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You Are Anointed to Make Wealth (Do You Believe It?) · Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast | Faith-Led Strategies for Christian Entrepreneurs

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  SPEAKER_00: This is the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast, where faith finally meets real strategy to launch your online business.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Thursday, which means that this is a Kingdom Builder edition.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I got to ask you the question: Are you building something big, bold, and beautiful with God?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you building something with him?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to ask you that question because today we're going to be talking about a very touchy topic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you've got to know who you are and what you've been called to do in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just wanted to get us aligned as we step into this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you've never met me before, if this is the first time that you're ever seeing me in your feed, hi, I'm Erica Pyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the co-lead pastor of a local church here in Tampa, Florida called Revive Church of Tampa.
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  SPEAKER_00: I lead that church alongside my husband, have done for the last 15 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we are so blessed to serve in the city of Tampa, Florida.
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  SPEAKER_00: I absolutely love, love, love this city.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wasn't born here, but I moved here with my family when I was like six or seven years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have lived here in Tampa on and off for most of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is just such, it's such an honor to introduce Jesus and to remind people of Jesus here in the city of Tampa.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we host, obviously, his presence on Sundays at church, um, in our church, and um preach the word of God and we pray and we fellowship.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is such an incredible time to be in the house of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't, I don't know if you realize that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's just take a moment and think about what a blessing it is to be in the house of God, to be a part of the body of Christ at this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's so much swirling around in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's just a peace that comes on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's just a peace that comes on you when you know, when you know that you are a part of the much-loved family of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I got to ask you this morning: have you made that decision?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you absolutely made that decision that says, I am a much loved child of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe on Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm connected to the Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm filled with the Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is this is this is like 101.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we can talk about the strategies and the principles that are found in God's word all day long.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we can try to pattern our life after them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you don't have the power of his spirit on the inside of you, it is striving.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is, it is, it is just futile.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you will never be able to experience the fullness of what he has for your life if you are not absolutely filled with his power and his presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that happens when we believe on the name of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: That happens when we receive Jesus as our Lord and our Savior, and he lives on the inside of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The minute that that occurs, the minute that that occurs, we become a reconciled part of the family of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are connected, we're connected to the Father, and He fills us with His Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, what I'm about to talk to you about today, it all comes down to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let me ask you this question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you believe that God gives you the power to make wealth?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you believe that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you believe that God gives you the power to make wealth?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a very important question.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way that I'm asking it, it's vital.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because your yes or your no determines whether you're aligning with the word of God or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, because there is a whole faction in the world who would like for you to believe that for you to make wealth means that you're greedy, it means that you're less than holy, it means that you possibly are standing outside your role as a wife and as a woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's an absolute lie.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible tells us, God says in Deuteronomy chapter 8, he says, Listen, I give you the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I give you the power to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that, so that, what's the so that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at Deuteronomy 8.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, I give you, for it is he, God, who gives you power to get wealth, which means to make, to get, to do wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that even mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that God has given you the ability to make wealth so that you will be a beacon, a signal fire set on a hill, a light shining brightly in the earth to prove to the world that you are his and he is that good.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is why he gives you the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I tell you something?
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  SPEAKER_00: God does not give human beings the ability to make wealth so that we can provide for ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: God provides for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he gives you the ability to be ridiculously wealthy as a proof, as a sign to the world, when we are attached to the Most High God, we can't help but be prosperous.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't help but be wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't help but walk in power.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the point of wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when we boil down this conversation around making money, around making wealth, to, oh, you're just greedy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're you're you're just you know, you just you're just afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: You you you are just trying to control things.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're just trying to have power.
