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- 0:00Speaker 1: What if the reason God has not given you a
- 0:02Speaker 1: financial breakthrough yet is not because He is ignoring you,
- 0:05Speaker 1: but because He is actually protecting you. What if the
- 0:08Speaker 1: delay you have been crying over, the door you have
- 0:11Speaker 1: been knocking on until your knuckles bleed, the prayer you
- 0:14Speaker 1: have repeated so many times you almost stopped believing it.
- 0:19Speaker 1: What if all of that waiting was not punishment but preparation.
- 0:23Speaker 1: What if God looked at exactly what you are asking for,
- 0:27Speaker 1: heard every single word of your prayer, and said, I
- 0:31Speaker 1: love you too much to give you that right now.
- 0:33Speaker 1: I know that might sound strange, maybe even offensive. We
- 0:37Speaker 1: are used to hearing that God is a good father
- 0:39Speaker 1: who gives good gifts, and that is absolutely true. But
- 0:43Speaker 1: here is what we often miss. A good father does
- 0:46Speaker 1: not hand his fifteen year old the keys to a
- 0:49Speaker 1: car before the kid knows how to drive, not because
- 0:53Speaker 1: he wants his child to walk forever, but because he
- 0:56Speaker 1: loves his child too much to watch them crash. You
- 0:59Speaker 1: have prayed, you have fasted, you have been faithful with
- 1:03Speaker 1: your tithes, you have declared scripture over your finances, stood
- 1:09Speaker 1: on the promises of God, and believed with everything in you,
- 1:13Speaker 1: and still the breakthrough has not come. The bank account
- 1:16Speaker 1: has not changed, the opportunity has not appeared. And somewhere
- 1:21Speaker 1: in the quiet moments, a dangerous question starts to whisper.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Does God even hear me? He hears you every word,
- 1:30Speaker 1: every tear, every prayer you whispered in your car before
- 1:34Speaker 1: walking into the job you hate. He heard all of it.
- 1:38Speaker 1: But today, on Bible assent, we are going to talk
- 1:41Speaker 1: about something that most churches will not say out loud.
- 1:44Speaker 1: The missing key to your financial breakthrough might not be
- 1:47Speaker 1: outside of you. It might be inside of you, and
- 1:51Speaker 1: the moment you find it, everything changes. Stay with me.
- 1:55Speaker 1: This one is going to shift the way you see everything.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Let us start with what I call the container problem,
- 2:02Speaker 1: and this is where most people's financial journey begins to
- 2:05Speaker 1: make a lot more sense. In Matthew, chapter nine, verse seventeen,
- 2:09Speaker 1: Jesus says, neither do people pour new wine into old
- 2:13Speaker 1: wine skins. If they do, the skins will burst, the
- 2:18Speaker 1: wine will run out, and the wine skins will be ruined. No,
- 2:22Speaker 1: they pour new wine into new wine skins, and both
- 2:26Speaker 1: are preserved. Now, Jesus was making a spiritual point in context,
- 2:30Speaker 1: but this principle maps directly onto your financial life in
- 2:34Speaker 1: a way that should stop you in your tracks. The
- 2:36Speaker 1: new wine is the provision, the abundance, the breakthrough you
- 2:41Speaker 1: have been asking for. The wine skin is you, your character,
- 2:45Speaker 1: your capacity, your ability to manage, multiply and steward wealth
- 2:50Speaker 1: at a level you have never operated at before. Here
- 2:53Speaker 1: is a simple illustration. Take a small coffee cup and
- 2:57Speaker 1: try to pour a full gallon of water into it.
- 3:00Speaker 1: It does not matter how willing you are to give.
