Abraham  gave God his only son Isaac and he became the father of all nations

The widow of zeraphat prepared her last meal for the servant of God and she never lacked for food through out famine

If you want a blessing from God, the question is what do you have in your hands. so whatever you have in your hands will serve as a seed. In 2kings 4

One day the wife of a man from the guild of
prophets called out to Elisha, “Your servant my
husband is dead. You well know what a good man
he was, devoted to GOD. And now the man to
whom he was in debt is on his way to collect by
taking my two children as slaves.”
Elisha said, “I wonder how I can be of help. Tell
me, what do you have in your house?”
“Nothing,” she said. “Well, I do have a little oil.”
“Here’s what you do,” said Elisha. “Go up and
down the street and borrow jugs and bowls from
all your neighbors. And not just a few—all you can
get. Then come home and lock the door behind
you, you and your sons. Pour oil into each
container; when each is full, set it aside.”
She did what he said. She locked the door
behind her and her sons; as they brought the
containers to her, she filled them. When all the
jugs and bowls were full, she said to one of her
sons, “Another jug, please.”
He said, “That’s it. There are no more jugs.”
Then the oil stopped.
She went and told the story to the man of God.
He said, “Go sell the oil and make good on your
debts. Live, both you and your sons, on what’s
left.”

She had a something in her hands before she could be a supplier of oil.
Brethren sow a seed today. Sow a seed towards your carrier, towards your academics, towards your finances. Your seed will speak for you when you're absent.

One more thing, did you know when you come into the presense of God, God dosent let you God empty handed.
Luke 9:12

after Jesus had taught the multitude, he didn't let them go insearch of food for themselves because it was a deserted land. He asked his disciples to group the people in 50's and he fed performed a miracle and they ate till they were filled and there were even left overs. David said a day in the presense of God is better than a thousand days else where.

In 2 kings 4:8-17

One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-
do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a
meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there
to eat. She said to her husband, “I know that
this man who often comes our way is a holy man
of God. Let’s make a small room on the roof
and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp
for him. Then he can stay there whenever he
comes to us.”
One day when Elisha came, he went up to his
room and lay down there. He said to his
servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.” So he
called her, and she stood before him. Elisha
said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this
trouble for us. Now what can be done for you?
Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the
commander of the army?’”
She replied, “I have a home among my own
people.”
“What can be done for her?” Elisha asked.
Gehazi said, “She has no son, and her husband is
old.”
Then Elisha said, “Call her.” So he called her,
and she stood in the doorway. “About this
time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son
in your arms.”
“No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God,
don’t mislead your servant!”
But the woman became pregnant, and the next
year about that same time she gave birth to a
son, just as Elisha had told her.

She just offered to help bless the man of God and the man of God searched out the blessing the woman needed at that time , even though it seemed too late for her.
Bless  a man of God today.

A pastor friend of mine was sharing with the church one day, He said he went to the market one day to get some stuff, and he parked at a place where cars are meant to be parked and went into the market to get what he wanted to get. When he came back he put the things he got in the boot and a woman approached him and started shouting and cursing that because of him she could not place her wares to sell since morning. Shr was cursing him seriously. He did not say anything, he just got into the car and he started praying to God to forgive her.

Let us note that he did not pray to reverse or break the curse, that is because he has the understanding, the mindset that what God has blessed no man can curse. He had the understanding that the woman could only be harmed for cursing him because the Bible says in Genesis 12:3 that he will bless those that bless us and curse those that curse us.

What kind of Mind set do you have?? Do you still have fear of curses or threats from evil minded people?

Study the word of God and let the Holy Spirit give you revelations from it. Be expectant and the right word will stand out to you.

2Corinthians 9:7
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

God loves a cheerful giver, don't we get it?? It dosent say God loves a mighty giver (mighty in the sense that you give so much of what you have).

The Bible tells us that there is much more blessing in giving than receiving. A hand that dosen't want to give cannot receive because such hand is always closed. Now, do we remember the story of cornelius in the book of Acts 10:4. The angel of the Lord came to him and told him

Act 10:4
cornelius stared at him in fear. "What is it, Lord?" he asked. The angel answered, "Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.

