Latest / LOH Church Archive / 05/27/26 Pastor Brenda Kunneman
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- 0:06WELL, GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. HOW MANY OF YOU
- 0:10CAME TO WORSHIP THE LORD TONIGHT? ALL RIGHT, WELL, WE'RE
- 0:14GONNA TEACH YOU SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT NEW SO THAT YOU CAN
- 0:20KIND OF FOLLOW ALONG, AT LEAST FOR THE CHORUS
- 0:22OF IT. AND IT GOES,
- 0:49ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT THAT? LET'S GO.
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- 18:10FOR MEN HAVE NOT KNOWN NOR HAVE THEY SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
- 18:18HEAVEN COLLIDES AND TOUCHES THE EARTH. FOR EVEN NOW, SAYS THE
- 18:23LORD, DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU'RE LIVING IN? FOR YOU'RE IN
- 18:27THE TIME AND THE SEASON WHEN MY GLORY IS BEING POURED OUT UPON
- 18:33THIS EARTH. AND MEN SHALL SEE AND KNOW WHO IS IN CONTROL AND
- 18:39WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. FOR MEN SHALL SEE
- 18:43ME MOVE. FOR WHO IS IT THAT HAS FLUNG THE STARS INTO THE SKY AND
- 18:49PLACED THE PLANETS IN THEIR ORBIT? AND WHO IS HE THAT HAS
- 18:53SET THE MOUNTAINS AND BROUGHT MEN UP AND BROUGHT THEM LOW? WHO
- 18:58IS HE, THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS? IT IS THE LORD OF
- 19:03GLORY AND MY GLORY SHALL BE SEEN AND IT SHALL BE SHOWN IN THIS
- 19:09TIME. AND YOU WILL KNOW IN YOUR OWN LIFE THAT MY GLORY IS UPON
- 19:14YOU AND I'M WORKING FOR YOU AND I'M WORKING WITHIN YOU. SAY NOT
- 19:21FROM YOUR LIPS, WHERE IS THE LORD? WHERE IS THE LORD? FOR IS
- 19:24HE MOVING IN MY SITUATION? NO, THE LORD SAYS, SEE, IT WILL
- 19:29BECOME OBVIOUS, EVEN AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF ISRAEL, WHEN
- 19:34PEOPLE SAID IN NAZARETH, AND THEY SAID IN GALILEE, NO, WE'VE
- 19:39NEVER SEEN IT ON THIS FASHION. WE'VE NEVER SEEN A MIRACLE LIKE
- 19:43THIS ONE. WE THOUGHT ALL THINGS THAT WERE MIRACULOUS HAD BEEN
- 19:49PASSED AWAY OR DONE AWAY. BUT THE LORD SAYS NOW THIS IS A TIME
- 19:54MEN WILL SEE UNFASHIONABLE. THEY WILL SEE THE UNUSUAL. THEY WILL
- 19:58SEE THE ANOINTING. THEY WILL SEE THE MOVE OF MY GLORY. AND IT
- 20:03WILL SHOCK THEIR MINDS. IT WILL SHOCK THEIR EYES. AND THEY WILL
- 20:07SAY, "SURELY THE LORD GOD OF HEAVEN IS ON HIS THRONE AND HE'S
- 20:13MOVING AMONG MEN." COME ON, GIVE THE LORD A COME ON, PRAISE! COME
- 20:25ON, PRAISE HIM! JESUS! JESUS! WOO-HOO! OH LORD! WE WORSHIP
- 20:37YOU. WE PRAISE YOU. AND WE THANK YOU. NOW, TOUCH THE HOLY ONE FOR
- 20:48A FRESH ANOINTING. SAY, LORD, ANOINT ME AFRESH FOR THE TIME
- 20:54AND THE SEASON THAT WE'RE IN. LET ME NOT MISS MY MOMENT. OPEN
- 21:00HEAVEN IS DOING. I REBUKE ALL SPIRITS OF DECEPTION FROM TRYING
- 21:06HEAVEN IS DOING. I REBUKE ALL SPIRITS OF DECEPTION FROM TRYING
- 21:13TO PERSUADE ME, SWAY ME, OR PULL ME OFF COURSE. AND LORD NOW I
- 21:20ASK FOR YOUR GREAT GRACE TO BE UPON ME IN A FRESH WAY THIS
- 21:26NIGHT IN JESUS HOLY NAME. AMEN. AND AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD.
- 21:33HALLELUJAH. WE'RE LIVING IN A GOOD TIME. I WAS WORKING ON SOME
- 21:40THINGS TODAY AND I THOUGHT, LORD, WHO WOULD WANT TO BE ALIVE
- 21:44ANY OTHER TIME? THIS IS THE BEST TIME. CAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 21:48WHENEVER, WHATEVER TIME YOU'RE BORN INTO, THAT'S THE BEST TIME
- 21:52TO BE ALIVE. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY, OH, I WISH IT WAS LIKE THE
- 21:55GOOD OLD DAYS. WELL, THERE WERE SOME GOOD OLD DAYS. WE WERE
- 21:58YOUNGER. THERE'S SOME GOOD OLD DAYS, BUT NOTHING IS LIKE THIS
- 22:04DAY. EVERY DAY IT'S NEW. THERE'S A FRESH ASSIGNMENT. THERE'S
- 22:10SOMETHING TO BE REALIZED AND TO WALK IN AND DO. SO LET'S JUST
- 22:14GIVE JESUS ONE MORE GREAT BIG HAND CLAP OF PRAISE. TELL HIM
- 22:19HOW MUCH IN YOUR OWN WORDS YOU LOVE HIM AND YOU'RE GLAD TO BE A
- 22:23SERVANT OF THE MOST HIGH GOD. AMEN. ALL RIGHT. WELL, WE GOT A
- 22:27LOT TO DO TONIGHT. PASTOR MARK'S TAKING THE OFFERING. HE MIGHT
- 22:30GET ANOINTED AND KEEP US HERE TILL 12. SO WE GOT TO SEE WHAT'S
- 22:33GOING TO HAPPEN. AMEN. TURN AROUND, LOVE ON SOMEBODY, TELL
- 22:36‘EM, YOU'RE SO GLAD TO SEE THEM IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. WELCOME
- 22:40ONLINE, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE JOINING US. IT'S GOING TO BE A
- 22:43GOOD NIGHT HERE AT LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. LET SOMEBODY KNOW, SHARE
- 22:47THE STREAM AND TELL THEM YOU NEED TO BE IN THE HOUSE ONLINE
- 22:51BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO GET GOODER AND GOODER IN JESUS NAME. GLORY
- 23:21TO GOD. IT'S OFFERING TIME. AND I'M HAPPY. I JUST LEARNED I'M
- 23:27GOING TO GET OUT OF HERE AN HOUR EARLIER THAN I HAD PLANNED. I
- 23:29WAS GOING TO GO TO 1 A.M. BUT NO, I WON'T DO THAT. I'M GOING
- 23:37TO BE COMING IN QUICK TONIGHT. PASTOR BRENDA'S GOT TO HAVE
- 23:39PLENTY OF TIME TO PREACH ON THE POWER OF CONTINUALLY SOWING
- 23:43TODAY FOR THE REAPING OF TOMORROW'S HARVEST. I'M EXCITED
- 23:47FOR THAT MESSAGE. SO IF THEY'LL PUT TONIGHT'S SCRIPTURE UP ON
- 23:51THE SCREENS, WE'LL GET RIGHT INTO IT. I'M GOING TO LOOK AT
- 23:53PSALM 91, 11 THROUGH 16, BOOK OF PSALMS, CHAPTER 91, VERSES 11
- 24:01THROUGH 16. THIS IS GOING TO BE FAMILIAR TO MOST EVERYBODY. IN
- 24:05FACT, PROBABLY MOST EVERYBODY PRAYS THIS OVER THEMSELVES AND
- 24:10THEIR FAMILIES ON A ROUTINE BASIS. I KNOW WE DO AT HOME.
- 24:14POWERFUL SUMMARY OF OUR BENEFITS PACKAGE AND MAKES FOR GREAT
- 24:17PREVENTIVE MEDICINE WHEN TAKEN DAILY. AMEN. BUT TONIGHT I WANT
- 24:21TO HOME IN ON THIS PARTICULAR SECTION, VERSES 11 THROUGH 16.
- 24:24IT SAYS IN THE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION, I'LL READ FROM
- 24:28THERE FIRST, IT SAYS, "FOR HE WILL ORDER HIS ANGELS TO PROTECT
- 24:32YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. THEY WILL HOLD YOU UP WITH THEIR HANDS SO
- 24:36YOU WON'T EVEN HURT YOUR FOOT ON A STONE. YOU WILL TRAMPLE UPON
- 24:41LIONS AND COBRAS AND YOU WILL CRUSH FIERCE LIONS AND SERPENTS
- 24:45UNDER YOUR FEET. THE LORD SAYS, 'I WILL RESCUE THOSE WHO LOVE
- 24:49ME. I WILL PROTECT THOSE WHO TRUST IN MY NAME. WHEN THEY CALL
- 24:54ON ME, I WILL ANSWER. I WILL BE WITH THEM IN TROUBLE. I WILL
- 24:58RESCUE AND HONOR THEM. I WILL REWARD THEM WITH A LONG LIFE AND
- 25:04GIVE THEM MY SALVATION. I ALSO LIKE THIS VERY MUCH IN THE
- 25:08CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION AND IT SAYS IT LIKE THIS, GOD WILL
- 25:13COMMAND HIS ANGELS TO PROTECT YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. THEY WILL
- 25:17CARRY YOU IN THEIR ARMS AND YOU WON'T HURT YOUR FEET ON THE
- 25:20STONES. YOU WILL OVERPOWER THE STRONGEST LIONS AND THE MOST
- 25:25DEADLY SNAKES. THE LORD SAYS IF YOU LOVE ME AND TRULY KNOW WHO I
- 25:30AM, I WILL RESCUE YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE. WHEN YOU ARE IN
- 25:35TROUBLE, CALL OUT TO ME. I WILL ANSWER AND BE THERE TO PROTECT
- 25:40AND HONOR YOU. YOU WILL LIVE A LONG LIFE AND SEE MY SAVING
- 25:44POWER. NOW, YOU MIGHT ASK, HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO OFFERING?
- 25:50WELL, I BELIEVE THAT THE GREATER YOUR REALIZATION OF GOD'S LOVE
- 25:54FOR YOU PERSONALLY, INDIVIDUALLY, AND THE SHARPER
- 25:58YOUR FOCUS ON THE MANY WAYS THAT HE DEMONSTRATES THAT ON A DAILY
- 26:02BASIS, THE MORE COMPELLED YOU'LL BE TO GIVE BACK TO HIM,
- 26:07FINANCIALLY AND OTHERWISE. AND IF YOU JUST THINK ABOUT IT FOR A
- 26:11MOMENT, THE KIND OF PROTECTION AND PERSEVERE, SORRY,
- 26:15PRESERVATION, PERSEVERANCE IS GOOD, THE DELIVERANCE AND RESCUE
- 26:19FROM ALL EVIL THAT HE PROMISES TO THOSE THAT ABIDE IN HIM, I
- 26:24THINK THE QUESTION THEN BECOMES, HOW COULD WE SHRINK BACK? HOW
- 26:29COULD WE NOT BE OBEDIENT? AND HOW COULD WE NOT BE GENEROUS IN
- 26:33OUR GIVING? LOOK AT WHAT HE SAYS IN VERSE 11. HE WILL COMMISSION
- 26:39HIS ANGELS TO PROTECT YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. SO NO MATTER
- 26:43WHAT CIRCUMSTANCE OR SITUATION YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF IN, THE
- 26:48ANGELS ARE DIRECTED TO PROTECT YOU. I LOOKED IT UP IN
- 26:51MERRIAM-WEBSTER, IT SAYS, ACT MEANS TO COVER OR SHIELD FROM
- 26:56EXPOSURE, INJURY, DAMAGE OR DESTRUCTION. FOLKS, THAT'S AN
- 27:02AMAZING SHIELD OF FAVOR THAT RESTS OVER US. AND I KNOW THAT
- 27:07YOU PROBABLY DO TOO, YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO TRUST THAT YOUR
- 27:10ANGELS ARE ALWAYS SURROUNDING YOU AND THAT YOU CAN RELY ON
- 27:13THEM TO RESCUE YOU. I KNOW I DO. SOMETIMES I NEED THEM TO RESCUE
- 27:17ME FROM MYSELF. SOMETIMES I NEED THEM TO PHYSICALLY MANIFEST AND
- 27:21THAT CAN HAPPEN. I MIGHT HAVE SHARED THIS BEFORE, BUT YEARS
- 27:24AGO WHEN WE WERE MOVING FROM ONE STATE TO ANOTHER BACK OUT ON THE
- 27:27EAST COAST, I WAS DRIVING A 26-FOOT TRUCK AND I HAD A CAR I
- 27:31WAS TOWING BEHIND US. I HAD APPROXIMATELY 40, MAYBE 42 FEET
- 27:35OF VEHICLE BEHIND ME. I WASN'T REALLY USED TO THAT AT THAT
- 27:37TIME. AND WE PULLED OVER FOR GAS ALONG THE WAY AND IT WAS THERE
- 27:41THAT I FIRST DISCOVERED THAT I WASN'T QUITE AS GOOD A DRIVER AS
- 27:45I THOUGHT I WAS. I WASN'T REALLY ABLE TO MANIPULATE THAT 40 SOME
- 27:49FEET BEHIND ME AS WELL AS I THOUGHT I WAS. AS I WAS TRYING
- 27:52TO GET CLOSE TO THE PUMP, I GOT THE REAR WHEEL WELL OF THE
- 27:55DRIVER'S SIDE OF THE TRUCK PERCHED RIGHT ON TOP OF THE
- 28:00BOLLARD THAT PROTECTS THE GAS PUMP. AND TRY AS I MIGHT, I
- 28:03COULDN'T WRIGGLE OUT OF THAT JAM NO MATTER WHAT I DID. AND KATE'S
- 28:08PARENTS WERE FOLLOWING US ALONG ON THE JOURNEY AT THAT TIME. AND
- 28:11MY FATHER-IN-LAW CAME UP AND HE STOOD THERE WITH ME AND WE BOTH
- 28:14LOOKED AT THIS THING LIKE THIS AND WE BOTH LOOKED AT IT LIKE
- 28:16THAT. AND PRETTY SOON WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND SAID, "WELL, I
- 28:19DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS ONE." BUT
- 28:22SUDDENLY, JUST THEN A GUY CAME RUSHING OUT OF THE STATION, THE
- 28:27CONVENIENCE STORE THERE, AND HE WAS COMING DIRECTLY AT US AND HE
- 28:30SAID, "I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO HERE." I SAID, "OKAY,
- 28:34I'M LISTENING." HE INSTRUCTED ME TO GET BACK IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT
- 28:38AND JUST FOLLOW HIS DIRECTIONS. I THOUGHT, "WELL, OKAY, NOTHING
- 28:42I'VE DONE HAS WORKED, SO I'LL TRY IT OUT. I MEAN, WHAT'S WORTH
- 28:44A SHOT AT THIS POINT?" SO I JUMPED BACK IN THE TRUCK, AND
- 28:48TWO QUICK TURNS, AND WE WERE OUT OF THERE, AND WE WERE FREE TO
- 28:50ROAM ABOUT THE CABIN AGAIN. I JUMPED OUT OF THAT TRUCK TO
- 28:55THANK THAT MAN AND GIVE HIM SOMETHING FOR COMING TO MY
- 28:57RESCUE. NOW HE JUST SUDDENLY VANISHED. NOW IN THE NATURAL,
- 29:03THERE'S NO WAY IN THAT WIDE OPEN PARKING LOT THAT ALL OF US COULD
- 29:06HAVE MISSED HIM. THERE WAS FOUR ADULTS LISTENING INTENTLY TO HIS
- 29:09INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO ESCAPE THAT JAM, AND YET HE WAS GONE.
- 29:15OKAY, YOU CAN THINK WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE TO ABOUT THIS, BUT I'M
- 29:18GOING TO TELL YOU, THAT MAN WAS AN ANGEL THAT WAS SENT TO RESCUE
- 29:21ME IN THAT PARTICULAR SITUATION. GOING BACK TO THE SCRIPTURE REAL
- 29:26QUICK, VERSE 14, HE SAYS HERE, "HE WILL RESCUE THOSE WHO LOVE
- 29:31HIM AND PROTECT THOSE WHO TRUST HIM. HE WILL KEEP THEM SAFE."
