MANY PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE LEADERS OF GHANA. IT IS NOT SURPRISING AT ALL DEAR. HMMM. THE LEADERS WERE CHOSEN FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE AND SO I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THE LEADERS. ALMOST ALL THE INSTITUTIONS ARE CORRUPT IN THIS COUNTRY. SO CORRUPT MAJORITY CHOSE CORRUPT FELLOWS TO CORRUPT THE ECONOMY TO INTERRUPT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION. YOU MAY NOT UNDERSTAND ME BUT WHEN YOU ENTER INTO OFFICES IN SCOUTING FOR JOB, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND HOW HR'S AND MANAGERS ARE SLEEPING WITH YOUNG LADIES IN ORDER TO GIVE APPOINTMENTS. GO TO THE MINISTRIES AND WHAT HAVE YOU, AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. SEE HOW HUSBANDS ARE CHEATING ON THEIR WIVES. AND THE WIVES CHEATING ON THEIR HUSBANDS, HEY WIRE. ONLY GOD WILL SAVE US BY MERCIES THROUGH THE TRUE GOSPEL WHICH IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE. JESUS IS COMING SOON. IF WE DON'T REPENT SODOM AND GOMORRAH WOULD BE BETTER OFF THAN US. BUT THIS CHANGE COME BY INDIVIDUALS CHANGING FIRST. SO I, THE WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE SHOULD FIRST CHANGE AND THEN YOU THE READER SHOULD CHANGE AS WELL. THEN THE POSITIVE CHANGE WILL AFFECT OTHERS GRADUALLY. IT IS TIME FOR RADICAL CHANGE. 

DOING WHAT JESUS DID

THIS MESSAGE WILL BLESS YOU FROM APOSTLE JOHNSON SULEMAN.

HAVE THY OWN WAY LORD

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Search me and try me, Master, today!
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
As in Thy presence humbly I bow.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Wounded and weary, help me, I pray!
Power, all power, surely is Thine!
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Hold o’er my being absolute sway!
Fill with Thy Spirit ’till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me.

“We are the clay, You are the Potter; we are all the work of Your hand.” Isaiah 64:8

GOD'S PROSPERITY COVENANT

GOD’S PROSPERITY COVENANT

King James Bible
“For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.” – Proverbs 1:32

2 Corinthians 6:10

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. NKJV

It is important to note that preaching would inspire you but it is teaching that would instruct you.

2 Chronicles 15:1 - 6

2Ch 15:1  Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.

2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

3 "For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law;

4 "but when in their trouble they turned to the LORD God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.

5 "And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.

6 "So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.

Israel had been in such dangerous times but by the coming up of the teaching priest, there was a turn around.

These are messengers of the LORD’S covenant who interprets God’s agenda to the people of God. In other words, they are anointed interpreters of God covenant to His redeemed.

Job 33:21 His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;

22 And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his duty;

24 Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

25 His flesh shall be fresher than in childhood; he shall return to the days of his youth.

26 He shall pray unto God, and he will receive him with favour; and he shall see his face with shoutings, and he will render unto man his righteousness. 

Those interpreters are not many in our days.

Israel has been in bondage for four hundred years in Egypt, and one night under the teaching ministry of Moses the servant of God, walked out. It was just one night.

Tonight, somebody is about walking out of chronic bondage in the name of Jesus.

This Bible is not just a religious book. If you give it a religious approach you will miss its reality.

“The Bible is the Creator’s manual for profitable living” – Bishop David Oyedepo

Every producer, after manufacturing a product would put a small paper or booklet in the package and on it, the instruction for it profitable uses are found on it. it is called manual.

Ps 100:3 Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. (NKJV)

So we came from God’s factory and the manual for our maximum living is the Bible.

Acts 5:6 And the multitude also of the cities round about came together to Jerusalem, bringing sick persons and persons beset by unclean spirits, who were all healed.

17  And the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with wrath,

18 and laid hands on the apostles and put them in the public prison.

