WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.720 And welcome, welcome, welcome to day two of prosper with God in business. 2 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:19.280 I was thinking I probably should have really titled this partner with God in life and love 3 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:23.880 and business because they all go hand in hand. 4 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:26.080 Well, this is day two. 5 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:29.760 I'm so glad that you're here. 6 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:33.680 We are going to be diving back in. 7 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:43.600 It just was very fortuitous, maybe is the word that I got a question from a client that 8 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.360 I started addressing last week and I'm going to go deeper. 9 00:00:46.360 --> 00:00:51.800 I think it was the perfect God set up and I love that God told her to ask me and she 10 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:53.320 didn't even know about this. 11 00:00:53.320 --> 00:01:00.760 And so I love the way God works when we listen to his voice and so I'm going to start with 12 00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:01.760 prayer. 13 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:06.080 Then we're going to dive in to some of these questions. 14 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:11.360 I wrote you hard questions, inspiring answers. 15 00:01:11.360 --> 00:01:12.880 That's what we're going to do today. 16 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:16.000 Hard questions, inspiring answers. 17 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:23.840 So I pray that you will be strengthened with might in your inner woman, that you'll be 18 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:32.880 strengthened with power, that you'll be rooted and grounded in love as we dive into these 19 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:34.320 topics. 20 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:43.400 So let me let some more people in and all right, so I'm going to be continuing the conversation. 21 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:52.160 So let me share my screen and let's go ahead and jump over here to the PowerPoint so that 22 00:01:52.160 --> 00:01:57.760 you can be able to see this as I'm talking. 23 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:03.640 All right, so maybe somebody put in the chat that you can see this or if you can't at any 24 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:05.480 time, please, please let me know. 25 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.120 Otherwise I'll just be here talking to myself. 26 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:09.800 Okay, forgot to change the first slide. 27 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:21.120 This is actually day two, day two and the conversation is about business being fun, 28 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.000 being fulfilling, being a wondrous adventure. 29 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:34.680 Now I think that is opposite of what most people perhaps are experiencing or seeing 30 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:35.680 business. 31 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:41.520 So go ahead and turn off your cameras and mic, turn off your mic until after I finish 32 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.880 this first part and then we'll mastermind. 33 00:02:43.880 --> 00:02:49.920 So go ahead and mute and hide your camera if you could, please. 34 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:56.640 Okay, all right, so this idea, you know, right now I think for many people, business, making 35 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:01.800 money, jobs, careers, it's like, think about the words we use. 36 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:05.200 It's go ahead and mute your mic, please. 37 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:07.880 It's like, it's the grind, right? 38 00:03:07.880 --> 00:03:10.880 It's the, it's the hustle. 39 00:03:10.880 --> 00:03:17.760 It's the, okay, I'm going to have to go in and mute you guys, hang on a second here. 40 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:18.760 Where are you? 41 00:03:18.760 --> 00:03:20.960 Okay, I think you're all muted now. 42 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:26.840 So, so, you know, I asked the question, can business be fun, fulfilling, a wondrous adventure 43 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:32.200 or like think about the words we use when it comes to work, right? 44 00:03:32.200 --> 00:03:40.480 I gotta go to work, you know, back to the grind, back to the, we even say side hustle, 45 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:41.480 back to the hustle. 46 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:48.720 Look at the, look at the images and the words we're using to describe what actually is the 47 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:52.800 majority of our time, where we spend the majority of our time. 48 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:59.320 If where we spend the majority of our time, we look at as drudgery, something is missing. 49 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:03.800 And if miracles ended, you know, I always ask this question. 50 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.800 Sometimes people say miracles ended at the time of Christ. 51 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:13.520 If that's true, then there was a generation that was so blessed to get to experience the 52 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:15.480 power of God and the miracles. 53 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:21.040 I mean, just read the book of Acts and then what God forgot about every other generation. 54 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.680 And yeah, we're supposed to rely on the word I hundred percent agree, but it's supposed 55 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:32.080 to be a drudgery debt filled, you know, grind it out, you know, wait at the bus station 56 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:34.320 to get to heaven kind of life. 57 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:36.200 Is that true? 58 00:04:36.200 --> 00:04:38.400 Is that what God is promising? 59 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:45.760 And so this is why I'm so passionate about partnering with God in life, in love, in business. 60 00:04:45.760 --> 00:04:53.440 And it's not just, not only is it important in general for our fulfillment, for us fully 61 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:56.040 living out what God has called us to live. 62 00:04:56.040 --> 00:05:00.040 I think it's even more important right now as we're going. 