- 29:37AND THAT IS SO TRUE. BACK IN THE DAY, I USED TO DRIVE 60,000
- 29:41MILES A YEAR. I WAS OVER THE ROAD IN SALES MANAGEMENT AND ALL
- 29:45TYPES OF WEATHER, ALL TYPES OF CONDITIONS AND EVERYTHING. AND
- 29:48ONE DAY I WAS JUST TOTALLY DRAINED, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND
- 29:52MENTALLY. AND I WAS PROBABLY STILL AN HOUR FROM HOME.
- 29:55NIGHTFALL WAS SETTING IN, MONOTONOUS ROADWAY, TWO-WAY
- 29:59TRAFFIC, I FELL ASLEEP. AND THERE WAS THIS TRACTOR TRAILER
- 30:08THAT WAS APPROACHING ME RAPIDLY IN THE OTHER LANE. WELL, IT'S
- 30:11NOW MY LANE 'CAUSE I'M OVER THERE, RIGHT? I CROSSED THE
- 30:13CENTER LINE. AND SUDDENLY I WAS AWAKENED BY AN AUDIBLE VOICE
- 30:18THAT SAID LOUDLY, "MARK, ARE YOU OKAY?" AND IT STARTLED ME, IT
- 30:23SHOOK ME TO THE CORE. AND I OPENED MY EYES JUST IN TIME TO
- 30:26SEE THAT TRUCK RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. I HAD JUST A COUPLE OF
- 30:29SECONDS TO REACT. I WAS ABLE TO CORRECT COURSE INSTANTLY, SWERVE
- 30:33TO AVOID THAT. AND AGAIN, I'M JUST GONNA SAY, YOU'RE ENTITLED
- 30:38TO THINK WHATEVER YOU WANNA THINK, BUT WHAT I THINK IS THE
- 30:42LORD SPOKE TO ME IN THAT MOMENT TO ENSURE THAT HIS DESIRED
- 30:48RESULT WAS ACHIEVED. HE RESCUED ME, HE DELIVERED ME, HE SAVED ME
- 30:54FROM DISASTER, HALLELUJAH. LET'S GO BACK TO THE SCRIPTURE ONE
- 30:57MORE TIME REAL QUICK. IN VERSE 15, HE SAYS, "WHEN THEY CALL ON
- 31:01ME, I WILL ANSWER. "I WILL BE WITH THEM IN TROUBLE. I WILL
- 31:05RESCUE AND HONOR THEM." WELL, IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, YOU'VE HAD TO
- 31:10CALL ON THEM ONCE OR TWICE. I KNOW I HAVE. ONE TIME THAT COMES
- 31:15TO MIND, I WAS COMMUTING TO WORK AND I HAD ABOUT AN HOUR DRIVE.
- 31:17IT WAS IN THE WINTER. IT WAS UP NORTH. WELL, WE ARE UP NORTH. IT
- 31:20WAS BACK OVER EAST-NORTH, NORTHEAST. SO, I GOT ON THIS ONE
- 31:25EXIT AND I WAS GOING ONTO THE HIGHWAY AND I HIT A PATCH OF
- 31:29BLACK ICE. IT WAS A TWO-WAY EXIT, SO THERE WAS TRAFFIC BOTH
- 31:32WAYS. AND I WAS PERPENDICULAR TO THE ROAD. AND I COULDN'T REGAIN
- 31:37CONTROL AND I WAS HEADED SIDEWAYS RIGHT TOWARD THESE TWO
- 31:40CLUB CABS THAT WERE TRAVELING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. AND WHEN
- 31:45I'D REACHED THE END OF MY NATURAL, I HAD TO CALL IN THE
- 31:47SUPERNATURAL. FINALLY, WITH A COUPLE OF SECONDS BEFORE IMPACT,
- 31:50I WENT, "JESUS!" AND INSTANTLY, JUST AS THOUGH HE HAD GRABBED
- 31:56THE CAR HIMSELF, I WENT DIRECTLY BACK IN REVERSE, ALL THE WAY
- 32:01ACROSS TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC, MISSING CARS COMING BOTH WAYS,
- 32:05AND LANDED WITH THE REAR END OF THE CAR AGAINST THAT GUARDRAIL
- 32:08ON THE OTHER SIDE WHERE I'D STARTED. NOW, THAT CAR WAS
- 32:13TOTALED ALL THE WAY UP TO WHERE I WAS SITTING. THE ENTIRE BACK
- 32:16SEAT AND EVERYTHING ELSE BEHIND IT WAS GONE. I WAS STILL SITTING
- 32:19IN THE FRONT SEAT, BUT I GOT OUT OF THERE WITHOUT A SCRATCH. WHEN
- 32:23I WAS IN TROUBLE, HE RESCUED ME. AS HE PROMISED, HE PROTECTED ME
- 32:27AND HE PRESERVED MY LIFE. NOW, THESE ARE EXPERIENCES THAT I'VE
- 32:31HAD. THEY'RE NOT ALL YOUR TESTIMONIES. YOU HAVE YOUR OWN.
- 32:34BUT I'M GOING TO SAY GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. WHAT HE'S
- 32:37DONE FOR ME, HE'S GOING TO DO FOR YOU. AND THAT'S FOR YOU OUT
- 32:40THERE ONLINE TOO. GOD CHARGES THE ANGELS TO KEEP US IN ALL OF
- 32:45OUR WAYS. HE ANSWERS WHEN WE'RE IN TROUBLE AND WE'RE IN NEED OF
- 32:50RESCUE. AND HE PROMISES US THAT HE'LL PRESERVE US AND REWARD US
- 32:53WITH A LONG LIFE. AND THERE'S NOTHING MORE VALUABLE THAN THAT
- 32:57ON THIS EARTH, ON THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU,
- 33:01BUT WHEN I THINK OF THESE TYPES OF DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE LORD'S
- 33:04FAVOR AND HIS LOVE FOR US AND HIS GENEROSITY IN KEEPING WATCH
- 33:08OVER US IN EVERY DETAIL, I SIMPLY CAN'T SHRINK BACK. I
- 33:13CAN'T BE FEARFUL. I CAN'T BE HESITANT TO GIVE INTO HIS WORKS.
- 33:18AND AFTER SEEING HOW HE DELIVERS ON HIS PROMISES, I KNOW HE CAN
- 33:22BE TRUSTED TO HOLD UP EVERYONE AND SUPPLY ALL OF OUR NEEDS. SO
- 33:26I INVITE YOU TO SOW INTO THIS WORD TONIGHT, REAP A HARVEST IN
- 33:32THE FUTURE OF PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION BECAUSE AFTER ALL,
- 33:38THERE'S REALLY NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT. SO LET US
- 33:43GIVE GENEROUSLY TONIGHT TO THE ONE WHO COMMANDS THE ANGELS TO
- 33:47KEEP US. THE GIVING INFORMATION WE PUT UP ON THE SCREENS.
- 33:54ENVELOPE, WEBSITE, MOBILE APP, TEXT TO GIVE, QR CODE. MANY
- 34:01WAYS, ANYONE YOU CHOOSE, YOU CAN MAKE AN APPROPRIATE OFFERING TO
- 34:04THE LORD THAT RESCUES, DELIVERS, PROTECTS AND PRESERVES YOU. AND
- 34:08IF YOU HAVEN'T COMPLETED YOUR PENTECOST OFFERING TONIGHT, VERY
- 34:12IMPORTANTLY, WE'VE GOT THE ENVELOPES FOR THAT IN THE SEAT,
- 34:16THE DROPDOWN IS STILL LIVE ON THE WEBSITE, STILL LIVE ON TEXT
- 34:19TO GIVE. IF YOU MADE A PLEDGE THIS PAST SUNDAY DURING THAT
- 34:24SERVICE FOR A PENTECOST OFFERING AND THAT MONEY ALREADY CAME IN,
- 34:28PLEASE BE QUICK TO GIVE IT. THERE'S SPECIAL ENVELOPES, AS I
- 34:32SAID. THIS IS PARTICULARLY CRITICAL RIGHT NOW AND TIME
- 34:37SENSITIVE. AS PASTOR SHARED HIS HEART, I KNOW ON SUNDAY, ABOUT
- 34:43WHERE HE'S GOING, WHAT HE WANTS TO BUILD, AN ACTIVITY CENTER, A
- 34:49SCHOOL, AND ALL THOSE THINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF LOH. THAT SHILOH
- 34:56PROPERTY THAT WE LOOKED AT THREE YEARS AGO OR SO, IT'S RESURFACED
- 35:01FOR SALE AGAIN, AS I THINK HE SAID, AND WE'RE WORKING QUICKLY
- 35:05TO BUILD UP THE FUNDS NEEDED TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. FOR YOU, YOUR
- 35:10CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN. AND THERE ARE OTHER IMPORTANT
- 35:13PROJECTS THAT ARE JUST ABOUT TO MANIFEST THAT WE CAN'T GO INTO
- 35:18RIGHT NOW. SO WE REALLY NEED TO IMPROVE OUR CASH POSITION HERE.
- 35:23WE NEED YOUR HELP. WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
- 35:28THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT. SO I'M
- 35:32GOING TO ASK YOU, ONCE AGAIN, GIVE GENEROUSLY THIS EVENING.
- 35:38AND WHEN YOU'RE READY, WHEN YOU'VE WRITTEN OUT YOUR MILLION
- 35:40DOLLAR CHECKS, OR THOSE THAT ARE LESS THAN A MILLION, WE TAKE
- 35:43THOSE ALSO. WE'RE NOT FUSSY. LET'S HOLD UP OUR ENVELOPES OR
- 35:48OUR PHONES, FOR GIVING ELECTRONICALLY, AND WE'LL
- 35:52DECLARE A BLESSING OVER TONIGHT'S HUGE OFFERING.
- 35:56HEAVENLY FATHER, WE DECREE AND DECLARE THAT AS WE TRUST YOU
- 36:00UNEQUIVOCALLY TO DELIVER US FROM ALL EVIL AND RESCUE US FROM ALL
- 36:04TROUBLE, TO ANSWER US WHEN WE CALL, TO SEND YOUR ANGELS TO
- 36:09PROTECT US AND TO PRESERVE US AND TO GIVE US LONG LIFE. YOU
- 36:13WILL BLESS EVERY GIFT AND EVERY GIVER, BOTH HERE AND ONLINE. WE
- 36:18DO NOT FEAR, WE DO NOT SHRINK BACK, BUT WE GIVE FREELY IN
- 36:21OBEDIENCE TO YOUR PROMPTING. AND WE KNOW WE CAN EXPECT AN
- 36:25ABUNDANT HARVEST TOMORROW IN RETURN FOR THE SEEDS THAT WE SOW
- 36:29HERE TODAY. AND IN THE MIGHTY MATCHLESS NAME OF JESUS, ALL WHO
- 36:33AGREE SAID, AMEN. AND NOW LET'S WELCOME PASTOR BRENDA
- 36:37BACK TO THE PULPIT.
- 36:39AMEN. ALL RIGHT. WELL, YOU CAN BE SEATED AS THE USHERS BEGIN TO
- 36:44SERVE YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT. YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE NEEDS TO
- 36:47BE LIKE A BOOK, KATE, WRITTEN OF PASTOR MARK'S STORIES.
- 36:51I'M LIKE, I'M LIKE THE NUMBER 14 AND ALL THESE THINGS. AND I'M
- 36:56LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, I HAVE MIRACLE STORIES TOO. AND, BUT
- 36:59THE THING OF IT IS, IT'S LIKE, I NEVER GET UP AND THEN ALL OF A
- 37:02SUDDEN REMEMBER THEM LIKE HE DOES. I'M LIKE, THAT'S PRETTY
- 37:04INCREDIBLE. YOU GUYS NEED TO MAKE A JOURNAL CALLED THE MARK
- 37:08LOOMIS MIRACLE STORIES OR SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW, IT'S
- 37:11JUST INCREDIBLE. DON'T YOU LOVE THAT? I LOVE HEARING THOSE
- 37:14THINGS. ANYWAY, IT WAS SO GOOD, SO GOOD. SO, WELL, WE'RE GONNA
- 37:18GET INTO TONIGHT AGAIN, AS ALWAYS, PASTOR SENDS HIS LOVE,
- 37:22AND OF COURSE, HE'LL BE THIS FRIDAY WITH TIM SHEETS AT OASIS
- 37:27CHURCH IN OHIO, SO BE SURE, I'M SURE YOU'LL TUNE IN, I'M SURE
- 37:33THEY'RE STREAMING IT, SO TUNE INTO THAT. IT'S GONNA BE A VERY
- 37:37POWERFUL TIME, SO HOW MANY OF YOU CAUGHT HIM YESTERDAY? ELIJAH
- 37:42STREAMS, FLASHPOINT, AND BY THE WAY, I FEEL LIKE THERE IS NO
- 37:47BETTER MENTOR OF THE PROPHETIC THAN PASTOR HANK KUNNEMAN. I
- 37:50MEAN, I'M NOT COMPARING TO ANYBODY, BUT HE JUST ALWAYS
- 37:54BRINGS SUCH A BALANCED, THOROUGH WORD, AND IN FACT, THAT'S ONE OF
- 37:58THE THINGS WE WANNA DO WITH THE SHILOH PROPERTY, IS BE ABLE TO
- 38:02BUILD A PROPHETIC SCHOOL OF SOME SORT, SO WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY
- 38:06TRAIN AND EQUIP PEOPLE AND JUST REALLY GROW. I FEEL LIKE THE
- 38:10PROPHETIC'S BEEN UNDER ATTACK. SOME OF IT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE
- 38:14HAVE ASKED FOR IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT BEEN HANDLED WELL. I THINK
- 38:18THERE'S PROTOCOLS AND THINGS THAT PROBABLY NEED TO BE TWEAKED
- 38:22AND ADJUSTED, BUT YOU KNOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU THROW THE BABY
- 38:25OUT WITH THE BATHWATER, DOES IT? YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, GUIDE IT
- 38:30AND DEVELOP IT JUST THE SAME WAY THAT IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE
- 38:33CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT, THERE WERE THINGS WITH THE GIFTS OF THE
- 38:36SPIRIT THAT HAD TO BE ADJUSTED. YOU CAN'T JUST TOSS IT, BUT YOU
- 38:40NEED TO GROW IT AND DEVELOP IT. SAME WAY WITH THE MESSAGE OF
- 38:43FAITH. ALL OF THE THINGS, WHENEVER GOD HAS AN OUTPOURING
- 38:47OR A MOVEMENT OF THINGS, THERE NEEDS TO BE A TEACHING ABOUT IT.
- 38:51THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD GAVE SOME APOSTLES,
- 38:55PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, PASTORS, AND TEACHERS FOR THE, WHAT?
