Speaker 1: Father, we thank you for your word today. Thank you
Speaker 1: for the ministry of truth, the washing of our hearts,
Speaker 1: and the development of our inner man. We thank you
Speaker 1: for renewing our minds with wisdom from above and enabling
Speaker 1: us today to shed the wisdom from beneath. We give
Speaker 1: you the praise for it in Jesus' name, and everybody said, Amen, God,
Speaker 1: bless you.
Speaker 2: You may be seated.
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about renewing our
Speaker 1: mind concerning financial well being today.
Speaker 2: So this is in the booklet that I.
Speaker 1: Gave out a few weeks ago where we talked about
Speaker 1: the tin trees of the heart garden. This is your
Speaker 1: heart garden right here, and so here it is and
Speaker 1: all of its glory, your heart garden. Typically there's ten
Speaker 1: trees in there. I put ten trees in there previously,
Speaker 1: but we're just going to focus on the one tree today,
Speaker 1: your financial well being. And I want to with the
Speaker 1: help of the Holy Spirit and then Holy Spirit just
Speaker 1: ministering to you. My hope is to wash our hearts
Speaker 1: a little bit today but also make a deposit of
Speaker 1: the Word of God in us so that we can
Speaker 1: be renewed further in our mind, be renewed further in
Speaker 1: our thoughts about financial well being. So one thing we
Speaker 1: know is that our financial well being, and I include
Speaker 1: on the New Creation House the New Creation worksheet, the
Speaker 1: prosperity of our household. So it's the prosperity of our
Speaker 1: household and depending on depending on our household. For instance,
Speaker 1: when all four children were actually Jasmine had already moved
Speaker 1: out for college. But when when all three of the
Speaker 1: boys were at home, our grocery bill, after after going
Speaker 1: through the food bank line every week, our grocery bill
Speaker 1: at the Wolf House was still over one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a month. So how many of you know I needed
Speaker 1: some financial well being, right, And then there might be
Speaker 1: things you feel called to, like I felt, you know,
Speaker 1: for a while, we felt called that our children needed
Speaker 1: to be in private school. So there was a season
Speaker 1: where we felt very convicted about our children being in
Speaker 1: private school, so Christian school. We weren't being snobs, we
Speaker 1: were protecting our children, and so that was also another
Speaker 1: financial need, right. So what we know is that that
Speaker 1: there's some of these things that we need, and there's
Speaker 1: no argument that can remove the need. There's no even
Speaker 1: France's a CISI who took a vow of poverty. Guess
Speaker 1: what he still had to eat, He still had to
Speaker 1: change his robe, he still had needs. Everybody has needs,
Speaker 1: right and the needs that you have should relate to
Speaker 1: the vision of God over your life. That's why when
Speaker 1: you have, when you're provided for according to the word
Speaker 1: of God and the economy of God's thinking. When you're
Speaker 1: provided for, it's called provision. So because the pro that
Speaker 1: which is provided is supposed to relate to the fulfillment
Speaker 1: of the vision that God has over you. And the
Speaker 1: vision God has over you is related to your family,
Speaker 1: your calling, your.
Speaker 2: Church, what God has for you.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of millionaire friends and they inherited
Speaker 1: their wealth and they both inherited like nine million dollars
Speaker 1: from the family. When mom and Dad passed away. One
Speaker 1: of them chose to go into creating more wealth. The
Speaker 1: other one chose to go into government. So, and I
Speaker 1: say this just to say that God's provision for you
Speaker 1: is never to be worshiped. It's to be enjoyed, it's
Speaker 1: to be received. But provision is not Provision is what's
Speaker 1: provided for your vision, and His vision was government. Where
Speaker 1: we make a mistake sometimes is we make an idol
Speaker 1: out of money or mammon or sustenance or supply, where
Speaker 1: we exalted above what we're called to. So it's provision
Speaker 1: on purpose, and it's a vocation on purpose. Vocation in
Speaker 1: the original understanding of Scripture, means to be vocally called
Speaker 1: out for something in your generation by God. That's what
Speaker 1: it means. Vocation means to be vocally called. Actually, the
Speaker 1: voice of the Lord speaks over you to call you
Speaker 1: into something for your generation. And that's why it's called
Speaker 1: a vocation because it's God's voice that calls you. So
Speaker 1: you're vocally called. It's literally you should hear the voice
Speaker 1: of God concerning what you should do, and then God
Speaker 1: wants to pour out blessing on you. According to that vision,
Speaker 1: he wants to pour out a pro vision upon you
Speaker 1: so that you have fulfillment. Does that make sense? So
Speaker 1: this is in our heart garden. We can't escape it,
Speaker 1: we can't get away from it, but yet we don't
Speaker 1: need to. It's like God, it's not an unclean thing.
