• There is power in giving your first to God, including the part of your day.
• Before you can go out to do anything else, give the first part of that day to God.
• It is more difficult to sustain good things.
• Be careful with success, be careful with good things if you are not ready to sustain them.
• Going backwards is not good.
• When you move forward, the bridges you crossed should not still be there as a backup in case you want to go back.
• The only bridges that should be there are the ones you are yet to cross.
• There is a tendency in many people to forget.
• If you maintain the “new-comer” mentality in some areas, you will always see miracles.
• God is behind increase.
• satan is against the increase of good things from God.
• When you have an increase, satan will come to resist you so that the increase doesn’t happen again.
• Many times, our actions don’t show that God is the one responsible for the increase in our lives.
• Have you dedicated your first-born to God?
• Your first-born is a first fruit and belongs to God (Exo 13:6).
• Remove all the attachment you have to your first-born, he/she is not yours. Let the will of God be done in their life.
• Remove all plans / attachments to your first fruit, it doesn’t belong to you.
• God is behind every increase that happens in a child of God’s life and He must be recognised with thanksgiving in practical ways.
• If you started a tomato business in which you bought a box of tomato at K100 and sold it at K120, that K20 profit is your first increase / first fruit in that business and therefore it does not belong to you.
• Tithe is one tenth (10 %) of your income all the time while first fruit is the the first portion of your increase, the first time you get it.
• Your salary was K10 last year and this year you’re promoted and begin to earn K11. That K1 is your first fruit and therefore it all belongs to God. In the months that follow, you continue to give your tithe as usual.
• Honour doesn’t only give you access but makes you stay in the access you’ve been given.
• First-fruit is about your honour to God (Prov 3:9-10)
• If you plant oranges, tomatoes, etc. the first harvest doesn’t belong to you.
• When you get a job, the first salary of that job doesn’t belong to you but belongs to God.
• If the first fruit is well received, the rest is blessed (Rom 11:16).
Lev 23:9-10, Eze 44:30
• The first fruit is divine wisdom.
• Devils come to confuse people so that they don’t practice first fruit right from the start.
• What makes a person to stay in a realm is what they do with the first.
• If you’re wondering why you can’t stay (rest / settle) in the realm of good things you have been brought into, it is because of what you do with the first.
• If you’re wondering why your day doesn’t settle, it is because you don’t give God the first part of your day.
• Starting your day by giving it to God is giving Him the first fruit of your time.
• You don’t remember God at 12am,after having done other things first.

• In business, the first profit from your business doesn’t belong to you. After you have given your entire first profit as first fruit, continue to calculate your tithe from your profits.
• In farming, the first harvest from your crops or livestock doesn’t belong to you.
• When your business is not yet making profit, the issue of tithe and first fruit does not come into play.
• YOU DON’T TITHE OUT OF YOUR BUSINESS CAPITAL.
• So it is better to start your business with wisdom, pay a tithe from the money you are starting business with.
• If your business is stuck and not making profit over a period of time, you need to inquire from God about what you can do to break that siege. He may even tell you to sacrifice.
• God’s desire is for your business to make time.
• If you have an employee who is stealing from you and maybe even modifying financial records, as a business owner you must fire them. Your financial records should be in order so that you know what you are giving to God.
• If you’re running a business with a partner where you have agreed to be splitting profits, your first fruit should come from your own portion of the profits because it is you wants to honour God. Don’t scam your business partner.
• If a non-believer practices the principles of the word of God, he will succeed.
• Your first fruit should be labelled as such because there are blessings that will be spoken over it.
• In this part of the world, one of the challenges we have is that people haven’t been taught honour.
• To delay your tithe is a trap, give it whenever there is an opportunity.
• The devil will try to cause impossible situations to make you not to obey God in your givings.
• If your relative is sick and you have just calculated your tithe,give your tithe first. It is the same God who can touch that sick person (Mat 6:33).
• Let’s stop aborting new levels.
• Demons take advantage when certain things are not in place.
• Ask God for help to practice this because the enemy will try to resist you.
• When the grace for giving comes upon you, it will seem as if you were born a giver and you will receive as freely as you give out.
• Life is about giving and receiving.
• If you ate food but don’t want to go to the toilet, you don’t have room to receive more food.