And welcome, welcome, welcome to day two of prosper with God in business.
I was thinking I probably should have really titled this partner with God in life and love
and business because they all go hand in hand.
Well, this is day two.
I'm so glad that you're here.
We are going to be diving back in.
It just was very fortuitous, maybe is the word that I got a question from a client that
I started addressing last week and I'm going to go deeper.
I think it was the perfect God set up and I love that God told her to ask me and she
didn't even know about this.
And so I love the way God works when we listen to his voice and so I'm going to start with
prayer.
Then we're going to dive in to some of these questions.
I wrote you hard questions, inspiring answers.
That's what we're going to do today.
Hard questions, inspiring answers.
So I pray that you will be strengthened with might in your inner woman, that you'll be
strengthened with power, that you'll be rooted and grounded in love as we dive into these
topics.
So let me let some more people in and all right, so I'm going to be continuing the conversation.
So let me share my screen and let's go ahead and jump over here to the PowerPoint so that
you can be able to see this as I'm talking.
All right, so maybe somebody put in the chat that you can see this or if you can't at any
time, please, please let me know.
Otherwise I'll just be here talking to myself.
Okay, forgot to change the first slide.
This is actually day two, day two and the conversation is about business being fun,
being fulfilling, being a wondrous adventure.
Now I think that is opposite of what most people perhaps are experiencing or seeing
business.
So go ahead and turn off your cameras and mic, turn off your mic until after I finish
this first part and then we'll mastermind.
So go ahead and mute and hide your camera if you could, please.
Okay, all right, so this idea, you know, right now I think for many people, business, making
money, jobs, careers, it's like, think about the words we use.
It's go ahead and mute your mic, please.
It's like, it's the grind, right?
It's the, it's the hustle.
It's the, okay, I'm going to have to go in and mute you guys, hang on a second here.
Where are you?
Okay, I think you're all muted now.
So, so, you know, I asked the question, can business be fun, fulfilling, a wondrous adventure
or like think about the words we use when it comes to work, right?
I gotta go to work, you know, back to the grind, back to the, we even say side hustle,
back to the hustle.
Look at the, look at the images and the words we're using to describe what actually is the
majority of our time, where we spend the majority of our time.
If where we spend the majority of our time, we look at as drudgery, something is missing.
And if miracles ended, you know, I always ask this question.
Sometimes people say miracles ended at the time of Christ.
If that's true, then there was a generation that was so blessed to get to experience the
power of God and the miracles.
I mean, just read the book of Acts and then what God forgot about every other generation.
And yeah, we're supposed to rely on the word I hundred percent agree, but it's supposed
to be a drudgery debt filled, you know, grind it out, you know, wait at the bus station
to get to heaven kind of life.
Is that true?
Is that what God is promising?
And so this is why I'm so passionate about partnering with God in life, in love, in business.
And it's not just, not only is it important in general for our fulfillment, for us fully
living out what God has called us to live.
I think it's even more important right now as we're going.
through a massive disruption caused by AI. It's even more important right now that we are,
we're living from a different voice, we're living from a different strength, we're rooted and
grounded not in what's going on all around us, we're not being driven by our circumstances,
we're not being driven by worry or fear or doubt or anxiety, but we're being driven,
like we saw last week, by the mighty duotimous power that is inside of us. So got this letter,
got this email last week, a couple days ago, and I started talking about this yesterday,
and the idea at the bottom of this was this idea that I desire to be prosperous, I think I desire
to have abundance, and yet there's guilt. So what we've got here, the reason I share this question
is I think it represents probably 90% of the women that I talk to. That's why I just said,
oh, this is just perfect, okay? And so there's this gas breaks going on in our lives around the
issue of money, which if we're going to partner with God in business, we're not just talking only
ministry, partnering with God in ministry or what we do in church, we're talking about partnering
with God in business. And does that mean in order to do that, if I'm going to partner with God,
I can't prosper? She says, I think I deserve abundance, and then guilt comes in. Now you
could fill in the blank, right? Then fear comes in, worry comes in, doubt comes in, you know,
they're all sisters, right? That I think I'm meant to prosper. And then she goes on to say,
when I think about who is most influential in history, who do I most want to be like? I want
to be like Jesus. Okay, I love that. Something interesting happens. And she says it right here.