- 3:03Speaker 1: It does not matter how much water is available. The
- 3:06Speaker 1: cup cannot hold it, the water spills, gets wasted, and
- 3:10Speaker 1: you end up with nothing to show for it. Now,
- 3:13Speaker 1: be honest with yourself for a moment. If God deposited
- 3:17Speaker 1: one million dollars into your account tomorrow morning, what would
- 3:20Speaker 1: actually happen. Would you have a clear, written plan for
- 3:23Speaker 1: where that money would go. Would you know how to
- 3:26Speaker 1: invest a portion of it, protect a portion of it,
- 3:29Speaker 1: tithe faithfully from it, and give strategically. Or would you
- 3:33Speaker 1: pay off debt, feel incredible for about six months, and
- 3:37Speaker 1: then slowly rebuild the same patterns that created the debt
- 3:41Speaker 1: in the first place. There is no judgment in that question.
- 3:45Speaker 1: It is just an honest mirror. Studies on lottery winners
- 3:48Speaker 1: consistently reveal the same heart breaking pattern. A significant number
- 3:53Speaker 1: of people who receive sudden, massive windfalls end up financially
- 3:57Speaker 1: worse off within a few years than they were before
- 4:00Speaker 1: they won. The money did not fix their life. It
- 4:03Speaker 1: amplified everything that was already broken inside it. The problem
- 4:08Speaker 1: was never the amount of money available. The problem was
- 4:11Speaker 1: the size of the container holding it. God sees that,
- 4:16Speaker 1: and because he loves you, he will not pour one
- 4:19Speaker 1: million dollars of new wine into a container that only
- 4:23Speaker 1: has the capacity for one thousand. So here is the
- 4:26Speaker 1: first question you have to honestly sit with. Am I
- 4:29Speaker 1: actively expanding my container? Are you reading books on personal finance?
- 4:35Speaker 1: Are you learning how budgets, investments, and compound interest actually work.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Are you working on your discipline, the ability to say
- 4:44Speaker 1: no to what you want right now so you can
- 4:47Speaker 1: build what you want most? Are you growing in emotional
- 4:50Speaker 1: maturity so that an increase in resources does not trigger
- 4:53Speaker 1: an increase in ego? Expanding the container is not just
- 4:57Speaker 1: about financial education. It is about character development. It is
- 5:02Speaker 1: about becoming the kind of person whose inner life is
- 5:05Speaker 1: stable enough to carry outer increase without it breaking you.
- 5:09Speaker 1: The water is coming, but the cup has to be
- 5:12Speaker 1: ready first. We are just getting started. Keep watching because
- 5:16Speaker 1: what I Am about to share next might be the
- 5:18Speaker 1: most uncomfortable truth in this entire video. James, Chapter four,
- 5:23Speaker 1: verse three. This one is short, plain, and absolutely devastating
- 5:29Speaker 1: if you let it hit you the way it is
- 5:30Speaker 1: supposed to. When you ask, you do not receive, because
- 5:35Speaker 1: you ask with wrong motives that you may spend what
- 5:38Speaker 1: you get on your pleasures. Now I want you to
- 5:40Speaker 1: pause on that for a moment, because if we are
- 5:43Speaker 1: being completely honest, most of us have been praying kingdom
- 5:47Speaker 1: sounding prayers with consumer level motives. We say the right
- 5:51Speaker 1: things God, I want to be a blessing Lord, I
- 5:56Speaker 1: want to give more and do more for your kingdom.
- 5:59Speaker 1: And we might even mean it at the surface level,
- 6:01Speaker 1: but if we go deeper, if we get really quiet
- 6:04Speaker 1: and really honest, the real prayer often sounds more like God,
- 6:09Speaker 1: I want to feel secure. I want to stop feeling behind.