63 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:09.680 through a massive disruption caused by AI. It's even more important right now that we are, 64 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:17.040 we're living from a different voice, we're living from a different strength, we're rooted and 65 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:23.360 grounded not in what's going on all around us, we're not being driven by our circumstances, 66 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:29.920 we're not being driven by worry or fear or doubt or anxiety, but we're being driven, 67 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:40.080 like we saw last week, by the mighty duotimous power that is inside of us. So got this letter, 68 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:47.840 got this email last week, a couple days ago, and I started talking about this yesterday, 69 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:57.360 and the idea at the bottom of this was this idea that I desire to be prosperous, I think I desire 70 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:04.400 to have abundance, and yet there's guilt. So what we've got here, the reason I share this question 71 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:11.120 is I think it represents probably 90% of the women that I talk to. That's why I just said, 72 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:21.200 oh, this is just perfect, okay? And so there's this gas breaks going on in our lives around the 73 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:27.760 issue of money, which if we're going to partner with God in business, we're not just talking only 74 00:06:27.760 --> 00:06:33.760 ministry, partnering with God in ministry or what we do in church, we're talking about partnering 75 00:06:33.760 --> 00:06:39.920 with God in business. And does that mean in order to do that, if I'm going to partner with God, 76 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:47.920 I can't prosper? She says, I think I deserve abundance, and then guilt comes in. Now you 77 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:55.040 could fill in the blank, right? Then fear comes in, worry comes in, doubt comes in, you know, 78 00:06:55.040 --> 00:07:01.920 they're all sisters, right? That I think I'm meant to prosper. And then she goes on to say, 79 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:08.240 when I think about who is most influential in history, who do I most want to be like? I want 80 00:07:08.320 --> 00:07:17.360 to be like Jesus. Okay, I love that. Something interesting happens. And she says it right here. 81 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:27.120 There's a perception that you have about Jesus. And that perception is often based on 82 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:33.440 how you were taught. The significant people in your life, your parents, your teachers, 83 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:39.760 your pastors, those people that influenced when you were so programmable, 84 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:47.280 your view of who and what Jesus is, and who and what it means to partner with him. 85 00:07:47.280 --> 00:07:53.040 And so one of the first things, if we're going to partner with God in business, let's talk about 86 00:07:53.040 --> 00:08:01.520 this. If we're going to partner with God in business, and I'm just going to stop this share 87 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:10.240 for a second, okay? I want to just talk straight at you. The subject of this is partnering with God 88 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:19.840 in business. To partner with someone you've, I hope, you've got to know them. And you have to 89 00:08:19.840 --> 00:08:27.280 have an accurate knowledge of them. So you have to know them accurately, intimately to partner 90 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:31.920 with them. If we don't, then we got a bunch of split partnerships and a lot of problems. 91 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:38.320 So to partner with God, we have to accurately know who God is. And it has to be something that we 92 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:44.159 want to partner with, and that we can trust. And I think many of us are talking out of two sides 93 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:50.080 of our mouth that we say we trust them, but our life doesn't represent that we trust them. Because 94 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:58.240 if we're over here in worry and fear, this is inverted faith. It says, no, actually, there's 95 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:04.000 something about God that I don't really trust, either because of my experience or because of 96 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:10.560 what I was taught, right? So if we're going to partner with God in business, we have to know him 97 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:17.840 accurately. We have to trust them. But partnership is two people. So you got God, and we got you. 98 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:25.200 That means you also have to have an accurate knowledge and understanding of yourself. 99 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:32.080 And you have to be willing to trust. You have to be willing to trust yourself. And by that, 100 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:39.600 I mean the spirit of God within you. That what you are knowing to be true and believing to be 101 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:46.880 true, that you can trust. Because if you don't trust yourself, you're always going to question, 102 00:09:46.880 --> 00:09:51.520 and you're always going to follow others, and you're always going to rely on others, 103 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:56.880 and it's going to change with the tide. So if we don't know God, and we don't trust God, 104 00:09:56.880 --> 00:09:59.840 or we don't know ourselves, and we don't trust 105 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:07.600 ourselves. You know the saying, to thine own self be true, right? Know thyself and tell thine own 106 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:15.040 self be true. Oldest wisdom. And when I'm talking about self, I don't mean the ego. I don't mean 107 00:10:15.040 --> 00:10:20.560 who we've shaped and twisted ourself to be, to try to be loved and accepted. I mean the true, 108 00:10:21.280 --> 00:10:30.640 who you really are. To know that and to live that. To know God and to live in communion with him. 109 00:10:30.640 --> 00:10:37.200 That's what this is all about. So to do that, we've got to debunk the lies. We've got to have 110 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:43.040 an accurate perception of God, an accurate perception of ourselves, an accurate perception 111 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:49.520 of business, an accurate perception of money, so that we can move forward in truth. We've got to 112 00:10:49.520 --> 00:10:57.760 debunk the things that have held us back and had us be going with the gas in the brakes, okay? So 113 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:09.680 going back and sharing where we just were in this letter, is that it's not what I, the guilt comes 114 00:11:09.680 --> 00:11:15.520 because it's not what I was taught about Jesus. And there's a lot of us that have been taught 115 00:11:15.520 --> 00:11:23.760 that he was broke and that he wants us to be broke. And if we're going to follow him, we have 116 00:11:23.760 --> 00:11:30.000 to be broke. So we've got this image of God. I was reading in a book that I bought many, many years 117 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:37.680 ago called Rich God, Poor God. It just, this conversation reminded me of that, of that rich God, 118 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:43.680 poor God. And I love how it opens. I'm just going to read this real quick. I hadn't planned to do it, 119 00:11:43.680 --> 00:11:51.440 but I think I'm supposed to just read this really quick, okay? It says, imagine a wealthy father 120 00:11:51.440 --> 00:12:00.080 whose abundant riches are so great that no one can begin to guess his net worth. Everyone believes 121 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:07.760 this father is kind and generous and loving. In fact, even perfect strangers testify to the 122 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:15.280 father's desire to provide the good life for those who serve him. However, a paradox exists 123 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:23.760 for many of the children of this most wealthy father sincerely believe he expects them to live 124 00:12:23.760 --> 00:12:33.360 meagerly instead of abundantly. They feel they must dwell in mortgaged homes with debt weighing 125 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:43.040 heavily upon their shoulders, hopelessly enslaved to lack and continual need. While faithfully 126 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:48.160 