WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:06.040 Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.279 the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.359 glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe 4 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:17.120 God will transform your life. Do today's message. 5 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:20.679 Well, I have an assignment today. 6 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:22.920 Get out your notepads because we're about to go crazy 7 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:26.960 today on Mother's Day. One of the things that we 8 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:29.239 do at Transformation Church, if this is your first time, 9 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.399 is I always feel like I have an assignment that 10 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.679 helps people move forward in their transformation journey. And the 11 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:42.039 word of the year at Transformation Church is say it 12 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:45.240 like you got faith, Say it like that's where you're moving. 13 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:47.719 We're moving forward. 14 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.479 And I don't know about you, but I have since 15 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.039 a shift in my life since that prayer conference a 16 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:55.679 week ago. 17 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.000 And if you haven't, it's okay. 18 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:00.799 You can jump on this train right now. We're moving. 19 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.519 Everybody shot at me forward And one of the areas 20 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:07.519 that we need to move forward in is in the 21 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:13.239 area of how we deal with finances. The reason I 22 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.519 have to say this is because God talks about finance's 23 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:20.799 generosity money in the scriptures almost one third. 24 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:24.319 Of the time he speaks publicly. It's about these issues. 25 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.079 Because he knows it's the issue of the day. Because 26 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.840 the truth of the matter, your attitude is actually good 27 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:35.319 or bad based on that account you just checked. Some 28 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:37.400 of y'all didn't come to church this morning because you 29 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:39.000 checked your tank. 30 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:41.359 Come on, come on. 31 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.439 Last night you got home and I was like, that's 32 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:48.040 got the last meet till Wednesday. And the way these 33 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:53.519 gas prices are set up right now, I'll catch it online. 34 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:55.599 Some of us in the room right now, we have 35 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:03.439 everything we need financially, but we are very There are 36 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.680 things that are happening around us watch that are affecting 37 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.560 how we live. And it has to do how we 38 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.639 see finances, generosity and stewardship. 39 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:15.280 And so today I'm gonna. 40 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:18.560 Walk us in week three of a series we're calling 41 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:23.080 six Figures how to Live a Life of abundance. 42 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:24.800 How many people when I. 43 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:27.199 Just say that desire to live a life of abundance, 44 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:29.400 I need hands in the chat or in the room 45 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:33.599 you desire Okay, So if you desire to live a 46 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:36.520 life of abundance, I want to give you the key 47 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:38.639 to understanding abundance. 48 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:39.039 Watch this. 49 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:41.000 If you don't get anything else I say, I need 50 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:46.360 you to get this word right. Here humility. If you 51 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.960 think you know everything, you can't learn anything. I'm telling 52 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.199 you right now, humility is the way to gain a 53 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.240 life of abundance. But the problem is, there are people 54 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.039 in this room right now. What this little boy gonna 55 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:04.000 tell me about some money? I've been grown and doing 56 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.439 my budget since before he could say good, good God, God, 57 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:08.759 look at him up. 58 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:09.719 No, I know. 59 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:12.759 I see how you're looking at me. I get the comments. 60 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:14.719 I see what's going on. And the truth of the 61 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:18.039 matter is this is not my playbook. This is God's playbook. 62 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.479 And you gotta realize no matter the vessel God uses, 63 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:25.360 he may be trying to give you a new vision 64 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.000 for your life. So today I'm not gonna ask you 65 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:30.199 to believe me because it's me. 66 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:31.479 Now. I do got some proof. 67 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:35.759 I just want to say in my own life I 68 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:41.240 got I used to be greedy, stingy, broke and impoverished. 69 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:45.879 Oh y'all, okay, I thought we were in a humble, opening, 70 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.719 transparent church. I thought we was hot. Let me take 71 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:51.719 you one step further. I used to be all of. 72 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:57.840 That as the pastor of this church. Oo, look at you. 73 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.599 I just I want to let you know I did 74 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:07.960 not understand how to live a blessed life, an abundant life, 75 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.680 a life that was watch this not centered around me 76 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:16.759 when it came to finances and generosity. And so instead 77 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.839 of acting like I had it all together, I. 78 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:20.600 Have proof in the room. 79 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:23.600 When I became the pastor of Transformation Church February first, 80 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:28.240 twenty fifteen, my first series was a series about how 81 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.279 to break poverty off of our church. 