- 6:13Speaker 1: I want to prove to everyone who doubted me that
- 6:15Speaker 1: I made it. I want to stop being stressed every
- 6:18Speaker 1: time I open my bank app. And again, those desires
- 6:22Speaker 1: are not evil, they are deeply human, but they are
- 6:25Speaker 1: not the engine that releases Kingdom level financial breakthrough. Here
- 6:30Speaker 1: is what you need to understand about how money moves
- 6:32Speaker 1: in the Kingdom economy. Money does not flow randomly. It
- 6:37Speaker 1: flows toward purpose. It flows to where it can best
- 6:40Speaker 1: serve what God is doing on the earth. Think about
- 6:43Speaker 1: it from an investor's perspective. If you had one hundred
- 6:46Speaker 1: thousand dollars to place, and two people came to you,
- 6:50Speaker 1: which one would you fund? Person one says, I want
- 6:54Speaker 1: this money so I can finally live well, travel and
- 6:57Speaker 1: stop worrying. Person two says, as I have a clear vision,
- 7:02Speaker 1: a proven track record of managing resources, and a plan
- 7:06Speaker 1: to multiply this and create real impact. God is the
- 7:10Speaker 1: most intentional investor in the universe. He is not randomly
- 7:14Speaker 1: distributing wealth based on who prays the loudest or fasts
- 7:19Speaker 1: the longest. He is looking for aligned vessels, people whose
- 7:23Speaker 1: desire for increase is genuinely connected to a purpose that
- 7:26Speaker 1: outlives them. So ask yourself the honest question. Am I
- 7:31Speaker 1: motivated by consumption or contribution? Consumption says I want more
- 7:36Speaker 1: so I can have more. Contribution says I want more
- 7:41Speaker 1: so I can do more, give more, build more, and
- 7:45Speaker 1: be a source for people around me. The shift from
- 7:48Speaker 1: one to the other does not happen through willpower. It
- 7:52Speaker 1: happens through surrender. It is a simple, vulnerable prayer, God,
- 7:57Speaker 1: change why I want this? Make my desires look more
- 8:01Speaker 1: like yours. That prayer, that honest, humble, motive checking prayer,
- 8:06Speaker 1: might be the single most powerful thing you pray this week,
- 8:10Speaker 1: because when the why is right, the when tends to
- 8:14Speaker 1: take care of itself. Luke, Chapter sixteen, Verse ten, Jesus
- 8:19Speaker 1: says whoever can be trusted with very little can also
- 8:23Speaker 1: be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very
- 8:26Speaker 1: little will also be dishonest with much. I want to
- 8:30Speaker 1: share something with you that I think a lot of
- 8:32Speaker 1: people can relate to. There is a story of a
- 8:35Speaker 1: woman I will call her Diane, who spent years believing
- 8:40Speaker 1: God for financial freedom. She prayed faithfully, she attended church consistently.
- 8:46Speaker 1: She even went to financial seminars and wrote down every note.
- 8:50Speaker 1: But month after month, nothing changed. Her income stayed flat,
- 8:55Speaker 1: her debt crept higher, and she kept asking God why
- 8:59Speaker 1: the breakthrough was not coming. One day, her pastor asked
- 9:03Speaker 1: her a simple question. He said, Diane, tell me, what
- 9:07Speaker 1: does your Tuesday look like she was confused. He said,
- 9:11Speaker 1: not Sunday, not when you are fasting, just a regular Tuesday.
- 9:16Speaker 1: What happens to the money that comes in that week?
- 9:19Speaker 1: She sat there quietly for a long time, and then
- 9:22Speaker 1: she said, honestly, it just sort of disappears. I am
- 9:27Speaker 1: not really sure where it goes. That was her answer
- 9:31Speaker 1: right there. The breakthrough was not being blocked by God.
- 9:34Speaker 1: It was being blocked by the gap between what she
- 9:37Speaker 1: was praying for and how she was living on an
- 9:40Speaker 1: ordinary Tuesday. That story is so many of us. We
- 9:44Speaker 1: are asking God for one hundred thousand dollars while we
- 9:47Speaker 1: cannot tell you where last tuesday's paycheck went. We are
- 9:51Speaker 1: believing for a business empire while we are chronically late
- 9:54Speaker 1: for the nine to five job we already have. We
- 9:57Speaker 1: are declaring financial freedom while spending it impulsively, avoiding the
- 10:01Speaker 1: budget conversation, and carrying debt that discipline choices could have prevented.
