Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
February 06, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“The Principle of Firstfruits”

Proverbs 3:1-10


• God shows himself strong on the behalf of a person who is a Firstfruits giver

• God always wants to be first

• Anytime God ask you to do something – It is never going to be without a promise or a reward connected to it

• That is why the enemy fights you so hard – To keep you from obeying God

• When you don’t forget His principles – When you keep them in your heart

• Length of days – Long life – Shalom (Peace) - Shall be added to you

• Many people are looking for the fountain of youth – When it is right in the Bible

• All you have to do is learn how to operate according to God’s principles

• Principle: Love thy neighbor as thyself

• Most people don’t love their neighbors as themselves

• Many Christians are prejudice, have anger, bitterness, lack of forgiveness, critical, and fault finding

• These are Christians who have been washed in the blood and yet they are holding onto these things - Then they want God to bless them

• The enemy does not play fair – It’s not you – The enemy is fighting against principles

• The enemy knows that God is a “God of Principle” - Just remember to say that

God wants you to be a person of principle – When you are – Then you obligate God

• Most people don’t like that word “obligate”

• But it’s not so much that you obligate Him – God obligates Himself



• When we operate according to God’s principles – God can tell the devil that “they did my word, now I’m obligated to do it for them”

• Satan is the God of this world – However, every time you operate according to God’s principles – God has a legal right to bless you

• Every time you do something good – God does something

• Every time you do something evil – The devil does something

• The reason you are in some situations today is because you have violated a principle

• Most of you think you can do it yourself – You don’t take the time to acknowledge God

• The reason why you get into the situations that you do is because you don’t acknowledge God – You just do it yourself

• In all your ways – Acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths

• Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the Firstfruits of all thine increase