19 But an angel of [the] Lord during the night opened the doors of the prison, and leading them out, said,

20 Go ye and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

So the Bible (Word of God) contains all of live.

2Timothy 3:14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Hebrews 4:2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

If the word of God received is mixed with faith, there is profitable living.

2Peter 1:17 For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

18 And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,

21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

The word of God has no private interpretation and not specific to certain individuals. Whosoever receives with faith and applies its instruction would experience its reality.

It is got to do with you and not where you are. Many perish for lack of knowledge.

Joshua 1:8 "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

GOD'S PROSPERITY COVENANT

 ROOT CAUSE OF POVERTY.

Genesis 3:1-12

Ge 3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"

2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;

3 "but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.

5 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

6  So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"

10 So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."

11 ¶ And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?"

12 Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

NAKEDNESS is the greatest sign of poverty.

Man was driven away from the Garden of Eden; the home of abundance, to the wilderness of limitless wants.

The only way of reconnecting back to Eden is by salvation. It is only being born again that warrant a reconnection to the Garden of abundance.

The ROOT cause of man’s depravity and crises is his fall. And redemption is the way back to man’s restoration.

Another root cause of poverty is the curse of the law. Deuteronomy chapter 28 is made up of 52 verses. 35 of the 52 has to do with curses.

But Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.

Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"),

14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

You see, God gave man a law that was very difficult to obey and ones inability to comply resulted into a curse. This was because of the disobedience of the Israelites.

Ezekiel 20:25 "Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live;”

Breaking of this law resulted in a curse. This made man hopelessly helpless.

The curse of satan – the thief comes not but to steal, kill and destroy. The horns that scatters the nations that no one could lift the head.

Zechariah 1:21 And I said, "What are these coming to do?" So he said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."

GOD'S PROSPERITY COVENANT
 
THE NATURE OF THE COVENANT

God’s prosperity plan is universal just as salvation and redemption are union universal. It has no regard for race, gender, colour, etc.

John 3:15 "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”.

This is God’s plan the whole world and whosoever get connected shall receive the impact.

John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.”

Ecclesiastes 5:9 Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.

Galations 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

The gospel is the only platform of equality.

Romans 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.

GOD'S PROSPERITY COVENANT

HOW DO I RECEIVE GOD’S PLAN OF ABUNDANCE IN MY LIFE?

Deuteronomy 8:18 "And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day”.

Remember that God’s is not just a promise so you can claim it by prayer and fasting. In fact, God’s prosperity covenant has no respect for prayer and fasting otherwise prayer warriors would be millionaires. Until your part is played, God is not committed.

It is a covenant you enter into by practice and not by words.

Covenant practice is the master key to kingdom prosperity. Without the key you may be locked up all your days. The kingdom works on the key principle.

WHAT IS A COVENANT IN THE KINGDOM CONTEXT?

A deal enacted by God based on well defined terms and sealed with an oath. – Bishop David Oyedopo.

Hebrews 6:12 that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."

15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.

17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,

18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

An oath is an end to all man’s strife - God swore by Himself and cannot deny Himself. Your covenant practice commits God’s integrity to perform or deliver.

A promise has no terms and oath. A covenant is stronger than a promise.

Bishop Oyedopo gives this analogy:

You don’t pray to be paid at where you work unless there is crisis. You don’t need to harass God to be faithful. His name is faithful witness.

As long as you work, you are paid according to the contract. If you perform your part of the covenant, you don’t need to pray for God to perform his. He is already committed to His word and cannot deny it.

If you remove money from people’s prayer, they will have few things to pray about – what they don’t have to pray about is what they spend enough time praying about.

God’s kingdom prosperity plan have key – you can do  whatever you want if do not have the key, no amount of struggle can get you out of the situation you find yourself in.

GOD'S PROSPERITY COVENANT

WHAT IS THAT COVENANT THAT SHOWS ME MY PART

Genesis 8:20-22

Ge 8:20 ¶ Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease."

God was moved by the sacrifice and made permanent pronouncements which are evident today.

