SPEAKER_00: Ephesians 4 28 Ephesians 4 28 and the Bible says anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer but must work doing something useful with their own hands that they may have something to share with those in need.
SPEAKER_00: Also give me 2 Corinthians 9 5 to 15.
SPEAKER_00: 2 Corinthians 9 5 to 15.
SPEAKER_00: 5 says, So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gifts you had promised.
SPEAKER_00: Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.
SPEAKER_00: Remember this whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
SPEAKER_00: Each of you should give.
SPEAKER_00: Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your stove of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us, through us, your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
SPEAKER_00: This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people, but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
SPEAKER_00: Because of the service by which you have proven yourself, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.
SPEAKER_00: And in their prayers for you, their hearts will go out to you because of the surpassing grace God has given you.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Let us pray.
SPEAKER_00: Father, in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: From the beginning of this service, you have been speaking about giving.
SPEAKER_00: Giving.
SPEAKER_00: You have been telling us through every kind of song that you have sung today.
SPEAKER_00: It has been something about giving and about giving thanks.
SPEAKER_00: And Father, we thank you, even as you take us deeper into this word, that God will get that which you have purposed for us to have.
SPEAKER_00: This is our prayer in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: You can maybe have your seats.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you guys.
SPEAKER_00: Doing great.
SPEAKER_00: We really appreciate.
SPEAKER_00: Um praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Praise Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: I'm just confirming that we you we are awake.
SPEAKER_00: You have had a long day, and there's a temptation when you sit comfortably, there's some Kunakaweva and Kanapita Senior.
SPEAKER_00: You just go and without knowing that you are gone until you hear a guy saying, May the grace.
SPEAKER_00: Then you go, like, what?
SPEAKER_00: You know?
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: So I want to share briefly, briefly, maybe for a few minutes, and then we'll have the worship team coming back, and then we just have an ample time to just go before God and just tell God something, and then we call it a day.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I want to share briefly about the sermon entitled The Heart of Giving.
SPEAKER_00: The key to your overflow.
SPEAKER_00: The heart of giving.
SPEAKER_00: The key to your overflow.
SPEAKER_00: And uh, media, are you able to give me these scriptures in New King James version so that uh I really pick how I could like it to be to be brought out?
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
SPEAKER_00: The heart of giving, the key to the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Now, in this month, in this month, we are trusting God for the impartation of uncommon overflow.
SPEAKER_00: The impartation of uncommon overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Now, it happens that when you pray for rain in a village and God answers you with the rain, there are people who never prayed for the rain, who will enjoy the rain, right?
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: There are people in this month who will experience an overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Even though they did not pray for the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And the people will enjoy this overflow this month without understanding how to cause the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: The purpose of this sermon is to give us a key that can cause you to provoke the overflow every day of your life.
SPEAKER_00: That over and above this month of uncommon overflow, you will continue understanding how to provoke the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Buona yesu as if I'm just going to share with us five five thoughts and then we pray.
SPEAKER_00: But in the first scriptures that we read in Ephesians 4.28, it says again, let him who stole steal no longer.
SPEAKER_00: But rather let him labor working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give who has need.
SPEAKER_00: I would like you to just note that that part that says that he may have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: He who stole, still no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands, what is good, that he may have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: To give what?
SPEAKER_00: To give him who has need.
SPEAKER_00: Nearly all of us are workers, yeah?
SPEAKER_00: We work, we do business, we work in offices.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And normally you do not work to give, yeah?
SPEAKER_00: You labor so that you can have and increase your wealth.
SPEAKER_00: Is it so?
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Bona Yesus few.
SPEAKER_00: Now, there are two things I want to alight on this first, you know, two or three things I want to highlight here before we go to the next thing.
SPEAKER_00: Now, let him who steal, steal no longer.
SPEAKER_00: Why do we have this in the scripture?
SPEAKER_00: In the church, unfortunately, we have a lot of brothers and sisters who I can categorize them as people who steal.
SPEAKER_00: They don't want to do any work.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: I hope you're not here, so please relax.
SPEAKER_00: There are people in the church who are aburdened to the body of Christ because they do not want to work.
SPEAKER_00: And they spend a lot of time just asking God, God give me, give me, give me, give me, give me.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: And then if God does not answer, they go, like, God, why?
SPEAKER_00: Where are you?
