Increase Your Faith

Four Main Keys To Abundance By Robert Achwera

2 CORINTHIANS 9:8 NKJ 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

No matter how little you make, acting on these 4 keys will insure a brighter financial future. Neglecting them, no matter how much you make, will eventually cause a financial crash.

1. Believe God desires to prosper you.

True belief requires evidence. God’s Word has the evidence to convince you: God’s will is abundance for all. The world system constantly shouts a different message, so we must continue to feed on the truth of God’s Word to keep our faith strong.

2. Worship God with a portion of all your income.

You need God’s blessing in your finances. Put God first. Don’t neglect this.

3. Spend less than you make.

“If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.” Consume all you make and you will never have anything.

Discipline yourself to never spend all your “seed.” Always save some to invest for a future.

4. Invest the rest, prayerfully.

God knows the future. Let Him guide you where to put your money. Don’t jump into things that seem like “sure things.” Be patient and pray. If you are not sure, don’t do it.

God knows what’s best for you, and He will guide you, if you seek Him. Over time, with God’s blessing, your investments, no matter how small they start, will grow and be a great blessing.

Don’t make excuses. Just act on these 4 vital keys and see what God will do. Start today.

SAY THIS: I will act on God’s wisdom and God will bless my finances.

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Be Who You Are By Apostle Robert Achwera

1 CORINTHIANS 15:10 NIV 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am….

ROMANS 12:2 WUEST 2 And stop assuming an outward expression that does not come from within you and is not representative of what you are in your inner being but is patterned after this age; but change your outward expression to one that comes from within and is representative of your inner being, by the renewing of your mind, resulting in your putting to the test what is the will of God, the good and well-pleasing and complete will, and having found that it meets specifications, place your approval upon it.

God is a brilliant Creator. He only makes originals — not copies. According to Ephesians 2:10, you are God’s work of art.

God made you unique. So be all that God created you to be.

Don’t try to be someone else. Don’t try to be an ear in the Body of Christ, if God made you a foot. Just be yourself.

This does not mean that you cannot improve, or grow. Growth is part of God’s plan. And we can certainly learn from others, and imitate excellent actions and attitudes.

But too many people are insecure and hope to gain acceptance from others by conforming to what they think will make them popular or successful — even though they hate it and know they are not being real.

ROMANS 12:2 PHILLIPS 2 Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould….

Don’t let the world pressure you into conforming.

Express the originality that God put within you. God made you the way you are for a purpose — His purpose.

This is not to encourage rebellion, of course. But it is not God’s plan for us all to be identical and do everything in the same way.

I am not saying you have to try to be different. Just be who God made you — without fear.

Not everyone may like you, or what you do. But that is normal. You can’t always please everyone. Make it your aim to please God by expressing what He made you.

ROMANS 12:2 NLT 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.

The Bible reveals many truths about who we are once we receive Jesus Christ. We actually receive new life, a new standing with God, and new ability. As you feed the Word of God into your thinking, that new life will be able to manifest more and more.

SAY THIS: I am what I am by the grace of God. I will be what God made me and fulfil His plan for me.

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You Are Important! By Apostle Robert Achwera

1 CORINTHIANS 12:22,27 NKJ 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

There are NO unnecessary parts in the Body of Christ.

The devil wants you to think your part does not matter, so you will slack off.

But your part IS important. Your prayers are important. Your giving is important. Your witness to others is important.

It is easy to believe a famous person who ministers to thousands is vital in God’s plan. But we need to be reminded that every member of the Body of Christ is needed — including you!

Don’t condemn yourself because you aren’t doing a job that puts you in the spotlight. Don’t worry that no one knows what you are doing. God knows.

Someone witnessed to Billy Graham. Someone prayed for Oral Roberts to be healed of tuberculosis. Do you know their names? God does. What if they hadn’t been faithful and obedient to do their part?

What if the person who brought you the Gospel hadn’t been obedient?

So, when you are tempted to be discouraged and think what you do doesn’t matter — resist those thoughts!

No one but God may see what you are doing, but it is significant.

Have confidence in God. He knows what He is doing. God placed you where you are. God has a plan and a job for you to do there. Be faithful and do it. When it is time for you to do something else, God will arrange it and lead you out.

Don’t try to be somebody else. Just be faithful and obey God where you are.

Too many Christians think preachers are supposed to do all the work in the Body of Christ. Preachers may be likened to a mouth. A mouth is important. But a mouth is not more important than our hidden, internal organs. We don’t see the liver and kidneys working. However, you could live without a mouth capable of speech, but not without functioning kidneys or liver.

1 CORINTHIANS 12:22 NLT 22 In fact, some of the parts that seem weakest and least important are really the most necessary.

