Growing Your Partnership

T. L. Osborn once said ‘why should anybody hear about the second coming when everyone hasn’t heard of the first coming?’.

Everyone of us has been given a special grace to fulfill God’s dream and God’s plan. We need to come to that level where our mindset is that it depends on only us to get the job done. We need to realize that it is our responsibility; it’s our job to seethat the whole world hears about Jesus. When you really love him you’ll take up such a responsibility. You’ll want to do what pleases Him even when others think you are a fool.God prospers us so we can carry the gospel to the ends of the earth. He says, “my cities will be built through prosperity”.  That is why it’s so important for God’s children to prosper and the way to prosper is by giving. There is no other way, anything else is the way of the world, and it will fail. It’s just a matter of time.God’s principle is that we sow into the work of Jesus Christ; He cannot fail. We will always prosper when we do. Now you say, ‘what if I have very little left and if I give what is left I will have nothing.’ Well, the less you think you have, the more you ought to give. That’s the principle.

I tell people that if they feel they have a lot of financial responsibility and these financial responsibilities could distract them from financially functioning the way God will have them function in His house, then the right thing to do is to give more. It’s just like when you have a lot to do in a day and you say, I can’t pray now, I don’t have the time, I have so much to do. Now you’re making a big mistake. You will not finish as you’re going to have more work to do. You will keep turning around in circles and though you will say, ‘oh! I have almost finished’, you will not finish. If it’s an idea you need, it will not come and then you will say that it’s because you’ve got a lot of work to do that you are not praying. Well, you will end up having more work to do that you will never finish. If you’re smart, you will say, “I’ve got a lot of work to do, I need some help from God. That way I can have my ideas come quickly and I will have supernatural ability to finish in record time.  The same goes for your finances; the less you think you have the more you ought to give.

The Bible says “God has given the man that is good before Him wisdom, knowledge and joy. But to the sinner, travail of soul, to gather and to heap up that he might give to the one that is good before Him.” Let me tell you the reason for our life in this world- it’s to make sure that the gospel of Jesus Christ goes to the ends of the earth; that is the reason God left us here.  And that should be our passion; that should be the thing that excites us.

You know we have a message that the world must hear because if they cannot hear it they cannot believe it. How can they believe on the one of whom they have not heard? If they don’t believe, they cannot be blessed. But they cannot believe until they hear and they will not hear except somebody tells them. There is so much that the Lord has shown us, so much the Lord has taught us; it will be useless if it’s not heard. A message that is not heard cannot be acted upon so we have to preach it, we have to tell everybody. This is where partnership comes in; we have to ensure that the message is published.