- 38:58PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS. THAT MEANS FOR THE GROWTH OF THE
- 39:02SAINTS THAT WE TEACH ON THESE THINGS. BY THE WAY, IT'S GOOD
- 39:05THAT YOU CAME OR TUNED IN ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WE CAN'T DO ALL
- 39:09THE PREACHING ON A SUNDAY, SO IT'S GOOD THAT YOU COME. AND HOW
- 39:13MANY OF YOU STILL LIKE WEDNESDAY NIGHT CHURCH? NOT A LOT OF
- 39:15CHURCHES DO THAT ANYMORE, BUT I THINK IT'S JUST A GOOD
- 39:18OPPORTUNITY. AND YOU GET TO HEAR FROM SOME OF OUR OTHER PASTORS,
- 39:21AND SO WE'RE SO THANKFUL TO ALL OF OUR PASTORAL TEAM FOR JUST
- 39:26THEIR CONTRIBUTION. BUT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE GOOD
- 39:29TEACHING FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS, FOR THE WORK OF THE
- 39:31MINISTRY, TO THE EDIFYING OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. SO WE NEED ALL
- 39:35THE EXPRESSIONS OF THE DIFFERENT MINISTRY GIFTS TO GROW US. SO
- 39:41I'M JUST VERY THANKFUL. I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE RESURFACING OF
- 39:44THE SHILOH PROPERTY, BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE MONEY TO DO IT. SO
- 39:49AS GOD LEADS YOU, JUST BE PART OF THAT. WE'LL BE MAKING MORE
- 39:53ANNOUNCEMENTS ON EXACTLY WHAT THE PLANS ARE. AND BY THE WAY,
- 39:56I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU, YOU WILL BE IN SHOCK HOW THIS CAME
- 40:00ABOUT. IT'S MIRACULOUS. YOU THINK MARK LOOMIS HAS GOOD
- 40:04STORIES. I'M TELLING YOU, THIS IS A GOOD STORY. AND SO WE'RE
- 40:09VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. SO I KNOW IT'S BEEN, THERE'S BEEN
- 40:12SOME THINGS SURFACING. SO JUST BE OBEDIENT TO GOD AND WE'LL BE
- 40:16GIVING YOU SOME FURTHER
- 40:17DIRECTION. INTERNET, BY THE WAY, THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE
- 40:20FAITHFUL E-MEMBERS AND THOSE OF YOU THAT SOW AND GIVE INTO THIS
- 40:24CHURCH AND THE MINISTRY AND HELP US DO WHAT WE DO. IT IS ALL YOU
- 40:29HERE AND YOU THAT MAKE IT SO AMAZING. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY
- 40:33THANK YOU FOR THAT. WELL, LET'S GET INTO THE WORD TONIGHT. NOW
- 40:36WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SOWING AND REAPING, BUT I'M GOING TO
- 40:39KIND OF SHIFT A LITTLE BIT. I KNOW ALL OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS
- 40:43SAYS I'M GOING TO TALK ON SOWING AND REAPING AND FINISH THAT. AND
- 40:45WE'LL GET BACK TO THAT ON A WEDNESDAY. BUT I DON'T KNOW, BOB
- 40:48ROGERS SPARKED SOME THINGS IN ME THAT I WROTE DOWN ON SUNDAY. AND
- 40:53SO I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT
- 40:55ABOUT, HERE IT IS, YOU READY? FINANCIAL PROSPERITY. AND IT'S
- 41:02LIKE A CURSE WORD IN SOME CIRCLES. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
- 41:06PREACH THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HEY, THOSE PROSPERITY PREACHERS,
- 41:09THEY'RE OUT TO GET YOU. AND THERE MAY BE A FEW THAT HAVE
- 41:13MISHANDLED THAT. BUT I THINK THERE IS SOME BIBLICAL
- 41:16RIGHTNESS, IF YOU WILL, THAT WE NEED TO BRING ABOUT. AND OF
- 41:20COURSE, WE REAP WHAT WE SOW. WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT.
- 41:24YOU KNOW, "WHATSOEVER MAN SOWS, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP. BE NOT
- 41:27DECEIVED. GOD'S NOT MOCKED. EVERYTHING IN LIFE'S A SEED."
- 41:30THAT'S WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT LAST TIME I WAS HERE. EVERY SINGLE
- 41:33THING WE DO IS A SEED INTO SOMETHING. EVERY WORD THAT'S
- 41:36SPOKEN, EVERY ACTION, EVERY DECISION, ALL OF THE THINGS WE
- 41:40SAY AND DO ARE SEEDS. AND OF COURSE, GIVING FINANCIALLY IS A
- 41:44SEED, THAT'S TRUE TOO, BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLY SEED.
- 41:48EVERYTHING IN THE EARTH, AS LONG AS THE EARTH REMAINS, GENESIS 8,
- 41:5122 SAYS THAT THERE IS SEED TIME AND HARVEST. AND SO I ALWAYS SAY
- 41:56IT LIKE THIS, PAYDAY ALWAYS COMES, HARVEST DAY ALWAYS COMES.
- 41:59WHAT, IF YOU SOW TO YOUR FLESH, WHAT,
- 42:02YOU'LL OF YOUR FLESH REAP WHAT? CORRUPTION. IF YOU SOW TO
- 42:06SPIRITUAL THINGS, YOU'LL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING.
- 42:10HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPENT THEIR WHOLE LIFE JUST
- 42:14SOWING TO THE FLESH, THEY'VE GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO
- 42:17PROMISCUITY AND DRUGS AND DRUNKENNESS AND ALL OF THESE
- 42:21THINGS AND YOU KNOW, IN FACT I RAN INTO SOMEBODY, THIS PERSON,
- 42:25NOT TOO LONG AGO AND I SAID, "OH, HOW OLD ARE YOU?" AND I
- 42:30MEAN, THEY LOOKED 80, JUST BEAT UP, HAIR FALLING OUT AND YOU
- 42:35KNOW, SKIN AND BONES AND JUST A MESS. THEIR HAIR WAS A DISASTER
- 42:39AND WRINKLED UP ALL OVER THE PLACE AND THEY SAID, "OH, I'M
- 42:4265." AND I THOUGHT, "DEAR LORD, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE 87." BUT
- 42:48YOU KNOW, A LIFE OF THE FLESH WILL HAVE ITS EFFECT EVENTUALLY.
- 42:52AND SO SOWING TO SPIRITUAL THINGS, NOW MAYBE YOU HAD A LIFE
- 42:55OF THE FLESH IN YOUR YOUNG YEARS, AND BUT YOU KNOW, YOU CAN
- 42:59START SOWING TO SPIRITUAL THINGS NOW. AND SO THAT'S THE KEY
- 43:03THING. SO I FEEL LIKE AS WE TALK ABOUT SEED AND HARVEST, IT'S
- 43:06IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT FINANCES. FINANCES, AS WE'VE
- 43:09BEEN SAYING, ISN'T THE ONLY SEED AND HARVEST, BUT IT IS PART OF
- 43:13IT. I BELIEVE IT'S ONE OF THE PRIMARY PARTS OF IT. BUT LET'S
- 43:18TALK ABOUT BIBLICAL PROSPERITY. I'M GONNA GIVE YOU TONIGHT IN
- 43:22ABOUT, OH, 55 MINUTES, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU, MAYBE A LITTLE LESS
- 43:27THAN THAT, SEVEN PRINCIPLES TO PROSPER FINANCIALLY. AND I THINK
- 43:32THESE ARE SO IMPORTANT, THEY'RE BIBLICAL. NOW, WE'LL TALK ABOUT
- 43:35IT, BUT THE FIRST TWO ARE PROBABLY THE PREMIER ONES, AND
- 43:40THEN THE OTHER FIVE ARE THINGS THAT PEOPLE CAN DO WHEN THEY
- 43:43DON'T EVEN KNOW GOD. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN PROSPER FINANCIALLY AND
- 43:46NOT KNOW GOD. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DO. BECAUSE THEY PUT CERTAIN
- 43:50PRINCIPLES, BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICE, ACTUALLY. OKAY, BUT
- 43:55NOW HERE'S THE THING. THE BIBLE HAS, AND IF YOU'VE EVER GOTTEN
- 44:00MY BOOK ON DAILY DECREES FOR DIVINE HEALING, YOU'LL KNOW THAT
- 44:05IN THAT BOOK I TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT GOD HAS ALWAYS HAD A
- 44:09COVENANT FOR OUR HEALTH. ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, AND I GIVE
- 44:13SCRIPTURE AFTER SCRIPTURE, WE WON'T GO INTO THAT, BUT HOW FROM
- 44:16THE OLD TESTAMENT ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT, THERE
- 44:21IS A COVENANT, GOD ALWAYS HAD A PLAN TO HEAL PEOPLE. THE REASON
- 44:26THAT JESUS HEALED PEOPLE WHEN HE CAME TO EARTH AND ON THE, ACROSS
- 44:31NAZARETH AND IN GALILEE, HE DIDN'T JUST HEAL THEM TO SHOW
- 44:35HIS DEITY. PEOPLE OFTEN PREACH THAT, THEY'LL SAY, "WELL, HE
- 44:39ONLY DID IT TO SHOW THAT HE WAS GOD." WELL, THAT'S NOT TRUE,
- 44:41BECAUSE THEN HE PUT THAT SAME POWER UPON THE DISCIPLES, AND HE
- 44:45SAID TO THEM, "NOW YOU TAKE WHAT I'VE GIVEN YOU, "AND YOU GO OUT,
- 44:48AND YOU HEAL THE SICK, "AND YOU RAISE THE DEAD, YOU CAST OUT
- 44:50DEVILS, "AND ALL THE REST." AND HE TAUGHT THEM TO DO THAT SAME
- 44:54PATTERN. AND THAT'S, THEY DID WHAT THEY KNEW TO DO IN THE BOOK
- 44:59OF ACTS. AND THEY WERE FOLLOWING THE PATTERN OF JESUS. SO, GO GET
- 45:04THE BOOK AND YOU CAN READ IT. IT'S IN DAILY DECREES FOR DIVINE
- 45:06HEALING. I TEACH THAT THE PATTERN OF GOD WAS ALWAYS TO
- 45:10BLESS AND TO HEAL PEOPLE. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD ALWAYS HAD A
- 45:13PLAN TO PROSPER HIS PEOPLE. NOW RELIGION WILL TELL US THAT, YOU
- 45:17KNOW, IT'S SOMEHOW BEING BROKE IS SIMULTANEOUS WITH GODLINESS
- 45:22AND BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE MOST GODLY PEOPLE ARE BROKE. WELL,
- 45:25THAT'S A LIE, AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN LINE UP WITH THE BIBLE. SO
- 45:31IF YOU GO, THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHAPTERS ON HEALING. I
- 45:36LOVE HOW PASTOR MARK, HE REFERENCED HOW ALL THAT GOD WILL
- 45:40DO IN PSALM 91, PSALM 112 SAYS, AND IF YOU LOOK AT IT, AND YOU
- 45:45CAN GO THROUGH IT, WE WON'T READ THE WHOLE THING TONIGHT, BUT IF
- 45:47YOU READ THROUGH IT, IT SAYS IN VERSE THREE THAT WEALTH AND
- 45:50RICHES SHALL BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS. NOW THIS
- 45:54ACTUALLY, THIS PSALM, I'LL SAY IT LIKE THIS, THIS PSALM
- 45:58ACTUALLY COVERS ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD TO PROSPER YOU. TOUCH
- 46:03YOURSELF AND SAY GOD WANTS TO PROSPER ME. LOOK AT YOUR
- 46:07NEIGHBOR AND TELL HIM, "GOD WANTS TO PROSPER YOU TOO." GOD'S
- 46:13NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS. NOW, PROSPERITY MAY LOOK DIFFERENT
- 46:19FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE. OKAY, IT'S NOT THE SAME FOR EVERY PERSON.
- 46:23WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY CERTAIN JOBS
- 46:27PAY MORE THAN OTHERS. IF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO GO TO SCHOOL
- 46:30AND BECOME AN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEER PER SE, AND YOU MAKE
- 46:35MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY MAKE NOW, MAYBE OVER SIX FIGURES
- 46:39A YEAR, IF THEY'RE GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO, AND SO MAYBE YOU WENT
- 46:44TO SCHOOL FOR THAT, BUT IF SOMEBODY, THEIR JOB AND TRADE
- 46:48WAS TO MAYBE WAIT TABLES, THAT'S GONNA MAKE LESS MONEY, RIGHT,
- 46:53THAN MAYBE THE PERSON THAT INVESTED IN THAT AS THEIR
- 46:57MEASURE TO PROSPER, BUT GOD WILL STILL PROSPER PEOPLE REGARDLESS
- 47:03OF WHAT THEIR JOB LEVEL IS. BUT PROSPERITY MAY LOOK DIFFERENT TO
- 47:07EACH PERSON. ARE YOU TRACKING WITH ME? SO WE READ THROUGHOUT
- 47:12PSALM 112 THAT GOD SAID, "WEALTH AND RICHES SHALL BE IN THE HOUSE
- 47:15OF THE RIGHTEOUS." YOU'LL SEE IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, YOU CAN GO
- 47:19HOME AND STUDY IT, BUT IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, YOU'LL SEE THE
- 47:21ATTITUDE OF OUR FAITH REGARDING PROSPERITY. YOU'LL SEE WEALTH
- 47:25MANAGEMENT IN THERE, RIGHT? IT SAID HE'LL GUIDE HIS AFFAIRS
- 47:29WITH DISCRETION AND GOOD JUDGMENT. THAT'S PART OF
- 47:31PROSPERING. OKAY, YOU'VE GOTTA HANDLE YOUR MONEY WELL. WE'LL
- 47:34TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT TONIGHT. IT TALKS ABOUT THAT
- 47:38HE'LL NOT BE FEARFUL OR MOVED FOREVER IN PSALM 112. WELL,
- 47:44THAT'S FINANCIAL FEAR. ANYBODY EVER HAD FINANCIAL FEAR BEFORE?
- 47:47I HAVE, I HAD SOME FINANCIAL FEAR WHEN WE BUILT THIS
- 47:51BUILDING. I THOUGHT, OH DEAR LORD, HELP US SPEND IT RIGHT,
- 47:57GOD. BUT SO EVERYBODY'S BEEN THERE. EVERYBODY'S HAD THAT FROM
- 48:01TIME TO TIME. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN WHERE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW
- 48:03YOU'RE GONNA PAY YOUR RENT OR YOUR MORTGAGE, I'VE BEEN THERE,
- 48:07OKAY? YOU'RE NOT ALONE IF THAT'S YOU. BUT HERE IT SAYS THAT THE
- 48:12ONE THAT TRUSTS GOD WITH THEIR FINANCES WON'T BE MOVED FOREVER.
- 48:16THIS CHAPTER, PSALM 112, TALKS ABOUT GIVING TO THE POOR AND
- 48:21THAT YOU'LL BE BLESSED FOR IT. IT SAYS THAT YOU DELIGHT IN
- 48:24GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. WELL, HOW CAN YOU DELIGHT FINANCIALLY IN
- 48:27GOD'S COMMANDMENTS? TITHE, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE
- 48:30BIT. AND THEN IT GOES ON, AND MY FAVORITE VERSE IN THAT WHOLE
- 48:33CHAPTER IS THE LAST ONE. IT SAYS, "THE WICKED WILL SEE YOUR
- 48:37PROSPERITY "AND THEY'LL BE GRIEVED FOR IT." YOU EVER NOTICE
- 48:40HOW PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THEY ALL GET MAD IF THE PREACHER HAS A
- 48:43PLANE? YOU KNOW, NOW HERE'S THE THING, IF THEY NEED ONE, YOU
- 48:47KNOW, I MEAN, NOBODY'D BE MAD IF THEY HAD A PLANE. YOU EVER
- 48:52FIGURE THAT OUT? ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WRITE AND SAY, WELL, THE
- 48:55PREACHER SHOULDN'T HAVE A PLANE, THEY WOULDN'T BE MAD IF THEY HAD
- 48:58ONE. AND THEY WOULDN'T CRITICIZE ANYBODY ELSE THAT HAD ONE. THEY
- 49:03WOULD BE HAPPY THEY HAD A PLANE. NOW, I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU,
- 49:06THERE'S PART OF ME THAT WOULDN'T WANNA OWN A PLANE. THEY ARE A
- 49:08BIG RESPONSIBILITY. AND I'M LIKE, GOD, I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M
- 49:12CALLED TO TRAVEL THAT MUCH TO MAKE SENSE OF IT. BUT YOU KNOW,
- 49:16WE'LL DO WHAT WE CAN. AND THANK YOU, BY THE WAY, THOSE OF YOU
- 49:19THAT HELP WITH THE TRAVEL FUND, IT'S HELPING US TO GO PLACES,
- 49:22ESPECIALLY PASTOR HANK. BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN IT MAKES SENSE, WE'LL
- 49:25TRAVEL COMMERCIAL. IN FACT, WE HAVE A TRIP COMING UP WHERE
- 49:28WE'RE GONNA TAKE COMMERCIAL AIRLINE. I DON'T WANNA PAY THE
- 49:30EXTRA TO GO A SHORT TRIP. SO IF GOD CAN GET US OUT OF OMAHA ON
- 49:35AMERICAN AIRLINES, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, AMEN. BUT THE
- 49:39THING OF IT IS, IS THE KEY PART IS THE WICKED, THEY DON'T LIKE
- 49:43THE RIGHTEOUS TO PROSPER. THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO PROSPER, OKAY?
- 49:48YOU KNOW, THE PREACHER MIGHT GET CRITICIZED FOR BEING ABLE TO USE
- 49:52A JET TO GO SOMEWHERE, BUT GENERAL CHRISTIANS CAN BE
- 49:56CRITICIZED BY THEIR RELATIVES BECAUSE THEY GOT A NEW CAR.
