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Bishop Jakes - Jan 2 2011

(KJV) Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all [things].

Money is not evil- the love of money is the root of all evil.

It has its limitations - it can't buy love because love is not a thing.

(KJV) Malachi 3:6 For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

-Sons of deceit. You don't get slick by yourself

:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

-you can be separated from God and not know it. (i.e. Samson)

-people separate before they separate

:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

-people don't like to be robbed

(KJV) Malachi 3:9 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.

(KJV) Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].

-the greater the vision the greater the provision. Dig ditches in your valley.

-You may attack my circumstances but you won't defeat my will.

-Anytime there is nit enough meat in the house you need to check the tithes. Every pipe gets wet bringing me water. The same little bitty hand you use to give out with is the same little bitty hand you scoop with.

-the Lord said to put him to the test

Windows of heaven = floodgates

the spirit shows you what's behind the gates

The obedience is better than sacrifice. The obedience opens up the floodgates. Rebellion shuts it down. You don't treat the rebellious child the same as the obedient one- thou you love them the same.

You can survive a while lot of ways.

Work: it was not what I wanted to do bit I had to do it.

You can grow up in a system but you don't have to stay in it.

God will open the floodgates in time- your later days will be greater than your  early days

The blessing is coming.

As long as you don't cheat your partner you have a partner for life. Why should God use his contacts to bless your life if he knows he won't get his cut?

(KJV) Haggai 1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.

-consider your ways

(KJV) Haggai 1:9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

-because you put your house before mine, I scattered your intake

- your money trail tells where your heart is. Your money says who you are.

God said 'I will open up the floodgates and pour you out a blessing'

-there is something that I know that will bless your whole life. The floodgate is hiding he blessing - the blessing is hiding the money. The blessing is not the money.

- you wouldn't lock up something that wasn't valuable. Death couldn't take Jacob until he released the blessing.

-the blessing will come through a person 'men shall come unto your bosom'

-'Show me the man!' - God said, 'Show me your tithe'

-Jesus is laid wrapped in rags in a manger but three camels laden with riches are on their way

-the camels are coming... The thing you need, the thing you have been waiting on is coming your way.

-get yourself into alignment. The camels are coming.

He blessing is not in my address- it's in me. The blessing of the lord will overflow. My cup runneth over. Blessed people leave blessed people in their wake.

The blessing comes through obedience. You aren't dancing for dollars. The blessing does not come through praise. Holiness doesn't bring the blessing.

It brings you discipline. The principle is: "God I put you first."

Before adding carpet to the building, there had to be a structure. Respect the structure, then God will invest in it. The structure is based on what is on the other side of the gate.

The camels are coming.