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The Spirit of Scarcity | Ps Graeme Politanski · Citipointe Church Caboolture

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Lot of water in this and one little thing blocking the flow
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and this just came to me before. That little thing is often this
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little thing and God wants to do something amazing, but because
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of our stinking, thinking, wrong doctrines with theology, we are
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blocking the flow of God. And this month, faith, love,
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hope You've seen the theme with what passes Rages did with our
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tithes and offerings. We're going to break this open.
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We're going to reform, get some transformation because because
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this starts to move. You know what's about to happen
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as we shift. It starts with the drop, then
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financial blessing, and then the sound guy just gets a bit upset.
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It's OK, we'll pass the right and we'll fix that during the
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week. But here's the reality.
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Church is I just use it. You know, water we often refer
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to as Holy Spirit. OK, but we're talking about
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money. Can you see it?
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See, because God wants to do things on the planet and the
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Spirit moves in all power and authority.
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But that comes through you and I, and I'll prove this in a
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moment through the Scriptures. It's found in the very first
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book, first chapter of our Bible.
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And so God created man and women and he said have dominion over
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everything. And you might go, yeah, but
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that's not talking about money. Well, it was actually because it
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started with animals, trade currency.
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And so he said we as the church as his children are that have
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dominion over all things of the earth.
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Why? Because when we have dominion
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get here, this when we have dominion, the will of God is
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outworked through his creation, you and I.
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And so although the the bottle is the contains the water of the
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Holy Spirit, I'm not saying we are the Holy Spirit.
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But what I'm saying is God's will is to work through you and
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I, and you've heard this saying before, if he can get it through
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you, he will get it to you. Often we will live in poverty
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and scarcity because God can't get anything through us because
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of the lid on the bottle. And today, in this month, we are
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going to change the way we look at money and no longer cower at
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these messages once a year when we to come around faith, love,
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home. But this is going to be the best
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season of the church every year because we have dominion over
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these things. We learn the power to use these
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things to see God's will outworked on planet Earth.
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Let me tell you, it starts with a miracle service flyer that we
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have to pay for the ink in our printer because I don't get them
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professionally printed. I do it myself.
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It's to save money. But we we will get to a point
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where it's not just paying the bills, but it's paying for the
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whole mission of what we do in society.
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She rescue home doesn't pay for itself in Cambodia, every
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project doesn't pay for itself. It's coming out of the church.
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Everything we do, We got hundreds here at youth every
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Friday night. It's it doesn't pay for itself.
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But we are transforming the world around us.
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And we're at a point at the as a church, we can't do it any
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longer with the limited finances we have.
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We have to get into alignment with the word of God that says
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the shirts should be tithing and when we all tithe 10%, if you
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work, you should be tithing because it's not.
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It's not even about obedience. It's not about, it's not about
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law, Old Testament, New Testament, it's all about
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worship. And this is what we get to is
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when we realise, like we saw in the video today, that we're just
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giving back to God. Why do we give back our tithe?
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Because if he can get it through us, he will get it to us.
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Does this that make sense? And listen, if he can get it
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through you, then you get to live in the blessing.
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That's called overflow, Amen. And so if you can get it through
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my life, I get to live in that blessing as well.
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Isn't that amazing? And so this is what this month
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is about S church. Can we declare out loud today?
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My heart is open, my ears are alert.
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I'm going to change and grow and never be the same in Jesus
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mighty name, Amen. Please be seated.
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I had to keep some in there. Today's message I want to talk
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about the spirit of scarcity and we're going to look at breaking
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the scarcity spirit now it's good.
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Often when we think of this, we can all kind of come around it
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when we think, you know, breaking this spirit over the
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community. But the reality is, is I want to
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break it over my own life. And so because I realise that as
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it is broken as scarcity and poverty and and this whole
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mindset and spiritual thing that allow around my world, as I
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stand in faith and break it, I show other people how to break
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it for their own lives. And as the blessing comes
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through my life, my prayer is, is that people would pick that
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up and see the same breakthrough happen in their own lives.
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But if we do this collectively as a church, imagine the
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effective it has on the community and imagine if every
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church is walking in this, which I'm sure we we all are, and
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we're all just breaking the spiritual, like, like hovering
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thing over our lives and over our churches.
