All right, everyone. I hope you're doing well. Welcome back to session two of Kingdom Wealth
Files training series. It's been I had fun yesterday. I don't know if you guys did. Let
me just while I'm while I'm while you guys are jumping on just check all the technology to make
sure you guys are there and rocking and rolling. Let me know in the comments if you're there.
Checking it out. It looks like we're there. Looks like we're there. In that place to
give me a thumbs up in the comments. Let me know where you're coming in from.
And one last place to check. Looks like we are good to go. Good to see you guys. Welcome to the
party. It's been a phenomenal journey so far. I really enjoyed yesterday. Let me know what you
got from from yesterday in the comments below. We talked a lot about favor, a lot about the
different interactions that favor and wealth connects with. We talked about how God has given
us the ability to produce wealth. And in that ability, he's given us the tenacity. He's given
us the courage. He's given us the goodness of God to be able to establish a breakthrough
in our areas, our finances, of our relationships, of cities and nations and regions.
And as a result, the one comment that I will make on yesterday, the kingdom of heaven
is suffers violence and the violent take it by force. That's a scripture out of John 11,
where Jesus is talking about John the Baptist, where the violent take heaven by force.
And I used to read scripture, I think. And that's, I don't know if that's a good thing.
But now I read that scripture and I feel this emboldened cry to say, if we're going to see the
reestablishment of heaven in our communities, in our cities, in our regions, in our nations,
it's going to take a bold, violent generation of people. And that does not mean physically
violent. There's spiritually violent people who are willing to pull heaven down into their lives,
connect with tenacity to the reality that there is more than enough in heaven for every problem
and every situation to be solved with a heavenly wisdom based answer. And so guys, let's jump into
it. Let's talk about what God wants to say today. But firstly, let's pray and ask the Lord to come
and be with us. Jesus, I just want to thank you for the opportunity to share today. I want to
thank you for the grace that you've given me to share. Thank you for this opportunity. I pray that
you would get this message to the people who need to hear it the most, that you would
supernaturally expand the airways for this to be received by the people who really
need to hear this message, for their hearts to be prepared. God, I pray that you would
till the soil of people's hearts to be able to prepare for what you want to say to your church
today. I'm excited about what you're doing, Lord. And I want to say to you that you are the God of
desire. You're the God of all wisdom. All great ideas come from you. All freedom comes from you.
And we're excited to partner with you as you do that today in our very lives, in our very
situations. In Jesus name, amen. So Lord, guys, I'm excited because I'm really, really excited about
what God wants to say today. As we look towards today's session, I really want to
highlight a couple different things. And I'm going to just pull up the scriptures here
to read them exactly to you. But the heartbeat of the Father,
as it comes to finance, is all based in this idea of this tension between desire
and obedience. And I want to propose to you that in the desire of God, there is a call
for obedience. And that is true. And inside the gift of choosing obedience is a blossoming
of desire. And I believe that there's a tension, a kingdom tension there, that we're going to have
to hold in truth, that there is this one side of the heart of the Father that longs for us
to live in a life of obedience. And I've surrendered to
for who He is and what He has called us into.
And there's this other side that's this tension of
there is a place in the Father's heart
where now that there's no separation between us and God,
that there is a real call to steward the desires
that God has put in our hearts
that create a momentum for increased levels of faith,
that create from that faith,
the momentum of God that transitions people
from circumstance to circumstance
via the spiritual dynamic of faith and favor and wealth
that really comes forth through heaven's reality.
And as a result of that,
I wanna make a couple points about wealth.
We didn't deep dive too much into that yesterday
because I wanted to offend you a little bit
into realizing that there's a bigger reality
than what you can see.
And here's what I would like to say about wealth
is wealth is the flavor, if you will, of heaven.
And when I say that, what do I mean?
When you taste heaven, it's abundant.
When you, the talks and the word about tasting
and seeing, I've tasted and seen the goodness of God.
When you taste the goodness of God, it's abundant.
There's more than enough of it.
It's luxurious, it's extravagant,
it's better than you could think.
It's higher, it has a higher reality
than what you maybe have experienced yet.
There's always a more abundant expression of heaven
that we're yet to experience.
