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Give and Receive

Give and Receive

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 Philippians 4:15KJV 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. Jehoshaphat, King of Judah said to his people “.................... Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God; so shall ye be established. Believe His prophets; so shall ye prosper...........2 Chronicles 20:20KJV” You will prosper if you will listen to the man of God. Paul the Apostle said, “as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things................2 Corinthians 6:10KJV” The man of God knows how to make people rich. Prosperity is not accidental; there are things you can do to ensure your prosperity. It is called wisdom. You are not going to prosper financially just because you pray to God, the same way a Christian is not going to be healed just because he prayed to God. The results are there to see. There are things you need to do. If you want supernatural prosperity, there are things you do. There are two kinds of prosperity, prosperity by labor and that by wisdom. “Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.......Proverbs 23:4KJV” There is prosperity according to man’s wisdom; it’s prosperity by labouring. Labouring, without satanic opposition may bring you to wealth. This is because there is profit in every labour. “In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.....Proverbs 14:13KJV” What labouring of Solomon brought him to affluence? None. It was wisdom; he gave an offering that pleased God “Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the LORD in the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.............2 Chronicles 1:6-7KJV” Who said quantity doesn’t matter? It does. There are Christians who are stingy with God, as long as the amount they are giving doesn’t cost them they are willing to give. Never give God an offering, which doesn’t cost you. Tithe is not an offering; it is giving God that which is His. “And the king said unto Araunah, “Nay; but I will surely buy it from thee at a price; neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver......2 Samuel 24:24KJV” Let your giving to God cost you, it should mean something to you. Remember the widow’s mite. She gave God all she had “ And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.....Luke 21:1-4NKJV” She put in more than all the rich folks because she gave God that which cost her. 20 thousand dollars from someone may mean nothing to God but 1 dollar from another will. The question is, did it cost you? Be a giver, every Christian is supposed to be a giver. Give and receive 2 Peter 1:10KJV Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, Peter wrote to the Christians in the strange lands and said, “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:” From the time that a sinner is born again till Jesus returns, who does he become? He is the elect. There is division among Christians and even ministers pertaining to the fate of Christians as it regards salvation. There are some pastors who teach that once a Christian is saved no matter how he or she goes on living, his salvation is secured. They even go on to say that if you find someone who calls himself a Christian continuously living in adultery and other forms of sins then he wasn’t and isn’t truly born again but just a church goer. We should be very careful not to preach sentiments and our opinions but the true gospel, the true gospel as preached by Paul, Peter and the earlier Apostles. Jude wrote to the Church and told them to strive for the true faith, which was once delivered by the earlier Apostles. Why did he say that? Because there were people who have crept into the church with damnable heresies. “Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and...
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