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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Kingdom Multiplication
Publishing Date: 2015-02-15T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/kingdom-multiplication/

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multiplication, kingdom multiplication.

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Kingdom multiplication.

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Alrighty, guys, am I good to go, Derek?

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Okay, guys, in the creation account and through Genesis,

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multiplication is the blessing that God speaks on

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initially creation and then Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac,

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Israel.

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Let me say that again, in the creation accounts and through

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Genesis, especially the first few chapters of Genesis,

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multiplication is the blessing that God speaks on Adam,

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on creation, on Noah, on Isaac, on Israel.

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I mean, Genesis 1.26, multiplication.

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Genesis 17.6 to Abraham.

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Genesis 12, multiplication.

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Genesis 26.12 to Isaac.

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He goes and sows during the famine a hundredfold.

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Multiplication.

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Later on to Israel, multiplication.

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So understand that God is the seed giver.

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God is the seed giver.

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God is the bread supplier.

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Guys, these are some of the things I say today.

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They are so one sentence and yet they are so

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the rest of life.

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So I don't know how you're gonna allow it to marinate,

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but find your own method of allowing these one sentences

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to marinate because it affects the rest of life.

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God is the seed giver.

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God is the bread supplier.

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But the seeds and the seeds that I sow are impregnated

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with the word or with the command of multiply.

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God is the seed giver.

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God is the bread supplier.

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And the seeds that I sow here on earth are impregnated

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with the command of multiply.

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I mean, go to 2 Corinthians 9.10.

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2 Corinthians 9.10.

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He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food

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will supply and multiply your seed for sowing

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and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

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God is a seed giver.

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We taught this long ago.

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It's not bread that produces bread.

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It is seed that produces bread.

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We often think it is bread that produces bread

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as in what I earn is what will help me earn more.

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Not true.

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Bread does not produce bread.

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Seed produces bread.

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The great thing is the God we serve is both the supplier

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of the seed that is required for producing bread

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and he's the supplier of bread too.

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And then after that he says, every time you sow seed,

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now be it the word that I'm sowing right now

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or money that I'm sowing later or attitudes that I'm sowing,

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regardless of what I sow,

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regardless of what God given seed I sow,

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here is what God is saying.

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Jacob, every time you sow,

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I will make sure that I impregnate what you're sowing

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with this command from heaven called multiply

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and it will increase your harvest.

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This is how things work on earth.

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This is not how the world thinks it works,

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but this is how God thinks it works

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and God, whatever God thinks is what?

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It happens.

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Happens.

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Amen.

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Jacob, does that also apply in the reverse

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like the English saying?

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Yes, yes.

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So the seed may multiply as well?

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Yeah, because you can sow seeds of distrust,

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seeds of strife, seeds of negativity, and that reaps too.

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Only now the one who causes you to reap is not God.

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Guys, multiplication, as in when we talk about it

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from the angle of God or the point of God,

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multiplication is the transference of the life of God

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into a situation or into your life or into your monies

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or into a people.

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Multiplication is the transference of the life of God,

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the very life of God.

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God hardly adds.

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When it comes to math, he's not good at adding.

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He's good at multiplying.

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Multiplication is the transference of the life of God

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to you, to your marriage, to your monies,

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to your ministry, to your attitudes.

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I'm just not limiting it to money, though.

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We will be talking about multiplication

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in terms of God's provision.

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But the point is, guys, multiplication is the transference

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of the life of God to people, to situations, to nations,

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and definitely to my life.

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And yours.

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It's his favor.

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This is who God is.

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Multiplication is the transference of the life of God

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into situations.

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We don't necessarily think in terms of multiplication.

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We think in terms of meager additions

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over a period of time.

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We need to begin to think of multiplication

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because that's how God really does things.

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That's how God really does things in the Bible.

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70 people become a nation.

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One man becomes 70.

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70 become a nation.

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A nation becomes nations.

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And he produces 36,000.

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Fold.

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This is how God talks.

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And out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth speaks.

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While multiplication is initiated by God,

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it is sustained, while multiplication is initiated by God,

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it can be sustained by your positioning,

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your capacity,

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and your faith.

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And your faith.

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While multiplication is initiated and authored by God,

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it can be sustained by your positioning, by your capacity,

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and by the faith that you have.

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By the faith of the man or woman involved in it.

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Guys, remember that story in Mark chapter seven

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where Jesus says to Philippi,

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Jesus says to Philippi, I think, you go feed them.

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And so you got two bread, two fish,

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I always mix up the quantity.

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Is it two bread?

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Five bread and two fish.

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Five bread and two fish he had.

