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Taken from Matthew 11-28, it is happening from the 4th

to 6th of September. The venue is Harvest Chapel International,

the Nyame Kumasi, on the Sunset Hotel Road, Welcome to

to Logos Rima Al with God's servant, Reverend Dr. Joseph Baalbin,

Head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Kumasi. And now, to

today's message.

Let's take our confession, Joshua 1 verse 8, this book

Joshua 1:8

of the Lord shall not depart out of my mouth,

but I shall meditate in it day and night. that

I may observe to do according to all that is

written in it. For then I will make my way prosperous,

and then I will have good success. Amen. Why don't

you take your seats? So let's continue our discourses on

order in giving. Hallelujah. And we are in Deuteronomy chapter 8,

Deuteronomy 8 · chapter mention

and we said we are on the pathway to divine wealth.

The wealth that God, when God brings into our lives,

He says He adds no sorrow to it. He gives

us the health, the vitality, and every other thing that

we need so we can enjoy it. Amen. Hallelujah. And

we are looking at some of the key and the

guiding principles for you and I acquiring or having bestowed

upon us divine wealth. Amen. God will help you. The

Holy Spirit will enable you. He comes alongside as our coach,

as our mentor, as our comforter, as our counselor throughout

all our lives and sojourning here on earth. Say a

big amen. The only reason you will not be able

to feel him or he will walk away is when

sin comes into your life. When you stop obeying, then

I'm afraid you're going to go on a backslide or

a downslide You backslide. And even when you are in

a backsliding state and the Holy Spirit speaks, you won't

hear it. And when you get in that state, it's very,

very difficult. Because even if the Holy Spirit is speaking

to you, you won't hear. When I come, anybody else

to come to me, you won't hear. You won't listen

to us. Hallelujah. Amen. Very, very, very important, you know.

So he says, be careful. And we know that we've

said that word, be careful. It has to do with

safeguard it. Hallelujah. Be careful. We said it is that

at the cost of your life, put your life on it. Hallelujah. Yes.

Put your life on. Defend it. Defend it. When God

speaks to you. the commandments, the way we are living

our life, people will give us or demand from us

a reason and an answer why we live our lives

that way. You know, like Satan did to Adam and

Eve in the Garden of Eden. Has God said that

you should every day be going to church? Has God

said that you should be fasting every time? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

You know where you are coming from. You know the

demons that are chasing you. You know the leading and

the guidance of the Holy Spirit. So you can stop

flying at night and have all kinds of things chasing you.

Not by power, not by mind, but by your spirit.

So sometimes the Holy Spirit will take you on a

journey of fasting and praying. It's spiritual warfare. You never know.

Sometimes you know, you just feel like, I don't feel

like eating. I don't feel like eating. I feel like

waiting on the Lord. And then there's a staring out

to pray and to praise. And somebody who doesn't understand

will come in there and say, your church, they like fasting.

And I say, for me, that's my experience. That is

how we got out of the church. That's how we

escaped out of the snare of the fowler. And that's

how God broke the net and the chains and liberated us.

And that's how come we have been able to by

the grace of God and the word of God's authority,

be able to get people and a lot of people

to flee out of the prison yard of the devil.

Not by power, not by might, but by my Spirit.

PIP and all those things is leading by the Holy

Spirit because of the peculiar challenges that we find ourselves

in in our day. Oh my God, that is how

the chains of pornography and all the sexual sins have

been broken in the lives of people. So when you

come and tell me as a pastor that we are

fasting too much, we should stop fasting, I just look

at you and say, I don't think God sent you.

I don't think that God sent you to me. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen.

Because the needs, the needs, look, it's not going to

be by power, not by might, but the spirit of the...

How are we going to be able to do all

those things that we... How have we come this far?

That's by the opposition. By prayer. Aggressive spiritual warfare. And

the same... And then we are not even there. Look

at all that is left to do. And then as

we are going on, then you look back and then

the children also are coming. It's a generational thing. So

when are we going to stop... You know, fighting in spiritual,

fighting on our knees. As for the fasting, it is

an addition to help, help, help, help. The main thing

is the prayer. Sometimes you'll be so much agonizing in

the spirit that you just feel the hand and the

stained hand of God. Can you wait? Can you give

me your breakfast? Let me talk to you and let

us connect to bind some things and to lose something

in the church, in the family, in individual's lives. Then

you are there and then God is just sending you.