For all of eternity, abundance will keep growing.
Our concept of abundance will keep growing
because we're going to continually and perpetually
be in the state of, wow, God,
there is more of you that I don't know.
So when we talk about this concept of wealth,
what we're really saying is wealth is more
than what you can see consistently.
There's always more, right?
This concept of always more.
Now for some people, when we bring it back
towards wealth of money, a wealth of money, right?
It's like a collective noun, right?
Wealth is a wealth of something.
When we talk about wealth,
we're talking about a spiritual dynamic
of this idea that there is always more than enough
and there is an expansive reality from heaven
that is longing to invade the earth.
The truth is that there's always enough life
inside every single thing that God has given us
to be able to live in perpetual grace, okay?
Now, often what happens when people start talking
about money is that we start talking
about this concept of stewardship.
And the idea of stewardship is really important.
It's great to steward the resources that we have.
The problem with the conversation about stewardship
that's in the church right now is it's all based
in this idea that there's only been a certain amount
that's been given, which is not true.
In heaven's reality, there's always more grace.
There's always more mercy.
There's always more freedom.
There's always more alignment.
There's always more wealth.
This concept of wealth in the kingdom is less about money
and more about this conversation shift
from I have this small lacking reality of money,
of relationships, of things that are in my life,
and I have to learn to steward them better.
Or in other words, if we're taking off that language
and reframing it, I have to control the things
that God has given me better.
So it's shame-based, first of all,
this concept of stewardship.
If I don't do this, I'm a bad person.
Or if I don't steward this money correctly,
then I might fall out of favor with God, which is impossible.
If you really understand this dynamic
that's happening at play right now,
we're having this conversation about stewardship
all the time.
It's like, we've got to figure out
how are we going to control our finances to do this.
We've got to figure out
how we can manipulate this person to do this.
We've got to figure out
how we can transition this thought to do this,
which in reality is really just witchcraft.
Witchcraft is anything that you're trying to grasp for or manipulate that is outside of the will of the Father.
I have a good friend, his name is not relevant, but he says a lot of the time that sin is anything that you're grasping for that God wants to give you through a word or promise.
And as a result of that, that whole thought has changed the way I think.
Because if you start then to look at some of the promises in Scripture, take Romans 6.11 for example.
Consider yourself dead to sin and alive to Christ.
What does that mean? Consider yourself dead to sin.
Focus on the reality that you are dead to sin.
Sin is no more in your life.
There is no way that you can, as an alive person, consider death and pick that up again.
Make sure that's your focus with regard to sin and death.
And then turn your focus to the reality that you are alive in Christ.
You are now abundantly alive.
There is a wealth of life that is inside of you that is never going to run out.
Because the love of the Father never runs out.
The grace of God never runs out.
There is no limit to the glory of God manifesting in your life.
There is no limit to His presence.
There's only a limit to what you can consider.
There's only a limit to what you have been able to see up until this point, which is creating faith.
And if you remember, Jesus Himself rebuked Thomas for only believing based on what he could see.
And yet all we're doing with our finances in the church is having this conversation of,
we can only steward because we've got a finite amount that God has given us.
Because then you get into the same conversation of,
well, He only loves me this much because He's only given me this much of whatever.
It doesn't have to be about money. It could be a resource.
It could be about people. It could be about relationships.
It could be about the house that you live in.
It could be about any other sort of provision.
We're not just talking about money.
We are talking about money, but not just money.
Because the reality is that Jesus talked about money more than anything else.
And the reason He talked about money is because where your treasure is, there your heart is.
It doesn't mean if your treasure is all money, then that's where your heart is.
It means if you're spending your money, which is your treasure, on certain things,
that determines where your life is going.
If you're the kind of person who spends money a lot on coffee, on Netflix, on nights out, food, dinners out,
some of that's not bad, some of that is good, whatever.
We're not in a conversation about the knowledge of good and evil.
What we're saying is, if you determine that your life is lived on the tree of life,
eating of the tree of life, as God commanded Adam and Eve in the garden,
if you determined that, and instead of considering yourself alive to sin and dead to Christ,
which is basically what happened when Eve and Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
they considered themselves, their eyes were open to see, oh, there's something that's gone wrong here.