- 50:00WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU TITHED, YOU SOWED. THEY DON'T KNOW THAT YOU
- 50:04BELIEVE FOR THEM. WELL, YOU KNOW, I KNEW SOMEBODY ONE TIME,
- 50:06THEY SAID, "WELL, MY WHOLE FAMILY GOT MAD THAT I GOT A NEW
- 50:09CUTE RED CAR." AND THEY ARE ALL UPSET. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE,
- 50:14NOBODY IN OUR FAMILIES HAD A NEW CAR. OKAY, BUT SEE, IT TAKES THE
- 50:19RIGHTEOUS TO BREAK IT. BUT YOU KNOW, THE WICKED WERE GRIEVED
- 50:21WHEN THEY GOT THE NEW CAR. NOW, PROSPERITY ISN'T ALL ABOUT
- 50:26FINANCES, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FINANCIAL PROSPERITY
- 50:28TODAY. SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD PEOPLE
- 50:30TALK ABOUT THE WEALTH AND THE HEALTH GOSPEL? WELL, THE TWO
- 50:33THINGS PEOPLE DEAL WITH THE MOST ARE THEIR MONEY AND THEIR
- 50:35HEALTH. SO WE MIGHT AS WELL TALK ABOUT IT AND BE HONEST AND READ
- 50:40FROM THE BIBLE. AND IF YOU READ FROM THE BIBLE, YOU'LL FIND OUT
- 50:44THAT GOD WANTS YOU WELL AND HE WANTS YOU WELL SUPPLIED FOR.
- 50:48COME ON, SOMEBODY. AND THAT'S BIBLICAL. THAT'S NOT JUST
- 50:52PROSPERITY PREACHING. I ALWAYS SAY, YOU KNOW, LISTEN, I HAVEN'T
- 50:56LIKED EVERYTHING PEOPLE PREACH ON PROSPERITY. JUST BE HONEST,
- 50:59THIS IS JUST ME. HOWEVER, IF PEOPLE WOULD TAKE A MOMENT JUST
- 51:03TO HEAR THE BIBLE OF IT AND HEAR BIBLICAL TRUTHS SURROUNDING IT,
- 51:08THEY MIGHT NOT BE SO CRITICAL. THEY'LL FIND THAT IT'S ACTUALLY
- 51:11IN THE SCRIPTURE. WEALTH AND RICHES SHALL BE IN THE HOUSE OF
- 51:14THE RIGHTEOUS. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT THEN CHOP IT OUT
- 51:18OF YOUR BIBLE AND CALL IT HERESY. BUT NOBODY WANTS
- 51:21TO DO THAT. THAT'S WHAT THE WORD SAYS. SO, IF GOD
- 51:25SAID THAT HE'LL PROSPER YOU, THEN TAKE IT AND BELIEVE IT
- 51:28AND HOLD ONTO IT. ALWAYS SAYING, DON'T BE STUPID, TAKE
- 51:32THE PROMISES OF SCRIPTURE FOR YOURSELF. AMEN.
- 51:37ALRIGHT, SO LETS GET INTO IT. LET ME JUST,
- 51:39I WANT TO PREFACE A COUPLE MORE
- 51:41THINGS. I ALWAYS TRY NOT TO GO TOO LONG IN MY INTRO, BUT
- 51:44THERE'S ALWAYS SO MUCH TO SAY. THAT FIRST OF ALL, ESTABLISHING
- 51:48YOUR HEART THAT GOD WANTS TO PROSPER HIS PEOPLE. JUST MARK
- 51:52THAT DOWN. AND IF YOU AREN'T SURE OF THAT, TAKE SOME TIME IN
- 51:56YOUR LIFE TO GO THROUGH THE BIBLE AND SEE HOW GOD PROSPERED
- 51:59ALL OF HIS PATRIARCHS OF THE OLD COVENANT. JESUS' MINISTRY WAS
- 52:04PROSPEROUS, OKAY? THEY HAD A BOAT, HE HAD A TREASURER. YOU
- 52:07DON'T NEED A TREASURER IF YOU'RE BROKE. OKAY, HOW MANY OF YOU IN
- 52:11THIS ROOM AND THOSE WATCHING HAVE HIRED A PERSONAL TREASURER?
- 52:16I MEAN, YES, SPEAK THAT. OKAY, VERY FEW PEOPLE HAVE A PERSONAL
- 52:23ACCOUNTANT FOR THEIR OWN FINANCES. AND USUALLY IT'S THE
- 52:26ONES THAT ARE FILTHY RICH, RIGHT? SO JESUS' MINISTRY, HE
- 52:32HAD A TREASURER, OKAY? AND SO YOU CAN EVEN GO THROUGH THE
- 52:36SCRIPTURE AND FIND THAT JESUS' MINISTRY WAS WELL SUPPORTED BY
- 52:39WEALTHY PEOPLE. JOHN CHAPTER EIGHT, JOHANNA, THE WIFE OF
- 52:44CHUSA, HEROD'S STEWARD OR WHOEVER SHE WAS, SHE WAS A WOMAN
- 52:48OF STATURE. AND THEY SUPPORTED JESUS' MINISTRY OUT OF THEIR
- 52:53SUBSTANCE. SO JUST GET THAT DOWN, NUMBER ONE, THAT GOD WANTS
- 52:56TO PROSPER YOU AND SEE THAT. NOW YOUR FINANCES MAY LOOK EXACTLY
- 53:00THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. AND IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL LOOK AT IS
- 53:03YOUR FINANCES AND NOT WHAT GOD HAS SAID, THEN YOU'LL HAVE WHAT
- 53:06YOU LOOK AT. AMEN, AND THAT'S NOT TO BE HARSH, RIGHT? BUT WE
- 53:10HAVE TO BREAK A FINANCIAL MENTALITY. THE CHURCH, RELIGION
- 53:15HAS MADE THE CHURCH AFRAID OF THE TOPIC OF MONEY. WELL, I JUST
- 53:18SAY WE SMACK IT BETWEEN THE EYES AND WE DISCUSS IT PLAINLY AND DO
- 53:23IT IN A BALANCED AND TRUTHFUL WAY. SO PEOPLE WILL CRITICIZE
- 53:26AND SAY, YEAH, BUT IF YOU HAVE TOO MUCH, YOU'LL BE COVETOUS, AS
- 53:30IF COVETOUSNESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH WEALTH OR THAT SOMEHOW
- 53:36FINANCIAL LIMITATION IS THE VEHICLE TO AVOID IT. WELL,
- 53:40THAT'S NOT TRUE, OKAY? 'CAUSE GOD WOULDN'T SAY WEALTH AND
- 53:43RICHES WILL BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS. IF YOU ACTUALLY
- 53:46STUDY, AND IT'D BE GREAT IF WE HAD TIME TO DO IT, IF YOU
- 53:50ACTUALLY STUDY THE COVETOUSNESS IN THE SCRIPTURE, YOU'LL FIND,
- 53:55IN FACT, I WROTE A COUPLE SCRIPTURES DOWN, BUT YOU'LL FIND
- 53:59THAT IT'S OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER SINS OF THE FLESH. A LOT
- 54:03OF COVETOUSNESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH DISHONESTY, IT'S ASSOCIATED
- 54:07WITH POOR BUSINESS PRACTICES, SHADY DEALS, IT'S OFTEN
- 54:12ASSOCIATED WITH SEXUAL IMMORALITY, LASCIVIOUSNESS, ALL
- 54:17OF THE SINS OF THE FLESH, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WITH SOME OF
- 54:20THE WEALTHIEST OF THE WORLD, IT WASN'T JUST THAT THEY WERE
- 54:24COVETOUS OF MONEY, THEY USED IT FOR EVIL THINGS. BUT IMAGINE IF
- 54:31WEALTH IS IN THE HANDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS WHOSE HEART'S FOR GOD,
- 54:36THEY'RE NOT GONNA USE IT TO ABORT BABIES, THEY'RE NOT GONNA
- 54:39USE IT TO TRAFFIC CHILDREN, THEY'RE GONNA USE IT FOR
- 54:44RIGHTEOUS PURPOSES, THEY'RE GONNA USE IT TO HELP THE GOSPEL
- 54:48GO FORTH IN AN UNHINDERED WAY. THE REASON THE WORLD HAS HAD
- 54:52SUCH POWER IS BECAUSE THE CHURCH BELIEVES IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
- 54:56BROKE AND THE WORLD IS OUT THERE TAKING PROSPERITY BY STORM. IT'S
- 55:01TIME FOR THE CHURCH, COME ON, TO TAKE GOD'S BIBLICAL PROMISES
- 55:07THAT GOD WANTS YOU BLESSED. HALLELUJAH. NOW, 1 TIMOTHY 6, I
- 55:13WISH I COULD BREAK THAT DOWN, BUT LET ME, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET'S
- 55:16TURN THERE REALLY FAST. I'M GONNA SAY IT IN SPEED. LET'S GO.
- 55:20FIRST TIMOTHY SIX TALKS ABOUT COVETOUSNESS, AND I'M GONNA JUST
- 55:23READ THIS TO YOU, AND THE LOVE OF MONEY, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
- 55:26HEARD THAT? PEOPLE SAY MONEY'S THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. NO, WE
- 55:29KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE. IT'S THE LOVE OF MONEY THAT IS THE ROOT
- 55:32OF ALL EVIL. FIRST TIMOTHY SIX, LOOK AT VERSE SIX, "BUT
- 55:36GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN." THAT WORD
- 55:39CONTENTMENT IN THE GREEK IS THE WORD TO BE SUFFICIENT, TO HAVE
- 55:44ALL SUFFICIENCY. YOU KNOW, IN 2 CORINTHIANS 9, WE QUOTE IT
- 55:48OFTEN. IT SAYS THAT TO THE SOWER, THE PERSON THAT GIVES
- 55:52OFFERINGS LIBERALLY AND IS FAITHFUL IN THEIR GIVING, THAT
- 55:58THEY SHALL HAVE, COME ON, ALL SUFFICIENCY IN A FEW THINGS. NO,
- 56:04IT SAYS IN ALL THINGS. WELL, DOES ALL THINGS INCLUDE YOUR
- 56:06FINANCES? YOU SHOULD ALWAYS LIVE A SUFFICIENT LIFE. THAT MEANS
- 56:12THAT YOU'RE NOT STRUGGLING FROM PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK. YOU'RE NOT
- 56:15HAVING A HARD TIME PAYING YOUR BILLS. YOU'RE NOT STRUGGLING TO
- 56:18MAKE ENDS MEET. YOU'RE NOT QUESTIONING WHETHER YOU COULD GO
- 56:21BUY A NEW DRESS ALL THE TIME. YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT,
- 56:25YOU KNOW, DO I HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN BUYING TOILET PAPER OR
- 56:28PAPER TOWEL? YOU'RE ABLE TO BE SUFFICIENT AND GO THROUGH THE
- 56:33GROCERY STORE AND GET WHAT YOU NEED FOR YOUR FAMILY AND IF A
- 56:36FEW EXTRA THINGS HOPS IN YOUR CART, THEN SO BE IT. I MEAN, IF
- 56:41YOU EVER WENT IN FOR FOUR THINGS AND CAME OUT WITH 15, OH LORDY.
- 56:46I DID A GROCERY ORDER THE OTHER DAY, I THOUGHT I JUST NEED SOME
- 56:49LETTUCE. AND OH MY GOODNESS, YOU KNOW, I WENT OUT WITH 12 SACKS.
- 56:55HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? YOU KNOW, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD NOT BE
- 56:59FEARFUL OF THAT. AMEN. YOU KNOW, I'M SITTING THERE WONDERING IF
- 57:03YOU COULD BUY YOUR KIDS SOME POPSICLES BECAUSE MONEY IS SO
- 57:08TIGHT. WE GOTTA BREAK THAT CEILING SOMEHOW. SO
- 57:11COVETOUSNESS, HE SAID THAT YOU WOULD HAVE ALL SUFFICIENCY WITH
- 57:14ALL THINGS, GOD, OR I'M SORRY, GO BACK. GODLINESS WITH
- 57:17CONTENTMENT OR SUFFICIENCY IS A GREAT GAIN. SO GOD WANTS YOU
- 57:21SUFFICIENT. FOR WE BROUGHT NOTHING INTO THIS WORLD AND WE
- 57:25CERTAINLY CAN CARRY NOTHING OUT. AND HAVING FOOD AND CLOTHES, LET
- 57:29US THEREFORE BE CONTENT. THAT WORD CONTENT MEANS THAT YOU'RE
- 57:33CHILL WITH IT. NOW WE ALWAYS THINK IT MEANS CONTENT AS IF,
- 57:38OH, I SHOULD HAVE JUST ENOUGH AND NOT MORE. I'M JUST CONTENT
- 57:41WITH MY RIPPED UP SOFA. I'M JUST CONTENT WITH THESE
- 57:46HAND-ME-DOWNS. I'M CONTENT. THIS IS WHAT I LIVE IN AND I'M
- 57:51CONTENT. NO, CONTENT MEANS THAT WE ARE TO BE CONTENT AND CONTENT
- 57:56MEANS THAT WE DON'T, PART OF NOT BEING CONTENT FINANCIALLY IS TO
- 58:00BE FINANCIALLY FEARFUL. OKAY, YOU'RE NOT CONTENT WHEN YOU'RE
- 58:03TERRIFIED THAT YOU CAN'T, CAN YOU PAY YOUR MORTGAGE. YOU ARE
- 58:08NOT CONTENT, THAT IS NOT CONTENTMENT. YOU'RE NOT CONTENT
- 58:11WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE GONNA LOSE YOUR JOB.
- 58:15THAT'S NOT FINANCIAL CONTENTMENT. GOD WANTS YOU TO BE
- 58:19SUFFICIENT. SO LET US BE CONTENT IN THE SITUATION WE'RE IN. BE
- 58:24CONTENT WITH THE STUFF WE HAVE. BE AT PEACE WITH IT. DON'T BE
- 58:29WORKED UP. AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, AND HE CLARIFIES IT A
- 58:32LITTLE BIT, HE SAID, "FOR THEY THAT WILL BE RICH FALL INTO
- 58:37TEMPTATION." OH, SEE THERE, PASTOR BRENDA, SEE? IF YOU HAVE
- 58:40A DESIRE TO HAVE WEALTH, YOU'RE GONNA FALL INTO TEMPTATION. NOW
- 58:44THAT WORD FALL OR WILL MEANS, IF YOU LOOK IT UP IN OTHER
- 58:49TRANSLATIONS, IT MEANS TO HAVE A LONGING LUST FOR MONEY. NOW JUST
- 58:54BECAUSE YOU MAKE MONEY AND ARE WEALTHY DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE A
- 58:58LONGING LUST FOR FINANCES. THERE ARE THINGS THAT GOD HAS DONE IN
- 59:03OUR LIFE SUPERNATURALLY AND PROSPERED US THAT WE DID NOT
- 59:08HAVE A LONGING LUST FOR. IT JUST HAPPENED. COME ON. I MEAN, YOU
- 59:13KNOW, THAT IT SHOCKED US. AND I'M LIKE, WOW, GOD, YOU REALLY
- 59:16BLESSED US RIGHT HERE. YOU REALLY DID THIS. YOU KNOW, I'M
- 59:19SURPRISED BY IT. THERE WAS NO LONGING LUST TO HAVE THAT
- 59:23HAPPEN. OKAY, PEOPLE THAT HAVE A LONGING LUST FOR MONEY DO CRAZY
- 59:28THINGS. OKAY, THEY BECOME SHADY SALESPEOPLE. THEY CHEAT ON THEIR
- 59:33TAXES. THEY DO DISHONEST THINGS. OKAY, ARE YOU TRACKING WITH ME?