A body may exist without some of its parts functioning, but it cannot accomplish as much as it would otherwise.

Do your part! God thinks it’s meaningful. Don’t let the devil convince you otherwise.

Maybe all you can do is pray, but that is most important.

Obey God and be faithful where you are. You are needed or God would not have placed you there.

SAY THIS: God says I am necessary and important.

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Your Body Is Your House By Apostle Robert Achwera

2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 NKJ 1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

The “real you” is not your body. Your body is just a house you live in so you can function here on earth.

Just as someone can change houses where they live, you can, and will someday, leave your body and still exist.

We focus too much on our body. The inner part of us is most important. These bodies we live in are not eternal.

It is not wrong to take care of our bodies, any more than it is wrong to take care of the house or apartment where we live. It is a mistake, however, to spend all our time on our body and neglect our spirit and mind.

1 TIMOTHY 4:8 RSV 8 for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Who a person is on the inside is more important than what their body looks like.

We judge too often on the house (body) that people live in, instead of focusing on the real person living inside that body.

SAY THIS: My body is only a temporary house where I live.

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Don’t Give Up! By Apostle Robert Achwera

1 CORINTHIANS 10:13 THE MESSAGE 13 No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it.

All of us have been tempted to lose hope and give up. But we always have a choice: focus on God and stay in faith, or focus on the problem and give up.

Problems — no matter how huge they seem to us — are no problem to God. Nothing is too hard, or complicated, for God to solve. But God wants us to trust Him.

So what should you do when you are being tempted and feel like giving in and giving up?

Refuse!

Just keep your focus on the Lord and rejoice in His faithfulness. Remember that God cannot lie, and will never fail. God will see you through.

HEBREWS 10:23 NKJ 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

When the devil tries to steal your faith, he tries to get you to quit speaking in agreement with the Word of God. Don’t let it happen! Hold fast to speaking your faith! Keep on saying what the Word of God says about you and your situation. Don’t be moved by the circumstances.

GALATIANS 6:9 NIV 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Don’t grow weary. Keep your eyes on the Lord. His Word will work and produce a harvest of blessing in your life. Don’t doubt it!

SAY THIS: I will keep trusting in God and never give up!

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Offering Time Apostle Robert Achwera

2 CORINTHIANS 9:7 NIV 7 Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Most people regard offering time as a necessary evil, at best.

As usual, our ideas are much different than what the Word of God teaches.

God does not encourage giving just to meet the needs of His work on earth. No, God does it for our good, so that we can be blessed. (Also, to combat selfishness.)

Every offering time is an opportunity for us to worship God and express our love to Him in a tangible way. But God, being so good, has designed it so that when we do give to Him it also functions like planting a seed, which will produce a harvest of blessing in our life.

God designed His creation to work in such a way that money and blessing will come back to us in even greater measure than we give out.

2 CORINTHIANS 9:6,8 NIV 6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

One way the devil tries to suppress the spread of the Gospel is by making people believe that messages like this are just to get money, as if preachers dreamed up the Bible for their own benefit. No, God planned all this, and He is smart enough to know that without adequate funding, those whom He has called to teach and equip His people will be held back, unable to be as effective as they should be.

When we give to those proclaiming the Word of God on earth, God considers it giving to Him, and a seed sown.

A farmer does not hate planting his crops. Farmers don’t whine about having to put their seed in the ground. No, they look forward with joy to the time of harvest they know is coming, because they understand how seeds work.

If we believe God’s Word, then we know our giving works exactly as the seed the farmer plants in the ground.

You don’t have to believe this (or anything God teaches us in His Word). But surely you can understand that refusing to believe God’s Word is NOT a way to please Him.

SAY THIS: I will plant my financial seeds with joy and thanksgiving, as I worship God with my money.

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We Walk By Faith By Apostle Robert Achwera

2 CORINTHIANS 5:7 NKJ 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

God’s plan for us as His children here on earth is that our walk with Him be a walk of faith.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, or perceived with our physical senses.

HEBREWS 11:1 NKJ 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

God’s Word is our evidence for our faith. We know God cannot lie. Whatever God says — if it is not already evident to our physical senses — will eventually come to pass. For whatever God says comes to pass. According to the Bible, God only had to speak and the universe was created.

You will never grow strong spiritually until you learn to put what God says in His Word ahead of what your circumstances and physical senses tell you.

God does not ask you to deny what your physical senses tell you, but to believe His Word above all other evidence. God simply wants you to believe that He tells the truth.

In this regard, the Bible tells us Abraham was an example of faith.

ROMANS 4:19-21 NKJ 19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

God told Abraham he would be a father of many nations, yet Abraham had no children and his wife was too old to have children. Abraham still believed God’s promise, and it came to pass. Faith is no different for us today. God is speaking to us through His Word, the Bible, and when we believe what God said, impossible things become possible.