Now that we are aware of our sin, we're aware of the shame, we now know that we are dead.
Our attention is focused on this deadness.
And as a result, we get back to this conversation of, if stewardship is all about lack,
then what does it take to really understand the heavenly reality of resource?
The heavenly reality of wealth is actually expansive.
Every piece of wealth and life that you have from God has inside of it the supernatural ability to multiply.
And the only way that that happens is if you pay attention to that life.
There is a tangible substance called the life, the Zoe life of God,
that manifests itself into circumstances and releases favor for such a time as this in your life.
How does that work? How does that navigate?
The favor of the Father is attracted to those who are willing to desire beyond what they can see.
Let me say that again. The favor of the Father is attracted to those who can desire beyond what they can see.
The reality is that if you can only desire what you see inside someone else's life, or somebody else's personality,
or somebody else's level of friendships, or money, or wealth, or the partnerships that they're making, the favor that you're making,
you're living on what I call the competitive plane. All you can see is what you can see in somebody else or some other place.
And the reality is that you're actually sitting here on this competitive plane, comparing yourself to somebody else.
Basically saying, oh, that person has that, and if they have that, then I don't have that, which means you're only aware of lack.
And in this place of competition, you're only aware of lack.
Because you're basically saying, well, I have to work harder to get to a certain point.
I have to steward this better so that I can have more resources for my church.
My ministry has only been given a certain amount of money. Therefore, I have to steward it well so that my people won't leave.
This place of shame, this place of the culture of shame around wealth and around money, is actually holding the church back more than anything.
And as a result, people can't expansively think, what does it take to disciple a nation, or disciple my city, or disciple my region, or disciple my family?
Because all they can see is this flipping of the script from, do we perpetually have this idea of abundance?
Or do we have this concept of partnering with control to manifest reality?
And I want to propose to you that the servants of God, the sons of God, will act wisely and prosper.
If they're willing, that's a direct quote from Isaiah 52 verse 13, the servants of God will act wisely and prosper.
And I would like to propose to you that they will do that if they can tune their hearts and tune their minds to desire that is beyond what they can see.
So the question remains, what does it look like to desire beyond what you can see?
How do you get into a place of true desire, true beyond what you can see desire?
And I'd like to propose that the only way that you can really capture the heartbeat of the Father in that place of desire really is through a laid down life of obedience.
And this is where the tension that comes in, and it's really not a tension.
It is a tension by the way that we talk about desire and what God is doing inside of our hearts.
And we talk about this laying down of our lives to receive.
The only way we get to that place of true desire is by spending the time laid down in his love, receiving the desires of heaven for our life.
He knows abundantly more than we could ask for or think for about what's inside of our hearts.
He knows the tenacity. He knows the drive. He knows the passion. He knows the success.
He knows the wisdom. He knows the passion, the power, all of that inside of our lives.
And so here's what I would like to propose to you as we enter the last few minutes of the session.
I would like to propose to you that desire creates momentum.
Desire beyond what you can see.
But desire is birthed out of intimacy.
It's birthed out of communication and communion with the Father.
It's why this conversation of wealth is so linked to intimacy and covenant.
To have a conversation of wealth and not have a conversation about intimacy and covenant is foolish.
And I believe that because God never desired to do anything outside of covenant.
All relational equity with God is birthed in this place of covenant.
One day we will enjoy the fruit of the marriage supper of the Lamb.
As we as the church are enveloped in the love of the Father in the end time marriage.
of God to his bride, Jesus to his bride, the bridegroom himself.
We will be enveloped in that.
And there's a reality that's unfolding
towards this marriage of intimacy that
creates a place for breakthrough.
And this marriage supper of the Lamb
that is unfolding out of the covenant that
has been paid for, that has been sacrificed for,
that we are on the pathway of preparation for,
that is the end all be all of this relationship that's
going to be unfolding.
Wealth comes into play through covenant.
You get access to everything that the Father has
given the Son through the oneness of relationship
with Jesus.
And this covenant conversation that's unfolding,
this developing relational equity
that's unfolding right now is only
possible through that place.
There's a group of people who lived hundreds of years
ago called the Moravians.
