The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, Lagos (TREM)- Abridged Sunday Sermon 220516-Giving: A secret for living above the drought

If you sow once then you'll reap once. But if you sow continually, you'll reap continually.

Giving: A secret for living above the drought

Gen 8:20-22. Gen 26:1-6,12.
Preacher: Rev. Steve Ahanotu

Facts

1.            If it is a secret then it's not available to everyone. Psalm 25:14. Matt 13:11. Another word for secret is mystery. Giving is a revelation.

2.            It is possible for someone to be in the kingdom and not key to kingdom principles.

3.            There is a principle of giving and receiving, in the time of drought. There would be shortage. It is possible that we are experiencing a shortage. There could be limitations currently but we could be rejoicing and thanksgiving. 

4.            Job 22:29. Isaiah 58:11. Jeremiah 17:8. God must be your source and you must be connected to him to enjoy this. 

5.            One thing that is clear though that before you can harvest, you must sow.

6.            If you sow once then you'll reap once. But if you sow continually, you'll reap continually.

7.            Bread to the eater and seed to the sower. Some people eat both the bread and the seed.

8.            You are to sow the seed and eat that bread not both! You must sow. You can't go to a field to get harvest if you haven't sown.

9.            It doesn't matter how hard the ground is, the seed is powerful to break the ground. 2 Cor 9v6-10. Isaiah 55:10

10.        You can be above drought, if you're a consistent sower of time, service etc how much have you contributed to make someone's life better.

11.        God blesses so you'll become a blessing and be a channel for God. Not for you to get all you can and can all you get. 

12.        Isaac sowed consistently and he reaped in the same land that there was a famine and he became the richest man even in drought.