There's a perception that you have about Jesus. And that perception is often based on
how you were taught. The significant people in your life, your parents, your teachers,
your pastors, those people that influenced when you were so programmable,
your view of who and what Jesus is, and who and what it means to partner with him.
And so one of the first things, if we're going to partner with God in business, let's talk about
this. If we're going to partner with God in business, and I'm just going to stop this share
for a second, okay? I want to just talk straight at you. The subject of this is partnering with God
in business. To partner with someone you've, I hope, you've got to know them. And you have to
have an accurate knowledge of them. So you have to know them accurately, intimately to partner
with them. If we don't, then we got a bunch of split partnerships and a lot of problems.
So to partner with God, we have to accurately know who God is. And it has to be something that we
want to partner with, and that we can trust. And I think many of us are talking out of two sides
of our mouth that we say we trust them, but our life doesn't represent that we trust them. Because
if we're over here in worry and fear, this is inverted faith. It says, no, actually, there's
something about God that I don't really trust, either because of my experience or because of
what I was taught, right? So if we're going to partner with God in business, we have to know him
accurately. We have to trust them. But partnership is two people. So you got God, and we got you.
That means you also have to have an accurate knowledge and understanding of yourself.
And you have to be willing to trust. You have to be willing to trust yourself. And by that,
I mean the spirit of God within you. That what you are knowing to be true and believing to be
true, that you can trust. Because if you don't trust yourself, you're always going to question,
and you're always going to follow others, and you're always going to rely on others,
and it's going to change with the tide. So if we don't know God, and we don't trust God,
or we don't know ourselves, and we don't trust
ourselves. You know the saying, to thine own self be true, right? Know thyself and tell thine own
self be true. Oldest wisdom. And when I'm talking about self, I don't mean the ego. I don't mean
who we've shaped and twisted ourself to be, to try to be loved and accepted. I mean the true,
who you really are. To know that and to live that. To know God and to live in communion with him.
That's what this is all about. So to do that, we've got to debunk the lies. We've got to have
an accurate perception of God, an accurate perception of ourselves, an accurate perception
of business, an accurate perception of money, so that we can move forward in truth. We've got to
debunk the things that have held us back and had us be going with the gas in the brakes, okay? So
going back and sharing where we just were in this letter, is that it's not what I, the guilt comes
because it's not what I was taught about Jesus. And there's a lot of us that have been taught
that he was broke and that he wants us to be broke. And if we're going to follow him, we have
to be broke. So we've got this image of God. I was reading in a book that I bought many, many years
ago called Rich God, Poor God. It just, this conversation reminded me of that, of that rich God,
poor God. And I love how it opens. I'm just going to read this real quick. I hadn't planned to do it,
but I think I'm supposed to just read this really quick, okay? It says, imagine a wealthy father
whose abundant riches are so great that no one can begin to guess his net worth. Everyone believes
this father is kind and generous and loving. In fact, even perfect strangers testify to the
father's desire to provide the good life for those who serve him. However, a paradox exists
for many of the children of this most wealthy father sincerely believe he expects them to live
meagerly instead of abundantly. They feel they must dwell in mortgaged homes with debt weighing
heavily upon their shoulders, hopelessly enslaved to lack and continual need. While faithfully
praising the goodness of their father, they never seem to break out of the paralyzing grip
of insufficiency. All this takes place while their rich father's wealth continues to compound
and they fall further and further behind, accumulating bill upon bill, credit card upon
credit card, debt upon debt. To make matters worse, whenever special opportunity for the
advancement of the father's aggressive expansion program arises, his children must all generously
chip in to pay for the new program. They continually encourage one another to scrimp and scrape
to fund these special advancement projects for their rich father. These children sincerely believe
that it's up to them to provide for their father's dream. Interesting, interesting food
for thought, yes? Okay, so we're building on that concept and so how do we go for further on that?
