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Success Secrets [ The Secret of Tithe] - Sun March 10 2024
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Anyone with the testimony. Is testimony time, blessing time. Anyone to bless
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us with the testimony, testimony, anyone to speak of God's goodness to share
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with us, no testimony. Okay, let's encourage our sister, encourage our
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brother. All right, so you mentioned your name, then you briefly share
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your testimony. Good morning everyone. My name is Pricela, and I'm here
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to tek God for bringing me safe from this journey. This morning, we
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almost had it an accident there was when we were driving a private car.
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There was a sitting man who was covering from the other road. I wanted
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to enter the policeation, but he almost to us. So I'm very grateful
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that God was able to protect us in their car and I'm helped, very
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helpy. Praise a Lord, Praise the Lord. I know my voice is
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very low. Music the many, the many one. I have to to
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tank God one once again. I want to do thank God for my life.
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I will do thank God for my life and my friends, for my
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family. Why I'm staying with the one in my working praise. I will
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do thank God for my life for I will do thank God for the way
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I'm staying. I will do thank God for what God I've done for me
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in my life, my family. Thank you man. Okay, let's close
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the eyes and stretch forth our hands and thank God for these testimonies. I
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know that a lot of us have testimonies, but I pray to God that
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He will give you that bildness to come and testify of His goodness before all
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men. We thank you all God, and we you these testimonies in your
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blood in Jesus name, we prayed. Amen. Amen, you can take
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your seas all right. So let's be on our feet, sorry, on
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our feet or we're about to celebrate the life of our shepherd. Please was
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the name of our pastor, Reverend run Worth. Remembend run word. I
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can hear it Chiarelli and she really? So which one are we going with?
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Chilly? Oh that's nicer, so Reverend run Okay, So with Jesus
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Joy, let's put our hands together. Let's make some noise and celebrate our
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reverend raw Chilly. If your praise is for God, then give a better
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hand clap and a better shout for Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen, I'm be
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healthful for our Father and the Lord. The Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams. This
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morning, you are welcome to church. Amen. Please tell your neighbors standing
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by you it's really good to see you in church this morning. Please tell
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someone else I see the glory of God all over you. Amen. And
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if you can just close your eyes with me for a moment and just lift
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up your hands as a sacrifice to the Lord from the depths of your heart.
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You just want to bless God and give him praise for another opportunity to
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be gathered. Father, we are grateful for your love. We are grateful
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for your great grace. We are grateful for your mercies. We thank you
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for bringing us together again. We've come from various locations with our praise and
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with our thanksgiving, and to say the Lord, you have been good to
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us. And our response to your goodness is that of praise and that of
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thanksgiving. Bless your name, o Lord, and we give you praise in
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Jesus' precious name. Amen, with your eyes so closed and your hands still
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lifted, just engage God. More of you all ah Ah Jesus. More
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you are you, Jesus, small of you, more you, morera you,
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more you, Jesus, all of you more a you bodrab you,
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more you, Jesus, loll of you, electric jes Jesus, of you.
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Why tie more of you, more of you, more of you,
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Jesus mo. Our prayer to the Lord is that we want more of you,
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more of you. More have you, Jesus, moll while more time,
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more of you. We need more of you, We want more huge
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Jesus, Jesus. We want more more you. We need more. We
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want more Jesus, more of you, more of you, more you,
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more of you, more of you. Thank you, Jesus, Jesus,
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more you Father. We thank you once more, and we bless you for
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the blessing of this gathering. We thank you that the entrance of your word
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brings light, and it brings understanding. Lord visits us in a special way
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today that will leave blessed in Jesus' precious name. Let believe even say an
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Amen, and can you celebrate Geesus as well. You are taken your seat.
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Christ in you or Christ in you the hope of glory. Amen.
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So with thank God for another Sunday, we are grateful to God for the
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blessing of being gathered together again. Amen, Because for many of us were
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we only see ourselves on Sundays. Amen. And when we come back from
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school, I can see some people have come back. If you've just returned
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from school, please stand and let's welcome you back. Amen. You are
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all welcome back from school. Amen. You haven't changed if I are looking
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lines at when you went. Amen. Amen. God has been good to
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you. Amen. Oh yes, maybe they know eating Gary say there eating
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conflicts and Holigus and the rest. Amen, please be seated. Thank you
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for coming to church. Amen. How many of you were born in the
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month of March. Please stand on your feet. Amen. Please come to
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the front. Amen, Please come to the front. Amen. Halleluja.