Speaker 1: It's what we surround our it's what we surrounded this
Speaker 1: with in order to fulfill it that becomes unclean. So
Speaker 1: it's not even money that is the root of evil.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, it's the love of money that is
Speaker 1: the root of evil. Right, So it's not it's not
Speaker 1: that this need is a problem. God knows that you
Speaker 1: have these needs, so it's not that need actually, And
Speaker 1: God wants to be the fulfiller. He wants to be
Speaker 1: the fulfiller so that he receives the glory, he receives
Speaker 1: the praise. He wants to be the fulfiller of this need.
Speaker 1: So that's you know, Matthew six thirty three. And it's
Speaker 1: just all sorts of scriptures. But what I want to
Speaker 1: what I want to go to a little bit, is
Speaker 1: I want to show you that from the very beginning
Speaker 1: that what God's ordained for you is actually abundance. So
Speaker 1: God has not ordained for you to have just enough,
Speaker 1: but what God has ordained for you is abundance. Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody say abundance. So we see this in the beginning
Speaker 1: in Eden. This is first of all in Eden. And
Speaker 1: when we see Eden, we see a picture of what
Speaker 1: God ordained for Adam, for Eve, but He's we see
Speaker 1: a picture of what He ordained for all of mankind.
Speaker 1: So Eden was a picture of what He ordained for
Speaker 1: all of mankind, and the blessing on Eden was to
Speaker 1: as they walked in righteousness with God, that blessing was
Speaker 1: supposed to go with them as they essentially heavenize the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the globe.
Speaker 1: So they were going to take the blessing of Eden
Speaker 1: out of Eden. And their assignment was to fill the earth.
Speaker 1: Remember the assignment to fill the earth. That was their
Speaker 1: assignment to fill the earth. And they were to fill
Speaker 1: fill the earth with the blessing of Eden. They would
Speaker 1: fill it out of intimacy with God, out of righteousness.
Speaker 1: That was theirs, because they were walking in righteousness, that is,
Speaker 1: they were in unity with God. There was no disagreement.
Speaker 1: They were in unity with God. It's unity with God.
Speaker 1: It's agreement with God that makes our heart rite with Him.
Speaker 1: That's righteousness. And so out of that righteousness, they were
Speaker 1: also covered with the glory of God. And they had
Speaker 1: the dread of God. So the dread of God was
Speaker 1: on them and the glory of God was on them.
Speaker 1: So this is what was common for Eden. And they
Speaker 1: had an abundance. There was no scarcity, there was no lack,
Speaker 1: there was no sickness, there was no disease, there was
Speaker 1: no thorns. There was no thistles. The earth was remade
Speaker 1: in fallenness. The earth was essentially subject to futility. And
Speaker 1: those things that were of the curse came after they
Speaker 1: were dismissed out of the garden of Eden. They were dismissed,
Speaker 1: and then two cherubim were set there to guard the
Speaker 1: entrance into the garden, and they were sent into what
Speaker 1: would become then scarcity for them. But then God immediately
Speaker 1: gives us a picture of Jesus, and this is God
Speaker 1: initiating abundance.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: God wants to even in our fallenness, God is coming
Speaker 1: to us. We have this religious thinking that we have
Speaker 1: to talk God into blessing us. But from the very
Speaker 1: beginning God's been trying to talk us into receiving blessing.
Speaker 1: God has a greater level of blessing for you than
Speaker 1: you actually have a level of petition for so you're
Speaker 1: trying to talk God into blessing you. God's actually trying
Speaker 1: to initiate blessing. But we've been so conditioned with doubt,
Speaker 1: with unbelief, with the religiosity, and with the thinking of
Speaker 1: the demonic realm, that we can't accept the goodness of God.
Speaker 1: It's hard for us to receive the goodness of God.
Speaker 1: But immediately he comes to them and he sacrifices an animal,
Speaker 1: and he covers them with the skins of the animal,
Speaker 1: and that's the first blood sacrifice that makes them acceptable
Speaker 1: before him. And then that's the beginning of blood sacrifice.
Speaker 1: And every blood sacrifice, all the way to Abraham, all
Speaker 1: the way to Moses, all the way through to Jesus,
Speaker 1: every blood sacrifice is an atonement sacrifice. It's so Atonement
Speaker 1: is the word at one month, Atonement at one month,
Speaker 1: it means.
Speaker 2: That we're made through the sacrifice.
Speaker 1: Of the animal, through the shedding of the blood, we
Speaker 1: are made at one again with God. Our sins are
Speaker 1: out a side. They no longer obstruct us with God
Speaker 1: or before God. And that atonement, the blood of atonement.
Speaker 1: And every single one of those was the picture of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Every single blood sacrifice found its fulfillment in Jesus. Every
Speaker 1: single one of them pointed to Jesus. Every one of
Speaker 1: them were reaching forward into the final sacrifice. They were
Speaker 1: a prophetic picture that were reaching forward into this final
Speaker 1: sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the perfect, sinless, blameless,
Speaker 1: perfect Lamb of God. And that's why these animals had
Speaker 1: to look like they were the Lamb of God, because
Speaker 1: they were actually pictures of the Lamb of God. So
Speaker 1: they had to they had to be without blemish, they
Speaker 1: had to be a certain age, they had to have
Speaker 1: a certain look about them. This is all preparing the
Speaker 1: way for the one who will finally come, and he's
Speaker 1: coming to bring us into the family, all of us
Speaker 1: from every nation, so that we can all come into
Speaker 1: the blessing that God's ordained for us. Because God's trying
Speaker 1: to bless us. This is God initiating God initiating God,
Speaker 1: initiating God, initiating God chasing. God's chasing you today. He's
Speaker 1: chasing you. He's initiating a blessed relationship. This is part
Speaker 1: of how he shows his love to us. Right Mama Joel,
Speaker 1: she has something she says when the kids are loading dishes.
Speaker 1: When she hears the sounds of dishes going in the dishwasher,
Speaker 1: she says, Oh, that's my children telling me they love me.
Speaker 1: God's trying to tell you that he loves you in
Speaker 1: every blessing that he's making available, in every blessing he's
Speaker 1: pouring out on you, trying to tell you that he
Speaker 1: loves you. See, his love is not abstract. His love
Speaker 1: is not ethereal, it's not up in the sky somewhere.
Speaker 1: It's actually manifest in tangible ways by him pouring out
Speaker 1: blessings upon your life. So then in Genesis chapter twelve,
Speaker 1: he chases down this guy he likes him, and he
Speaker 1: finds this guy up in err of the Chaldies or
Speaker 1: up in Haran somewhere, and he finds this guy named Abram.
Speaker 1: Remember Abram. Now this is right after the Table of Nations.
Speaker 1: This is right after Babel. This is right after Babel,
Speaker 1: and Babel is right after the flood. So we have
Speaker 1: the flood, and we have God frustrated with humanity. Violence
Speaker 1: is filling the earth worse than every game you've ever
Speaker 1: seen that your children have played on a PlayStation. Violence
Speaker 1: is filling the earth. God is sorrowful that he's made
Speaker 1: me mad. He starts over with Noah, and then Noah's
Speaker 1: lineage continues, and then they disobey God and they make
Speaker 1: a tower. It was a cigarette. They were actually making
Speaker 1: a temple edifice to worship false God's false deities. And
Speaker 1: so God scatters them and he starts with a new nation,
Speaker 1: only one. He divides them into seventy nations. He divides
Speaker 1: them into seventy nations, and only one nation he keeps
Speaker 1: for himself, that's Israel. And so the nations are scattered.
Speaker 1: And right after that he goes and he finds Abram,
Speaker 1: and Abram will be the beginning of his nation. Abram
Speaker 1: will be the beginning of his nation. He's going to
Speaker 1: select one nation to lead into guide out of the
Speaker 1: seventy and the sixty nine are turned over to darkness.
Speaker 1: And so he finds Abram, and he says to him,
Speaker 1: leave your father, leave your household, leave your family, leave
Speaker 1: your nation, leave your tribe, leave what you've known, leave
Speaker 1: your idolatry, and follow me and co to the land
Speaker 1: that I will show you, and I will make you
Speaker 1: view a great nation, and I will bless you. And
Speaker 1: so Abraham does this. Now I want you to see this,
Speaker 1: because again this is God initiating and God setting something
Speaker 1: up where God wants to bless somebody. God wants to
Speaker 1: bless Abram. God wants to set him apart, and actually
Speaker 1: he makes Abram the superior king of the entire earth.
Speaker 1: Abram becomes the king of the earth, and the Bible
Speaker 1: goes on to say some crazy things about Abram, whether
Speaker 1: you like it or not. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you like it. Some of us are deep in religion
Speaker 1: and so we don't like stuff. But the Bible says
Speaker 1: some interesting things about Abram. For instance, in Genesis twenty
Speaker 1: four to thirty five that says, the Lord greatly blessed
Speaker 1: my master Abram or Abraham, so that he has become rich.
Speaker 1: He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and
Speaker 1: golden servants. God blessed Abram and made him rich. Abram
Speaker 1: was God's covenant man in the earth. He was the
Speaker 1: superior cove and he was the founder, the beginner of
Speaker 1: what we know as the patriarchs. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Speaker 1: are the spiritual patriarchs of Israel and the spiritual patriarchs
Speaker 1: of our lineage as well. And i'll read that to
Speaker 1: you in a minute. And then Genesis fourteen twenty three,
Speaker 1: when Abram was offered the plunder from five kings that
Speaker 1: he routed and overtook on his own with his own army,
Speaker 1: so to speak. When he was offered that, he said,
Speaker 1: I will accept nothing that belongs to you, not a
Speaker 1: thread or a strap of a sandal, so that you
Speaker 1: will never be able to say I made Abram rich.
Speaker 1: So Abraham was very passionate about his allegiance to God,
Speaker 1: and he was dependent upon God. But he was seeing
Speaker 1: that God was keeping his covenant. God said, I will
Speaker 1: bless you, and I will make you a great blessing.
Speaker 1: And God was faithful to that. And as Abraham walked
Speaker 1: in covenant before him and believed God, then God credited
Speaker 1: to him that faith as righteousness, and righteousness qualifies you
Speaker 1: for Eden. Righteousness will always qualify you for Eden.
Speaker 2: And so then we go a little further.
Speaker 1: Down the line and we get into Isaac and Jacob,
Speaker 1: and then eventually Jacob has a son named Joseph, and
Speaker 1: Joseph is the favor of God, the rescuer of God.
Speaker 1: He's another picture. There's just pictures all the way through this.
Speaker 1: The Old Testament is filled with pictures of provision, the
Speaker 1: vision of God and the pro vision for the vision.
Speaker 1: The Old Testament is still full of this on purpose,
Speaker 1: so that we would trust God, so that we'd rely
Speaker 1: upon him, so that essentially we would leave the carnal behind,
Speaker 1: that we would leave the demonic behind, that we would
Speaker 1: leave the Idolatrus behind, that we would leave the darkness,
Speaker 1: that we would leave false doctrines behind, and that we
Speaker 1: would fully trust God with our finances, with our financial
Speaker 1: well being, with our household, and with all that God
Speaker 1: has put on our heart. This is what God wants
Speaker 1: to do. Right, Hello, somebody over here. We got error,
Speaker 1: and then we got aggressive aggressive demons, and then we
Speaker 1: have oppressive demons. Oppressive demons. We have oppressive mindsets, mindsets,
Speaker 1: we have aggressive mindsets, spirits demons, and then we have
Speaker 1: doctrinal error. We have that too, right, we have Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's get to that. But let's go here. Let's
Speaker 1: go We got Joseph. Let's go to Joseph. And when
Speaker 1: Joseph gets down to the land of Egypt.
Speaker 2: We thought that it was a bad thing.
Speaker 1: That he was sold into slavery and all this bad
Speaker 1: stuff's going on. But there's a famine coming, and God,
Speaker 1: in his fore knowledge knew there was a famine coming,
Speaker 1: and so God was actually sending Joseph forward through events
Speaker 1: that the enemy thought were dampening or sabotaging the favored one.
Speaker 1: The enemy thought he had Joseph. The enemy thought that
Speaker 1: he was suppressing Joseph. The enemy thought that he was
Speaker 1: taking Joseph out because the enemy saw favor on Joseph.
Speaker 1: He was the favored son of Jacob. He was the
Speaker 1: lineage of Jacob and the lineage of the Messiah, and
Speaker 1: so the enemy was after him. Right. But he gets
Speaker 1: down into Egypt, here comes the famine, and then Joseph
Speaker 1: like it opens up Jacob for provision. And so Jacob
Speaker 1: and all the brothers, all of Israel. Jacob's name has
Speaker 1: been changed now from remember Jacob's name what it means.
Speaker 1: It means trickster, deceiver's supplanter. God encounters him and changes
Speaker 1: his name to Israel, which means prince with God. Isaiah
Speaker 1: sixty says that God has given.
Speaker 2: You a name change.
Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty one, sixteen and sixty one says, God is
Speaker 1: changing our name. He's going to give us a new name.
Speaker 1: You wear a new name. Christian is a new name.
Speaker 1: And this name is anointed one. You're an anointed one,
Speaker 1: You're a favored one, You're a blessed one. So God
Speaker 1: changes Jacob's name. He's no longer going to rely on tricking.
Speaker 1: This is aggressive trickster tricks. Okay, different than trick or
Speaker 1: treat tricks. That's an aggressive mindset, sleight of hand, deception. Right,
Speaker 1: these are the old these are the old tricks. And
Speaker 1: actually this is.
Speaker 2: How good God is.
Speaker 1: Right, Jacob had relied on all of this stuff, and
Speaker 1: God still loved him, and God still pursued him, and
Speaker 1: God still corrected him, and God still met him, and
Speaker 1: God still desired him, and God didn't reject him in
Speaker 1: all of your stupidities, God's not rejecting you. God's trying
Speaker 1: to help you. God's trying to lead you. Now. The
Speaker 1: enemy wants you to think that you're disqualified, disqualified, okay,
Speaker 1: the enemy wants to think. He wants you to think that.
Speaker 2: You've done too much, too much, too.
Speaker 1: Many sins, too many mess ups, too many screw ups.
Speaker 2: It's over for you.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, that's a doctrinal air.
Speaker 2: God loves you as much as he did.
Speaker 1: Jacob was a complete trickster and deceiver and caniver. But
Speaker 1: God meets him and he says, you think you've been
Speaker 1: wealthy so far, you think you've a mess and herds
Speaker 1: so far, you think you've been blessed so far, you
Speaker 1: haven't seen nothing yet. Watch wait till you see what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do with you now. But first I'm gonna
Speaker 1: break your heart and change your nature. First, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lay hold of you and change your name. You're no
Speaker 1: longer gonna rely on deception, trickery and lying and sheeting.
Speaker 1: You're no longer gonna rely on those old aggressive patterns.
Speaker 1: You're gonna rely on me fully and wish you as
Speaker 1: you do. Then God is gonna, I'm gonna blow this
Speaker 1: thing up. And you know what he was trying to do.
Speaker 1: He was trying to fulfill the promise that he made
Speaker 1: the Abraham. It's Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And God is
Speaker 1: passionate that all of the lineage abides in and enjoys
Speaker 1: the same blessing as the fountain head. The fountain head
Speaker 1: was Abraham, and God wants everyone in the lineage to
Speaker 1: enjoy the same blessing as the fountain head. And so
Speaker 1: this is what he's doing with Jacob. So he changes
Speaker 1: his name, and so Jacob and all of them go
Speaker 1: down to Egypt, and Joseph is down there preparing the way.
Speaker 1: And guess where they go. They go to the land
Speaker 1: of Goshen. Now it says in the Bible that the
Speaker 1: land of Goshen looked just like Eden.
Speaker 2: This is the biblical pattern.
Speaker 1: And then some bad guys rise up in Egypt and
Speaker 1: they don't know Joseph, and so then they put him
Speaker 1: in bondage, and there's all this bad stuff going on,
Speaker 1: and God says, you're not gonna get my kids. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna oppress my kids. You're not gonna beat up
Speaker 1: my kids. You're not gonna harm my kids. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: deliver them out of there. I'm gonna take them to
Speaker 1: the land I promised them. When did he make a promise, Well,
Speaker 1: when Abram first shows up. Abram shows up where God
Speaker 1: leads him, and God leads him to a place like Eden.
Speaker 1: Look in the scripture. God leads him to a place
Speaker 1: that was like Eden. And then he says, Abram, lift
Speaker 1: up your eyes, and as far as you can see,
Speaker 1: I'm giving you this land. This will be your territory.
Speaker 1: This is your land, Abram. And so he lifts up
Speaker 1: his eyes. He looked north, and he looks south, and
Speaker 1: he looks east and west. And then they made that
Speaker 1: their boundaries. And God brought them back to that land
Speaker 1: that was the promised land. And though the enemy had
Speaker 1: come and invaded the Promised Land. Seven nations had come
Speaker 1: and taken over the Promised Land. God said, that's okay.
Speaker 1: We'll just let them build all the houses. We'll let
Speaker 1: them plant all the vineyards. Listen, do you think he
Speaker 1: loves you as much as he does or did the Israelites?
Speaker 1: Does he love you as much as he does or
Speaker 1: did the Israelites? Is anybody loved as much as he
Speaker 1: did love Jacob and Isaac and Abra anybody in the room. Well,
Speaker 1: can't you see what God does? God is so amazing.
Speaker 1: God says, I'm just gonna those seven nations. They are
Speaker 1: doomed to destruction. They are children of wrath, they are
Speaker 1: under unclean deities. But we're just gonna let them work.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let them build up the land and plant
Speaker 1: a bunch of vineyards and build a bunch of houses.
Speaker 1: And then you're gonna go in and you're gonna possess
Speaker 1: that land and you won't even need to fight.
Speaker 2: Just pretend that you're fighting. Just pretend that you're fighting.
Speaker 1: And if you'll just come in by faith and pretend
Speaker 1: you're fighting and work with me, then all ringing down
Speaker 1: some hailstones that are about this big and just disperse
Speaker 1: those guys out of there. And then I'll just cause
Speaker 1: the walls to just fall over, and they won't just
Speaker 1: fall over, they'll actually disappear, and you'll just go in.
Speaker 1: All you really need to do is on the seventh day,
Speaker 1: just like shout, really good would you?
Speaker 2: This is what God does.
Speaker 1: Oh, but God doesn't prosper us. You know those promises,
Speaker 1: that's for in heaven. When we get to heaven. Get
Speaker 1: to heaven, another doctor on later, Well, that's when we'll
Speaker 1: have blessings when we get to heaven. I got news
Speaker 1: for you. You don't need any blessings when you get
Speaker 1: to heaven. You don't need gold, you don't need silver,
Speaker 1: you don't even need a good thought.
Speaker 2: You need nothing when you get to heaven.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have it all when you get to heaven.
Speaker 1: This is God working now because he loves you now.
Speaker 1: He wants to bless you now, and you're the ones
Speaker 1: now He's chowsen to heavenizes the earth with you are
Speaker 1: the new atom, and so he takes them to this
Speaker 1: promised Land. I remember there's some things that happen with
Speaker 1: the Promised Land. You got to remember a few things, like,
Speaker 1: for one thing is that we have to wrap our
Speaker 1: head around abundance. It's really hard for us to wrap
Speaker 1: our head around abundance, and so we don't really want
Speaker 1: to believe for abundance because we think that's not godly.
Speaker 1: It's not godly to believe for abundance. Even though Jesus
Speaker 1: said in John ten ten, I have come to give
Speaker 1: you life and life more abundantly. We spiritualize that what
Speaker 1: we mean is God is going to in the midst
Speaker 1: of my crawd God's going to give me a happy heart.
Speaker 1: Have you had a happy heart in the midst of
Speaker 1: your crud lately? It's actually hard to have a happy
Speaker 1: heart in the midst of your crowd unless if you
Speaker 1: had not believed. This is what David said. If I
Speaker 1: had not have believed that I would see the goodness
Speaker 1: of God in the land of the living, my heart
Speaker 1: would have failed me. My heart would have fainted. If
Speaker 1: I had not have believed that I would see the
Speaker 1: goodness of God in the land of the living. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: God does not want you to have a happy heart
Speaker 1: and then believe for a life of misery. God is
Speaker 1: actually trying to get blessing to you. Trying to get
Speaker 1: provision to you, trying.
Speaker 2: To get hope to you.
Speaker 1: He said over Israel Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. We've all
Speaker 1: memorized it.
Speaker 2: I know the hope I have for you.
Speaker 1: Hope to bless you, hope to prosper you, hope to
Speaker 1: give you a future. Yes, he said that to him
Speaker 1: when they were sinning. He said that to him when
Speaker 1: they had failed. He said that to him when they
Speaker 1: were messed up. But he said, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I got to tell you my heart. You might
Speaker 1: be struggling with your heart now, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you what my heart is. My heart is I
Speaker 1: have hope for you. And this is the heart of
Speaker 1: God over every generation. So he takes him into the
Speaker 1: Promised Land. Now, those of us that struggle with abundance,
Speaker 1: we want to live in the wilderness, because remember what happened.
Speaker 1: The promised land over here is a land of abundance.
Speaker 1: The Promised Land is a picture of salvation. It's such
Speaker 1: a picture of salvation that the guy that takes him
Speaker 1: in is Joshua. That's the Hebrew name for Jesus. The
Speaker 1: guy that takes the men is Joshua. That's the hebret
Speaker 1: in for Jesus. Moses couldn't take them in. It wasn't
Speaker 1: because Moses was unholy. The law can never take you
Speaker 1: into the Promised Land. A do good life can never
Speaker 1: take you into the Promised Land. Trusting only in Jesus
Speaker 1: and in his righteousness and walking in unity with Jesus
Speaker 1: is the only thing that can take you into your
Speaker 1: promised land. So Joshua is ordained to take him into
Speaker 1: the Promised Land. And you'll notice he has to deal
Speaker 1: with those that have been wondering. They were wandering around
Speaker 1: the same mountain for forty years. They were wondering due
Speaker 1: to unbelief. They wouldn't believe they could go in and
Speaker 1: inherit the Promised Land. They didn't believe the Promised Land
Speaker 1: was for them. They didn't believe God could actually put
Speaker 1: these enemies under their feet and give them the Promised Land.
Speaker 2: And so they couldn't have it through unbelief.
Speaker 1: So, if you are happy in your unbelief, then they
Speaker 1: still had enough. How many Christians still have enough? Wow?
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 1: Somebody has needs today, somebody has needs. There's people all
Speaker 1: around us with needs. But you can't be a minister
Speaker 1: to that need. If you just have enough, you're consumed
Speaker 1: with holding on to what you have because you only
Speaker 1: have just enough. But God has ordained the Promised Land
Speaker 1: for you, which is more than enough, and he gave
Speaker 1: you a picture of it and told you all about it.
Speaker 1: And yet we still struggle to believe that this is
Speaker 1: God's will and purpose and desire for us. This is
Speaker 1: so much a perfect picture of New Testament liberty and
Speaker 1: abundance and grace that when they cross have heard me
Speaker 1: say this before, biaus love its I'll just say it again.
Speaker 1: When they crossed over the Jordan River, he stopped the
Speaker 1: river at a town called Adam. It's in the scripture.
Speaker 1: Would he why would he do? You can't make this
Speaker 1: stuff up. Why would he stop the river at a
Speaker 1: town called Adam? Because he was rolling the curse back
Speaker 1: all the way to Adam for them. As they went
Speaker 1: into the Promised Land, they were going into the land
Speaker 1: of milk and honey. And the wilderness period was a
Speaker 1: period of just having enough. They didn't have more than enough,
Speaker 1: they just had enough. So if that's what you're believing
Speaker 1: for you're in a wilderness. God calls God calls just
Speaker 1: enough a wilderness. Hello, somebody. So he wants us to
Speaker 1: believe for more. I want to read you a few scriptures,
Speaker 1: and we'll look at a couple scriptures together and to
Speaker 1: see if we can back some of this up with
Speaker 1: the word glory to God. Genesis chapter twelve, one and two.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord said that Abram, go from your country,
Speaker 1: your people, and your father's household to the land I
Speaker 1: will show you. Remember, he's beginning a new nation. This
Speaker 1: is immediately following the Table of Nations. We call it
Speaker 1: the Table of Nations, the dividing of the nations. This
Speaker 1: is Genesis twelve, the dividing of the nations tower a
Speaker 1: babble Genesis eleven. So now he's making a new nation
Speaker 1: with Abram. And I will make you into a great nation,
Speaker 1: and I will bless you, and I will make your
Speaker 1: name great, and you will be a blessing God has God,
Speaker 1: and we're going to read it in a moment. God
Speaker 1: has actually woven you into the lineage of Abraham through Christ.
Speaker 1: Christ was the promised seed of Abraham. Christ was the
Speaker 1: promised seed of Abraham. And God has woven you into
Speaker 1: Abraham and brought you into the Abraham a promise, not
Speaker 1: that you would only be blessed, but you actually have
Speaker 1: been ordained to be a blessing. It's through you the
Speaker 1: blessing is supposed to flow. It's not through government. It's
Speaker 1: not through welfare. It's not through social security. It's not
Speaker 1: through this, that or the other thing. It's not through sinners.
Speaker 1: It's not through Google. It's not through bitcoin billionaires. It
Speaker 1: is through you, the Church that blessing is to flow.
Speaker 1: Because you are the blessed nation. You are the heir
Speaker 1: of Abraham. I will make you your name great, you
Speaker 1: will be, and you will be a blessing. I will
Speaker 1: bless this who bless you, and whoever curses you, I
Speaker 1: will also curse. And all people on earth will be
Speaker 1: blessed through through you. Wow, You're a walking Christmas stream.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody, Uh uh, look at uh, look at
Speaker 1: look at Galatians Street. Let's go to Glatians Stree. I'll
Speaker 1: read the I'll read the collaborative verses to him. Therefore,
Speaker 1: know that only those who are of the faith are
Speaker 1: sons of Abraham or daughters daughters of Abraham. And the Scripture,
Speaker 1: foreseeing that God would justify the gentile nations every other nation.
Speaker 1: The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by
Speaker 1: faith preached the Gospel to Abraham.
Speaker 2: He was preaching the Gospel.
Speaker 1: To Abraham beforehand. Now the word gospel, remember what it means.
Speaker 1: We've heard recently right here from this pulpit. The gospel
Speaker 1: means good news, good news, good news. He preached beforehand
Speaker 1: the gospel, saying, in you, all the nations shall be blessed.
Speaker 1: In You, all the nations shall be blessed. So then
Speaker 1: those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that.
Speaker 1: Those who are of faith in Christ? Now the whole
Speaker 1: text is even better than this. The whole text is
Speaker 1: better than what I'm reading. I'm just picking out seven
Speaker 1: through fourteen. But those who believe, are you a believer
Speaker 1: in the building this morning, any believers in the building
Speaker 1: any believers shouting in their living room on camera this morning?
Speaker 1: Those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Speaker 1: For as many rely upon the works of the Law,
Speaker 1: they are under a curse. For it is written, cursed
Speaker 1: is everyone who does not continue in everything written in
Speaker 1: the book of the Law, so that no one is
Speaker 1: justified by the law and the sight of God. It's evident,
Speaker 1: for the just shall live by faith. Yet the law
Speaker 1: is not of faith. The man who does them lives
Speaker 1: by them. So Christ has redeemed us from the curse
Speaker 1: of the law, having become a curse for us.
Speaker 2: For cursed.
Speaker 1: It is everyone who hangs on a tree that the
Speaker 1: blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ,
Speaker 1: Jesus the blessing that the blessing of Abraham might come
Speaker 1: upon the gentiles.
Speaker 2: Church.
Speaker 1: You don't have to pray for this. You don't have
Speaker 1: to pray for this. You how many hours have we
Speaker 1: spent in petition asking God to bless us because we
Speaker 1: didn't feel worthy. We didn't know if he wanted to.
Speaker 1: We didn't know if it was his will. Come on,
Speaker 1: We got if it be thy will, prayers all over
Speaker 1: the world. Oh bless me, if it be thy will.
Speaker 1: He made up his mind. He already made up his mind.
Speaker 1: His will was.
Speaker 2: Already set forth.
Speaker 1: He already revealed his will in Christ.
Speaker 2: Jesus.
Speaker 1: Christ was the fulfillment of the promise made the Abraham.
Speaker 1: And everyone who believes on Christ is qualified for the
Speaker 1: blessing of Abraham. Everyone who believes on Jesus Christ is qualified.
Speaker 1: Now the enemy wants to come along with accusation. That's
Speaker 1: another category we got accusation over here. Accusation can lead
Speaker 1: to aggressive mindsets or oppressive mindsets.
Speaker 2: I'm just a.
Speaker 1: Worm, I'm rejected, I'm an orphan. My parents aren't rich,
Speaker 1: I'm from the wrong tribe. I don't have enough talent, education,
Speaker 1: too many sins. So we can partner with that too.
Speaker 1: We can partner with oppressive mindsets and destroy what God
Speaker 1: wants to. Essentially, we're putting up roadblocks to the blessing.
Speaker 1: We're coming into agreement with roadblocks to the blessing. Doesn't
Speaker 1: change God mind. God still wants to bless us like
Speaker 1: he did Jacob. He wants to pin us down somewhere,
Speaker 1: maybe in a prayer meeting. Jacob was in some kind
Speaker 1: of a prayer meeting, all right. He laid his head
Speaker 1: on a rock, and then he started having a vision,
Speaker 1: and in the vision, angels were ascending and descending. He
Speaker 1: moved into a prayer meeting. That's one of the spots
Speaker 1: where he met God. God met him. God's trying to
Speaker 1: meet us and talk us out of our old mindsets.
Speaker 1: But what we need, we need the word of God.
Speaker 1: We need the word of the Word of God. When
Speaker 1: we learn God's will, I don't need to pray if
Speaker 1: it be Thy will bless me, I don't need to
Speaker 1: pray if it be Thy will favor me. I don't
Speaker 1: need to pray. If it be Thy will, go before
Speaker 1: me with your glory this week. God's already decided to
Speaker 1: do that stuff. What we need is a lot more
Speaker 1: receiving prayers. Send with me this morning, receiving prayers. What
Speaker 1: would happen if you shift from petition and whatever the
Speaker 1: enemy's been telling you, and however he's been holding you up,
Speaker 1: and however he's been sabotaging you. What have you shifted
Speaker 1: from petition into thanksgiving and into acknowledgment. Father, I thank
Speaker 1: you you're going before me this week. I thank you
Speaker 1: that I have favor going out and coming in.
Speaker 2: Father.
Speaker 1: I thank you that your glory is on me, that
Speaker 1: the glory you gave to Jesus you've.
Speaker 2: Given to me.
Speaker 1: Father, I thank you that that glory goes before me.
Speaker 1: I thank you the dread of the Lord is on
Speaker 1: my enemies. I thank you that wherever I go, I'm
Speaker 1: just acknowledging before you that I'm your favorite son. I'm
Speaker 1: your favorite daughter, and wherever I go, you're orchestrating good
Speaker 1: for me. You're leading me in paths of righteousness. There's
Speaker 1: enemies that might show up, but you know what, you
Speaker 1: prepare a table for me in the midst of my enemies.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking you that right now, you're going before
Speaker 1: me by your foreknowledge Holy Spirit. You see sabotaging plans,
Speaker 1: you see enemies, you see difficulties, you see storms and troubles,
Speaker 1: and I just agree that you're going before me to
Speaker 1: create a table of increase for me in the midst
Speaker 1: of my enemies. Actually, the plans that they're setting for
Speaker 1: me in the traps, they are going to be put
Speaker 1: to shame. It's going to be embarrassing what happens for
Speaker 1: them when they see that in the midst of their plan,
Speaker 1: you prepared a table for me, in the midst of
Speaker 1: my enemies. That's Psalm twenty three. It's your palm prayer
Speaker 1: team as you come, and just I want to close
Speaker 1: by letting the prayer team just be available.
Speaker 2: We're going to.
Speaker 1: Close with the worship that if you need to shed
Speaker 1: something this morning before you leave, some wrong thinking, some
Speaker 1: doctors error, some oppression, some methodology that you've been working with.
Speaker 2: Just come and leave it here.
Speaker 1: Leave it here in prayer with somebody, or just come
Speaker 1: on your own and leave something here. Don't go as
Speaker 1: you came in, but leave something here to embrace the
Speaker 1: renewal of your mind, the washing of the water of
Speaker 1: your word. And leave here today lifted, built up, strengthened,
Speaker 1: knowing God is for you. God is pursuing you. He's
Speaker 1: overtaking you with blessings. He's giving you the power to
Speaker 1: create wealth Deuteronomy eight eighteen, to prove that you have
Speaker 1: a covenant with him. Father, we thank you for this
Speaker 1: day and for your hand upon our lives, for your
Speaker 1: increase in your kindness in Jesus' name. And everybody said