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KINGDOM OR CULTURE: Is It Biblical to Want Wealth? · 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: So on Thursdays, I share a word for Kingdom Builders.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today's word that I have for you is for the Kingdom Builder.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you are building a business or a ministry out here in these internet streets, if you are an online entrepreneur, um, I want you to know that this word for is for you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for those of you who are new to this channel, new to seeing me or listening to me, my name is Erica Pyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a pastor of a local church here in Tampa, Florida called Revive Church of Tampa.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also lead a women's ministry, have done for the last 15 years, is called Revive Woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Revive Woman is a ministry for that audacious, faith-filled, spirit-filled, Jesus-following woman, daughter of the king, who wants to make a bold and confident sound into the earth for Jesus and his kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she wants encouragement, equipping, empowering.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what Revive Woman is all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we've got a conference coming up in May.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be May 14th and 15th.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's going to be here in Tampa, Florida.
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  SPEAKER_00: We haven't released all the details yet, but I've got some real juicy ones to share with you probably next week around the event location where we're going to be having the event, specifically in Tampa, and also around speakers for the event.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm really excited to share that with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So stay tuned and we will release that information.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm also a breakthrough business coach for a community called the Jesus Girl Gang, where inside of that community, I host something called the Build with Faith Mentorship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this mentorship is a place where women, godly women, biblical entrepreneurial women who want to build and launch their business or their ministry online, they can come and be a part of this community.
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  SPEAKER_00: So inside of the Build with Faith mentorship, we have four different pillars that serve you.
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  SPEAKER_00: First and foremost is a platform.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a place where you all in one platform, where you can build your business.
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  SPEAKER_00: We hand you things like templates for your website pages, your landing pages, your sales pages, automations, emails, all the things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's also a place there where you can build everything and can all talk to each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: We provide training and support for that tech and for the build process.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have an expert team that helps you every single week with a live support call on Tuesdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we also have obviously email and chat support for you as you're building.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's also a framework in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an eight-week step-by-step framework to get your business or ministry built and launched online in just eight weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would be a mindset, offers, audience, sales, and systems all taught to you and all built with you as you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that takes eight weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you could have a launched offer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can actually have a launched offer before that, but really the core of your business can be all built and launched out in eight weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we've got the community, the Jesus Girl Gang community of like-minded, like-spirited women, just like yourself, who are building and launching online.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there's coaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every single Friday we do something called an activation call.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I get on there and I group coach.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is what the Build with Faith Mentorship is.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're interested to know more about it or to check it out and see if it's for you, you can go to Jesus Scroll Gang.com/slash mentorship.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today we're recording an episode of the Kingdom Business Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kingdom Business Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you are watching this on my social media feeds and wondering what's the Kingdom Business Podcast, it's the podcast that I have called the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And each week I release a new episode around something that empowers the godly woman, the godly entrepreneurial woman to be able to build and launch her business online.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's generally a mindset concept, something that can actually help you to step into the calling of God for your life around this business tree, this business ministry that He's called you to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's going to be what we're going to do today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I wanted to start a series today of these discussions around biblical truths, around common online business and marketing strategies.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there are certain online business strategies and mindsets and kind of things that are presented to us as online business owners and marketers, that there's a lot of like kerfuffle around whether these are things that we should, as Christian business owners and Christian entrepreneurs, should we be embracing them?
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is a real thing because in my in my mentorship, in the Build with Faith mentorship, one thing that's really, really important to me is that we not compromise on our faith, that we don't negotiate our faith when we're doing business out here online.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, as we're coming into this place of talking about these different marketing and business concepts or strategies that are offered out here, I think that it is front of mind to ask yourself the question is this kingdom?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this biblical?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because at the end of the day, if you have to compromise on your faith, negotiate on your beliefs so that you can be successful, that doesn't sound right.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to lose our faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to lose our convictions, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Just so that we can make a buck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it Christian to want to be a seven-figure business owner online?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that Christian?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that godly?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: And look, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna minimize that word want.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it okay to desire wanting to be wealthy and made wealthy through the business that we're building out here online?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, in our Christian culture, there is a lot to be said out here in these social media platforms about prosperity gospel and about, you know, preachers and people that are in ministry and are making big bucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's something that I want us to look at is that for the most part, like I know that it's not everybody, I'm sure you can find an example of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you were to look at all of the ministers that are being accused of getting rich off of their church, here's something that you would find.