- 59:39SO THOSE THAT HAVE A LUST TO BE RICH. LISTEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE
- 59:43SAW BACK IN 2020, REMEMBER ALL THE LOOTING THAT HAPPENED AFTER
- 59:47THE GEORGE FLOYD RIOTS AND PEOPLE WERE GOING INTO STORES
- 59:51AND TAKING OUT TELEVISIONS AND STEREOS AND ROBBING PLACES $250
- 59:57TENNIS SHOES OR WHATEVER THEY COST, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, BUT
- 1:00:00THEY WERE EXPENSIVE. AND THEY WENT AND TOOK ALL THESE OUT OF
- 1:00:04THE STORE. THAT IS THOSE THAT DESIRE TO BE RICH FALL INTO A
- 1:00:08SNARE. BECAUSE THOSE THAT HAVE A LUST TO HAVE WEALTH AND GAIN IT
- 1:00:15BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY WILL FALL INTO A SNARE. BUT IF YOU,
- 1:00:20YOU KNOW, AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU THINK THAT GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU
- 1:00:23TO BE RICH OR HAVE WEALTH IN THIS WORLD, THEN DON'T TAKE A
- 1:00:28RAISE AT WORK AGAIN. OKAY, PEOPLE THAT WILL PREACH THAT,
- 1:00:33COME ON, I'M GONNA PREACH SENSE TO YOU RIGHT NOW. PEOPLE THAT
- 1:00:37WILL PREACH THAT WILL SIT THERE AND GO, WELL, I THINK I NEED TO
- 1:00:40GO FIND A JOB THAT PAYS ME MORE. RIGHT? PEOPLE THAT, THEY'LL SAY,
- 1:00:45THEY'LL STAND THERE AND SAY, ALL DAY LONG, WELL, I DON'T KNOW
- 1:00:49THAT GOD WANTS ME BLESSED. AND THEN TURN AROUND IN THE NEXT
- 1:00:53SENTENCE AND GO AND TRY TO GET A RAISE. NOW THAT MAKES NO SENSE
- 1:00:58TO ME. NONE AT ALL. OKAY, IF YOU THINK GOD WANTS YOU TO BE POOR,
- 1:01:03THEN EMBRACE IT. EMBRACE IT, TAKE HOLD OF IT. SELL YOUR STUFF
- 1:01:13AND LIVE ON A CAMP CHAIR UNDER A BRIDGE. IF THAT IS HOW YOU
- 1:01:19BELIEVE. SERIOUSLY, THAT MAKES NO SENSE. SO, THOSE THAT FALL,
- 1:01:26WHEN PEOPLE WENT INTO THESE STORES AND THEY RIOTED AND DID
- 1:01:29ALL OF THESE THINGS, AND MY NECKLACE IS NOT TOUCHING THAT
- 1:01:33MIC, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON UP IN HERE. BUT PASTOR,
- 1:01:35YOU KNOW, PASTOR BRENDA
- 1:01:36AND LAPELS GET ALONG REALLY GOOD. THEY THAT WILL BE
- 1:01:40RICH OR HAVE A LONGING LUST, THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS, WILL
- 1:01:45FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE. THOSE PEOPLE, YOU CAN
- 1:01:49COMMIT THAT SIN AND NOT HAVE A DIME TO YOUR NAME. OKAY, PEOPLE
- 1:01:54GO ROB A CONVENIENCE STORE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LONGING LUST
- 1:01:58TO GET MONEY IN THEIR HANDS. AND INTO MANY FOOLISH AND HURTFUL
- 1:02:03LUSTS, WHICH WE SAW, WHICH DROWN MEN IN DESTRUCTION AND
- 1:02:06PERDITION. WE'VE SEEN IT. FOR THE LOVE, THAT WORD LOVE THERE,
- 1:02:11IF YOU LOOK IT UP, IS THE WORD AVARICE. IT MEANS TO HAVE AN
- 1:02:16INSATIABLE THIRST TO GET A HOLD OF MONEY. THAT'S WHY PEOPLE
- 1:02:20STEAL AND ROB THINGS. THEY DON'T WANNA WORK FOR IT, THEY JUST
- 1:02:23WANNA TAKE WHAT SOMEBODY ELSE HAS. BY THE WAY, AND THAT'S WHAT
- 1:02:27SOCIALISM IS. FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL,
- 1:02:32NOT SOME, BUT ALL EVIL. OKAY, THEN SO I WANNA SAY, BUT WHAT IF
- 1:02:37YOU HAVE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE GOD AND WANNA HANDLE MONEY
- 1:02:40RIGHT? HOW WILL THEY DO IT? IT WON'T BE THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL,
- 1:02:44IT'LL BE THE ROOT OF ALL BLESSING. THINK ABOUT THAT.
- 1:02:48WHICH WHILE SOME COVETED AFTER, THEY ERRED FROM THE FAITH. SO
- 1:02:52THEIR FOCUS BECAME THEIR WEALTH AND NOT GOD. I'M GONNA TELL YOU,
- 1:02:57TITHING WILL CURE YOU FROM HAVING A LUST FOR THINGS. SO
- 1:03:04DON'T ASSOCIATE WEALTH WITH COVETOUSNESS. THERE ARE PEOPLE
- 1:03:07THAT HARDLY HAVE 10 CENTS THAT COMMIT THAT SIN EVERY DAY. SO
- 1:03:12COVETOUSNESS AND WEALTH DO NOT NECESSARILY GO TOGETHER. SO
- 1:03:16THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING. SO ANYWAY, LET'S TALK NOW, LET'S
- 1:03:19SKIP FORWARD. I'M GONNA GO QUICK. I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME
- 1:03:22ALREADY. ARE YOU GETTING ANYTHING SO FAR? AMEN. LET ME
- 1:03:27GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF REASONS WHY GOD'S PEOPLE OUGHT TO PROSPER.
- 1:03:30OKAY. SOME WILL SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YEAH, FINANCIAL BLESSING
- 1:03:36CAN COME WITH HARD WORK, BUT WE'LL STILL GO ON TO CRITICIZE
- 1:03:40EXERCISING ANY FAITH FOR FINANCES. I THINK WE OUGHT TO
- 1:03:43EXERCISE MORE FAITH. I DON'T THINK WE EXERCISE ENOUGH. I
- 1:03:47THINK ANOTHER REASON GOD'S PEOPLE SHOULD PROSPER, IT'S
- 1:03:50ENOUGH OF ENOUGH OF ENOUGH THAT THE WORLD HAS ALL THE FUNDS,
- 1:03:54OKAY? THESE SECULAR COMPANIES THAT BUILD THESE BIG THINGS, YOU
- 1:03:58KNOW? I MEAN, THEY WROTE THAT HIT PIECE ON THE CHURCH, "OH,
- 1:04:01THEY HAVE THIS BIG OLD BUILDING, AND THEY'RE JUST BUYING UP ALL
- 1:04:04OF MILLARD AND, YOU KNOW, AND ALL THAT." AND I'M LIKE, "WHAT,
- 1:04:07FOUR BUILDINGS?" YOU CAN HARDLY CALL THE ONE ACROSS THE ROAD A
- 1:04:12BUILDING. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, PAINT CAN'T EVEN FIX THE PIZZA
- 1:04:17BUILDING. HELP US, LORD. IT'S IN ROUGH SHAPE, I'LL BE HONEST WITH
- 1:04:22YOU, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PROTECTING OUR PARKING, AND IT'S
- 1:04:25GOOD. AND WE'RE GOOD TO OUR TENANTS, BY THE WAY, AND WE
- 1:04:28TREAT THEM ALL REALLY WELL. BUT, YOU KNOW, WELL, THEY'RE BUYING
- 1:04:31UP ALL OF MILLARD AND ALL THAT, AND I'M LIKE, "WELL, IF YOUR
- 1:04:34COMPANY BOUGHT UP ALL OF MILLARD, YOU WOULDN'T BE UPSET."
- 1:04:39PEOPLE JUST, IT'S CRAZY. THEY'RE JUST MAD BECAUSE THE KINGDOM HAS
- 1:04:43IT. OKAY? THE WICKED SHALL SEE YOUR PROSPERITY AND BE GRIEVED
- 1:04:47BY IT. AND GUESS WHAT THOUGH? BUT THE CHURCH PEOPLE, WE'RE
- 1:04:51GLAD BY IT. AMEN. AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU GET TO COME TO A PRETTY
- 1:04:56CHURCH? COME ON, SOMEBODY. I DON'T MIND IT AT ALL. I PREACHED
- 1:05:01IN SOME REALLY ROUGH LOOKING CHURCHES IN MY DAY. AND LISTEN,
- 1:05:04IF THAT'S ALL THEY GOT, I'M OKAY WITH THAT. BUT CAN I JUST TELL
- 1:05:08YOU, IF YOU'VE GONE TO A REALLY BEAT UP CHURCH OR YOU'VE GONE TO
- 1:05:11A PRETTY CHURCH, IT'S A LITTLE MORE FUN TO GO TO A NICE ONE.
- 1:05:15HALLELUJAH. OH BOY. ALL RIGHT. SEVEN BIBLICAL GUIDELINES FOR
- 1:05:22PROSPERITY. LET'S GO QUICK. YOU READY? NUMBER ONE, THE FIRST TWO
- 1:05:27ARE THE SUPERNATURAL ONES, TITHES AND OFFERINGS. NOW YOU
- 1:05:31KNEW THAT WAS COMING, THAT I'M GONNA SAY THAT, BUT THE BIBLE
- 1:05:34SAYS, PROVERBS 3, DON'T, YOU KNOW, JUST, YOU KNOW, SAY, WELL,
- 1:05:38PASTOR BRENDA, IT'S JUST BEEN SO HARD TO TITHE, AND MONEY, MY
- 1:05:41MONEY'S TITHED, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST, I CAN'T, AND SO
- 1:05:45PEOPLE IGNORE IT. I LOVE WHAT R.T. KENDALL SAID MANY YEARS
- 1:05:48AGO, IT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SAYINGS IN HIS BOOK ON TITHING.
- 1:05:51HE SAID MOST PEOPLE ARE ALLERGIC TO TITHING BECAUSE THEY DON'T
- 1:05:57WANNA GIVE UP THAT TENTH OF THEIR WEALTH. BUT IF YOU CONNECT
- 1:06:04YOURSELF TO THE PROMISE OF TITHING AND YOU REALLY BELIEVE
- 1:06:07THE BIBLE AND WHAT IT SAYS, I MEAN, YOU THINK ABOUT, I CAN
- 1:06:11PICTURE A LOT OF THINGS AND WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE THE WINDOWS OF
- 1:06:13HEAVEN OPENED OVER ME. I CAN THINK, AND THE SCRIPTURE SAYS
- 1:06:18THAT THERE'LL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE THAT. NOW, COME ON
- 1:06:21SOMEBODY, THAT IS NOT AN EMOTIONAL BLESSING. NOT HAVE
- 1:06:25ROOM TO RECEIVE IT. OKAY, THAT MEANS, I DON'T KNOW, YOUR HOUSE,
- 1:06:31YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, I MEAN, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY DIDN'T
- 1:06:34HAVE THE INTERNET, BUT MAYBE IT MEANT THAT YOUR BARN WOULD BE
- 1:06:37TOO FULL. YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ROOM, YOU'D HAVE TO BUILD A NEW
- 1:06:41BARN. YOU HEARD ME TELL THE STORY ABOUT OUR FREEZER. I MEAN,
- 1:06:44YOU KNOW, AND WE FINALLY RETIRED. ACTUALLY, IT'S NOT
- 1:06:47RETIRED, IT'S JUST, IT'S RUNNING UNUSED. I FINALLY TOLD PASTOR, I
- 1:06:53SAID, I NEED A NEW ONE THAT DEFROSTS ITSELF. WE CAN KEEP IT
- 1:06:59AROUND, BUT YOU KNOW, IT CAN SIT THERE AND WE'LL JUST REMEMBER.
- 1:07:04BUT YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES GOD WILL JUST BLESS YOU IN WAYS YOU DON'T
- 1:07:07HAVE ROOM TO RECEIVE IT, AND YOU BETTER GET READY FOR THAT. AND
- 1:07:10PREPARE YOUR HOUSE. YOU KNOW, I'VE TOLD PEOPLE BEFORE, IF
- 1:07:14YOU'RE BELIEVING GOD TO HAVE A CHILD AND DOCTORS HAVE TOLD YOU,
- 1:07:18YOU'RE BARREN, MAKE A NURSERY. DO SOME BOLD THINGS. OKAY,
- 1:07:24BELIEVE THE WORD OF THE LORD. BELIEVE GOD'S WORD. IF HE SAID
- 1:07:29HE'LL OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR OUT A BLESSING TO THE
- 1:07:34TITHER AND THOSE THAT GIVE THEIR OFFERINGS, THEN TAKE IT AND
- 1:07:38BELIEVE IT AS IF GOD CAME DOWN AND SAT WITH YOU ON THE COUCH
- 1:07:42AND SAID IT TO YOU PERSONALLY. AMEN. SO PROVERBS 3:9, HONOR
- 1:07:49THE LORD WITH YOUR SUBSTANCE. OKAY, THAT'S ONE OF THE PREMIER
- 1:07:53WAYS TO HONOR GOD. I MEAN, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT TITHING
- 1:07:56THAT UNLOCKS YOU. "WELL, PASTOR BRENDA, IT'S HARD, I'VE BEEN
- 1:08:01UNABLE." WELL, START HONORING GOD SOMEWHERE, OKAY? HONOR GOD
- 1:08:06WITH YOUR SUBSTANCE. DON'T JUST IGNORE IT. "WELL, I CAN'T
- 1:08:10TITHE." YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TURN YOUR SPIRITUAL DEAFNESS ON EVERY
- 1:08:14SUNDAY OFFERING. NO, RESPOND, START, DO SOMETHING, REACT, ACT
- 1:08:22TO IT. START TELLING YOURSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT, I BELIEVE THE
- 1:08:25WORD. HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR SUBSTANCE, AND WATCH THIS, THE
- 1:08:29FIRST FRUITS OF ALL YOUR INCREASE. NOW, DO WE BELIEVE
- 1:08:34VERSE 10 OR NOT? SO SHALL THY BARNS BE FILLED WITH WHAT? WITH
- 1:08:42PLENTY. WELL, THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE NOT HAVING ENOUGH. YOUR
- 1:08:48BARNS WILL BE FILLED WITH PLENTY AND YOUR PRESSES BURST OUT WITH
- 1:08:51NEW WINE. NOW WE WON'T GO ON TO READ MALACHI, 2 CORINTHIANS, WE
- 1:08:55ALREADY QUOTED IT. YOU'LL HAVE ALL SUFFICIENCY IN ALL THINGS.
- 1:08:57BELIEVE THE PROMISES CONNECTED TO TITHING. BELIEVE IT. HOLD ON
- 1:09:02TO IT. STAND WITH IT. IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A HARD TIME AND
- 1:09:05YOU'RE A TITHER, DON'T GO, "WELL, YOU KNOW, GOD, I TITHE.
- 1:09:08"I TITHE, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS HAPPENED." NO, SAY, "I'M A
- 1:09:12TITHER AND I HAVE TITHER'S RIGHTS. AND WHATEVER THE DEVIL
- 1:09:18HAS STOLEN FROM THIS TITHER, HE'S GOING TO PAY BACK TO ME."
- 1:09:24TAKE A HOLD OF THE SCRIPTURE, QUOTE IT, BELIEVE IT, HOLD YOUR
- 1:09:27BIBLE UP. I REMEMBER ONE TIME WE WERE FIRST MARRIED, WE HAD A
- 1:09:31WHOLE BUNCH OF BILLS COME DUE AND NO MONEY TO PAY HIM. AND WE
- 1:09:35HAD A LITTLE MONEY, BUT IT WAS NEVER ENOUGH. ANYBODY BEEN IN
- 1:09:37THAT ONE? AND YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT THEM. WE DIDN'T HAVE
- 1:09:40THEM COME ON THE INTERNET. THEY USED TO COME IN THE MAIL. SO
- 1:09:44HERE THEY WERE, AND ONE WOULD COME, AND I'D THINK, OKAY, GOD,
- 1:09:47I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FOR THAT ONE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE CAME THE NEXT
- 1:09:49DAY. AND WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PAY
- 1:09:52EVERYTHING. AND SO FINALLY ONE DAY, PASTOR HANK TOOK HIM INTO
- 1:09:57THIS LITTLE SIDE ROOM IN OUR APARTMENT, AND HE THREW HIM IN
- 1:10:01THERE, AND HE SAID, "GOD, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT
- 1:10:03THESE BILLS." AND HE THREW THEM UP AND SAID, "GOD, CATCH." AND
- 1:10:07THEN WALKED OUT AND SHUT THE DOOR. AND THEY SCATTERED ALL
- 1:10:10OVER THE FLOOR. HE SAID, "GOD, I SAID CATCH." AND NOTHING, WE
- 1:10:16JUST, YOU KNOW, WAITED, LEFT THEM OUT THERE. SO FINALLY ONE
- 1:10:20DAY WE WENT IN, HE GOES, "ALL RIGHT, GOD, I AM STANDING ON
- 1:10:23YOUR WORD "FOR THESE BILLS TO GET PAID. "I AM STANDING AND I
- 1:10:26AM BELIEVING "EVERY ONE OF THESE ARE GONNA GET PAID SOMEWHERE,
- 1:10:30SOMEHOW." AND SO HE SAID, "I'M STANDING ON THE WORD." YOU KNOW,
- 1:10:35WE USE THAT PHRASE, "STAND ON GOD'S WORD." SO HE TOOK HIS
- 1:10:40BIBLE AND LAID IT ON THE BILLS AND STEPPED ON IT AND SAID,
- 1:10:44"GOD, I'M STANDING!" AND YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THAT SOUNDS JUST
- 1:10:48SO CRAZY. AND WE WEREN'T RUDE ABOUT IT, BUT WE TOOK, AND SO I
- 1:10:51THOUGHT, WELL, I GUESS I BETTER DO THAT TOO. WE HADN'T BEEN
- 1:10:53MARRIED THAT LONG. I'M JUST BEING, SO TRYING TO BE IN
- 1:10:56AGREEMENT. SO I TOOK MY BIBLE AND WE BOTH STOOD IN THERE. AND
- 1:10:59WE SAID, GOD, WE BELIEVE AS WE STAND ON YOUR WORD PHYSICALLY
- 1:11:03THAT THESE BILLS WILL BE PAID. AND YOU KNOW, THROUGH A SERIES
- 1:11:08OF MIRACLES, GOD PAID OFF EVERY ONE OF THOSE. ONE WAS A TAX
- 1:11:11BILL. AND THIS WAS IN THE EARLY 90S. WE OWED $3,000 TO THE IRS.
