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I hope today is treating you really well.
I don't know what day it is where you are,
but today it is Monday morning for me here in California.
It's just gone 12 o'clock,
and it's a real privilege to be with you guys this morning.
There's so much that's unfolding in the world right now,
and as we really consider the development of the nations,
and the development of the souls of the earth,
this conversation of wealth takes center stage
as we start to see the perpetuation of life cycles of people,
engaging in multinational corporations on dysfunctional behavior.
To put it politely, as many of you are aware,
there's this overwhelming sense of goodness gracious me,
that God is having a conversation about wealth
in the midst of all of these things that are unfolding.
All the details, all the fullness,
all the engagement that we're seeing unfold around the world right now
is a direct result of Christians not knowing how to steward wealth
properly in the marketplace and in the church.
That's resulting in a failure,
a cataclysmic failure of the worldwide systems
that Christians are called to be leading in,
and as a result of this abandonment from culture,
and abandonment from this conversation about wealth,
we're seeing all of this chaos happen from Facebook censoring,
things falling down, from all these kinds of things happening.
All of that comes back to a reality
that Christians have decided to not engage in the conversation about wealth,
and the reason is, and this is the primary reason
that I'm going to highlight for you right now,
so that we can set the tone for these sessions,
set the tone for what engagement looks like for you in this conversation,
is really this.
This is the reason, okay?
The reason is that Christians have avoided the conversation of wealth
because they haven't believed that God is good enough
to establish wealth in their own lives,
to be able to create a pathway and a trajectory for financial freedom
for regions, for cities, for families, for nations,
and as a result for the world as a whole,
and so I want to propose to you over the next couple of days
that the way you think about money and wealth
is actually the key determining factor in your ability to disciple nations,
and your ability to remain as a son or daughter of God
in the conversation that God is unfolding in this season.
So I realize those are bold claims,
and so what I would love to do is just to pray and welcome the Lord,
the God who is the God of wealth,
and every detail of that into the conversation,
into our world, into our lives right now,
and really transform the way we think about what we're doing.
So Father God, we just welcome your presence.
We welcome your goodness.
We welcome your mercy.
And here right in this place, God, I thank you for the anointing of God,
your presence, Lord, the presence that comes upon us to change us,
to radically renew our minds, to think like heaven.
God, we want to think like you think.
We want to receive your thoughts.
We want to receive.
the tenacity of the nations. We want to receive the favor that happens just because of love, and as a
result of your goodness, Lord, we just ask for your mercy to overwhelm and overtake every detail in
our lives, including our finances, including our relationships, including our businesses. Lord, we
ask for favor and blessing right now, and I ask for the fire of God to come upon every single person
under the sound of my voice. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, let's jump into it quickly.
These sessions will be probably around 20 to 30 minutes, so would love you to make sure you've
got a pen and paper, take some notes, type in the comments what you're hearing, what you're receiving,
and what God's speaking to you about, what the sessions are going on. Before I
quickly jump into the content, I'd love to just let you know a little bit about who I am,
for those of you who've never met me before. My name is Sebastian Harris. I grew up in New Zealand,
born in Australia. I now live in San Diego, California. I run multiple businesses. One of them
is an app-based connection, an app-based project here in the U.S. based on connecting freedom-loving
people. Another one is raising royalty, which you may know from being in these groups, which
is phenomenal. And another one is a digital marketing agency that's radically changing the
world and starting to move things around. And as a result of all the things that we've been doing
over the last few years, there's been this cultivation of a conversation, which really is,
at the end of the day, that God is more interested in the conversation of wealth
than we've actually suggested in the past. And part of the grace for that is really come from
this conversation that comes all the way back down to the original law and conversation that
God was having with Moses back in the wilderness. And I want to read you a passage of scripture
that's really marked my life and really has set the tone for where life really is happening in
the world stage. Because at the end of the day, when the Israelites came out of the wilderness,
just before they did, Moses is having this conversation with God, and God is saying to Moses
the context of what they were about to discover. They were about to walk into a promised land
where it wasn't going to be easy anymore. And the wilderness, it was just handed to them.
