, you fail to give it. And yet you are praying for God to do what? To bless you. The scripture says anybody who fails to give his tithe or a tithe, what happens? You are already bringing cost upon yourself. I pray for you. And this is a cost that no pastor can change. Did you hear that? This one, no pastor has the power to change the cost that God is giving. If someone else puts cost on you, pastor can what? Can remove it. But if God himself is the one costing you then what can pastor do? I pray for you. You will not put cost on yourself in Jesus name. Another thing we must learn, we must learn to give good and quality offering. Good and what? Somebody talk to me. Good and what? I know that some of you today after living here, you will come back to appreciate me. Yes. Yes. It's just for you to understand what we are talking about. The moment you understand what we are talking about you will know that God is the one talking to you. Genesis chapter four verses three to five. Some of these scriptures you know them too well but I'm here today to remind you and to let you know that this is the only way to allow God's blessing upon your life. In the course of time, King presented some of the land produce as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also presented an offering. Some of the first born of his flock and their first portion, their Lord handed a guard for Abel and his offering. But he did not have regard for King and his offering. Did King give offering? Talk to me somebody. Did King give offering? He did. The question you must ask yourself and I must ask myself. Why must God have regard or respect for the offering of Abel? For whom? For the offering of whom? Of King. Some theologians are saying it is because maybe he didn't bring something that has brought. No. No. It is not true. Some of you have used yam or other things to do what? To appreciate God. And God has what? Accepted it and he has blessed you. But what is important in giving is that we must learn to give good and what? Quality what? Offering. Let's read that please. The Bible says Abel also presented an offering. He also presented an offering. Some of the first born of his flock and their first portion. What type of offering did you give? Some of us have learned by God's grace that when you are coming to church on Sunday, you select you do what? Select good offering. Good money from all your money. Select good ones. How will you come to church and just look for a chain that even conductors and what do you call them? Drivers cannot take or cannot people cannot take from you. You will come and drop it in the offering place. Thank God for this EE banking system now that some of us can transfer money. There are places today, digging we sit down from morning till night counting 20, 20 naira. And if you have watched all other money, that 20 naira is very stubborn. They think we just do like this. Some churches they will go and look for ions to do what? To straighten it. They think we just do like this. And digging we count and count and count. Counting 20 naira. Look at your life. Giving. Giving is as a result of what? Appreciation of what God has done for us. Look at the week. What has happened to you within the week? All the blessings of God. There are some of us even if we hit 1 million within the week, the 10 naira or 100 naira or 200 naira we have been giving again and again is the one we will see what? We will see bring on Sunday. We are asked within the week, the Lord has prospered you like never before. Maybe you have been making business of 200 naira or 2000 naira or 10,000 but that week God just miraculously was bless you with 50,000. You should recognize it and do what? And appreciate God in a quality way. Sometimes whenever we whenever we introduce envelopes for people to give offering, I pastor one or two churches, anytime I introduce envelopes for offering, some of my deacons will say, reverend our offering will reduce our offering will reduce because people will use that envelope to do what? To cover up. Are you giving to me or you are giving to who? Talk to me somebody. Are you giving to me? You are not giving to me. You are giving to God. If you understand God who God is to you I have spared you, He has preserved you, He has protected you within the week. When you are coming to church on Sunday, you will package your offering. You do what? You package your offering. This man whenever his offering was acceptable to God and the Bible say God had respect for him because he gave a very good offering. And I pray for somebody under the side of my voice as you give this afternoon you will give a good offering. As you go back to your local church and from next Sunday I want to hear that somebody is giving a provocative offering. Offering that will touch heaven, that will make things around you. Listen, when things around you change, you are the first beneficiary. And it is my responsibility to let you know what you will do to unlock the blessings. Listen, the blessings of God. Those of you who are a theologian the Bible says in the book of Ephesians they are what? They are loaded and they are what? They are hidden in the heavenly world. Heavenly what? Heavenly places. It is your responsibility my son to bring those things in the heavenly places to what? To heavenly world manifestation. Somebody say God has a divine supermarket that there is nothing you need in that divine supermarket that are not yet provided. But it takes a man to do what? To open the supermarket for you to enjoy those things that are needed by you. And I pray that Jehovah God will help us in Jesus name. Another point for you, if you must unlock the blessings of