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Yeah, it looks like today the sirens have come. Wow, it's a
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blessing. Amen. So happy birthday, whether belated or in advance, Happy
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birthday to you. Amen. A prayer for you is that, as God
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has given you one wonderful year, that you add many more years to your
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years. Amen. Please stretch your hand towards them, and let's pray a
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heart felt prayer for them. Say, in the name of Jesus Father,
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by the talkings of the Blood of Jesus, we declare that none shall die
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before their time. We declare that none shall be hopeless in this life.
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We declare that none shall be wayward in this life in the name of Jesus,
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that only that which you have thought concerning these ones will come to pass,
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and only that which you have purposed concerning them shall stand. In the
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name of Jesus. Add many more years to their years and show them a
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talking for good in Jesus' precious name a man. So happy birthday once more.
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God bless you. Amen, do take your seat, hallelujah. Amen.
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Amen, Are you in church this morning? Christ in you the hope
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of glory. Amen. In the past two weeks, we've been learning things
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about success secrets, and I started a series on the secret of obeying God.
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We used Abraham as our you know, our main character, as our
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main character, and we've moved on from the fact that Abraham obeyed God and
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so because of that Abraham became very successful. The secret to success and prosperity
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is obedience to God's voice and God's word. Last week I spoke to you
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about the obedience the success secret of believing in God's word that if God has
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said it, if it is written in God's word, then surely it will
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come to pass. If you believe in it. And the Bible says that
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Abraham believed in God and it was counted to him for righteousness, And so
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believing God can bring you to great success. Amen. And I encourage you
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about the fact that it doesn't matter who your father is, where you are
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born, who your mother is, how life has not dealt well with you,
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how sad you have been since you were born, how unhappy you have
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been. If you choose to believe in God's word, then Christ in you
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the hope of glory. You will come to the place that God has appointed
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for you, and you will become what God has purposed for you to be.
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And those who thought you will amount to nothing when they see you,
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their response would be a this can only be God. Amen. And if
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you can only dare to choose to believe in God's word, that the outcome
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of your life can only be better. Amen. And that believing in God
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is a secret that can bring you, as a child of God, to
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a place of great success. Amen. Is there anyone here who wants to
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succeed in this life? You want to be very successful? Please look at
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your neighbor. Some people I don't know, maybe their father has put some
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one million dollars in our account for them, so they don't they're not really
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expressing. But ask your neighbor, are you looking forward to being successful in
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this life? Amen? What did they say? Everybody's id? Yes?
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Where are those who didn't say anything? The proud people? Where are they?
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If there's someone sitturned by who didn't say anything, give me away?
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Where are the photographers? Please take a picture of them. Let's put them
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on the screen. Amen. But we all want to be successful in this
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life, Amen. And success can come from three places. Self made success
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where you have accomplished success by yourself, where you don't owe anybody no gratitude.
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Amen. There is a success that comes from God, where God propels
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you to a place of great success, and where you owe everything and all
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your gratitude and thanks goes to God. And there is a success that Satan
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can give to you where it will cost you your soul. Amen. So
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you have a choice to choose where you want to be. Amen. But
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today I want to speak to you on another type of success that Satan has
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succeeded in deceiving people about, which is the secret of tithing. The secret
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of tithing when it comes to tithing. The word connotes tithing in the church
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is that you are paying sapping, you are paying for something, you are
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pain. There is the connotation of payment when it comes to tithing. Amen.
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But the biblical rendering of tithing is not to pay, but to offer.
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So tithing is an offering or a sacrifice that you're bringing to God.
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Amen. And it is one of the surest ways or the shorrest paths that
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leads to great success in the Kingdom of God. So today, as an
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introduction, I just want to introduce to the subject of tithing and the various
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benefits that you can accrue as far as your obedience to God and the blessings
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that can come your way by obeying this principle of tithing. Amen. In
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a church, quite often there's just a small percentage of people who obey this
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principle. In all life is based on principles in science. The third proponent
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of science is that for every action there is an opposite and ecoreaction. Where
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are my science students are they in church? For every action there is an
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opposite and eco reaction, all right? And so in life there are principles
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that can potentially end you up in great success in church. Only a few
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percentage of people believe in the principle of tithing. And it reflects also in
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the few percentage of people in church who are prospering and who are doing well.