Food was handed to them. Manna come from the sky. They complained that they got quail. They hit
rocks and water came out. And then when they got into the promised land, there was some serious
work and cultivation that needed to happen. But alongside of it is this promise that God
really releases to the Israelites in this season. Because there's this transition that happens when
you cross over from the wilderness into the promised land. There really is the shift in
mindset from, I have to receive everything. So I actually have to step out into faith and into
action because of my faith that actually produces the fruit that's going to change my life. Meaning
that there is now going to be, when you enter the promised land, there is now going to be a
grace on your life to be able to produce wealth. That does not mean that if you feel like you're
in a wilderness season, you do not have the ability to produce wealth. But here's what the
Lord has said in Deuteronomy, starting in chapter 8, verse 11. Be careful lest you forget Jehovah
your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes, which I'm commanding
you today. Verse 12, when you have eaten and are satisfied and have built fine houses and dwell
on them and your herd and your flock have multiplied and your silver and gold have multiplied and all
that you have has been multiplied, your heart be lifted up and you forget Jehovah your God,
Him who brought you out of the land of Egypt on the slave house, out of the slave house.
Now let me fast forward a little bit to verse 18. This is what the Lord says in the context of the
Israelites forgetting that when they step in, that things change, that there's an acknowledgement
that they can. And so when they discover that they can produce wealth, when they can radically
transform their lives through the production of wealth, here's what the Lord says to the people
of Israel. He says, But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives you the strength
to gain wealth, so that He may establish His coverage.
which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day."
Meaning that the establishment of the covenant of God in your life is dependent upon your acknowledging that God is the one who's not only given you the ability to produce wealth from this place,
and this cultivation of the ability to produce wealth has come from Him,
but also to acknowledge the reality that He has given permission for you to go forth and create wealth, because it affirms God's covenant with you.
So to even take it a step further, it's basically saying that if you refuse to acknowledge that any ability to produce wealth comes from God,
and it's all about affirming His covenant, then you are missing the point that actually every dollar, every piece of money that you can produce is a gift from God Himself to be able to produce it.
Your ability to produce wealth comes from God.
Meaning that the gift of God to be able to produce wealth in your life is irrevocable.
Every single one of you, under the sound of my voice, has been given the ability to produce wealth.
God Himself has anointed you with the ability to produce wealth, extravagant wealth.
And when I say wealth, I don't just mean money, although I do seriously mean money.
There is a call on the body of Christ to enter into the production of wealth.
And as we talk about this, I want to highlight one certain thing that happened to me.
A couple of years ago, we were staying at a house.
I think it was kind of this extended honeymoon period that my wife and I were on after we got married.
And I woke up in the middle of the night, and the Lord said to me very clearly,
Favor is just because of love.
Let me say that again. Favor is just because of love.
And what does that have to do with wealth?
Well, let me just tell you this.
When the Lord establishes favor, establishes something through favor, He keeps it through favor.
If you go and create something that's not of what God is doing, that there's no grace on,
it's going to be up to you to sustain it.
This is what living a spirit-led life is like.
If you create something that is under the favor and the multitude and the blessing of God that's released in your life,
God will keep it by favor.
He is a faithful keeper of those who stay connected to Him.
If it's not connected to the favor of God, if this is just something that has come from this place,
the grace of God is not on for whatever reason, then you're going to have to work to maintain it.
What God is saying here in Deuteronomy 8.18 is that when God has established the ability to produce wealth,
the strength to produce wealth, the favor to produce wealth,
it means that there's a grace on it for multiplication.
It means that there's a grace on that for the goodness of God to be established in your life.
As a result, there's a favor that actually keeps the production of wealth.
When God sent the Israelites into the Promised Land, He's basically saying,
My covenant of favor on your life is going to keep you if you acknowledge that the grace to produce wealth is actually coming from Me.
If the grace to produce wealth, if you acknowledge that the grace to produce wealth is coming from Me, your Father,
there's an acknowledgement that this covenant of God is being established.
That favor is going to keep your life.
But if it's not, it's not there, then there's going to be turmoil.
I said that both words at the same time.
Turmoil and torment for those trying to work to establish something that God is not doing.
There's this place in the kingdom where everything is possible.
There's everything is possible. Everything is believable. Everything is great.
But I believe that in this season, God is establishing a grace on His people to enter into the radical production of wealth.
It comes through favor, and it's the favor of God.
What I want to say is really to sum up this point is to say,
the goodness of God is the only thing that is making the ability for production of wealth possible in your life.
If you're producing wealth in an extravagant level, it's because of God.
