CONSISTENT INCREASE

30 I walked by the field of a LAZY PERSON, the vineyard of one with no common sense.
31 I saw that it was OVERGROWN with NETTLES. IT was COVERED with WEEDS, AND its walls were BROKEN DOWN.
32 THEN, as I LOOKED and THOUGHT about IT, I LEARNED THIS LESSON:
33 A little extra SLEEP, a little more SLUMBER, a little FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO REST—
34 THEN POVERTY WILL POUNCE ON YOU LIKE A BANDIT; SCARCITY WILL ATTACK YOU LIKE AN ARMED ROBBER."
Proverbs 24:30–34 (NLT)

• God wanted a consistent increase for His children.

• He wants our increase, the increase of those who are His, to be without limitations.
• Increase without limitations would be as a result of commitments to God and His Kingdom on earth.

• Note the following:
(i) Start your Day in the presence of God. NOTHING should be so urgent that you would have to rush out in the morning without a time with God:
"IT IS USELESS FOR YOU TO WORK SO HARD FROM EARLY MORNING until late at NIGHT, ANXIOUSLY WORKING for food to eat; FOR GOD GIVES REST TO HIS LOVED ONES" (Psalm 127:2 NLT).
(ii) Invest your time. Seize every moment to get the most out of your Day.
a. Put the most into every hour, eliminate time wasting activities. When time is wasted, you have wasted the opportunity to be more productive.
b. Put your best effort in every task before you.
(iii) Be responsible. If you made any mistake, take a full responsibility for it.
a. Successful people admit their mistakes and correct them immediately. There is no one that has not missed it, one time or the other, it is only God Who is infallible.
b. If you made a mistake, learn from it, and move forward.
(iv) Do not stop learning. To stop learning is to stop growing.
YOU should have a teachable spirit, the heart to learn.
(v) Be thorough. Carry through to completions in whatever you are assigned to do.
PAY attention to details, and bring whatever you do to completion in all respect.
(vi) Follow through. Make a checklist for everything.
ENDEAVOUR to set goals.
(vii) Prayers. Pray in the Spirit consistently, and ask God to reveal to you, how to increase in whatever you do.
A "good enough" MENTALITY produces poor standard and poor quality, avoid it.

• How you can make your increase to be without limitations.
(i) Love for God:
"JESUS said to him, “‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH all your SOUL, AND with all your MIND' " (Matthew 22:37).
a. As a believer in Christ Jesus, your love for God and His Kingdom causes you to attract His favour (I kings 3:3-5,12-13).
b. Let the thought of His Kingdom be dominant in your heart. Make His Kingdom your utmost priority.

(ii) Vows. What do you want to give to God? Any number of Believers want to receive from God, but they never thought of what to contribute to God's Kingdom on earth.
a. Love is reciprocal. If the only reason why you serve God, or come to Him, is, because of what you wanted to receive from Him, it means you are using Him. You are selfish and being parasitic.
A NUMBER of people who come to God, asking for His help, had nothing in their minds to do to reciprocate whatever He does for them.
b. A vow is a commitment. It is a test. God also has needs, and He does want, or in need, of those who would be willing to be used to meet the NEEDS of His Kingdom.
THERE is a need for labourers, in His Kingdom on earth—those who will give their time for His work:
37 HE [Jesus] SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, “THE HARVEST IS GREAT, BUT THE WORKERS ARE FEW. 38 SO pray to the LORD who is in charge of the HARVEST; ASK HIM TO SEND MORE WORKERS INTO HIS FIELDS.” (Matthew 9:37,38 NLT).
c. God wants the people who will give their money (Luke 8:1-3), and their vocational skills for His work.
TO experience unlimited increase, endeavour to walk with Him in a Covenant relationship. Tell Him what you will do for Him, His Kingdom, if He should grant your requests.
d. God blesses with a purpose! If you would not be useful for Him, or what you are requesting would not be used for the glorification of His name, He might not be interested in your requests and such might not be granted.
e. You cannot cajole God, deceived Him to do a thing. If you failed to redeem your pledges, or vows; He might not be prompt in granting other requests brought to Him by you:
4 WHEN YOU MAKE A VOW TO GOD, DO NOT DELAY TO PAY IT; FOR He has no pleasure in FOOLS. PAY what you have vowed—5 BETTER NOT TO VOW THAN TO VOW AND NOT PAY" (Ecclesiastes 5:4,5).
MANY will promise to do one thing or another for God, His work, or servants, when they had a pressing need in their lives; but when the need is met, they will not fulfil their vows.
YOU cannot deceive God, Making a vow is a test of commitment. God will do His part of the deal, make available what you have requested, but if you failed on your part, you are indirectly telling Him you are not to be trusted.

(iii) Seeds (Ecclesiastes 11:1-6).
a. A Vow is a statement made, or whatever you promised to do, while a seed is what you planted in order to harvest or receive in Return.
b. When you sow a seed, you allow the seed to germinate, pass through the agricultural process, before it brings forth.
c. God will work through the seed you have sown, to promote you. A seed loses its power, potentiality, when it is not sown. An insect could eat up the seed and it becomes useless.
HOWEVER, If the seed is subjected to the agricultural process of sowing and reaping, planted in the soil, there would be germination and fruition. Thus, Be seed conscious, do not be need conscious.
WHAT is a seed?
A SEED is any material thing; money or whatever, that you give as an offering to God, His work, His servants, or the Needy or the poor in the household of faith.
YOU give out of what God has blessed you with; tithes, and offerings to His work. Projects commanded to be done by God, the mission work, Offerings to the Ministers, the Needy or the Poor. Do not be apprehensive of sowing!

• There cannot be increase without limitations, If there were no genuine and passionate love for God and His Kingdom on earth.

• A Vow should be made as a sacrificial Giving and a sign of commitment to God; and the seed sowing consistently for a bountiful harvest.
• You have a part to play, If you actually wanted God to be committed to your consistent increase.
• God has conditions for whatever He wanted to do. If you failed to meet God's conditions, the expected change or increase would be a mirage!
• Kingdom principles are regular principles to be practiced, and not what you seldom do. If you are not consistent about Kingdom principle of Giving, your increase cannot be consistent as well.
• You keep to the Principles, mainly of Giving. You practice it, before increase can be experienced.
• If the time you give to God is only when you are having a need, in order to receive back from Him, It means you are using Him, you are being parasitic.
• You cannot fool God, neither can you play on His intelligence. God would not need whatever you wanted to give to Him: "IF I [God] WERE HUNGRY, I WOULD NOT TELL YOU, FOR ALL THE WORLD IS MINE AND EVERYTHING IN IT" (Psalm 50:12 (NLT).
• If you did give to Him, It is for your own benefits.
• Increase without limitations is as a result of practicing the principle of Giving, which is the major principle in the School of prosperity or abundance—in God's Kingdom on earth.
• You must be addicted to this Kingdom principle for your increase to be unlimited.

• You will not run dry in Jesus' name.

• If there is any ailment in your body, I release the healing power of God on you now, and you are made whole in Jesus' name.
• I command that growth in your body wither in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
  Peace!