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  SPEAKER_00: That could be a conversation in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not gonna argue with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when we're talking about being goggly women who walk in the earth as a representative, as an ambassador for the kingdom and for Jesus, understand that this is one of the empowerments that he places on the inside of us so that we will be a good steward, so that we will be a good beacon, so that we will be a good representation, actually, a trophy of his grace in the earth, so that others might say, huh, I want that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know that God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when we walk around as people who are embracing lack and poverty, that ain't got that ain't my father's name.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not your father's name in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that is not our God's name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our God's name is not lack, it's not striving, it's not poverty, it's not that that is not humility.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not humility.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need you to understand that our God, He owns the cattle on a thousand hills, He makes something out of nothing all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: He lacks for nothing, He lacks for nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we've got to get our heads wrapped around, sister, that we are called, called, assigned.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are made, we are designed to make wealth in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he wants you to be a representative of what the head, what heaven is capable of doing when it touches the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants you to be a massive billboard for possibility, for potential of what can happen when people connect to the real God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you willing to do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or are you gonna let, are you gonna let the world, are you gonna let the enemy continue to lie to you and tell you that when you want to make wealth, it's because you're greedy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's because you're afraid and and you're controlling and and you gotta, you gotta be the one to make the money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I tell you something?
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  SPEAKER_00: Your ability to make wealth that was given to you by God has no power to invalidate your husband's role as provider.
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  SPEAKER_00: I cannot tell you how many times I have to have this conversation with people because it's like, oh no, my husband should be the provider.
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  SPEAKER_00: So therefore, I gotta be the trad wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: I gotta be the woman who only takes care of the kids and takes care of the household.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't make money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you believe that the the reason why God gave you the ability to make wealth is to provide for oneself, then I can see how that could mess you up.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's not why God gave you the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gave you the ability to make wealth so that you'd be a trophy of his grace in the earth, so that others might see and and bless his name and know who he is, and know that you are in covenant with him and what it looks like to be in the covenant family of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is why he gave the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I asked you in the beginning: do you believe that God gives you the ability to make wealth, to be massively wealthy, to make millions?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Deuteronomy 8:17 to 18 tells us that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, but Erica, the man is called to be the provider.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: God made him that way and he equips him that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's not why he gave him the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wealth is not provision.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it's like, what?
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, wealth is not provision.
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  SPEAKER_00: Provision is its own thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God said the way that I do that is that I make the man able to work and provide for his family.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's even God's provision through that process, through that design.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're like, okay, well, I'm a woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the point?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the point?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, first of all, I've got to encourage you and remind you that the word of God tells us that women have the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have the ability to make wealth and they should make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, well, are you just taking that out of Deuteronomy 8, 18 and telling me that because I am in the family of God, that that just makes it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm reading my Bible and it says that the husband, the man, is the one who works and provides, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we just established provision and wealth are not the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So where is it in the Bible that God shows us that a woman can make wealth?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I've got an Old Testament and a New Testament scripture for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the Old Testament, we've got Proverbs 31, verses 10 to 31.
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  SPEAKER_00: We hear about the Proverbs 31 woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: This woman's a godly, godly daughter, she's a godly wife, she's a godly mother, she's a godly sister friend, she's also a godly entrepreneur.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: But let's step back for a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is this woman married to?
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  SPEAKER_00: She's considered to be an everywoman.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's most most historians and and biblical theologians, they say she's not an actual woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's more of like an everywoman, a representative woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Proverbs 31 opens up and it speaks about King Lemuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she is the wife of a king.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we were worried about provision, would the wife of a king be trying to make it out there making money?
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  SPEAKER_00: A king is very wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: A king owns everything in the commonwealth, everything in the kingdom, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: He rules and he reigns, and all of it is his.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if I'm the wife of a king, why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why would God have me out here in these entrepreneurial streets making wealth?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's what the Proverbs 31 woman was doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was taking the excess of her household where she had produced in her household and she'd taken care of her family, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then she's like, Oh, I have extra.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna take it in the marketplace.
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  SPEAKER_00: She also went and considered a field on her own and bought it and made it produce.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why is a king's wife out in those streets making wealth?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because God wants to show the world that even women are in covenant with the Most High God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can't help it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sister, when you understand how connected you are to the king of kings, you will not be able to help but make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need you to understand this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wealth is such a different concept than trying to make doll-dala bills, trying to provide, trying to scrape by.