Pause with the goodness of God.
The goodness of God is establishing wealth in your life.
The favor of God is establishing favor and wealth in your life.
Now, I had this conversation a lot, and a number of people
have said, well, this is just prosperity teaching. This is just
the, you know, the people push back against the prosperity
gospel. What I'm trying to point out to you is the scripture here,
that what it says about the nature of the way that you move
inside the production of wealth. The production of wealth happens in the
context of covenant. It happens in the context of honor. It
happens in the context of relationship with Father God
establishing favor for your life. This is not a
situation where the no
production is happening because of disconnection. God is longing
for a generation of people who understand that His favor on their
life creates a purity that moves things
forward, that establishes breakthrough. If there's a
conversation that needs to be had right now, the question is not how
do we make rich people give all of their money to the poor? The
question is, how do we get poor people changing the
way they think to realizing that the goodness of God
is actually available to them to produce more than enough for every
circumstance and then re-establish the opportunities
in the hearts of people to really transform lives? That's the
conversation that needs to happen. It's not about a socialist idea of
things where we just need to take what the
rich have made, tax them, and give it all to the poor or
let the government dictate exactly what we need to
spend our money on. The answer has never been more
government. The answer is always the church
realizing that there is a God-given call on their life
to receive the production of heaven, to see the goodness of God,
to pull in from heaven breakthrough, to start companies and corporations and
organizations and movements that actually produce
wealth for people, create opportunities for people
to be able to establish things. This is never meant to be a government
run issue. God is not saying here that the government is
giving you the ability to produce wealth. God is saying here
that He has given you the ability to produce wealth
and He, in this very circumstance, is giving you the ability to produce
wealth. Now I'm going to say something incredibly
bold and some of you may be offended at me
and that's okay. I'm okay with offending people. I used to not be but
now I'm okay with offending people. Here's the reality
that I want to say to you. If you are on government assistance
right now, and hear my heart because I understand that this difficult
circumstance is happening all around the world,
but if you're on government assistance right now,
you're creating a partnership in the spirit realm
with the government as your provider.
God has said that you have the ability to produce wealth.
It doesn't matter your circumstances. God is saying here
that His covenant established with you is more than enough for you to
understand that the ability to produce wealth has
been given to you.
There is a partnership that happens when you choose to receive money from the
government that's saying I am okay with the
apathy of letting the government provide for me
in my circumstances. God has given you the ability to
produce. God wants to establish a covenant with
you to produce wealth for your life,
for your family, for the legacy that is about to unfold
across the earth. This is a time more than ever to really understand this
because at the end of the day, if the church becomes a people
who's relying on the government to provide for their lives,
our God is the government and not Jehovah.
Let me let that sit for a second.
This fires me up, and so I want to be very, very clear.
If you're in a hard circumstance, I'm sorry.
I apologize. I hope that God, I believe that God is going to restore
your life, but it does take the understanding
that the church's role is to produce wealth to care for the widow and the orphan, not the government.
If the church is not stepping into that gap, then we are failing as the church.
It is not the government's job to take over the responsibility of the church to provide.
That is the role of the church.
That is the role of the people of God to establish funds,
to establish breakthrough, to establish places of influence.
It's not the role of the government.
And that is because government was never meant to replace God.
God is always higher than government.
And I think at the end of the day, what I'm trying to highlight in this first session is this.
The goodness of God stands higher than every issue.
The love of God stands higher than every problem.
The truth of heaven is that there is no lack.
There's no lack of resources.
There's no lack of money.
There's no lack of people.
There's no lack of ideas.
There's no lack of healing power.
There's no lack of the power of God to meet every circumstance.
There is literally no end to the glory and majesty and mercy of God.
There is no limit to what God can do in your life.
There's no challenge.
There's nothing small.
There's nothing too big or too small that God can't think up and engage with for life.
God is bigger than you think.
And He really is better than you think.
He's better than you've thought of.
He's better than you can think of.
He's better than you can imagine.
And in this context, in this wealth context, what He's trying to say to His church is if we can change the way we think,
if we can partner with God, repent, and go change the way we think to establish what God wants to say,
there is a breakthrough message that God is releasing for such a time as this,
for people to really capture and catapult themselves with the power of God
into a season of unprecedented breakthrough that changes lives, changes culture, and changes the way we think.