An unbeliever gave to the point that God was moved and his attitude of being a philantrophist brought salvation to his door step. And that is the reason some of us are christians today because God found this attitude of love in is and he reached out to us.

Givers never lack. Since God so much loves givers that he brings salvation to their door step, how much more will he give them all neccecities of life. Is it money, peace of mind, name it. Let giving be a part of your life, it does not matter how small it could be; try as much as possible to increase everyday in the manner in which you give.

It may not necessarily be money alone, it could be your services, it could anything you can do to help others.

Don't be selfish, being self centered cannot take you anywhere, it dosent speak well of you before men and even before God. This is because God is love, and love is not self centered?

All what am trying to say is that everytime somebody requires our help, it is an oppourtunity for us to be blessed.
Therefore we should always be looking for the oppourtunity to bless others.

I know your answer is "yes, who dosent want to be rich?"

Now the main issue is " how do I go about it?"

I'm writing this article as am being led by the spirit of God. I may not be able to tell you where exactly the scriptures are quoted in the Bible, but am hundred percent sure that you will find it there.

Firstly the bible tells us to seek ye first the kingdom of God and everyother thing shall be added unto you. I interprete it as when you mind the business of God, God is going to mind your own business, everything you need to be successful in life he is going to put it in your hands.
In your church, are you a worker, do you play musical instruments with an humble heart, are you a chorister that sings with all your heart, are you an usher, are you part of the prayer band team, are you a Sunday school teacher that teaches the word of God and also does the word of God, are you the treasurer, can you give an accurate account of how you manage the church's resources. I have a message the Bible tells us that God is not unjust to forget the labour of the righteous.

Secondly the Bible tells us I think in the book of Genesis that as long as the earth is still in existence sowing time and harvest time will not cease, this tells us that if we do not sow we cannot reap; if there is no time to sow, surely there can't be a time to harvest.
Do we pay our tithes regularly, do we invest towards the work of God, the work of preaching his gospel, our money can also do this. Do we give welfare offerings in the church; or we just leave it to the so called rich people, hmm the rich shall become richer and the poor poorer. When our neighbours ask us for something, and we know we have it at our finger tips, do we give them or ask them to come back, or we tell them we don't have it, hmm and we keep telling God to let us find favour in his eyes and in the eyes of men. Let us endaevour to give freely, the money we use to drink beer the money that if our girlfriends ask us for it we easily give them, but when it comes to giving God it becomes a problem.Let us change.

What can you offer people; people don't value worthless people; wen you help people without the mindset of money; you help them without considering receiving money from them but because of the love for what you do for them; you will see that the quality of the service you render to them cannot be compared to what they will pay for elsewhere, at that point your work will begin to speak for you; then people will begin to come to you with offers you cannot refuse, they are ready to hire you. Now make yourself valuable.

Lastly do not use any fraudulent method to get rich. The end is destruction,remember  whatsoever you sow you shall reap, if you steal from somebody and make him cry, what do you think will happen to you in the future. Let's think about this very well and endaevour  to make clean money.

**Proverbs 23:7
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:"

Someone once said: Watch ur thoughts, they form ur words. Watch ur words, they deyermine ur actions. Watch ur actions, they determine ur habits. Watch ur habits, they become ultimately, ur character

You are a direct produce of ur thoughts. You are where you are today because of what u thought of "yesterdays".
That means; we can actually become someone better by "Renewing or changing our Thinking patterns". In times like this, we need to pay attention to our thoughts. And every thought is based on an INFORMATION.
I like breaking down english words; "IN" (when it comes in), "FORMation" (it forms or create a thinking pattern according to its own pattern/source).
My dear, what have you been listening to?
Be decisive and deliberate about what you hear this week. If you hear failure, you'll think failure... If you hear wrongly, u'll think wrongly... If you hear rightly (by the Word of God), there's only one result...Testimonies :D .
Love you, See u @ the top! Hav a Gr8 week

Eddy

Jacob- Stole is brothers blessing

Rehab- A prostitute from Jerico

Naomi- Conspired with Ruth to seduce Boaz

David- Gave an innocent man an undeserving sealed letter of his death. After he died, he married his wife

And many more wicked kings Manasseh, Amon, Ahaz.