82 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:32.240 And I did not teach it. 83 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:36.920 I found somebody else who had great teaching on it, 84 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.680 and we watched the video on Sunday morning together. 85 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:43.639 Am I telling the truth? 86 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:48.319 I would say, hey, y'all, he's your pastor. 87 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:49.839 And you know what, I really want all of us 88 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:51.680 to live a blessed life. And notice how I said 89 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:56.199 all of us, and I don't have this revelation yet. 90 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.680 So I found the revelation and I I would pray 91 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:01.839 you would be humble. 92 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:03.399 Enough for us to learn it together. 93 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:06.959 And I would say play the video and come sit 94 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:10.240 on the front row. Now, most of y'all would leave 95 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.360 if I did that today, because you want your pastor 96 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.360 or whoever's leading you to know everything instead of taking 97 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:23.279 a posture of humility. But I would rather give you 98 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:27.160 the right content. Okay, then act like I have the 99 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.879 I could get up here and yeah and this is 100 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.639 what but knowing that wasn't real in my life. 101 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:35.639 And for three years. 102 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.279 We did this every single year, and every year I 103 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:40.920 was like, God, you think I could teach one now? 104 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.319 He said, nope, sit yo, butt down. I'm not making 105 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.600 this up, y'all. And it was the third year of 106 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:51.560 the series. God said, you can preach one message, and 107 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.000 I preached one, and I said for the next six weeks, 108 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:58.480 come for movie time. And there were a group of 109 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:04.319 people that came consistently and faithfully since that moment that 110 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.480 I was humble enough to say, I'm not gonna front 111 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:08.800 in front of the world. And really it was only 112 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:10.759 like two hundred people in my mom's prayer group, but 113 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:14.040 at that time, but I'm not gonna front in front 114 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.759 of the world. I'm gonna be humble enough to actually 115 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.600 learn it. God said, that's something I can work with. 116 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:22.759 And what God has done since then has allowed my 117 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.439 life to expand because I actually got the principle. So 118 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:27.439 what I'm saying to you for the next four weeks, 119 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.639 I want to give you what I got. This is 120 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.839 not just a series of information it's a series of impartation. 121 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:36.519 If you will hear what I'm saying. 122 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:40.040 To you practically and prophetically, this could actually change your 123 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:44.639 entire life and your relationship with finances, stewardship, generosity, giving 124 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:46.920 all of it. You will never be scared when it's 125 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.480 time to give, and you will never be manipulated when 126 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:52.839 it's time to give. You will be steady and steadfast. 127 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:54.279 God will speak to you. 128 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.879 You will have investments going over here, you will have 129 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:58.360 blessings coming over there. 130 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:00.480 The reaping will overtake the swing. 131 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.839 Somebody should be shouting right now because I want you 132 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:09.120 watch this to understand that giving is all about the heart. 133 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.439 It's not even about money. God just uses money as 134 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:21.600 a tool to expose what's in your Okay, So today 135 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:24.519 I just need to stop and acknowledge that many of you, 136 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.439 depending on where you came into this Christian journey, there 137 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:31.519 may have been some abuse and manipulation around how finances 138 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:35.279 were taught to you watch this, or the manipulation around 139 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:38.879 how they were trying to get it from you, and 140 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.639 for that I want to apologize. There is nothing in 141 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:50.480 the Bible that tells us to form one thousand dollar lines. 142 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.120 The Bible says like each man should give in his 143 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:00.800 heart what he's already decided. The problem is most of 144 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:02.800 us don't pray about what to give before we come. 145 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:05.199 So it's a twofold thing. 146 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:08.480 I can't be convinced if I've already gone to him, 147 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:10.639 But if i haven't gone to him about what I'm 148 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:13.360 supposed to give, then when somebody says we're reading Psalms 149 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:15.199 one hundred and three, I just feel like you need 150 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.560 to give one hundred and three dollars times ten. 151 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:21.120 And everybody. I can do that, getting the line right here. 152 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:22.680 And then I'm gonna pray for you because you're given 153 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.879 that's the money. 154 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:27.480 Okay. 155 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:32.039 What it does is I understand the concept, but it's 156 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:35.600 a lack of teaching. And so that's why I've decided 157 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.480 during our series we don't ask for any money. You 158 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.039 don't have to give a don We actually give money away. 159 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:44.919 Last week at the end of service on Profit Sherman 160 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:46.960 Doomis that was here we were able to send one 161 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.200 hundred thousand dollars to their Oh come on Transformation Church, 162 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.559 to their church and bless them. They had a tragedy. 