And some of you may know about the Moravians.
And they had a ministry of over 100 years of day and night,
24-7 prayer and worship.
The fire on the altar never went out.
And they were funded by a man whose name was Zinfandorf.
And he gave them the land.
He gave them.
He fed them.
He made it all happen.
And I believe God wants to raise up both in this season.
He wants to raise up because Zinfandorf was not
a man without intimacy and covenant.
He understood the call of God to establish 24-7 prayer
and worship that birthed the modern missions movement.
It birthed the reality of the Western world
that we see and understand it as it is today.
This conversation of perpetual adoration and praise
and perpetual is the only place that true desire comes forth.
And so I want to encourage you.
I want to commend you and encourage you to go away today
and spend time with the Father and ask the question, God,
what is the desire in your heart for my life that I can't see?
What's the desire in your heart for my life, for my city,
for my region that I can't see yet,
that's beyond what I can see?
Give me the desire of heaven for that solution.
Give me the desire of heaven for that.
Give me the billion-dollar business initiative
that you could give me that could change the world.
I met a woman a week or so, not a week, a couple of months ago.
And she asked the Lord.
She asked the Lord, God, give me a billion-dollar idea.
She had no idea what it was, but God gave her one.
And I don't know if she's made a billion dollars yet.
I don't know the full details, but God gave her the idea.
And she has now got a fully-fledged company
that's running as a network marketing company.
She is the owner and operator.
She's running it.
She's crushing it.
There's people all around the world doing
direct sales for this business.
And as a result, she's crushing it.
She's on her pathway to a billion-dollar idea.
She heard the voice of the Father
in that whole process through the call of intimacy.
And so I want to propose to you today
that those desires will create momentum in your life.
But you must first lay yourself down
to hear the voice of the Father, receive the desires of heaven
for your nation, for your city, for your region,
for your family, for your personal life.
That is the way, that is the pathway to freedom
and to the spirit of wealth, is the conversation
that really permeates the soul of a nation
when it's asking, who will answer the call of God
to stand up and create solutions to situations?
Who will answer the call to end systemic poverty in nations?
And not just through the church giving people handouts.
What about giving people an ability
to change their entire life?
What about government systems that
are set up to actually make people prosper,
rather than keep people dependent upon the government?
What about systems that allow for the
the courage and the tenacity of heaven
to invade every circumstance.
What about those things?
God wants to release them to your life.
God wants to release favor into your world
and release the tenacity that changes everything
and changes every part of your world.
And so let me pray for you.
And then I'll give you your homework.
Jesus, I want to thank you for these people.
I pray that the spirit of wealth,
the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of goodness and mercy,
the flavor of heaven, the wealth of heaven
would just become their portion.
That the tenacity of heaven, that the courage of heaven
would release a baptism of fire
and a baptism of courage over their lives right now
to ask the bold questions, to enter into intimacy,
to say yes to the Father heart,
to say yes to the extravagant love of the Father
that changes every circumstance and situation
in people's lives, to rise up a level of integration
and favor that changes culture, that steps into time,
that says, no, I will not see this happen on my watch.
I will not see these governments continue
to manipulate people not on my watch.
I will not see socialism and social justice warriors
impact the culture more than the kingdom of heaven
in this life.
And so God, I pray for that boldness.
I pray for the boldness, the conviction of heaven
to restore life, to restore favor in every circumstance
and to restore the abundance of heaven
in every circumstance, in every place,
in every person under the sound of my voice right now.
God, I pray for favor.
I pray for desires to be bubbling up right now.
The dreams of God, the blessings of favor
that God has established through word and through promise.
God, I pray for favor.
And I do, Lord, I pray for courage
to consider themselves dead to sin and alive to Christ.
I pray for courage to believe that life means something
and that courage is required in this season
to step into time and change culture forever.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Well, I love you guys.
Let me know in the comments below
what you got out of the session.
It'd be great to hear all of that stuff in there.
Again, there's so much favor that God wants to release
inside this situation.
And all of those things.
So I want to, yeah, that's it for me.
Bless you guys.
We will talk soon and we'll be back again tomorrow.
Okay, love you guys.