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CHRONICLES 1:6-11
The
candidate for breakthrough is one who is hardworking and a great giver. If you
desire a breakthrough in any area of your life, yet you are lazy and stingy,
you are wasting your time; you are not tired of that negative situation.
Abraham was a great giver. He was not stingy. He realised his source of wealth,
protection and restoration was God. He did not withhold anything he had from
God: not even Isaac, his only son. No wonder today he is the father of all
believers in Christ Jesus. The widow of Zarephath gave her last meal to Elijah
to provoke her breakthrough.
On his part, Solomon made his breakthrough with a record offering: he offered a thousand burnt offerings and made an unusual request, not based on selfishness (2 Chronicles 1:6-11). Paul paid a price for his anointing: he gave up his PhD and all his past achievement to Jesus (Philippians 3:7-8). No wander none of his peer could stand up to him in spiritual breakthrough!
Hannah returned her only son to God the Giver and had five more children (1 Samuel 1:24—28; 2:20-21). If she had Samuel to herself, she would have had just one son. She gave her only son and final had six. Are you sure you want a breakthrough? What have you given that cost you in order to provoke your blessing?
It is how you treat God that will determine how he will treat you. If you refuse to give to him, you block him from releasing your blessings to you. Of course, he will not cut off certain ordinary blessings, like access to the sun and the rain. If you give stingingly and calculated to him, he will return to you using your own measure. So even in breakthroughs, there are different measures. If you want God to give you an international breakthrough but you keep back foreign currencies and sow to him only in Naira, sorry, but God will give you, your breakthrough in Naira.
You have to choose either to provoke your breakthrough sacrificially or maintain your status quo. Why not yield to God and do what others have not done – and turn your life around for the best?
On his part, Solomon made his breakthrough with a record offering: he offered a thousand burnt offerings and made an unusual request, not based on selfishness (2 Chronicles 1:6-11). Paul paid a price for his anointing: he gave up his PhD and all his past achievement to Jesus (Philippians 3:7-8). No wander none of his peer could stand up to him in spiritual breakthrough!
Hannah returned her only son to God the Giver and had five more children (1 Samuel 1:24—28; 2:20-21). If she had Samuel to herself, she would have had just one son. She gave her only son and final had six. Are you sure you want a breakthrough? What have you given that cost you in order to provoke your blessing?
It is how you treat God that will determine how he will treat you. If you refuse to give to him, you block him from releasing your blessings to you. Of course, he will not cut off certain ordinary blessings, like access to the sun and the rain. If you give stingingly and calculated to him, he will return to you using your own measure. So even in breakthroughs, there are different measures. If you want God to give you an international breakthrough but you keep back foreign currencies and sow to him only in Naira, sorry, but God will give you, your breakthrough in Naira.
You have to choose either to provoke your breakthrough sacrificially or maintain your status quo. Why not yield to God and do what others have not done – and turn your life around for the best?
MEMORIZE:
PROVERBS 18:16 –A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great
men.
