No white elephants

Itai Chipunza
IN the world around us there is something as common as the air we breathe. It is so common people don’t even pay attention to it. If you take some time to look around you with a keen eye, only then will you notice it. I summarised it in a simple phrase, “white elephants”.

Empty buildings, deserted structures, incomplete work, some built halfway and abandoned. Others that were previously active but failed to evolve and change with the time and remained behind in the evolution of business.

All these are ideas, visions, business ventures that have not been completed. Each time you see a white elephant, one thing should come to your mind, “incomplete vision”.

In a town called Hwange, there is a particular building that was built by a man whose vision took him hundreds of years beyond his own life. When you look at it, you can tell that a great vision was in the process of manifestation when unfortunately it just stopped. I have not bothered to find out why, but in the past 10 or more years, it has been stagnant. But because the man had kids, not sons and daughters, they failed to see the vision through.

It has since been a white elephant. This is demonic. There should be no white elephants in your life. It is not allowed for you to have white elephants in your life. I repeat, you are not allowed by God to have white elephants in your life. Unless of cause it was a devilish idea, then by all means let it die.

I speak from experience. I had this problem in my life before. I would have a lot of things I plan to do. And each time I get to it, it just dies on the way.

For some reason I would fail to continue. Many things were attributed to this problem. A prophet told me it was a demon, another told me I was lazy, the reasons were endless, including of course my personal excuses for not completing the work.

The bottom line was, I could not see it through. Something would just happen, causing me to have excuses for not doing it. Whatever project I started I would leave it incomplete until I realised I was insulting God who gives these ideas to me by sleeping on them. I went to my pastor and told him about it. He instructed me to fast and pray about it.

Things changed. I began going back to the things I had planned on doing and failed. One by one I hit them off the list. One by one I made my God sit in Heaven and say to the angels do you see the gifts I gave to Mr Itai Chapunza working.

Malachi 3:10-12
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of Heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit,” says the Lord Almighty.

Malachi 3 verse 10 is a very common scripture. But we normally take it at face value. Let’s go though it so that you understand that white elephants in your life are a sign of demonic operations that you must rebuke now. Yes, right now. First it reads, bring the whole tithe into the house of the lord.
Meaning everything due to the house of God should go there. Not a cent must go and do charity events. Some people do this assuming God counts it as tithe because you gave to the poor.

Those two are different. It is no longer tithe if it is not given into the house of God. Neither does it count as tithe if it less than ten percent. You are free to call it whatever name you want. It is not tithe. I know people that ask me if it’s ten percent of gross or net salary. Let me answer you in a simple manner.

God has nothing to do with your medical aid, taxes or any other stop orders you have going on. Even Jesus paid tithe. So yes, it is ten percent of your gross salary. Secondly this tithe is not just an instruction from God. It is a business deal. God says bring the tithe, all of it into the house of God.

Then He says test me. Almost like saying, try me out. Or try my product out, try out this business deal. His end of the deal is simple. He will personally throw open the floodgates of Heaven and pour out a blessing that there will be no room enough to contain. He never said I will instruct the angels to open the floodgates of Heaven.

No, he says I will throw them open. He will open them Himself. God does not want to risk this not being done by delegating. So He will do it Himself.

He will open the gates himself. And force the blessing on you. God literally is saying force me to bless you. He is saying enter into this contract with me and make me bless you. Just tithe and make me bless you.

This is a contract and God’s end of it is blessing you. Once you fulfil your end of the contract, He has no choice but to follow through. Please do not get lost, we are still to relate this to those illegal white elephants in your life. Now we are at the point where you have fulfilled your end of the contract and God is working on His.

After he has poured this blessing on you, He will then turn to the devil and tell him not to put his hands on your property, personally rebuking the devourer.

The second part of the contract God needs to fulfil is to instruct the devil to leave your property out of his plans of destruction. You can be assured that when God says it, it will be done. He cursed the fig tree and it died. Jesus is not a small God. He is God himself.

At this point the flood gates of Heaven are open on your life, a blessing is pouring out and the devil is away, pouring out a blessing with no one to destruct you during collection process.

2 Corinthians 9:7
So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

God loves a cheerful giver. If you grumble you make it seem as if God is cheating you. Thus He does not want to be involved in a deal where one party has no trust in the contract.

He also does not like one that comes into this contract with Him out of necessity, because you see people around you giving of their tithes and offerings, one must feel he wants to be in this. Purpose in your heart to be in business with God and be happy about it because there are no losses with the Most High, profits are guaranteed.

If you grumble while you give, God does not regard the contract. He will not put his signature of approval on it. So now you have tithed, the flood gates of Heaven are open in your life and the devil is away from your wealth.

Now we have to wait for the blessing to come to you. The gifts that come from the store house are our next port of concentration. You can get almost anything from the store house of God.

He is God after all. They obviously start with protection from the devourer as stated in the contract of tithing. By the way this is not part of the gifts, it is a clause in the contract of tithing. Then the gifts could be answers to prayer, new contracts, favour among men and business ideas.

Now these things that God gives you will almost always lead you to your next pay cheque. They will lead you to increase so that you are able to be in business with Him again. This then means all the good ideas you have had are a gift from God.

If then we have concluded that these gifts of ideas, new contract, promotions, new connections and whatever else He may have given you are all from God, do you think it makes him happy to see you squander all these gifts by not seeing them through and turning them into white elephants? It is an insult to God.

He is giving you these things so that you increase and therefore become usable in solving other people’s problems. He wants to see you increase so that He may enter into bigger and more diverse contracts with you.

Like funding a whole soul winning crusade, buying a whole building for a church and anything else that needs a big fish to carry out. But you continue to disgrace Him by allowing every idea to become a white elephant. Some people have no idea that no one is blessed just to be a blessed person.

You are blessed to bless another. You cannot be blessed to be blessed and useless in the Kingdom of God. We pray for God to use us globally and increase our influence and income to have a global reach. But let us think of it this way, how can God use a person who is struggling to stay afloat to make a global impact?

You must take each of his blessings very seriously. Each gift should be taken seriously because it is not even about you as an individual. It is about the whole world waiting to benefit from God’s blessing on you.

Lord Jesus used to teach in parables. He did this in order to bring understanding to things of God to people because His thoughts are far higher than ours. So let’s put this whole thing in a parable to make it easier to digest. Imagine trying to feed cereal to a child and the spoon keeps bending down before it enters the baby’s mouth. This means the spoon is not good enough for feeding the hungry baby.

In this case the spoon represents you and me, the person feeding the child is God, and the child is a world of people in need of being fed by the blessing of God. So be a good strong spoon that God can use to feed the world.

Each of God’s gifts to you will help strengthen you for your true purpose. They are to make the spoon strong enough to carry the porridge without bending, yet soft enough not to harm the baby’s soft gums and teeth. So take every gift from God as seriously as court summons. White elephants are not allowed. Not at all. For whatever reasons.

Matthew 25:26-28
26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents.”

Look at God’s reaction to one who wastes away the gift that has been given to him. He will not only fire you from alliance with him. But he will also take the gift that he gave you and give to the one that has been given a lot and has used them.

God does not like white elephants in your life. You are delaying business. Its high time you stopped chasing useless things such as beer drinking and focus on the gifts God has placed in you for growth. Godly chill is important. Chill on your appetite for useless things, learn to focus on what is important. Be blessed.