You are seeing pictures of things and pictures of people

and names that are resonating in your heart and in

your mind. Pray! You never know what they are going through.

And God will use that prayer of intercession to just

bring deliverance to somebody. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. All because our minds,

if you like, our spiritual antennae has been sharpened through

the continual conversations we have with God in fasting and

in prayer. That's how we are able to obey him. Hallelujah. Amen.

And then when you do that, oh my God. As

I said, they're children. They're children. If it were me alone, no,

but the children, the children. Hallelujah. Amen. So we fight

for another generation. That's why we can't stop what we

are doing. We can't lay our toes down. We must

still stay on our knees and pray. And pray. If

they don't get you, don't attack the children. Hallelujah. And

just mess up their lives. But you and I. God

is a very merciful and compassionate God. As we continue

every day, day one, you will see and I say,

nothing will happen. And you will see and I say,

the children are going wayward. They will be swallowed by

the spirit of the tide. But God, who is merciful,

will look upon our cries and intercession and send a rescue.

That's how it works. Somebody must decide, I'm going to sacrifice.

I'm going to pay the price. So somebody might leave.

And not die. Hallelujah. Amen. So we looked at that.

And then let's look at the next one. That you

may live and multiply. So you've seen the steps. The

whole commandment, number two. Obedience, number three. The multiplication. And remember,

point number two is dependent on number one, isn't it?

The whole commandment. And it says what? Be careful to

do it. safeguard it. Put your life on it. God

said it. I know the voice of my God, my Savior,

my Redeemer. I'm not going to allow any other thing

to distract me. Hallelujah. God said, don't be unequally yoked

with unbelievers. The person is an unbeliever. It doesn't matter

how the feelings that I have for that person. They say,

the fact that you are in love doesn't mean you

should marry that person. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. The capacity of

the heart to laugh is big. But it doesn't mean

that because you laugh, the person may be a nice guy.

We're not saying the people who come, they are not nice.

They are nice. But God says no. God says no.

That's it. You also say no. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And he says,

once you do that, you are careful to safeguard the

integrity of God's commandments. My dad said this. When we

were kids, didn't we say that? Mommy said no. We

won't do it. He says, when you do that, when

we are obedient, then the next one happens. You may

live and multiply. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. So this is the

promise of God. And the first thing I want to

say is that kingdom wealth is something that is bestowed

by grace. And God is our benefactor. Hallelujah. As we

saw in the case of Isaac, it is his to

give to whosoever he desires and decides to bless. Divine

wealth is discretionary. God is the benefactor. We are beneficiaries.

And in the kingdom, New Testament kingdom or life, It's discretionary.

Let's get it. Hallelujah. Jesus mentioned it in the parable

of the tally. To one, he gave ten. To another, five.

To another, two. In another rendition of the same thing,

he said, five, two, one. God decides each according to

his several abilities. Amen. But the Bible, I think we read,

was it 1 Timothy chapter 6 this morning? It says what? But...

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Godliness and what? Contentment. Godliness and contentment. It's great gain. Contentment.

And as Pastor Jeff would say that we have to

be careful not to slip into greed and covetousness. The

word of God forbids this. So you don't go there

and the promise is that you will live and multiply.

God decides and he will bestow your portion to you. Hallelujah. Amen.

God was promised it to Abraham, and he did it.

And we saw the one we read today. Isaac in

Genesis 26. Hallelujah. And in Isaac's case, the same thing.

We see the same principle of obedience working here. Hallelujah.

He says, stay. And he stayed. Stay. The young man.

God has not said, go to Afghanistan. Stay in Ghana. Hallelujah.

Don't go there and then when you go and the

Taliban are worrying you and then you send them friends,

I wish you fast and pray for you. We'll fast. Hallelujah. Stay. Hallelujah. Amen.

So you position yourself where God wants you to be. Amen.

And the conditionality has always been obedience to the voice

and the commandments of God. And so I'm saying here,

fruitfulness and productivity in the kingdom of God goes with obedience. Hallelujah.