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And he says to Philippi, you go multiply them.

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You go feed them.

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And it's an impossible task.

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And yet, like Eddie taught us,

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where does the fish and bread start multiplying?

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It starts multiplying in the hands of the disciples.

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As they begin to break it, it starts multiplying.

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Let me give you another example.

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A woman who's now beginning to pour out jugs of oil.

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When did the oil stop?

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When she ran out of jugs, containers.

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God initiates an author's multiplication,

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but we can sustain it based on our capacity,

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positioning as in, one,

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knowing what you are supposed to be doing

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at any certain time allocates the resources required

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for that certain time.

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Knowing what you're supposed to be doing

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at any certain time allocates to you the resources

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for that certain time.

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And we talk about it more so that some of your questions

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which are coming up in your head at two miles a minute

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will be stilled.

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And I could actually see it.

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So, I could actually see it.

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Knowing what you're supposed to do at a certain time

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allocates the resources for that certain time.

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And so, this woman who had these jugs of oil flow

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positioned herself through one simple step of obedience.

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She decided to postpone dying

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till she had cooked a biscuit for the holy man.

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She said, okay, I'll keep my dying on hold

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because she was going out to collect,

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she was gonna do a last supper thing and die.

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And she said, okay, I'll feed you first

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and then I'll die hungry.

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And so, in that one small step, she positioned herself.

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This is important, guys, these three steps.

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It's not that God can't do without this,

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but when you do this, you become an active part

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in this whole process of multiplication.

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You enjoy it.

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And you can sustain it, and sometimes sustain it

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to ridiculous lengths.

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You can either shoot one arrow when God says,

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or you can pull out three arrows and keep shooting,

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as Elisha did with Ahaz, the king.

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If these stories don't come to mind,

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start reading the Old Testament.

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So, what happens is, Elisha told this guy Ahaz,

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I think his name was Ahaz.

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I'm not sure, I should read the Old Testament.

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And so, he tells him to shoot an arrow,

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and as many arrows that you shoot

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would show how many times God would crush the enemy.

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And he just takes one arrow and he shoots.

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And that's it, and Elisha says, why didn't you shoot more?

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You just shot one arrow, and had you shot more,

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you could have defeated them many times over.

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And so, sometimes, guys, we sustain things

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to ridiculous extent by this process

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of allowing the word to increase.

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In Acts 6-7, there's this strange sentence, it says,

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and the word of God increased.

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What does that mean?

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How can the word of God increase?

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It's not a quantity, but it says,

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and the word of God increased.

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Guys, the word of God increases by the work it does

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through the faith of those who believe it.

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The word of God increases by the work it does

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through the faith of ones who believe it.

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Amazing.

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The word of God increases through the work it does

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by the faith of ones who believe it.

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This is what, another thing I throw in,

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is the word of God increases by the work it does

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through the hearing and hearing of the hearing.

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And the word of God increases by the faith of the hearing.

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And faith of ones who believe it.

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Hearing and faith of ones who believe it.

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This is what causes some to read 30, some to read 60,

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some to read 100.

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The word of God increases in your life

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based on the work it can do through the faith

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that you have in that word and the degree

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to which you believe it and the accuracy

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with which you hear it.

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So, there will be us hearing what I'm teaching today,

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and let's assume every word I say

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is absolute truth from heaven.

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Let's just assume that for a second.

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Suspend your Berrian nobility,

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and just assume that everything I say is true.

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Now, all of us are gonna hear it

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with different degrees of hearing, guys.

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And to the extent that you hear it and believe it,

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to that extent you will produce this word.

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And it'll increase for some of us,

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it'll decrease for some of us.

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The points here are hearing, faith, believing.

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Which are similar, but any questions on that

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before we go on?

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Can you give us a kind of example

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of how David writes about positioning,

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capacity, and faith?

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Yeah.

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Positioning.

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At present, I believe this is what I'm called to do.

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But what if I was doing something else?

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It's not that I won't do well,

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but the resources allocated for this stage of my life

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in what I'm doing would not be necessarily available.

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Plus, I may have to strive to get it.

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Or positioning.

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If the woman in the book hadn't chosen

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to give the cake or flower to Elijah,

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Elijah or Elijah?

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Elijah.

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Then she would have missed out on what happened thereafter.

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So positioning just helps you sustain God's desire

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to multiply things in your life.

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And please, as I'm speaking,

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yes, we'll be touching on provision,

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but it is not just provision that we are talking about.

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We're talking about multiplication in different areas

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of our life, guys.

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If I'm pursuing God,

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I can still end up walking in God's desires and will.

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If I'm not pursuing God, then I can miss it.