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably 98, 99% are not getting rich off of their church.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're actually building wealth through business.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have business streams, business streams of income that go parallel to the ministry that they're doing in their church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so they're not taking the tithe out of their church and getting rich on it because they're paying themselves some massive salary.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is this is the large majority, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: I will say that, I'll go on record to say it is a large majority that are not becoming wealthy based on a paycheck that they're getting out of their church.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're getting they're building wealth, they're getting wealth based on income streams that they've built entrepreneurially, that they've built in business.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are parallel streams of income.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Bible tells us that we should be, that it is wisdom to have multiple streams of income.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look in Ecclesiastes, written by King Solomon, so richest man in the earth, knew a thing or two about wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he says that it is wisdom to have seven, eight streams of income.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if you find yourself looking at a minister of the gospel, a preacher, apostolic leader in the church, and they are doing well financially, woe to you if you start out with accusing them of making that wealth on the back of their parishioners, their congregants, their members.
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  SPEAKER_00: Step back, step back, read the Bible, and have an understanding that perhaps, perhaps, at least give the benefit of the doubt, that perhaps these people are making well the way that the Bible tells them to, which is an opening up additional streams of income.
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  SPEAKER_00: Understand that the Bible tells us that it is in fact a blessing to experience prosperity.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that we are in the right lane with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are being trust, trusting God and being obedient when we experience prosperity and abundance in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: As our bank accounts grow, it doesn't like your first assumption when a Christian is prospering should not be that they're doing something not godly, that they're doing something ungodly or illegal or against the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That should not be our first thought, because the Bible tells us over and over that a sign of blessing is abundance and prosperity financially, not just financially, but that is one area that we will be blessed with prosperity and abundance, also with family growth, also with our health, also with our mindset and our heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like prosperity covers it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: It covers our relationships, it covers our finances, it covers our health, it can, it covers our families, it covers everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: It basically means that if you will trust God and walk in his word, will, and ways, he will provide for you every good thing that you need so that you can walk out the calling and the assignment that he's placed on your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what that means.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in Deuteronomy, it's really clear, God says, look, if you'll trust and obey me, if you'll you know be mindful to follow the things that I'm telling you to do, I will bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that blessing scripture, it is all of the things, all of the things pertaining to your financial wellness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like I'm we just need to stop with that mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a Christian mindset that says that somehow becoming wealthy is always the result or is regularly the result in Christian community of doing something wrong, ungodly or illegal, or like not morally sound, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we look at people that are wealthy in the church and leading in the church, and we consider it many times to be a moral failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, these people do not have time for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're out here, right, leading a church many times, leading a community of people to know the word of God, to follow Jesus, to be spirit-filled and to know what to do with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then at the same time, they're ripping income streams out of the ground with God in a heart position that says, I want to bless the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to bless the people of God, I want to do the word will and ways of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know that the way that that needs to happen in this earth is if I have access to finance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that is how God expands the kingdom in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that we all want to believe that God can just expand the kingdom through just Mother Teresa's.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I want you to understand something.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to understand something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even though Mother Teresa was out there and she was had taken a vow of poverty and she was walking around in poverty.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just, I just, I know I'm gonna offend some brains.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know some people are gonna clutch pearls, but get ready for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mother Teresa had a missional fund.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mother Teresa had people that were funding her mission.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were, there was money flowing, and she got to make the decision about whether she was gonna take a salary for that, if she was gonna just flow it all into the work that she was doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was her decision, and that was between her and God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But listen, not every leader in in the faith, not every person who's bringing the kingdom is called to a vow of poverty.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would argue, in fact, that most are not.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just think about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you open your Bible and you look at all 66 books of the official canon, okay, and you look at who are the writers of these books, and then you went into history and you looked at whether these people that were writing, whether they were rich or whether they were poor.
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  SPEAKER_00: What percentage of writers in the Bible do you think were rich?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a large majority.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a large majority.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to understand this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the people who were inspired of the Holy Spirit to write the infallible word of God that we have today.
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  SPEAKER_00: These people who took on that charge, who walked in that assignment, they were extremely wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got King Solomon, we've got David, we've got Moses, we've got Abraham, we've got Paul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, these people were wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were prosperous.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a sign, it's a sign of blessing, friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if you want to keep on believing that lie that says wealth is a sign of of ungodliness or wealth is a sign that we should be suspicious that something's going wrong here, we've got the wrong mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got the wrong mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, Deuteronomy 8.18 says this thing it says, God gives us the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he even gives us the reason for why he does it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if we're questioning, like, well, why would God do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's right there in his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Deuteronomy 8.18, it says that God gives the ability to make wealth to listen, listen, confirm his covenant with his people, to confirm his covenant, to prove his covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that flows through the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: So understand that whenever prosperity and abundance flows from the throne room of God from heaven into your bank accounts, believer, into your world, kingdom builder.