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Amen. And so because God has set us on the path of righteousness
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that should end up in great success. We need to apply ourselves to everything
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that the Word of God instructs us to do. Amen. Let's take our
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foundation scripture Some twenty four Ust one to three, just to set down some
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basis for our discourse this morning. Palm twenty five Some twenty four twenty four
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verst. One to six. How many have we brought your bibles to change?
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Amen? It looks like they're struggling the Amen. The Bible says that
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the earth is the Lord's and all the fullness the world and those who dwell
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in is. Give us a different version, a different rendering, so that
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we says that the earth is the Lord's and every thing in it, the
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world and all who live in it. Amen. The world belongs to who
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talk to me? The world belongs to who? According to this scripture,
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who does the world belong to God? So let's set the basis. The
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world and everything in it belongs to God, including the human beings, including
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the gold, including the silver, including everything that has a name, it
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belongs to God. It has an owner. Is that not it? So
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the world and everything belongs to God. Why because it is God who founded
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it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. It is God who
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made it, so it belongs to him. Amen, Oh, can I
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hear an? Amen? Are you in church? Are you understanding the English
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I'm speaking. If you don't understand the English I'm speaking, say amen.
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He means everybody understands the English I'm speaking, And so let's follow because this
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would be a great blessing to you. So it is God who made everything.
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So even your life belongs to who. I didn't hear that it belongs
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to yourself. It belongs to God. So everything you will ever have in
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this life belongs to who belongs to God because God created everything, and everything
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belongs to him. So any and everything that you receive is from God to
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you. Amen. And the reason why we give a tithe or we offer
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a tithe to God primarily is to acknowledge God as our source, the giver
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and the sustainer of our lives and all things Amen. If someone gives you
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a token or a gift, your respec would be to say thank you.
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As a child of God. Everything you receive, your response to God will
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be to offer a tenth of it to Him as an acknowledgment for what He
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has given to you. Amen. How many of you came when you were
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born into this world. You came with a check of two million dollars to
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take off yourself to the day you die, or you came with a suitcase
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full of clothing, or you came with your house rent when you were born.
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You came with your schoofees. You're holding your schoolfees. I've come,
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I'll pay for my schoolfees till I leave this here. Nobody came with anything,
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and that is how God has made it because everything you need to succeed,
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everything you need to live, is already present here. That is why
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when we die, we don't go with anything. So it doesn't matter if
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they bury you in a range. Rover is not going anywhere, is remaining
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here on earth. Amen. So you come in empty and leave empty.
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So it means that everything that you come and receive or you are a particer
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of, is from God and it's a blessing that you receive from God.
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Amen. Amen. And so in the book of Genesis, chapter fourteen,
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verse twenty. Genesis chapter fourteen, verse twenty, Abraham offered a tithe to
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a high priest called Melchissedek. Abraham offered a tithe. And so the Bible
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says that, and blessed be God most High, who delivered your enemies into
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your hand. Then Abraham gave a tenth of everything. He gave a tenth
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as a tithe. So the definition of a tithe is a tenth of subas
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when you divide. If you have an apple and you divide it into ten
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equal parts, one tenth of it is a tithe that you offer to God.
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Amen. Yes. So for those who are not saying Amen, it
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means that they are not in the business of sharing. Amen. They're not
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in that everything is mine. But let's go on. You see why you
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need to offer a tithe onto God. Amen. And so Melchisedek was a
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priest of God, and he represented God and the people of God. And
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throughout Scripture you realize that everybody in Scripture who was successful the God kind of
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way offered a tenth of their substance. They offered a tithe onto God.
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Amen. And so in First Chronicles, chapter twenty nine, verse fourteen,
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the writer says, First Chronicles twenty nine, verse fourteen, But who am
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I and what are my people? That we should be able to offer to
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you? So willingly as this, For all things come from you, and
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you own on what end of your own you have giving to us? All
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things belong to God, and of God's own a chord, and by God's
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own will he has given them to us. Amen. So please tell your
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neighbor for free the thing you think you own, it doesn't belong to you.
