ENLARGING THE LITTLE (2)

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TEXT: Isaiah 54:2-4

1) GOD MUST BE THE SOURCE AND AT THE CENTRE OF WHAT YOU HAVE

Whatever has its roots in God will surely be fruitful in the end. You cannot ask God to bless what He didn’t give you in the first place. A thief asking God to bless the money he stole is invoking curses upon that money and his life, for ‘whatever a man sows, he reaps’ (Galatians 6:7). If he sowed pains in people’s life, he will reap pains in his life, no matter how hard he prays (unless he repents and do restitution).

If the job you have or the little you have came on the altar of compromise and bribery, you will be deceiving yourself asking God to enlarge it. If your source is not God, then your resources cannot be enlarged by God.

2) SHOW GRATITUDE FOR THE LITTLE YOU HAVE

Smallness is not an excuse for ungratefulness. In 2014 and always, you must cultivate the attitude of gratitude for everything (even lack). Gratitude enlarges; ungratefulness diminishes.

When Jesus was faced with little resources and thousands of people, He gave thanks (Matthew 15:36) and five loaves of bread and two fishes fed five thousand people aside women and children. When your ‘thanks’ is full, your ‘tank’ will be full. Emptiness follows thanklessness.

3) LOOK TO GOD AND NOT MAN

“Vain is the help of man” (Psalm 60:11; Psalm 108:12).

Man can only be a channel, God is the source. If one channel decides to close down, God who is the source can channel it Himself or open up another channel (helper) to you. And so, God must be your primary focus for help and increase. Anytime you look up to God, salvation comes close to you (Hebrews 12:2). When Jesus was about to multiply the bread and fishes, He “looked up to Heaven” (Matthew 14:19b). Look to God and rest your hope in Him.

4) UPHOLD THE TRUTH AND RETAIN INTEGRITY

You must put eternity above prosperity. Any increase that comes on the altar of compromise, cheating and corruption is not of God but an organised package from hell to rob you off Heaven. God cannot be glorified in a lie. If you told lie to be blessed and/or receive favour, the devil took the glory for that blessing. And anytime you share a testimony on that, the devil and hell mock God because you lied and glorified the father of lies (satan) and not God.

Any pastor falsifying testimonies and miracles so as to “win” more souls, he is in danger of hell. When the souls are won, there will be joy in Heaven so that the word be fulfilled (Luke 15:7), but the devil takes the glory because it came on the altar of lie and he (satan) is the father of lies (John 8:44). So, though Heaven rejoices, God is unhappy because the devil took the glory meant for Him. And anytime that pastor shares this as a testimony, hell rejoices and mocks because the testimony came on the altar of lie which is the nature of the devil and gives the devil the glory. God only takes the glory when results come on the altar of truth. This is why lying is a grievous sin that sends souls to hell.