POVERTY MUST DIE : Bishop David's Sermon (Sunday 20/05/007) - Edited Version

" The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts."
(Haggai 2:8) KJV

OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCEES: Phillipians 49; Proverbs 13:22; Proverbs 3: 5,6; Genesis 26; Romans 8:13 ; Psalm 33:20

As you may or may not know, we have been dealing with this theme of God’s economy for sometime now. We have not preached on the subject every Sunday of course but we have been steadily working on this theme of God’s economy. God has a definite economy that operates without any obstacles or hurdles or hindering from any of man’s doing. God has a definite storehouse in the holy heavenly spiritual realm that is endless and limitless with all the resources and more, to keep us from a state of lack and to bring us to a place of blessing where we can always be a blessing. I hate poverty. Poverty smells. That is why , THE SPIRIT OF POVERTY IS QUITTING YOUR LIFE. The Lord says silver is His, Gold is His. He says everything is His. he will Supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. POVERTY IS VACATING YOUR LIFE. The Lord Jesus, when He was on earth, did not carry any money with Him because MONEY IS IN HIM! Remember what He said to Peter, He told Peter to go and get some money out of a Fish's mouth to pay their taxis. You are a child of God, MONEY IS IN YOU. Heaven will open. I say, every door that the enemy has tried to close in your life will open! SILVER WILL COME TO YOU; POUNDS WILL COME TO YOU; DOLLARS WILL COME TO YOU! CURRENCY FROM ALL COUNTRIES WILL COME TO YOU! WILL COME TO YOU! THERE WILL BE MILLIONS IN YOUR Zero, Zero ACCOUNT! SUCCESS IS YOUR PORTION! THE WORLD WILL SWEAT, BUT YOU WILL NOT SWEAT!...NOT YOU. YOU HAVE A RIGHT OVER IT! YOU WILL LEAVE A GOOD INHERITENCE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION! ALL OF YOU HAVE A GENERATION LOOKING UP ON YOU. IF YOU FAIL, YOUR GENERATION WILL FAIL! HOW MANY OF YOU ARE THE HEAD? (GENESIS 26). THE LORD BLESSED ISAAC. IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT MONEY. IT IS EVERYTHING. I SAY PROSPERITY WILL VISIT YOU! POVERTY MUST DIE. I PROCLAIM WAR ON POVERTY!

YOU ARE BOUND TO MAKE IT! YOU ARE BOUND TO PROSPER! GOD IS GOING TO BAPTISE YOU WITH PROSPERITY! REMEMBER THIS: POVERTY MUST DIE! IT MUST DIE. SURELY GOODNESS & MERCY SHALL FOLLOW YOU, ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE, AND YOU SHALL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER, AND EVER...AND MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL OUR, NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS! THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. IT IS GOD WHO GIVES YOU THE WISDOM TO HAVE WEALTH. HE GIVES YOU THE ABILTY TO ACQUIRE WEALTH. WEALTH IS IN WISDOM. WISDOM FOR MILLIONS! WEALTH IS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS...AND WE ARE THE RIGHTIOUSNESS OF GOD! HE SAYS ON PROVERBS 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" IT IS NOT YOUR SALARY THAT IS GOING TO MAKE YOU WEALTHY - IT IS WISDOM; IT IS ACKNOWLEDGING GOD IN ALL YOUR WAYS. GOD IS THE ONE THAT GIVES, NOT THE SALARY! POVERTY IS A SPIRIT...BUT GOD IS LIFTING YOU FROM POVERTY; GOD WILL GIVE YOU AN ABILITY TO GET WEALTH. GOD'S DESIRE FOR YOU IS TO PROSPER. THE WORD OF GOD SAYS GOD KNOWS HOW MANY HAIR YOU HAVE IN YOUR HEAD! GOD KNOWS THAT! HE KNOWS WHAT YOU DESIRE. HE WILL DROP EVERY BLESSING ON YOU! YOU ARE BLESSED. Amen.