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  SPEAKER_00: Making wealth is an ability that God has given you so that you will be a trophy of his grace and a beacon of him in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: What about the New Testament?
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  SPEAKER_00: We've talked about it before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luke 8, 80.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luke 8, 80 says that as Jesus was walking to the next town in ministry, he was accompanied by his disciples and by certain women.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these women, the Bible says in Luke 8, verse 3, they provided for Jesus and his ministry out of their substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Substance in the Old Testament is the same word for wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now we're in the New Testament and we're saying substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is something that God put on the inside of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've got to start to think in your mind, because this is where it all begins, friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of times we will not step out and make wealth in our businesses because we think that something's wrong with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing as a follower of Jesus, as a spirit-filled believer, you walk by faith and not by sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you walk by sight, you take yourself out of position.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can we just stop there for a second?
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  SPEAKER_00: When you insist on walking by sight, you will take yourself out of position.
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  SPEAKER_00: And position is very important if you want God to provide for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God provides at a point.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you do a study through the Bible of where God provides, you're gonna see that God is always expressing and explaining where He is, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: There was the ram in the thicket on top of the mountain when Abraham needed a sacrifice, when God said, Don't kill your son.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, And then there was a ram in a thicket nearby, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: When Joshua, when um Jacob is going to his uncle Laban's house and he's kind of on the run, and he lays his head down on a rock and he has a dream of Jacob's ladder.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a certain place.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible says he was at a certain place, and there is a provision that occurs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Provision always occurs at a certain place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because God wants you to understand that there is a connection point that you need him for any type of provision, for any type of release, for any type of anything that God gives.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a certain place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you and I have to understand that when we walk by sight and not by faith, we take ourselves out of position.
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  SPEAKER_00: But every time you walk by faith, you stay in position.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that cool?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we've always got to challenge ourselves that if we're feeling like something isn't coming through, if we're not getting, if we're not receiving, if we're not connecting, it's like, oh, I'm I'm out of faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not in the right position.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when we insist on walking by sight and not by faith, we put ourselves in the realm of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were, we, we limit ourselves to these three dimensions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith is the fourth dimension.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we need to start to understand that if we want to operate at a level that's higher than what we can see with our natural eyes, we have to go to our spiritual eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we have to believe in faith what God has said.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God said He gives you the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you need to settle that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I understand that your human heart may have some limitations there if we don't deal with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's deal with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when we walk by faith and not by sight, the question has to become do you believe that it is a good thing to make wealth?
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  SPEAKER_00: See, because we can cerebrally believe God said that He's given me the ability to make wealth, but something can be blocking between what you know in your mind, what you know in up here, and what you know in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you know in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we know, Proverbs tells us that all the issues of life flow out of the heart, not out of the head, out of the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it becomes vital to know in the heart the truth of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you don't know in your heart that he gives you the ability to make wealth because he wants you to be a trophy of his grace in the earth, he wants you to be an ambassador and a picture, a beacon in the earth of his provision, of his wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if we don't believe that, then we're gonna have a problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: And listen, I hear right now, you can't hear it, but I can hear it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're we live next to a construction site, and there are blaring of horns.
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  SPEAKER_00: I gotta tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: The enemy does not want you to know this.
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  SPEAKER_00: The enemy does not want you to know that you have been made for, designed for, equipped for, anointed for the ability to make wealth because God wants you to be a trophy in the earth for his name, for his power, for what's possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, no, I had such a terrible background in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like, no, God wouldn't use me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he would.
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  SPEAKER_00: He would use you all the more.
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  SPEAKER_00: He loves to use things that confound, confound the minds of the wicked and and and of the foolish.
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  SPEAKER_00: He loves it to confound, to confound, to confound, to confound.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you are a trophy in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And people look at you and go, is that possible?