SPEAKER_00: How?
SPEAKER_00: You know, kwandilu mabariku engina mimuja ni bariki.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Bona yesas fiwe.
SPEAKER_00: You say God bless you with a million, eh?
SPEAKER_00: So go to 10,000.
SPEAKER_00: I'll be sorted.
SPEAKER_00: There are people in the church, unfortunately, unfortunately, who makes the work of salvation to be very high, very hard, because they do not labor.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And that's that's the first challenge that we need to address before we talk about giving.
SPEAKER_00: Because unless we talk, we we understand this aspect, we will, there are some of us who will take advantage of our giving.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: And they make it hard for those who want to give from their heart to give.
SPEAKER_00: Because they feel like they're being taken advantage of.
SPEAKER_00: Brothers and sisters, as you are born again.
SPEAKER_00: As long as you are born again, don't take advantage of others.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: That's why the Bible says that let him who stall steal no longer.
SPEAKER_00: Wakati, the Bible says in another place that he who does not work should not eat.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: So if you are eating from without working, then you are stealing.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Buana Yesas fiwe.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: That's what the Bible says, that he who let him who steal, who stole steal no longer.
SPEAKER_00: Rather, let him labor working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: Now, what this verse is saying, that it is it is crucial that as a Christian, a brother or a sister, you have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: If you have nothing to give, then it is disastrous to you as a Christian.
SPEAKER_00: You cannot practice Christianity if you do not have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: For the Bible says, for God so loved the world that he gave.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: There is no way we will practice our Christianity if we do not have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: Do something, have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: Giving is so crucial that unless you give, you cannot operate in the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: The moment you're not giving, you're operating like what the dead sea.
SPEAKER_00: Inakuja tu ingea in ishea po kwako.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: Somebody said like this if God can be assured that He can get something through you, then not have a problem giving something to you.
SPEAKER_00: The challenge that we have is that sometimes you're a dead end.
SPEAKER_00: God knows that the moment He blesses you, blessing, your blessing in Ishea Kwako.
SPEAKER_00: The moment God releases something to you, a grace to you, an anointing you, a favor to you, a blessing to you, it ends with you.
SPEAKER_00: No wonder Mike Smandro says that one of the richest places on earth is the grave.
SPEAKER_00: Because in the grave there are dreams that they were never realized.
SPEAKER_00: There are songs that were never sung.
SPEAKER_00: There are poems that were never written.
SPEAKER_00: Because somebody, hallelujah, somebody just took the blessing Akakalia.
SPEAKER_00: You sat on it.
SPEAKER_00: And people who sit on blessings are very good in criticizing.
SPEAKER_00: I wish those guys could hear how I sing.
SPEAKER_00: But you know, you don't, you never sing because you're so unashiklio barakasindio.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: So the first point that I wanted to share with us is that from that Ephesians 4.28, Paul reminds us that the purpose of work is not just for survival or self-satisfaction, but generosity.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: We labor so that we can give.
SPEAKER_00: We work with our hands so that we have something to share with those in need.
SPEAKER_00: A life of giving reflects a selfless life, living for others.
SPEAKER_00: This is the kingdom mindset.
SPEAKER_00: I am blessed so that I may be able to be a blessing.
SPEAKER_00: I'm trusting God for this overflow so that I'll be able to bless others.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: So point number one, we labor so that we can give.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody knows in the office that you are born again.
SPEAKER_00: So they put you in a very funny position, but you have to give because somebody says, Oh, you're born again.
SPEAKER_00: You you have to, you know.
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes we give out of obligation.
SPEAKER_00: And everybody's looking at you, or your neighbor knows, or maybe you happen to come to the church with your colleague, and maybe you are the senior to your colleague, and if you call your time, you go like, I mean, I have to just give, you know, an anion, that kind of thing.
SPEAKER_00: But that's not that's not the spirit that God wants us to operate in.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Our giving is a response to God's goodness and grace.
SPEAKER_00: God's goodness and grace.
SPEAKER_00: Oftenly, oftenly.
SPEAKER_00: Oftenly, we do not appreciate God's blessings until we meet somebody who does not have what we have.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you may not appreciate that God has given you those good legs to be able to stand and walk until you see somebody who does not have the two legs and somehow is moving.