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Please tell somebody else. Any and everything you will ever own in this
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life, it doesn't belong to you. It belongs to God, and it
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is God who gave it to you. Amen. So let's get this basis
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right. So, as a child of God, everything you'll ever get,
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everything you'll ever own, belongs to God, and so you need to acknowledge
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God for it. Let me give you six importance of why tithing is necessary
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for the believer. Number One, Tithing is important to acknowledge God as our
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source and our sustainer. Tithing is important to acknowledge God as our source and
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our sustainer. Amen. The reason why we need to honor God with our
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substance, and the reason why we need to acknowledge God as our source and
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as sustainer through tithing is that it helps us build character. It helps us
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build character. Now I've said a tithe is word one tenth of substance,
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right. So if you have ten cities, what is your type to God?
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We are the mathematicians. Everybody's doing mathematics these this right? Oh no,
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really, who is not doing mathematics here? You're not doing mathematics.
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You are rubbing yourself of brainpower. Amen. If you have ten cities,
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you're type to God is worth one city? Amen. Now listen, we've
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come to understand that everything belongs to God. Right. We know that God
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owns everything. Right, So it means they mean the ten cities you have,
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he belongs to God. God has yes, decided to give it to
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you, but a tenth of it is just to honor him. You are
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giving it to him to honor him. The reason for that is to build
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character, and character is built by habits. Amen. The habits you have
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is what will build up to become your character. So if you have the
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habit of obeying God and honoring God and acknowledging God as your source and your
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sustainer, it becomes your character. So, now when you start ending or
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getting a thousand cities, because you have the habit of giving God a tenth,
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giving God one hundred cities will not be anything. Do you understand.
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But when you don't build that discipline of offering a tenth to God, when
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you have tensities once, it is difficult to give to God. When you
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start getting one hundred cities, you say, intensities is a lot too.
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I can buy a time. When you start getting a thousand, eight hundred
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cities as offering as a tithe, Hey, do you know it's too difficult?
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Then when you start ending ten thousand cities, you see thousand cities as
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a tithe. Then when you start an in ten thousand, say hey,
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de sign one hundred thousand cities, say hey, ten thousand cities twenty zerus
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five zerus plus one? Hey, when is that any millions? They?
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I'll come to judge again. You disqualify yourself. Do you understand? So
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when you are faithful and little, you be faithful in match. Because the
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truth of the matter is that whatever you have. You are dividing into what
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tenny core paths, and you are giving God just one out of the ten.
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The nine is for you and your family to childre and enjoy. Now
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when God will ask you what you have done with it? But the one
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it belongs to God. But Satan would deceive you to think that, Charlie,
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when you give the one to God, den I, it won't be
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enough. That is why many people don't offer tithes to God. Amen.
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But I'm going to teach you why it's important to advertize to God because it
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is in our own interests as children of God to offer tides to God.
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Can I hear an amen? If you understand what I'm saying. Amen.
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So let's look at a few. But the first point is that we advertise
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to God to acknowledge God as a source and sustainer, and we use some
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twenty four of this one two, three, Amen. I know what time
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of you are thinking that? Oh, telling me I'm not working? Well?
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Are you talking about tithes? I'm teaching you this for your future if
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you start practicing it now. When you start any your millions, which I
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can see some millionnaires year, very soon they will be millionnaires. Yeah.
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Amen, it won't be a difficulty for you to over tithes to God.
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Amen, because it becomes the habits that builds in to character. Amen.
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Number two reason is that we give tithes in obedience to God's word. One
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of the things I told you about is that there is a secret to success,
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which is obedience to God's word. When you obey God's word, you
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are guaranteed success. And tithing is not an alien concept. It's a biblical
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concept. And because Abraham followed that concept and became successful, Isaac followed,
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Jacob followed, Joseph. People in the Word of God followed it and became
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successful. We are also following it, and our outcome will be that of
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success. Amen. And so, in obedience to God's word, we offer
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tithes to God. And so we are not doing it for the fun of
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it, but we are doing it in obedience to God's word. Amen.
