This is “The Rewards of the Generous.” There are immediate rewards for generous people. Don’t rob God of the opportunity to bless you by neglecting generosity—make it a priority. The divine purpose of giving is not to receive it is to honor God. In this message, learn the five “I wills” from God, where He says if you will, I will … and see if God does not open a floodgate of blessing over YOUR life.
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connection he said I’ll rebuke the
Devourer for your sake I’ll prevent the
pests from devouring your crops
anybody got any pest your pests may be
your own weaknesses I’ll hide your
weaknesses until you figure it out I’ll
let you get a job that you aren’t
qualified for and they don’t know it and
I’ll give you time to learn because I
believe in you more than you believe in
you and I’ll bless you and I’ll rebuke
the Devourer no stop how blessed are we
how good has God been to us how
excellent has he been to us I want to
talk to you about the rewards of
degeneres these are five I wheels that
I’m going to give you the Lord willing
I’m going to give you five things that
God said he would do to the person who
honors God in their resources with
tithes and offering the fact that you
have a harvest is proof that harvest
exists the fact that you have a house
that you slept in last night or an
apartment that was your harvest and it’s
proof that more harvests exist the fact
that you drove here to church today
wherever you are is proof that there is
a harvest the fact that you have a job
anything that blesses you is a harvest
your husband is a harvest
we try it again your husband is a
harvest your wife is a harvest
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sounds like the women need a little bit
more convincing than the men
if you found someone who thinks putting
up with your weakness is worth it
that’s a harvest that’s what marriage is
your health is a harvest there are
people in the hospital today but here we
are and I’m saying to you our health is
a harvest and it’s proof that God is
good can you say man you’ve got a job
your job is a harvest your job says
someone has perceived your distinctive
gift and decided to write you a check
every week for it and don’t you take
that harvest for granted don’t you take
that check for granted that job for
granted
it is God’s harvest in your life love is
a harvest I wrote this one down good
looks are a harvest you could very
easily be ugly come on say man you have
no idea how close to ugly you are
all God would have to do is raise the
tip of your nose back a half an inch and
you would look like porky the peach but
God was good to you turn to your
neighbor and say you barely made it but
but I’m just telling you I’m just
telling you good looks are a harvest
isn’t it wonderful that somebody finds
you attractive
because there’s people who don’t think
you are I’m just telling you and they
were shocked when you got married they
never dreamed you would ever find
anybody I’m talking about today the
results of being generous all around you
God wants to bring rewards immediate
rewards to people who are generous and I
want to talk to you about that because I
think that once you understand what I’m
saying
it’s gonna open your eyes you see the
tithe is talked about in Leviticus 27 in
verse 30 it says the tithe of the land
which the word tithe means 10 whether
the seed of the land of the fruit of the
tree is the Lord’s notice these words it
is holy to the Lord if a man wants to
redeem all of his ties he shall add one
fifth to it what God is saying here is
this is mine it’s when he says it’s holy
he doesn’t mean just like holiness he
means is sanctified it’s set apart the
tide or the tent is set apart it’s mine
and he said if anybody takes that tie
this is Old Covenant so just let me
teach it but it’s got a great point to
it if you take the tithe and you don’t
give it to me and you use it he said if
you want to get right then you have to
bring one-fifth interest God saying is
so much mine the the point is this is so
much mine that I want you to understand
that if you don’t give it to me I have a
right to charge you interest and he says
the interest would be 1/5 or about 20%
that’s Old Covenant God doesn’t make us
live under that but he’s emphasizing the
point he’s emphasizing the point that
it’s mine so much so that I have a right
to charge you interest if you don’t
honor me with it he goes on to say in
verse 32 and concerning the time of the
herd
the flop or whatever passes under the
rod the tenth one shall be holy to the
Lord God was so specific about this that
he says I want you to every ten animals
go count them off and take one out of
the ten and say it’s holy unto the Lord
take let the ten ox and go food get to
take one out ten goats go through take
one out ten sheep go through take one
out of the ten as they pass under grab
it and the rest you keep but that is
holy unto the Lord ten chickens one
here’s the grain take it out this is how
serious God was about it the reason that
he says I want this percentage this 10%
is because 10 is symbolic listen very
carefully of the whole our numerical
system teaches in terms of 10 if you can
count to 10 you can count to a hundred
if you can count to ten you can count to
a million because all you do after ten
is repeat again so the way you get to a
hundred is you count to ten
and then you start over again with one
at twenty one twenty two and then you
get to thirty thirty one you’re counting
to ten again and so everything comes out
of the ten the genius of God when he
said I won’t the ten is he saying the
90% is in the 10% and if you honor me
with the 10% I’ll see it as everything
that you have you’re giving it to me
you’re saying that it belongs to you
Lord and I’m honoring you with the tithe
I’m saying today that we need to
understand that it is not the amount it
is the fact that our heart wants to
honor God
I heard the true story about a man who
went to New York and he said he bought
his wife and extremely expensive dress