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If I'm pursuing God and I find my purpose,

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then I can be intentional about it

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without making any detours.

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That's it.

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If you're not pursuing God as your main interest,

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you can miss God's purpose for you.

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If you're pursuing God,

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God will wonderfully keep bringing you back

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to the path that you should walk in.

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If you're pursuing God and you are able to hear him

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and locate your purpose,

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now you walk intentionally as God does

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without any detours, without any rabbit trails,

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without any sitting under the oak tree in Jeroboam's land

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and a lion ends up eating you before you should be eaten.

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Those things won't happen.

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You'll get to the promised land in 15 days

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instead of 15,000 days.

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Yeah, which is 15,000 days.

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Don't calculate, it might be a few days off.

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Ah, the things I'm seeing today.

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Guys, the revelation you must have of the nature

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and essence of God,

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the revelation you must have of the nature

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and essence of God is that he overflows.

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The revelation you must have of the nature of God

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is that he overflows.

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This is not the normal Christian expectation of God.

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This is not the normal Christian expectation of God.

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And if normal Christianity is what you're living

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in this area, change it, because be abnormal.

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This is not normal Christianity.

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The revelation of the nature and essence of God

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that we need to have is that he overflows.

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Show me anything that Jesus did that was just enough.

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I mean, they went fishing and they had so much fish

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that they couldn't pull the nets.

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He would go heal.

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Instead of doing about 30 or 40 healings,

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he healed all of them.

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When he would multiply food, instead of multiplying food

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so that none would be wasted,

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he had so much that he had to tell them to collect

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12 baskets full.

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When he dies, he could have just died and paid for it since.

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Instead, he gets crucified and there was 12 in one case

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and seven in another case.

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I'm reading things today, man.

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Sorry, guys.

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I'm seeing things people are saying today in whispers.

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If you have any Valentine's secrets to say to each other,

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just mind them, because that's the only way

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you're gonna get away with it today.

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Yeah, he goes, dies on the cross,

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and it's not a simple death.

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It's a cruel death where he pays for my sickness

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through his stripes, where he's chastised for my peace,

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where his body is broken so that I'm put together

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so that my sins are paid for.

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Nothing he does is enough.

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And then he puts up into a body.

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Yeah.

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It's never just enough, guys.

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This is his nature.

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Jehovah Jireh, I am provider.

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It is his name.

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It is what he does.

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He cannot do otherwise.

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Jehovah Jireh, I am provider.

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I am in capital letters, and provider,

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if you want, in small letters.

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I am provider.

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This is his nature.

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This is his name.

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He cannot do otherwise.

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It's just who he is.

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It's just who he is.

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You see Tater dancing here, right?

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He can't help it.

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It's just who he is.

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It's not put on.

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It's not Sunday thingy.

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This is how he is.

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He can't help it.

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God is like that.

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I am provider.

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This is my name.

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It is my nature.

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I cannot help it.

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This is what I do.

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Settle this in our hearts,

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because we talked about this last week.

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You have to know the nature of God.

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You have to know his promises,

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and then you exert faith.

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Do it any other way,

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and it'll get messed up, and it'll be stressful.

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Exert faith first,

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without knowing his nature,

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and just knowing his precious promises,

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and you're constantly having to repeat those verses

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over and over again.

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Know his nature.

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Know his promises from the word.

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Exert faith.

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It's very restful, not stressful.

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Christians are more stressed than the world sometimes,

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because they're already facing the stress

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of the circumstance,

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and now they have to keep repeating these verses also,

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and hope that something happens.

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That is a double whammy.

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This next bit that I'm going to talk to you about,

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I grudgingly have to admit that I learned from Eric.

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I was thinking I won't give him credit,

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then he called me last night,

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and I felt convicted.

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So.

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Pardon?

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He's too young.

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Okay, so guys, I'm just kidding.

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Guys,

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God is king over the storehouses of heaven.

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God is king over the storehouses of heaven.

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God is king over the storehouses of heaven.

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And what are the storehouses of heaven?

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It's the infinite source for our provision.

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God is king as an absolute ruler

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over the storehouses of heaven.

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And what do I mean by storehouses of heaven?

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The infinite source for provision.

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There is,

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I mean, God uses the words,

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God uses the words,

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and see if I will not open the windows of heaven

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and pour out on you, such a blessing.

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There is everything needed for life and godliness in God.

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And so when I say storehouse,

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I'm not talking about some large barn in heaven,

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but I'm talking about all provision required for all living.

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God is king over.

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He's got infinite resources that take care of that.

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But the storehouse of heaven

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can only be seen with eyes of faith.