And we saw it. You see, in the olden days,

human capital was seen as wealth. So you realize that

in the Old Testament, they said, and he got a

great number of servants. Hallelujah. Because it was the era

that slavery was permitted. Hallelujah. Amen. So when they are

listing their assets or their wealth, they will mention that

we have cattle, we have sheep, and then a lot

of servants. Hallelujah. And the same thing, they live and die, multiply.

Human capital is the greatest asset to every nation. Amen. Hallelujah.

As you look at the wealth, who are the people

who are very, very wealthy now? The Chinese. Amen. And

then the Indians. Yes. So well, because of what one person,

you know, one imaginative person or whatever can bring on board,

because the U.S. and also, you realize that they have

a lot of people. Amen. Hallelujah. So it's very, very

important that we understand what he's saying, so that you

will live and multiply. More or less, God is saying

that if you follow me, I'm going to enlarge you.

And last Wednesday, we were looking at it. It started

from Abraham alone, then Abraham alone, Isaac. Isaac had Jacob

and Esau. And then Esau, you know, aside then Jacob,

also had what? Joseph and his 11 brothers. And then

at Egypt, they went to Egypt 70. And then by

the time of the Exodus, they were in millions.

Hallelujah.

You see how God works? Process. And we said, God

will increase your finances. Hallelujah. Married couples, when you start,

you are two. Amen. When one child comes, I tell you, hallelujah.

God is going to increase your resources. If you are

serving him, it's just like that. Because God is your dad.

Immediately you get married. God is going to find ways,

if you are faithful in serving him, to multiply your resources.

Now he knows that there are three mouths. To feed. Amen.

When they become four, continue to serve. And God will

open doors for you to be able to have the

resources to feed four people. Say a big amen. It

is the blessing of obedience. Staying in God's house and

serving him. Bringing talent and treasure. God wants all his

children to be serving. No. No. But you, you are

a child of God. And you, when you wake up,

God says, don't serve. Then me, me too, I'm a

child of God. He says, you go and do it.

Who do you think he will bless? Amen. Hallelujah. So

it's very important that we understand it. Multiplication and increase

are therefore signs of divine favor.

Amen.

Very, very important. And God, once God is favoring you,

and remember the blessings of the Lord, he has no

sorrow to it. So you just be at peace. Whatever

you have, get it again. Amen. Godliness, contentment, process. Hallelujah.

Then we are getting there. What God has said. Amen. Amen.

So he said that you may live and multiply. And

then let's look at the next one. And go in

and possess the land. Hallelujah. Amen. Go in and possess.

And last Wednesday we were saying it. Now go in

and possess. And take note. Let me make this point.

For every peculiar blessing that God has for your life,

God will give you specific instruction. In Abraham, when we

look at Genesis chapter 12, before God could bring him

Genesis 12 · chapter mention

to the blessings that he had, God gave him a

specific instruction. What was it? He said what? Leave. Follow

me to the place that I will show. And Abraham

did what? Abraham obeyed. Chapter 12 of Genesis. Amen. And

gradually God brought him to the blessing. Isaac, the same

thing that we read, he said what? He didn't say leave.

What did God say? Stay. Amen. Abraham left. And indeed,

he said, if you look at the context of Genesis 26,

it was trying to say that Isaac was about to

copy his dad, Abraham. Remember, Abraham's wealth started increasing rapidly.

In Egypt. When he went there. And he said. Sarah

is my. Sister. And then. The Pharaoh said. Oh wow.

Such a beautiful lady. I like her. And those were.

Some of the things. That the despotic kings. Were doing.

So he captured her. And when they captured her. They

went and put you in the harem. Waiting for the day.

That he will remember you. And call you. And defile you.

But once he was there. The Bible says. That Pharaoh said.

Oh yeah. Papa. Papa. And so he was blessing Abraham. Amen.

And he's believe that's where he got agar so pharaoh

if you look at it is there pharaoh blessed abraham

a lot until he found out hallelujah when strange things

started happening to him and he said about you he

said Then he said, take everything that we have given you.

Pharaoh was hindered from taking back all that. Else he

would have taken it back. He meant to have taken

it back. If you read it very well. So he said,

you go away. And he said, escort him. And he said,

take all the things that we gave to you, because

you deceived us. And I was every day giving you

a quantasica. And instead of telling me that it's my wife,

it's my wife, you didn't do it. Take everything away.

