"GIVE, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. FOR WITH THE SAME MEASURE THAT YOU USE, IT WILL BE MEASURED BACK TO YOU."
Luke 6:38 (NKJV)
• One of the practical principles of financial success is Giving.
- If you desire financial success in whatever you do, Giving is a major spiritual principle that you cannot do without.
- God wants to bless whatever you are doing that you may be a blessing to others and to His Kingdom or work on the earth.
HE told Abraham: "I will make you a great nation; I WILL BLESS YOU AND MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT; AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING" (Genesis 12:2). - You are not being blessed to consume it on your own lusts, BUT TO BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS: "You ask [God for something] and do not receive it, because you ask with wrong motives [out of selfishness or with an unrighteous agenda], so that [when you get what you want] YOU MAY SPEND IT ON YOUR [hedonistic or pleasurable] DESIRES" (James 4:3, Amp.)
- This principle of Giving is a vital principle in the School of financial success.
• Money is spiritual and it flows through the supernatural means.
- When you give to God, that is, to His Kingdom: His work, His ministers, the needy, and for the help and betterment of the people of God—
ANOINTING which is divine enabling is released on you and whatever you do, for you to prosper and be a SUCCESS. - You need the supernatural, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, to prosper in whatever you do: "NO ONE WILL SUCCEED BY [physical] STRENGTH ALONE" (1 Samuel 2:9, NLT).
- Until the anointing is released and contacted, there cannot be a genuine and consistent progress that ultimately leads to success.
IF you could understand this biblical principle and abide by it, there would be no limit to your progress and greatness.
YOUR level of financial success is to a certain extent determined by your Giving. - If you do not radiate, give off anything, nothing would be attracted to you.
YOUR level of radiation determines the Attraction, what you receive back: "GIVE, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over [with no space left for more]. FOR WITH THE STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT YOU USE [when you do good to others], IT WILL BE MEASURED TO YOU IN RETURN" (Luke 6:38, Amp.) - For you to attract material blessings, you have to pay attention to Giving.
• Admonitions
- For you to attract blessings, you have to pay attention to Giving: "Don't be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. YOU WILL ALWAYS HARVEST [reap] WHAT YOU PLANT [sow]" (Galatians 6:7, NLT).
- The law of sowing and reaping will be in operations as long as the earth remains (Genesis 8:22).
IF you give nothing, that is, you sow nothing, Then nothing would also be the harvest (Luke 6:38). - When you sow monetary seeds, there are ways of harvest, that is, ways to receive in return what you have sown:
I. GOD can use other people to give money or other material things to you.
II. HE also could give you divine wisdom or ideas on how to enlarge your business or vocation—He gives you revelations or insights on success: "Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, WHO TEACHES YOU TO PROFIT, WHO LEADS YOU BY THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO" (Isaiah 48:17 (NKJV).
READ: Genesis 30:37-43
III. He could Deck you with favour: "For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous; WITH FAVOUR YOU WILL SURROUND HIM [her] AS WITH A SHIELD" (Psalm 5:12).
IT means God would cause people to prefer you to others—your style or pattern would be preferred.
IF you do not learn on how to give consistently, you may place a limit on your success potentials.
IV. God uses your Giving To defend YOU on the day of adversity.
HE would give you direction on the day of NEED, tell you what to do and Who to meet, and would also have gone ahead of you to prepare such a person's heart to receive and help you.
V. God will not allow you to be stranded financially.
HE would always make a way out for a Giver in the time of predicaments (1 Corinthians 10:13).
• How to give:
- The giving that attracts blessings and get God's attention is the One given towards His Kingdom: His ministers, the needy, and the people of the household of Faith; and also the one given to bring solution to a particular problem plaguing a nation, community, or the whole humanity.
- Tithing is the foundation of giving.
- And offerings are given as you are LED by God, and should be increased as your financial income increases.
TYPES: worship Offerings, prophet offerings, project offerings, offerings for the mission work, love offerings to the needy and the poor in the household of Faith.
NOTE: when you give, you give by faith.
YOUR own part is to give, and it is God's part to bring returns at the right time. - Give with humbleness of heart, not to brag about what you have given.
YOU should see it as a privilege, and trust in God's faithfulness to bless you back in returns. - Know that God is not obligated to give back when you give because He owes no one, but He will do it because He has promised to do it in His Word—for He is a faithful God.
- When you give and it seems you have not seen the result, do not complain and murmur, God will owe no one anything.
PRAISE Him whilst you wait for the results. - Do not stop giving and serving because you have not seen the results: "And let us not grow weary while doing good, FOR IN DUE SEASON WE SHALL REAP IF WE DO NOT LOSE HEART" (Galatians 6:9).
- Truth: at times, the harvest of your giving may not come in the liquid Cash, it may come in the form of an idea for progress or increase in what you do.
IT may also come in the form of things that money cannot buy: good health for you and your family, that you may have no reason to visit any hospital and spend money.
IT may also be in the form of academic excellence for your children, or favour in every area of life and whatever. - Know that God is just, He is not unfaithful, He cannot owe anyone; If you do give, you will surely reap as He has promised in His Word—either in cash, ideas, favour, Good health, or whatever.
• You will not fail in Jesus' name.
Peace