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  SPEAKER_00: Understand, this is because he wants to prove and confirm his covenant with his people in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, Erica, are you saying that all the people that are doing the will of God are going to be rich because he's making them wealthy?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I'm telling you is that he makes it possible for his people to build wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's given us the wisdom to be able to do it, he's given us the principles in his word to be able to build wealth as a sign, as a sign of blessing, and also so that he can confirm his covenant so that when people see that he's providing for you in that way and you're doing it in a godly way, people will go, oh, look, the people of God are blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a whole song in the Bible, Psalm 126.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're like, it was like a dream when the exiles were coming back into Zion.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says the Psalm says that it was like a dream that we had been prospered and that the people saw that we had been prospered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's actual a quote, they take a testimonial from the crowd that says, Look, God has done great things for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the people who are blessed repeat the refrain and say, God has done great things for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We acknowledge that God has done great things for us, He has blessed us.
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  SPEAKER_00: That psalm goes on to say that those who go out sowing their seed in weeping with tears will come back waving the sheaves with shouts of joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it was God's plan that He prospered them in that, and that they became a testimonial.
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  SPEAKER_00: They became a beacon of God's goodness when you follow his word, will, and ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what Psalm 126 is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a testimonial of when we trust and obey God, what can happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is something that shows that we are blessed of God, that we are walking rightly.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just be like it's a it's a Venn diagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: People who are following the word, will, and ways of God, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And people who are believing that wealth is given to those who want to confirm the covenant of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, if you believe that wealth is bad, so you're not finding yourself in this circle, then you're out of the Venn diagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you believe that making wealth is bad, you you have an unbiblical belief point.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to encourage you to get that fixed up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the Bible is really clear that He gives us, God gives us the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: How could something that God gives us the ability to do be a sin?
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  SPEAKER_00: How could it be ungodly?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you gotta start with your mindset there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So going back to this idea of saying, you know, is it wrong to want to be a seven-figure earner out here in these online streets?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's where the next place would go, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we go, well, Erica, fine then, fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's okay to um want to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm agreed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible says that God gives us the ability to make wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'll be okay with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I have a problem with is people who want seven, eight figures.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's greedy.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's greedy and selfish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I can I show you what is greedy and selfish?
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  SPEAKER_00: Wanting just enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wanting just enough is greedy and selfish.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've read your Bible, if you understand kingdom principles around what it means to be a real follower of Jesus and to follow the word of God, you understand that generosity is a part of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You cannot be generous if you are only praying that you would have just enough to pay for your bills and take care of your needs.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is selfish.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is selfish because the Bible tells us that we need to be generous.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must be generous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 11:25 says, a generous person will prosper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a principle in the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to position ourselves for pouring out.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a big principle in my community.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I told you earlier I've got this mentorship called the Build with Faith Mentorship, and it sits inside of a community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, many times people have been like, Erica, this is so confusing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got a community, you've got a mentorship inside of the community.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yeah, because in a community, which is like a family, there is there are culture points.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are culture points to a community, to a family.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have values.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have shared values in a community.
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  SPEAKER_00: A mentorship is an offer.
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  SPEAKER_00: A mentorship is a place where we can work together for a specified amount of time, and I can teach you things and you can get something out of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's contractual.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a mentorship.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in a community, it is a relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And inside of community and inside of relationship, we have shared value.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have we build culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the culture points in the Jesus Girl Gang is something called the pouring out principle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I learned it by researching and reading the Bible for wealth strategies, for how I should be thinking about wealth building.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the things, like Jesus said himself in Luke 6, he said, give and it'll be given unto you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pressed down, shaken down, shaken together, and pouring over into your lap.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then he says this thing listen, listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, with the measure you use to give, it will be given back to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is this concept in generosity that says, How how generous do you want to be?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you're going to set your return rate.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're going to set your return on investment based on how generous you want to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul said, God loves a cheerful giver.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, Don't give according in compulsion, give according to what the Holy Spirit is calling you to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if I have this desire to be super generous, I want to give with a huge measure because this is what's on my heart to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then how am I supposed to do that if I don't believe that God wants to get it into me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Generous person who is when he refreshes others gets refreshed.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to understand which comes first, the chicken or the egg.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you the heart of generosity comes first, but you cannot have a heart of generosity if you don't believe that God is going to provide what you need in order to be generous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this becomes super important to understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Having a just enough mindset is highly selfish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Highly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is, it is, it is, it is, you know, like it can't, it can't it's got blinders on and can't see the fullness of the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you don't want to walk around with just enough thinking because that's actually a scheme of the enemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the deal the way that God gets provision into the hands and into the worlds of certain people in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about, you know, people who are in third world countries or people in our very own country who are needing, people who need food, who need shelter, who need clothing, who need hope, any of those things, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: How does God get that into their world?