There are ideas out there that God is longing to release to people, billion-dollar ideas,
that God is longing to release to people who are willing to step into the gap and say,
God, you've given the ability to me for me to produce wealth, not just for myself,
but for the sake of the nations, for the sake of my city, for the sake of the region that I live in.
This context that God is releasing, that God is partnering this ability with the favor of God in this season to create wealth,
to sustain it, to partner with it, and to see breakthrough happen all around the earth,
that is what God is doing right now.
And so I want to encourage you with this one thought, okay?
Because I may have offended—I think I offended some people, and that's okay.
The goodness of God is greater than every circumstance.
God has supernatural solutions for you, for your finances, for your life right now.
He knows where you're at. He understands. He's a God who meets you where you are.
But He's also a God who wants to change the way you think.
This is not a place of works. This is not a place of, oh, I have to go and do 100 million things that I can't do.
This is a place of the Father Himself wanting to change the way you think,
to release a solutionary mindset over you, that you would look at your circumstance and think,
oh, I could do this. Oh, I could do this.
That the Spirit of the Lord could say, hey, here's an area that you could do something in that could change the world.
Or here's an area that you could do something that might seem small but is actually really productive and really fruitful
that's actually going to change the way that people engage with life.
We are part of a number of organizations that really are striking the ground to see freedom reestablished in this culture,
in this Western culture specifically, all across the earth.
Because at the end of the day, if God has truly given us the ability to produce wealth,
it means that He's given us the ability to steward it.
It means He's given us the ability to step in.
It means He's given us the ability to dream and to change the way we think and to engage in culture
and to really partner with the Spirit of the Lord to see breakthrough right now in this circumstance.
I want to pray for you. I want to really get clear and just get you to ask the Lord this one question for homework.
And I'd love for you to, as you answer it, just put it in the comments on this video below,
so that we can really start talking about what is it that God is asking of you in this season?
What is He suggesting to you? What is He cultivating in your life that's possible that maybe hasn't been possible before?
And so let's pray. Let's pray. Let's pray. Let's ask the Lord for favor.
Jesus, we just ask you for favor right now. Thank you for every person under the sound of my voice right now.
We just ask for the goodness of God to just rush in right now.
Lord, let your presence come. Let the spirit of wealth come. Let the engagement of heaven come.
Let the full force of the ability to produce wealth come in right now.
And God, we ask for favor and blessing to see clearly right now.
God, I ask that you would remove every blinder, every blocker, everything that's stopping people from seeing breakthrough.
God, I rebuke the spirit of control. I rebuke works, and I release the favor of the abundant life of Yeshua HaMashiach.
God, we release your blessing. We release your glory.
We ask for favor, and God, I pray that you would just release dreams and visions right now for people to see clearly,
more clearly than they've seen in a long time, the favor of God at work in their lives for such a time as this,
and for the goodness of God to be moving in and through their lives in this season.
God, I pray for every person under the sound of my voice to hear the tenacity of heaven say,
I have given you the ability to produce wealth.
And that is more than enough of the favor and the blessing and the goodness of God to really radically step in and change the way we think.
And so I will leave you with that encouragement. Lord, we just ask you to bless them in Jesus name. Amen.
Father, and so great, guys. Well done. We've reached the end of this first session.
I'm going to be doing a couple more sessions this week. I'll be the same time for the next few days.
I'm really going to just go after these mindsets.
But the first one, just to highlight this point, is you have to believe what the scripture says about wealth.
You have to believe that there is more than enough available to you.
And God has given you the ability to produce wealth.
And when you produce wealth, it's protected by his favor.
If you're walking in step with him, the covenant of God establishes favor for your life.
And alongside that ability to produce wealth, there is a firestorm waiting to produce beyond what you have ever imagined is possible.
It's not going to be easy, but it is going to be fruitful.
There was giants to kill in the promised land. So that is that is all for today.
We'll be back same time tomorrow to dive into session two.
We're really going to talk about go deeper into covenant and deeper into desire.
And what God really wants to establish in this in this context is that the desire of God in your life is what creates momentum and stabilizes your life.
And so I will leave you there. God bless you. Thank you so much for tuning in.
Please let me know what you thought, what God's been speaking to you about, how to change the way you think in in your life right now in the comments below would be great.
And I'm looking forward to seeing you again tomorrow. God bless you guys. And we will talk soon.