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;it was in accordance to their investment ability. Life is 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.      

             We consciously or unconsciously engage in the business of exchange of virtues spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and materially on a daily bases. This is what played out in the encounter between Elisha and the poor widow whose children were about to be taken as slaves (2kings4:1-7). Elisha’s strategy to get her out of debt was through oil retail business and it required borrowing containers.There was a supernatural multiplication of the oil proportional to the capacity of containers.It stopped when she reached her mental limits on how to obtain containers;this is proof that we receive breakthroughs according to our mental, emotional, spiritual and material capacity .If she had engaged in capacity building, she would have acquired better business networking ideas that would have given her more containers and more oil .This is the importance of education..

          While waiting for breakthroughs invest 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. A similar incidence took place 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.Also in John 4:5-26, the scripture says Jesus was very tired and requested drink from a woman  (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 the capacity to dominate and was thrown out of Eden (Gen3:1-24); likewise when Judas dipped his bread into Jesus' plate without permission, he lost his place among the disciples (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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