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Number three, we give tithes to honor God. Problems Chapter three, vers
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Nine. We offer tithes to honor God. Amen. We offer tithes to
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honor God. And God says, honor the Lord. The Bible says another,
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Lord, with your substance and with the first fruit of your increase,
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so a tithe. When you receive one hundred cities as a gift, your
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first fruit is your tithe, which is ten percent. So you put it
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aside for God. Amen. You put it aside for God. You don't
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say when you there are some people they don't have plans until they get money.
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Are you one of them? They don't have plans Suddenly when they get
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hundred cities, now they have one million things they want to buy. Don't
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be like that. It will rob you of a blessing. Amen. So
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we offer tithes to God to honor God. Number three Malachi, Chapter three,
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vers. Eight to nine. We tithed to escape a case. We
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tithe to escape a case. The Bible says, well a man robed God.
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Yet you have robbed me. But you say in what have we robbed
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you? And God responds in tithes and in offering. Amen. So please
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look look at your neighbor seated by you. They are dressed nicely, but
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maybe they're an armed robber because they've been robbing God. Amen. Please ask
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your neighbor are you Are you an armed robber? Are you a robber of
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God? Have you been robbing God. Amen. So you can see somebody
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dressed nicely in a certain in a tie, Charlie, he's a bona fide
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robber of God. In the spirits there's a marcon. They said wanted.
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Most wanted is an armed robber. Amen. So we can rob God in
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tights and in offering. Let's look at the next verse, verse nine,
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and it has because of this you are cased with a case for you have
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robbed me. This is God speaking. It says, because you have robbed
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me in titan in offering, you are cased with a case. Even this
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whole nation. It can even case the whole nation because of tithes. So
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it's very important. Amen. Number five, we tie to support the work
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of God. Malachichter three West ten. Let's go to West ten. Bring
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all the tithes into the storehouse that they may be food in my house.
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There are people who are working in the House of God full time. Amen.
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There are things that are ongoing in the house that needs support. So
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you bring your tithes to support the work of God. Amen. Don't be
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that type of person who comes to check that action chapel. But you give
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your tithes at nsp it will not bring you a blessing. Amen. Where
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you are planted is where you offer your tithes. Amen. Oh you're not
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saying, amen, is that what you have been doing. You've not been
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doing that. So offer your tides where you are planted. Amen. And
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the number five, number six we give tides, or we offer tides for
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a blessing from the Lord. Bring all the ties into the storehouse, that
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they may be food in my house. And try me, God says,
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test me now in this says a lot of hosts. If I will not
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open for you a window the windows of heaven and pour you out such a
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blessing that there will be no room enough to receive guarantees and overflowing blessing.
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Amen. So for you to be that milonnaire, for you to be that
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blonnaire, you need to learn to tithe now. Amen. Yes, because
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I see milonnaires here. Not too long from now you'll come into that grace
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Amen. But I need to start typing tithing now so that you can come
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to that place. Amen. So now I want to also share with you
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six reasons why non tithers are poor, and why non tithers will remain poor,
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and why non tithers will struggle in life. They will leave paycheck to
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paycheck. They will struggle. Life will be tight for them. Six reasons.
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Number one, non tie they does become poor because they have nothing to
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harvest. Sosia, Chapter eight, verse seven. Non tigers become poor because
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they have nothing to harvest. They saw the wind and rip a well wind.
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Whatever they saw becomes wind, and they rip a well wind. The
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stalk has no bird, and they shall never produce meal. If it should
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produce, aliens will swallow it up. Non tigers become poor because they don't
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have a harvest. They have nothing to harvest. Number two, non tigers
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become poor because they do not attract the blessings of God into their lives.
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Malachi Chaster three, Wes ten. Non tith has become poor because they cannot
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attract the blessings of God into their lives. And so they are dry,
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and they are deficient of the blessings of the Lord. And the Bible says,
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the blessings of the Lord it makes rich and adds no sorrow. That's
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a biblical principle. That's a supernatural principle. The blessings of God makes rich
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and it adds no sorrow, So begin to tithe so that you can attract
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God's blessing. Amen. I think you should make it practical in your life
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in that anything you receive, divide it. Use a calculator, do calculation.
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Whatever I've received divided by ten gets the percentage ten percent. Put it
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down. When you come to change, offer to God. Because listen,
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God is not interested in the amount. God is interested in the principle.
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You obeying the principle, their obedience behind it is what guarantees a blessing.