- 1:11:16I MEAN, IT FELT LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS. I THOUGHT, LORD JESUS,
- 1:11:19I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE EVER GETTING OUT OF THIS ONE.
- 1:11:22AND, YOU KNOW, GOD USED SOMEBODY, SOMETHING WORKED OUT
- 1:11:26AND TURNED AROUND, AND YOU KNOW, WE PAID OFF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF
- 1:11:29THESE AND A LOAN THAT WE HAD ON OUR CAR. I'M TELLING YOU, THE
- 1:11:33WORD OF GOD IS TRUE, AND IT WILL WORK IF YOU PUT IT TO PRACTICE.
- 1:11:37NOW, HERE IS WHY TITHING AND GIVING OFFERINGS IS SO
- 1:11:39IMPORTANT. THAT CONNECTED TO THE SECOND ONE, WHICH I'VE ALREADY
- 1:11:44BEEN TALKING ABOUT A LITTLE BIT, WHICH IS TO HAVE FAITH FOR
- 1:11:47PROSPERITY. NOW, BELIEVE IT, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A
- 1:11:50MINUTE. BUT THE FIRST TWO, TITHING AND GIVING OFFERINGS AND
- 1:11:54HAVING FAITH TO PROSPER ARE THE TWO THINGS THAT CONNECT GOD TO
- 1:11:58YOUR MONEY. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO CONNECT GOD, HOW MANY OF
- 1:12:02YOU WANT GOD TO BE CONNECTED TO YOUR FINANCES? RAISE YOUR HAND.
- 1:12:06COME ON, RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU REALLY WANT GOD TO BE CONNECTED
- 1:12:09TO YOUR FINANCES. YOU KNOW THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO CONNECT
- 1:12:12GOD TO YOUR FINANCES BUT TWO THINGS. NUMBER ONE, YOU TITHE
- 1:12:16AND YOU GIVE OFFERINGS AS THE SCRIPTURE TEACHES, OKAY? AND YOU
- 1:12:19BE OBEDIENT TO THAT. AND ASK GOD, IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING WITH
- 1:12:22YOUR TITHE, THEN YOU ASK GOD TO HELP YOU. YOU KNOW HE'LL HELP
- 1:12:24YOU. HE'LL HELP WALK YOU THROUGH IT. HE'S NOT UP THERE LIKE, "AH,
- 1:12:27I'M GONNA GET YOU." NO, GOD'LL HELP YOU. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T
- 1:12:32ASK GOD TO HELP THEM EMBRACE THE TRUTH OF THE TITHE. SO TITHING
- 1:12:38AND GIVING OFFERINGS CONNECTS GOD TO YOUR MONEY. YOU KNOW HOW
- 1:12:40YOU KNOW? JESUS SAID IT. HE SAID, "LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES
- 1:12:45TREASURES IN HEAVEN "WHERE MOTH AND RUST CAN'T CORRUPT IT."
- 1:12:49OKAY, YOU PUT IT HERE ALL ON EARTH AND YOU JUST INVEST IT OR
- 1:12:53DO WHATEVER WITH IT ON EARTH, IT IS SUBJECT TO DECAY. BUT IF YOU
- 1:12:57CONNECT IT TO GOD, FIRST OF ALL, YOU LAY UP FOR YOURSELF, THIS IS
- 1:13:01MATTHEW SIX, YOU LAY UP FOR YOURSELF TREASURE IN HEAVEN.
- 1:13:04JESUS, THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID THAT. LAY UP, WELL, I MEAN, WHO
- 1:13:07DOESN'T WANT TREASURE IN HEAVEN? I MEAN, THAT SCRIPTURE RIGHT
- 1:13:11THERE, I MEAN, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT GOES ON DOWN HERE. I'VE GOT
- 1:13:13TREASURE IN HEAVEN. BUT YOU KNOW, TREASURE IN HEAVEN ALSO
- 1:13:17AFFECTS WHAT YOU DO HERE ON THE EARTH. PRAISE THE LORD. SO,
- 1:13:23TREASURE, JESUS SAID, YOU LAY UP TREASURE IN HEAVEN. AND THEN HE
- 1:13:28GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT, DON'T BE AFRAID OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA EAT
- 1:13:31OR YOU'RE GONNA DRINK, WHAT CLOTHES YOU'RE GONNA WEAR. DON'T
- 1:13:33WORRY ABOUT ALL THOSE THINGS. DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO ALL THAT.
- 1:13:36WELL, WHY CAN A PERSON DO THAT? AND I READ THAT SCRIPTURE ONE
- 1:13:40NIGHT, PRAYING ABOUT FINANCES, PROBABLY SOMETHING RELATED TO
- 1:13:42THE MINISTRY. WE'VE BEEN AT THIS A HOT MINUTE. AND I'VE HAD MANY
- 1:13:46A NIGHT PRAYERS WITH GOD UNTIL I'M PAYING FOR THE STUFF THAT HE
- 1:13:49CALLS US TO DO. PASTOR HAS ALL KIND OF FAITH. I HAVE TO GET THE
- 1:13:52FAITH FOR THE MONEY. AND HE'S LIKE, "YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA
- 1:13:55BUILD THIS "AND GO OVER HERE AND DO THAT." I'M LIKE, "HONEY, DO
- 1:13:58YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT COSTS?" AND HE'S LIKE, "GOD WILL DO IT."
- 1:14:01I MEAN, HE, I DON'T KNOW, HE HAS MORE FAITH FOR PROSPERING THAN I
- 1:14:05GUESS I DO. I HAVE FAITH FOR IT THOUGH. AND SO I WAS UP PRAYING
- 1:14:09WITH THE LORD, I THOUGHT, "GOD, I'M JUST ASKING YOU TO WORK THIS
- 1:14:14OUT "AND DO THAT, AND IT SEEMS FEARFUL." WELL, THE REASON
- 1:14:18THOUGH, AND THE LORD REMINDED ME OF THIS, THE REASON THAT YOU
- 1:14:22DON'T HAVE TO LAY UP WONDERING ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA EAT,
- 1:14:24COME ON, THAT'S WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING, WHATEVER THE PROVISION
- 1:14:27IS, WHAT YOU'RE GONNA WEAR, IS BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU HAVE
- 1:14:30TREASURE IN HEAVEN. OKAY, I WISH I COULD TEACH ON THAT WHOLE
- 1:14:35CHAPTER, IT'S AN AMAZING, AMAZING ONE. MAYBE WE'LL DO IT
- 1:14:37OVER A MONTH IN THE OFFERINGS ON SUNDAY, I DON'T KNOW. BUT THEN
- 1:14:42JESUS GOES ON AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 33, AND BY THE WAY, IT'S A
- 1:14:46FINANCIAL SCRIPTURE, "SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS
- 1:14:51RIGHTEOUSNESS." WELL, THAT SCRIPTURE THAT WE SEE QUOTED AT
- 1:14:55FOOTBALL GAMES AND WE SEE ALL OVER THE INTERNET AND PEOPLE
- 1:15:00QUOTE SO OFTEN, THAT VERSE IS IN A FINANCIAL SERMON. THINK ABOUT
- 1:15:06THAT. JESUS, GO READ IT IN CONTEXT. JESUS IS TEACHING ON
- 1:15:11MONEY. AND HE SAID, "BUT IF YOU WILL SEEK FIRST GOD'S KINGDOM
- 1:15:15"AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, ALL THESE THINGS." OKAY, HE DIDN'T
- 1:15:19SAY EMOTIONAL PEACE, HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. HE SAID, NO, HE
- 1:15:22WAS TALKING ABOUT MATERIAL STUFF. HE SAID, "ALL THESE
- 1:15:25THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU. "SO YOU'LL NEVER BE SHORT OF
- 1:15:29ANYTHING." BUT THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CONNECT GOD TO OUR MONEY IS
- 1:15:34THROUGH TITHES AND OFFERINGS. THAT'S THE SUPERNATURAL KISS OF
- 1:15:39GOD TO OUR FINANCES. THAT'S WHAT THE WORLD DOESN'T HAVE. ALL THE
- 1:15:43PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE, THEY MAY LOOK WEALTHY TODAY, BUT LOOK
- 1:15:47HOW MANY WEALTHY PEOPLE LOST THEIR WHOLE FORTUNE OVERNIGHT
- 1:15:51BECAUSE OF SOMETHING HAPPENING. THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED, THINGS
- 1:15:56HAPPENED. THERE ARE MORE WEALTHY PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN MASSIVE
- 1:16:01MANSIONS THAT ARE SO DEEP IN DEBT THEY CAN'T PAY THEIR WAY
- 1:16:04OUT. OKAY, SO DON'T JUST LOOK AT THE OUTSIDE. THERE'S DEEPER
- 1:16:09THINGS THAN THAT. SO FINANCES, YOU WANT GOD CONNECTED TO YOUR
- 1:16:14MONEY? TITHE AND GIVE YOUR OFFERINGS. THE SECOND ONE IS
- 1:16:16HAVE FAITH FOR IT. NOW I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS
- 1:16:19THAT TITHE AND THEY GIVE BUT THEIR MOUTH IS SO WRONG. OH, I
- 1:16:24DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. I TRIED TITHING AND IT DID
- 1:16:26NOTHING HAPPEN. WELL, TITHING AND GIVING IS NOT A SLOT
- 1:16:30MACHINE. OKAY, YOU DON'T TITHE ON SUNDAY AND EXPECT DOLLAR
- 1:16:34BILLS TO FALL ONTO YOUR LAWN ON MONDAY MORNING. NOW, I MEAN,
- 1:16:39ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. I'M OKAY, THERE'S A FISH IN A COIN'S MOUTH
- 1:16:42AND THEY PAY TAXES WITH IT, I CAN TELL YOU THAT. BUT I'M JUST
- 1:16:46SAYING, YOU DON'T TREAT IT LIKE THAT. IT'S A LIFESTYLE HABIT
- 1:16:50THAT WE DO THAT GOD CARRIES US THROUGH THE ENTIRE SPAN OF OUR
- 1:16:55LIFE. SO, BUT HAVE FAITH FOR PROSPERITY, OKAY? THAT'S WHAT
- 1:17:00WEALTH, IF THE BIBLE SAYS, "WEALTH AND RICHES SHALL BE IN
- 1:17:02THE HOUSE," ARE YOU THE RIGHTEOUS? THEN BELIEVE THAT FOR
- 1:17:06YOURSELF. DON'T JUST BELIEVE IT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE. WELL, THEY
- 1:17:09ALL LOOK SO PUT TOGETHER, I GUESS IT ONLY APPLIES TO THEM.
- 1:17:12NO, IT APPLIES TO YOU. YOU COULD BE IN A SITUATION WHERE YOU ARE
- 1:17:17ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. I HEARD A STORY YEARS, AND GOD CAN
- 1:17:22PROSPER YOU. I HEARD A STORY YEARS AGO, SOMEBODY SAID, "OH,
- 1:17:25THAT PROSPERITY IS JUST AN AMERICAN GOSPEL." NO, OKAY,
- 1:17:29THERE'S PEOPLE OVERSEAS AND MANY PLACES THAT HAVE BELIEVED GOD. I
- 1:17:34HEARD A STORY ABOUT SOME PEOPLE THAT LIVED IN THIS VERY
- 1:17:37DESTITUTE AREA IN AFRICA. IN FACT, WE KNOW THE MAN THAT
- 1:17:42SHARED THE TESTIMONY. AND HE SAID THEY TOOK THE SCRIPTURES ON
- 1:17:45PROSPERITY AND THEY APPLIED IT. THEY PLANTED THEIR CROPS. I
- 1:17:48MEAN, THE GOVERNMENT WAS AGAINST THEM. THE WEATHER, I MEAN,
- 1:17:52EVERYTHING OVER THERE, THERE WAS FAMINE EVERYWHERE, THERE WAS NO
- 1:17:54CLEAN WATER. AND THEY SAID, "NO, GOD, WE BELIEVE YOU. "IF IT'LL
- 1:17:57WORK IN THE BIBLE, IT'LL WORK FOR US." IN THIS LITTLE, I THINK
- 1:18:02THEY WERE IN ZIMBABWE, THIS LITTLE COUNTRY IN AFRICA UNDER
- 1:18:06TYRANNY AND ALL THE THINGS, WELL, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEIR
- 1:18:09CROPS BEGAN TO GROW AND NOBODY ELSE'S DID. AND THEN ALL OF A
- 1:18:13SUDDEN, THEY WERE ABLE TO GET CLEAN DRINKING WATER AND NOBODY
- 1:18:16ELSE COULD. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, EVERYBODY'S LOOKING AT THEM
- 1:18:18LIKE, WELL, WHAT ARE THEY DOING THAT NOBODY ELSE IS DOING? WE
- 1:18:22ALL GOT THE SAME WEATHER. WE HAVE THE SAME SITUATION. WE'RE
- 1:18:27UNDER THE SAME TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT. SEE, GOD IS NOT
- 1:18:30SUBJECT TO WHAT GOES ON IN THE NATURAL REALM. THEY BEGAN TO
- 1:18:35PROSPER BECAUSE THEY HAD FAITH THAT GOD WANTED THEM BLESSED AND
- 1:18:41HE WOULD BLESS THEM, COME ON, DESPITE THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES. YOU
- 1:18:44MIGHT BE IN A PLACE WHERE YOU'RE ON GOVERNMENT HELP, BUT IF
- 1:18:48YOU'LL PUT FAITH TO IT AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD, I'M ASKING
- 1:18:52YOU, I READ A STORY OF A LADY ONE TIME. SHE WAS ON GOVERNMENT
- 1:18:57ASSISTANCE AND SHE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M NOT CONTENT TO
- 1:18:59LIVE LIKE THIS. SHE BECAME A SINGLE MOTHER UNEXPECTEDLY, BUT
- 1:19:04I'M NOT CONTENT TO LIVE LIKE THIS. AND SHE SAID, NOW I'LL BE
- 1:19:07ON IT FOR A LITTLE WHILE JUST TO KIND OF GET MYSELF RESET. BUT
- 1:19:11SHE BEGAN TO APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BIBLE. AND SHE
- 1:19:13SAID, GOD, YOU KNOW, SHE WENT ON TO BECOME A WEALTHY
- 1:19:18BUSINESSWOMAN AND WAS ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE AN INVESTMENT AND
- 1:19:23A SAVINGS AND ALL THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT SUFFICIENCY
- 1:19:26COULD HAVE. AND ONLY BECAUSE SHE BELIEVED THE LORD. SO HAVE FAITH
- 1:19:31THAT GOD WANTS TO PROSPER YOU. START LOOKING AT YOUR BANK
- 1:19:34ACCOUNT IN FAITH. WELL, BANK ACCOUNT, I TALKED TO YOU. WEALTH
- 1:19:39AND RICHES ARE IN YOU. WEALTH AND RICHES ARE UPON YOU. YOU'RE
- 1:19:43GONNA QUADRUPLE AND QUADRUPLE AND QUADRUPLE AGAIN. THAT'S WHY
- 1:19:47WE SAY THAT EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY. IF THE CHURCH IS GONNA QUADRUPLE
- 1:19:51AND QUADRUPLE AGAIN, THEN THE PEOPLE THAT TITHE AND SOW INTO
- 1:19:55IT SHOULD BE QUADRUPLING AS WELL. WHAT YOU CONNECT TO, YOU
- 1:20:00WILL RECEIVE THE BENEFIT BACK. GOD SAID THAT HE THAT GIVES TO
- 1:20:04THE POOR, LENDS TO THE LORD AND THE LORD WILL REPAY HIM. GIVEN
- 1:20:08IT SHALL BE GIVEN BACK TO YOU, GOOD MEASURE PRESSED DOWN,
- 1:20:10SHAKEN TOGETHER, AND RUNNING OVER SHALL PEOPLE GIVE BACK TO
- 1:20:14YOU. THAT'S BIBLE. SO, THE TWO THAT THE WORLD CAN'T DO IS
- 1:20:20NUMBER ONE, AND THEY TITHE AND GIVE OFFERINGS. THEY'LL JUST
- 1:20:22CRITICIZE IT. WELL, THAT'S ON THEM. TOO BAD FOR YOU, I'M SORRY
- 1:20:26FOR YOU. I READ A BOOK ONE TIME, IT WAS A DOWNLOAD BOOK. I'LL
- 1:20:33JUST SAY WHAT IT WAS CALLED. IT WAS CALLED THE TITHING HOAX. AND
- 1:20:37ANYWAY, IT WAS THE STUPIDEST THING I'VE EVER READ. AND I
- 1:20:40THOUGHT, WELL, SEE NOW, ALL THAT PERSON DID WAS BURN THEIR OWN
- 1:20:43BARN DOWN. AND I THOUGHT, AND THEY SAID, ALL THE REASONS WHY
- 1:20:47YOU DON'T HAVE TO TITHE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT. SO I SAID TO
- 1:20:51GOD, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AND OF COURSE I MADE ALL KINDS OF NOTE.