as a gift because he loved her and he
wanted to bring
this gift home to her when he got home
from this trip so he picked it out and
he bought it and he paid a lot of money
for it and just as they were wrapping it
up as a gift he said wait just one
minute he grabbed a piece of paper and
he wrote these words on it you are
always on my mind it’s pretty good you
are always on my mind and put it inside
wrapped it up she got it she opened it
up and she looked at the dress and as
most women do if the man picks the dress
she was not very impressed she took that
expensive dress out he said hung it in
the closet and to this day she has never
worn it but she took that card that said
you were always on my mind
stuck it in the mirror and it’s been
there for several years it was not the
act of the gift and how expensive it was
it was the fact that he cared enough to
say to her you are always on my mind
that’s what we’re doing with the time
God does not need your gift he can hang
it in his closet and never touch it it’s
the fact that you honored him enough to
say you are always on my mind when you
bring the time and you bring the
offering what blesses God is the spirit
of obedience the woman with the
alabaster box broke it open one year’s
wages and poured it on the feet of Jesus
and Jesus was moved by her gift he was
moved by it obedience obedience is
powerful that’s why Malachi chapter 3
and verse 10 said bring all of the time
all of it everybody say all bring all
the tithes into the storehouse that you
may that I may have meat in the house
look at these words and prove me now
with this the word prove me means
provoke me ha I can provoke God
challenge me as another word test me in
this prove me provoke me tes
me bring me a tithe and see if I will
not pour you out open up the windows of
heaven and pour you out a blessing there
shall not be room enough to receive it
he said if you will if you will honor me
and bring me the tithe and the offering
that there is in the house of God that
you attend a floodgate some translations
say window of heaven but the original if
you read it it actually means floodgate
it means a floodgate is like when
there’s so much coming and the gate is
down and it just keeps piling up and it
gets deeper and deeper and deeper and
when you bring me the tithe in the
offering I command the flood gate in my
house to flow from my house to your
house
so you’re the priest of your home if
you’re the parent the dad or the mom
you’re the priest of your home you are
the government of that home and you
connect to the house of God you become a
partner with God when you bring the
tithe in the offering and and it goes
from priest to priest on the spiritual
pasture over this particular flock that
God has trusted me with and what we do
with the resources God will judge me for
and those of us who are in control of
the resources but when you connect your
house to this house we in return are
connected to the high priest Jesus and
he says the windows of heaven are the
flood gate of heaven is full of
blessings and now because that’s a
giving Church I’m gonna lift up the
flood gate it’s going to hit that house
and it has I said it hands
and now the floodgate is down for your
house
but you bring the tithes and offering to
this house and God says whatever is in
that house just like what was on Moses
came on the seventy elders just like
what is on this house the anointing on
this house it now comes into your house
this is the blessing of the generous
person and I love what he said we’re
floating in blessings and he said and
all of these blessings will overtake you
one translation said they will tackle
you that there will when the flood gate
comes open from heaven to the house of
God from the house of God to your house
the flood gate starts pouring and
suddenly it’s hitting your life and it’s
like a tidal wave and it’s like being
tackled by blessing and it overtakes you
and I’ve found in the Word of God that
if we will do it certain things bring
the tithe and the offering God gives
five our wheels that I’m gonna close
with God says if I’m your father
show me honor proverbs three said honor
the Lord with your possessions and with
the first fruits of your increase so
that your barns will be filled with what
and your presses will burst out with new
wine the wonder original translation
says overflow overflow plenty listen to
God’s language plenty overflow what are
the benefits I want to give you the five
hour wheels of God God’s five promises
to every tire and giver especially to a
church like this do you understand there
is a worldwide revival going on that
this church is a major part of
in your neighborhood and you act like
it’s just a church there are people who
are flying in on the weekends just to
sit in these services there are people
who are driving three and four hours a
Sunday
you think I’m do you think I’m joking
don’t you you think I’m exaggerating
don’t you it’s in your neighborhood and
you treat God casually as though it’s no
big deal it’s just the church you know
why God put this church here for your
house you know why God putting this
house here for your house there’s family
blessing I’ve got a blessed family I’ve
got a blessed marriage I’ve got a bliss
and all of that can come on your house
it’s come from him it’s generational and
it can come to your house but God wants
to know you’ve always got him on your
mind now let me give you quickly and
closing the five hour wheels of God his
promise to the Tyler and the giver
number one I will open the floodgate or
the windows of heaven it’s an open
heaven God’s sudden strike capability he
can come out of nowhere because there’s
an open heaven just when the devil
thinks he’s got you trapped there’s an
open heaven and God sees all know
secondly I will pour you out notice the
word in a blessing that you will not
have room enough to receive I love the
fact that it’s a blessing one everybody
say one God’s got so much in one that he
said you can’t handle all that I want to
do did you catch it I’ll pour you out a
blessing and you won’t have off that one