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't just rain out of the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure, they can pick up a Bible and they can receive hope in their hearts directly from God, but I don't know anyone who's ever opened up their Bible and money has been just sitting in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the way that God gets finance into the hands of those who need it and may not be able to do the thing in the moment that is required in order to earn or receive that cash is to send it through conduits in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are the conduits in the earth?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is believers who are willing to believe how God gets prosperity into the hands of believers, how he uses prosperity as a blessing, but also he puts it through his believers and through his kingdom builders and gets it into the hands of the people who need it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then in this pouring out principle, here's what's beautiful.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm generous in that way, and if the and if I'm believing in that way that this is how it works, and I grab a hold of that, that money is seed that's now anointed.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: And when I I sow that seed into an organization, into a person, into a kingdom cause, that seed has the frequency of my faith on it.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: That that is not mammon, that is not earthly money, that is kingdom resource that now is alive.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not just alive because of the currency, the practical currency aspect of it.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: It has a currency of faith on it too.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: Just like we are a triune beings, we are a spirit, we have a soul, we live in a body.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: Understand that money is spiritual, it's soulish, and it is body, it is physical.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: It has all of those concepts attached to it as well.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so, like where your mind goes, where your heart goes, Jesus said this wherever your heart is, there your treasure will be.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's a soul concept.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's to say, what you believe about money, that's how money is gonna operate in your world.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: If you let it be your master, then you will be the slave.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: If you are money's master, God is your master, and you are money's master, it will be your slave.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: It will be your bondservant.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we've got to start to clean up our mindsets around wealth and making wealth.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: And we've got to divorce ourselves from this concept that to desire wealth is somehow ungodly.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: You have to desire wealth, right?
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: It says if you trust in the Lord with all with all of yourself, like it and lean on your own understanding, he's gonna make your paths straight.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: How do you think that paths get faster?
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: How do you think that paths get straighter and easier?
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's through money.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like there are some things that money can buy.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: Money buys speed, money by speed, money by speed, money by speed.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, if you're thinking about the poor person who needs, who needs money, what's the fast, what's the long way there?
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: The long way is to have a conversation with the person, convince them that they need to be in a work development program, get them to go to the work development program, get them to um do the lessons for the work development program, get them to um apply for a grant so that they can buy clothes, so that they can interview for some work, um get them trained up in how to work, get them a donation so that someone can work on the resume for them.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: And all the while, this is taking days and weeks and potentially months.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: As opposed to if I see someone and I talk to someone, and all of a sudden I realize that God is saying to me, sponsor that person.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I just drop$1,000 and I say, let's do it all right now.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's get you the resume right now, let's get you the clothes right now.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: And in the meanwhile, here's the book to read, here's the course to do, and we're gonna speed up your timeline because of this cash.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's just the way it works.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's the way it works.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so we've got to stop making things ungodly or negative that God never, never said were ungodly or unbiblical.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's a big deal.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: So the just enough mentality is the place that is selfish and greedy.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: We've talked about the fact that the Bible calls for us to be generous.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so, how are we supposed to be generous if God's not providing for us through his abundance, through his provision, through his prosperity, so that we might be generous.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: But it starts with having a generous heart, which means that we cannot believe that wealth building is bad, is negative, is ungodly, because we have to have a source for that generosity.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: We can have a generous heart all we want, but until we believe that God can give us the thing that we need so that we can sow the seed in generosity, we won't be able to do it.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: So you're gonna have to believe the Bible when it says that he wants to give you wealth.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: He wants to give it to you so that you can fund the things in the earth that the kingdom is needing to advance.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: Make sense?
