Keion Henderson - The Roadmap to a Reward

Listen, even when it comes to pastoring, the Bible lets us know that He finds out how faithful a man is over another man’s farm before he gets his own. You don’t know that every hotel, every restaurant, every house, and every opportunity you enter into, God is testing you to see if you can handle that on your own. Priest Keon, I think I will. That 's why I came down here, because I knew this was going to be an uphill battle-because I’m trying to show you the roadmap to a reward. Be thou faithful over a few things, then I’ll make you ruler over many. Oh my God, I just saw something else: five talents, two talents, one talent. He told the man who had five talents, «Be thou faithful over a few things.» He told the man who had two talents, «Be thou faithful over a few things.» Now, the man with five had more than the man with two, but notice that each and every one of them, He still referred to what they had as the few. What you don’t understand is that even as much as you have, in God’s eyes, it’s few compared to what He’s going to make you ruler over. So when you start to take care of what you have, God says, «I’m going to make what you have much,» but you have to take care of the few. I want you to think about this: all the money you’ve made, all the money that you got, all the money that you’ve saved, all the money that you’ve wasted. God says, «That 's few.» That 's you! Be thou faithful over a few things. Wait a minute, God, I had five dollars; I turned it into ten. Be thou faithful over a few, and notice He did not call it few until it was double. So even when they doubled it, it was still few. Do you understand that God has so much for you that if He took your income right now and doubled it, He’s blessing you with a few? That doubling your income right now is equivalent to God giving you few. Now, when you do right with the double, when you do right with the double, then He’s going to make you ruler over much. Now, if what you have is few, imagine how much He really wants you to have. If He calls what He’s going to give you much, you’ve got to understand how big that is. I want you to imagine much in your mind right now, and the roadmap to much is taking care of a few. That 's the roadmap. «Pastor, I only got twenty dollars .» He only asks for two. «Yeah, God, what am I going to do with only twenty dollars?» Let me tell you, if you only got twenty, you’re broke anyway; you might as well give two and let the Lord take care of the rest. I’m telling you that right now, because having twenty dollars and not giving anything is equivalent to burying one. Is this making sense to you guys? Am I helping anybody? How many of you all want to be blessed? How many of you believe God is the one that can bless you? How many of you want to eradicate poverty in your family, in your lineage, in your last name? I’m showing you the roadmap to a reward right now, and it ain’t going to get any better than this. This is exactly how you get it. This is exactly how you get it. You take care of what you have, and you swallow that pressing idea that because it’s not a lot, it’s insignificant. It’s a lie from the pit of hell. He took the widow 's mite-just to look at my woman, just to look at her mite-a few pennies. He took a woman that only had enough flour for her and her son, and it was a drought in the land. According to First Kings, Elisha came to the house, and the woman said to the prophet, " I don’t even have enough money to help you. I know you’re the man of God, but if you raise an offering, don’t come over here, because I ain’t got enough for me and my son .» The man told her, «God said, take that little bit of flour and a little bit of oil and give it to me.» «God, what do you mean? If I give you my little flour and my little oil, then my son’s going to die!» She did it anyway. She gave him the flour and the oil, and the Bible says from that day forward, every time she dipped into the barrel, there was some more oil and some more flour. I’m trying to tell you, if you’ll give God what He asks for, every time you go to the ATM, something will come out. Every time you go to the bank, you can make a withdrawal! Do I have any witnesses in here? Two fish, five loaves fed five thousand, not including the women and the children. Why? Because the lad gave them the little lunch that he had. He didn’t say, «Well God, this is all I got,» because, believe it or not, in those times, young men were sent to go get the food. No doubt he was taking that food home to his mama to feed the household. Two fish, five loaves of bread .