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Amen. And the people who have succeeded in this life, who are still
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succeeding, who are still paying tithe, is not because of the amounts they
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give, but it's because of their obedience to the principle of God. When
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you obey God's principles, it attracts a blessing. Amen. I believe some
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of you didn't know Heaven has windows. Yes, many people don't know Heaven
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has windows, and the windows of Heaven they are only open to pour out
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a blessing and the lessons that afford. They are so massive that our vessels
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can contain. It becomes an overflowing blessing. That is when you also become
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a blessing. Amen. So you are not only receiving a blessing from God,
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but you become a blessing yourself to others. Can I get an amen?
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Are we going to start tithing or we are going to be a robbers
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who attract the case? Please ask your neighbor. Are you going to start
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tithing? Or you are going to rob God and be a robber and attract
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a case into your life? Amen? So build and develop the character of
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offering to God a tenth, because it becomes way easier when you start ending
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a lot, when you start receiving a lot, and you still offer a
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tenth to God. Because if you can offer ten percent of one hundred cities
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to God, which is tends it, can you offer ten percent of one
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million to God? You stop coming to change? You say ah, when
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you see that your past has dressed like you say, otally, is it's
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my money that the person is going to use to buy their shoe because in
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your little mind you think that your small money can do something good for somebody.
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Amen. But the earth belongs to God and the fullness they're off the
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world, and they that dwell they're in, Amen. And so purpose in
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your heart to test God with this, obeying this so that God can make
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you a great success in life. Can I hear an Amen? Amen?
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Non tithus become poor because they are cursed. Non tithus become poor because they
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are kissed. There's a case following them. There is nothing they do that
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they prosper. Josh Chapter one, verse eight. There is nothing they do
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that they prosper because they are not obedient to God's voice. They are not
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obedient to God's word, and so there's a case that is following them.
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When they join a company not too long, either they will fire them or
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the company will collapse. There is a mate of mine. We started a
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company and I have contacts, so I got him a contact. We got
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a big contact with a big telecom company, and he decided to swindle me.
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And when they pay himself, he doesn't let me know they paid him.
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And he's a non tighter. Guess what. The company that he was
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getting his daily bread from the company collapsed. So there is a case that
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follows you when you are non tier. And so Joshua needs in an admonition
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the Children of Israel, says that this book of the law shall not depart
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from thy mouth. But you shall meditate on it day and night, and
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you may observe to do according as it is written in it. The process
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of applying yourself to the word of God requires your obedience. And so by
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obeying God's word, you will do what is written in it, and what
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will we guarantee for. Then you will make your way prosperous and you will
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have good success. So if you see anyone whose ways are not prosperous and
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they are not having good it means there is a presence of what a case.
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Amen, there is what the presence of a case. And one way
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you can break the case is to be a tithe in Christian Amen. One
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way to break the case is to be one a tithing Christian Amen one number
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well on number four, Non tithus become poor because devirus constantly eats their wealth.
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Non Tithus become poor because devourus constantly eat their wealth. Malachi three eleven.
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Malachi three eleven. And this is God speaking. It says that because
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you obey my word and you offer tithes, and after I've poured you out
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a blessing that you can't contain. He says that I will rebuke the Divira
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for your sake, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
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nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit in your field, says the
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Lord of FoST So for tithing, Christians, God rebukes the Diva for your
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sake. And then let me give you a practical example when I started working.
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When I finished school and I started working, I was diligent in paying
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my tithe. And I remember on several occasions we'll be doing a church project
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and they will say that, oh, we are raising funds on thousand dollars,
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five hundred dollars, and I'll get up and I'll go and I'll give
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thousand dollars those days. But I realized that as the money was coming and
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I stopped paying tithe, things began tightening up for me. So one of
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the ways I realized that a case was being introduced is that every month my
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car will go to the show. There will be a problem every month.
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So the mechanics every month they expects me. If they don't see me the
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no copy, oh massa, everything okay, And when they're coming or not
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too long, no, something will spoil and I'll go because I wasn't tithing
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So when I realized that I went to go, I said, oh,
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Father, forgive me. I started tithing again. Now I changed my mechanics.