praising the goodness of their father, they never seem to break out of the paralyzing grip 127 00:12:48.160 --> 00:12:55.200 of insufficiency. All this takes place while their rich father's wealth continues to compound 128 00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:00.560 and they fall further and further behind, accumulating bill upon bill, credit card upon 129 00:13:00.560 --> 00:13:06.240 credit card, debt upon debt. To make matters worse, whenever special opportunity for the 130 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:12.320 advancement of the father's aggressive expansion program arises, his children must all generously 131 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:18.800 chip in to pay for the new program. They continually encourage one another to scrimp and scrape 132 00:13:18.800 --> 00:13:25.520 to fund these special advancement projects for their rich father. These children sincerely believe 133 00:13:25.520 --> 00:13:34.560 that it's up to them to provide for their father's dream. Interesting, interesting food 134 00:13:35.280 --> 00:13:46.080 for thought, yes? Okay, so we're building on that concept and so how do we go for further on that? 135 00:13:46.160 --> 00:13:55.520 Okay, let's talk about that today. I mentioned last week that the battle is in our mind. You 136 00:13:55.520 --> 00:14:05.520 have to understand the scripture says the kingdom of God is within us and scripture says that the 137 00:14:05.520 --> 00:14:15.120 battle is in our mind, okay? And Romans 12 gives us two options. We can either conform, okay? And 138 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:23.600 this is those of you that the opinions of others, which scripture says that the fear of man is a 139 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:29.920 snare. It's a trap. It's like a net that you're trapped in. If you're living for the approval, 140 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:36.640 if you're waiting for the approval of others, the fear of man is a snare. So we have a choice in our 141 00:14:36.640 --> 00:14:43.120 life. We can conform whatever the news says to do, whatever the people around us say to do, 142 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.400 what everybody's doing, we can conform. And that word I shared last week is like a jello mold, 143 00:14:48.400 --> 00:14:54.160 right? You pour the jello in, it cools off, it takes on the exact shape. So we can take on the 144 00:14:54.160 --> 00:14:59.760 exact shape of the world, the fears of the world, the strife of the world, the anger of the world, 145 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:08.640 anxiety, the world. We can conform to that pattern, the hustle, the grind, or scripture says we are 146 00:15:08.640 --> 00:15:17.760 called to transform. So conform or transform. We're called to be transformed. In other words, 147 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:25.680 our entire being is changed. Scripture says that we're brand new. The old is passed away. 148 00:15:25.680 --> 00:15:35.360 We're literally transformed. How? By the renewing of our mind. Re means to do again, to make new. 149 00:15:36.160 --> 00:15:41.680 We know now with our understanding of psychoneuroimmunology, our understanding of 150 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:46.640 the brain and neurochemistry and how everything works, this is actually a scientific fact. 151 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:54.960 We literally make our brain new. We develop new neural pathways and we develop as we learn and 152 00:15:54.960 --> 00:16:00.480 think different ways. I mean, it's like trees with branches. We're literally rebuilding, 153 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:08.480 renewing our mind and that leads to our actions, our beliefs, total transformation. So here's what 154 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:21.760 you have to know about this. You will always serve the God of your perception. So there is a text in 155 00:16:21.760 --> 00:16:32.000 Matthew 25 and it's the story of the talents, the parable of the talents that Jesus told. And so 156 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:38.960 this wealthy landowner, this wealthy person comes and he blesses and he gives 10 talents to one and 157 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:50.320 he gives five talents to another and he gives one talent to another. And so they respond very, 158 00:16:50.400 --> 00:17:01.280 very different. Okay, I'm hearing that I'm disconnected from the meeting. So can I, 159 00:17:01.280 --> 00:17:08.880 it looks like I still see five of you here. Okay, so okay, you're back. Go ahead and turn off the 160 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:15.119 camera. Thank you. All right. So I think it's just you individually that was disconnected. 161 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:23.680 Okay, so there's this parable of the talents that is very telling that we will always 162 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:31.440 serve the God of our perception. I want you to understand this. Reality as we see it 163 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:40.400 is a hundred percent based on how we perceive it, how we see it on the inside. This is so 164 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:45.920 important. I could spend a month on this subject. For now, you're just going to have to take my word 165 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:54.400 for it. It's an entire topic of, you know, we don't see with our eyes. The particles that come 166 00:17:54.400 --> 00:18:03.280 in to our eyes that cause an electrical impulse to our brain that then identifies with something 167 00:18:03.280 --> 00:18:09.520 that we relate it to based on our experience. And we say, oh, it's that. And of course, there's the 168 00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:14.160 story of the men and the elephant, the blindfolded men, and they touch the tail and they say it's a 169 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:20.320 rope and they touch the legs and they say it's a trunk and they touch, you know, we see the world 170 00:18:20.320 --> 00:18:30.320 completely differently based on our perception. So we will always serve and see the God of our 171 00:18:30.320 --> 00:18:38.160 perception. This is so clear in this parable of the talents. Okay. And so the one that gets 10 172 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:44.800 goes out and faithfully goes out and multiplies it, invest it, and comes back with a return. 173 00:18:45.360 --> 00:18:53.680 And when the wealthy one comes back, who gave the money generously, right, says, well done, 174 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.680 you've been so faithful. I'm going to give you even more. In fact, it says, I'm even going to 175 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:03.920 give you authority over 10 cities. Okay. Same for the five, multiplies great things. The third one 176 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:12.080 is really interesting, really interesting. In this verse, it says, I knew you to be harsh. 177 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:20.720 I knew you to make your money on the back of others. I knew. And okay. That perception led to 178 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:29.120 fear. It says, and I was afraid. You see, your perception is either making you bold or it's 179 00:19:29.120 --> 00:19:35.040 making you fearful. It's either making you advance or it's making you hide and withdraw. 180 00:19:35.040 --> 00:19:44.800 It's all based on your perception of God. Okay. And so he says, I was afraid and I hid the money. 181 00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:54.720 I hid my talents. Okay. Interesting effect here that we serve the God of our perceptions. 