SPEAKER_00: You know, have you seen somebody who doesn't have two legs and is moving?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
SPEAKER_00: Anna Anna somehow make and make a movie, he's moving or she's moving.
SPEAKER_00: Other time you look and say that, oh God, kumba mene bariki.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Or you see somebody who has who does not have hair because labour you can have cancer, and you have been just taking your hair for granted.
SPEAKER_00: Many times we do not appreciate what God has given to us, often sometimes until we lose it.
SPEAKER_00: But the moment we realize that everything we have, it has taken the grace of God.
SPEAKER_00: We put inside us our thanksgiving in a crocandani.
SPEAKER_00: And once you have a thanksgiving heart, it is easy for you to release things.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's why Paul says not grudgingly or of necessity.
SPEAKER_00: For God loves a cheerful giver.
SPEAKER_00: Why does God love a cheerful giver?
SPEAKER_00: Now God is a giver.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: And when we give, we partake of what God does, we become co-workers with God.
SPEAKER_00: We become co-workers with God.
SPEAKER_00: One day I was somewhere and we were praying for somebody.
SPEAKER_00: We're praying, we're praying for this guy for God to come through for him.
SPEAKER_00: It was about money, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And in in in between the prayer, God spoke to me.
SPEAKER_00: When God speaks to you, what do you do?
SPEAKER_00: What do you do?
SPEAKER_00: Let's take, for example, you are trusting, I mean, somebody has come to you and he or she is trusting you for 10,000.
SPEAKER_00: And when do let's pray.
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes we do that very much religiously, Sindio, as Christians.
SPEAKER_00: Then in between the prayer, God tells you, Why are you asking me for what you can do?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you can give this 10,000 to this brother.
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes we want God to bless him through another means other than yourself.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody to bless him.
SPEAKER_00: I mean God to bless him, but not through you.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, remember God is angular.
SPEAKER_00: There's a way I'd plan myself.
SPEAKER_00: This 10,000, 100,000, God, there's a way he had plans.
SPEAKER_00: But God indeed help him, help him.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: When you give cheerfully, you participate.
SPEAKER_00: Let me use a word which I'll be very careful to use.
SPEAKER_00: You participate in the Godhead.
SPEAKER_00: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, praise the Lord, they are givers.
SPEAKER_00: He's called Jehovah Jireh, the Lord, our provider.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: When you participate in giving, you participate in the work that God does.
SPEAKER_00: And God loves it when He has people whom He can work with and through.
SPEAKER_00: There's a place where the Bible says that God is the father to the fatherless and the husbands to the widows.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: One day I was having a conversation with one bishop and he asked me, Peter, how does God become a father to the fatherless and a husband to the widows?
SPEAKER_00: The only way God does it is through us.
SPEAKER_00: When God uses you to stand with a family, to stand with a with an orphan, when God uses you, it is God becoming the father to the fatherless through you.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And when you do it glandly, joyfully, God rejoices in you.
SPEAKER_00: And there's something that happened when the king rejoices.
SPEAKER_00: When we when we were younger, people used to go to President Moe and sing songs.
SPEAKER_00: And when President Moe becomes happy, he unleashes something.
SPEAKER_00: Senior, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: When we become joyful in giving, we make God to be happy.
SPEAKER_00: He goes like, Yes, I have sons and daughters.
SPEAKER_00: They are doing that which I am doing.
SPEAKER_00: And when he becomes happy, praise the Lord, he opens the windows of heaven and he poses to you blessings that you cannot be able to keep.
SPEAKER_00: And why does God give you more than what he knows you cannot keep?
SPEAKER_00: Because God wants you to continue being a giver.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody said like this everything that God creates gives, except man.
SPEAKER_00: When man becomes a giver, becomes a channel of God's blessing, God rejoices because that is the purpose of God.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the Psalms 82, the Bible says that you are all gods, you are all sons of the Most High, but you'll die like mere men.
SPEAKER_00: I like the first part, don't like the second part.
SPEAKER_00: What makes us to be gods is when we live as gods, when we are providers like our Father, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: When God can channel his graces through us, him showing forth his goodness.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says in another verse that it is the will of God that God shows his manifold wisdom to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places through the church.
SPEAKER_00: God will show forth his manifold wisdom, his manifold graces, his manifold who is through us, when we can be able to channel out that which is giving us.
SPEAKER_00: That's why the Bible says God loves a cheerful giver.