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The church will just come out with all of this missional, you
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know, thing within us to see change and transformation, to be
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an answer to our world, not just be part of the world.
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The Bible says be in the world, but not part of the world.
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And so we need to lead society, not be led by society.
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Does that make sense? You can live in Caboolture, but
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we can change the way Caboolture has historically been all the
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way from Bribie all and listen to me all the way to Tigulwa.
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You just heard me right now. Just expanded the tent.
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So there's a, there's a book that we, as you know, the
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platform team are going through and all the leadership will
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start to go through shortly called God, Money and Me and
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it's Paul by Paul Dejong. And can I encourage you, if
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you're a note taker today or just grab your phone out, just
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quickly write that down. You can listen to this book on
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Audible. God Money and me, God, Money and
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Me by Paul Dejong. And this is a transformational
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book, audio audio book. Or you can order it.
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And it just completely unpacks the Bible and all of its stories
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and its financial verses and just breeds light on it so that
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we can understand, get our heads around it a little bit, but also
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bring ourselves back into alignment.
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Because the reality is as life goes on, as as life happens and
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the the church evolves through all different cultures and eras,
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the the reality is we always got to bring ourselves back into
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alignment with the word of God and not just run with culture.
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Does that make sense? And so this book will really
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help you do that. It's a great tool for this.
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I've got 2 scriptures that I want to start with today.
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Psalms 23 verse one, just one verse.
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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not once when we follow
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the shepherd, we no longer have wants in our lives.
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Philippians 419 And my God shall supply all my needs, all your
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needs according to his riches and his glory by Christ Jesus.
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God doesn't supply all your needs according to your riches.
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Thank you Jesus, thank you God. Listen, but you got to listen.
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You got to hear that God doesn't supply the needs you have in
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your life according to the income that your job provides.
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That's not what the Scripture is saying.
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And so today we're going to learn how to break this open by
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5 points. I'll have coming up in a moment.
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Today I want to talk about something that quietly effects
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many, many believers. And it's the spirit of scarcity.
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Not just lack of money, but a mindset of fear, anxiety, of
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striving and never feeling secure.
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Scarcity is often spiritual Before it's practical, it's
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spiritual. And then we listen to it, then
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we Stew on it. So now it's wobbling around in
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our brains. And as you Stew on these things,
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lack of money coming in this week, too many bills, look at
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society, look at what the government's doing.
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We're giving away all of our car companies.
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What's going on in Australia? Where's our oil, you know,
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factories. And we, we Stew on these things.
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And what happens is as you Stew, you start to see all the
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problems and you start to blame. And then it just comes down and
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becomes a heart issue. And So what happens spiritually
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in the world around culture? OK, we as the church listen to
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Channel 9 every night and we Stew on it, and then it comes
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down and starts to dictate and influence our doctrine and our
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core belief system. There are many people who earn
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enough but still feel trapped. They constantly worry,
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constantly compare, and constantly fear the future.
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They may have provision in their hand, but poverty in their
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hearts. The Holy Scripture teaches us
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that money is never just about money.
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And this is what we are getting to the bottom of over this, this
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month and next month. It exposes trust.
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It reveals belief systems and it uncovers where our security
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truly sits. And you might say, well, well,
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how does that re reveal my belief system?
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Well, when the bill comes in, do you say, oh man, we don't have
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the money for that just revealed your belief system.
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So if I go back to the other verse that I just read earlier,
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we aren't dictated to by the the paycheck, but we walk in his
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riches and his glory. And so we know what's dictating
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to us by our response to the situations around us and the
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things that come into our world. And on the kitchen table.
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Our response to that shows who who really rules this part of
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our life. The issue is not always what is
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your bank account? The deeper issue is often, what
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thoughts have I believed about provision?
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I'm not a prosperity preacher, but I believe the church should
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be walking in prosperity. Does that make sense?
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Lack thinking sounds like there's never enough.
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I'm always behind. Someone else gets blessed, but
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not me. I'll never get ahead.
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I have to protect myself because no one else will.
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That's not the language of sonship.
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It's the language of slavery. I'm getting like today, any sons
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in the house, women you can put your hands up to.