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The storehouse of heaven can only be seen

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with eyes of faith.

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Heaven is the storehouse behind your bank account,

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your kitchen, and your storehouse.

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We think our salary is the place

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from which our bank money comes,

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our kitchen and fridge is filled,

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but heaven is the storehouse behind the storehouse

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in your kitchen and in your bank.

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And it doesn't matter whether it is day by day manner

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that you are at present living on,

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or whether you have amassed grain

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in your granaries or granaries as Joseph did in Egypt.

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This is important to understand, guys.

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We have a tendency to think that day by day manner

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versus seven years of plenty in Egypt.

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We think that this is abundance.

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And we think this is not.

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This is a worldly way of looking

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because at the end of the day,

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both came from God's storehouse.

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But because we are suckers for security,

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we think like this.

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We think this is not abundance.

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We think this is abundance and this is not.

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And so we live our whole lives for this.

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And I'm not saying this is the way to live

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or this is the way to live.

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I'm just showing you a difference between ways of living

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that both come from God's storehouse.

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Did manna come from God's storehouse?

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Every day for how many days?

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15,000 days plus.

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Every day.

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Did in Genesis 41, verse 47, it says

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that Joseph began to gather for the next seven years grain

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and the land was blessed with plenty

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so that for seven years he collected and amassed grain.

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Where did that come from?

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It was initiated by God who sent Joseph as a man

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to rescue a nation in Egypt.

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So that came from God.

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And we see that as abundance.

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But this we don't see as abundance.

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Amazing, eh? How our minds...

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I'm not talking about you.

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I'm talking about me, you and the rest of the world.

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We think like this.

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So what do we do?

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We build barns.

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And you remember what happened to the last guy who built barns.

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The Bible says that we should be thankful in every situation.

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Does it relate to this?

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Not really, Mariam.

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Because that is in the context of...

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In everything give thanks.

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I mean when you have a lot, when you have a little, give thanks.

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Here I'm saying that this is not little and this is not a lot.

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Both are from the Father and both take care splendidly of me.

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But for some reason, because we are suckers for security

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and I'm deliberately using the word sucker because it's so Greek that

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this is what happens and we start seeing this as abundance.

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And so this is what we focus on.

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And sometimes when you build barns of sustenance here on earth

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it blocks out the pure light of God's liberality.

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Sometimes when you build barns of sustenance here on earth

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it blocks out the light of God's pure liberality.

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As in it blocks you from seeing

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give us this day our daily bread sometimes.

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Sometimes, not often.

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I'm not saying always because I've seen guys who live here

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and live really well, live here and live really well.

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And sometimes I see this happening as a pattern in life.

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Could you say that line one more time please?

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Because sometimes when you build barns.

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Sometimes when you build barns to provide your own sustenance

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or to stabilize your sustenance

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you block out the pure light of God's liberality.

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Sometimes when you build barns to stabilize your sustenance

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you block out the light of God's pure...

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You block out the pure light of God's liberality.

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There is no harm living here.

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There is no harm living here.

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Both are godly.

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And sometimes life will be like this.

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And that is when we say with Paul

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I have learned to live in plenty

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and I have learned to live in little.

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But praise be to God who supplies all of us

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and praise be to God who supplies all my needs

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and needs didn't mean basic sustenance

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because then God would have put us on tablets for the rest of our life.

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Just eat this Jacob, full of protein.

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No.

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That's not how it works guys.

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It's not...

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It's amazing how we can...

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We'll talk about that later.

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We seem to thrive at minimizing God

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so that he can fit within our expectations

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and so that we don't get disappointed.

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God does not heal always.

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So now that I state that I don't have to worry about him not healing me.

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God does not always provide...

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Occasionally he wants us to

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valour in poverty so that we know how it is.

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Great. So now we don't have to expect anything from him.

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God is a good father but sometimes he disciplines us

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and breaks our legs so that we can sit and study what he needs to.

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Great. Now if I break my leg I can't go to him.

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Minimizing and diminishing God

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so that we can reduce him to within our expectations or slightly beyond

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so that he's a very human God.

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Even when he was human he wasn't that way.

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I see that hand sister.

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Go ahead.

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Liberace was a very famous...

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Oh okay.

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Liberality is...

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Guys sometimes what happens is

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when I want to stabilize my source of sustenance

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I can easily not be daily dependent on God.

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Whenever I come into large amounts of money

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which happens 2, 3, 4 times a year.

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Like ridiculously large amounts of money in my understanding.

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One of the things I do in 2 or 3 days after that money goes into my bank

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is I go open my bank account and tell the Lord Father here it is.