SPEAKER_00: When you give, you're not giving God a compare.
SPEAKER_00: You know?
SPEAKER_00: God is not like man.
SPEAKER_00: You know, sometimes men will compete each other, yeah?
SPEAKER_00: This guy is now this guy, amend us and come and attack.
SPEAKER_00: God delights it.
SPEAKER_00: He delights when we walk in in godness.
SPEAKER_00: I hope you guys are understanding what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: That's why the Bible said that we have been accepted in the beloved.
SPEAKER_00: God wants us to live like gods.
SPEAKER_00: God wants you to be a source.
SPEAKER_00: See, out of our bellies will flow rivers.
SPEAKER_00: Rivers of living waters.
SPEAKER_00: God wants us to be a channel, to be a source of blessing.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Number three, giving is caring.
SPEAKER_00: Giving is caring.
SPEAKER_00: There is no way you'll preach this gospel of the kingdom without giving.
SPEAKER_00: There's no way.
SPEAKER_00: There is no way.
SPEAKER_00: Because if you try, you'll just quote the verse that says that for God so loved the world that he gave.
SPEAKER_00: We for us to preach this gospel of the kingdom, we have to give.
SPEAKER_00: Giving.
SPEAKER_00: We cannot love without giving.
SPEAKER_00: Love is incomplete unless there is a giving.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Giving is a tangible expression of love.
SPEAKER_00: It makes us co-laborers with God in his work of provision.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: When you bring we when we when we when we care, when we care, we extend God God's hand to somebody.
SPEAKER_00: There's a song that we used to sing when we were in secondary, sometimes in early 90s, and we were singing, How will they know that you really love the Lord?
SPEAKER_00: How will they know?
SPEAKER_00: Oh skill scarce out so how will they know that you really love the Lord unless you go to them?
SPEAKER_00: What a joy, combo.
SPEAKER_00: How will people know unless you go to them?
SPEAKER_00: And how will you touch them unless you minister to them, unless you give them?
SPEAKER_00: There's a story of a preacher who went somewhere and as he was preaching, somebody told him that I cannot be able to hear what you are saying because I do not have shoes.
SPEAKER_00: And the preacher had to remove his shoes and give it to that guy for him to be able to listen to the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: There's some people who will not listen to what it doesn't matter how much you love Jesus, my brother.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter how much you love Jesus, my sister.
SPEAKER_00: The people will not hear that until you can touch them by your giving.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: On a light note, I saw this video of a sister in the Lord who boarded a nissan.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Nissan?
SPEAKER_00: She boarded a nissan and she sat the last seat.
SPEAKER_00: They cut cut in the middle seat.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: This Nissan was like going a long distance.
SPEAKER_00: So the vehicle, ikaja, it started leaving the place.
SPEAKER_00: And the sister, after relaxing and settling down, the water conezi bags, eh?
SPEAKER_00: Akafungwa bag.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Akatoa ile aku wiper.
SPEAKER_00: Sindel.
SPEAKER_00: She akatoa, ka wipe mkono vizuri, kakunja vizuri, akekamali, akengiza mkono akatoa chips and chicken.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: And she ate, she ate, finished eating, kakunja kunza whatever.
SPEAKER_00: Akengiza ne, akengizam kono tena akatoa juice.
SPEAKER_00: Kafungua, kakunya polepole, akamaliza, akaru shendani alafu, akatoa bible.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: All the people in the matatu are like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_00: You did not share us with the chips, you did not share us with sometimes you want to share.
SPEAKER_00: We want to share the gospel with people, but we don't want to share in their challenges.
SPEAKER_00: We don't want to share in their problems.
SPEAKER_00: One of the best ways you can share the gospel is to stand with somebody in his or her challenges.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: When you stand with him or her in his challenges, it is him or her will tell you, which kind of Jesus are you serving?
SPEAKER_00: Some of these people, as you stand with them, they'll ask you, you look like Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: The easiest way for us to evangelize the world is for us to give.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Well, come on, you're not giving.
SPEAKER_00: Now, number four, giving triggers God's overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Giving triggers gods overflow.
SPEAKER_00: He who spare who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly.
SPEAKER_00: He who sows generously will also reap generously.
SPEAKER_00: When God uses farming as a parable or as an example, he wants us to reflect.