- 1:20:54I PRINTED IT AND JUST THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY TIMES THEY
- 1:20:57MISQUOTED THE BIBLE. BUT I THOUGHT, WELL, LORD, IF SOMEBODY
- 1:21:02REALLY BELIEVES THE TITHING IS OLD TESTAMENT AND YOU'RE
- 1:21:06LIBERATED FROM DOING IT, WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY JUST DO IT
- 1:21:09'CAUSE THEY LOVE YOU? DOES MALACHI 3 THEN STILL APPLY? IF
- 1:21:16THEY DO IT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, IF THEY TITHE, GOD SAID HE WOULD
- 1:21:20OPEN THE WINDOWS, REBUKE THE DEVOURER. I SAID, WELL, LORD,
- 1:21:24THEN IF THEY STILL DECIDE TO DO IT OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL, DOES
- 1:21:30THE PROMISE OF TITHING STILL APPLY? ARE THEIR BARNS GONNA
- 1:21:34STILL BURST OUT WITH PLENTY? AND I THOUGHT, OF COURSE IT STILL
- 1:21:37APPLIES. AND I THOUGHT, IF YOU BELIEVE IT DOESN'T, WATCH THIS,
- 1:21:42THEN DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROMISES THAT ARE
- 1:21:44IN THERE. GOD WILL PROTECT YOU, HE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU, HE'LL
- 1:21:48GIVE YOU PEACE, THE LORD WILL GIVE YOU PEACE. I WOULD HAVE
- 1:21:50DESPAIRED UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD
- 1:21:52AND THE LAND OF THE LIVING. DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF THAT IF
- 1:21:55YOU'RE GONNA CUT MALACHI 3 OUT OF THE BIBLE. 'CAUSE NOW YOU
- 1:21:59JUST SAID OLD TESTAMENT PROMISE DIDN'T APPLY, THEN THAT MEANS
- 1:22:03NONE OF THEM APPLY. OH, I SURE SHOULD GET A GOOD AMEN OUT OF
- 1:22:08THAT. SO, TITHING, TITHING, GOOD IN THIS, WHAT DID BOB ROGERS
- 1:22:14CALL US ON SUNDAY, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. NO, WE'RE PENTECOSTAL.
- 1:22:22SO, HAVE FAITH FOR PROSPERITY. HERE'S THE THIRD ONE. WELL, I
- 1:22:25GUESS THIS ONE THE WORLD DOESN'T HAVE EITHER. THIRD ONE IS PUT
- 1:22:28GOD'S KINGDOM BEFORE YOUR OWN AGENDA. OKAY. THE BIBLE SAYS
- 1:22:34THAT WE SHOULD FIRST SEEK THE LORD, RIGHT? OKAY. FIRST ONE
- 1:22:38AGAIN, TITHES AND OFFERINGS, HAVE FAITH FOR PROSPERITY. IF
- 1:22:41YOU'RE GOING TO TALK NEGATIVE AND YOUR ATTITUDE AND YOUR
- 1:22:44BELIEF SYSTEM DOESN'T CHANGE AND ALIGN WITH GOD, YOU COULD TITHE
- 1:22:48ALL DAY AND NOT RECEIVE THE BENEFIT OF IT. DON'T BE THAT
- 1:22:51PERSON. BUT THE THIRD ONE IS PUTTING GOD'S KINGDOM BEFORE
- 1:22:54YOUR OWN AGENDA. WELL TITHING LARGELY CURES US AND HELPS US
- 1:22:59WITH THAT, I WILL TELL YOU THAT. BUT INVOLVE YOURSELF IN GOD'S
- 1:23:03PLANS FIRST. WHAT DOES GOD WANT FOR YOU? WHAT DOES GOD WANT FOR
- 1:23:07YOUR LIFE? THE BIBLE SAYS WE SHOULDN'T JUST MAKE PLANS,
- 1:23:11"WELL, I'M GONNA GO DO THIS AND TAKE THAT JOB "AND GO OVER HERE
- 1:23:14AND DO THIS OR THAT." AND NO, WHAT WE SHOULD SAY IS, "WELL,
- 1:23:18LORD, WHAT IS YOUR WILL AND PLAN FOR ME?" YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU
- 1:23:22DON'T WANT ME TO GO TAKE THAT JOB. YOU KNOW, I HAD SEVERAL
- 1:23:26PEOPLE OVER THE COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD PEOPLE COME AND GO
- 1:23:28THROUGH HERE IN 30 YEARS' TIME. AND I CAN REMEMBER THERE WAS A
- 1:23:33FEW TIMES PEOPLE WOULD SAY, "OH, I GOT THIS HUGE JOB, THIS GREAT
- 1:23:37PAYING JOB, AND I'M GONNA GO OVER HERE AND TAKE THAT." AND
- 1:23:41YOU KNOW WHAT, THERE ARE FREEDOM TO DO THAT IF THAT'S WHAT THEY
- 1:23:43FEEL. BUT WE WERE LIKE, "WELL, DID YOU PRAY? AND DID GOD SAY
- 1:23:47THAT? YOU KNOW, YOU NEED TO ASK THE LORD." "NO, I JUST KNOW, I
- 1:23:50JUST FEEL LIKE IT'S GONNA, I'M GONNA MAKE FOUR TIMES WHAT I'M
- 1:23:53GONNA MAKE." AND THERE WAS ONE PERSON THAT WENT AND DID THAT,
- 1:23:55AND THE PASTOR SAID, "YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE IT'S ALL SMOKE AND
- 1:23:58MIRRORS. IT'S NOT GONNA BE WHAT YOU THINK." AND THEY WENT AND
- 1:24:02SOLD EVERYTHING AND WENT OFF AND TOOK THIS JOB, AND THAT'S
- 1:24:05EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. WITHIN A YEAR, THEY MOVED BACK TO TOWN.
- 1:24:08THEY DIDN'T COME BACK TO THE CHURCH. I THINK MAYBE THEY WERE
- 1:24:10EMBARRASSED. THERE WAS NO REASON TO BE EMBARRASSED. ALL I'M
- 1:24:13SAYING IS, FIND OUT WHAT GOD WANTS. JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO
- 1:24:17PRAY. I LOVE WHAT BOB ROGERS SAID, PRAY IN THE SPIRIT. IF YOU
- 1:24:19DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT YOU KNOW, ASK GOD. THE SCRIPTURE WE
- 1:24:24JUST QUOTED, "SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS,
- 1:24:28AND THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU." SOMETIMES WE JUST DO WHAT
- 1:24:31WE WANT TO DO. AND WE THINK, "WELL, IT'S ALL I KNOW TO DO,
- 1:24:33PASTOR BRENDA." WELL, IS IT? PRAY AND ASK THE LORD, HE MAY
- 1:24:38HAVE ANOTHER IDEA. I'VE HAD A FEW IDEAS THAT I THOUGHT WERE,
- 1:24:42"OH, THIS IS A GOD IDEA." CAN I TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES? I
- 1:24:45REMEMBER WHEN THE CHURCH FIRST STARTED, WE WERE LIKE, "WE NEED
- 1:24:48A BUS MINISTRY." HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT? THOSE OF YOU THAT
- 1:24:51ARE HERE, PROBABLY LIKE THREE PEOPLE REMEMBER. AMY, THE
- 1:24:55BLACKBURNS, AND PASTOR CHRISTY. AND WE'RE GONNA GET A BUS
- 1:24:59MINISTRY. WELL, PASTOR, WE WENT OUT AND WE RAISED, I DON'T KNOW,
- 1:25:03A FRAGMENT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BUY THESE BUSES. THEY WERE THE
- 1:25:06WORST BUSES. AND WE HAD A PERSON THAT RAISED UP AND WE SAID,
- 1:25:12WELL, THEY SAID, I'M CALLED, I'LL DO THE BUS MINISTRY. AND WE
- 1:25:14THOUGHT, WELL, WE'LL GET THESE BUSES. I MEAN, THEY RAN
- 1:25:16TERRIBLE, IT WAS AMAZING. THEY MADE IT FROM, WELL, PIZZA
- 1:25:20MACHINE USED TO BE HOBBY LOBBY. IT WAS OVER HERE BACK, HOW MANY
- 1:25:23OF YOU GO BACK THAT FAR? AND IT WAS A HOBBY LOBBY BACK OVER
- 1:25:26THERE. AND I MEAN, THOSE BUSES WOULD BARELY GO FROM THE CHURCH
- 1:25:30TO HOBBY LOBBY. WELL, THEN THEY WOULDN'T LET US PARK 'EM HERE.
- 1:25:33'CAUSE WE DIDN'T OWN ANYTHING HERE. THIS IS WHY THE CHURCH HAS
- 1:25:36TO OWN STUFF. AND SO WE THOUGHT, WELL, THEN WE COULD HAVE HAD TO
- 1:25:39PARK IT ELSEWHERE. AND THEN THE PERSON THAT SAID THEY WERE VERY
- 1:25:44CALLED BY GOD TO DO BUS MINISTRY SUDDENLY LEFT AND SAID, "WE'RE
- 1:25:48NOT CALLED TO BUS MINISTRY." MY GOD, WE HAVE TWO PIECES OF JUNK
- 1:25:55AND NOBODY TO DRIVE 'EM. AND THEN, I DON'T REMEMBER, I THINK
- 1:25:59IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, HELP ME, ONE OF 'EM BROKE AND WE DIDN'T
- 1:26:03HAVE THE MONEY TO FIX IT. AND IT WAS SUPER BROKE, LIKE THE ENGINE
- 1:26:08BROKE. IT WAS A BROKEN BUS. AND WE WERE LIKE, "GOD, WHAT ARE WE
- 1:26:13GONNA DO NOW? "WE HAVE TWO PIECES." AND YOU KNOW, IT
- 1:26:15SOUNDED LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO GET A BUS MINISTRY. AND THEN WE HAD
- 1:26:19PEOPLE THAT CAUSED PROBLEM ON THE BUS AND DIFFERENT THINGS.
- 1:26:22AND NOW I'M LIKE, "GOD, I AM SO THANKFUL "WE HAVE TWO LORD OF
- 1:26:25HOSTS VEHICLES "THAT DRIVE THE PARKING LOT." THAT'S OUR
- 1:26:29FULFILLED BUS MINISTRY. THANK YOU, BERNICE. HALLELUJAH. BUT
- 1:26:33SOME THINGS SEEM LIKE A GREAT IDEA, BUT DID GOD CALL YOU TO DO
- 1:26:36IT? WE REALIZED GOD DIDN'T CALL US TO A BUS MINISTRY. AMEN. SO,
- 1:26:42THAT, SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM, SEEK GOD, THAT'S THE THIRD ONE.
- 1:26:45THE FOURTH ONE, AND IS, AND THIS IS, YOU MAY NOT EXPECT IT, IS
- 1:26:51FORGIVE AND GET FREE FROM BITTERNESS. YOU KNOW, BITTERNESS
- 1:26:54WILL CAUSE YOU TO DO STUPID THINGS WITH YOUR MONEY. YOU
- 1:26:57KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE WITH THEIR WILL, THEY'RE
- 1:26:59LIKE, I'M MAD. I MEAN, THEY COULDN'T GET EVEN WITH PEOPLE IN
- 1:27:03LIFE, SO THEY'RE GONNA GET EVEN IN THEIR DEATH. AND MAKE SURE
- 1:27:07THAT SO-AND-SO IN THE FAMILY DOESN'T GET ANYTHING. HEBREWS
- 1:27:1112, 15, NEW LIVING SAYS, "LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER SO THAT NONE OF
- 1:27:15YOU FAILS TO RECEIVE THE GRACE OF GOD. WATCH OUT THAT NO
- 1:27:19POISONOUS ROOT OF BITTERNESS GROWS UP TO TROUBLE YOU,
- 1:27:22CORRUPTING MANY PEOPLE." JAMES 3 SAYS THAT SWEET AND BITTER WATER
- 1:27:27CANNOT OPERATE IN THE SAME MOUTH. SO WE, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE
- 1:27:32IT ALL BECOMES BITTER. YOU JUST PUT A DROP OF VINEGAR IN SOME
- 1:27:35WATER AND YOU WILL TASTE THE VINEGAR IN THAT GLASS OF WATER.
- 1:27:38IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH. BITTERNESS WILL OVERTAKE. IT'LL OVERTAKE
- 1:27:43YOUR FAITH, IT'LL OVERTAKE YOUR FINANCES, IT CAUSES US TO MAKE
- 1:27:46POOR DECISIONS, AMEN. AND BY THE WAY, I HEARD A THING ONLINE
- 1:27:51SOMEBODY HAD POSTED AND I THOUGHT THIS WAS REALLY GOOD
- 1:27:54THAT FORGIVENESS, IF YOU FORGIVE SOMEBODY, YOU GET FREE FROM
- 1:27:58BITTERNESS. IT IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING RECONCILED TO THAT
- 1:28:01PERSON. A LOT OF PEOPLE CONFUSE THAT AND I DON'T WANT TO GET
- 1:28:04DOWN ON THAT TOPIC, THAT IF PEOPLE DO EVIL THINGS TO YOU, IT
- 1:28:08DOESN'T MEAN YOU'D BE RECONCILED TO THEM. IT SIMPLY MEANS YOU GET
- 1:28:12THAT BITTER, ANGRY SPIRIT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO NOW AND CALL 15
- 1:28:17PEOPLE AND SAY HOW BAD THEY WERE. YOU'RE FREE FROM THAT. TO
- 1:28:20FORGIVE SOMEBODY MEANS I AM LIBERATED FROM WHAT THEY DID TO
- 1:28:23ME. BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO NOW
- 1:28:26BE CLOSE TO THEM. SOMETIMES WE ASSOCIATE FORGIVENESS WITH BEING
- 1:28:29RECONCILED TO PEOPLE. WELL, IF I FORGIVE THEM, THEN WE CAN BE
- 1:28:33FRIENDS AGAIN. THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY TRUE. OKAY? SO DON'T
- 1:28:37THINK, WELL, I DIDN'T FORGIVE THEM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE
- 1:28:39THEIR FRIEND ANYMORE. NO, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT. IT MEANS THAT
- 1:28:42YOU'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT THEM, YOU'RE NOT SITTING THERE LETTING
- 1:28:45THEM TAKE UP FREE RENT INSIDE YOUR BRAIN, THAT YOU ARE FREE
- 1:28:48FROM THAT. YOU FORGAVE IT. YOU LET IT GO AND YOU'RE NOT GOING
- 1:28:53TO GO OUT AND NOW, YOU KNOW, RUIN THEIR REPUTATION ONLINE AND
- 1:28:57TALK ABOUT HOW BAD THEY WERE, EXCEPT I WON'T NAME NAMES, BUT
- 1:29:00I'M JUST GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHOEVER IT WAS. YOU JUST GOT TO
- 1:29:04PUT THE SECRET POST. SO BITTERNESS, FORGIVENESS,
- 1:29:09UNFORGIVENESS WILL CAUSE A PERSON TO LOSE FINANCIAL
- 1:29:14PROSPERITY. AND THERE'S LOTS OF SCRIPTURE THAT TALK ABOUT
- 1:29:16BITTERNESS AND UNFORGIVENESS. IT COULD CAUSE PEOPLE TO LOSE THEIR
- 1:29:19SALVATION. YOU KNOW, THE LAST THING YOU WANNA DO IS BE IN
- 1:29:23TERRIBLE STRAITS WITH SOMEBODY AND HAVE ONE PERSON PASS AWAY
- 1:29:27AND YOU COULD NEVER MAKE IT RIGHT. THAT IS A TRAGEDY AS FAR
- 1:29:31AS I'M CONCERNED. SO FORGIVE, GET FREE FROM BITTERNESS. IF
- 1:29:35THERE'S A ROOT OF BITTERNESS AND SOMEBODY COMES UP TO YOU AND
- 1:29:37GOES, NOW YOU SHOULDN'T TALK LIKE THAT. YOU JUST LEARN TO
- 1:29:40RECEIVE. GET FREE FROM BITTERNESS, AMEN? THE FIFTH ONE,
- 1:29:45WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT, WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT. LIVE RIGHT AND AVOID
- 1:29:48SIN. I DON'T EVEN THINK I NEED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THAT.