We know now clearly that it cost money to do ministry. It costs money to help get souls saved. It cost money to established the covenant of Jesus Christ throughout the world by teaching and preaching and reaching with the Gospel. It cost money. It cost money at this church just to do what we are doing now, and it will cost much more money to do what God has us dreaming about. We have it clear my brothers and sisters that it just will cost us to be the blessing that God has really called us to be. So, I am inspired to go back to God’s Economy and to deal with a matter that is certainly something that we cannot omit in teaching on how God can supernaturally intervene and bless us in our personal lives and the church. I hate poverty. I hate it when someone speaks "Poverty". Let me say from the outset that we have established that there is a definite economy that God has of which supercedes and is exceedingly and abundantly and above what we can ask for or think.
And let me tell you something else, I have discovered in this teaching on God’s Economy that when we don’t have money to do what needs to be done for the Lord, and for ourselves, it costs us everything else…it costs us our joy…it costs us our peace…it costs us worry and fretting and doubting! It costs us because we miss opportunities for ministry because we are preoccupied with our state of lack. And when you lack, you cannot operate for God because all you do is think about the regularly monthly bills in your home that needs to be paid, you are thinking about debts, maybe you dont even have enough money to carry you through the month - so, you are going to think about nothing else but your LACK! Some of us just start thinking at the beginning of the month and we don’t stop thinking about those bills until the end of the month…and then when the new month comes we begin the same process, we become preoccupied with our lack. Our grave concern about bills all over again….and everyday that we spend the bulk of our time being engulfed with our bills and our debts! We miss precious golden opportunities to reach out and touch somebody with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And I say all of this again today so that it can be clear of why we here at Jesus For All Ministry, are talking how the Lord can bestow his prosperity upon us. Being Blessed by God is HUGE. It blesses other people around you - automatically! Its not for yourself and your family only. When you are REALLY BLESSED, your Blessings will foverflow to other people. Your cup will overflow. When you are blessed by God you become humble...you wont be able to say: " I’m blessed…look at me…brag on me….look who I am…look who we are...." …No no..no no, when you are blessed by God you THINK BIG. You think how you can reach out to people, how you can help expand the kingdom of God! We have a job on our hands my friends…a job that requires a certain resources, MONEY. We need to do away with lack so that the work here at this church is never interrupted because of the lack of funds. No…no, it should not be that way especially when we serve a God who owns everything good and perfect. So, now that I’ve said all this, I want us now to go and look at how we are to participate in God’s sharing of His blessings upon our lives and this church.

NB:VERY IMPORTANT
There are certain things in this life that we can do. There are certain things in this life that are possible to us. Things that God has already provided and has given us instruction of how we must do them. He is just waiting for us to do them. BUT, there are things that are impossible to us, things that are God’s Business. God Deals with The Impossible! When he knows we can do soemthing, He does'nt interfere because He has given us brains to use! Our God, Who call things that are not, as if they were, deals with the impossible! Impossible things become possible according to His working, and as we believe. He is able to do so. Today, I want you to know that some of the reasons some of us are not moving into the Blessings of the Lord, has everything to do with our participation. We want everything good to happen to us, but we do not want to do our part. We want things to be given to us on silver platters with a silver spoons. We want a bib around our neck and we want God to feed it to us like babies. We don’t want to do anything. We don’t want to experience the fire and testing in life situations. Don’t you know that there are some blessings in life that you are not going to get until you have been baked in God’s oven….until you have been tried in the fire….so that you will never forget that God did it…and only God did it! In Genesis, it says that God led Abraham into the wilderness of Mount Moriah to test him.(Genesis 22) ..That was Abraham's test before the Blessing! The test before the blessing for Abraham was that God wanted Abraham to know that his first love was always to be God and nothing else. Not even his son Isaac was going to take the place of God. Isaac was a gift from God to Sarah and Abraham. He was precious to them but God wanted Abraham and us TODAY to know that we need to fix our eyes to the Giver and not the gift itself. That is why it is recorded in the word…that we are never to worship the gift but always to worship the Giver….God Himself. Amen. We know why Jacob wrestled with the Angel all night long…until he received his blessing, and until he was able to hear the Angel name him with a new name, the name of Israel. The Angel said to Jacob: " Jacob let me go" .....and mind you, Jacob had been wrestling that Angel so long until Jacob’s hip was out of joint! But Jacob said "I am not going to let you go until you bless me"(l Genesis 32). So you see this business of Jacob wrestling the Angel was God’s way of informing Jacob that he was NOT going to be automatically blessed. What God was really telling Jacob was that 'Jacob, your conniving, and trickery and deception that you have been doing with Esau and Laban, is not what is going to bless you' I'm the one that will give you the blessing! You are going to wrestle with this Angel all night long for your blessing so that you will know that I the Lord God Am The One who gives you this priviledge to be blessed so that you can be a blessing." The truth is, as we see in the word, Jacob was not going to be blessed unless he wrestled that Angel….even though Isaac his father had already pronounced the blessing upon him, he was not going to be blessed until he wrestled that Angel…and when he wrestled that Angel all night long, you better believe that he came to know God for himself! Yes, his Grandfather Abraham had talked about God, and his daddy Isaac had talked about God..but you better believe that when Jacob himself wrestled with the Angel of the Lord all night long, he came to REALLY know God. You can’t wrestle God’s angel all night long and not know God. And Jacob recognized that even though he stole Esau his brother’s birthright…that did not guarantee him the blessing because the blessing didn’t come from Isaac, it came from God. To really possess that blessing, he had to take responsibility. The problem with us is that we want to be blessed but we don’t want the testing before the blessing…we don’t want the testing before the blessing and we don’t want to wrestle anything.

Remember this; and do your part. Participate in the Giving in your church. Give your Finances, Your Time, Your Talent, and you will see...

YOU ARE BLESSED
Bishop David