Okay, let's talk about that today. I mentioned last week that the battle is in our mind. You
have to understand the scripture says the kingdom of God is within us and scripture says that the
battle is in our mind, okay? And Romans 12 gives us two options. We can either conform, okay? And
this is those of you that the opinions of others, which scripture says that the fear of man is a
snare. It's a trap. It's like a net that you're trapped in. If you're living for the approval,
if you're waiting for the approval of others, the fear of man is a snare. So we have a choice in our
life. We can conform whatever the news says to do, whatever the people around us say to do,
what everybody's doing, we can conform. And that word I shared last week is like a jello mold,
right? You pour the jello in, it cools off, it takes on the exact shape. So we can take on the
exact shape of the world, the fears of the world, the strife of the world, the anger of the world,
anxiety, the world. We can conform to that pattern, the hustle, the grind, or scripture says we are
called to transform. So conform or transform. We're called to be transformed. In other words,
our entire being is changed. Scripture says that we're brand new. The old is passed away.
We're literally transformed. How? By the renewing of our mind. Re means to do again, to make new.
We know now with our understanding of psychoneuroimmunology, our understanding of
the brain and neurochemistry and how everything works, this is actually a scientific fact.
We literally make our brain new. We develop new neural pathways and we develop as we learn and
think different ways. I mean, it's like trees with branches. We're literally rebuilding,
renewing our mind and that leads to our actions, our beliefs, total transformation. So here's what
you have to know about this. You will always serve the God of your perception. So there is a text in
Matthew 25 and it's the story of the talents, the parable of the talents that Jesus told. And so
this wealthy landowner, this wealthy person comes and he blesses and he gives 10 talents to one and
he gives five talents to another and he gives one talent to another. And so they respond very,
very different. Okay, I'm hearing that I'm disconnected from the meeting. So can I,
it looks like I still see five of you here. Okay, so okay, you're back. Go ahead and turn off the
camera. Thank you. All right. So I think it's just you individually that was disconnected.
Okay, so there's this parable of the talents that is very telling that we will always
serve the God of our perception. I want you to understand this. Reality as we see it
is a hundred percent based on how we perceive it, how we see it on the inside. This is so
important. I could spend a month on this subject. For now, you're just going to have to take my word
for it. It's an entire topic of, you know, we don't see with our eyes. The particles that come
in to our eyes that cause an electrical impulse to our brain that then identifies with something
that we relate it to based on our experience. And we say, oh, it's that. And of course, there's the
story of the men and the elephant, the blindfolded men, and they touch the tail and they say it's a
rope and they touch the legs and they say it's a trunk and they touch, you know, we see the world
completely differently based on our perception. So we will always serve and see the God of our
perception. This is so clear in this parable of the talents. Okay. And so the one that gets 10
goes out and faithfully goes out and multiplies it, invest it, and comes back with a return.
And when the wealthy one comes back, who gave the money generously, right, says, well done,
you've been so faithful. I'm going to give you even more. In fact, it says, I'm even going to
give you authority over 10 cities. Okay. Same for the five, multiplies great things. The third one
is really interesting, really interesting. In this verse, it says, I knew you to be harsh.
I knew you to make your money on the back of others. I knew. And okay. That perception led to
fear. It says, and I was afraid. You see, your perception is either making you bold or it's
making you fearful. It's either making you advance or it's making you hide and withdraw.
It's all based on your perception of God. Okay. And so he says, I was afraid and I hid the money.
I hid my talents. Okay. Interesting effect here that we serve the God of our perceptions.
What is your perception teaching you about God and how is that.