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That means you. We are sons and daughters of the
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supplier of all our needs according to His riches and
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glory. That's who my Father is.
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Amen. Let's look at five thoughts from
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Scripture and reframe our thinking and our belief systems
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today about how God wants us to approach our finances.
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When we talk in the church about money, about finances and about
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tithing, your spirit needs to leap with joy because what we
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are saying is, hey, church, we're going to craft how we're
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going to use these things in our life to bring glory to God, not
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to obtain bigger houses and more riches and and best cars and all
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of this. It's not to line our pockets,
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but it's to see more of earth go to heaven.
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It's to influence our world for good and for God #1 The shepherd
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breaks scarcity, David says in Psalms 23.
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One, the Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not once notice
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David connects provision to relationship.
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The Lord is my shepherd. Before David mentions provision,
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peace or protection, he identifies who is leading him,
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Who is leading him. He always runs back to the the
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Lord is my provider. The Lord is my protector.
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The Lord is my shield. I shall not once.
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When God is your shepherd, fear loses its authority and lack
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loses its authority over your life.
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Scarcity thrives wherever trust in God weakens.
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God never intended money to become a master or our source of
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identity. Money is a tool, but God is the
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source. That's good, isn't it?
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Money, Church is our tool. It's what we use to do things,
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to work on planet earth, to feed our our families, yes, but also
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to outwork the mission. But we have to remember
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businesses, just because you have money coming through, you
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aren't the source. God is the source of the
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blessing. The money coming through is the
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tools to outwork the mission of God.
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If you're in this place and you've got above the average
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income in your world, don't think that your own hands are
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making your wealth. You've got to remember who the
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source always is. And when we forget the source,
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the things our hands are making will start to weary and go dim
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in our lives. This is true in your life and in
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the church as well. Many believers say God is my
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provider, but emotionally they live as though everything
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depends entirely on themselves and on the bank balance.
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We do this, don't we? Like like we don't want to talk
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about money, but we leave every single day getting our phone
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out, checking the Commonwealth app or the the the NAB app Don't
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we do this at least once to twice, if not 30 times a day.
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You go to get a coffee. What comes out first, making
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sure money is in the right account.
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Everything we do on planet Earth, your rent, your fuel,
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which you need a lot of money in that account at the moment, your
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diesel, what everything you do, if you're having a birthday,
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someone's paying for that cake and you want extra money for the
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candles, right? It's a literally everything we
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do. We look so good here today
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because we all have haircuts, right?
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It costs money. Just everything we brushed our
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teeth. I've smelt your breath this
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morning. I said hi there, so many people,
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we all brushed our teeth. Toothpaste, money.
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Money is everything all the time in our world.
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We need to switch the tables and start to have dominion over it
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rather than it having dominion over us.
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It's telling us what our shopping is like too much.
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We need to start to tell it what we are going to shop like.
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Does that make sense it we need to tell it with the church
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should not struggle for miracle Flyers, but we should be going.
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We are getting professionally done miracle Flyers so that we
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can use our printer for the other things for youth on Friday
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night because they needed it as well.
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Our resources. We should never have a lack.
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Did you know I don't know if you've ever done that.
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I would love you to do this if you would do this.
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Go home and just say in this auditorium today there's
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probably, I don't know, 220 people and there's about 55
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kids. So if there's 220 people, you've
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got to think there's about 180 people in this auditorium right
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now who actually work, get the award wage on 180 people and do
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what the tithe is, right? And then if you look at that and
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then you get a small Church of 50 people, OK, And then you work
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out, probably 40 of those people would be working.
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So they would be tithing if we're following the principles
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of the scriptures. And then if you get a mega
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Church of 3000 people, OK, and maybe 2200 something like that
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are working, and then you work out their tithe according to the
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minimum wage. What you will realise is God's
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plan of the tithe works whether you're a fifty person church or
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whether you're a 10,000 person church with all their expenses
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and bills and everything in the mission that they're trying to
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do. Because 10,000 people churches
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do crazy things like build homes and schools in Cambodia, right?