- 10:06Speaker 1: And here is what the parable of the talents in
- 10:08Speaker 1: Matthew chapter twenty five makes crystal clear. God does not
- 10:13Speaker 1: overlook how you treat the little, He evaluates it. The
- 10:17Speaker 1: Master in that parable did not promote the servants who
- 10:20Speaker 1: asked for more, He promoted the ones who proved faithful
- 10:23Speaker 1: with what they already had. The servant who buried his talent.
- 10:27Speaker 1: He did not gamble it away, he did not steal it.
- 10:30Speaker 1: He just did nothing with it. And even that was
- 10:33Speaker 1: enough to cost him everything. So let me ask you
- 10:36Speaker 1: some practical questions right now. Do you have any kind
- 10:40Speaker 1: of budget, not a perfect spreadsheet, just some intentional structure
- 10:44Speaker 1: around where your money goes. Are you tithing consistently even
- 10:49Speaker 1: when it is uncomfortable. Are you building any form of savings,
- 10:53Speaker 1: even if it is only twenty dollars a week? Are
- 10:55Speaker 1: you investing in your skills, your education, your earning potent.
- 11:00Speaker 1: These are not checkboxes to earn God's blessing. They are
- 11:04Speaker 1: signals that you take the little seriously. And when you
- 11:07Speaker 1: take the little seriously, you are telling Heaven I am
- 11:11Speaker 1: ready to be trusted with more. The little test is
- 11:15Speaker 1: not designed to eliminate you. It is designed to develop you.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Every act of financial discipline is a seed. Every moment
- 11:24Speaker 1: you choose the budget over the impulse, every time you
- 11:28Speaker 1: give when it costs you something, you are passing the test.
- 11:31Speaker 1: You are growing, You are becoming that right there is
- 11:35Speaker 1: the key. Stay with me for one more section, because
- 11:39Speaker 1: this is where everything comes together. We have arrived at
- 11:42Speaker 1: the heart of this entire message, and this, this is
- 11:46Speaker 1: the missing key that changes everything. The reason so many
- 11:51Speaker 1: sincere faithful, genuinely god loving people stay stuck in a
- 11:57Speaker 1: cycle of asking, waiting, being dis disappointed, and asking again
- 12:02Speaker 1: is because they have been treating financial breakthrough like it
- 12:06Speaker 1: is something to be chased, begged for, declared into existence
- 12:11Speaker 1: through enough repetition. But breakthrough is not something you chase.
- 12:16Speaker 1: It is something you attract, and the mechanism for attraction
- 12:21Speaker 1: is alignment. Let me show you what I mean with
- 12:23Speaker 1: a natural world example that everyone understands. When a farmer
- 12:27Speaker 1: plants a seed, he does not stand over the ground
- 12:30Speaker 1: screaming grow, I command you to grow. I declare this
- 12:35Speaker 1: seed into a harvest. He plants it in prepared soil,
- 12:39Speaker 1: He waters it consistently, he gives it light, he protects
- 12:43Speaker 1: it from what would kill it. And then, because natural
- 12:47Speaker 1: law is reliable, the harvest comes not because the farmer
- 12:52Speaker 1: performed some miracle, but because the farmer aligned his actions
- 12:56Speaker 1: with the principles that govern growth kingdom. Financial break through
- 13:00Speaker 1: works the same way when your character is aligned with integrity.
- 13:05Speaker 1: When you are honest in your dealings, excellent in your work,
- 13:09Speaker 1: and trustworthy with other people's resources, you are planting in
- 13:13Speaker 1: good soil. When your motives are aligned with contribution and purpose.
- 13:17Speaker 1: When your hunger for increase is genuinely connected to something
- 13:21Speaker 1: larger than your own comfort, you are watering the seed.