influencing how you live and how you serve and how much money do you have the gas and
brakes on or are you advancing boldly if I'm I be single like are you single-minded walking
by trust based on your perception of God so let's let's let's debunk some of these lies
real quick and then let's talk about it together okay so let's go through some of these really
quick here's some questions just gonna kind of go through these all right so do we serve
a poor God or a rich one here's a big one is God a taker or a giver which also I said
we've got to look at how we look at ourselves as well do you see yourself as a taker or
a giver does God expect or prefer or or want or desire us to be poor does he think that's
the better way does he feel really pleased with you when you're poor are you really just
being like Jesus and is being poor more holy than being rich so the broke people in the
world are the holy ones and the wealthy people and by the way you're being programmed about
this all you have to do is look at Hollywood watch movies anytime there's a wealthy business
person in the movies I guarantee you unless it's like a Christian film that's starting
to reverse some of this thinking every time though what usually a man he's usually a liar
a cheater a crook a selfish a conniving like do you ever see like a benevolent just wonderful
happy prosperous businessman in the movies like faithful to his wife and children I don't
see that very often so remember you're being programmed okay you're being programmed and
so was Jesus for was he homeless were the apostles and disciples poor we've got to debunk
these lies and we have to replace it with truth for you to move forward you have to
know you have to know what the word says you can't take other people's word for it even
mine you've got to study to show yourself approved under God like I said there's a partnership
here partnering with God you've got to know and trust the truth about God and you got
to know and trust the truth about yourself and that's what we're going to talk about
today so here's a perspective shift in in my perspective and in my 40 years of studying
the word and inside and out reading the Bible every year this is what I see God is a rich
lavishly generous God he owns the cattle on a thousand hills Psalms 50 silver is his gold
is his high guy to ate his name if you study the names of God very powerful do a study
on the names of God one of the names of God is Jehovah Jireh Jehovah Jireh God is my provider
God is my source Genesis 22 Psalms 35 let the Lord be magnified which have pleasure
in the prosperity of his servants ah first of all you need to understand the difference
between a slave and a servant a slave is by force a servant volunteers to serve okay
and he has pleasure he takes delight other translations say in the prosperity of those
who serve him do you see God delighting every time you prosper do you see God smiling Psalms
35 27 Proverbs 10 22 the blessings the blessings of the Lord makes a person rich and he adds
no sorrow with it Proverbs 10 22 see do you see that you have to if you want to be wealthy
you've got to sacrifice do you have to have sorrow do you have to sacrifice relationships
do you have to sacrifice your faith you know do you have to or do you see the blessings you see
that in all through Jewish history they understand they understood blessings and curses and and never
was poverty considered a blessing and and wealth considered a curse it's just not that way history
all the years of history of God's servants from Abraham to Jacob to Isaac to I mean I could go on
and on and
on. The blessings of the Lord make rich and he adds no sorrow. And I love Deuteronomy,
I think I spelled that wrong, 818. It says, remember the Lord God for it is he who's giving
you the power to create wealth. So first perspective shift, we have a rich, he owns
everything on the planet. Generous, lavishly generous God. Second perception is Jesus
was not poor. I started to dive into that last week. First of all, understand Jesus was not born
into a poor earthly family, okay? Joseph was a son of David from the lineage of David. He was
highly, scripture says, respected, okay? Yes, he was a woodworker, but if you go to the original
words of this, you'll see he was probably a very wealthy construction, high-end construction
business, very prosperous high-end construction business. His family, of course, was summoned
to be taxed. The poor were not summoned to be taxed, okay? And poor people would travel by foot.
He had his bride married on a donkey. That was luxury transportation back then,
okay? And I want you to really think about this. Joseph had sufficient funds to finance the trip,
not only to Bethlehem, but to Egypt and to live there all the way until the death of Herod, as
the angels told him. So financed his trip all the way to Egypt, and he had enough to finance the trip
back. And we think that by the time Jesus went into ministry at 12, Joseph had passed away. Mary
had had more sons, but Jesus was the oldest, and so it's very likely that Jesus received an
inheritance, which was a double portion of the father's estate, okay? Just a few, you know, thoughts.
Now, Jesus' ministry had such an abundance of funds, okay? And I, in my thinking about it, again, this is
my perception based on, you know, 40 years studying the word. In my perception, we could probably
pattern, you know, there's ways to do business. We could do it for profit or we could do non-profit,
right? That doesn't mean that there can't be billions of dollars cycling through a for-profit
or through a non-profit. And the person owning the non-profit can have plenty to go around,
just two different forms of a business structure. And, you know, Jesus' ministry would probably be
like to a non-profit, perhaps. But he had such an abundance of funds. He had a treasurer. Like I said
last week, broke people don't need a treasurer. And in fact, there was so much in the treasury
that Judas, who was the treasury, scripture says he regularly stole from the account, okay? And yet,
they still had sufficient financial surplus. And so, we saw that Jesus gave regularly to the poor.
That was one of the things Judas did out of this treasury. He would give to the poor. They were not
poor. They were giving to the poor. Jesus had a home. That's another one. And Jesus' disciples
were wealthy. And believe it, I said it last week, that women, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna,
they ministered to him out of their substance. So, a few thoughts to think about. There's some
verses. Whenever you hear a verse pulled out of context, be concerned. Like, study to show
yourself approved, right? So, one of the things is saying that Jesus was homeless. And there's
one verse. And it says, foxes have holes, birds have nests, but the son of man has no place to lay his
head. That's in Luke 9. Okay, look at the preceding verses, okay? Like always, Jesus would send a team.