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: And then lastly, wealth as a tool for kingdom advancement.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is the this is the last mindset piece that I want to talk about.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: I I already told you, Deuteronomy 8.18 says that God gives you the ability to make wealth so that he will confirm his covenant in the earth because he wants people to know how good he is.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: He wants people to know that he's a good, good father.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: He wants people to know that he is the one who funds the vision.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: He is pro-vision, he funds the vision, he'll give you the vision, you agree to the, you walk in accordance with his word, will, and ways, and he will provide.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: He is pro-vision.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then Ephesians 4.28, Paul tells us that we must have something to share with those in need.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you understand.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: And in Ephesians 4.28, he is speaking to the church about the building up of the body.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is where he's talking about the gifts that are given to the church and the building up of the body, that we would be built up into the unity and we would continue to do that until we attained the fullness of Christ Jesus, who is our head.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: And in this discourse, he says that we must have something to share with those in need.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: So let me tell you, if you can't believe for God to build wealth in your world, to open up income streams into your world, then you're not gonna have something to sow into others generously.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: So this becomes a problem.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: This becomes a problem.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, 2 Corinthians 9, if you look in 8 through to 11, there are these pieces of that passage where Paul, again, he says, and God is able to bless you abundantly.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: God is able to bless you abundantly.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: In other, in other verses, it says that through his riches in Christ Jesus, he's providing.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: So let, okay, let me offend your mind here.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're coming to the end, but let me just offend your mind for a second.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, listen to that.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: Listen to that.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: He is able to abundantly provide for you through his through his riches in Christ Jesus, through the inheritance that he put through Christ Jesus.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: We all, or many of us, like to argue back to Isaiah 53 that calls Jesus the poor and suffering servant.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: We don't understand that when Isaiah is talking about poor, he's not talking about poor in finance.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: He's talking about poor in spirit, meaning that he was humble, meaning that he was reliant on the Father, not that he was poor in bank account.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, this is gonna set somebody free today.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's also gonna offend someone.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: Lean in, lean in.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: Was Jesus poor?
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: Was Jesus financially poor?
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: Was Jesus financially poor?
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of commentary out there that says that people believe that Jesus was financially poor, that he was needy, and I am not one of them.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: I believe that Jesus and his family were ridiculously wealthy.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: I believe that God the Father provided Jesus with everything, every good thing that he would need to be able to walk out his mission in the earth.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: And that includes finance.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: And where do I have proof for that?
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: Where do I have proof for that in the Bible?
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's in the Gospel of Luke, it's in the story of the wise men who came to visit Jesus when he was a baby, but still in the manger.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: It says that these wise men came from the east.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: These were leaders, these were wise men, these were like kings, these were rich individuals who were coming from godless nations.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: And they were coming because the stars had told them that there was a king who had been born in Israel and that they were to go and meet this king.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: And it says worship this king.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: So these are kings, or at least as far as the historical shows, these were very wealthy men of influence from their country that were coming to visit a king on his birth.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: And this was more of a political thing than it was a religious thing.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: So let me ask you something.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: When kings from foreign nations come to visit kings, and this is like a birth, this is a celebration.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think they come empty-handed?
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we know that they didn't come empty-handed, right?
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: Because we read our Bible likely, and we've also gone to the Christmas pageants at our kids' preschool and kindergarten, right?
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: So we are very familiar with the picture of the kings coming from the east.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: We three kings of O are bearing gifts.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: We travel far.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: So we've got these gifts and we've got these little boxes, frankincense, gold, and myrrh.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so they're walking up and they put this little package.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let me explain something to you historically.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Let me just explain something to you.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: Geopolitically, there is no way that these kings brought some little teeny tiny box and were like, here's the gift that we've brought.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: Here's your gift, king.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: They brought camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel of frankincense.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: They brought camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel up camel upon camel of myrrh.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: They brought camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon camel upon gold.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_00: Frankincense gold and myrrh.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: And frankincense was worth more than its weight in gold.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: Understand something.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: Camel upon camel upon camel, a caravan of frankincense, gold, and myrrh.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: And the right-minded historians will tell you that that was enough to finance an entire lifetime of ministry for Jesus and his family.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus didn't need nothing from nobody.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't change the fact that in Luke 8, 1 to 3, it says that when he was ministering to the different villages and the disciples were traveling with him, that there were also women who traveled with him and provided for his ministry out of their own substance.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: Understand something.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_00: Why do we believe?
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: Why do we believe that Jesus was want for anything?
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 23 says, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: If we're not supposed to want, then why do we think that Jesus wanted?