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Well, 50 people churches do crazy things for their church
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like print out flies and get signs for services coming up and
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things like that to impact their community and do breakfasts and
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all that sort of stuff. The reality is, is the church
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tithed because only about 2.5% of the average church does
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tithe. If the church typed, which
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should be around 80% for workers, the church would have
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so much money right That no matter the size church bills
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would never be an issue. Staffing in proportion to sizing
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would never be an issue and we would be doing the the missional
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things that God places on the heart of the pastor because that
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works within the size and the next era of where the church
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which is currently at. That's just if the church tide
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that's not with offerings on top offerings is like faith, love,
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hope that we're coming around right now it's an offering
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season where we go. You know what God on all of our
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increase. We're going to give you more on
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an increase. Why Because my hands didn't
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bring the increase your blessing and favour brought my increase.
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Does this make sense? I would love you just around the
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table. Get your kids and get the
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calculators out and do these sumps and you will see where the
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church worldwide currently is AT and why the church should be
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having dominion over the earth. But right now, governments have
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dominion over the earth. But the church is where the
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money should be flowing out of where schools should be flowing
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out of where universities should be flowing.
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Does this make sense? This is God's plan.
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And so in the book of Genesis, when he he said a man have
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dominion over the earth, this is what he was talking about.
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But it requires our partnership with his plan and his model.
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Does this make sense? And so This is why this should
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be an exciting time of year for you and I.
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So how do we change? We change by changing who we
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trust. You overcome scarcity when you
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stop looking first to the economy.
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And I'm blown away. I'm blown away.
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We all know that Mel and I just sold their house.
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The market has shifted in the last probably 3 months according
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to fuel prices, what fuel has dictated to the market.
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But when you stop looking at the economy and keep looking at his
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economy. Now when I read his streets are
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made of gold, the Bible says he prepares a mansion for you and I
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all of us, we have a mansion. I can't wait to see what this
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all looks like in the end. But if he's got that level of,
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you know, he just walks on gold, you know, it's see through gold,
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by the way, if you read the Book of Revelation.
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So it's the purest of pure and there's gems that this is the
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world we're going to live in or the heavenly world in which
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Father God lives in. When we realise that why would
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we ever bring our economy level down to earths when we can walk
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in that? Does this make sense?
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But we've got to work finance out.
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We've got to work budgeting out for this to to happen.
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We overcome scarcity when we stop looking first at culture
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and we stop looking first to your fears, to your fears and
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start anchoring your confidence in the shepherd.
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You know the the great thing about a shepherd is a shepherd
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leads the sheep. A shepherd doesn't just sit
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there and have a pity party with the sheep.
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Shepherds understand what the sheep is going through but
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doesn't grovel in the mess. Shepherds have a greater vision
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of the future. Shepherds know where you're
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going even when we don't know when where we're going.
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See, Jesus is our shepherd. And when it comes to to money
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and to finance and to budgeting and all all of this, he is our
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shepherd on which we lean even in this area of our life, not
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just for salvation, but for all areas of our life.
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Why would we lean on him? Because he knows what he has in
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our future. We've just got to learn to
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follow or in other words, walk in that future that God has
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prepared for us. He's a practical change.
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Replace fear language with faith language rather than allowing
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yourself say, I'll never get ahead.
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Nothing ever changes for me or I'm stuck.
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I'm just stuck in this. Well, I'm stuck in this job.
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And while I'm stuck in the job, we're just stuck in this
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financial realm. My kids are stuck in that
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school. You know, I'm just stuck.
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Or you might say my future is not controlled by fear or
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uncertainty any longer. Let's start declaring God is
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leading me. God is faithful.
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He is always faithful. He's forever faithful.
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God is my source. When you get your next rates
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bill, come on, you know what I'm talking about.
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Don't get the rates bill and go, oh, I'll never get ahead like
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this. Get the rights bill and go, God,
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I thank you that you are my source and this big figure there
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does not dictate to me. I will steward it well and I'll
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do what I have to do to see this paid out.
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But as I take righteous steps to to do this, as I tithe and I'm
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faithful in that area, as I'm generous over in this area, when
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you prompt me, I will begin to walk in your overflow in these
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bills will lose their power over my life.
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That's how we approach these situations.
