SUPERNATURAL INCREASE
Pastor
Michael Joseph Gowon
MESSAGE 2:
IT IS GOD’S WILL FOR YOU TO SUPERNATURALLY INCREASE
INTRODUCTION
God
wants you to live your life to the full. He has planned your life with that in
mine.
John 10:10
A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came
so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever
dreamed of.
He wired you for increase – you were once a function of a
sperm and egg, foetus, infant, youth, adult, old age.
David said, . . . I was young and now am old . . .
Imagine what our world would be if nothing is
growing or increasing.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
INCREASE:
·
A
dictionary meaning of increase is “becoming bigger or greater in amount”.
An increase comes with joy.
·
Increase
on the other hand means to make larger, bigger, more in quantity.
We Are To Increase in Strength.
Proverbs 24:5 – …a man of knowledge increases strength…
Isaiah 40:29 – …to those who have no might He increases strength.
We Are To Increase in Power.
Psalm 75:10 (NLT) – For God says, “I will break the
strength of the wicked, but I will increase the power of the
godly.”
We Are To Increase in Resources and
Generosity.
Proverbs 11:24 (MSG) – The world of the generous
gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and
smaller.
2 Corinthians 9:10 (NLT) – For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread
to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your
resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.
SUPERNATURAL
·
Is that fruitfulness and expansion which
is not subject to natural or physical limitations of any kind
·
Supernatural’ means something beyond the ordinary; beyond the
natural.
·
Relating
to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe especially: of
or relating to God or a god, demigod, spirit, or devil.
·
Departing
from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws
of nature.
SUPERNATURAL INCREASE is
the increase that
is not connected to natural efforts or inputs. It is the increase that
is beyond human explanation. It is supernatural,
it cannot be comprehended by human mind. But the proofs are just there.
IT IS HIS WILL FOR
YOU TO INCREASE SUPERNATURALLY
3 Jn. 2
2 Beloved, I pray that you
may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
Our
God is the God of increase, and He wants to Increase you
He is a God of multiplication and not the God
of subtraction or division.
He
wants you to increase from glory to glory
He
wants to increase your life so that you can have a comfortable life here and
now
He
wants you to increase so that you can activate Kingdom expansion and be a
Kingdom financier.
The
Supernatural is our birthright
The
supernatural authenticates our Christian practice
We
become born again into a supernatural world
We are
not supposed to be living in a restricted and constricted life on earth.
You
can experience supernatural increase. I mean you can!!!
This godly
increase will do you a lot of good
-
Ushers
ever-increasing joy
- Terminates sorrow
- Puts an end to shame and reproach
-
Removes
stagnation from your life.
No matter your situation, I want you to know that
Our God is the God of increase.
Your increase does not come by time, it comes by
truth. When you use your faith well, your faith will become the currency of the
kingdom to acquire all desired supernaturally
Prov.
19:2 -– It is not good for a man to be
without knowledge
Our God is working behind the scenes to provide an
answer for you right now.
He wants to get you out of the valley to the platform of abundance and limitless
provisions. And He can do it, He will do it.
Many
of us have experience great loss, shocking devastations, and alarming reduction
in business and in life.
Today, I have a mandate to bring to you assurance
from God that he is interested in your case and he has prearranged supernatural
increase and victory for you.
As
you meditate on the Word, it produces faith to accomplish what you desire.
While information is confined to an
earthly level of increase, revelation produces explosive (supernatural)
increase. As one
man said, “Revelation brings a revolution.”
The informational route may take you a life time
to achieve tangible results. But with
the reason of a revelation from the Father by faith you can obtain supernatural
results and increase in a short time.
Rom.
8:28
And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his
purpose.”
WHAT GOD
HAD PLANNED FOR YOU IS MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE
The outcomes God has prearranged for you are
always bigger than we think or imagine for ourselves.
He has
set the divine protocols this way so that we can experience:
·
Maximum and Multi-layed provisions.
Each
victory he grants us is a foretaste of future grace.
When you know that is God’s will to bring
increase to you in His time, it will:
Remove
all pressures from you to perform.
Frees
you up to truly live and see the value of each person in front of you from His
eternal perspective.
AT
CREATION WHAT WAS HIS EXPECTATIONS?
Gen.
1:26-28
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in our image, according
to our likeness; let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,
over [a]all
the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So
God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created
him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to
them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air,
and over every living thing that [b]moves
on the earth.”
·
Be
fruitful * Multiply
·
Subdue
the earth * Have dominion over
Deut. 2:7
For the Lord
your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand . . . you have lacked
nothing . . .
Isa. 45:3
I will give you
the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that you may know
that I, the Lord who call you by your name, am the God of Israel.
Psa.
71:21
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and
comfort me on every side. TMB
Job was
one man who experienced supernatural increase. God blessed him.
“His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and
three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she
asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the
men of the east.” (Job 1:3).
He was so increased supernaturally that even Satan took
notice. See what he said concerning the blessings of Job,
“Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about
his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work
of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.” (Job 1:10).
God permitted Satan to strike Job and caused him the loss
of all his wealth, but God supernaturally restored all he lost in a moment.
Job. 42:12-17
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
Supernatural increase is
a function of God’s blessings
Prov. 10:22 – The blessings of the Lord, it maketh rich and he added no sorrow with
it. KJV
The blessing of the lord. It makes (truly) ricj, and He adds not sorrow
with it (neither does toiling increase it) AMP
THE HOUSE
OF ABINADAB AND THE HOUSE OF OBEDEDOM
In 2 Sam.
6:5-12
The ark of God stayed in the
house of Abinadab for 20 years and he was NOT blessed.
But just within 3 months of the ark in the
house of Obededom, he was supernaturally blessed and all his household.
That was supernatural, extraordinary and was exceedingly
abundant.
