THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEFT MINISTRY FROM NIGERIA AND GONE TO FOREIGN NATIONS THINKING THAT THE ANSWER (TO LASTING WEALTH) IS IN NATIONS.
NATIONS DON’T MAKE PEOPLE, IT IS COVENANT THAT MAKES PEOPLE.
THE ANSWER TO LASTING WEALTH IN THE KINGDOM IS OPERATING IN THE COVENANT.
THE EMPOWERMENT THAT MAKES FOR LASTING WEALTH IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NEVER WISHED BUT COMES BY OPERATING IN THE COVENANT.
ONE CARDINAL TRUTH ABOUT THE COVENANT IS THAT IT DOES NOT WORK SEASONALLY, IT WORKS EVERY TIME.
THE COVENANT IS NOT GEOGRAPHICAL, IT DOES NOT WORK IN ONE NATION AND FAIL IN ANOTHER NATION.
– Pastor David Ibiyeomie on ENJOYING LASTING WEALTH – PART 1 at Enjoying Lasting Wealth Service || Salvation Ministries – Home Of Success || 29th October 2023 || First Sunday Service || Part B
2 Corinthians 8:9. Now, the subject of prosperity has no respect in you claiming Abraham’s blessings. It has no respect for fasting and prayer, it does not respect the economic policies. It will surprise you that you cannot inherit ‘Lasting Wealth’ – You can’t inherit it. Even if your father is rich, you can’t inherit it, you have to do your own part. ‘Oh! My father is very rich, if he leaves everything…’ Have you not seen all the boys who their parents left houses for them? They are broke, they started selling them one after the other, true? But, they don’t inherit lasting wealth. Church Gist. Now, the answer to lasting wealth in the Kingdom is operating in the covenant. To enjoy lasting wealth, you must delicately keep to the terms of the covenant. Deuteronomy 8:18. He does not give you wealth. He empowers you to get it. Do you understand the Bible? So, He is saying, I’m going to empower you to get wealth but on a condition – Covenant basis. So my duty is to find out the terms of the covenant and apply them. Are you getting what God is saying here? So the empowerment that makes for lasting wealth in the Kingdom of God is never wished but comes by operating in the covenant and it still works till today.
So what is a covenant?
A covenant is a deal enacted by God with well defined terms sealed with an oath. Now, hear me people of God, a covenant as it were is like a contract, it involves two or more people; in this case it involves God and you, God and us. That’s what God is saying. It is an agreement between two or more parties with terms and benefits. So it’s an agreement between two parties and the compliance of both parties to the terms of agreement is what ratifies it. Church Gist. Now, God is the covenantor, you are the covenantee. Are you getting what I am saying now? So, you find out: ‘What is it that I need to do that will commit God to do His own part’? That’s all I need to find out. So, you are the beneficiary of this deal because God has nothing to lose, He is God, He can never lie, so we are the ones to benefit. So, all you and I need is good understanding of what the covenant entails and then you just enjoy abundance.
-You will enjoy abundance!
Listen people of God, one major principle that governs the covenant of lasting wealth is written in Genesis 8:22. It is the backbone of the covenant. He said while this earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest shall not what? Cease. So my duty is to find out what kind of seed I need to sow. Are you getting me Sir? Because we have different kinds of what? Seeds. Church Gist. Do you know greeting is a seed, hope you know? Do I need to greet? When you greet, you get more greetings. To love somebody is a seed, are you hearing me now? So, but every seed will produce after what? Its kind. So I need to know the kind of seed God is talking about in this one. Are you getting me Sir? Glory to God. Shout Hallelujah!
God will never go back on these things in setting covenant principles, you know what God said in Psalms 89:34? He said: ‘I can’t break it’. Our God can never go back on His Word. He said it is a covenant, I can’t break it, it’s unbreakable, just do your own part. Now hear me, God is bound with an oath. He said: ‘Look! I am committed, I can’t deny Myself of what I’ve said. So if God has declared that once there is a seed, harvest is what? Sure. Then my duty is to do what? Because God is not a man that He should lie. Numbers 23:19. If God has said: ‘Look! As long as this earth remaineth seedtime and harvest shall not cease’. My duty is to find out the kind of seed I need to sow. Is that clear Sir? Church Gist. And then God is eternally committed to keep His own part of the covenant. Because He is not a man. He is not Nigerian Government that will say one thing and do another thing, that’s not God. He is not the Government of the World, Government of the World can say one thing and do another thing but not God. God’s Government, the Kingdom Government, it does not say one thing and do another thing. Our God is so stable, He backs it with the integrity of Himself. He said: ‘Look, I’m not a man that I should lie’. That means man can lie. Numbers 23:19. The Bible said that man can lie but God can’t lie, man is vulnerable to lies; in fact lying is a normal thing with man. When He says anything you can know He is not man, He is not somebody that will say: ‘I will do this’ and will not do it, say: ‘I hear’.
So God said concerning keeping to the terms of His covenant, now hear what God said in Jeremiah 33:20-25 – You know what God is saying? He said: Be rest assured if you ever wake up and see the day and see the night then do your part. If no economy, no wizard, no devil has turned the day to night and night to day then do your part, I will do my own part. Church Gist. Are you getting what I’m saying here? He said: That is how strong it is, as long as you wake up you see day break, night come, He said: ‘Relax! No demon, no economy can stop what I’ve said I will do. How many understand the Bible? Glory to God.
-And God will do what He said concerning you.
So, He is simply saying, it is impossible for the covenant to fail. Church Gist. Now, hear this: They don’t pray covenant, they don’t fast covenant, they enter into a covenant. 2 Chronicles 15:12-15.
-Somebody will enter into a season of rest.
The people did not read, they didn’t jot the covenant, they entered into it. People enter into a covenant, you sign to it, you don’t just confess: ‘I’m going to be rich, I’m going to be…’ No, no, no! You enter into a covenant to do your part, that’s where the Church misses it – God has said: ‘I’m the head, I’m not the tail, I will prosper’! You can say all those confessions and nothing will work if you don’t enter into a covenant with God and do your own part before the confession. Church Gist. Confession without anything to do with the covenant is to be full of confusion. Okay, you have been confessing since, have you come out of that situation? Now, know! So you enter into the covenant, you don’t just confess. Now, one cardinal truth about the covenant is that it does not work seasonally, it works every time. It works what? Every time. Covenant does not work based on a season it works every time. It is an everlasting covenant. Psalms 103:17-18.
So the covenant is not seasonal, it is everlasting. Then, the covenant is not geographical – it does not work in one nation and fail in another nation. How many understand what the Bible says? Now, listen carefully, you know why I’m saying so? Because, many Christians today even are being fooled including Pastors running from one nation to another thinking that the answer is in nations. It is not in nations, it is in the covenant. There are even people who have left Ministry from Nigeria and gone to foreign nations and been molested. How can a man of God, full-fledged Man of God? How can somebody who have Masters (degree) will now be going to open gates and close gates? God did not send you there! No, no! Child of God listen, it is not where you go to, it is the covenant you operate with. People are beginning to mess their destinies up, running from Nigeria to Canada to put themselves in a can. Somebody will leave a place with dignity and go to open gate in the night in winter? God did not send you, don’t tell me God sent you. It’s not God! You did not follow the steps! Nations don’t make people, it is covenant that makes people. Are you hearing me? Sit down child of God and before you mess up your destiny for nothing.