SPEAKER_00: You know, God is a good God.
SPEAKER_00: God can bless you.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, God can make you rich without even you moving a foot.
SPEAKER_00: God is able to make all his grace to abound.
SPEAKER_00: But God is drawing our attention into farming and tells us that as a farmer, you can decide to decide to plant a handful of seeds.
SPEAKER_00: And use the rest of the time fasting and praying and all that.
SPEAKER_00: But you can also plant a whole whatever.
SPEAKER_00: Mfukumzimaya Yambegu.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And still the two guys can still go before God and ask God, God, bless the work of our hands.
SPEAKER_00: God is so faithful that if you planted a handful, God will cause you to gain an equivalent of a handful.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: One year's fewer.
SPEAKER_00: And then Nambiya Mungo, God, I know you are the more than enough God.
SPEAKER_00: I love to quote Ephesians, uh, Philippians 4.
SPEAKER_00: And my God shall supply all my needs according to his riches and glory.
SPEAKER_00: But now before Paul, my God shall supply.
SPEAKER_00: He said, You have supplied, you have given me, you have met my needs.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: You have gone more, I mean you have gone over, and my God shall supply.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: For us to experience the overflow, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: We have to give and give generously.
SPEAKER_00: And when we speak about giving, only we're not limiting ourselves to money.
SPEAKER_00: It can be talent, it can be the time you have.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: It can be you just spending time to listen to somebody and cancel that person, lending an ear to somebody.
SPEAKER_00: There are many ways in which we can give.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And every one of us, everyone of us has something he can give.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Even if you do not have money, you can give something.
SPEAKER_00: You can give your time.
SPEAKER_00: You have various talents.
SPEAKER_00: You can avail that talent and bless somebody with it.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Number five.
SPEAKER_00: Before I go to number five, number four, the measure you use determines the measure you receive.
SPEAKER_00: Generosity is the key that I love.
SPEAKER_00: Giving multiplies, thanks giving to God.
SPEAKER_00: Giving giving multiplies thanksgiving to God.
SPEAKER_00: When you give somebody, let me use money because it's an easier way to to to explain.
SPEAKER_00: When you stand with somebody who does not have food, for example, and the person is able to forfeit.
SPEAKER_00: And if it is a mother, she's able to forfeit her children.
SPEAKER_00: They will raise their voice to God and say, God, the person who gave may you bless him.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: One is a few.
SPEAKER_00: In a situation where he could have given up hope, you could have maybe committed suicide and you have stood with him, and he has been able to surstand when he prays to God, the kind of prayers that he prays, and the kind of prayers that you may not pray for yourself.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: One year's view.
SPEAKER_00: There are some things that you may not okay.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: There are some prayers that as much as you want to pray about yourself, as just other people's prayer will reach out when they pray for you.
SPEAKER_00: When you cause somebody's heart to to break because of joy, because you have done something you have to touch him, or you have touched him in a way that no one else has touched that person.
SPEAKER_00: The kind of prayer that this person will pray to God, the kind of thanksgiving that that will go before God on your behalf.
SPEAKER_00: It makes God to stop everything else and attend to even those needs that you are not even asked.
SPEAKER_00: Remember the story of Elisha and the widow.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: He came and realized that the man of God normally passes here.
SPEAKER_00: And it causes Elisha to ask the woman, What do you want?
SPEAKER_00: What can I do for you?
SPEAKER_00: What can I petition to God for you?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: When you give, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: One I have, you know, you may be having some things that you have not even asked to talk to talk to God about.
SPEAKER_00: There's some things that you have not taken time to present them before God.
SPEAKER_00: But when you give to others, when you stand when you stand in the gap and help others, people to stand, it bothers God.
SPEAKER_00: God goes like, What can I do for this guy?
SPEAKER_00: Should I give him one more son?
SPEAKER_00: Should I give him a promotion?
SPEAKER_00: Should I give him another house?
SPEAKER_00: Should I I mean can I elongate his life?
SPEAKER_00: Can I add more ten years or ten twenty more years?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, should I for fight some battles for him?
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes let me tell you, my brothers and my sisters, sometimes giving is painful.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes God touches you to give what you really need.
SPEAKER_00: It is easy for you to give from the overflow, yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: One answer is few.
SPEAKER_00: It is easier.
SPEAKER_00: It is okay.