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I said to me, I'm not coming here again when I blocked their
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number, and I realized that the frequency of going to the shop now was
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reduced because a divara had been introduced that was eating up my wealth. Do
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you understand? So when you tithe, what happens is that God protects what
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is left. When you give ten percent to God, God secures the ninety
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percent, So then you will have more than enough. You will even be
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a blessing to others, and there will still be some left. That is
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a secret that many people don't know. It is a secrets that leads to
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great success in the Kingdom of God. Amen. And so if you want
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to succeed as a child of God, then tithing is a principle you need
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to adopt. Amen. You need to be diligent, you need to form
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the character, You need to form the habit of tithing, so that anytime
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money comes to you or you receive substance, the first thing that should come
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to you is your acknowledgment of God that it is God who was giving this
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to me, and when you tied on it, God secures the rest.
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Then the divra doesn't have the ability or the power to spend or destroy what
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is left. Amen. So if you don't want a cas to follow you,
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then you need to tithe so that God would rebuke their divara for your
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sake. Can I hear an amen? Or Amen? I'm seeing something very
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fantastic in the atmosphere here. Oh yes, the glory of God is all
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over this place. Amen. And you see I'm not wearing my glasses.
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Usually when I'm wearing my glasses, I would do this and see if it's
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a folk I'm seeing or if my glasses. But I'm not, And the
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glory of God is all over this Can you say thank you Jesus for visiting
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us? Amen? Oh, clap for the Lord. He's here. Amen,
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he's doing something new. Amen. Amen, where's should help us?
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Help me on the keyboard, help me on the fiod. You know this
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on There is a sweet anointing in sanuary. There is a stealness in the
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atmosphere. Come on, lay down the burdens you have carried for in the
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sanctuary God. Do you see God is lifting burdens? Amen? And you
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will not live with a case because you are here today. Can I hear
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an amen? Amen? Number five, non tiders become poor because the fruits
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of their field are constantly destroyed. Imagine you are a tomato farmer and you
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plant tomatoes, and the moment you plant them, you go home. Then
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some rascals will come and approot everything you planted. And for you, you
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are expecting that, Oh, in a month's time you should see harvest.
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But you come and there is nothing. That is the lifestyle of non tithers.
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Amen, that's the lifestyle no non tithers. So the divara destroys their
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fruits. There is no fruits. They can have a tree, a mango
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tree in their house. The mango tree will be there twenty years. They
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won't behaving one. You see small, small mango fruits, like the piece
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piece ones that never become big. You wait, ah, when is this
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thing becoming so I can eat? You be there ten years, It's still
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the same thing. It's a case. It is the presence of a case.
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Amen. So when you tied, your fruits are secured. Amen.
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I gave you a testimony last week about the fact that I went to live
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in my uncle's house in spintext and there was an avocado tree that had been
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there for a long time. It had grown as tall as the house.
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But that tree had never borne fruits before. And I lived there for just
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twelve months. And on the seventh month of me living there, suddenly this
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avocado tree began to bear fruit. And he bought fruit for like one month
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continuously. The fruit were so nice, so green, so like. We
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became a vocado distributors in the neighborhood. Do you understand when you tied,
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there is the presence of a blessing in your life. Amen? We moved.
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I thought it was just by chance. I moved to another place at
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Quabinia. That house was it was a big plot of land. It had
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many fruits you had by. It had tomtos, they had worked tomato is
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the fruit right. It had mangoes, it had you name it. And
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I was there for about three years, and on the second year, suddenly
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everything decided to fruit. There were mangoes, and it's not a small the
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big mangos, the salo mangoes. They were fruiting constantly. We were making
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mango distributors. When we are coming to church, we have mangoes in our
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car. We distribute mangoes a men consistently over a period of time. Amen.
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We move to Westlands, Shepherd Emerald. This year we were there,
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there was a mango tree. Certainly the mango tree burst forth. It has
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been bringing mango fruits ever since plenty. So tithers guarantee a blessing from God
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that will cause your bands to overflow. Amen. Non tigers are poor because
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there is a case following them and a divara is introduced to eat their fruit.
