Dr Bill Winston started off by reading from Galatians 3:13-14.
He pointed that the promise here is the promise we have through faith. He then read from Proverbs 10:22. From this passage, he revealed that what God wants to do for us is to get us out of the place of toil, that is, anxiety and all. He called attention to the fact that what was mentioned in the passage is blessing and not blessings. He then went on to reference Genesis 1:26. In Genesis, God gave dominion to man. It was God’s way of giving man part ownership of Earth. He continued reading into verse 28 and noted the part where God “blessed them”, that is man. He also highlighted the fact that God ordered man to become productive. He then said that when we get born again, God makes us self-productive. The reason, he said, there’s so much poverty and lack here and there is that people are not self-productive.
Dr. Winston commented that the saints should be producers. He also made a point that 99% is what Jesus did was through spoken word and we ought to to the same top situations in our lives.
He went on to talk about how we have been redeemed from the curse and unlike Adam, we’re expected to do much more. Reading from Genesis 1:24, he commented on the fact that God was speaking to different natural entities to produce something. The earth for instance was called to produce cattle.
In Genesis chapter 2, Dr. Winston showed us how God made man from what was already existing – sand – and breathed into him to have life.
Reading from 1 Corinthians , he showed us how God gave us the power to be creative so that we make the material things that we need instead of wait for him to make them for us.
Genesis 28. He took us to where Isaac blessed Jacob and after that came Esau asking to be blessed but was told that there was no Blessing left because it had been given to Jacob. To this, Dr. Winston pointed back to the significance of ‘Blessing’ (no ‘S’) as he indicated in the beginning of his message. He stated that the Blessing could come into a neighbourhood that is over poverty striken and literally turn it into a garden of Eden.
In the blessing, there’s no toil in our managing the Earth.
God doesn’t want us to become barren. He desires for us to be fruitful. That’s why he cursed the fig tree. Jesus cursed that unfruitful tree by the words of his mouth. The significance of this, Dr. Winston pointed out, is that we ought to shape our lives with our words of faith.
Having read from Matthew 12:33, he likened our belief system to trees.
Reading from Luke 8:11. Dr. Winston identified our faith as the seed. We ought to speak into our soil, this seed.
Reading from Luke 17:20-21, he noted that the kingdom of God within us is designed to produce for us, to lead us into everything we ever needed independent of the nation we’re living in.
He also said that if one had an outcome that they didn’t desire in their lives, they should speak to it. He explained that it was out of the abundance of our hearts that we deliver what we say to others’ hearing.
In Mark 4:35, Dr. Winston showed how Jesus spoke first to the unseen – the wind – and later, he spoke to the seen – his disciples.
He read from Matthew 13:10.
He also talked about the importance of washing our conscience clean so that it isn’t difficult for us to have faith.
Dr. Winston admonished that whatever it was that God told us to do, we should go ahead to do it because God is the one that would provide us with what we needed to get that thing done. He specifically said that the blessing of God brings wealth.
Matthew 12:35 He said of this passage that we would bring forth things from within us, that is, from what we have.
Micah 5:2. In this passage, the Messiah was the one being talked about.
Dr. Winston noted that this blessing wasn’t just for the Jews alone but for anyone who believed in the Messiah, Gentiles included.