SPEAKER_00: It's funny because the moment you get money, it somehow you plan for it, you know, all of it.
SPEAKER_00: It's easy.
SPEAKER_00: I know you maybe not be having a million, but the moment somebody calls you and tells you we'll give you a million, in the next ten minutes you have planned for the whole of that million, send you.
SPEAKER_00: So in the next thirty minutes, after thirty minutes, you talk about God.
SPEAKER_00: Normally that's what happens.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Oftenly, even before you get to a salary for those who are salaried, before you get to a salary, you have already spent that money like three times.
SPEAKER_00: So anyway.
SPEAKER_00: According to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: The people you bless us will pray for you, speak well of you and glorify God on your behalf.
SPEAKER_00: Your generosity becomes a testimony that points others back to God's grace.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: What happened to the time?
SPEAKER_00: Are you sure this is what is working?
SPEAKER_00: Okay, anyway.
SPEAKER_00: So we need to stop at this.
SPEAKER_00: We'll say that uh the first step the first point was that we labor so that we can give.
SPEAKER_00: So that we let's work hard as brothers and sisters.
SPEAKER_00: Let's not be lazy.
SPEAKER_00: Let's not take advantage of each other.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: So that we can have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, giving flows from a from a heart of gratitude.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: From a heart of gratitude.
SPEAKER_00: Number three, that giving is caring.
SPEAKER_00: We cannot care unless we give.
SPEAKER_00: Number four, giving triggers the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Every time you want to operate in this overflow, you trigger it by giving.
SPEAKER_00: There's not if you look at the old testament, every time God required men to come before him, he was supposed to appear with something.
SPEAKER_00: Because giving triggers an overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And there's a behavior for kings.
SPEAKER_00: The ancient kings, every time you appear before a king, you're not supposed to appear from there empty-handed.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, if you appear empty-handed, you are you your track is not Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: And every time you appear before a king with a gift, it's not because he requires that gift.
SPEAKER_00: The gift gives the king an exercise to bless you.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: So our giving fingers to God to bless us.
SPEAKER_00: And our giving next people to just give thanks.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks to God.
SPEAKER_00: In conclusion, the heart of giving is the key to living in overflow.
SPEAKER_00: We don't give to manipulate God.
SPEAKER_00: We give because God first gave to us.
SPEAKER_00: When we give with love, gratitude, and cheerfulness, we position ourselves under heaven's economy of abundance.
SPEAKER_00: And as we wrap up this sermon, let's reflect on the parable of the rich fool.
SPEAKER_00: That's reflected in Luke chapter 12 from verse 13 to 21.
SPEAKER_00: When you get this abundance, the temptation that you will you will have is that you will open your store.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Then you will go to Reverend Ambrose and say that stretch stretch your tent.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: You see, this is the parabola of the rich fool.
SPEAKER_00: When God blesses blessed him with an overflow, he enlarged his tall houses and enlarges his capacity and his toll, and to say that now I'll sit, relax, enjoy myself.
SPEAKER_00: And you know, and God says, You fool, this night I'm taking your heart.
SPEAKER_00: No, as God gives you this overflow, God is blessing you with this overflow so that you can overflow in the giving.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: So that you can give more.
SPEAKER_00: Because as you give more, you you you you create a vicious circle of wealth.
SPEAKER_00: The more you give, the more God blesses you, and the more you are positioned to continue giving so that your life will continue to be a cycle of overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Your children will be great in the land because there is a way in which when you are overflowing, it opens doors for your children.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: When Obama came to Kenya, it is the president's son and daughter who are going to greet Obama and his children.
SPEAKER_00: Remember that time?
SPEAKER_00: When you are living in the overflow, it attracts power, it attracts wealth, it attracts the position.
SPEAKER_00: There's a place in which God wants you to live.
SPEAKER_00: And you cannot live unless you are in the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: In this month where we are trusting God for the uncommon overflow, the spirit abundance.
SPEAKER_00: Let us live to give.
SPEAKER_00: Because in God's kingdom, the open hand is never empty.
SPEAKER_00: The hand that giveth is never empty.
SPEAKER_00: The hand that is willing to extend itself to somebody is never empty.
SPEAKER_00: We worship you this evening.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you for the privilege of being at your feet and learning from you, Lord, to be taught by your spirit, to be instructed of you.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you for your grace, for your mercies upon us.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody just tell God something.