You could call it a ministry team in our day and age. He would send a ministry team to go ahead,
right? Like, if Billy Graham comes into town, before he ever gets here, a ministry team, I mean,
they're coordinating where everybody's staying, what they're going to eat, where the meeting is,
the team is going to help. Jesus had the same thing. So, he would send the ministry team ahead
to get provision to make sure they got a place to stay. Sometimes, like if it was the last supper,
he would
send them ahead to get the room, the meeting room.
I mean, there was always this preparation.
And so as they went into Samaria,
remember the Jews and the Samarians had real issues.
The Jews thought the Samaritans were half-breeds.
They thought differently about where to worship
and who God was.
And there was some religious differences, okay?
And so they get into Samaria,
Jesus sends his team ahead to prepare,
get provisions and get the place to stay.
And the Samaritans would not let them stay there.
So that's that verse that says
he's got no place to lay his head.
It's not because he was homeless, okay?
When other disciples said, where are you staying?
He said, come and see.
And it says they stayed with him, okay?
So there was a treasury, there was plenty of money.
You see this all the time
when he's talking to the women at the well.
The team goes, they've got plenty of money.
They go to get food.
And he's sitting there talking to the woman in the well.
When the last supper, he sends them ahead, go get the room.
So they always had enough for ministering
and for giving to the poor and even enough
that Judas could steal from the treasury from,
it was called the bag in the Bible, the treasury bag, right?
Cause it was literally like silver coins in there
or whatever.
And so there was adequate enough.
So just some food for thought
just to maybe get you thinking again
about how you're viewing Jesus.
Now let's get into what the real main point is.
We are either going to serve God
or we're gonna serve mammon, okay?
So Jesus never had a problem with wealth.
God never had a plan, a problem with wealth
or he would not have blessed his people
with enormous, enormous wealth, enormous.
Look at Joseph, look at Moses, enormous wealth.
Look at Abraham, look at Lot, look at Isaac, look at Jacob.
I mean, enormous wealth.
We're not talking little wealth, okay?
So it's not the problem of having wealth.
It is, again, another perception.
How are you viewing wealth?
Do you view it as a gift from God
and that God is your source
and you love God for every bit of it
and you consider yourself a wise steward
of the resources given to you
or do you view it as God?
And so a lot of places where it used to say money,
I mean, it used to say mammon,
in our modern translations, it gets translated to money.
So like money is bad,
but it actually, the word is mammonous, okay?
And that Greek word is very different
than riches, money, or wealth.
It actually means to personify wealth
by placing our trust in it and deifying it as a God.
It means to worship.
You see, a person worships what they determine
has the highest value, okay?
So this is where we have to look
because many, many believers that say they love God
are very much following mammon, mammonous,
meaning that money or their retirement fund,
or, you know, I mean, let me just stop sharing for a second
and just kind of talk real quick here.
So we're serving God as the source, as our provider,
or we are serving mammonous,
which means that we're looking at money as our source.
So how can you tell if you're looking at your job
or your government or your pension or your husband
or your business or your clients,
you're looking at them as your source?
Well, the first thing to look at is your emotions.
Do your emotions go up and down with your bank balance?
Well, you're putting your trust in money.
This is why even in the original money,
just to remind us on the dollar bills,
it says in God we trust.
So who or what is your source?
That's the huge question.
Who or what are you putting your trust in, okay?
So let's go through this really fast
and let's talk about it.
So who or what is your source?
Is your source man-made?
In other words, is it you?
Is it your boss?
Is it your job?
Is it your clients?
Is it your business?
Is it your retirement?
Is it the government?
I believe we're gonna go into a time of universal income.
If that's the case, if it's man-made, it can change.
You can lack.
We saw it.
How many businesses got shut down during the pandemic?
How many clients left during the pandemic?
Okay, so if it's man made, you truly can lock it can change, or is the source the kingdom
of God within you where God is the source, and we serve one another in love.
If it's kingdom based, then it never changes the kingdom of God is always wealthy always
prosperous, there is no lack in the kingdom, I want to say that again, there is no lack
in the kingdom.
