Text: 2 Chronicles 15: 12,
15; Isaiah 1:19
- The power for wealth is released on
the platform of the covenant.
- Prosperity or kingdom wealth doesn’t
answer to fasting and prayer.
- It only answers to your understanding
and practice of covenant details.
- A covenant is like a contract deal.
- It involves two or more people.
- In this case, it involves you and God.
- God is the covenantor and you are the
covenantee.
- You are the beneficiary of the deal
- So all you need then is a good
understanding of what the covenant entails or requires you to do and you
will be up in abundance.
- God is a covenant-keeper.
- His side of every covenant is forever
secured.
- It is our side that is variable (i.e.
unstable)
- When we lay hold on the terms of the
covenant that relate to us (i.e. the covenant practices), and apply
ourselves to it, God is committed to do His part (i.e. Give us abundance)
- Let us therefore discover what the
covenant practices are.
- And when we walk in them and do them,
our case is settled and supernatural wealth is guaranteed.
- Covenant wealth cannot answer to you
without covenant practices.
- Just as yam won’t come out of the
ground until yam has gone into the earth.
- What the world call prosperity is how
much you have
- But in the kingdom of God, prosperit
is determined by how much you give.
- The covenant practices for
supernatural wealth are ways you release to God in order to receive from
Heaven.
- Giving is living. No seed, No harvest!
- Covenant
Practice No. 1: First Fruits
§ The first fruit
is a major foundational covenant practice.
§ It is your first
main seed that goes in to the ground.
§ It is the giving
of all the first of all things to God as a sign that you acknowledge His
ownership of all things.
§ Whatever you do
with your first affect all others.
§ Lev. 23:9-12;
Rom. 11:16; Exo. 13:1-2, 11-16
Ø Your first salary
Ø Your first
Harvest
Ø Your first income
from every labour
Ø Your first
increase in every new level.
Ø Your first child
(to be redeemed with money)
Ø Your first car
(to be redeemed with money)
Ø Your first house
(to be redeemed with money)
Ø Your first income
every year, etc.
Ø Prov. 3:10 NKJV;
Eze. 44:30
- Covenant
Practice No. 2: Tithing
§ Tithing is
another powerful covenant practice for supernatural wealth.
§ Tithing is a
systematic release of a tenth of all your increase to God.
§ That is, the
giving of 10% of all your income to God.
§ This is a
powerful principle that redeems the other 90% and unlocks great blessings upon
you.
§ Lev. 27:30; Mal.
3:6-12
§ God has made it
clear that tithing is not giving.
§ It is a special
portion of your increase which God has reserved for Himself.
§ This 10% portion
does not belong to you; it belongs to God and must be given to Him every time
He blesses you.
§ It is dangerous
to eat up your tithe.
§ Tithing is an
inescapable covenant obligation, so don’t try to escape or dodge it.
§ Why? Because you
are not actually giving it. It is God’s part of your incomes.
§ Don’t take it,
don’t eat it, and don’t touch it.
§ Anyone who
despises tithing signs in for poverty, lack and want.
§ Don’t touch it!
It is not safe!
§ The practice of
tithing had existed before the law was given to Moses.
§ Abraham practiced
it, Isaac and Jacob also practiced it.
§ Gen. 13:2;
14:16-23 (Abraham)
§ Gen. 28:19-22
(Jacob)
§ God uses tithing
as a means of establishing individuals in their blessings.
§ You either give
your tithes willingly to God or He collects it by charging you to His court as
a robber where you pay it by force.
§ Mal. 3:8; Prov.
6:30-31
§ Paying your tithe
does not enrich God or does it enrich a pastor.
§ It is in order for
you to secure your covenant destiny with Him.
§ Supernatural
prosperity is impossible without tithing.
§ Tithing does not
only guarantee you a blessing, it also establishes an insurance against the
wicked arrows of life.
§ No one survives
the curse of God.
§ God said, the man
who robs Him of His tithe is cursed with a curse.
§ If you are not a
tither, things won’t stop being tithe for you. Why?
§ Because the
windows of heaven will remain shut and no blessing will come.
- Covenant
Practice No. 3: Offerings
§ Never come into
God’s presence in any church service or fellowship empty-handed (Deut.
16:16-17)
§ Giving of
offering is one of God’s strategies to terminate your sufferings. How?
§ Your giving
releases from heaven a rain of ideas and the power to carry out those ideas.
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