SPEAKER_00: Tell God something.
SPEAKER_00: Thank God for something.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you for the gift of life.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you for saving us.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you for lifting us and sustaining us.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you for the various ways you have come through for us.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you even for our bodies, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: But Father, many times you do not uh take time to thank you that we are able to live and move and have and have our being.
SPEAKER_00: God, we thank you for you have given us so much.
SPEAKER_00: You have dressed us.
SPEAKER_00: You woke us up today.
SPEAKER_00: There are some who slept yesterday and did not see this morning.
SPEAKER_00: God, we thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And Father, as we thank you, we come asking to forgive us for the many times you have come grumbling and complaining.
SPEAKER_00: Abba Father, forgive us for the many times we have been so keen to complain.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have this, I don't have that, I'm this and that, and this.
SPEAKER_00: Abba Father, forgive us.
SPEAKER_00: This evening we recognize and acknowledge that God, you have been so gracious to us, and God, you have been so good to us, we've been so good to our homes, so good to our families, so good to our land, so good to our nation.
SPEAKER_00: God, we thank you.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, Lord, we have needs here and there, but often above our needs, Lord, we want to say we thank you for what you have done, we thank you for your graces, we thank you for your mercies, we thank you for your favor.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you even for being able to gather here today, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: There are people who are having chaos in their countries, oh God.
SPEAKER_00: They are not able to gather together and worship you.
SPEAKER_00: There are people in China.
SPEAKER_00: For them to gather together, they have to do it in hiding.
SPEAKER_00: God has given us to be able to come and gather together, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you for your mercies, we thank you for your goodness, and God, we thank you for your favor.
SPEAKER_00: You have told us today that we should labor, we should work so that we have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: For the times in which, Lord, we have been lazy, for the time we have taken advantage of others, oh God, we come and ask you to forgive us.
SPEAKER_00: For the time, oh God, we have taken advantage of the scriptures to to to to to to uh extort finances from each other, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We come and we ask you to forgive us, and today, Lord, we receive the grace of walking, the grace of using our hands to get something that we may have something to give.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you for this ministry, this ministry of giving, this ministry of blessing, this ministry of being co-workers with you in blessing, in meeting the needs of others, and God, how we pray in the name of Jesus as you cause this overflow to come upon us this month, oh God, that God we shall use this overflow to give, not to enrich ourselves, not to stop, and not to give for any day, but God sanda raka sokorobosiki.
SPEAKER_00: That somebody, Lord, will shed tears because of our giving.
SPEAKER_00: To some of us, Father, I know you're touching somebody to give sacrificially lord.
SPEAKER_00: Father, may he or half name, oh God, and maybe cause oh God, thanksgiving to be raised, oh Lord, unto you because of somebody's sacrifice.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody's name himself address and to me, a self-address.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody named Selfashoe or a fashion or something or a shirt to be a blessing to somebody.
SPEAKER_00: Abba Father, that's more sacrifice.
SPEAKER_00: You see it, and you cause your grace to abound even much more.
SPEAKER_00: Abba Father, in the name of Jesus, you have called us to be co-workers with you, not spectators.
SPEAKER_00: Father, forgive us for the many times we have been spectators, we have been we have been people who send you some God, touch that one, God provide for that one, God go there, God do that.
SPEAKER_00: But you have called us to go, to be your feet, to be your hands, to be your eyes, Abba Father, to be your mouth, Abba Father, Rabo Shander.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody tell God something.
SPEAKER_00: Tell God something, tell God something.
SPEAKER_00: May you purpose, my brother, my sister, not to be the one who sends God, but to the one who God sends, that God can adjust things to you that you will be able to give out, you'll be able to bless somebody, you'll be able to visit somebody, you'll be able to be an encouragement to somebody with that which God has put in your hands.
SPEAKER_00: So if God can get something through you, he'll not have a problem to get something to you.
unknown: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you have been just be grudging, giving gradually.
SPEAKER_00: This is a time to tell God something about it.
SPEAKER_00: This is not just one of those other sermons.
SPEAKER_00: This is God telling us we need to do something for us to experience and continually experience the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: Stimulate the overflow every time because we are givers with every eye close, with every head bowed, this will just take a few minutes and we call it a day.