So our emotions don't go up and down with the economy, and we, you know, we're not depressed
during a recession and and dancing in the streets, you know, during an upturn, right.
And instead, everything is a gift.
And we know that nothing with God is impossible, all things are possible, no lack in the kingdom.
And so verses like this become our life, Philippians 419.
When we truly partner with God, then we have a trust and a confidence that he is a lavish,
generous God, and he is our source.
And so Philippians 419, my God, will liberally, not scantily, liberally supply, in fact, the
original word is fill until full.
In other words, God's going to just fill you and it's going to you know what is going to
be based on your capacity, you're going to have as much as you're capable of receiving,
if you come to him with a thimble, he's going to, you know, say, imagine you're going to
a waterfall, okay.
And so imagine you're going to this waterfall, which is God, this massive waterfall, right?
You have a choice.
You can go up to the waterfall with a thimble.
God, would you just, would you just please give me enough to eat today, please?
God, please, please, please, God, would you fill my thimble?
You could go with a cup, a pail, God, would you fill my pail?
I want to have, I want to have enough and I, you know, there's some things I'd like
to do and I'd like to share.
You can come to him with the hugest capacity that you can imagine, you know, the biggest
truck that possibly could back up and fill up just as an example, right?
So, so how are you viewing God?
Is he stingy?
Is he always lavish?
Is he generous?
And what kind of container are you?
And that has a lot to do with faith, which is the same word as expect.
So what are your expectations?
So when Philippians 4, 19 says, and my God shall supply all and all means all, I did
some research, all means all.
My God will supply all of your needs according to, not the government, not your spouse, not
your pension, according to his riches.
Well, we already said his riches, he owns the cattle on a thousand hills, right?
He owns all the silver, all the gold.
He owns the universe, all the resources discovered and undiscovered.
My God will supply all your needs according to his riches, and he will fill you, it says,
to the overflow, okay?
So how powerful is that?
Okay.
Also, I love this one in Matthew.
It says, therefore, do not worry or be anxious.
The Amplified says perpetually uneasy or distracted.
Is the belief in lack and the feeling that your source is that you need to get another
client, you need to get another job, you need to get something outside that is keeping you
perpetually uneasy, and is it keeping you distracted?
You say, well, I don't really have time to study the word of God.
I don't really have time to pray.
I'm busy on the grind.
I'm busy on the hustle.
I got to make money.
I mean, we got to make money.
We got to make, we got to make, we got to get, we got to get.
This is saying, Jesus is saying, look, look, look, look, don't worry or be anxious.
Both of those are inverted faith by saying, what are we going to eat?
What are we going to drink?
What are we going to wear?
Check this out.
For the pagan, the unbelieving Gentiles seek those things.
In other words, those that don't have faith, those that don't have expectation, they're
the ones that are going to be stressed out seeking this.
He says, don't worry for your heavenly father knows you need them.
So instead, it's where's your priority first and most important.
Certainly, seek, aim, strive after his kingdom,
his righteousness, his way of doing things.
And all these things will be given also.
There'll be a bonus.
So putting God first, first in your day,
first in your mind, first in how you do things, right?
So important.
And I'm gonna just real quick, Matthew 14,
you know the story of the feeding the 5,000,
he multiplies five loaves and the fish,
and he blesses,
and there's just an interesting thing in there.
The disciples feeds 5,000 plus women and children.
The disciples were stressed.
Like send them away, they're gonna be hungry.
And he feeds them.
But what's so interesting is it says they all ate
and were satisfied.
They were so full.
They were like the previous verse.
They were full to the top of the brim.
And they picked up 12 full baskets.
These were huge baskets.
Of the leftover broken pieces.
If you ever see these massive baskets,
maybe watch the chosen.
And so my question is,
why didn't he give them just enough?
If God wants us to have just enough,
why in the world were there all these massive leftovers?
Food for thought.
How about when they're out fishing,
the disciples are out fishing
and they hadn't caught anything all night.
And Jesus says, we'll cast the net on the right side
and you'll find some.
And they're saying, master, look, we know.
I mean, it comes to fishing.
We know we've done this all night.
We're not catching anything.
Okay, we'll trust you.
Stop trusting in our own efforts.
We'll trust you.
They cast the net.
It says that they caught such a great haul of fish.
The other boats nearby came to help.
