Do You Dare To Have More Than Enough

GOG - 09 - 08: Do You Dare To Have More Than Enough

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DO YOU DARE TO HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH? PASTOR NKECHI ENE (MRS.) Do you have the guts to have more than enough? Too many of us do not have enough; some of us think we have more than enough, but the more than enough I am talking about is the more than enough that Jehovah considers as more than enough. He is El-Shaddai. He is the God that is more than enough and I tell you, some of us think we have more than enough, but His own realm of more than enough is not like our own.

That’s why I’m asking you: can you dare to have more than enough? I have made up my mind that I am going to take the challenge; I have made up my mind that I am going to dare to have more than enough, El-Shaddai’s realm of more than enough, not what you think is more than enough.

Some people get very uncomfortable when you talk about money. Some people are very ‘spiritual’, too ‘spiritual’ to talk about money. If you are in that category, you don’t know about God’s more than enough. You don’t know why He wants you to have more than enough. There is something I discovered that is very simple but really excited me.

You know, before Christ left, He asked us to go into all the world and preach and teach the gospel. That is what we call the great commission. Let me tell you something; the foundation of the great commission is Christ. If Christ had not come, there would have been no great commission and the foundation of the success of the great commission is money.

People are getting born again because Christ died on the cross for their sins and He was resurrected from the grave but many people are going to hell without accepting that sacrice because money is not available to send the gospel to them. So, if you are uncomfortable because you are so “spiritual” and so religious, it means you don’t have a passion for souls. Somebody who has a passion for souls understands that the foundation of the great commission is money. The Bible says in Romans 10: 13: “For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall

be saved.” and Paul begins to ask a question in verses 14 and 15. He goes from the rst thing down to the foundation; he says: “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?...” That’s the foundation.

So the great commission broken down is Christ saying: bring the money so we can send people to preach so they can hear, believe, call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. It doesn’t matter how spiritual

you are, without money, there is no great commission. I am trying to dare you to have more than enough. Can you dare to have more than enough or are you satised to have just enough or not enough all your life?

The Bible tells us in Exodus 12 that when the children of Israel were to leave Egypt, God told them to collect gold and silver, and they did. The Bible said they spoiled them, they took everything and the Egyptians were too stunned by the plague that had come upon them that they gave everything. Now, the children of Israel who were slaves for all these years collected all these things and they matched into the desert. In the wilderness, there was a big electronic shop

for them to buy electronics; there were designers’ boutique for them to buy clothes.

O! Don’t forget where the cars were sold. So they were carrying all these silver and gold and there were no where to spend it. Why did God give it to them? God even provided food for them; He gave them manner and quails. He even worsened matters by making sure their shoes did not wear out. So there was no need to buy shoes. He provided for them from head to toe. He gave them a spiritual generator, an air conditioner, He gave them everything but they still had the silver and the gold.

Confusion: “All this money, Lord, and nothing to do with it?” They matched into the wilderness and God said, “Now you will build Me a house”. All that silver and all that gold and all your needs have been met; what do you do with that? The reason why God gave them the money was because He needed a dwelling place. He said, “Build Me an Ark, and build Me a dwelling place”.

When they crossed the red sea and Miriam was singing, she said...I will build thee a habitation, they began to see why they were carrying all that money: to build a dwelling place where Jehovah would reside, that is why the Ark was so carefully built with the wealth of the wicked; with the money that came from the Egyptians. No other money! The people could build the Ark because they saw that with or without the money, Jehovah could take care of them.

You have to get to a point where you realise that Jehovah shall provide for you when you have money and when you don’t have money. The money you have is not what makes Him provide for you. He can provide for you with or without your money but the reason why you should have the money is so you can provide a dwelling place for Him. Who is the dwelling place? You, the church, the body, the kingdom. When you give to your local assembly, you are building Him a habitation, a dwelling place.

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GOG - 09 - 08: Do You Dare To Have More Than Enough

When you give to your man of God, you are building the Ark. When you give to a television, a radio station that is preaching the Word, you are building the Ark. When you give to the great commission, you are building the Ark. Can you dare to have more than enough?

Can you imagine the frustration of having silver and gold and nowhere to spend it?