blessing enough room to contain it
anybody got shirts and you’re in your
calls that you had worn in years
anybody got numerous pairs of shoes
ladies do not lie numerous paths pair
not just one one pair would be enough
but you’ve got more than
anybody got shelters out there with
lawnmowers and all kinds of stuff you
can’t even get it in your garage you
gotta have you got your garage fooled
and you got another thing full and you
act like a guy named Emily it’s me you
got you don’t even have room enough to
receive you coming cars you got now how
do you drive them both at the same time
how blessed are we how good has God been
to us how excellent has he been to us
come on church
I’m almost done one blessing one person
one Talent
Connor was telling me about one girl
that my daughter Connor she does some
modeling and stuff and she said there’s
a girl that she’s just got pretty hands
and she makes hundred so that I don’t
know what the rest of her looks like but
her hands her hands are beautiful and
she makes hundred one a blessing nothing
but pretty hands and she just does this
and they pay her hundreds of thousand
for hands she put a ring on it she just
that feels like a fifty thousand dollar
check a blessing Colonel Sanders was was
retired and living on Social Security
and God gave him a and he was a tither
by the way but he was an old man living
on Social Security and God gave him one
blessing a recipe for chicken a blessing
and he took the secret recipe for
chicken and put it on the chicken and
even though he’s dead he’s still selling
chicken and some of you can’t wait to
get out of here and go bless his dream
with a whole bucket
hallelujah a blessing I said a blessing
the Canaanite woman understood it when
she said y’all can have the loaf just
give me a crumb if it came from his
table it’s loaded I don’t need the whole
loaf if I’ve got a blessing from the
table you can’t stop me you can’t run me
out of business
I’m blessed number three he said I’ll
rebuke the Devourer for your sake I’ll
prevent the pests from devouring your
crops anybody got any pests uh your
pests may be your own weaknesses I’ll
hide your weaknesses until you figure it
out I’ll let you get a job that you
aren’t qualified for and they don’t know
it and I’ll give you time to learn
because I believe in you more than you
believe in you and I’ll bless you and
I’ll rebuke the Devourer no stop
I’ll rebuke the Devourer for your sake
to our wheels of God number four I will
prevent the vine from prematurely
delivering the fruit in other words I’ll
stop you from losing and selling too
quick I’ll keep what you commit to me
I’ll teach you when to hold I’ll teach
you when to release I’ll teach you
timing I’ll teach you to buy low and
sell high I’ll teach you to profit you
will not cast your vine your fruit
prematurely before peak this is the
promise of the Father and lastly he said
I will
I was spare I will spare them as a
father spares a favorite son he said
that in Malachi 3 I will spare them as a
father spares his favorite son what does
that mean God is saying to you I am
going to flat-out spoil you I’m not just
gonna meet your needs but I’m gonna
spoil you like a father suppose his
favorite children and I’m gonna give you
stuff that you don’t deserve and beyond
that the stuff that you do deserve
gonna wink at and cover you because even
later darling
and I’ll let it go this time and I’m
gonna bless you with some things that
you don’t even deserve I’ll spare you
like a father spares his favorite son
I’ll flat-out spoil you because I’m a
good god whoa I preached myself happy I
said he’s a good guy I want you to lift
up your hands toward heaven right where
you’re sitting at every campus and open
up your mouth as loud as you can and
praise God
that my God shall supply all my needs
according to his riches in glory food
Christ Jesus do you want to partner with
God we really do serve a good god aren’t
you thankful that he really will supply
all of your needs I’m believing that God
is going to open the windows of heaven
and pour you out blessings this year
that you don’t have room enough to
receive you know what it all begins with
our acts of obedience if you don’t know
Jesus Christ is your Lord if you never
ask him to be your Savior I’m telling
you that there is a better life a more
abundant life and it’s waiting for you
all you have to do is surrender all you
have to do is say Lord I want you to
take control of my life there’s a
scripture in the book of Judges that
says the people willingly offered
themselves I’m asking you today to do
that to willingly surrender and offer
yourself to Jesus Christ pray this
prayer with me Lord Jesus say those
words I willingly surrender and offer
myself to you I give you my life I give
you my future I give you my
relationships I give you everything and
I thank you that you died and you rose
again so that I could be free and I
receive that freedom that forgiveness
completely right now by faith
I am a child of God in Jesus name Amen
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about this ministry is we’re at a unique
point where there are so many
opportunities coming at us to reach the
world with the gospel and do so many
exciting things and the way that we
decide yes or no whether or not we walk
through those opportunities is we depend
on people to hear God’s voice and
provide the supplies and resources that
we need to do what God has called us to
do the Apostle Paul said in the book of
Romans how will they hear unless someone
preaches but then he asked another great
question he said and how can they preach
listen to this unless their sinned I
thank God for the preachers I’m one of
them but we can’t do anything if we
don’t have sender’s I really thank God
more for the sender’s than I do the
preachers and many of you have been
senders and we’re so thankful but many
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beyond
this is what I live for this is who I am
this is what our family is about we are
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