182 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:59.680 What is your perception teaching you about God and how is that. 183 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.180 influencing how you live and how you serve and how much money do you have the gas and 184 00:20:05.180 --> 00:20:15.180 brakes on or are you advancing boldly if I'm I be single like are you single-minded walking 185 00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:23.160 by trust based on your perception of God so let's let's let's debunk some of these lies 186 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:28.860 real quick and then let's talk about it together okay so let's go through some of these really 187 00:20:28.860 --> 00:20:35.240 quick here's some questions just gonna kind of go through these all right so do we serve 188 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:46.440 a poor God or a rich one here's a big one is God a taker or a giver which also I said 189 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.720 we've got to look at how we look at ourselves as well do you see yourself as a taker or 190 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:58.680 a giver does God expect or prefer or or want or desire us to be poor does he think that's 191 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:04.620 the better way does he feel really pleased with you when you're poor are you really just 192 00:21:04.620 --> 00:21:14.740 being like Jesus and is being poor more holy than being rich so the broke people in the 193 00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:19.440 world are the holy ones and the wealthy people and by the way you're being programmed about 194 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:26.440 this all you have to do is look at Hollywood watch movies anytime there's a wealthy business 195 00:21:26.460 --> 00:21:32.460 person in the movies I guarantee you unless it's like a Christian film that's starting 196 00:21:32.460 --> 00:21:39.300 to reverse some of this thinking every time though what usually a man he's usually a liar 197 00:21:39.300 --> 00:21:47.420 a cheater a crook a selfish a conniving like do you ever see like a benevolent just wonderful 198 00:21:47.420 --> 00:21:55.140 happy prosperous businessman in the movies like faithful to his wife and children I don't 199 00:21:55.140 --> 00:22:01.600 see that very often so remember you're being programmed okay you're being programmed and 200 00:22:01.600 --> 00:22:09.480 so was Jesus for was he homeless were the apostles and disciples poor we've got to debunk 201 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:15.280 these lies and we have to replace it with truth for you to move forward you have to 202 00:22:15.280 --> 00:22:21.960 know you have to know what the word says you can't take other people's word for it even 203 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:28.480 mine you've got to study to show yourself approved under God like I said there's a partnership 204 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:33.920 here partnering with God you've got to know and trust the truth about God and you got 205 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:38.080 to know and trust the truth about yourself and that's what we're going to talk about 206 00:22:38.080 --> 00:22:45.760 today so here's a perspective shift in in my perspective and in my 40 years of studying 207 00:22:45.760 --> 00:22:54.480 the word and inside and out reading the Bible every year this is what I see God is a rich 208 00:22:54.480 --> 00:23:04.440 lavishly generous God he owns the cattle on a thousand hills Psalms 50 silver is his gold 209 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:13.120 is his high guy to ate his name if you study the names of God very powerful do a study 210 00:23:13.120 --> 00:23:23.240 on the names of God one of the names of God is Jehovah Jireh Jehovah Jireh God is my provider 211 00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:33.880 God is my source Genesis 22 Psalms 35 let the Lord be magnified which have pleasure 212 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:40.120 in the prosperity of his servants ah first of all you need to understand the difference 213 00:23:40.120 --> 00:23:46.680 between a slave and a servant a slave is by force a servant volunteers to serve okay 214 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:56.200 and he has pleasure he takes delight other translations say in the prosperity of those 215 00:23:56.200 --> 00:24:03.720 who serve him do you see God delighting every time you prosper do you see God smiling Psalms 216 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:15.840 35 27 Proverbs 10 22 the blessings the blessings of the Lord makes a person rich and he adds 217 00:24:15.840 --> 00:24:24.280 no sorrow with it Proverbs 10 22 see do you see that you have to if you want to be wealthy 218 00:24:24.280 --> 00:24:30.120 you've got to sacrifice do you have to have sorrow do you have to sacrifice relationships 219 00:24:30.120 --> 00:24:36.920 do you have to sacrifice your faith you know do you have to or do you see the blessings you see 220 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:44.120 that in all through Jewish history they understand they understood blessings and curses and and never 221 00:24:44.120 --> 00:24:52.040 was poverty considered a blessing and and wealth considered a curse it's just not that way history 222 00:24:52.040 --> 00:24:59.400 all the years of history of God's servants from Abraham to Jacob to Isaac to I mean I could go on 223 00:24:59.400 --> 00:24:59.960 and on and 224 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.280 on. The blessings of the Lord make rich and he adds no sorrow. And I love Deuteronomy, 225 00:25:07.280 --> 00:25:13.600 I think I spelled that wrong, 818. It says, remember the Lord God for it is he who's giving 226 00:25:13.600 --> 00:25:21.600 you the power to create wealth. So first perspective shift, we have a rich, he owns 227 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:32.080 everything on the planet. Generous, lavishly generous God. Second perception is Jesus 228 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:40.560 was not poor. I started to dive into that last week. First of all, understand Jesus was not born 229 00:25:40.560 --> 00:25:48.880 into a poor earthly family, okay? Joseph was a son of David from the lineage of David. He was 230 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:56.960 highly, scripture says, respected, okay? Yes, he was a woodworker, but if you go to the original 231 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:04.400 words of this, you'll see he was probably a very wealthy construction, high-end construction 232 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:11.120 business, very prosperous high-end construction business. His family, of course, was summoned 233 00:26:11.120 --> 00:26:20.160 to be taxed. The poor were not summoned to be taxed, okay? And poor people would travel by foot. 234 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:28.560 He had his bride married on a donkey. That was luxury transportation back then, 235 00:26:28.560 --> 00:26:36.880 okay? And I want you to really think about this. Joseph had sufficient funds to finance the trip, 236 00:26:37.600 --> 00:26:45.520 not only to Bethlehem, but to Egypt and to live there all the way until the death of Herod, as 237 00:26:45.520 --> 00:26:53.120 the angels told him. So financed his trip all the way to Egypt, and he had enough to finance the trip 238 00:26:53.760 --> 00:27:01.920 back. And we think that by the time Jesus went into ministry at 12, Joseph had passed away. Mary 239 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:08.320 had had more sons, but Jesus was the oldest, and so it's very likely that Jesus received an 240 00:27:08.320 --> 00:27:16.720 inheritance, which was a double portion of the father's estate, okay? Just a few, you know, thoughts. 