13/05/2017
IRRESPONSIBLE GIVERS ARE BAD MANAGERS; THEY
ARE NOT KINGDOM SEEKERS – (Winning Wisdom,
Episode 034)
God told Adam in the Garden of Eden to be fruitful, to
multiply and to replenish the earth. This simple
command means nothing else but to manage the earth
productively and profitably. But you need to know that
it was not just a command; it was also a blessing. It is
such a tremendous blessing to be a manager of the
resources of this earth. But so many people have lost
their management skills.
Several people do not even know anything about
working hard to develop their management
capabilities. Such people are the kind of people who
will say “I don’t care what my Pastors do with my
money; all I know is that I am obeying God, if they use
it for a wrong purpose, God will judge them”. Such
statements are irresponsible statements. People who
make such statements do NOT truly have the love of
the Kingdom in their hearts.
Of what reward and benefit is it to you that God judge
your pastors for misusing resources entrusted into
your hands? You think you love God by obeying Him in
blindness. But how come you have little or no idea
about what it means to seek the Kingdom of God on
earth?
If you love the Kingdom of God, you want to do
everything to manage the resources of the Kingdom
very profitably. You want to make sure that you are not
just giving but you are actually seeing Kingdom
expansion taking place as a result of your giving.
Responsible people do not just ‘sow’ seeds anyhow.
They give money for targeted specific purposes. They
give money when they know that their labor of love will
transform people’s lives. They are not lackadaisical
about how the work of God is being done. They know
that the essence of the Kingdom of God is to bring
solutions to the problems of mankind.
When Jesus announced that the Kingdom of God was
now on earth, He was simply saying the time has come
for the reign of satan and evil to be over. Yet, the more
you give, the more evil and suffering is increasing in
the society, and you think you are doing God a favor.
Please begin to find out the results of your giving. You
are here on earth to seek FIRST God’s Kingdom, and
not self-gratification and self-righteousness of
obeying the law that has already been fulfilled in
Jesus.
The Kingdom of God is not about religion. It is not
about obeying God foolishly. The Kingdom of God is
not about being zealous without knowledge. The
Kingdom of God is not about having a form of
godliness but lacking the power thereof. The Kingdom
of God is about serving the purposes of God with
understanding. Jesus who brought the Kingdom of His
Father to this earth told us very clearly that He no
longer calls us servants (who do not have an idea of
what their master does). Now, He calls us friends so we
can know all things as He knows. Now, we are joint
heirs with Him, and as He is so are we in this world.
Yet, some people are priding themselves in their
ignorance. They are proudly saying they do not want
to know what their tithes is being used for. They are
simply saying nothing concerns them about WHAT the
Master is doing and HOW the master is doing it. Even
if their resources are not yielding the Kingdom
expected results, they don’t care.
Well, I like to tell you that it is because of your
uncaring and non-challant attitude that you have not
been able to touch many lives. It is because of this
attitude you are not fulfilling your destiny. It is
because of this you are trapped in a job you hate with
the meager salary that can barely feed hundred people.
Yet, you keep gratifying yourself because you don’t
miss your tithe.
Until you get serious and prudent about maximizing
every resource that God is giving you, you may end up
as a nonentity in life. You are not on earth to just be
waiting for heaven. If going to heaven is your sole
purpose of being on earth, God would have killed you
immediately you became born again. You are here on
earth to fulfill destiny and transform lives and nations.
And until you learn how to manage your resources,
and direct them to fulfill specific Kingdom goals, you
are simply wasting your time.
Many unbelievers have been good managers of the
resources on the earth, and that is why God is letting
them manage more. Yet you keep shouting that the
righteous will inherit the riches of the gentiles. Do you
think God is an unreasonable person? Do you think
God is partial? He rains on both the good and the evil.
If unbelievers are the best managers, He lets them
manage more resources, and even witches and
wizards will find it extremely hard to stop them.
All you need to free yourself from those generational
curses you are almost worshiping, as the reason for
your limitation is to acquire exceptional management
wisdom and skills from God. God has given you so
many useful resources. You have so much treasures
inside of you. If you learn how to manage them very
wisely, you will discover that generational curses are a
piece of crap.
The Kingdom of God is not in meat and drink. You
claim to know the Kingdom of God but all you are
thinking about is meat in the cathedral and the evil in
the society keeps multiplying on a daily basis. What
then is the purpose of the Kingdom of God if it is not
to quench every form of evil that is troubling mankind?
The Kingdom of God is not just for the feeding of
pastors so that they can preach to us. I am not
against pastors feeding but the Kingdom of God is for
transformation of lives. Therefore, if all the money you
are giving is not leading to the transformation of
destinies, you are wasting your money. It does not
matter how many buses you buy or how many
buildings you build, if the society is not feeling the
impact of the presence of God among you, you have
missed the mark. If your light is not shining to elevate
the nation from the despondence of poverty and
mediocrity, what you are parading is not Kingdom; it is
simply religion.
The Kingdom of God is to decorate people’s lives NOT
just to decorate buildings. The Kingdom of God is for
giving birth to songs of joy and abundance in families,
not just to buy musical instruments in the sanctuary.
What is the essence of all the music and dancing if
your light is not shining very bright such that you
become the envy of the world?
How come Jesus was so focused on changing lives
and shaping destinies when He was on earth, instead
of building cathedrals? Is it not this same Jesus we
should follow? I am not saying places of worship are
bad, but let us learn to put first things first. Let us
understand the priority of the Kingdom of God. The
priority of the Kingdom of God is people, and not
congregational ego and show-off.
Jesus showed us His priority. He went about doing
good, healing all who were oppressed. Without
understanding the Kingdom, all you will do with your
life is to obey the law BUT you will never go about
doing good. You will give tithes and offering and you
will think you are done with life. You will allow religion
to waste the precious life that God has given you, that
is supposed to touch millions of people on the
complacency of obeying the do’s and don’ts of the
law.
Please know that the Kingdom of God is all about
righteousness, peace and joy in the hearts and lives of
people. Therefore, if you are truly seeking the Kingdom
of God, when you give money, begin to make sure that
it will increase the Joy of the Lord in the hearts of
people; begin to make sure that your seed will let
righteousness reign in the land; begin to make sure
that your giving will lead to people starting to live in
peace and harmony.
Where your heart is, your treasure is there also. Let
your heart be in the purpose of your giving. Refuse to
be a wasteful steward if you want to be entrusted to
manage more resources for your King. Choose to live a
responsible life. Learn to multiply your resources.
The blessing of multiplication is already in you. One of
the best ways to know if you have been sowing your
seeds correctly is that your seeds gets multiplied over
time. It means if you are doing it responsibly, the more
you give, the more you are able to give. But when you
are giving and things are getting worse for you, you
have been irresponsible. Do your due diligence and
begin to live a great life.
SUNDAY AKINBOWALE,
KINGDOM FOCUS INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT