SCHOOL OF DIORTHORSIS
TUESDAY, 23RD AUGUST 2022
Minister: Pastor Oluwaseyi Osanyinbi
1 Chronicles 29:11,12
We cannot talk about the kingdom of God without talking about material prosperity. There are various ways by which God blesses people; it is not all about tithe. Though tithe is really important, there are other things we need to do to be blessed of God.
The New Testament does not emphasise how to make money so much. It is more concerned with how we make use of the substance God blesses us with. This testament talks more about intangible riches like love, goodness, kindness, faith, mercy and grace which are inexhaustible. They are not easily appreciated because they look abstract but they are as real as riches get. God wants us to acquire these riches as they are important to our walk with Him.
As rich as God is in mercy, He said He will only have mercy on whom He will have mercy. Some people get mercy because they have people interceding for them. It is such a blessing for us to have people standing in the gap for us. We must also learn to stand in the gap for others.
3 John 1:2
God wants us to prosper and be in good health so that we can serve Him with all we’ve got. We need our bodies as vessels to serve God, that is why yielding our members to fornication and adultery is a treason against God. We have our body in trust from God to serve Him.
God wants us to be healthy spirit, soul and body. Dullness of intellect and fragile emotions are signs of sickness. We need our intellect, will and emotions intact in order to serve God effectively. In preaching the Gospel for instance, we need to engage people both spiritually and intellectually.
Effort is required for God to bless us. To generate faith to trust God for blessings even requires effort. Divine encounter is one of the ways by which God blesses us. One of the major problems we have as God’s people is that we do not engage ourselves in gainful works that God can capitalise on to bless us.
In prospering, we need divine direction even concerning our location at every point in time. We need to acknowledge God in all our ways even in the seemingly mundane things.
Bezalel was a skilled person but when the anointing of the Holy Spirit came upon him, he began to operate at another level. God does not bless zero, He blesses our efforts.
Abraham had a physical encounter with Melchizedek; Isaac continued to serve the God of his father; and Jacob had dreams. Through these encounters they all had tremendous blessings.
1 Kings 3:11
Solomon was blessed in various ways. One of the ways in which God blessed him was through sacrifices. Solomon was a reckless sacrificer and that made the heavens to respond to him in a special way. When we make sacrifices, there is a transfer of values between the earth and the heavens and that leads to exchanges from heaven to earth.
When we make sacrifices, we may look foolish to others. However, we should know better not to mind what others think as far as we are in sync with God. We need to learn to give our all to God without looking back (Mark 12:30). We need to continually live lives of sacrifice by faith as we anticipate God’s blessings.
God responded to Solomon’s sacrifices with blessing and favour as people from all over the world blessed him with all manners of things. We need our capacities built to handle the blessings and favours that come our ways. We need to understand the pros and cons of the realm of God so that we can make the best use of it.
2 Chronicles 17:3-5
We need skill and capacity to retain God’s presence. God was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the righteous ways of David. This made him have tremendous blessings.
Psalm 2:8
Jesus told us to ask for whatever we want in accordance to God’s will by faith and it will be done for us. Having faith in God and not doubting can be quite challenging but that is the way to go. We need to be trained in the Spirit to be fruitful followers of God.
Proverbs 31:13-22
Industry is another God-ordained way of blessing us. Whatever our hands find to do requires industry. Every business has a way and path to succeed and we need to be wise in recognising it. We need to configure our minds to operate in our God-given spaces.
We need to be industrious and make the most of every opportunity. However, we must not go to the extreme in being industrious by ignoring God and our bodies. We need to take care of our bodies by sleeping, eating, resting and exercising well while we remain devoted God.
Malachi 3:8-12
There is a role that tithe plays in making us prosperous. When we give our tithes, we need to give in faith and engage God actively by having expectations according to His promises.
As we give our tithes, God opens doors of opportunities for us and He keeps wasters away from us. We must be conscious of these realities and enforce them by the power of God. We can present God’s word to Him in the courts of heaven in order to obtain justice against devourers.
The blessing God promised us is a seed we are supposed to download and plant. There is a lot of work to do between the planting and the harvest. All these follow the principles of God’s economic system.