God is you must learn to give to the poor. Learn to do what? Come and talk to me. Somebody talk to me. Learn to do what? Learn to give to who? Tell your neighbor you are better off than somebody. Say it, let your neighbor hear it. Encourage your neighbor, let your neighbor know that his own or her own is not the worst. You are better off than somebody. And that is why you must always appreciate God. If you want to unlock God's blessing upon your life you must learn to give to who? To the poor. The book of Deuteronomy chapter 15 verse 17. If there is a poor person among you one of your brother within any of your gate in the land of your God is giving you, you must not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards your poor brother. Don't be what? Hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards your what? Somebody came to you and explained a situation or a situation to you and like we used to watch those playlets in those days. He just asked the person to kneel down let me pray with you. Father in the name of Jesus you are the one that provided for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Provide for my brother and God has brought the brother so that you can be his world. You know there are people who tell you it's only prayer. Everything is not prayer. There is time for prayer, there is time for giving. So when your brother is in need, do what? Give. Give to that poor man that you are better off than. Assist that individual and in turn tomorrow God will use that person to help another person. Listen, I do tell my deacon in any church to that person, I don't believe you must be a needy for 20 years. Do you hear me? No. You are a needy today, fine. And the church is in position to help you, good. You should also press up so that tomorrow you not become a help to another person. Am I communicating? Give to the poor and when you give to the poor, the Bible say you are lending unto who? Unto the Lord. Let's start to the scripture please. Proverbs chapter 19 verse 17 Are you there? Proverbs chapter 19 verse 17 Somebody there with me? 19, 17 says Kindness to the poor is a loan to who? To the Lord. And it will give a reward to the lender. There is a sister somewhere that had a need. And I want to appreciate some of her brethren in this church who have been very good in that area. This sister lost her mom and she was confused of what to do. I remember I remember when she left this church was because of the way she started here. She called me and told me Daddy I have lost my mother and I will be going home. I asked her to come. When she came I counted just 10,000 for her and she bursted into tears. Did you hear me? She started crying Why? I have met a word, a need. There are a lot of us in this church who have been very good in that. I want to say to you, God will bless you. And all the loans we have been keeping with God God will reward you with them. And if there is anybody here either from any of our churches, you have not seen the need to help somebody cultivate it lend it. Because whatever you do for somebody today someone else will do for you tomorrow. It may not even be you, it may be your children that will benefit from it. So you must lend it. And when you lend it, you will prosper and you will unlock the blessings of God upon your life. Proverbs 22 verse 19 A generous person will be blessed Come on, a generous who? For he shares his food with the poor. God bless me, God bless me, God bless me You shake it everyday, bless me, bless me, bless me. Do something that will make heaven to unlock the blessings of God upon your life. There are good things that you don't need again that someone is stealing either. Am I communicating? There are shoes that are not good enough for you any longer that you are giving to somebody. And when you give to that person, the person will look at you and say God bless you God God God And when he or she say God bless you, you will be blessed. Praise the Lord. Another area to unlock the blessings of God is giving towards church projects. Giving towards what? Brother Brother Chris We were in a church, myself and brother Chris I had a program in a church somewhere And I heard from a brother in that church that he had a television in his house that is about a million naira He came to thank God it came to his house they broke into the house and he's happy that they never touched his watch television, that he bought that television for one million naira When I saw that, I was just looking at him Television One million naira But that brother when the church is in need of even five hundred thousand He will say brethren, let's contribute Let's do what? Let's contribute You know, God loves a cheerful giver And he will go and drop ten thousand naira How much does the church need? Talk to me, how much does the church need? But in his house he has a television of what? One million Some of our men are here I told them the day of men's thanksgiving here, I wasn't happy with them We have landlord here among our men And no single man among our men can bring a bag of what? Rice to say God thank you from January to December for section of men Church project is a way to unlock the blessings of God upon your world upon your life When you see a need in the church The church is having a project want to appreciate God This year, or within last year and this year, somebody gave us this keyboard, single handedly One person, the same person gave us this drum set, single handedly The person went to children church and said what are your needs? And they told him take money, go and provide it Sometimes you don't know the secret of people's blessings How is God blessing this man? How