JACKPOT

Have you ever dreamt of hitting the jackpot?

The lord laid this message on my heart this past week and after i typed it up I drove to the gas station to fill up and low and behold when i went in to pay the line was backed out the door just about. Every single person in line bought a lottery ticket. Everyone was talking about how they hope to win the whopping 1 billion dollar prize.

Could you imagine hitting that kind of jackpot?

How excited would you be?

Who would you tell?

What would you do with that kind of money?

Would you tithe?

Would you by a big new house and hire a maid?

How about a new car or a few?

Would you help others with it?

What if I told you you could hit the jackpot today and all you had to do is go buy a ticket and play the numbers I provide you with? Would you go out and by the ticket?

Well guess what? I don’t have the winning lottery numbers today but I do have some winning bible verses to help you win big in life with Christ.

Last week I preached “Give In, Give Out, and Give Up”.

This week I want to preach a sermon titled JACKPOT:

Let’s read our opening scripture:

Malachi 3:10 NKJV

10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.

Bring ALL the tithes to the storehouse

God wants Food in His house

Try God

He will open up the heavens and pour out more than we know what to do with.

This sounds like we can win big if we will surrender unto God what is His.

Scripture also says:

Luke 6:38 NKJV

38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

So giving is like throwing a boomerang

Sometimes we need to go fishing to win big:

Matthew 17:24–27 NKJV

24 When they had come to Capernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?” 25 He said, “Yes.” And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?” 26 Peter said to Him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. 27 Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you.”

Fishing requires effort and patience

We are fishers of Men.

God will provide for us financially through the fishes mouth.

What’s your motive in giving?

2 Chronicles 1:6–12 NKJV

6 And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. 7 On that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask! What shall I give you?” 8 And Solomon said to God: “You have shown great mercy to David my father, and have made me king in his place. 9 Now, O Lord God, let Your promise to David my father be established, for You have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. 10 Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of Yours?” 11 Then God said to Solomon: “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life—but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king— 12 wisdom and knowledge are granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like.”

2 Chronicles 1:6-12

There’s nothing wrong with praying for money or other means of provision as long as you don’t have a love of money or wealth.

What does God want from us?

Micah 6:6–8 NKJV

6 With what shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

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