Experience God Blog

Those who serve God normally get normal results; those who serve God abnormally get above normal results (extraordinary input equals extraordinary output). It takes extra for ordinary to become extraordinary.

In God’s kingdom, the higher your investment, the higher your returns (rewards). There is a direct relationship between our investment in the kingdom and our returns and expectation is the determinant factor (the graph is an upward movement between x and y axis), what you don’t expect you don’t deserve, this is why you must carry a reward mentality in all your engagements in the kingdom. God has never asked the seed of Jacob to seek Him in vain (Isaiah.45:19). Be expectant!

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. (Revelation.22:12)

Serving God is a work (not a call into laziness), there are not stars without scars as there are no record breakers in their comfort zones. Breaking limits or records demand stretching out and going extra miles.

Jesus says, I have a baptism to be baptized with: and how am I straightened till it be accomplished (Luke.12:50)

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work (John 9:4)

If God or Jesus should stop working, all of us wouldn’t be alive right now.

Why Do I Need To Go Extra Mile In Stewardship?

1). Extra rewards, when you go extra mile in your stewardship, you’ll get extra rewards (fear of failure and defeat are the reasons why many buried their talents in the grave, had it been that they had taken the step of faith, may be their children and children’s children would have read about them).

2). Extra years, when you go extra miles in your stewardship, you’ll get you extra years.

3). Taking the lead, when you go extra miles in your stewardship, you’ll be the one taking the lead in all your affairs, when you take the lead you’ll become the leader (my post: Leadership is not leading people, explains why leadership is not leading people but taking the lead).

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them : (Deuteronomy. 28:13).

4). Extra promotion, in physical settings, It takes extra work to get extra pay; extra devotion for extra promotion. So also in the spiritual.

5). Additional favour, When you go extra miles in your stewardship you’ll receive additional supernatural favour. And favour in turn, colors your efforts and covers your errors.

Note* you can’t take the lead in spiritual and not take the lead in physical. The spiritual is the control room of the physical.

How Do I Go Extra mile In My Stewardship?

1). Intercession and soul winning, stand in gap for others (especially the lost and unsaved) both on the prayer altar and outreaches as a lifestyle. This platform is where supernatural grace flows.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you (John.15:16).

Paul planted, means some fellows can intercede on behalf of the lost. Apollos watered, means some fellows can reach out to lost through evangelism and God is the rewarder of them both. You can go extra mile by doing both and get extra rewards.

Prayer on behalf of souls will help to destroy the unseen forces holding them down from being rescued. Ensure that you’re doing something, the idle hand is the devil’s workshop (Proverbs.16:27).

2). Extra tithe, pay more than ten percent of your income as tithe and paying corporate tithe as Abraham did in Genesis.14:20. Things are tight for those who eat their tithe. Apart from tithing, also consider the poor so that you’ll be rescued in the days of troubles; key into kingdom promotion platforms and let everyone suffering in the house of God count on you (Galatians.6:10).

3).Prayer and fasting, engage in prayer and fasting lifestyle (don’t just fast alone but pray. Prayer is the value offers in fasting, fasting is meant of facilitates answered prayers. Fasting without prayer equals mere punishment).

4).Pray and believe, let your prayer be mixed with faith. Believe is the scriptural mate of prayer just like husband and wife, as prayer alone is impotent without your faith inline.

5).Praise warfare, Engage in a praise warfare (don’t just fight your battle with prayer alone. Consider praise as a major in your major conflicts). My post: this will take God fully explains how praise can be used in doing warfare.

And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten (2Chronicles.20:22).

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed (Acts.16:25-26).

6). Obedience of faith, By obedience of faith, I simply mean that you should let your obedience to scriptural instructions be mixed with faith. As you’re putting God’s word to work also put your faith inline, it works like fire!

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein , he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed (James.1:25).

But without faith it is impossible to please him : for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews.11:6).

And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord (Luke.1:45)

Our relationship with God is highly personal, understand this, God does not reward group, He rewards individual; He does not promote group, He promotes individual). It’s to every man and woman according to his/her work.

For example, He rewarded those who He gave talents to invest, not as group but as individuals (He called them one after the other to collect their rewards). Therefore, go in full length with God with an individualistic mentality, I bet you, you won’t regret it.

Final thoughts,

• In God’s kingdom, the higher your investment the higher your returns.
• When you go extra mile in your stewardship you will get: extra years, rewards and promotions; you’ll also take the lead and obtain additional favour.
• You can go extra mile by involving in both kingdom oriented prayers and soul winning, or paying extra tithe, engaging in prayer and fasting as lifestyle, praying and believing; praise lifestyle and by exercising an obedience of faith.
• Our relationship with God is highly personal. God does not reward group He rewards individual.

In a nutshell, be God greedy. When you’re God greedy you’ll delightfully go extra mile to please Him with the help of the Holy spirit – spirit of obedience (Ezekiel.36:27).