- 13:24Speaker 1: When your daily actions are aligned with wisdom. When you
- 13:27Speaker 1: are learning, budgeting faithfully, giving consistently, and growing your capacity,
- 13:33Speaker 1: you are giving the seed sunlight. And when all three
- 13:36Speaker 1: of those operate together, character, motive, and action, the harvest
- 13:42Speaker 1: does not require desperation. It requires patience because it is coming.
- 13:48Speaker 1: It is literally coming by design. The problem is that
- 13:51Speaker 1: most of us are trying to fast track to the
- 13:53Speaker 1: harvest while skipping the work in the soil. We want
- 13:56Speaker 1: the breakthrough without the build up. We want the tech
- 14:00Speaker 1: testimony without the test We want to carry the million
- 14:03Speaker 1: before we have proven faithful with the thousand and Here
- 14:07Speaker 1: is what I want you to hold on to. God
- 14:09Speaker 1: is not withholding your breakthrough because he is unmoved by
- 14:13Speaker 1: your prayer. He is a good good father. A good
- 14:17Speaker 1: father does not hand over what his child is not
- 14:19Speaker 1: yet equipped to steward, not to be cruel, but because
- 14:22Speaker 1: he is thinking further ahead than the child can see
- 14:25Speaker 1: right now. The delay is the development, The waiting is
- 14:29Speaker 1: the training. The season of not yet is the season
- 14:32Speaker 1: of becoming. So instead of asking God, why have you
- 14:36Speaker 1: not opened the door? I want to challenge you to
- 14:39Speaker 1: start asking a completely different question. Ask God, am I
- 14:45Speaker 1: actually ready to walk through that door? And if not,
- 14:49Speaker 1: what needs to change in me? First? That shift in
- 14:52Speaker 1: question changes everything because it moves you from a posture
- 14:55Speaker 1: of demanding to a posture of partnering. And God moves
- 15:00Speaker 1: powerfully when you partner with him in the process of
- 15:02Speaker 1: your own preparation. Here are three practical shifts you can
- 15:06Speaker 1: start making this week. The first shift is from consuming
- 15:10Speaker 1: to creating. Stop organizing your financial life around what money
- 15:14Speaker 1: can do for you and start developing a vision for
- 15:17Speaker 1: what you can do with it. Sit down and write
- 15:20Speaker 1: out what generosity looks like at the next level of
- 15:23Speaker 1: your income. Write out who you want to help, what
- 15:27Speaker 1: you want to build, what kingdom purpose your resources could serve.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Let that vision become the north star that pulls you forward.
- 15:35Speaker 1: The second shift is from reacting to building. Most financial
- 15:40Speaker 1: stress is not caused by too little income. It is
- 15:43Speaker 1: caused by too little intentionality. Set up a budget this week,
- 15:48Speaker 1: even a simple one. Automate your tithe so it is
- 15:51Speaker 1: not a monthly battle. Open a savings account even if
- 15:54Speaker 1: you can only put ten dollars in it this week.
- 15:57Speaker 1: The amount does not matter, yet the discipline does. You
- 16:01Speaker 1: are training yourself, and training always starts small before it scales.
- 16:06Speaker 1: The third shift is from asking for the breakthrough to
- 16:09Speaker 1: asking for the preparation. Change your prayer this week instead
- 16:13Speaker 1: of God, give me the money, pray this, God, make
- 16:18Speaker 1: me the person you can trust with it. Develop my character,
- 16:22Speaker 1: expand my capacity, align my heart with your purpose, and
- 16:26Speaker 1: when I am ready, let it come. That is the
- 16:29Speaker 1: prayer that moves heaven. I want to close with this thought,
- 16:33Speaker 1: and I want you to take it with you today.
- 16:35Speaker 1: God's delay is not God's denial. His silence in one
- 16:40Speaker 1: season is not his absence in all seasons. He is
- 16:43Speaker 1: not slow in the way we tend to think of slow.
