DAY 16: SUNDAY 17TH JANUARY 2021
FOCUS: GRACE FOR FAITHFULNESS AND FRUITFUL
HARVEST FOR ALL THE PARTICIPANTS OF 2021 FIRST FRUITLIKE OFFERING IN GOFAMINT
TEXTS:II COR 9:5 – 15
INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE FOR EFFECTIVE PRAYER
So far so good, the first-fruit-like offering in GOFAMINT has
been a success story. We should congratulate ourselves for the
programme and its success. We might not have recorded a
hundred percent success, yet we have not done badly.
The success we achieved can be measured in many ways
(i) It has turned around the fortunes of our church’s financial
income.
(ii) It has afforded our members to give for the work of the
kingdom bountifully as demanded by the Bible.
(iii) It has helped us to advance the project of our envisioned
Gospel city.
(iv) It has gingered our various local assemblies to embark on
specific developmental projects.
Therefore, we are using this medium to appreciate every
member who has cooperated with the church leadership to make
the sacrifice of paying the first fruit-like offering. With the full
assurance that the promises of God for bountiful harvest shall be
fulfilled on each one of us in Jesus name.
We also use this opportunity to appeal to those who are indifferent,
to please join the chariot. Asking whether the first-fruit-like
offering is Biblical or not is unnecessary. II Chron. 20:20 says:
“…believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established, believe
his prophets, so shall you prosper”. As we believe our God, so must
we also believe his prophets (our leaders). When our leaders tell
us God direct them to embark on a project, it is our duty to believe,
follow and obey them. Thank God, we are blessed with trust-
worthy leaders in GOFAMINT who will not use the money given for
the work of God for their personal interest.
There are also some so-called Christians who oppose the
payment of tithe. Even in GOFAMINT, there are those who do not pay their tithes at all or those who do not pay fully. As a church,
we have tenets we subscribe to. If you decide to be a member, a
worker or a minister, you are duty-bound to subscribe to our
agreements.
Jesus said about His minsters in Mathew 18:18: “Truly, I say unto
you, whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven:
and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven”.
Such is the authority invested in God’s ministers by God Himself.
A disciple is not wiser than the master. Anyone who has the habit
of opposing his/her leader’s authority has missed the way.
Other sister-churches are doing the same. There are those who are
giving more than the first-fruit-like offering.
It is time, once again to show our love to our God by giving all of our income to God and His work. Let us do it willingly without grudging. Giving our first fruit will not impoverish or kill us, but prosper us. Not doing it, will not add anything to us; rather, it leaves us in the same condition. Let us exercise our faith by giving our substance to our God.
Let us pray:
1. Thank you Lord for every member of GOFAMINT and thank you for what you made our lives to be.
2. Thank you for the vision of the first-fruit-like offering and the progress it has made so far.
3. Thank you Lord for all sacrificial givers in GOFAMINT dead or alive. Bless them and bless their families.
4. Thank you for the great project of the Gospel city. Bless everyfirst fruit offering payer and bless them beyond their imagination in Jesus name.
5. Thank you Lord for helping me to believe in you; establish me in your kingdom, help me also to believe your servants on the first fruit offering for my prosperity.
6. Thank you for every amount paid so far in first fruit-like offering by every participant. To you be glory Lord and make us beneficiaries of the blessings thereof.
7. Thank you for the progress on the Gospel city projects as well as every assembly through the first fruit offerings. (Let every pastor show to the congregation what they have done with their share of the first fruit-like offering in the assembly.
8. Help me Oh Lord to play my role faithfully in this year first fruit-like offering.
9. Dear Lord, let no one take my position in your kingdom business.
10. Dear Lord, open the eyes of those who are doubting your servants about the genuiness of first fruit-like offering to see it in the right perspective.
11. Bless all faithful payers and surprise them in all their endeavours
12. Help all executors of the projects and the administrators of the money to do their assignments in the spirit of truth and fear of God in Jesus name.
Prophetic Utterance: 2021 first fruit-like offering receive unprecedented breakthrough, success and result in Jesus name.
SPECIAL MINISTRATION FOR THE DAY
Those whose files for business or promotion are sat upon by human or satanic agents, the files will be brought out for your promotion, breakthrough and greatness.
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