So by the time he left Egypt, he had been

so blessed. Chapter 13 will tell you. Hallelujah. Amen. We

are not saying that go and do that. So I'm

telling you about the specificity of how God is going

to bring you into your blessing. Hallelujah. Amen. So when

Isaac purposed to go to Egypt, maybe like his dad,

and then God comes on the scene and says, no, stay. Hallelujah. Stay. Amen.

Turn to somebody and say, stay. So your blessing is

It's tied to that ability to hear what God is saying.

Should I go and roam and go and hustle in Europe? No.

You must hear before you go. God dislocates people and

sends people. The world is God's. As far as I'm concerned,

the world is God's. God can decide to send you anywhere.

Follow the leading of the Lord. The fact that your

friend has gone and has done well doesn't mean that

I'm talking to believers. Amen. I'm not talking to hustlers. Amen.

And sometimes you hear some of the stories, the harrowing stories.

The fact that your friend crossed the, which of the seas?

The Mediterranean Sea and landed in Spain. Doesn't mean that

you too should go. And then you hear that, oh,

when we go, the sea was calm. It doesn't mean

that in your case, the sea will be calm. Hallelujah. Amen.

So it's very, very, very important as a believer to

hear God. What does God say? Where is my prosperity

or to what obedient act is my prosperity tied to?

That's it. Now Israel is about to enter them. And

God didn't say stay. Now he says that do what?

Go and possess. Go and fight. And occupy by force.

You just do that. Amen. Some of us here, God

will say do three jobs. And we'll show you what

additional jobs to do. So you can get it. And

maybe you'll just stumble on one that is going to

bring in all the wealth. Don't say that this person

does four jobs, so me too I'm going to do

four jobs. And then before you realize it, maybe yours

is tied to what you have been doing in church.

Every time you come, and then you are mopping. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, yeah, man. Oh, oh.

So God has something specific for you that immediately you hear,

you discern, you connect and do it. That's it. But

how are you going to hear? That's the whole thing.

That's why they're born again. That's why the Holy Spirit.

Number two. Number three. That is why attendance to the

school of the Spirit Doing your quiet time. Praying. Reading

the word. They are simple things. And then your ability

to hear God. God spoke to me this morning. I know.

I heard the voice of God. In my spirit. And

you direct you what to do. And immediately you are

doing it. You find out that there is energy. And

there is strength. If you look at all the promises

that he, when he elected Joshua to lead it, you

hear God. We said this same verse, go in and

possess the land. The expedition was led by Joshua. Oh

my God. And because they were in the will of God,

look at the energies, the empowerment, the enablement that God

brought on Joshua and the fighting armies of Israel. Because

God was with them. the wealth that God has earmarked

for you, if we hear from the Spirit of God

exactly what to do, you are going to enter into it.

And then, boom. But it's not going to be one process,

isn't it? From Isaac. One, two, ten. It reaches a

place where there is exponential until we become very, very prosperous.

And people will start envying you. Rise up on your feet.

Maybe I just want us to pray for that specific

word that God has for you that will tip you

into divine wealth. Just for 60 seconds, hold somebody's hand.

If your spouse is close to you, hold that hand.

And shake it there in the air. Just what to do,

my God. Just talk to God. Connect with Him. Pray

for the one on your right, that one on your left.

That word, that word, that word, that word, that word.

That will bring order in the name of Jesus. You

can't give what you don't have. We give what we have.

That word, that will tip us into wealth creation in

the name of Jesus, sir. That he do it. And

take all the praise. We thank you, Lord. We bless you.

In Jesus' mighty name, you want to say a big amen.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Are you heaven-leading?

Are you seeking the face of the Lord for a

mighty deliverance and breakthrough?

Then get ready.

Harvest Chapel International Kumasi presents IPIP2, the highly anticipated second

edition of If I Perish, I Perish Fast. Get ready

for three days of power-packed worship, intense prayer, and continuous fasting.

This year, God is giving us rest for our souls.

Taken from Matthew chapter 11 verse 28. It is happening

Matthew 11:28

from the 4th to 6th of September. The venue is

Harvest Chapel International, the Nyami Kumasi. On the Sunset Hotel Road,

close to the Neckling Hotel. Come, lay down your tools

and labor, and receive divine rest from the Lord.

Shalom.

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