241 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:25.920 Now, Jesus' ministry had such an abundance of funds, okay? And I, in my thinking about it, again, this is 242 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:33.360 my perception based on, you know, 40 years studying the word. In my perception, we could probably 243 00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:38.560 pattern, you know, there's ways to do business. We could do it for profit or we could do non-profit, 244 00:27:38.560 --> 00:27:44.080 right? That doesn't mean that there can't be billions of dollars cycling through a for-profit 245 00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:50.720 or through a non-profit. And the person owning the non-profit can have plenty to go around, 246 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:58.000 just two different forms of a business structure. And, you know, Jesus' ministry would probably be 247 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:05.840 like to a non-profit, perhaps. But he had such an abundance of funds. He had a treasurer. Like I said 248 00:28:05.840 --> 00:28:11.840 last week, broke people don't need a treasurer. And in fact, there was so much in the treasury 249 00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:19.840 that Judas, who was the treasury, scripture says he regularly stole from the account, okay? And yet, 250 00:28:19.840 --> 00:28:28.160 they still had sufficient financial surplus. And so, we saw that Jesus gave regularly to the poor. 251 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:33.680 That was one of the things Judas did out of this treasury. He would give to the poor. They were not 252 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:43.600 poor. They were giving to the poor. Jesus had a home. That's another one. And Jesus' disciples 253 00:28:43.600 --> 00:28:51.600 were wealthy. And believe it, I said it last week, that women, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, 254 00:28:51.600 --> 00:28:59.360 they ministered to him out of their substance. So, a few thoughts to think about. There's some 255 00:28:59.360 --> 00:29:07.200 verses. Whenever you hear a verse pulled out of context, be concerned. Like, study to show 256 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:12.720 yourself approved, right? So, one of the things is saying that Jesus was homeless. And there's 257 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:20.240 one verse. And it says, foxes have holes, birds have nests, but the son of man has no place to lay his 258 00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:29.120 head. That's in Luke 9. Okay, look at the preceding verses, okay? Like always, Jesus would send a team. 259 00:29:29.120 --> 00:29:35.360 You could call it a ministry team in our day and age. He would send a ministry team to go ahead, 260 00:29:35.360 --> 00:29:41.120 right? Like, if Billy Graham comes into town, before he ever gets here, a ministry team, I mean, 261 00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:45.920 they're coordinating where everybody's staying, what they're going to eat, where the meeting is, 262 00:29:46.560 --> 00:29:52.080 the team is going to help. Jesus had the same thing. So, he would send the ministry team ahead 263 00:29:52.080 --> 00:29:59.600 to get provision to make sure they got a place to stay. Sometimes, like if it was the last supper, 264 00:29:59.600 --> 00:29:59.920 he would 265 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.120 send them ahead to get the room, the meeting room. 266 00:30:03.120 --> 00:30:05.160 I mean, there was always this preparation. 267 00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:07.880 And so as they went into Samaria, 268 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:10.920 remember the Jews and the Samarians had real issues. 269 00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:13.800 The Jews thought the Samaritans were half-breeds. 270 00:30:13.800 --> 00:30:16.600 They thought differently about where to worship 271 00:30:16.600 --> 00:30:17.880 and who God was. 272 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.320 And there was some religious differences, okay? 273 00:30:21.320 --> 00:30:23.480 And so they get into Samaria, 274 00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:27.040 Jesus sends his team ahead to prepare, 275 00:30:27.040 --> 00:30:29.720 get provisions and get the place to stay. 276 00:30:29.760 --> 00:30:34.000 And the Samaritans would not let them stay there. 277 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:35.680 So that's that verse that says 278 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:37.480 he's got no place to lay his head. 279 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:40.280 It's not because he was homeless, okay? 280 00:30:40.280 --> 00:30:42.520 When other disciples said, where are you staying? 281 00:30:42.520 --> 00:30:43.440 He said, come and see. 282 00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:46.320 And it says they stayed with him, okay? 283 00:30:46.320 --> 00:30:50.440 So there was a treasury, there was plenty of money. 284 00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:51.880 You see this all the time 285 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:54.440 when he's talking to the women at the well. 286 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:56.600 The team goes, they've got plenty of money. 287 00:30:56.600 --> 00:30:58.160 They go to get food. 288 00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:00.800 And he's sitting there talking to the woman in the well. 289 00:31:00.800 --> 00:31:04.280 When the last supper, he sends them ahead, go get the room. 290 00:31:04.280 --> 00:31:07.400 So they always had enough for ministering 291 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:09.320 and for giving to the poor and even enough 292 00:31:09.320 --> 00:31:12.680 that Judas could steal from the treasury from, 293 00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:16.240 it was called the bag in the Bible, the treasury bag, right? 294 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:18.880 Cause it was literally like silver coins in there 295 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:19.960 or whatever. 296 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:23.760 And so there was adequate enough. 297 00:31:23.760 --> 00:31:27.280 So just some food for thought 298 00:31:27.320 --> 00:31:29.280 just to maybe get you thinking again 299 00:31:29.280 --> 00:31:31.560 about how you're viewing Jesus. 300 00:31:31.560 --> 00:31:35.400 Now let's get into what the real main point is. 301 00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:39.160 We are either going to serve God 302 00:31:39.160 --> 00:31:41.000 or we're gonna serve mammon, okay? 303 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:43.840 So Jesus never had a problem with wealth. 304 00:31:43.840 --> 00:31:46.760 God never had a plan, a problem with wealth 305 00:31:46.760 --> 00:31:49.560 or he would not have blessed his people 306 00:31:49.560 --> 00:31:54.000 with enormous, enormous wealth, enormous. 307 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:58.640 Look at Joseph, look at Moses, enormous wealth. 308 00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:03.440 Look at Abraham, look at Lot, look at Isaac, look at Jacob. 309 00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:05.080 I mean, enormous wealth. 310 00:32:05.080 --> 00:32:07.320 We're not talking little wealth, okay? 311 00:32:07.320 --> 00:32:10.120 So it's not the problem of having wealth. 312 00:32:10.120 --> 00:32:13.640 It is, again, another perception. 313 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:16.360 How are you viewing wealth? 314 00:32:16.360 --> 00:32:18.520 Do you view it as a gift from God 315 00:32:18.520 --> 00:32:20.080 and that God is your source 316 00:32:20.080 --> 00:32:22.400 and you love God for every bit of it 317 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.640 and you consider yourself a wise steward 318 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:27.840 of the resources given to you 319 00:32:27.840 --> 00:32:30.680 or do you view it as God? 320 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:33.880 And so a lot of places where it used to say money, 321 00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:35.680 I mean, it used to say mammon, 322 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:39.960 in our modern translations, it gets translated to money. 