A Sermon
Delivered on Wednesday Evening, April 29th, 2026, by
Evangelist PAUL ACQUAH,
Live on MZ Radio London, London UK.
We’re good at thanking the wrong things. The pay cheque comes in – we thank the job. The business turns a profit – we credit the strategy. A gift arrives at the right moment – we’re grateful to the person who gave it. None of that’s wrong. But we end up building our security on channels. And channels can run dry. Paul writes to a church in real need and says – “My God shall supply all your need… according to His riches in glory… by Christ Jesus.” Not some needs. All of them. If you’ve ever lain awake wondering whether there’ll be enough – this is for you. In today’s message titled “Recognising God as Source and Provider,” Evangelist Paul Acquah reminds us that God is not just a part of our supply – He is the source of it all. Be blessed as you listen!
The Bible makes us understand that God is the ultimate source of life, provision, and strength, rather than relying on human resources or material possessions. God meets all needs, Philippians 4:19 (NIV): “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus”. God is the source of all things. 1 Corinthians 8:6 (AMPC): “Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, Who is the Source of all things.”. Every perfect gift comes from Him. James 1:17 (NKJV): “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights.”. Psalm 31:19 (NIV):tells us about the great goodness God has stored up for those who fear Him. In John 15:5 (ESV),Jesus says, “…apart from me you can do nothing,” Thus letting us know that he is the source of fruitfulness. God is the Ultimate Source. Your job or other avenues are merely channels. God is the source behind every blessing. Depend on God because relying on God rather than man or wealth brings true security. He is the provider of physical needs and spiritual vitality. When we put our trust in Him, He remains faithful to meet our needs throughout life.
God is the source of everything we need soallow him to be your source of provision. Recognising God as the ultimate source stops a mindset of lack and fear, allowing us to trust in His provision. This reminds me of Hebrews chapter 4 and the Sabbath rest. Hebrews 4 teaches that a “Sabbath rest” remains for the children of God, which is a present spiritual rest found by trusting in the finished work of Jesus rather than human works. Entering this rest means ceasing from self-reliant efforts to achieve your needs, but resting in the finished work of Christ just as God rested from his work of creation. The chapter urges immediate faith, encouraging believers to hear God’s voice today and avoid hardening their hearts. This was what the Sabbath was supposed to be in the OT. The biblical account indicates that when the Israelites observed the Sabbath day and the Sabbath year, they were promised and experienced exceptional prosperity, distinct from their neighbours, because they operated under a covenant where God was recognised as their ultimate Source and Provider.
We need to understand that even though we work and toil, it’s God that supernaturally supplies. And so here were the Jews, and that was back during a time that nobody on the planet took one day out of seven off because it was a time that they were struggling to make ends meet. And yet God’s people took one day out of seven off and instead of having less they had more. God blessed them and they prospered more than all the nations around them that were working seven days a week. Let me refer you to Leviticus 25, so you can see the miracle in it. In Leviticus 25, God commanded that for six years the Israelites could sow and harvest, but the seventh year was to be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—no sowing or reaping. They had to take one year out of seven off and they couldn’t plant any crops. And they couldn’t reap what grew naturally of the field. And they couldn’t do any work. And they had to take one year out of seven and turn it into a Sabbath year. Do you know that the natural mind says, “If I do that, I’d starve.” How do you survive? To ensure their survival during the fallow year, God promised Supernatural Abundance: a triple blessing in the sixth year, providing enough produce to last for three years (the 6th, 7th, and until the 8th-year harvest).
Leviticus 25, says, “If the people ask, how will we survive during the seventh year?” He says, “I’ll give you three times a normal harvest that will last you through the sixth year, through the seventh year when you aren’t working, and through the eighth year as you plant your crops and are waiting for the stuff to come up.” So, when they observe this Sabbath, God would multiply their effort. Observance of these laws was designed to teach reliance on God rather than human effort, affirming that God is our source. While neighbouring nations worked incessantly to secure fertility, Israel’s rest meant they relied on divine provision, not just agricultural output. So, the whole point of this was to show that even though you work and do things, it is not your work that produces prosperity, it is your covenant with God and God’s blessing on your work that make it work. And I tell you, that is a perfect picture of giving. There’re lots of people that say, “Well, I would give but” If I were to give this money away, what would I eat? Well, if there wasn’t a God who promised that when you give, it’ll be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, then yeah you are right. It’s true that when you take a portion of what you’ve got and give it away, you’d be worse off. But since we have a God who has promised that he is going to multiply what you give back to us, it is wise to give. It’s to your advantage to give a portion of what you have and trust him because God is your source, not your job, not your talents, not your abilities, not this economy, not your government.
In my ministerial trips and dealings with a lot of churches, I’ve come to realise that whenever it’s on the news that there’s going to be an economic downturn, churches make wrong decisions. Ministries decrease their budgets by certain amount or even withdraw from evangelical outreaches all together in anticipation of decreased revenue because we are in a recession. Some people say, “Well, that is wisdom.” I think that’s unbelief. God said he’d supply our need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Our money should come from God and not from this world system. And I know that there’re some people listening to me right now and are saying, “Well, it makes good preaching stuff, but in reality, that doesn’t work.” And I tell you that it works. Let me share this testimony with you. It was right after the covid 19 hit, when people were worried and living in fear because they were losing so much money, and that’s when God spoke to me and told me that I needed to build a bible college. Since then, the ministry has spent several thousands of pounds on this project. That’s in addition to our evangelical outreaches. I was asked to start this huge project during covid 19 and the ministry finance increased so much during that same time, Did you know it defies logic?
Many ministries were cutting back. And sad to say, it really bothered me that Christians cut back. They did a survey among evangelical Christians during that time. These aren’t just the ones who claim to be Christians, but the ones who answered questions and their answers were consistent with a born-again Christian. One of the survey questions was, How were they coping with the recession? And the number one way that Christians coped was to decrease their giving. That’s absolutely the worst thing you could possibly do. Going back to the Sabbath rest story, in the Sabbath even though you work and you plant seed and you till the ground and you remove the rocks and do all of that, God is the one who causes you to prosper. It’s a spiritual thing. And to prove it, one year out of seven, they took off and God supernaturally supplied for them. I’m telling you, brothers and sisters, I know that there’re people who give when it’s convenient. And you may desire to give even more, but you aren’t committed to it. Because the bottom line is, and I’m not saying this to rebuke you or to hurt you. I’m just saying it to tell you the truth and to enlighten you. The bottom line is you do not really see God as your source. You see that money you have in your hand as your source. And when you have more need than what you have, you will decrease your giving, you will cut back because you trust in that money instead of in God and that shouldn’t be the case.