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What you repeatedly confess shapes what you eventually
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believe. I'm going to say that 111 more
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time. I do this all the time.
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I don't know about you, but I'll do this.
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What you repeatedly confess if you got self-image things going
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on in your world. I'm just not beautiful.
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I just hate my hair, just hate the way I look.
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I don't like my freckles. What you can repeatedly confess.
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You will start to believe in your heart, but it's not, it's
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not the truth. You are beautiful.
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You are handsome. The freckles is what makes you
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the perfect you. My wife had freckles our whole
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life. Like, freckles are awesome.
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All right? Yeah.
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You can have long hair. You can have WAVY.
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We just had a hair discussion the other day and Ilia wants my
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hair. I have no hair, so I said just
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go to Mum's hair. But Mum wants an Ilia's hair
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because it's long and curly like, and when we start to see
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that God perfectly made us like I'm, I'm not the most beautiful
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or handsome man. OK, well, I'm pretty close.
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But but I remember, I remember growing up, OK, I'm just can I
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be honest for a SEC? Like I when I grew up, I had big
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ears. Stop looking.
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OK, I had big ears. They're OK Now I, I think
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they're OK, right? I kind of my head grew and I
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grew into my ears. My head grew because my brain
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grew and, and I sort of, but you know what I even remember as a,
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as a little fella, I, I did used to look in the mirror and go,
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what the where'd those two things come from?
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But I loved my hair. I had hair back then, I don't
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know, Lib talking 80s, early 90s.
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So I had a hair with fringe. Do you remember the fringe that
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went straight out? Yeah.
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So Hairspray was like underneath and on top.
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Does anyone remember? There was, is this a Townsville
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thing? We're a bit different up there.
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So I used to see how far I could get my fringe to come straight
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out. Yeah, that's what fringes were
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back then. But the the reality is, is what
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we confess in our lives, if we never have enough, you never
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have enough. You know what?
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You know, ask my kids if they go.
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Dad, do I have money? I say, yeah, I haven't even
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checked my account yet. Yep.
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Let me just check my account. Oh, it's not in there today.
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It'll be in there tomorrow, though.
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But yes, I got money. You know, I remember when when
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my kids were young because I wear Nike shoes, right.
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So every birthday or Christmas, I get a pair of Nike shoes and I
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did that to make me look rich. So if you got a pair of Nike
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shoes and if you can get one night jumper, you look rich
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Anyway, So my kids, when they're, you know, I think of
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any might have been about eights and the the boys were younger.
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One day they I picked them up from school and they said, Dad,
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are we millionaires? And I said, yeah, I said, why,
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Why do you ask that? And I said, oh, just all my
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friends, they just noticed whenever you or mum come, you're
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wearing like Nikes all the time. And they thought maybe we're
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millionaires. And I said, well, we are.
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I said, but I've just got a normal wage.
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What you speak comes in here and you start to present yourself
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and live in accordance to what you believe so we can shift
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reality. Did you know that you can shift
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your reality? It starts small, but it starts
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to snowball until reality actually shifts.
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You form your world. Did you know he's a he's a
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little key for everyone here today?
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Did you know that you're living in the world that you confessed
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yesterday? You're living in the world today
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of your confession over your past.
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And if we want to shift the spirit of poverty and lack, we
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need to start to present ourselves like we're sons and
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daughters of the High King. Does this make sense?
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Because Church, it's not just about you and I.
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My whole heart in all of this is because I want to see the spirit
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of lack and scarcity and poverty broken from Bribie to Tegulawa.
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And S will get a bit of the overflow, right?
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But the reality is we breakthrough for our community.
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As go the head, so goes the tail.
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Does that make sense? So as we lead the church
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spiritually, so right now we are we are changing our confession.
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We're all standing and praying for our tithes and offerings
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moments. Why?
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Because we're declaring you might not be there yet, but
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you're getting there, right? We're declaring that as a
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church, we have said enough is now enough.
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Spiritually, we're doing that. But as a church, we're going to
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follow our prayer confessions. And so we'll start to change
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this. You know, when your kids ask
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you, are you if you're rich, we're not rich, we're
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millionaires. Like, do you not know our God?
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Let me let me tell you a little bit about God.