- 16:46Speaker 1: He is thorough. He is intentional, and He is doing
- 16:50Speaker 1: more work in you during the waiting than you will
- 16:52Speaker 1: ever fully understand until you are on the other side
- 16:55Speaker 1: of it. The breakthrough is coming, but it is going
- 16:58Speaker 1: to mean so much more last so much longer and
- 17:02Speaker 1: do so much more good because you were prepared to
- 17:06Speaker 1: receive it, carry it, and multiply it in a way
- 17:09Speaker 1: that blesses not just you, but everyone your life touches.
- 17:13Speaker 1: You are not forgotten, you are not behind, You are
- 17:17Speaker 1: not being punished. You are being prepared for something that
- 17:20Speaker 1: your current container could not yet hold without spilling. And
- 17:23Speaker 1: God loves you too much to waste what he is
- 17:26Speaker 1: about to pour. Let me pray over you before you go, Father,
- 17:31Speaker 1: I stand in agreement for every person watching this right now.
- 17:34Speaker 1: You know their name, you know their story, You know
- 17:38Speaker 1: every prayer they have prayed, and every night they cried
- 17:41Speaker 1: out to you in that quiet room. Lord, meet them
- 17:44Speaker 1: right now with truth that transforms, not just truth that comforts.
- 17:49Speaker 1: Develop their character in the places where it is still
- 17:52Speaker 1: being formed. Purify the motives that are still tangled up
- 17:55Speaker 1: in fear and ego. Expand their capacity to carry what
- 17:59Speaker 1: you are building up to. Release and God, when they
- 18:02Speaker 1: have been prepared, when the container is ready, let the
- 18:05Speaker 1: breakthrough come like a flood, not just enough to survive,
- 18:09Speaker 1: but enough to overflow into every life they touch. We
- 18:13Speaker 1: trust your timing, God, We trust your process, and above all,
- 18:18Speaker 1: we trust your love in Jesus's name. Amen. Now here
- 18:23Speaker 1: is what I want you to do right now, and
- 18:25Speaker 1: be honest when you answer this. Which of the four
- 18:29Speaker 1: reasons we talked about today hits closest to home for you?
- 18:33Speaker 1: Number one the container problem. You know your character and
- 18:36Speaker 1: capacity need to grow before you can handle more. Number
- 18:40Speaker 1: two motive misalignment. You need to honestly examine and realign
- 18:45Speaker 1: why you actually want the breakthrough. Number three the little test.
- 18:49Speaker 1: You need to start being more faithful and intentional with
- 18:52Speaker 1: what you already have. Number four the alignment key. You
- 18:57Speaker 1: need to stop chasing the breakthrough and start building the
- 19:01Speaker 1: conditions that attract it. Drop your number in the comments
- 19:04Speaker 1: below right now. Be real with yourself and with this community.
- 19:09Speaker 1: You might just encourage someone else who is in the
- 19:12Speaker 1: exact same place. And if you are ready to say
- 19:15Speaker 1: to God, I am done waiting passively, I want you
- 19:19Speaker 1: to prepare me, develop me, and align me for everything
- 19:23Speaker 1: you have planned. Type the words prepare me in the
- 19:26Speaker 1: comments right now. Every time I see that phrase in
- 19:29Speaker 1: the comments, I pray over those names personally. So type
- 19:34Speaker 1: it if you mean it. If this video helped you today,
- 19:38Speaker 1: do not let it stop here, share it with someone
- 19:41Speaker 1: who is in the waiting room right now, someone who
- 19:44Speaker 1: is frustrated, doubting, and close to giving up. Your one
- 19:48Speaker 1: share could be the thing that shifts their entire perspective.
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- 19:58Speaker 1: We are here every week, going deep into the Word,
- 20:01Speaker 1: not to make you feel good for a few minutes,
- 20:04Speaker 1: but to build something lasting in you. Remember this as
- 20:07Speaker 1: you go. The door is not closed against you. You
- 20:10Speaker 1: are simply being made into the person who is ready
- 20:13Speaker 1: to walk through it. And the God who began this
- 20:16Speaker 1: work in you, he is absolutely faithful to finish it.
- 20:20Speaker 1: I will see you