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HOW TO GIVE ACCORDING TO THE WORD

There are many ways to give to the Lord according to his word. The Spirit of God admonishes us to honour God with our substance and the first fruits of all our increase. ” Seed time and harvest shall not cease “(Genesis 8:22). This is God’s solemn declaration to Noah, his household and ultimately to all creation after the flood. It is important to note that giving is God’s recipe for your financial success. Therefore, you should become knowledgeable about the various ways of giving according to the word of God. In this edition, I will share with you some of the ways by which you should give according to the word of God also see proverb 5:3-11

First fruit offerings

The revelation of the first fruit offering actually came before the Law of Moses. It’s a principle in God’s kingdom. In the book of genesis, chapter 4, we read about two brothers who came before the Lord with their sacrifice. The bible says Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain (Hebrews 11:4) because he gave his first fruit. In the New Testament it is stated that “For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: if the root be holy, so are the branches” (Romans 11:16). ”Holy” means sanctified, separated and consecrated! In other word s, if you give God your first fruit, He’ll sanctify the whole lump. When you receive a raise in your salary or a blessing of any kind, and you separate the first fruit unto God, the bible says everything you receive afterwards is sanctified as well. That means He will watch over your remaining resources. If God gets the first fruit; it means nobody can touch your money; nobody can touch your property because God will watch over it by Himself. He will defend the lump! If you want God to protect your possessions and everything He has blessed you with , give Him your first fruit because it belongs to Him, but if you don’t give Him your first fruit, then you are keeping your resources in a bag with holes. This is what many Christians have yet to discover, that the way to keep the devourer away from their finances is by giving their first fruit.

Sacrificial offerings

There is the story in the bible of the king of Moab who was at war with three nations which at that time had besieged him. He knew his army was outnumbered, so he picked his best soldiers, numbering about seven hundred, to break through the camp of the enemies. The bible says they could not break through. Seeing the hopelessness of the situation, the king “…took his eldest son who should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall…” (2 kings 3:27). He took his most prized possession- the thing that was closest to his heart- and sacrificed it. He offered his son upon the wall, meaning that everybody saw what he did. God’s anger burnt against his enemies after he did this. What I want you to see here isn’t whether the man was right tor wrong to have killed his son, but the quality of his sacrifice. That was what got God’s attention! That sacrifice changed the course of the battle; it changed the direction of victory. Not even God stood against the sacrifice. Learn to demonstrate your faith in God through sacrificial offerings instead of resorting to prayer alone. The demonstration of faith is by sacrifice, not just by prayer. according to the word.

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