FIRST FRUIT OFFERINGS

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FIRST FRUIT OFFERINGS

Every time a believer gets a new job and in every beginning of the labour year, every Christians needs to give his or first fruit offerings. Many have hardened their hearts against doing this because they feared how they’ll fare during the one month interval when they will be without their salary. They forget to ask themselves, what if they didn’t get the job or they weren’t paid or robbers stole it from them etc. this testimony was share by the man who paid his first fruit.
When I was jobless, I prayed to God for a job over a long period of time and he provided me with a job in Porthacourt Nigeria. This distance from my home to my new workplace was a bit far, I have a wife and kids to care for and all these the devil brought to my mind after I received my first salary. After battling with my mind for a long time, I decided on doing the word of God irrespective of circumstances. So I brought my first fruit to the pastor, the new day I borrowed money to go to office while in office, a senior colleague gave me #5000 and told me I should be using for my transport while coming to work. I knew it was God who moved him to do that and later then the next day, the overall boss invited me and gave me @20,000 to support my transportation and buy things for my kids he said. That was how favored started showing in my life. Right now, that job I got had enabled me to be building two houses simultaneously in PH and in my Village and I even owe my car to that job and all these is because I paid my first fruit because most of my colleagues on the same pay grades with me have barely bought a car talk less of building a house.
*Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:  So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.  Prov 3:9-10*
Those who complains of financial inability haven’t known or operated on the principle of giving God the first of their produce, salary, stipends, and wages or the first of all of their increase.
If you find it hard to give to God, you’ve made it hard to get from God.
Silver and gold belongs to God, if you want Him to bless you with plenty, obey His word on first fruit. Jan. is next month; plan to give your first fruit offerings.
We shouldn’t give God because of the above testimony but because we are children of God who have put God first in all of our lives and especially in our finances and trust God all the way to carter for us beyond our jobs.
God bless you
Pastor Promise Ikpe
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