163 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.879 But that's because there are people who have already understood 164 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:00.799 the figure of. 165 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:02.120 Faith that it takes to. 166 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:07.840 Give, because giving is all about the heart. Okay, So 167 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:12.000 maybe you never taught, and maybe you were taught wrong, 168 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:14.879 and maybe there's some cares of this life that have 169 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:16.440 really been weighing you down. 170 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:18.120 And I want to let you know I see. 171 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.000 All that, But I believe this series is gonna help 172 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:23.039 you move forward and you're gonna be able to live 173 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:25.720 in a life of abundance. John ten ten This has 174 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:26.840 been my anchor scripture. 175 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:28.159 The thief does not. 176 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:33.759 Come except to steal, kill, and what but Jesus has 177 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.080 come that you might have life, and that you might 178 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.600 have life more abundantly. Write this down. God desires for. 179 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:46.440 Me to live an abundant life. God desires for you. 180 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:47.440 Put your name in there. 181 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:51.080 God desires for Michael to live an abundant life. 182 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:51.840 Let's write again. 183 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:57.000 God desires for Michael to live an abundant life. Some 184 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.879 of you have never said that, never believed it, never 185 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:00.919 even thought. 186 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:01.600 It was possible. 187 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:04.480 But God desires for all of us to live in 188 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:07.440 an abundant life. And abundant life is not just finances. It's 189 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:14.240 God's overflowing grace, spiritual fullness, material provision, and generosity. And 190 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:16.919 that's why I've told you every week of this series 191 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:22.279 you have permission to prosper. I'm speaking to your soul 192 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.320 right now. You're looking at all that debt piled up. 193 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:27.240 In them student loans that are looming over you. 194 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:30.360 You done deferred and deferred, and deferred and deferred and deferred. 195 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:34.039 You're waiting for Sally May to die. You're just deferred. 196 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:39.279 Hopefully she goes away. Y'all got what I'm saying. 197 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.320 But what I want you to understand is you have 198 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.279 permission to prosper. Just somebody say that over your life, 199 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.440 I have permission to prosper. So if you're gonna have 200 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:52.759 permission to prosper, I have to do a little representing, 201 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.360 or I'm gonna call it correction of how some scripture 202 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:58.960 has been presented to us. All my life, I've been 203 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:02.000 in church, and anytime I hear Luke six thirty eight, 204 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.840 give and it shall be given to you? 205 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:11.519 Are y'all bobski? Y'all know the rece good measure? First dan. 206 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:18.519 Shaken again and running of it's running over? 207 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:21.440 Will men give unto? Okay? All right? 208 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:25.799 The only time I've ever heard that scripture is that 209 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:29.759 offering time. Nobody will ever say it any other time. 210 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:30.320 It's give. 211 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.759 But what I found out is context this king. 212 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.080 So if you go to Matthew. 213 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:40.279 Chapter seven, I want you to see that this whole 214 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:43.240 verse is not in the context of giving. I want 215 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.279 you to just see if you see the word giving 216 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:49.279 or giving money anywhere. 217 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:49.440 In this verse. 218 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:53.639 Matthew chapter seven, Verse one, it says, do not judge, 219 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.679 or you too will be judged, for in the same 220 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:01.320 way you judge others, you will be Do you see. 221 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:01.720 The theme. 222 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.360 It says, and with the measure you use, it will 223 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:08.919 be measured back to you. Say that with me, With 224 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:12.799 the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 225 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:15.279 One more time for the people in the back, with the. 226 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:19.320 Measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 227 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:24.320 Was the word giving in that at all? It was 228 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.399 in the context of judging. And if you read closer, 229 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:31.120 We're gonna go to the parallel passage and Luke six 230 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:33.399 thirty eight, and I'm gonna show you this whole thing. 231 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.919 And in the middle Luke puts something that we hear, 232 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.399 but I want you to get the context. Luke six 233 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:43.559 thirty seven, it says, do not judge, and you will 234 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:47.399 not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not 235 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:51.759 be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. And if 236 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:53.799 you skip down the thirty nine, it says, and with 237 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:55.879 the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 238 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:57.919 But verse thirty eight, look at. 239 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:02.279 This one, give and it will be given to you. 240 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:07.039 Give what in this context is judgment, condemnation and forgiveness. 