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  SPEAKER_00: How's that possible?
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew her when she was a kid.
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew her when she was coming up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know what a mess she was.
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  SPEAKER_00: She she was she was dyslexic.
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  SPEAKER_00: She couldn't even do math.
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  SPEAKER_00: She couldn't even get a good score at her SAT.
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  SPEAKER_00: She she like she failed out of classes.
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  SPEAKER_00: She couldn't keep a job.
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  SPEAKER_00: She like she was a mess.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now, and now you're making millions?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: The power of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how God likes to do it because he doesn't want anybody to be able to look and go, yeah, that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants them to be like, how are they doing that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because then the only answer is God.
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  SPEAKER_00: God gave me the opportunities, God gave me the connections, God gave me the skills, he gave me the anointing, he gave me the resources, he gave me everything that was necessary to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't have done this by myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we've got to walk by faith and not by sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that requires us to say in our spirit, I believe that God has given me the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you say that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because a lot of times there's three reasons primarily why we say, No, I can't say that, or I'm having a hard time saying it in faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I share these with you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, we've been taught to believe that it's greedy to want to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing: Abraham, God told Abraham, I have blessed you to be a blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have blessed you to be a blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So while the world is trying to say to you, no, you're greedy if you want to make wealth, you've got to turn around and speak the word of the Lord back to that accusation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you need to say, No, he's blessed me to be a blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more blessed that I am, the more that I have to pour out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm blessed to be a blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's another one?
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  SPEAKER_00: Another one is I'm less than holy if I want to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I want to make wealth, which is what God said that He does in you, if I want that, it makes me less holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It makes me icky.
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  SPEAKER_00: It makes me something not good.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one, it gets anchored by the fact that people teach over and over and over again that Jesus was poor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I rock your mind today?
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I just totally blow your mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus was ridiculously wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I I've read Isaiah 53.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: I understand that he was the suffering servant.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: I understand that he was poor in spirit.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Poor in spirit.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: But that man was rich in wealth.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: He was rich.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: That man was rich.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Can I prove it to you?
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: You've read the Christmas story, yeah?
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever read the Christmas story?
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: And it goes on and it talks about the kings who come from the Far East because they want to worship the newborn king.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Kings who come to visit another king, they don't come empty-handed.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: There's a whole political situation that's going on there.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: They're coming and giving a king's gift to a king, not because not just because they want to worship him, but because they want to prove to that newborn king and to that dynasty, to that big emaly, that they are powerful and not to mess with them.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: So you've got three kings who come from the east offering gifts of frankincense, gold, and myrrh.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: And if you think that those gifts were like the little gifts that you see in the preschool pageant, if you think that what they came bringing, each king came bringing some little box of frankincense and of gold and of myrrh, you don't you ain't got it straight.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: You don't you don't understand the history and the contextual richness of what's going on here.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: There are three kings from the east, very rich kings, who come to worship Jesus, to meet Jesus, but also to bring a message that says, we are kings who are very wealthy in our own right over here.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: We're establishing the political climate of the environment.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: These kings brought camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel, caravans of frankincense, gold, and myrrh.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: How rich do you think that Jesus was at days old?
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: How rich do you think Jesus was?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: How much wealth do you think that the Father in heaven gave his son so that he might be able to be a beacon of blessing in the earth as he did his work?
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: And we've been lied to and told that Jesus was poor.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's wild.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to be more like Jesus, you have to understand that the Father in heaven wants to radically bless you with every good thing so that you might be able to walk in fullness in doing your purpose and your assignment in this earth.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: And part of that is to be known as a ridiculously wealthy child of God.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: Because you gotta confound the minds of the wise.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, come on.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: So it doesn't make you unholy to walk in wealth, it doesn't make you unholy to steward wealth, it makes you like Jesus.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: Makes you like Jesus.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: There are some historians who believe the amount of wealth that funded his entire family, it funded his entire mission.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, come on.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: And what's the last one?
