11/08/2026
EXCERPTS FROM SUNDAY SERMON ON 9TH AUGUST, 2026
TOPIC: Prosperity, God's Plan For His Children*l
TEXT: 2Corint 9:5-8
THE SERMON BY:
As we step into the time of harvest, it is the commencement of a season when you start understanding your spiritual position and provision for prosperity.
It is the plan of God for us that to him that labours, harvest shall come - and that we should not be pursuing blessings, instead blessings will pursue us. But there is a life to live so that you can come up to that realm.
Prosperity is first of all a mentality. How far you will go with God in your prosperity is strongly connected to the kind of mentality you have.
Using the Macedonian Christians as an example: they were not the richest in their time, in fact; they were counted among the poor people, but their attitude and actions did not look like they had poverty in their minds. So, poverty is not pocket, it is mindset
For the Macedonian christians, their difficult challenges only provoked them to go beyond their abilities to serve God. They faced a lot of hardships but it did not stop them.
They kept giving to a point that Apostle Paul was challenged and he was moved to pray for them as recorded in ~ 2Corint 5:8 >
And God is able to make all grace abound towards you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. God later blessed the Macedonian church in such a way that they had all the tools to become the strongest church among all the churches in Asia as at that time.
God began to provoke help for them ~ Acts 16:9 > And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; there stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him saying, come over to Macedonia and help us, because anybody that is committed to glorifying God regardless of his situation, heaven will be committed to step down to help him.
There are mindsets that bring poverty:
1. Mindset of satisfaction or arrival mentality: This mindset is one idea that makes you believe you have come to the peak of your achievements. That is, a little success you see, you feel that you are already on top of the world. Remember, this does not in any way negate the place of contentment; because, they are entirely different from each other.
"Contentment" is a quiet and peaceful state of being happy and grateful for what you have now, while aspiring for more, "Arrival Mentality" is a premature contentment: meaning that you become relaxed after a certain level of achievement without any aspiration to achieve more.
2. Complacency: That is feeling so happy with how things are, or with what you have done, that you stop trying to do better or forget to watch out for danger.
3. Laziness: Not wanting to work, put effort or be active despite having the physical and mental capacity to do so.
4. Entitlement Mentality: This is the belief that you deserve special treatment, rewards or privileges without needing to work for them. You are only entitled to your own opinion, and once your opinion is not in line with the word of God, you are gradually heading to your own disaster.
Hardship can do two things in the life of a man. It either stops you or motivates you.
Some people will give you a thousand reasons why they face hardship, but there are people who also had the same challenge, but instead of stopping them, it motivated them to strive harder and break out into prosperity.
All you need is to have a mentality that is dependent on God, determined to break through, ready to come out from where you are, and become who God wants you to be. Don't allow your actions to align with your situation.
Imitate the Macedonian Christians who even though they didn't have much, acted as if they had enough and God later blessed them, by provoking help for them.
LESSONS
••• When grace comes into your struggles, the struggles will end because you will see results. If there are results in what you do, it is no longer a struggle.
••• To break out of limitations, you must be hardworking and prayerful.
••• As your heart is, so will you be ~ Prov 23:7
PRAYER POINTS
1. Worship the Lord for the gift of life and for sustaining you.
2. Father, I receive grace to act against my condition.
3. I will never end up as satan has planned for me.
4. God is able to give me grace, I receive all the grace to abound in every good work.
5. I break out from every limitations.
Psalms 12: I -8
6. I have escaped like a bird, the traps of the enemies in the remaining months of this year.
7. Every snares of the enemy around me is broken.
In Jesus Name...
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