241 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:08.759 You give. 242 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:12.799 Judgment is coming back you give. Condemnation it's coming back. 243 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:15.240 You give. Forgiveness, it's coming back. 244 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:16.840 Give it. And then it says, like. 245 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:20.360 This, and with the measure you you, it'll be measured 246 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:20.759 back to you. 247 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:21.720 Not just measure back to you. 248 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:31.480 How good measure, press down, shaken together and running over. 249 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:37.440 Will men give judgment back to you, condemnation back to you, 250 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:45.639 forgiveness back to you. Now, the thing that I wanted 251 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:50.759 to bring to everybody's attention is that giving is the 252 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:57.080 main subject. It's not what you give that's the main subject. 253 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:01.519 It's the fact that you give it. So if giving 254 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.519 is God's theme of the Bible, for God so loved 255 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.960 the world that he we're the subject of the Bible. 256 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:14.320 But the theme of the Bible giving, Oh God, I heard 257 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.799 somebody ask a pastor how many times do you preach 258 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.720 about giving in a year? And the pastors say every week? 259 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.960 And a person said, you preach about giving every week? 260 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:24.879 He said, I think you meant to ask how many 261 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.440 times do I preach about giving money? Because I can't 262 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.039 talk about grace if I don't talk about Jesus giving 263 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.399 us grace, and I can't talk about us giving our 264 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:36.960 life to Him or salvation if we don't talk about giving. 265 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.879 I can't even talk about marriage because marriage takes two 266 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.559 people giving. If you're not a giver, your marriage won't work. 267 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:46.440 It's not fifty to fifty, it's one hundred, one hundred. 268 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:51.919 You got to all the marriage people just say, hey, man, okay. 269 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:53.600 So the theme of. 270 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:57.879 The Bible is what giving, and that's why the enemy 271 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:01.600 is playing you so hard to be stingy, plan you, 272 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.720 so hard to be your own source, plan you so 273 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:06.679 hard to think that God has forgotten about you and 274 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.080 what I need to let you know that God is saying, 275 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.919 I want you to be general. I want you to give, 276 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:20.759 and whatever you give is coming back. You give the comments, 277 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:25.679 you give opinions. 278 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.720 Okay, okay, okay, all right, some. 279 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.799 Of you are living in a harvest of what you've 280 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:34.440 already given. 281 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:41.879 Nobody's around me, but you're the best ghoster. You leave 282 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:44.519 people high and dry all the time. I'm not answering 283 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:46.200 that text message. And then when you and your time 284 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:47.919 and kne he's like, well's the one to hear from 285 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:53.120 me harvest time. Okay, y'all don't want to hear. 286 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.600 That it's harvest time. We want to stream harvest when 287 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:59.600 it's about something good. But when you stream harvest when 288 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:03.879 you've been sewing gossip for the last six years, I 289 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.279 don't even understand why they would make something up like that. 290 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:12.159 With me, it's harvest time. Okay. What I'm saying, if 291 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.399 it was me, if. 292 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:17.720 This principle really works, I'd be trying to give good things. 293 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:22.080 And that's why when. 294 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:25.120 People hear this, they don't understand. Write this down that 295 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:30.519 giving is big to God. Giving is big to God. 296 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.759 Giving is not a small thing. I'm not talking about 297 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:40.960 money yet, I'm talking about giving period. I'm trying to 298 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:47.039 separate this for you, you stingy with your fruit loops. Oh, 299 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.000 y'all know, y'all know, there's certain cereals you de tell 300 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:52.200 your kids, don't uh uh. 301 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:56.600 This is my seria. If you want, you get fruitios. 302 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:01.000 But the actual fruit the name brand wants them as mine. 303 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:06.240 Got your kids stealing through loops in your own house, No, 304 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:08.839 I'm saying, apply it where you are. Some of y'all 305 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.559 got cars, won't let your children or family members use them? Now, 306 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:14.039 some of y'all got good reason not to let your 307 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:21.400 family members use them. But some of y'all are stingy Okay. 308 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:24.519 You see people struggling have something to meet their need. 309 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:31.440 I guess they need to learn. Oh come on, I mean, 310 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:33.160 I guess God's trying to work on them. 311 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:38.160 What I'm saying is giving. 312 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.480 Is something that God presents to us all the time 313 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:44.279 to see if his reflection is in us. 314 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.319 You ever been somewhere and you heard that they were 315 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.759 some money short. You have the thing. 316 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:54.920 You see them struggling to pay the bill at the end, 317 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:56.279 and he's like, I. 318 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.160 Told them to come earlier. I'm trying to get out 319 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:58.400 of here. 320 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:01.880 And God somehow got you sitting there and it's your 321 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:05.000 waitress and the car. I don't know the car. Let's 322 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:06.839 try another card and they don't try seven cards and 323 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:07.640 you just sitting there. 