323 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:41.360 So like money is bad, 324 00:32:41.360 --> 00:32:44.560 but it actually, the word is mammonous, okay? 325 00:32:44.560 --> 00:32:46.560 And that Greek word is very different 326 00:32:46.560 --> 00:32:48.640 than riches, money, or wealth. 327 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:52.520 It actually means to personify wealth 328 00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:57.520 by placing our trust in it and deifying it as a God. 329 00:32:57.760 --> 00:33:00.400 It means to worship. 330 00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:04.680 You see, a person worships what they determine 331 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.920 has the highest value, okay? 332 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:09.640 So this is where we have to look 333 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:14.640 because many, many believers that say they love God 334 00:33:15.040 --> 00:33:19.360 are very much following mammon, mammonous, 335 00:33:19.360 --> 00:33:24.360 meaning that money or their retirement fund, 336 00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:28.480 or, you know, I mean, let me just stop sharing for a second 337 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:32.080 and just kind of talk real quick here. 338 00:33:32.080 --> 00:33:37.080 So we're serving God as the source, as our provider, 339 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:41.880 or we are serving mammonous, 340 00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:46.520 which means that we're looking at money as our source. 341 00:33:46.520 --> 00:33:49.320 So how can you tell if you're looking at your job 342 00:33:49.320 --> 00:33:51.960 or your government or your pension or your husband 343 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:54.300 or your business or your clients, 344 00:33:54.300 --> 00:33:56.920 you're looking at them as your source? 345 00:33:56.920 --> 00:34:00.560 Well, the first thing to look at is your emotions. 346 00:34:00.560 --> 00:34:04.360 Do your emotions go up and down with your bank balance? 347 00:34:04.360 --> 00:34:07.280 Well, you're putting your trust in money. 348 00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:09.219 This is why even in the original money, 349 00:34:09.219 --> 00:34:11.139 just to remind us on the dollar bills, 350 00:34:11.139 --> 00:34:13.699 it says in God we trust. 351 00:34:13.699 --> 00:34:18.460 So who or what is your source? 352 00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:20.060 That's the huge question. 353 00:34:20.060 --> 00:34:25.060 Who or what are you putting your trust in, okay? 354 00:34:25.380 --> 00:34:27.380 So let's go through this really fast 355 00:34:27.380 --> 00:34:28.500 and let's talk about it. 356 00:34:28.500 --> 00:34:30.659 So who or what is your source? 357 00:34:30.659 --> 00:34:32.540 Is your source man-made? 358 00:34:32.540 --> 00:34:33.560 In other words, is it you? 359 00:34:33.560 --> 00:34:34.400 Is it your boss? 360 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:35.219 Is it your job? 361 00:34:35.219 --> 00:34:36.060 Is it your clients? 362 00:34:36.060 --> 00:34:36.900 Is it your business? 363 00:34:36.900 --> 00:34:38.100 Is it your retirement? 364 00:34:38.100 --> 00:34:39.179 Is it the government? 365 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:42.840 I believe we're gonna go into a time of universal income. 366 00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:49.060 If that's the case, if it's man-made, it can change. 367 00:34:50.460 --> 00:34:51.340 You can lack. 368 00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:52.460 We saw it. 369 00:34:52.460 --> 00:34:55.900 How many businesses got shut down during the pandemic? 370 00:34:56.780 --> 00:35:00.180 How many clients left during the pandemic? 371 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:07.940 Okay, so if it's man made, you truly can lock it can change, or is the source the kingdom 372 00:35:07.940 --> 00:35:13.780 of God within you where God is the source, and we serve one another in love. 373 00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:19.820 If it's kingdom based, then it never changes the kingdom of God is always wealthy always 374 00:35:19.820 --> 00:35:25.900 prosperous, there is no lack in the kingdom, I want to say that again, there is no lack 375 00:35:25.900 --> 00:35:26.940 in the kingdom. 376 00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:33.580 So our emotions don't go up and down with the economy, and we, you know, we're not depressed 377 00:35:33.580 --> 00:35:39.460 during a recession and and dancing in the streets, you know, during an upturn, right. 378 00:35:39.460 --> 00:35:41.800 And instead, everything is a gift. 379 00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:48.620 And we know that nothing with God is impossible, all things are possible, no lack in the kingdom. 380 00:35:48.620 --> 00:35:54.380 And so verses like this become our life, Philippians 419. 381 00:35:54.380 --> 00:36:01.340 When we truly partner with God, then we have a trust and a confidence that he is a lavish, 382 00:36:01.340 --> 00:36:04.260 generous God, and he is our source. 383 00:36:04.260 --> 00:36:14.380 And so Philippians 419, my God, will liberally, not scantily, liberally supply, in fact, the 384 00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:16.700 original word is fill until full. 385 00:36:16.700 --> 00:36:19.900 In other words, God's going to just fill you and it's going to you know what is going to 386 00:36:19.900 --> 00:36:24.340 be based on your capacity, you're going to have as much as you're capable of receiving, 387 00:36:24.340 --> 00:36:27.900 if you come to him with a thimble, he's going to, you know, say, imagine you're going to 388 00:36:27.900 --> 00:36:30.300 a waterfall, okay. 389 00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:42.060 And so imagine you're going to this waterfall, which is God, this massive waterfall, right? 390 00:36:42.060 --> 00:36:43.060 You have a choice. 391 00:36:43.060 --> 00:36:45.900 You can go up to the waterfall with a thimble. 392 00:36:45.900 --> 00:36:53.500 God, would you just, would you just please give me enough to eat today, please? 393 00:36:53.660 --> 00:36:58.060 God, please, please, please, God, would you fill my thimble? 394 00:36:58.060 --> 00:37:02.340 You could go with a cup, a pail, God, would you fill my pail? 395 00:37:02.340 --> 00:37:06.500 I want to have, I want to have enough and I, you know, there's some things I'd like 396 00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:08.780 to do and I'd like to share. 397 00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:15.420 You can come to him with the hugest capacity that you can imagine, you know, the biggest 398 00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:20.500 truck that possibly could back up and fill up just as an example, right? 399 00:37:20.500 --> 00:37:23.380 So, so how are you viewing God? 400 00:37:23.380 --> 00:37:24.380 Is he stingy? 401 00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:26.020 Is he always lavish? 402 00:37:26.020 --> 00:37:27.940 Is he generous? 403 00:37:27.940 --> 00:37:31.620 And what kind of container are you? 404 00:37:31.620 --> 00:37:37.820 And that has a lot to do with faith, which is the same word as expect. 405 00:37:37.820 --> 00:37:40.860 So what are your expectations? 406 00:37:40.860 --> 00:37:49.100 So when Philippians 4, 19 says, and my God shall supply all and all means all, I did 407 00:37:49.180 --> 00:37:51.740 some research, all means all. 408 00:37:51.740 --> 00:37:58.940 My God will supply all of your needs according to, not the government, not your spouse, not 409 00:37:58.940 --> 00:38:02.060 your pension, according to his riches. 410 00:38:02.060 --> 00:38:07.500 Well, we already said his riches, he owns the cattle on a thousand hills, right? 