2Corinthians 9:6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

9 As it is written: "He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever."

10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

Seed time and harvesting time are explained and sowing and reaping time.

Consider this passage of scripture:

Philippians 4:15 Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only.

16 For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities.

17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.

18 Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Verses 15-17 was the action and verse 18 and 19 are the results. They were doing good to Paul but were in-turn pleasing God. Like Noah while he was sacrificing here on earth, God was smelling the aroma in heaven.  

Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the LORD makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.

Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE

Your giving is not a religious donation. You donate to the needy and God is not needy. You are too isignificant to support God.

Your givings are spiritual transactions that provoke divine intervention on your behalf.

A support mentality would not grant you access to God’s prosperity plan.

Psalm 50:4-15

Ps 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, And to the earth, that He may judge His people:

5 "Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."

6 Let the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is Judge. Selah

7 ¶ "Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God!

8 I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me.

9 I will not take a bull from your house, Nor goats out of your folds.

10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

12 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High.

15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me."

God spoke from heaven whiles Abraham was making a sacrifice on earth.

Genesis 22:5 And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you."

6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.

7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

8 And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together.

9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

11 ¶ But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" So he said, "Here I am."

12 And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."

13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, "In the Mount of The LORD it shall be provided."

15 ¶ Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,

16 and said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son -

17 "blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

God spoke the second time from heaven.

Solomon sacrificed thousand rams and God came down that night and asked, what shall I do for you.

2Chronicles 7:7 Furthermore Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat.

8 At that time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt.

9 And on the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the good that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the LORD and in his own house.

12 ¶ Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

2Chronicles 1:6 And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.

7 On that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask! What shall I give you?"

8 And Solomon said to God: "You have shown great mercy to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

David’s sacrifice caused God to take away the plaque from Israel.

2Samuel 24:25 And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD heeded the prayers for the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel.

Hebrews 7:8, Malachi 3:10

Your givings are recorded in heaven.

God said, I will build my church.

You cannot build His church.

Every ministry of God has a budget with God and when the ministry is connected to God, the budget is released.

Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD'S, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.

It is impossible for man to support God – if God were to be hungry would he ask you for food.

NINE WAYS IN WHICH THE COVENANT APPLY

1.      We sow in worship offering

Mark 12:41 Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much.

42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans.

43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;

44 "for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood."

2.      Kingdom investment – Haggai 1:8

Haggai 1:8 "Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified," says the LORD.

3.      Giving to the poor

Proverbs 28:27 He who gives to the poor will not lack, But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

4.      Giving for the common good

1Timothy 6:17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share,

19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Imparting the communities with our substance and wealth. We are the salt of the earth and not the salt of the church.

5.      Tithes (Tithing) – The covenant master key. No other giving would be substituted for tithing. The story of J.C Penny and John D. Rockfeller

6.      Willingness s the key. Your reward demands that you do it willingly - 2Corinthians 8:12 For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have. Exodus 35:5,22 

7.      Give cheerfully - 2Corinthians 9:7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

8.      Give in love and not just show up. 1Corinthians 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

9.      Continuously, sacrificially, honourably and tirelessly - Psalm 50:8 I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me. Mal 1:6 ¶ "A son honors his father, And a servant his master. If then I am the Father, Where is My honor? And if I am a Master, Where is My reverence? Says the LORD of hosts To you priests who despise My name. Yet you say, 'In what way have we despised Your name?'

7 "You offer defiled food on My altar. But say, 'In what way have we defiled You?' By saying, 'The table of the LORD is contemptible.'

8 And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, Is it not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, Is it not evil? Offer it then to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you favorably?" Says the LORD of hosts.

9 "But now entreat God's favor, That He may be gracious to us. While this is being done by your hands, Will He accept you favorably?" Says the LORD of hosts.

CONCLUSION

God is not in need, he would need us for nothing but we would need Him for everything.

Your giving does not only attract financial and material return but addresses ALL YOUR NEED.

Philippians 4:19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus

The lord bless you.