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Sit around the table. So that's my father right there.
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And start to change our thinking, start to retrain our
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children, start to retrain our own.
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It's called transformation. And we invite the Holy Spirit
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into this as well. Point number two men, I've got
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5. I'm going to read real fast.
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Scarcity is learned, but so is trust.
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Israel spent generations in slavery, so even after
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deliverance they still fought like slaves.
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If you've ever read read that story.
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They had Memon in from heaven. Miraculous protection.
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Supernatural provision. Yet they still feared lack.
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Why? Because freedom externally
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doesn't automatically create freedom internally.
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Many people today have inherited generational poverty.
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Thinking mums and dads, it's time to say and it stops with me
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and it stops right now. Even my family will no longer
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live in generational poverty. Thinking because your tomorrow
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can be changed by your decisions today.
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Does that make sense? Maybe you grew up hearing we
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never have enough. Rich people are greedy people.
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People like us, we always struggle.
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You can't really trust God when it comes to finances.
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Those words create internal strongholds and listen, we need
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to let go of them. Let go of this thinking.
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Let go of this confession that we have.
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The wilderness mindset teaches people to survive and not trust.
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Listen, if you grew up in Caboolture, we no longer just
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survive to live. We no longer just survive to
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live. We are blessed beyond
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understanding. We are favoured by the Almighty
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God. We walk in riches that are like
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a tap to us and we give it out as much as it comes into us.
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We are the blessing to our community.
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We are the favour that God has brought them, the answer to our
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community. We are children of God.
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We are not just living to survive any longer, but we are
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living Lord, to bring other people out of the miry clay also
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for themselves. God never called these people
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merely to survive. He called us to live by faith
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and to live in a realm of stepping out and seeing our God
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who supplies, actually supply. We have to step into this realm.
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We have to step into this understanding.
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Listen, we have to step into these new behaviours that our
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God who supplies all of our needs, actually does supply.
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And you go, yeah, but he only supplies needs.
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No, no, no, you got the wrong understanding of the Scripture.
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He says he supplies all of our needs because our needs are and
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wants are actually his needs and wants.
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If he can get it through you, he will get it to you.
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And so when your need is the need to see people come to God
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to see the gospel go out to see crusades happening all across
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Australia to to be able to fund the church in blessing to to
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grow as a church and to get more locations and and our need is
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people out there. God goes I can bless that with
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all my riches in heaven. And when he's blessing that
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need, he's blessing you. Why because that need became
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yours. Does this make sense?
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So this is all about alignment Church Romans 12 to be
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transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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Transformation begins when truth replaces fear, No longer fear to
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finances in your world. But we live in the truth #3
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God's economy operates differently.
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Paul writes in Philippians 419. My God shall supply all your
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needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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Did you notice? Not according to your
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limitations. See, God doesn't go.
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Oh, Graham's too limited. I can't do my mission through
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him. I'm going to look for a rich
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person. That's not how God operates.
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In fact, God's so gracious, he goes well until Graham changes
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his stinking thinking. We just got to hold off a little
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bit and wait. And the Holy Spirit just keep
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working on him. See God, God doesn't say he
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supplies our needs according to my limitations.
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He says he supplies our needs according to his riches and
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overflow. Scarcity says there's not
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enough. But the Kingdom of God says
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there is more than enough in God.
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This does not mean irresponsibility.
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It does not mean ignoring wisdom or stewardship.
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Financial freedom flows from both trust and wisdom.
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So let's remember, faith is not passive, faith is obedience.
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So how do we change in this move from fear driven living to
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stewardship driven living? This means honouring God first
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with your first fruits, which is plain language, your tithe,
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budgeting wisely, removing unnecessary debt where possible
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in your life, practicing generosity, refusing emotional
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spending. Scarcity spends emotionally
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because fear seeks comfort. Wisdom spends intentionally
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because trust creates peace. Some people ask God for
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breakthrough while refusing discipline but stewardship.
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Is a spiritual thing #4 generosity breaks the power of
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scarce scarcity. One of the greatest antidotes to
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scarcity is generosity. Why?
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Because generosity confronts fear directly.