For some of us, when little money comes into our hands, we race off to spend it. The reason He gave them the wealth of the wicked was to build Him an Ark. When we talk about the Church budget, some people say, “Lord, I don’t have enough and my needs have to be met; my son just entered the university, my wife just lost her job so I need to set her up in a supermarket (that is all over Port Harcourt). I need to pay my rent, Lord”. If you are in that category of “I don’t have enough but I have needs”, remember the story of the widow woman and the Lord had spoken to her because the Lord told Elijah; I have told the widow woman to sustain you (1 Kings 17:9). So the woman knew that she was to sustain Elijah.

When Elijah came, she said, “I have just enough food to sustain my son and myself”.

She placed her needs above what God had told her. God has told you, the reason He has given you money is so you can build Him an Ark. If you are going to have more than enough, you have to lay your needs down. Elijah must have looked like a wicked man of God when he asked the woman to give him rst. There are many wicked men of God who tell you to give them your money when God did not send them. They are not using it to build the Ark; they are using it to build themselves. It doesn’t really matter if your son got admitted into the university, God says, “Bring that money”. It doesn’t really matter that your rent is due in two months, God

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money, redeem your promise by giving to the ministry.

Do you have more than enough? says, “Bring the money”. I really don’t care and it doesn’t really matter that you have been retrenched, God says, “Bring that money”. Can you dare to have more than enough? She gave her last meal and she never lacked again. Her needs were met.

Put your needs down and listen to what God is saying to you. That son will go to the university if you give your last today. That rent will be paid, if you bring out that thing you have.

Sometimes, you really want to give but you say, “Lord, I have nothing”. There was a widow woman who said, “I have nothing”, and Elijah said, “What do you have in your house?” If it is truly a genuine cry and not a lame excuse, then I am saying to you, what do you have in your house? If you say you don’t have a house, what do you have in your bag? You say, you don’t even have a bag, what do you have on your body? You say you don’t have, you don’t have, how would you ever have? And the devil blocks you, and makes you think you have a valid excuse. When others are writing cheques, you are crying, “O! Lord I wish I had”. You don’t wish you had nothing! What do you have in your house? She said just a little pot of oil. The man of God said, “Bring it”. If you have the faith, you can even do like Hannah. Hannah was a beautiful woman; she had nothing, no children. She was scorned and laughed at. People are looking at you, you have nothing to give. Hannah was like that but Hannah made a faith promise, “Lord, if You give me a son, I will give him to You”. She did not have anything but she was consumed by a passion to give. If you have nothing to give, make a pledge and say, “If you give me ve thousand naira during this budget year, I will give it to You”. The beautiful thing about faith promise is that it is God’s responsibility to provide the money. Your own is to make a faith promise and wait for the money. Look at how quickly God gave Hannah the son. If you are the one that has the ability to provide and you know that thing is going to be given back to you, won’t you give it quickly? Let me tell you where the problem is: when the money comes, you are so excited that you race quickly to go and spend it. No, when He brings the

Now that money you gave had two purposes. One: to full your desire and the second thing that money does is to act as seed for you and when you sow it, you have a harvest. So you break the poverty cycle by making a faith promise and when it brings a harvest, you give again and you keep building the Ark and as you are building the Ark, you are moving from the person who does not have enough to one who has more than enough. Look at what happened to Hannah, after she gave Samuel, did she have other children? Can you dare to have more than enough? Are you bold enough?

Only the bold and adventurous can have more than enough. The one who is afraid will always have just enough or not enough but there is a third group of people that make me laugh. During the budget, they don’t have a problem that they have just enough and their needs are not even met, they don’t have a problem that they don’t have enough, you know what their problem is? They have more than enough. I will just write a cheque. Fool you. Your own realm of more than enough is nothing compared to Jehovah’s realm of more than enough. If you think you have more than enough, you are a poor man in the sight of Jehovah. So when it’s time to build the Ark, you don’t tax yourself. You don’t give yourself stress because you are giving ve hundred thousand out of the hundred million you have. I said fool you! The more your giving inconveniences you, the more it excites God. What excites God is not the amount you give but the way you feel when you are giving. That pain you feel when you are giving is what the Bible talks about in Psalm 126: 5-6 when it says, he that sows in tears will doubtless come forth carrying sheaves.

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