As we keep our focus on God and His Word, we can be fully convinced, like Abraham, that God is able to do all He has said. For faith comes by hearing the Word (Romans 10:17).

Unbelief is the opposite of faith and Scripture calls it evil (Hebrews 3:12). The only cure for unbelief is correct teaching of the truth from God’s Word (Mark 6:6).

COLOSSIANS 2:6 NKJ 6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

We receive Jesus Christ by faith, and we must continue to walk our whole Christian life here on earth by faith. That means we can’t base everything on our physical sense knowledge, instead of what God has said.

SAY THIS: I will walk with God by faith here on earth.

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Repentance By Apostle Robert Achwera

ACTS 17:30 NKJ 30 “Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

To repent means to change. Repentance is a change of thinking which results in a change of life.

Repentance involves a change of mind — waking up to reality, seeing things as they really are, and recognizing the error of your ways — resulting in a change of action.

Repentance includes forsaking old patterns, habits, priorities, and all things that have controlled you (gods). Repentance means accepting Jesus as Lord!

To repent is to forsake all other gods — and embrace Jesus Christ as your Lord and God.

The word translated “repent” in English New Testaments is the Greek word metanoeo. It means to change one’s mind, or to convert. Not merely to forsake sin, but to change one’s mind regarding it. Metanoeo means to reform, to have a genuine change of heart and life from worse to better.

The noun form of the Greek word we translate as “repentance” is metanoya. It is a change of mind that involves both a turning from sin and a turning to God.

The parable of the prodigal son is an outstanding illustration of repentance. (Luke 15:10-21)

2 CORINTHIANS 7:10 NKJ 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Many mistake sorrow for repentance. As this verse shows, godly sorrow leads to repentance, but they are not the same thing.

There is another Greek word, metamelomai, which means to have remorse or regret. It is pain of mind, rather than change of mind. “You’re sorry you got caught”.

Metanoya implies that one has later arrived at a different view of something, metamelomai that one has a different feeling about it. In remorse (metamelomai) a man sees the bitter end of sin, in repentance (metanoya) he breaks free from it.

So, repentance has to do mostly with your thinking and therefore your actions — not your feelings.

Repentance is associated with renewing the mind (Romans 12:2). When you know the truth — truth makes you free as you act on it (John 8:32).

SAY THIS: Jesus, I call on You to be my Lord. Please help me to repent in every area of life and walk in agreement with you.

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Sprinkle The Blood By Apostle Robert Achwera

1 PETER 1:2 NKJ 2 . . . in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

By faith we can sprinkle the Blood of Jesus on people who come to us for help. The Blood is a token of Christ’s total redemption, signaling the devil that he must flee. By faith in that precious Blood all can be delivered.

Blood in the human body brings healing to sick tissue. The Blood of Jesus brings healing to His body as well.

LEVITICUS 17:11 NKJ 11 `For the life of the flesh is in the blood . . .

Blood delivers everything necessary for the members of a human body and carries away waste material. Jesus’ Blood also brings life and nourishment to the members of His body, and rids us of everything that is of the curse.

When the Israelites in Egypt had blood on their door, no evil dared enter their dwelling. Likewise, we are kept safe through the protection of the divine Blood of Jesus.

Jesus’ Blood overcomes the devil and all he has done. Believe it in your heart and say it with your mouth — until you see complete victory.

2 CORINTHIANS 10:4 NKJ 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

By faith, sprinkle the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ anywhere there is evidence of satanic effort to stop the complete will of God in your life.

Let us use all our weapons: the Name of Jesus, the Word of God, and the Blood of the Lamb.

SAY THIS: By faith I apply the Blood of Jesus to my life and property.

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A Member Of The Body

1 CORINTHIANS 12:12 NKJ

12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Each individual believer IS also part of the Body of Christ, which is composed of all believers.

(This is the work of God. Not something we “join.”)

Think how insane it would be for you to allow your hand to attack some other member of your body. It’s just as crazy for us, as members of the Body of Christ, to attack other members.

ROMANS 12:4-5 NKJ

4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

Other members have different callings , different functions. But your job is not to oppose them, even though you may not understand them, or why they do what they do. Just leave that to the Head of the Body, and do what He tells YOU to do.

You are not the Head of the Body of Christ , Jesus is. He is responsible for, and capable of, coordinating all we do so our actions will accomplish His plan. Members of a body have different functions, but all are necessary for the body to function properly.

When you don’t obey Jesus, the Head of the Body, you are a drag on the rest of the members.

Think what a difficult time you would have accomplishing anything if each member of your body did whatever it felt like, instead of obeying orders from your brain.

SAY THIS: I am a member of the Body of Christ.

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