411 00:38:07.500 --> 00:38:11.380 He owns all the silver, all the gold. 412 00:38:11.380 --> 00:38:15.780 He owns the universe, all the resources discovered and undiscovered. 413 00:38:15.780 --> 00:38:24.740 My God will supply all your needs according to his riches, and he will fill you, it says, 414 00:38:24.740 --> 00:38:27.660 to the overflow, okay? 415 00:38:27.660 --> 00:38:30.940 So how powerful is that? 416 00:38:30.940 --> 00:38:31.940 Okay. 417 00:38:31.940 --> 00:38:35.660 Also, I love this one in Matthew. 418 00:38:35.660 --> 00:38:43.020 It says, therefore, do not worry or be anxious. 419 00:38:43.020 --> 00:38:48.020 The Amplified says perpetually uneasy or distracted. 420 00:38:48.020 --> 00:38:54.140 Is the belief in lack and the feeling that your source is that you need to get another 421 00:38:54.140 --> 00:38:59.740 client, you need to get another job, you need to get something outside that is keeping you 422 00:38:59.740 --> 00:39:03.540 perpetually uneasy, and is it keeping you distracted? 423 00:39:03.540 --> 00:39:06.540 You say, well, I don't really have time to study the word of God. 424 00:39:06.540 --> 00:39:08.380 I don't really have time to pray. 425 00:39:08.380 --> 00:39:09.860 I'm busy on the grind. 426 00:39:09.860 --> 00:39:11.580 I'm busy on the hustle. 427 00:39:11.660 --> 00:39:13.180 I got to make money. 428 00:39:13.180 --> 00:39:14.540 I mean, we got to make money. 429 00:39:14.540 --> 00:39:18.740 We got to make, we got to make, we got to get, we got to get. 430 00:39:18.740 --> 00:39:23.820 This is saying, Jesus is saying, look, look, look, look, don't worry or be anxious. 431 00:39:23.820 --> 00:39:30.220 Both of those are inverted faith by saying, what are we going to eat? 432 00:39:30.220 --> 00:39:31.300 What are we going to drink? 433 00:39:31.300 --> 00:39:33.180 What are we going to wear? 434 00:39:33.180 --> 00:39:34.940 Check this out. 435 00:39:34.940 --> 00:39:40.260 For the pagan, the unbelieving Gentiles seek those things. 436 00:39:40.260 --> 00:39:44.300 In other words, those that don't have faith, those that don't have expectation, they're 437 00:39:44.300 --> 00:39:47.500 the ones that are going to be stressed out seeking this. 438 00:39:47.500 --> 00:39:55.780 He says, don't worry for your heavenly father knows you need them. 439 00:39:55.780 --> 00:40:00.060 So instead, it's where's your priority first and most important. 440 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.200 Certainly, seek, aim, strive after his kingdom, 441 00:40:04.200 --> 00:40:06.960 his righteousness, his way of doing things. 442 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:09.720 And all these things will be given also. 443 00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:11.240 There'll be a bonus. 444 00:40:11.240 --> 00:40:13.960 So putting God first, first in your day, 445 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:18.040 first in your mind, first in how you do things, right? 446 00:40:18.040 --> 00:40:19.600 So important. 447 00:40:19.600 --> 00:40:22.800 And I'm gonna just real quick, Matthew 14, 448 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.120 you know the story of the feeding the 5,000, 449 00:40:25.120 --> 00:40:29.000 he multiplies five loaves and the fish, 450 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:30.400 and he blesses, 451 00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.920 and there's just an interesting thing in there. 452 00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:36.960 The disciples feeds 5,000 plus women and children. 453 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:38.600 The disciples were stressed. 454 00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:41.160 Like send them away, they're gonna be hungry. 455 00:40:41.160 --> 00:40:43.400 And he feeds them. 456 00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:46.680 But what's so interesting is it says they all ate 457 00:40:46.680 --> 00:40:47.960 and were satisfied. 458 00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:48.920 They were so full. 459 00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:50.280 They were like the previous verse. 460 00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:53.320 They were full to the top of the brim. 461 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:56.080 And they picked up 12 full baskets. 462 00:40:56.080 --> 00:40:57.780 These were huge baskets. 463 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.120 Of the leftover broken pieces. 464 00:41:01.120 --> 00:41:04.000 If you ever see these massive baskets, 465 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.160 maybe watch the chosen. 466 00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:09.040 And so my question is, 467 00:41:09.040 --> 00:41:11.560 why didn't he give them just enough? 468 00:41:11.560 --> 00:41:15.360 If God wants us to have just enough, 469 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.280 why in the world were there all these massive leftovers? 470 00:41:20.200 --> 00:41:21.520 Food for thought. 471 00:41:21.520 --> 00:41:24.360 How about when they're out fishing, 472 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:25.880 the disciples are out fishing 473 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:27.520 and they hadn't caught anything all night. 474 00:41:27.520 --> 00:41:30.520 And Jesus says, we'll cast the net on the right side 475 00:41:30.520 --> 00:41:31.600 and you'll find some. 476 00:41:31.600 --> 00:41:33.760 And they're saying, master, look, we know. 477 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:35.240 I mean, it comes to fishing. 478 00:41:35.240 --> 00:41:36.900 We know we've done this all night. 479 00:41:36.900 --> 00:41:38.800 We're not catching anything. 480 00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:42.040 Okay, we'll trust you. 481 00:41:42.040 --> 00:41:44.320 Stop trusting in our own efforts. 482 00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:45.440 We'll trust you. 483 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:46.960 They cast the net. 484 00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:51.520 It says that they caught such a great haul of fish. 485 00:41:51.520 --> 00:41:54.280 The other boats nearby came to help. 486 00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:56.120 It says there was so many fish, 487 00:41:56.120 --> 00:41:58.920 it almost sunk the boat, okay? 488 00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:00.680 And they bring, you know, 489 00:42:00.680 --> 00:42:02.680 they were trying to catch fish for dinner. 490 00:42:02.680 --> 00:42:04.120 They bring it to the shore. 491 00:42:04.120 --> 00:42:06.480 It's the hugest catch you've ever seen, 492 00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:10.520 like a commercial fishing trip that just hits the goldmine. 493 00:42:10.520 --> 00:42:11.840 And my question for you is, 494 00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:14.160 why didn't he just give them enough fish for dinner 495 00:42:14.160 --> 00:42:16.040 and tell them to be satisfied? 496 00:42:16.040 --> 00:42:21.040 Why the lavish, extraordinary generosity? 497 00:42:22.040 --> 00:42:26.960 You see, your perception is really based on deeper issues. 498 00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:30.280 If you're struggling with a poverty mindset, 499 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:34.160 it has to do with your identity, 500 00:42:34.160 --> 00:42:38.280 who you are and whose you are, 501 00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:41.040 and what's your purpose and why are you here. 502 00:42:41.040 --> 00:42:43.240 If you're struggling with a poverty mindset, 503 00:42:43.240 --> 00:42:45.680 it has to do with your identity 504 00:42:45.680 --> 00:42:48.680 and stepping into the fullness of your identity. 505 00:42:48.720 --> 00:42:51.240 If you have a mammon mindset, 506 00:42:51.240 --> 00:42:53.760 you're confused about your source. 507 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:57.680 Who or what is your source, okay? 508 00:42:57.680 --> 00:43:00.960 You just need to renew your mind around source. 