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: He had everything that he needed, every good thing that he needed to walk out the assignment, the calling, the ministry that the Father had placed in him.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: And it is true about his finances too.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so if this offends you, good.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: Because the reality is you need to get a better perspective of what the Bible says about making wealth.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: I am done with Christians walking around and accusing one another out of, like, listen, out of sheer jealousy.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: Because we think to ourselves, if I don't have it and I'm following, I'm following God, then surely that's not godly because I'm doing all the things that, if that were true, I should be prospering.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the one thing you're not doing.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: You're not believing that it is a blessing to prosper.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: You're not believing that it is godly to want wealth.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's the problem.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: You are offsetting your ability to receive from God because you are believing a lie that wanting to be wealthy is ungodly.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: It could not, that could not be further from the truth.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: We have to want to make wealth because God wants to confirm his covenant in the earth with his people in front of other people.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: It convicts them to want to know the Father, to know this God that we serve and to move towards him.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Understand, the demonic realm, the kingdom of darkness, is doing everything that it can to get people to want the wealth that they have.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: But God is the originator of this wealth.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, he can make something out of nothing.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: He has OG wealth.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: He is old money.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: The devil is new money, and it's all smoke and mirrors.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: Understand?
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: This is what it says in Proverbs 13, 22.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_00: It says, A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: That means that he teaches his generations how to make wealth so that it can continue on.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: He leaves an inheritance to his children, to his children's children, and it even goes beyond because it says that the blessing goes to a thousand generations.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_00: But this is a mindset.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_00: This is a family blessing.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: It is the best kind of stronghold, is a blessing stronghold that says we are going to continue to serve the Lord our God into the generations.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: We are going to know the truth about making wealth and how it serves the kingdom.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: And we are going to be a people who does this on repeat.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_00: It says, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the deal.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: What that says is that a sinner can make wealth, but eventually it's going to shift from his family into the family of the kingdom.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's laid up for God says it has a purpose to bless the righteous.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_00: This is the transfer of the wealth from the wicked to the wise.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that the wicked won't make the wealth, it just means that they won't be able to keep the wealth.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: It will transfer eventually in the name of Jesus.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_00: It will.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: In the Word of God, it says that it will transfer.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_00: So we've got to stop with this ungodly belief that to desire wealth is wrong.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to straighten that out.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: So here's what I want you to do.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to do a thoughts exchange worksheet.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_00: You might be like, what is that, Erica?
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I have this toolkit.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's called the Kingdom Builders Mindset Toolkit.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_00: It has three different worksheets in it.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: One is this worksheet that I want you to do.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: There are two others in there that you can just get as a bonus, and we can talk about those another day.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: But the one worksheet inside of the Kingdom Builders Toolkit that I want you to grab a hold of is the Thoughts Exchange worksheet.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: This is the worksheet that um automates for you the process found in 2 Corinthians 10.5, where it says, take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to take any thoughts, any lies that you're believing, any fears that you have around wanting to make wealth and making wealth.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to work them out on that worksheet.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: What it does is it asks you to write down to articulate the lie or the fear that you're holding on to that has you.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then on the other column, it says, okay, now what is the truth that God is giving you instead?
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: See, in Isaiah 61, it says that he gives beauty for ashes.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: He he freely gives you an upgrade if you will just give him the crappy thing.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: And this lie that we've held around wealth being a bad thing or desiring wealth being a bad thing, it's actually a crappy thing.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's not godly.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's not true.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: And so if we will hand that to him and instead ask him, what do you want me to believe?
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want me to know instead?
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: And writing that on that line, and then you do the exchange.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: You say, God, I hand to you this lie of blah.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: And instead, I receive from you this truth and this promise of blah.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: I repent, forever partnering with that.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_00: I do not partner with it now.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: I send it back to hell where it came from.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: And instead, I receive and I walk in this truth that you've given me in Jesus' mighty name.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that's how you work the thoughts exchange worksheet.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to grab that, go to ericapile.com slash toolkit.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: EricaPyle.com slash toolkit.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_00: And the thoughts exchange worksheet is in there.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_00: All right, friend.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: I hope this was helpful to you.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_00: And if you are now thinking, gosh, I need to be working with Erica on a regular basis.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: I want to get into that community.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be building and launching my business in this kind of an environment.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_00: Well, come on in, girl.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_00: Go to JesusGirlgang.com slash mentorship and I'll see you inside there, okay?
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_00: All right, friend.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's been great chatting with you.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: I will talk to you soon.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_00: Bye for now.