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This looks so good in my bank.

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I don't want to release a dollar of this.

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As long as it stays like this everything looks good.

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Otherwise it's not fun.

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And then I say Father and that's exactly what I want to get rid of now.

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So here is all this money.

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Do with it as you please.

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I release it so that you can have me do anything with it as you please.

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And I've got to do it within the first 2 or 3 days

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because otherwise stability in sustenance has the ability

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I'm being so poetic today.

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Stability in sustenance has the ability to somehow cocoon you inside it.

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Where it becomes your safe fortress.

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It becomes an idol.

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This doesn't mean that you go spend it on Karnak tickets.

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You're just releasing it to God to do as he pleases.

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You're giving up ownership.

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That's all you're doing.

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You're giving up ownership and you're immediately going into stewardship.

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All things. All things.

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Your children. Your home. Your ministry.

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Acts 29. Everything.

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No ownership. Learn how to steward.

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But please don't see this as God and see this as not God.

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Life will go through these cycles guys.

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We'll talk about that.

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Unless my eyes of faith are open to the storehouses of heaven,

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I will continue to label the storehouse of Egypt as abundance

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and I will continue to label the storehouse of Egypt as abundance

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and I will label the widow's jug of oil as lack.

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Amazing eh?

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That widow's oil flowed like crazy.

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It would have kept flowing if the city was as big as Vancouver.

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It stopped when there were no more containers to hold it.

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So you...

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Is the widow's jug of oil lack?

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No it's not.

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It is as abundant as Egypt's storehouses.

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But because we don't use eyes of faith,

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because our eyes are glazed over with the jaundice of how the world sees things,

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we begin to see this as stability and as plenty

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and we see this as lack.

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Not true guys.

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Not true.

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Eyes of faith will allow me to label both the storehouse of Egypt

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and the widow's jug of oil as abundance.

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The widow's jug of oil is in 1st King 176.

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Good stuff eh from Eric?

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Staple it spirit. Good teaching.

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Yep.

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Guys the widow of Zarifat had no less a storehouse behind her little jug

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than the Egyptian Empire had behind its granaries.

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The widow of Zarifat in 1st King 17 had no less of a storehouse behind her little jug

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than the Egyptian Empire had behind its massive granaries.

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Amazing eh.

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Now when you begin to see like this guys,

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it changes the way you approach things.

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Because you begin to see that he is someone who overflows.

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You begin to see he lives in a command called multiply.

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You begin to see that there is a storehouse which has for you infinite provision.

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And as I speak this guys, take your eyes off.

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I sound like a faith speaker but it's true.

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Take your eyes off your present circumstances.

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Because your present circumstances try to nullify the word I'm speaking to you right now.

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Take your eyes off those circumstances.

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Because they will nullify the word I'm speaking.

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Because our present circumstances have thoughts that we begin to rise,

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that raise up in our heads.

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And these thoughts are the traditions of men because the world measures things a certain way.

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The world measures things in terms of stability and security.

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We measure things simply in terms of God.

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And by the way, even if you save up, we are not sustained by what has been saved up.

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But by daily dependence.

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That's what I meant by Barnes can block the pure light of liberal, liberality.

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We are not sustained by what we save up.

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We are sustained by what?

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By daily dependence.

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By daily dependence on God.

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Because neither the money you accumulate nor your ability to hold it in reserve in TD Bank actually will keep it safe.

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I've met men who had millions.

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And the same man I met again two years later.

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And he was in a really big shopping mall trying to sell gold, white gold,

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at a reasonable price so that he could have some money.

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Two years before that I was sitting with him and he was rolling in money.

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He didn't know how to spend it.

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And two years later he's got boxes with him in this really glitzy mall where rich people come.

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And he's sitting in the food court and then at the Hyatt Hotel looking for prospective clientele

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who can buy his boxes of white gold off him because money took wings and flew away.

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An idol will always disappoint

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He also for his own efforts to begin his life,

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not just to buy himself a被輕 or PolyPrevate.

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everything. Renounce your means of sustenance. Renounce. Not renounce is to say,

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renounce is to say I deny myself ownership over this means of stability or sustenance.

