MINISTERING: BISHOP DAVID O. OYEDEPO.
MESSAGE TITLE: GATEWAYS TO FINANCIAL FORTUNE.
The covenant of abundance is a platform through which you are empowered for wealth.
To walk in financial fortune, God’s word demands that we walk according to the terms of the covenant.
It is the love for money that is evil, not money itself.
– 1 Tim. 6:10
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
If wealth were evil, God will not empower us for it.
A covenant is a deal enacted by God, based on a well-defined term and sealed with an oath.
There is nothing to fear when God is the one making you.
When God is involved, no devil can unmake you.
– Ps. 112:10
10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
-Prov. 10: 1-22
God never forces His ways into anyone’s life.
The covenant confers the authority of financial fortune on covenant people.
We command fortune by covenant authority, and this authority is in degrees.
As a seed of Abraham, you are ordained to be a blessing to your world, not just to your family.
– Deut. 15:6
6 For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
Ps. 89:34
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
The covenant that empowers for wealth anchors on the law of seedtime and harvest.
– Gen. 8:20-22
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Seedtime and harvest mean sowing and reaping.
– 2 Cor. 9:6-7
6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Seed time and harvest is about giving and receiving
– Phil. 4:15
15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
It is your giving that guarantees your receiving.
Every covenant practitioner has an hedge of fire around them.
If it is God that is blessing you, He keeps sorrow off your shores.
Kingdom promotion sacrifices are ordained to keep your heavens open.
Lack of a required response to Kingdom promotion opportunities can shut the heavens over you.
FUNDAMENTAL PROPHETIC WORDS FOR THE END-TIME CHURCH
- THE END TIME CHURCH IS ORDAINED AS A CHURCH OF MULTITUDES.
Micah 4:1
4 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
- IT IS ORDAINED TO COMMAND SUPERNATURAL WEALTH.
To walk in financial fortune, we must walk in terms of the covenant.
Job 22:23
23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
I grew up in the days of confession until I heard God say “My son David, my prosperity plan is not a promise and does not answer to fasting, it is a covenant, and until your part is played, I am not committed!”
Lk 19:17
17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
Authority Is far above possession and commands it at will. When you are faithful in little God puts you above much.
This Church starts tithing in 1986, and now we command authority of financial fortune.
As a seed of Abraham, you are ordained to be a blessing to your world, not only to family, wife, and Children but to the world.
This covenant is anchored on seed time and harvest!
Gen 8:21-22
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
The word you lay in your heart determines the wealth you lay on the earth.
If you miss or scorn that law of sowing and reaping, you will not get there.
2 Cor. 9:7
7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Every Covenant practitioner has an edge of fire around him. I heard Benny Hinn say some time ago. “They were on Airplane and the plane was about to crash, and he started laughing in the Spirit, eventually the Plane landed safely at the airport with no one injured.”
WHAT IS GIVING AND RECEIVING?
It is to keep distributing his resources over our lives as needs arise to a worthy cause.
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
Tim 6:17-18
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
Not to accumulate and store wealth.
Luke 12:21
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
It is more blessed to give than to receive, you stay refreshed as a giver.
Giving entitles you to His blessings.
Prov. 19:17
17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Prov. 28:27
27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Giving enables you to be in the class of God.
As many times you give determines how many times God appears to you, a giver does not lack divine appearance.
Tithing is a capital law that entitles a believer to an open-heavens order of blessings
Kingdom promotion sacrifices are ordained to keep our heavens open.
Start from where you are, don’t eat the seed and the fruit.
Empowerment for wealth is by faithfulness to covenant terms.
There was a man called J.C Penny, who started cutting down his tithes and his business started going down till it went under. He then cried to God about what was happening. God responded to him to re-align his tithing, and he started prospering from bankruptcy.
The covenant will continue to walk when we keep at it.
1 Samuel 13:14
14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.
1 Chronicles 29:3
3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house.
2 Cor. 9:7
7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
COVENANT TERMS AND CHANNELS FOR FINANCIAL PROSPERITY
Consistency on the covenant platform guarantees a lifetime of financial fortune.
For a covenant that empowers wealth, always remember the anchor laws are giving and receiving.
God bestows his riches on the hands of those that he can trust to use such wealth for his purpose.
How much you are willing to give determines the extent to which God will take you.
By the quality of your covenant walk with God, your wealth will become transgenerational.
We must be aware that our giving is not a financial donation, but a spiritual transaction that answers in heaven and makes god unleashes his blessings on us.
Zech. 1:17
17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
What is Seedtime and Harvest?
It is giving and distributing, and yet increasing.
– Pro. 11:24
24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
1 Tim. 6:17-19
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
It is giving that entitles you to receive.
– Luke 6:38
38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Pro. 19:17
17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
The covenant that empowers for wealth does not answer to revelation and declarations.
Without application, declarations and revelations cannot deliver.
God will only entrust wealth to people that He can trust to use such wealth for His purpose.
Keep dreaming Kingdom advancement dreams and God will keep enlarging your coast.
Your giving is not a financial donation to help God but a spiritual transaction that unleashes heavenly order of blessings on your life.
Tithing is the capital law that enables the believer access to the open heaven order of blessings.