We do not intend to judge these people listed above but to derive lessons from them categorically even after they had died.
These set of people where in the geneology of Jesus Christ. Now the key point is Jesus christ the perfect one came out of their Generation. He never stole, he never bowed down to any idol, He never killed any man, He is just blameless. He had the bloodline of these men, yet he did not give way to sin.

Despite the short comings of these people, God still chose to come to the world though them. He did not give up on them; all he did was to give them a perfect ending. Imagine Jesus is called the son of David; what a great honour to David.

Now, Matt 5:48
Be perfect even as your heavenly father is perfect


Jesus Christ has come to stay in us; the perfect person; we are therefore also made perfect. We are 100% perfect. We cannot make mistakes because He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world.

In some families there are some ungodly riyuals that are being  right from the times of their fore fathers. It may be regarding marriage or burials; it happens mostly in African countries. As new creations it has to stop with us. We don't have to follow their trend of doing things because jesus christ did not behave like that.

Som families say the wife should get pregnant before marriage; and in the christiandom premarital sex is a sin; as christians we should not follow the trend.

Good news; it also comes with blessings. All those generational curses and judgement of death sorrow and the likes will have no place in our lives. Praise God.

We are a chosen generation

A royal priest hood

We are blessed

kings shall come to our rising

We are highly favored

Let us endeavor to know who we are and continually declare it as we believe in our hearts and watch our lives become perfect

1st samuel 22:2 (KJV)

And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt and everyone that was discontented ngathered themselves unto him andb he became a captain over them, and there were with him about 400 men.

David started from the bottom and he made it to the top. While he was raising his army, he passed through so many difficultiesw because the bible let us know that it was those that were in distress, those that were in debt and those that lived uncomfortable lives that came unto him. He did not despise them. He did not treat them as worthless. He did not ask them to go back and stay away from him; but he accepted them unto himself and respected them.
They did not have any weapons to start with; probably only David had a weapon. We are going to see what God did with their lives.

Now how did David respect them
2nd Samuel 23:14-17

¹⁴ David was then in the stronghold, while the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. ¹⁵ David had a craving and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!” ¹⁶ So the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. Nevertheless he would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord; ¹⁷ and he said, “Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.

He knew the men risked their lives to bring him the water, He therefore did not drink it but poured it out as a sacrificial offering to the Lord. Although he really needed to drink water, but he just couldn't drink that particular water. This act of love made the men know that David truly loved and respected them.
Now hear what the men told him in 2nd Samuel 21:17

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”
  
What height of loyalty!!!

Can you imagen how those three men did it. They broke into the enemy camp and fought their way through until they got to the well; then one of them started fetching while the others were fighting. Am sure the enemy soldiers would even laugh when the found out that they broke into their camp just to fetch water. What manner of loyality!!!

Now see what mutual understanding and love between david and his men brought him.
Am sure that if David's men were outside and they mistakenly overheard a stranger speak ill of David they will kill the person immediately

Do we also realize that david never judged his men. Do we remember when Achish one of the philistine rulers asked David to go back in peace because the other pkilistine rulers did not approve of him going into battle with them. 1st Samuel 29:1

In chapter 30 when his men got back to ziklag the amalekites had taken their children and wives and families and burned thei town to the ground. When David found strenght in the Lord his God. He decided to pursue but two hundred of his men were too tired to pursue but the remaining fourhundred continued in the pursuit.
God gave them victory and they recovered all and even more. Nothing was missing.

1st samuel 30:22

But all the evil men and troublemakers among David's followers said, "Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go."
 
But David did not judged them or treat them with contempt but he said in

1st Samuel 30:23-24

David replied, "No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.

Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike."
 

He said they should share with their brothers equally and he also sent plunder to all others who were in Judah and other lands where his men had roamed; Why wont they be loyal to him.

Now let us look at the end product of David and his army before he finally became king

2nd samuel 23:14
2nd chronicles 11:10

One of his men armed with a spear killed 800 men in one encounter

One of them stood his ground when other soldiers ran away and fought till his hand froze to the sword

One of them armed with only a spear killed 300 enemy soldiers

One of them pursued a lion into a pit on a snowy day and killed it

One of them killed a huge egyptian with a knife while the egyptian was armed with a spear 


God Bless you as you learn from David.