is God blessing this woman? Because such a man or woman has decided to see a need There is no way you see a need You see the house of God and you meet it and you will not meet your own need That is the way to unlock the blessings of God upon yourself Let's look at the book of Exodus Chapter 35 These are scriptures you know but I just want to remind us this afternoon that it is the mind of God for us to be blessed and the way we can be blessed is to use our hands to unlock these blessings of God Praise God 35 of Exodus from 4 Then Moses said to the entire Israelite community This is what the Lord has commanded, this is what? Take up an offering for the Lord among you Let everyone whose heart is willing bring this as the Lord offering gold silver and bronze blue, purple and scarlet yarn fine linen and good hair ramskin and mantle These are the things needed to do the work of God Moses said Let all the ski craftsmen among you come and make everything that the Lord has commanded Praise God I wish when you get back home you will go and raise all these things You will discover from this scripture that whenever there is a need God will raise His servant to do all to make an appeal to people If your pastor will ask you that we need a PA system what are you going to do? If your pastor will tell you this is the next thing to do, what are you going to do? It is a way to unload the blessings of God upon our lives upon our families upon our businesses Many of us have been struggling again and again but by the reason of the revelation of the word of God coming to your life Every struggle, every sorrow every pain that poverty has brought your way the Lord will put an end to that But you must be ready to do something Do something Give to us church projects Sometimes it bothers me that a whole church like Oryoke will be contributing money to buy a ceiling fan How much is ceiling fan now? I just started Oryoke now and I just started that small church because that is the youngest church here now Can't somebody in that church in Guadeloupe buy a ceiling fan? But if you go to all the members houses don't be surprised there are some of our churches like that you will get to some of their members houses you will even see air conditioner But for a fan to be in the church listen there are certain afflicted suffering that is not from God One of my friends was invited somewhere to preach On the altar there is no fan but in the congregation there are one or two fans The man just carried his bible and went and sat under one of those fans They asked him why? He said I will preach to you from here I will do what? Under this fan I will preach to you because God has delivered me from suffering I will not put myself in what? Are you still with me? There are many people today the suffering we are going through is our own a man made world suffering and we have the capacity as individuals to change it church project what are you doing about it? Oh we have just finished a large campaign they clap for a lot of people in various churches do they clap for you? I always say to them here every year they clap for a particular group of people when will they clap for you? We have had this money the person who had the first prize and what he gave and I told him he should wait for me next year and it is going to be a great one I am just telling you praise God praise the Lord I was shocked when one of my friends told me the first Sunday he gave 200,000 when last Sunday I paid a loan first Sunday he gave 200,000 I said wow and I gave 10,000 they carried sugar up the whole thing I gave for the whole first Sunday you know what he gave first Sunday I said God have mercy on me somebody shout Hallelujah Deuteronomy 16 Deuteronomy 16 this is part 3 of our discussion for those of you from Ejibu 1 who have been following this discussion of how to unlock God's blessings upon our lives are you there in Deuteronomy 16 16 16 16 says all your meals are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place he chose it at the festival of Unleavened Bread the festival of Weeks and the festival of Booths no one is to do what is to appear before the Lord what every man must appear with a gift my own translation says suited to his means according to the blessings the Lord your God has given you praise God you know how much God has blessed you there is no competition but are you ready to give according to how God has blessed you I think I gave an illustration some time ago somebody who earns a million naira and give offering of 5,000 and somebody who earns 100,000 or 200,000 and give offering of what 3,000 who has given the best the person who earns 100,000 and has given how much 3,000 is the best giver in the eyes of God but in the eyes of man because the brother has given 5,000 God look at what remains not what you have given did you hear my English God does what look at what what remains not what you have got you know the story of that widow that the Bible says she gave what how much was all that she gave 100,000 but that was all she had but there are people who had even 100,000 but they have given 10 the Lord will help us in Jesus name you should learn to give according to how God has prospered you if God has lifted you up don't bring yourself down give as God has given you a tenants they give you nothing more than a landlord and you say you don't have was it not money you used to build your house or did you speak in tongues and you built your house it was money you used to do to build your house and God who provided that money for you to build your house he has ability to do or to provide more for you somebody shout hallelujah hallelujah another thing to unlock God's