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So before your mango comes, the divara has eating the fruit already,
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and they've left you the seed, and you plant the seed and when it's
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coming to eat it again consistently. Amen. But if you need to break
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that case in your life, then you need to learn to be a tighter
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Amen, or Christ in you. Amen. So the hope of glory will
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be the hope that you come to a place of great success. And one
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way you can achieve that is to practically tithe Amen, to show your obedience
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to God. Amen. Number six. Non tiders become poor because they lose
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their fruits before they get a chance to harvest it. They lose their fruits
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before they get a chance to havevest Malachi three eleven. And I'll rebuke the
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Divira for your sake. And you shall not destroy the fruit of your ground,
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neither shall your vine cast their fruit before that time in the field,
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said the Lord of Host. Amen. So if you want to have great
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success, then you need to apply yourself to the principle of tithing. Amen.
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Amen. And so when you see someone who has a case following them
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and there is no blessing in their life, the first thing you should know
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is that perhaps they don't tithe. They are not tie this. And tithing
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is a spiritual activity. It is not a religious activity. Amen. It
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is a spiritual activity. When it is a religious activity, you don't need
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to attach obedience. But when it is a spiritual activity, it's your obedience
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that will attract the blessing of God. Amen. And So the next time
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you receive a gift of something, there should be a portion in it that
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you give to God as a tithe. Amen. So someone will say,
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oh, but I receive their shoe, How can I give God ten percent
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of my shoe? Amen? How you can cut ten percent of your shoe
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is to find the selling value of your shoe. If your shoe goes two
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hundred cities, then calculate ten percent of it and give it to God as
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in time. Can I hear an Amen? I see God prospering you all,
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Amen, and making you all great men and women of God who are
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with substance. Amen. That you are not living paycheck to paycheck, or
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you are not struggling through life. But I see God helping you because you
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are going to apply yourself to this principle that can bring you great success in
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your life. Amen. And please remember there is no money you can give
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that God needs, because God is richer than any money you can ever have.
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To understand what we offer to God as a tithe is in response to
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obeying his word and to test him without obedience, so He pours us out
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a blessing. Amen. When I was growing up, if I can tell
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you that, though ill, my life will be this way, I'll probably
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be lying to you. But by following the principles laid out in the Word
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of God, my life is getting better every year. Amen. And if
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you are looking at me, now, look at me well, because stay
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my life will be way better than this Amen, and is biblical. It's
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spiritual. The parts of the righteous shines brighter and brighter and brighter. So
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once you apply yourself to it, your life will shine brighter and brighter and
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brighter. Amen. It doesn't matter if your parents are divorced. It doesn't
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matter if your parents and they have a good relationship. It doesn't matter what
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your name is, it doesn't matter where you were born, it doesn't matter
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how life has treated you bad. Amen. If you apply yourself to the
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principles laid out in God's Word, your life will come out better. The
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outcome of your life will be better that you are seeing. Amen. If
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I had told you when I was maybe your age that when I grow I'll
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have a nice family, I have children, I'll live in a nice place,
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and I'll be lying to you, because then there was no evidence of
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that ever happening. But when you stay through to God's word, you obey
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the principles laid out in God's Word, your life will be better. Amen.
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Please left your right own to God and say, my life will be
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better because I have knowledge. My life will be better because I'm receiving wisdom
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from God. My life will be better because I am obeying God's word.
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Amen. So as declared socially be for you Jesus precious name. Amen.
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So in conclusion, we should not be surprised when non tiders become poorer by
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keeping a tenth of their income away from God. What can we do without
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God's help? Is there anything we can do without God's help? No?
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How far can we go without God's help? We can't go that far.
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It is time to begin tithing so that profits will come our way and that
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God will cause us to succeed. Amen. Please on your feet with me
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briefly. Amen. And if you have received God's wording to your heart,
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then your prayer this morning should be the Lord, help me to be a
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tither, Help me to be someone who acknowledges You for everything I receive,
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so that I can come to the place of great substance, because you'll pour
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me out a blessing. Amen. Just close your eyes for a moment and
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just say that prayer to the Lord. Help us, Lord, help us.
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Lord, Thank you for this wisdom, Jesus. Thank you Lord for
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this wisdom. Thank you Lord for this help. Thank you Lord Jesus,
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that you are helping us, that you are making us practical. Tithus who
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offer our tithes as a sacrifice, and as an offering to you, pray
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in the name of Jesus the Lord you help us so that we don't walk
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about to the kiss. And she's HER's precious name. A man