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I deny it. I renounced my Indian citizenship when I took Canadian citizenship. But I'm

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no longer defined by Indian citizenship. Renounce your means of sustenance and stability or security

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and you will end up owning nothing but stewarding everything. Jesus lived like this. Paul is not my

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hero. Peter is not my hero. Jesus is. Because he was confident of the essence and nature of his father,

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of the word multiply and of the whole idea of overflow. He was confident of it. Remember,

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he had to take care of a few brothers and sisters and a mother because his parents said his dad had

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died early. And knowing who he was like, he'd have taken up that responsibility seriously. He had to

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make sure that his disciples were fed. And this didn't mean that he could go pull out fish from

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the sea every time because he could only do what his father was asking him to do. He wasn't some

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perfect carpenter. I'm sure he messed up a few chairs and tables. But he knew one thing that he

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lives in a command called multiply that his father in his essence and nature is one who causes

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overflow and that he could see this or this as coming from God's storehouse. Guys, let me add

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sometimes God's Holy Spirit or sometimes the Holy Spirit has to teach me afresh through a process

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of humbling. Is that scriptural? Deuteronomy 8.3. And so I took you through the desert, fed you

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manna and humbled you. Why? So that you may know that man shall not live by bread or personal means

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of sustenance, but shall live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Every so often,

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and by humbling I don't mean something nasty. Every so often God will do this. Why? So that

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this never becomes your security. This becomes your abundance and this never becomes the place

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you live in. This also is abundance. What a different way of saying things. So regardless

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of whether you have a barn behind your house which is loaded with hundreds of dollars or whether you

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have a little jug in your kitchen that has a tiny bit of oil. This is brilliant. Too often guys,

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our mind wanders to the how of provision and the moment our mind wanders to the how of provision,

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it diminishes the who. It kind of causes a loose sight of the who. Because our minds are sure God

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has a storehouse, sure God can provide, sure God overflows, sure God is provider but how is he going

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to do it for me? He can do it for Jacob because Jacob goes to these different places and he taught

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us this thing called firstfruits and then he gets an offering from this church and then someone else

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may like him and give it. Sure it works for these pastor types but what about me? Oh by the way,

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this pastor type spends a heck of a lot of, wrong word, spends a heavenload of money on trips that

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he goes to and doesn't charge for anybody for the travel by the way. But that's a different story.

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The point being whenever we begin to think of the how, how am I going to get this, what happens is

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immediately that the who gets blocked out. You lose sight of the who because we are wondering

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how will this come? So we're thinking maybe it's going to be the Christmas bonus. So now we are

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waiting for the Christmas bonus and then the blooming bonus comes along and it isn't as big

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as you thought because your boss was miserly this week. Or you think it's that financial investment

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and you're hoping that the oil price will go up again. Or it is this envelope that you receive

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from the church and you're hoping it's not just saying happy birthday that there's some money

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inside and you open it and it's no money inside and you think to yourself, different ways we think

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because we are focusing on the how not the who. May I suggest to you that most of us see our work

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as the source of our provision. When you wonder how God is going to do it, you begin to see the

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source as your provision. When you wonder how God is going to do it, you see the source as your provision.

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There's one thing I tried really hard not to do when I know that there is something ahead that I

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need to now prep for. One of the things I do is father thank you that you are able to provide.

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I've got to stop trying to help you and try to guess what you're going to do. Let it be.

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Whenever you begin to try to figure out the source of how God is going to do it, you see the source

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as your provision. So we think it's a Christmas bonus. So we think it's a gift from a generous

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friend. So we think it's a financial deal. Do you realize that most of us see our salary and work

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as the source of income? And that's absurd. We see our salary and work as our source of income.

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And I'd like to say that it is absurd because it's going to be limited for the rest of your life,

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guys. You know how much you're going to get every month. For the rest of your life, that's what it's

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going to be. Ouch! That can't be. It has to be beyond that. God is my source, which means there is

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no idea or limit to what can happen either through the abundance of Egypt or through the jug of oil.

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I can't look at my job as a source of my income because I know I'm going to get this every month

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for the next 20 years. And there's no guarantee you won't lose the job. So now the job becomes the

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thing that the enemy uses to continuously prod you, provoke you, put fear in you, bring the insecurity,

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bring instability. Why? Because this is where everything is coming from. Even though you know

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God is a supplier, the source becomes the main place. Guys, it doesn't matter how old you are.

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It doesn't matter whether you are someone who works harder than employed people like Dagmar and

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yet is retired or whether it is Lance who hasn't started working yet. God is the source and it's

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not your job that is the source. Got to make the shift guys. Go ahead, Renita.

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Given. Yeah. Guys, it's fascinating how these things work. Let me remind you of a

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word that I always say. You inhabit what you think and your thoughts will take you somewhere.

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I just love that line. You inhabit what you think and your thoughts will take you somewhere. Whenever

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I say I love the line, it means I didn't come up with it. And so as you begin to inhabit this way

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of thinking, a strange thing will happen to us guys. We will see more and more of it because

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what you think is what you inhabit and your thoughts will take you somewhere. And so I'm

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not saying that live like this. This is not how God has me live 24-7 guys. I'm saying that both

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are from God and learn to live happily in both knowing how the jug of oil will begin to flow and

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knowing how your granaries will be filled. It's not an either or. I would suggest to you that the

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day it becomes either or, you will find Deuteronomy 8-3 happening every now and then so that God can

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refocus your attention. Or learn to live here being dependent on him daily. That's another good way

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to live. If you're not able to trust him with the jug of oil, it's harder to trust him here. This

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becomes your main source. Guys, let me read that line again. Do you realize that most of us see

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our salary and work as the source of income? And I've written next to it, absurd. And yet Elijah,

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and I've written in brackets LOL, I wasn't laughing at Elijah, the rest of it. And yet Elijah,

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LOL, was sustained by ravens who neither sow nor reap or gather into barns. And a widow who had

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no bread and was preparing to die. So Elijah is sustained by birds who don't spin or toil,

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reap or sow or gather into barns. And so God says, okay Elijah, I shall supply you. Yes, send me a

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benefactor. Here they come. And they're the ones who supply him. And then when that gets over,

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he says, now go to the rich man who lives in Zarephath. No, no, no. Now go to the poorest of

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the poor in Israel. Go to a widow. And by the way, just so you know, she's preparing to die,

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so go there fast. So he gets there before she can pick up the sticks and die. And these are the

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people. It is the poorest that God supplies Elijah through. Storehouse, man. Oh, that would have

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sounded to her. Guys, do you get this? It is so brilliant. I mean, I read this. Herewith ends

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what Eric has taught me and it was brilliant. So Cultivator, I didn't say the teaching had ended.

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I said what Erica taught me. I heard some rustling of paper somewhere. So Cultivate a wealth mentality,

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guys. Cultivate a wealth mentality. What is a wealth mentality? A wealth mentality is a way of

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thinking and living. A wealth mentality is a way of... Cultivate a wealth mentality, as in a way of

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thinking and living. Break away from the poverty mentality that I learned as a virtue from my culture,

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from some doctrine, and from my parents. All of us are guilty of that. Our parents lived in a different

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time where the values... Not a different time. Our parents lived in a time where these things were not

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understood or taught. Some of our parents were fortunate enough to learn these things and live

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a certain way. Many of our parents were not. And so where did we grow up learning the way we see

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these things? At home. Where did we learn it? In our culture. Where did we learn it? In a church

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that perhaps had a doctrine that preached that God will be wealthy when you get to heaven, but right

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now he's not into any help to you except supplying your needs. And so we grow up with this mentality,

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guys. Break out of the poverty mentality that was taught as a virtue to you by your culture,

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your doctrines, and your parents. Cultivate a wealth mentality. And a wealth mentality isn't

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some kind of prosperity preaching. As you can see, this is not necessarily prosperity preaching.

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Cultivate a wealth mentality that thinks and lives differently.

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Because the front line of attack, and I've taught this before, the front line of attack is either

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about rent and food, money and the lack of it. The front line of attack is always about rent,

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food, money and the lack of it. That's the front line of attack in all our lives, guys.

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Besides some habitual sins that we may cultivate, this is the front line of attack.

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And yet Jesus makes a highly irresponsible statement. Jesus makes a highly irresponsible

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statement in Matthew 6 25 and he says, do not make these practical details of life your primary

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concern or worry. How irresponsible is that? Most teachers on stewardship today wouldn't say anything

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like that. They tell you to save up so that on a rainy day you have to go to the toilet.

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They tell you to save up so that on a rainy day you have help. Nothing wrong with saving up

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for your children. You must leave your children in inheritance. Nothing wrong

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saving up to buy a car, get a new Hummer. But saving for a rainy day is a different aspect

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which we won't go into right now. But the point is this, guys. Jesus makes the statement in Matthew

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6 25 saying, do not make these practical details of your life your primary concern or worry.

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Because these primary concerns and not the devil will choke the word in you. Wow!

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It's not the devil that will choke the word in you, that will choke my will for you.

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It is this primary concern and worry with money and stuff like that. How could he say that?

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Because he knows about this. He knows the nature of his father and he presented it to us.

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And our common sense then begins to scream.

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It's fun watching Rob bring the kids. First this big guy comes out of the van.

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Then a thin guy comes out of the van, lands. And then you think it ends there and out comes

00:51:39.040 --> 00:51:43.280
Maximo. And you think it ends there and out comes this little one. Then all three of them. Like one

00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:50.720
of those cartoon thingies. It is so cute. I don't know why that came up.

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Something else, yeah. Our common sense screams and reinterprets this verse.

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Our common sense screams and reinterprets Matthew 6 25. And Jesus says, do not be worried about

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anything. We come up with some other interpretation for it. And really Jesus didn't mean that.

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We reinterpret it so that we can endorse or legitimize what Christians today call,

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what God today calls, careful unbelief. There's this amazing word in Christianity that we

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rarely hear about. It's called careful unbelief.

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This is where most of us live. Careful unbelief.

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Careful unbelief is when Jesus has said something. And that's good Jesus. We are glad you could help

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your disciples and yourself out that way. But we hear the world has changed dramatically.

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So while we believe that we also have to be careful and so we trust you but not to the extent

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that you are literally interpreting that scripture. So we'll dwell in careful unbelief. We will see you

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as provider. We will bless you and quote Philippians 4 19. But please don't expect us to live like that.

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We are not birds nor are we flowers. It's careful unbelief.

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Take the pressure of provision on yourself and where you go and what you do with life will be

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ordered by mammon. Take the pressure of provision on yourself and where I go. When I take the

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provision of provision on myself and where I go, I will be ordered by mammon.

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Take the pressure of provision on yourself and where I go. When I take the provision of

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when I take the pressure of provision on myself then where I go and what I do

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is commanded or is ordered by mammon.

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This just flies in the face of all logic. That's why careful unbelief is such a safe place to live

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when it comes to things of provision.

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When Adam abandoned his life source, he was discharged to work the ground in sweat.

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When Adam abandoned his life source, he was discharged to work the land in sweat.

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And I said Jesus says it differently. He says, hey Jacob seek first in time and place and order

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and importance. Seek first. There you go. That's the correct response.

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That's one person I won't be doing that with again.

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Instead seek first in time, in place and importance in terms of treasure. Seek first my rule and reign,

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Jacob. My rule and reign in your life and all other things that the pagans chase after

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will be added to you. Seek first my rule and reign and my ways of doing things

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and all these things that the pagans chase after will be added to you. Any questions before we

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turn the... will be multiplied unto you. That's the actual Greek sense of the word

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from my faint recollection to the best of my knowledge.

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Any questions guys? Guys this is completely unreasonable but besides that any questions?

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Any questions?

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Pardon?

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You inhabit what you think. Change your thinking. How do you change thinking? By hearing.

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How do you hear? By listening to this tape, by reading your notes over and over again

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because it requires the renewal of my mind. And once I hear and renew my mind, now I have

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the option of doing what I have just heard and have had renew my mind. And as I do that,

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I will find that my thoughts are now taking me somewhere. I'm more aware of what's happening

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around me in these areas. I begin to see God differently. Your life is simply an outworking

00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:44.480
of how you see God and how you think God sees you. Your life is simply an outworking of how you see

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God in different areas and how you see God see you. If you think he sees you as a son,

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you'll find that the way you live is very different. If you think he sees you as a servant,

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your response is very different. If you see God as a judge, you will find that you will judge too

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and you will always feel judged. If you see God as one who...

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Mark!

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Rhonda, I need to talk to you after the service.

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So if you see God as a judge and with no mercy, that's the way you behave. It is fascinating,

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guys, how often in life, how often in a year you need to upgrade your image of God and your image

00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:48.720
of yourself through the eyes of God. These are not profound

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manipulations of words, guys. I'm telling you the truth. Let me repeat it again because it'll

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so radically help you. Every year you have to at least once or twice upgrade your image of God

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through understanding Him, through going over what has been taught, through reading the Word,

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and upgrade your image of yourself through the eyes of God.

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And if we don't do this, there's no upgrading. Moses had to have this happen.

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The Prince of Egypt, if he didn't have any upgrade when he was at the burning bush,

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if he didn't have an upgrade on Mount Sinai of the image of God and an image of himself,

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because he was not in a very nice place in the backside of Sinai before he came to the burning

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bush, but I have to say that he was in a very nice place in the backside of Sinai before he came to

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the burning bush. But as he began to see God differently and began to see how God sees Him,

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and he struggled with it, God had to get a little irritated at one point and say, who made your mouth?

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But as that happens, Moses begins to change. And yet through all those changes,

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they said of him, he was the meekest man who lived on the earth.

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Oh, I pray God that you go and listen to this and that it changes. Please understand,

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these shifts have to happen in my head. I've got another 30, 40, 50 years, man. I've got to get there.

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Bless you guys as you go. You don't know how deeply impactful this message can be,

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how it can really change your insights and changing your insights change how life is met.

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That's why I'm sounding like a whimpering kind of guy because it is