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: What's the other reason why we will we have a hard time believing that it's a good thing for me to be able to make wealth and that God gives me the ability to make wealth?
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: Because some of us believe that women can't.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Some of us believe that women can't.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I already established that with you through Proverbs 31 and through Luke 8, verses 1 to 3.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: You are not taking over your husband's job of being a provider to the family if you make wealth.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: You are not being unwomanly or ungraceful if you make wealth.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Because God says, I give you the ability to make wealth.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: And in fact, I would argue that it makes you more beautiful because you are more in alignment with how he made you.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: So you making wealth through your business, if that's the way that God has called you, he says, I want to give you the ability to make wealth in your business entrepreneurially, then you step all the way into that sister and you be everything that he called you to be, because that is how he wants to make you a trophy of his grace.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: This is not about you being less holy.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's not about you being greedy, it's not about you trying to take over your husband's position.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's about you being the fullness of who he made you to be.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: But it starts with belief.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: So the question to you this morning is can you say in faith, I am called to make wealth.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Drop it in the comments if you are.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: If you can say it, I want to see it in the comments.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: I have the ability, I have been blessed with the ability to make wealth.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: God has given me the ability to make wealth.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: I am called to make wealth.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: And I receive that fully in Jesus' mighty name.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: Drop it in the comments.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: I want to see that you're you're grabbing a hold of it.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to sit with that as we step out today.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Because if you've been called to build and launch a business and scale a business in these internet streets, if that's what God has called you to do, listen, sister, you are not waiting for the offer to pop.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: You're not waiting for your audience to gather, you're not waiting for your 15 moments, 15 seconds of fame, you're not waiting for your influencer moment to be able to make wealth.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: God has already made you with the ability to make wealth.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're waiting on one of those things, if you're waiting on a strategy, if you're waiting on a moment, if you're waiting on something outside of you to happen, I'm telling you, you're looking in the wrong place.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: It starts, it starts with the belief and the declaration that says, God has given me the ability to make wealth.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then to ask him the question, God, how do you want to do that today?
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: What's the step today?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: And it may not be linear.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: Understand that what God tells you to do today may not seem like a linear progression to making wealth.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to give.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: You may be like, that doesn't make any sense.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's not making wealth.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well, maybe not to you and me, but to the God of heaven and earth.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: Although he has some very peculiar ways of walking out his word and his promises in you, you gotta trust him.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta trust him.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: And so one of the activities or one of the like actions that I want you to take today is I want you to consider in your mind what are the thoughts that I've been running through my mind over and over that are causing me to have a hard time to believe that God has given me the ability to make wealth.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: Because those are lies.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: Those are lies.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so what I want you to do is I want you to do a thoughts exchange.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we've talked about this a lot here, but 2 Corinthians 10, 5 tells you to take every thought captive, right?
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: Take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: Every thought.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: So if there are thoughts running through your mind that are convincing you that you do not have the ability, you've not been given the ability to make wealth, that you can't make wealth, that it's not right to make wealth.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to capture those thoughts.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: 2 Corinthians 10, 5, then.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to tell you, go to ericapile.com slash toolkit, ericapile.com slash toolkit, get the toolkit, because inside of that toolkit is the thoughts exchange worksheet.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: And this is a worksheet that will help you to capture the lie, capture the fear, put it down on the paper.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: And then the next step is what's the truth?
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: And you need to put Deuteronomy 8, verses 17 and 18 right there on that paper.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: God gives me the ability to make wealth because he wants to prove that I'm in covenant with him.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: He wants to prove that I'm his kid.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: Make the exchange.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: God is a God of exchange, Isaiah 61.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so I want you to do that.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to do the work because that is the work.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: The work is to get back into faith.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's to get back into faith and believe that God has made you able to make wealth.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: Amen?
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: All right, I love you so much.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'll talk to you soon.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: Bye for now.