509 00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:02.920 And so I want to remind you, 510 00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:04.840 because I want to have time to talk, 511 00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:08.200 that we've got to move from an identity that says, 512 00:43:08.200 --> 00:43:11.160 I'm too old, I'm too young, I'm too fat, I'm too skinny, 513 00:43:11.160 --> 00:43:12.920 I'm too beautiful, I'm too ugly, 514 00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:14.680 I'm too single, I'm too married, 515 00:43:14.680 --> 00:43:18.400 I don't have enough education, I have too much education. 516 00:43:19.080 --> 00:43:20.360 You don't know my past, you don't know my family, 517 00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.120 yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda. 518 00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:25.320 We've got to move to clarity as to who we are. 519 00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:27.440 We're created in the image of God. 520 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:29.760 We're the temples of the Holy Spirit. 521 00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:31.800 We have the mind of Christ. 522 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:36.080 We have access to infinite wisdom and understanding. 523 00:43:36.080 --> 00:43:39.840 And we are his workmanship, we're his poema. 524 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:42.080 The word poema means poetry. 525 00:43:42.080 --> 00:43:44.200 We're God's poetry. 526 00:43:44.240 --> 00:43:47.800 And we're created for good works, 527 00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:51.160 to live the good life that he prearranged. 528 00:43:51.160 --> 00:43:55.960 He already prearranged a good life for you, Ephesians 2.10. 529 00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:58.480 And he's given each one of us gifts. 530 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:00.120 You already have gifts. 531 00:44:00.120 --> 00:44:02.720 You already have them, they're uniquely yours, 532 00:44:02.720 --> 00:44:05.360 but you must activate your gifts. 533 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:06.960 We're gonna talk about that. 534 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:07.800 How? 535 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.480 By using the proportion of faith. 536 00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:13.280 You're gonna activate the resources 537 00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:14.640 through your faith. 538 00:44:14.640 --> 00:44:17.640 We must begin to see ourself as God sees us, 539 00:44:17.640 --> 00:44:20.520 created in his image, rich in gifts, 540 00:44:20.520 --> 00:44:24.680 just waiting to be activated, activated, activated. 541 00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:27.880 And these gifts that we've all received, 542 00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:29.600 each one here, you could circle, 543 00:44:29.600 --> 00:44:34.600 each one is meant to be used serving one another 544 00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:39.520 as stewards of God's multifaceted grace. 545 00:44:39.520 --> 00:44:43.040 Grace is a huge word, it's multifaceted, 546 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:47.360 meaning the rainbow of us just shows you 547 00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:51.040 God's amazing diversity. 548 00:44:51.040 --> 00:44:54.640 And we're called to serve one another with love. 549 00:44:54.640 --> 00:44:56.360 And so I closed yesterday, 550 00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:59.760 reminding you that this is about unveiling. 551 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:08.280 within you. When I say, know thyself, this is the self I'm talking about. Not talking 552 00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:17.240 about the ego self. Unveil who you really, really, really are so that the strength floods 553 00:45:17.240 --> 00:45:26.840 into your innermost being by his divine might, by his explosive power, dynamite power. Then 554 00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:32.200 by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released inside of you. His 555 00:45:32.200 --> 00:45:37.760 love will become your source and the root. You'll be rooted and grounded in love. You'll 556 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:44.200 know through personal experience that goes far beyond knowledge so that you'll be filled 557 00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:52.400 up throughout your whole being, all the fullness of God. So you in this life here now, not 558 00:45:52.400 --> 00:46:00.080 in heaven someday in the by and by, here and now may have the richest experience, the richest 559 00:46:00.080 --> 00:46:07.000 experience, the abundant, lavish experience that comes with God's presence as your lives 560 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:16.800 are completely filled and flooded with God himself. There's dozens of examples. The manna, 561 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:22.800 40 years in the desert, they lack nothing. Elijah being fed by the ravens, the widow 562 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:32.480 being fed by Elijah. I could go on and on and on. Scripture is just full of God's desire 563 00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:41.120 to completely bless us, to fill us. And he delights. He delights in you rising, rise 564 00:46:41.120 --> 00:46:49.880 for the sun is in you, right? He delights in you prospering. He delights. He's not miserly. 565 00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:57.240 He's not poor. And neither did he call you to be miserly or poor. He called you to put 566 00:46:57.240 --> 00:47:05.000 your priorities in order, that God is first, that he is your source, that you, you offer 567 00:47:05.080 --> 00:47:12.680 your life to him, that your mind might be renewed, that you might be healed within and without, 568 00:47:12.680 --> 00:47:19.800 that you might have the joy of the Lord as your strength. Nehemiah 8, 10, the joy of the Lord 569 00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:26.360 is our strength, that you might have the peace that passes all understanding. Isaiah 26, 3, 570 00:47:26.360 --> 00:47:33.720 he will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is staying on thee because he trusts in thee. 571 00:47:33.720 --> 00:47:43.000 This is a faith journey. This is a love journey. This is a discovery journey. And I pray that it's 572 00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:49.960 whet your appetite to what's really possible, partnering with God. What if there truly was no 573 00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:57.480 lack? What if truly everything, all things were possible for those who believe? What if it was 574 00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:03.480 really true that if we asked, believing that we have received as scripture said, that we would 575 00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:10.680 have it? You see, you know, there's so many, you know, things out there now, the secret and the law 576 00:48:10.680 --> 00:48:17.000 of attraction and all of those things. Hey, this goes way back thousands of years before then. 577 00:48:17.560 --> 00:48:24.120 This is in the Bible. This is the original. So I pray that this has really opened your eyes, 578 00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:30.840 maybe shifted your perception, maybe increased your faith, maybe deepened your love. 579 00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:37.320 And I'm super excited for the rest of the week to continue this journey with you. All right, 580 00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:45.000 let's go into the mastermind together. I'm going to go ahead and, oh, I guess I already 581 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:47.800 did stop the share. Okay. Let me just stop the recording.