blessing is you should learn to give to men of God learn to do what come on somebody talk to me learn to do what learn to give to men of God somebody asked me this morning ah Rabbi you are looking good I say yes let me put my cap now praise God am I looking good somebody bought it for me like this are you hearing some of my people will remember somebody just said ah Reverend since you came here I have not I used to feed you with Agada but I have not to feed you one I will get you one as if I go ahead and get it another person I purposely bought this shoe also another person bought this shoe for me not in this church but in this section so everything I am putting on today was being given to me by who by people when you see me for street now for road say ah this section is that they enjoy you praise God I never start with the enjoy because in this ministry ministry is full of abundance though praise God because by the time you bring your own other one bring their own I will now begin to move in dominion somebody shout hallelujah it's one of the secret to unlock God's word God's blessing I don't know how many of you have been to winners before you have heard of a program called ajip ajip is African gospel invasion you see people bringing cards bringing keys of houses therefore you don't need them any more any longer but because the scripture say they should they should bring it let's look at the book of Deuteronomy I just want to help some people here today and as I help you heaven will help you in Jesus name are you there with me are you there Deuteronomy 15 verse number 10 time is not my friend any longer Deuteronomy chapter 15 verse 10 say give to him what did he say say let me hear you and don't have a stingy heart when you give and because of this the Lord your God will do what in all your works and in everything works you do some people from January till now one week one thing week they never give their pastor one thing week are you here some of you have pastored you for four years you cannot buy I am not begging you but I just want to show you what we unlock the blessings of God upon your works upon your life I have people here who have been doing that without compulsion like a particular person who brings two loaves of bread to us every week every week is on weekly basis not on monthly and I have over 4 or 5 shoes in this house that was given to me by people in this church but what about you the scripture we read in Deuteronomy 15 say what give to him and don't have a stingy heart when you give and because of this because of what because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your works as many of you are here today as you go back to your various churches walk up to the personage and drop a loaf of bread walk up to the personage and drop a bag of rice walk up to your personage and drop half bag of rice and listen to your words I know of a particular person in this church, her own is apple and watermelon and they enjoy and well way praise God they think they sweet my belly I appreciate all I'm just saying is I do what I appreciate yes these are the keys for God to unlock his blessings upon you with the envelope how will you stay year in year out you cannot say pastor and there are some of our churches I stand to be corrected do you know there was a time in this church there was something they called pastor's day are you aware but when the leaders also discovered that pastors are suffering they introduced what pastor's day and even now that they have introduced every 2 to 2 years some people are not even happy when they share even 2,000 for some people for pastor's day 3,000, 5,000 say for what which pastor am I giving 2,000 hold your 2,000 and continue with your poverty that is the scripture that is the scripture brethren it is time to unloose ourselves everything that has heard of us now last year in this church we did pastor's day some people didn't contribute one day in the name of they didn't have you are the one that will unlock this God's blessings upon us, upon yourself let's read this also we have read from the old testament let's read from new testament are you still with me are you still with me if you are with me shout hallelujah Matthew chapter 10 I know this is one of the hardest teaching that people will never wish to listen to but you must listen God has brought you here to listen praise God Matthew chapter 10 verses 41 and 42 anyone who welcome a prophet because he is a prophet we do what did you hear that and anyone who welcome a righteous person because he is a righteous person we receive what and whoever give just a cup of cold water to one of this little one because he is a disciple I assure you I do what I do what who is assuring you he will never lose his reward God has assured us does anybody who will do that there are churches today who have capacity to do something better for their pastors on pastors day they will just go and look for anything they like ah they see something praise God my pioneer church listen very carefully I just want to help some people today my pioneer church they ask me what do I need for pastors day several years ago then I told them I needed a fridge because I don't take cold thing but mommy take my children take so I said I needed a fridge listen the fridge I was expecting was not a new one I was not even expecting if you like carry the bag from Ladiko take the compressor from Mikoto you know there are some fridges you know there are some fridges like that they will pick them here and there just put it together what is important let cold water come out that was all I was expecting but listen my superintendent lay forward seriously lay forward