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Whereas you're giving away, you're going, God, you supply
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all my needs, You aren't going. Oh man, now I'm left with
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nothing. What do I do?
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Does that make sense? We go God, you supply all my
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needs and because I believe that I'm giving to this need, if he
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can get it through you, he will get it to you.
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Fear says hold tight. Faith says God can replenish
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what I release. The Kingdom principle is this.
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Whatever you grip tightly will begin to grip you tightly back.
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When we live open handed before God, we declare, my trust is not
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in possessions, but my trust is in the provider.
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Generosity is not the overflow of abundance, it is the evidence
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of trust in God. Let me say that again.
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Generosity is not the overflow of abundance.
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You don't begin to be generous when you get more in your pay.
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You're not getting more in your pay, right?
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It's set, you contracted that. Generosity is a hard attitude.
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Generosity doesn't move to your employer, generosity moves to
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the provider. So we are generous because our
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provider provides all my needs, not because my employer provides
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my needs. Does this make sense?
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Your employer gives you a benchmark of living.
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Your provider lets you live in abundance and overflow.
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Does this make sense? And so we look to God for all
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things #5 peace is the goal, not just prosperity.
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Some people think financial breakthrough alignment.
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I've got a lot of information today.
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This is good as helping someone this morning.
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Some people think financial breakthrough alone will heal
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anxiety. Let me tell you, God heals
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anxiety and the Bible says to be anxious for nothing.
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How do you be anxious for nothing?
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You're anxious for nothing. When you understand truly in
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your heart who your source is, your source of peace, your
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source of blessing, your source of prosperity, your source of
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love, your source of hope. When we understand that God is
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love, that God is hope, that God is the fulfilling of the flesh,
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that God makes me feel good, that God feels the enemy, that
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God supplies the enemy, that guy supplies all my needs according
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to his riches and glory. That means all you needs, not
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just money, but all you need. Your thinking, your emotions and
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everything, then we are anxious for nothing.
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Money alone will not fix your anxiety.
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Like money, your anxiety must go to the source of your provider.
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Many wealthy people still live terrified and anxious.
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Money will never, was never designed to carry the weight of
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your peace. Only God can do that, David said
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in Psalms 23. One, the Lord is my shepherd,
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not savings accounts, restores my souls.
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See, God wants his people free from anxiety, from striving in
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day-to-day, just surviving free from panic.
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Man, money brings panic. Money destroys marriages.
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Like we should have dominion over this thing.
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Money should just bring life to the mission of your marriage,
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not come between the husband and the wife.
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Money is is a tool that we use, not a thing that divides.
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That's the enemy's plan, but the enemy wins when we lose
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dominion. Does this make sense?
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It's a church. We have to have dominion.
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The goal is not greed, the goal is peace.
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It's critical to have a settled confidence in God.
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And here's your last practical tip for today.
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Daily practice gratitude and financial surrender.
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Daily practice your gratitude and surrendering your finance to
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God. Well, God, I don't walk
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according to the budgets of this world and the economy.
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I'll walk in accordance to the blesser and my provider and
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change our confession and everything will follow in Jesus
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name. Listen, gratitude weakens fear.
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So Church, I just want you to hear this in closing today, the
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wilderness mindset of lack, worry, and fear will not enter
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your promised land. The mindset of lack God, where
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are you in my finance worry scarcity, poverty that that
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mindset won't enter into your promised land.
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See the Egyptians had to change. Sorry the the Israelites had to
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change everything about their thinking when they left Egypt
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because they were still thinking like slaves.
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But God says you're not a slave, you're my child.
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He has set us free to walk in freedom free indeed.
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And money is the greatest economy on planet earth that
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tries to enslave that. God is here to set us free today
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in Jesus name. God wants to renew our thinking,
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our language, our trust, our stewardship, and give us the
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peace. So if you receive this message
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today, I would love you to declare something.
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I'd love you to declare it loud enough for your own ears to
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hear. If you could say this after me,
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scarcity will no longer shape my thinking.
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I great break agreement with generational poverty, thinking I
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will not carry a wilderness mindset into my promise to land.
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I choose trust over fear, stewardship over chaos, and
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generosity over scarcity. In Jesus mighty name, Amen.
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Amen.