INCREASE YOUR CAPACITY TO RECEIVE IN ABUNDANCE

By Rev. Michael Benson Ajayi  

Matt 25:15 KJV “And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.”

             Each servant was given talents according to their capacity to deliver. Each person determines his or her capacity to receive and they were given what they could afford to invest. Life functions as a business, Jesus said in Luke 2:49-50 NKJV “… Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?" The word business is a Greek word ‘huperperisseuo’ which means to cause someone to overflow with something, to be present in (greater) abundance.      

            Every day we consciously or unconsciously engage in the business of exchange of virtues spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and materially. This is what played out in the encounter between Elisha and the widow with a backlog of debts and her debtors were about to take her children as slaves in lieu of the money being owed (2kings4:1-7). Elisha’s strategy to get this widow out of debt was to engage her in oil retail business. It required her borrowing containers; this was to increase her capacity to receive the supernatural multiplication of the leftover oil in her house and as long as there were empty containers, the oil multiplied until she ran out of ideas on where to get more containers then the oil seized to multiply, this is proof that we receive breakthroughs according to our mental, emotional, spiritual and material capacity .If she had engaged in capacity development, she would have acquired better business networking ideas that would have given her more containers and more oil ..

          The waiting periods of life are for investing in capacity building through networking; this is easier when we are generous .Prov 18:16 NKJV says ‘A man's gift makes room for him, And brings him before great men.’ Many are the friends of a giver. Your gifts guarantee your future. There are three networks we must build to secure our future: firstly, spiritual or faith-based networks (Jer.3:15) , secondly, relational or emotional networks  (Eph 6:1-2) and thirdly , material or financial networks (luke16:9). We have to consciously invest in these networks through exchange of gifts. This widow’s husband had invested time and energy while working for Elisha therefore he was obligated to assist her. In another case in 1kings17: 14-16 a widow had to share her last piece of  meal with Elijah and had a ‘huperperisseuo’ experience. She received uncommon abundance in a time of severe economic crisis. This events are  paralleled by the one between Jesus and the woman at the well in John 4:5-26, the scripture says Jesus was very tired and He said to the woman “Give me a drink “ (John4:7)  her willingness to give him water brought about an exchange of divine virtue that eventually emancipated her community from the bondage of sin. In 1 Samuel 9:3-27 Saul was a poor shepherd boy in search of his father’s missing donkeys , he recognized the need to increase capacity by building his faith network and his understanding of this irrevocable divine principle led to the recovery of the animals and his eventual coronation as the first king of Israel through prophet Samuel.

           When Adam ate from the forbidden tree, he lost capacity and lost his place in Eden (Gen3:1-24); the same with Judas when he dipped his bread into Jesus plate without permission, he lost his place among the disciples and became open to Satan’s antics (Matt26:23-25).  Prov 11:24 NKJV says “There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty.” “And [God] Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity]. Thus you will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that you can be generous, and [your generosity as it is] administered by us will bring forth thanksgiving to God (2 Cor 9:10-11 AMP).

     

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