324 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:17.440 Why might God let that happen? Right next to you. 325 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:21.039 But they don't know. They don't know. They don't, they don't, 326 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:22.680 they don't. They don't know what I got going on. 327 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:24.799 They have no idea what's coming. 328 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:30.079 And God's like, I'm looking for my reflection. I'm looking 329 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.160 for somebody to meet a need. When they see a need, 330 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.559 they don't know their salvation is attached to that seed 331 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:36.480 you're gonna pay for. 332 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:39.160 They sheddars and it's gonna lead them to me. You 333 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:39.680 don't know that. 334 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:41.240 They just prayed and asked God. 335 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:42.119 You have no. 336 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:49.240 Idea, But He's working with people who have not fully 337 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:53.160 bought into the heart of generosity. And that's why giving 338 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:57.119 is big to God. How we hear scripture is like this, 339 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.799 give money. 340 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:08.920 That's how we hear it. God wants us to give money. 341 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:13.759 That's mike, What does God want us to do? Give money? 342 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:20.039 The thing that's big in that is money, But switch 343 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:25.359 in the give gotta be big. What God is saying 344 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:33.519 is give money, give money, and then they'll say, give encouragement, 345 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:40.759 give encouragement. Oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You 346 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:42.680 think the money is big, The. 347 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:43.839 Encouragement is big. 348 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.200 It's the giving that he wants to be big on 349 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:48.319 the inside of you. 350 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.759 Whatever he says, give, that's what we should do. 351 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:58.799 Give time, help me yo, give give time? 352 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:01.880 Oh yeah, I like that one. Mama Clay, you said 353 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:03.640 give love. Let's try it. 354 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.160 Give love? 355 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:13.359 What about peace? Give peace? What would happen if the 356 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:17.960 give was big? What would happen? Is at that job 357 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:19.519 you went in there and they knew. 358 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:23.119 You as a giver of what needed to be given 359 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.720 at the time, it wasn't what you was given. It's 360 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:30.799 the give. Today I came to let you know that 361 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:33.079 the give is supposed to be the big. It don't 362 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:34.960 matter what comes after it. 363 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:36.880 It might be give of hair shoes, it might be 364 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:39.720 give some time. It might be give a donut, it 365 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:42.039 might be You'll know what I'm saying. But what is big? 366 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:46.720 Gif? And my question to you is the give big 367 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:51.559 in your life? Is there any evidence that giving is 368 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:54.359 bigger in your life than keeping? 369 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:58.839 Is there any evidence that giving is bigger? 370 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:05.640 And today I don't want to challenge you that God 371 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:09.039 is looking for people who would say, Hey, God, my 372 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:12.799 give is too small. I need you to help me 373 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:16.880 learn how to get my gift big. You want a 374 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.359 new prayer? God, help my gift get big. God, do 375 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:21.960 whatever you got to do on the inside of me 376 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:24.400 to help my give get big. Father, let me not 377 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:27.240 be somebody who hoards. Let me be a river, not 378 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:30.119 a reservoir. God, it can come through me. Father, God, 379 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:31.839 you don't have to stop it with me. 380 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:33.480 I get to touch it on the way through. 381 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:35.240 Father. God, give me this house so I can give 382 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:36.920 it away. Give me that cause so I can give 383 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:38.680 it away. Give me this business so I can give 384 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:45.160 it away. God, let my give get big. And you 385 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:48.759 don't have to hit the lottery for your give to 386 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:55.480 get big. You can start right here because whatever you give, 387 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:59.720 it is coming back to you good measure, first down, 388 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.039 shaken together and what running? 389 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:05.039 Will men not God? 390 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.079 God doesn't give back the blessing he uses men to. 391 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:16.680 Some of y'all are giving. It's like God's gonna know. 392 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:24.119 God's gonna speak to them, and they're going to y'all 393 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:27.200 not ready for this thought. Can I represent something to you? 394 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:30.480 What if you're the one that's not looking to receive, 395 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:34.559 but what if you're the one God's looking to give through. 396 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:38.920 Jared. They don't understand. That's my job. 397 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:41.960 See See, I'm trying to shift your mind transformation because 398 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:43.359 some of y'all all, wait, oh, I just can't wait 399 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:44.160 till it comes back. 400 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:45.519 What if you don't need it to. 401 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:51.319