It says there was so many fish,
it almost sunk the boat, okay?
And they bring, you know,
they were trying to catch fish for dinner.
They bring it to the shore.
It's the hugest catch you've ever seen,
like a commercial fishing trip that just hits the goldmine.
And my question for you is,
why didn't he just give them enough fish for dinner
and tell them to be satisfied?
Why the lavish, extraordinary generosity?
You see, your perception is really based on deeper issues.
If you're struggling with a poverty mindset,
it has to do with your identity,
who you are and whose you are,
and what's your purpose and why are you here.
If you're struggling with a poverty mindset,
it has to do with your identity
and stepping into the fullness of your identity.
If you have a mammon mindset,
you're confused about your source.
Who or what is your source, okay?
You just need to renew your mind around source.
And so I want to remind you,
because I want to have time to talk,
that we've got to move from an identity that says,
I'm too old, I'm too young, I'm too fat, I'm too skinny,
I'm too beautiful, I'm too ugly,
I'm too single, I'm too married,
I don't have enough education, I have too much education.
You don't know my past, you don't know my family,
yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda.
We've got to move to clarity as to who we are.
We're created in the image of God.
We're the temples of the Holy Spirit.
We have the mind of Christ.
We have access to infinite wisdom and understanding.
And we are his workmanship, we're his poema.
The word poema means poetry.
We're God's poetry.
And we're created for good works,
to live the good life that he prearranged.
He already prearranged a good life for you, Ephesians 2.10.
And he's given each one of us gifts.
You already have gifts.
You already have them, they're uniquely yours,
but you must activate your gifts.
We're gonna talk about that.
How?
By using the proportion of faith.
You're gonna activate the resources
through your faith.
We must begin to see ourself as God sees us,
created in his image, rich in gifts,
just waiting to be activated, activated, activated.
And these gifts that we've all received,
each one here, you could circle,
each one is meant to be used serving one another
as stewards of God's multifaceted grace.
Grace is a huge word, it's multifaceted,
meaning the rainbow of us just shows you
God's amazing diversity.
And we're called to serve one another with love.
And so I closed yesterday,
reminding you that this is about unveiling.
within you. When I say, know thyself, this is the self I'm talking about. Not talking
about the ego self. Unveil who you really, really, really are so that the strength floods
into your innermost being by his divine might, by his explosive power, dynamite power. Then
by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released inside of you. His
love will become your source and the root. You'll be rooted and grounded in love. You'll
know through personal experience that goes far beyond knowledge so that you'll be filled
up throughout your whole being, all the fullness of God. So you in this life here now, not
in heaven someday in the by and by, here and now may have the richest experience, the richest
experience, the abundant, lavish experience that comes with God's presence as your lives
are completely filled and flooded with God himself. There's dozens of examples. The manna,
40 years in the desert, they lack nothing. Elijah being fed by the ravens, the widow
being fed by Elijah. I could go on and on and on. Scripture is just full of God's desire
to completely bless us, to fill us. And he delights. He delights in you rising, rise
for the sun is in you, right? He delights in you prospering. He delights. He's not miserly.
He's not poor. And neither did he call you to be miserly or poor. He called you to put
your priorities in order, that God is first, that he is your source, that you, you offer
your life to him, that your mind might be renewed, that you might be healed within and without,
that you might have the joy of the Lord as your strength. Nehemiah 8, 10, the joy of the Lord
is our strength, that you might have the peace that passes all understanding. Isaiah 26, 3,
he will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is staying on thee because he trusts in thee.
This is a faith journey. This is a love journey. This is a discovery journey. And I pray that it's
whet your appetite to what's really possible, partnering with God. What if there truly was no
lack? What if truly everything, all things were possible for those who believe? What if it was
really true that if we asked, believing that we have received as scripture said, that we would
have it? You see, you know, there's so many, you know, things out there now, the secret and the law
of attraction and all of those things. Hey, this goes way back thousands of years before then.
This is in the Bible. This is the original. So I pray that this has really opened your eyes,
maybe shifted your perception, maybe increased your faith, maybe deepened your love.
And I'm super excited for the rest of the week to continue this journey with you. All right,
let's go into the mastermind together. I'm going to go ahead and, oh, I guess I already
did stop the share. Okay. Let me just stop the recording.