like no man the man struggle struggle struggle listen I just want somebody to listen the church is still in existence on pastors day I had almost 18 members then or so on pastors day the people that came to church were not up to 35 everybody ran away and my superintendent came with fire to preach and he preached a message I can never forget a man of God with a vision this man was preaching and preaching telling them this our man of God is this is that is that and when the man was to washing the matter after preaching he said please reverend come and pray I couldn't pray I bursted into tears did you hear me I bursted into tears what am I praying about that the church I have gathered for many years just because of fridges they are no more here I told myself God this is not what I am begging for I said I will carry the fridges but let the people watch come back to church the fridges are no see people are no see but this God I can never pay before December of that year gave me that type of fridge did you hear me AG people I pray for somebody today you will repent after service they knock the door come and take water to drink from the same fridge they never put to their money I bought the fridge and I told my wife please if they want to drink cold water allow them to do to drink it because I told them that very day my ministry is more than a fridge and today by God's grace I have had three fridges how many how many I didn't pay for anyone today then I was looking for any type of fridge but for now I think it was only one among the three that was just to come up the other two we tore the paper before we make use of it listen to me son of God God has brought a prophet your way so that your story will change for good and it is better for you now to understand it and give it to the revelation it's better so you must learn to understand that God has a purpose the personage is not expected to be empty we are adults mothers indeed in our talks even there are statute free regulations that some people ought to do but today it's no more there the Lord will help us in Jesus name because of our time now let me just read one or two places Philippians chapter 4 are you still with me Philippians chapter 4 I'm not doing this for anything but just for your own good because it is time for God to turn somebody's situation around for good Philippians chapter 4 are you there Philippians chapter 4 are you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel when I left Macedonia no church here with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone except who for even in Thessalonica you sent gifts for my needs several times know that I seek gifts come on somebody talk to me know that I seek gifts but I seek the fruit that is increasing to you again but I have received everything in full and I have an abundance I am fully supplied having received from what you provided a vibrant offering a welcome sacrifice pleasing to whom the man of God opened his mouth and said my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory listen, don't give to your pastor because he has a need give to him because he is a man of God are you hearing me I used to say to our people it is not until my shoes begin to sing hallelujah before you know you have to change the shoes many people until the pastor's shoes bend and they will go and take it to a shoemaker before they know that the man need was another shoe some of us we have worn that type of shoe before and we can never wear it again anybody who want us to wear it now you go wear it first because there are shoes that when you wear inside there it will pepper you we have worn it in the past and we can never go back there again God who has taken us away from Egypt will not take us back there and as many of you also that God has taken away from poverty from wretchedness you will never go back there again any power that want you to go back there heaven will disappoint them heaven will disgrace them I'm just telling you give to our Lord God's blessing some of you mothers here, daddies here you have done some of this thing I'm saying and you have paid the benefit praise God are you still with me praise God oh giving should not be with a long face but with joy don't give in the church or anywhere with long face as if you have been forced to give no, give and it shall be given back unto you in good measure shake it together hallelujah giving is an honor to God offering is an honor to God brethren when we call it offering that means you are offering something to a what? to God hello you are offering something to who? to God and this God can never disappoint the God of this world has never disappointed and you will never be disappointed I say you will never be disappointed in the mighty name of Jesus listen, there is no best time to give than now what did you hear me Ecclesiastes chapter 11 verse 1 let me have it please media help me now let me just read from you and close Ecclesiastes chapter 11 verse 1 are you still there send your bread on the surface of the water for after many days you will do what? you will find it giving should be by faith did you hear me many of us have given out of nothing and God has replaced it for us there are many who even gave during this election campaign, not that they had it all all they exercised was faith and God has never failed anybody brothers and sisters learn to give by what? by faith learn to give by what? faith and Malachi says can you offer these things to your who? to your governor our thanksgiving is forthcoming in all the churches in this section and general council of our sons of God what are you going to offer to do us? to appreciate God we are also taught