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What Is The Value Of Your Seed? Part 1 Pastor Charles Omofomah There is a religious cliche in so many
drink it. These things were done by the
20 teaching them to observe all things
churches, particularly Pentecostal churches,
three mighty men.
that I have commanded you; and lo, I am 1st Chronicles 11:15-19
where people chant: “Offering time, blessing
age.” Amen.
time.” That is what it really ought to be. So, I’m going to talk about Linances and teach “Value” means worth, a fair equivalent you the principles that will liberate you (when you are comparing two things); that from lack.
which renders anything useful or estimable, esteem, excellence, price. So the question is:
You should be excited when you are taught What is the worth of your seed? Is your seed about money because it means God is about useful? Is it estimable? What is the price of to liberate you and lead you to another level. your seed? We would be answering three No matter how much you pray and fast for vital questions and through those questions, God to lift you to another level, without the
with you always, even to the end of the
we might be able to know what the value of
seed principle at work in your life, the way our seeds is.
Matthew 28:18-20 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 14 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? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the
you go up is how you will come down. Does It Satisfy The Longing Of The King?
gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of
15 Now three of the thirty chief men went
It is a tradition in church to pass the basket
good things!”
down to the rock to David, into the cave of
round and you just drop whatever you want
Adullam; and the army of the Philistines
as an offering and that tradition is good.
encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
Oftentimes it is not something you planned
16 David was then in the stronghold, and
or thought about. Some come to church and
the garrison of the Philistines was then in
forget to package their offerings, so they
Bethlehem. 17 And David said with longing, “Oh, that someone would give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the
give any “change” they have on them and it is a wrong attitude, because we usually don’t forget to wear our designer clothes
gate!”
and perfumes. Does your giving satisfy the
18 So the three broke through the camp of
longing of the King? I am going to teach this
the Philistines, drew water from the well of
from two dimensions.
Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. Nevertheless David
#1: Giving For Kingdom Expansion
Romans 10:13-15
The highest or greatest longing of our King, the King of kings and the Lord of lords is found in verse 19 of the Lirst Scripture above. I already belong to the class that is forsaking all to preach the gospel. So there are two classes - Those who have left all to preach the gospel, and those who will send the gospel with their pockets and bank accounts. Paul said, “…how shall they preach unless they are sent?” If from the time I entered the ministry and
would not drink it, but poured it out to the
18 And Jesus came and spoke to them,
Lord.
saying, “All authority has been given to Me
started teaching the Word of God till date,
19 And he said, “Far be it from me, O my
in heaven and on earth.
nothing has gone out of the pockets or bank
God, that I should do this! Shall I drink the
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all
accounts of my hearers, we wouldn’t be here
blood of these men who have put their lives
the nations, baptizing them in the name of
today. The Bible talks about those who go
in jeopardy? For at the risk of their lives
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
and those who stay by the stuff in 1 Samuel
they brought it.” Therefore he would not
Spirit,
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30:21-25. Those of us who are in the Live-
will be (Luke 12:34). The Bible says the your hand does not leave your life, rather it
fold ministry gifts of being an apostle, gospel is the power of God unto salvation goes to create a future for you. prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher are (Romans 1:16), and the gospel costs money. the ones who are going.
This is the picture of Christianity we want to Sometimes I sit back and wonder at the kind give.
Then those who stay by the stuff are those
of Christianity in vogue today. It is psychede- lic Christianity; a lot of Christians are “salt
who are sending the people there. The Bible The gospel is the power of God unto sozo – Christians.” They will dissolve in water, so says that both shall get the same reward. salvation from sin, salvation from poverty, they can’t stand a dark cloud! The kind of This is the greatest longing in the heart of salvation from lack, salvation from disease. Christianity we were introduced into when I God, and this cannot be accomplished except Some have had terminal situations for which was growing up didn’t know a lot of things people are sent. There is no way one can be they went to the doctors and were told they about the faith, but we just knew to be sent except with money. The greatest desire were at the danger of losing their lives if they passionate about the gospel and prayers. in the heart of God is that we should go and don’t go in for surgery. These surgeries run preach the gospel, and that we should make into hundreds of thousands of naira in Biblical scholars, especially people who disciples of all men. After getting them born certain cases. This person comes to church preach on biblical economics say that David again, “discipling” them is the greatest desire and is completely healed of that disease and Solomon, with all their giving and that is in the heart of God.
freely, and then the budget pledge is sacriLices, were not classiLied as the greatest announced to which he gives twenty givers. Great givers in the Bible were the
It is sad to look at Christians sometimes thousand naira. What is twenty thousand widow at the treasury, Mary with the because you’d see that they are not thinking naira compared to two hundred and Lifty alabaster box, but the greatest of all was of those who are lost or those who are not thousand naira he would have paid the Abraham. Simply because he satisLied the born again. I’m not saying this to embarrass doctor. Listen to me well: God is not a longing of the heart of God. This is very you if you are one; I’m just saying it so that beggar!
instructive.
you can change. A brother dropped a note to tell me that his mother was ill and at the #2: Giving By Instruction
Abraham gave a big estate to his nephew Lot
point of death. So I said, “From your note, it I said there were two dimensions to the that probably cost millions or trillions of seems you’ve left her for dead” taking my gospel, which is the desire of God, and that dollars. He gave Lot an open cheque, to write eyes off all the religious jagon he had written we should constantly give to the ministry of whatever he wanted and Lot chose the best down. He explained that he had done what the gospel. The other aspect or second land, but that was not the longing in the he knew to do, as he and his brothers were dimension is when God tells you to heart of God. God wanted a mortal man who praying to God for her healing. Then I asked speciLically give out something, say a million could give his only begotten son, so that it him if he had ministered salvation to her, naira or sell your only car and put it in the could become legal for God to give His only because the mother was in his house.
gospel, but you start doing arithmetic. You begotten Son for the world to be saved, and say, ”Lord, ah, ah, that means I will really not He found that person in Abraham.
If it was burning in his heart, that is the Lirst be able to meet my budget.” God knew your thing that would occur to him. God can heal budget before you made it . Always When Abraham did that, the devil couldn’t anybody not depending on the atmosphere remember that in God, any thing that leaves accuse God of giving His Son because He is you create, but whether it is an atmosphere
God. God would have pointed to His servant
of faith or not, even if the person is not
Abraham. Abraham did this as a
healed, the person will be delivered from
mortal man, he satisLied the
the pangs of hell. We require money to
longing in the heart of God.
minister the gospel, because the gospel
Imagine if Abraham didn’t do
is expensive. If Christians can talk about
that, and it paralyzed God from
the gospel the way they talk about
doing what He wanted to do, you
acquiring vanity, the world will be
and I wouldn’t be saved today
changed in one year. Where has passion
a n d s i n g i n g G o d ’ s p r a i s e .
for the lost gone? The Bible says where
Abraham understood the longing
your treasure is that is where your heart
of God’s heart and satisLied it.
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