Obededom accepted the ark of God, (God’s presence). He cherished it and guided it jealously. When
God comes to a place there is usually increase, enlargement, expansion etc.
His presence comes with
supernatural ideas and just one idea from God can give you stupendous increase.
Psa. 115:12-16 KJV
The LORD hath been
mindful of us: he will bless us; He
will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless them that fear the LORD, both
small and great. The LORD shall
increase you more and more, You and your children. Ye are blessed of the
LORD Which made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's:
But the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Lev. 26:9
“For
I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and
establish my covenant with you.” (KJV)
Amplified Version
9 For I will turn toward you [with favor and regard] and make
you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish and confirm My covenant with
you. Do you belief this?
Eph. 3:20
20 Now to Him who is able
to [carry out His purpose and] do
superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or
dreams], according to His power that is at work within us, (Amp)
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to
the power that worketh in us, (KJV).
20 God can do anything,
you know - far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your
wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us,
his Spirit deeply and gently within us (Message)
Our thinking
and asking are the Platform of our
connection with God. There is nothing you can ever think or ask that will
comfortably express what God has planned for you. He will always have MUCH MORE
. . . for you that you think or ask.
2 Sam. 22:20
He brought me forth also into a large place, he delivered me because he delighted in me.
Psa. 118:5
I
called upon the Lord in distress, the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.
Isa. 54:2
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and
let them stretch for the curtains of thine habitation: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy
stakes.
IT IS GOD WHO GIVES THE INCREASE
1 Cor. 3:5-7
5 Who
then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as
the Lord gave to every man?
6 I have planted,
Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So
then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth
the increase.
Gen. 26:13:
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he
became very great
REMEMBER GOD
USES THE NATURAL REALM TO PROVIDE FOR US SUPERNATURALLY
He uses our natural world:
Your life
Your job
Your business
Your friends
Your family and
Your government
1 Cor. 15:46
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but
that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual KJV
Physical life comes first, then spiritual – MSB
How
can we sit fixed on one place doing
nothing and expect to activate supernatural increase?
We
live in a nation whose leadership has failed; we have turned to other gods and
provoked the God of heaven to anger.
Prov.
10:4
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich
Sloth makes you poor, diligence brings wealth (MSB)
Prov. 12:24
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be
under tribute
1.
What is in your HAND?
Deut. 30:9
9 And the Lord thy
God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good:
for the Lord will
again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
Exo.
4:1-2
And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they
will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in
thine hand? And he said, A rod.
Eccl.
9:10
10 Whatsoever thy hand
findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
2.
What is in your HOUSE?
1 Kgs.
18:8-16
Read this through
Psa. 112:3
Wealth and riches shall be in his house and his
righteousness endureth for ever
3.
What is in your BASKET
John
6:11-13
11 And
Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the
disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the
fishes as much as they would.
12 When
they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that
remain, that nothing be lost.
13 Therefore
they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of
the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
4. What is in your MIND?
Psa.
24:4
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Or who shall stand in his holy
place?
Verse 4 says: he
that hath:
*Clean Hands
*Pure heart
*Not lifted up his
soul unto Vanity
*Nor sworn
deceitfully
Phil 4:19 –
My God shall supply all my needs according to his riches in glory by Christ
Jesus
Prov. 12:5 - The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the
counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Jer 29:11- For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
saith the Lord,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Isa. 45:3 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord,
which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
TO
PROVIDE FOR US SUPERNATURALLY GOD OFTEN USES UNLIKELY MEANS TO DO SO:
i.
In 1 Kings
17:4-6 - He used a brook, but it later
dried up
Your dry brook could be unemployment, failure at
an investment, financial bankruptcy etc.
ii.
He used a Raven to feed Elijah – 1 Kings 17:6
iii.
He used 4 Lepers 1 2 Kgs. 7:3-6
iv.
Fish to provide Tax Money Matt. 17:27
TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS MESSAGE
1.
God
has control over all supply and will honor those who honor his word
– Psa. 24:1; Deut. 28:13; Josh. 1:8
2.
Bad
National economy does not affect God’s ability to provide for us Supernaturally
Psa. 112:3 – wealth and riches shall be in thy
house
Isa. 30:23-
3.
God
can use abandoned and godless means and
people to supply for us in a time of
need
Prov. 13:22; Ecc. 2:26; Phil. 4:19
4.
God
frequently does not make known His supernatural provision until the need is
pressing us beyond what we can do – Exo.
14:16
5.
Scarcity
thinking is different than true scarcity
and the spirit of poverty is different than poverty itself – Lk. 6:38; Matt. 5:29
6.
God’s
supernatural provision is found in hearing and obeying God’s voice
Deut. 5:32 –
Job 23:12 – I have esteemed the words of his
mouth more than my necessary food.
Job. 36:11 – If they obey and serve him, they
shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures
7. God’s abundant supply may come from unexpected
sources at unexpected times – Matt.17:27-
John 6:11-12
8.
God’s
supernatural provision can be released by sacrificial giving out of our need
1 Kgs. 17:8-16; Lk. 4:24-27
PRAYER POINTS:
·
A call for salvation.
·
Appreciate God, he is always thinking ahead of
you. His plans for you is exceedingly, abundantly beyond whatever you will
think or ask.
·
Revelation brings revolution – Ask God to give
you the needed revelation, and ideas for your increase.
·
Gen 1:26-28 – Ask God to enable you to be FRUITFUL, MULTIPLY, SUBDUE YOU EARTH, and
HAVE DOMINION ALL ROUND.
·
God should help you like Obededom to ACCEPT, CHERISH AND GUIDE JEALOSLY God‘s
presence to bring you the increase, enlargement and expansion you need.
·
Ask God to bless what is in your HAND, HOUSE,
BASKET, MIND
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