that when some people buy car of 3 million they will go for comprehensive insurance and comprehensive insurance is 10% of the total cost of your car if you buy land now and you want a lawyer to do documentation for you, they will first ask you how much did you buy what? the land and they will collect what? 10 of 5% depending on what? on the volume of the money but when you buy car of 3 million you go and buy car of 3 thousand and you are telling God I am bringing this car for you to what? to keep for the insurance company that we keep for only one year, only what? you do comprehensive insurance and they are asking you for 10% of what? of that car, 3 million how much is 10% of 3 million? make somebody come by see a biker of 5 million come bring 500 something they worry you have you done nothing apart from carry on? and you want God to do what? to keep the car for you for the insurance company that you will pay every what? every what? every year, if you must do comprehensive not this 5 thousand let my people go if you must do comprehensive they personally told us some of our daddies there who have not even comprehensive make him pray make anything not happen to your work, to your car insurance we bring gram and at the end you will not get any anything but God, God who owns your life? some people will buy car come and put 1 thousand inside the envelope come and bring 1 million come and bring 1 thousand inside the envelope dedicate free offering I will show you from the scripture, when Anna gave birth when Anna gave birth to what? to someone, she came with dedicated what? requirement and even Jesus our master, when he was being dedicated, he was not dedicated what? empty somebody said somewhere why I have not come for child dedication is I don't have what to wear child dedication because she doesn't have what to what? to wear some people say I am not smart I have to buy car and I have to buy yam or cow before I will do dedication, when I get the money I will call until that child is over 1 year you will not go see them for sure but if you are to deliver that child and they say you have to go through CA and before the doctor will even open the labor room you must deposit 150 that money will do what? eh? brethren don't let us take God for granted that is the summary of my discussion let's rise never you take God for what? for granted recognize what he has done in your life and appreciate it and as you appreciate it, you will unlock blessings, listen, some of you have not seen God's blessing yet what you are seeing now is an introduction is what? come on somebody talk to me, is what? I am one of the people who don't believe that God will bless believers that don't believe will begin to jealous us am I communicating? and the only way that will happen is that we are concerned about his words about his kingdom and we are willing to give without looking back and when we are able to do this please, I beg of you this little counsel I have given to you is a counsel from the scripture, take it and you will testify by this year by this time next year of what God is going to do in your life, lift up your voice unto God and appreciate it ask for grace to do them ask for grace thank you for listening and for being around today ask God for grace grace to give grace to give grace to give love I receive, somebody receive grace to give now receive grace to give receive grace to give, give to us the work of God, give to us the poor, the needy give to us the men of God yes be ready to give be ready to give in Jesus precious name we are praying, I wanted to bring a thousand seeds this afternoon, I just want to bless you I have prayed for you before now as many of you have really enjoyed this teaching this afternoon I just want you to come, I want to connect you with God on this altar that by the raising of your giving you will unlock the blessings of God upon your life, you will not live in penury, but you will live in God's abundance, look for one thousand arrows from your pocket and come to this altar I want to bless you this afternoon as long as God lives and is seated on that throne I will never be ashamed thank you as long as God lives and is seated on that throne I will never be ashamed oh as long as God lives I encourage everybody to join oh I will never be ashamed hey as long as God lives and is seated on that throne I will never be ashamed Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Father we thank you today last month you spoke to me that as you let your people know keys to unlock your blessings upon their lives we have discussed the first one we have discussed the second one today you have given us the privilege of looking at the third one and you say by this reason I will bless you Lord I am not the writer you wrote it my job is to communicate and having communicated I leave the remaining fulfillment to your hand as many today that we take to this revelation making sure that they get involved in the house of God in every ramification Father I pray by this year by this time next year somebody will testify I stand on this altar today and I decree upon you by next year last fellowship taking to this instruction today you will have a testimony you will have a testimony you will have a testimony thank you Father for we prayed in Jesus name you can drop it every other person come let me pray with you come whatever you have come and give it I just want you to be part of it even if you don't have anything come let me pray with you come try to identify what we are saying come everybody come everybody come let me pray with you oh everybody come please come please come come come come come come come come come come come come