SPEAKER_00: Just maybe just do a self-evaluation.
SPEAKER_00: How have you been operating in giving?
SPEAKER_00: In terms of giving.
SPEAKER_00: Has it been just about you and you and you?
SPEAKER_00: Has your life be just be about you?
SPEAKER_00: Have you been imagining that you are the sun and everything else is rotating around you?
SPEAKER_00: Have you been imagining that you are the sun?
SPEAKER_00: And everything else is like planets around you.
SPEAKER_00: Are there something that you want to tell God?
SPEAKER_00: God in this area mess.
SPEAKER_00: And God, now I understand why I've not been operating in the offering.
SPEAKER_00: It is because of this.
SPEAKER_00: And God, forgive me here.
SPEAKER_00: Can you just do a self-assessment?
SPEAKER_00: Evaluate yourself sincerely.
SPEAKER_00: It might be money, it may be talents.
SPEAKER_00: We have so many singers in this church, but only a few have availed themselves.
SPEAKER_00: And God, I thank God for the music, for the worship team, the sacrifice they do for them to stand before us, lead us in songs, the media department, the volunteers there.
SPEAKER_00: I really thank God for you guys.
SPEAKER_00: And all people are volunteering in the different areas.
SPEAKER_00: May God bless you.
SPEAKER_00: Your service in the Lord is not in vain.
SPEAKER_00: We may not see, but the God who sees knows how to bless.
SPEAKER_00: And when they get blessed, don't feel jealous.
SPEAKER_00: That is God.
SPEAKER_00: Telling God something, telling God something.
SPEAKER_00: Telling God something.
SPEAKER_00: Holy Spirit of God, work on us.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says that you work in us both to will and to do according to our purpose.
SPEAKER_00: Work on us today.
SPEAKER_00: Disturb us today, Lord Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Give us no rest until we yield to what you are teaching us today.
SPEAKER_00: This gospel can easily be preached in the world if we are all givers, if we all go out of our way to draw somebody to the Lord by loving and caring and touching them and sharing.
SPEAKER_00: Oh God, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit of God.
SPEAKER_00: Love your way.
SPEAKER_00: Have our Father, we worship you.
SPEAKER_00: This is your service.
SPEAKER_00: We are your people.
SPEAKER_00: And we surrender ourselves as living sacrifice to you.
SPEAKER_00: Do unto us that you which you will you desire to do.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you.
SPEAKER_00: Some pain for somebody to go through.
SPEAKER_00: May you give us the grace to pay the price that somebody else will be able to rejoice.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody else will see you in us.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody else will experience your love.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you.
SPEAKER_00: Now, Dad, in the name of Jesus, now allow your burdens to be upon us.
SPEAKER_00: Allow your overflow to be upon us, to the glory and honor of your kingdom.
SPEAKER_00: Father, Father, this is our prayer.
SPEAKER_00: This is our prayer.
SPEAKER_00: Father, I thank you for every prayer that you brothers, my sisters are praying.
SPEAKER_00: I say amen to it.
SPEAKER_00: May God help you have your way.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: And may the Lord bless you.
SPEAKER_00: And may the Lord keep you.
SPEAKER_00: May his face shine upon you.
SPEAKER_00: May He give you peace.
SPEAKER_00: May you experience the overflow, the abundance, that you may continue being a giver.
SPEAKER_00: May other people experience God through you.
SPEAKER_00: May they be able to say the God of Anne, the God of Alice, the God of Kamal, the God of Macharia, the God of Martin, the God of Peter.
SPEAKER_00: Because in you they have seen God.
SPEAKER_00: May God continue making you to be big through your giving to the glory and honour of his name.
SPEAKER_00: This is our prayer.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00: May God bless you.
SPEAKER_00: Time is so much spent.
SPEAKER_00: But I thank you for being patient to be here.
SPEAKER_00: Like us to serve the word of grace together.
SPEAKER_00: And we thank as we thank God for the cup of tea.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you for our mamas who and the catering team and our mammals who are serving us.
SPEAKER_00: May God bless you big.
SPEAKER_00: And now, uh, Father, we thank you for the tea and the snacks that we're going to share.
SPEAKER_00: May you continue to bless us and may you uh do us good.
SPEAKER_00: This is our prayer.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore.
unknown: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: God bless you.
SPEAKER_00: Good night.