- 1:29:51THE BIBLE SAYS, PROVERBS 28, 13, HE THAT COVERS HIS SINS SHALL
- 1:29:55NOT PROSPER, BUT WHO SO CONFESSES AND FORSAKES THEM
- 1:29:59SHALL HAVE MERCY. I KNEW A STORY OF A MAN WHO WAS VERY WEALTHY
- 1:30:04AND BUSINESS PROSPERING, I MEAN, JUST VERY WELL OFF, WENT AND
- 1:30:10DECIDED, HE WAS A BELIEVER, WENT AND DECIDED SOMEWHERE, GOT OFF
- 1:30:14TRACK, WHO KNOWS WHAT CAUSED HIM, I MEAN, WHO KNOWS, MAYBE IT
- 1:30:18WAS PORNOGRAPHY, I HAVE NO IDEA. BUT THEY WENT OFF AND DECIDED TO
- 1:30:23HIRE A PROSTITUTE. AND ANYWAY, THE WIFE FOUND OUT, IT WAS A
- 1:30:28WHOLE BIG DISASTER. AND THE THING OF IT WAS, IS THAT MAN
- 1:30:32ENDED UP LOSING HIS WHOLE BUSINESS. I MEAN, EVERYTHING
- 1:30:35WENT BELLY UP. NOW, WHAT DID HIRING A PROSTITUTE HAVE TO DO
- 1:30:40WITH, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE HE WAS GIVING ALL THE MONEY TO HER, I
- 1:30:42HAVE NO IDEA. BUT WHAT DID IT HAVE TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL
- 1:30:46BUSINESS ITSELF? OKAY, IT WAS CONDUCTING THE SAME BUSINESS.
- 1:30:51BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, WE DRY UP OUR BLESSING WHEN WE KEEP SIN IN THE
- 1:30:54MIDDLE OF OUR LIFE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THERE WOULD BE NO
- 1:30:58EXPLAINABLE REASON WHY THAT MAN'S WHOLE BUSINESS WAS
- 1:31:01DESTROYED, LOST EVERYTHING, ENDED UP IN ALL KINDS OF
- 1:31:05TROUBLE, ILL. I MEAN, WHAT DOES ILLNESS HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?
- 1:31:10YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THERE'S A DEMONIC WORLD OUT
- 1:31:12THERE. SO HE THAT COVERS HIS SIN WON'T PROSPER, BUT HE THAT
- 1:31:17CONFESSES AND FORSAKES, YOU KNOW, LIVE MORALLY PURE, LIVE
- 1:31:20RIGHT. OKAY, AVOID SIN. AND IF THERE'S AREAS YOU NEED TO GET
- 1:31:25RIGHT WITH GOD, GET IT RIGHT. GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU. THAT'S THE
- 1:31:28THING. GOD IS, GOD FORGIVES. SO LIVE RIGHT AND AVOID SIN. I'M
- 1:31:32TELLING YOU, I'VE SEEN MORE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FINANCES, THEIR
- 1:31:36LIFE JUST GO CRAZY BECAUSE THEY WENT AND DID SOMETHING STUPID.
- 1:31:41SO DON'T DIE DUMB, AS THEY SAY. NUMBER SIX, WORK HARD AND BE
- 1:31:47DILIGENT. NOW THAT GOES BACK TO THAT LADY WHO WAS ON GOVERNMENT
- 1:31:50ASSISTANCE AND BECAME VERY WEALTHY. BUT PROVERBS 10, VERSE
- 1:31:54FOUR SAYS, HE BECOMES POOR THAT DEALS WITH A LAZY HAND, BUT THE
- 1:31:59HAND OF THE DILIGENT MAKES RICH. AMEN. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE IS
- 1:32:05GREAT IF IT'S USED RIGHT. OKAY, WE KNOW IN THIS COUNTRY, THERE'S
- 1:32:09A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT JUST ABUSE IT. AND YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I'M
- 1:32:13GLAD WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT CAN HELP PEOPLE, 'CAUSE A LOT OF
- 1:32:16COUNTRIES DON'T HAVE THAT. IF PEOPLE HAVE A REAL, YOU KNOW,
- 1:32:20SPECIAL NEEDS SITUATION, THERE'S A LOT OF COUNTRIES THAT DON'T
- 1:32:23HAVE IT. BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM, NOW PEOPLE HAVE ABUSED IT. THE
- 1:32:25BIBLE TEACHES THAT IF YOU DON'T WORK, YOU DON'T EAT. AND THAT'S
- 1:32:29FOR REAL IN SOME PLACES. 2 THESSALONIANS 3:10, "FOR EVEN
- 1:32:34WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU, THIS WE COMMANDED YOU, THAT IF ANY WOULD
- 1:32:37NOT WORK," THIS IS THE APOSTLE PAUL TALKING, "NEITHER SHOULD HE
- 1:32:41EAT." YOU KNOW, THE ONE THING I'VE NOTICED WITH THIS
- 1:32:44GENERATION, THEY WANT A LOT FOR NOTHING. I MEAN, WE WERE TALKING
- 1:32:50ABOUT, IN FACT, I WAS TALKING WITH RYAN, I WAS GIVING HIM MY
- 1:32:52SCRIPTURES IN THE BACK, AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SUMMER. THE
- 1:32:54KIDS ARE IN SUMMER NOW, PASTOR CHRIS IS THERE. AND I REMEMBER
- 1:32:58MY DAD, SUMMER DIDN'T MEAN PLAYTIME ALL THE TIME. MY DAD
- 1:33:01WOULD SAY, "YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING FUN UNTIL YOU DO ONE
- 1:33:05PAGE OF MATH EVERY DAY, MONDAY TO FRIDAY. YOU CAN HAVE SATURDAY
- 1:33:11AND SUNDAY OFF." HE WOULD SIT THERE, WE'D GET UP, HAVE OUR
- 1:33:15CHEERIOS ON MONDAY MORNING AND WE WOULD HAVE MATH CLASS AT
- 1:33:19HOME. AND HE WOULD STAND OVER US AND MAKE SURE WE LINED UP THE
- 1:33:23DIGITS. IF WE DIDN'T, I'D HAVE TO ERASE IT. I HAD HOLES IN MY
- 1:33:27PAPERS. I'D SIT THERE AND CRY. I'M LIKE, HE SAID, NO, IT'S NOT
- 1:33:30LINED UP. AND THEN HE'D GET A RULER OUT AND MAKE US LINE IT.
- 1:33:34NOW KIDS TODAY WOULD THINK THAT IS THE MEANEST, MEANEST DAD IN
- 1:33:40THE WORLD. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M TIDY TODAY BECAUSE, OKAY, I
- 1:33:45RECOGNIZE I GOT TO COLLEGE THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A NEAT PAPER.
- 1:33:49THE PROFESSORS ARE ABOUT AS MEAN AS YOUR DAD. SO YOU THINK ABOUT
- 1:33:56HOW MANY PEOPLE START THINGS THEY NEVER FINISH. OH, I'M GOING
- 1:33:59TO START A BUSINESS. OKAY. I KNOW PEOPLE THAT START
- 1:34:02BUSINESSES EVERY YEAR. THEY NEVER FINISH ANYTHING. I LOOK AT
- 1:34:07HOW MANY PASTORS WHO SAY, OH, WE'RE GOING TO GO START A
- 1:34:10CHURCH. AND I'M LIKE, DID GOD CALL YOU TO DO THAT? BECAUSE I'M
- 1:34:14GOING TO TELL YOU, WHEN YOU PASTOR A CHURCH, ESPECIALLY IN
- 1:34:17THOSE FIRST FEW YEARS, IT AIN'T SO PRETTY. WE HAD MORE PEOPLE
- 1:34:20LEAVE THAN CAME, I THINK. BUT THE REALITY IS THAT A LOT OF
- 1:34:25PEOPLE DON'T FINISH WHAT THEY START. SO HE THAT DOESN'T WORK
- 1:34:30DOESN'T EAT. FOR THIS, FOR WE HEAR THAT THERE ARE SOME WHICH
- 1:34:35WALK AMONG YOU DISORDERLY, WORKING NOT AT ALL. RIGHT?
- 1:34:41DILIGENCE. BUT OUR BUSY BODIES, OKAY, I'LL TELL ONE MORE STORY.
- 1:34:45CAN I TELL, I'M PULLING A PASTOR MARK, I GOT TO TELL ONE MORE
- 1:34:48STORY. I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE GROWING UP, AND YOU CAN ZIP YOUR
- 1:34:53BIBLE AS I GIVE YOU NUMBER SEVEN. I REMEMBER, THIS WAS
- 1:34:57YEARS AGO, WE WERE GROWING UP, AND WE WERE IN THE MILITARY, WE
- 1:35:01ALWAYS LIVED ON BASE HOUSING, AND SO MY DAD WAS ON REMOTE
- 1:35:05ASSIGNMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHERE CHRISTY AND I WERE, WE MUST HAVE
- 1:35:09BEEN AT SOMETHING, AND MY MOTHER HAD A WEEKEND AT HOME BY
- 1:35:13HERSELF, AND SO SHE HAD PLANNED THIS OUT, SHE HAD SET SOME MONEY
- 1:35:17ASIDE, AND SHE WAS GONNA GO SHOPPING ON SATURDAY. AND WE HAD
- 1:35:23THIS LADY, I WRITE THIS STORY IN THE BOOK COMMANDING PEACE, IT
- 1:35:26COMES OUT IN SEPTEMBER. BUT WE'RE GONNA CALL HER IRENE, ALL
- 1:35:30RIGHT? AND THIS LADY LIVED DOWN THE STREET, IRENE, AND SO SHE
- 1:35:36WAS ONE OF THESE PEOPLE, WORKING NOT AT ALL, WAS JUST A BUSYBODY,
- 1:35:40LAZY. HER HOUSE WAS A PIT, IT SMELLED BAD, JUST A DISASTER.
- 1:35:48AND SO MY MOTHER GETS UP ON SATURDAY AND SHE DECIDES SHE'S
- 1:35:51GOING TO GO SHOPPING. AND SHE GOT ALL, SHE DID HER NORMAL
- 1:35:57THING. SATURDAY WAS CLEAN THE HOUSE DAY. YOU KNOW, WE HAD A
- 1:35:59RULE IN OUR HOUSE BEFORE WE COULD GO OUT TO PLAY. WE HAD TO
- 1:36:02CLEAN OUR BEDROOM AND MAKE OUR BED, CHANGE OUR SHEETS AND CLEAN
- 1:36:05UP THE BATHROOM AND DO ALL THE THINGS. SO SHE LIVED BY THAT.
- 1:36:09SHE GOT UP, MADE THE BED AND CLEANED THE WHOLE HOUSE FOR
- 1:36:11EVERYBODY TO ENJOY ALL WEEK AND GOT HERSELF ALL FIXED UP AND DID
- 1:36:16HER HAIR AND FIXED HER MAKEUP AND PLANNED A DAY AT JCPENNEY.
- 1:36:19AND LO AND BEHOLD, SHE'S ABOUT TO LEAVE AND IRENE SHOWS UP. AND
- 1:36:25SHE WALKS IN AND HERE'S MY DECORATED UP MOTHER AND SHE
- 1:36:28LOOKED ALL GOOD AND HAD A PRETTY BLOUSE AND WAS GOING TO GO DO
- 1:36:32HER SHOPPING AND IRENE WALKS IN AND LOOKS AROUND AT THE HOUSE
- 1:36:38ALL CLEAN AND SMELLING GOOD AND BLEACHY AND ALL THE STUFF AND
- 1:36:44SHE, THE FIRST THING OUT OF HER MOUTH IS, "I JUST WISH I HAD A
- 1:36:47JOB." AND YOU KNOW, NOW I DIDN'T KNOW THIS, MY MOTHER TOLD US THE
- 1:36:52STORY LATER, HAD I BEEN THERE AND I'D BEEN GROWING UP LIKE I
- 1:36:55AM NOW, I WOULD HAVE SAID, "WELL, GO TO MCDONALD'S, IT'S
- 1:36:57DOWN THE ROAD, YOU WANT A JOB BAD ENOUGH." NO, BUT SHE WANTED
- 1:37:00THE RESULTS OF WHAT SOMEBODY WORKED HARD FOR. AND THERE'S A
- 1:37:05LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T PROSPER, OKAY, THEY'LL LEAVE
- 1:37:08THEIR HOUSE A PIGPEN, THEIR STUFF IS UPSIDE DOWN, THEY CAN'T
- 1:37:12CLEAN UP ANYTHING. "WELL, I GOT KIDS." AND YOU GOT LAUNDRY ALL
- 1:37:16OVER THE PLACE, OKAY? THAT'S NOT A TESTIMONY, OKAY? IF YOU'RE
- 1:37:21GONNA WORK HARD AND BE DILIGENT, THE HAND OF THE DILIGENT MAKES
- 1:37:25RICH. HARD WORK, OKAY? START AT HOME. SATURDAY IN THE GARAGE.
- 1:37:32HALLELUJAH. OKAY? CLEAN OUT THE SOCK DRAWER, DO SOMETHING.
- 1:37:38PASTOR AND I HAVE HAD A RULE, AND FOR AS LONG AS WE'VE BEEN
- 1:37:40MARRIED, ALMOST 37 YEARS, EVERY NIGHT BEFORE BED, WE BOTH PICK
- 1:37:45UP. EVERY NIGHT. AND WE'VE DONE IT ALL OUR LIFE. EVERY NIGHT,
- 1:37:50EVERY MORNING I GET UP AND MAKE THE BED. IN FACT, FOR A WHILE I
- 1:37:53WASN'T DOING IT ON SUNDAY. I THOUGHT, WELL, WE'RE JUST GONNA
- 1:37:55COME HOME AND NAP. I'LL LEAVE IT A WRECK. AND THEN I'D GET HOME
- 1:37:58AND HAVE A TERRIBLE NAP. YOU'D BE TANGLED IN THE COVERS. IT'D
- 1:38:01BE LIKE YOUR LEG WAS IN A KNOT WITH THE SHEET AND IT WAS
- 1:38:03TERRIBLE. SO FINALLY I THOUGHT, WHAT DOES IT TAKE ME? FIVE EXTRA
- 1:38:07MINUTES TO MAKE THIS BED ON A SUNDAY AND COME HOME TO A
- 1:38:09GLORIOUS NAP THAT WE NEED? AND SO I CHALLENGED MYSELF. I
- 1:38:16CHALLENGED MYSELF TO DO IT. BUT ALL I'M SAYING, I'M NOT SAYING
- 1:38:19YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE ME. WHAT I'M SAYING IS HARD WORK. WORK HARD,
- 1:38:23IT WILL YIELD RESULTS. PEOPLE DON'T PROSPER BECAUSE OF THAT
- 1:38:29REASON RIGHT THERE. THE LAST ONE, YOU CAN STAND. PRACTICE
- 1:38:32GOOD MONEY MANAGEMENT. PROVERBS 21, 20, THERE IS A TREASURE TO
- 1:38:37BE DESIRED, AN OIL IN THE DWELLING OF THE WISE, BUT
- 1:38:40FOOLISH PEOPLE SPEND IT ALL UP. OKAY, THEY DON'T PRACTICE GOOD
- 1:38:46MONEY MANAGEMENT. YEARS AGO WHEN WE USED TO, I USED TO TEACH SOME
- 1:38:49FINANCIAL CLASSES HERE AT THE CHURCH, MAYBE WE'LL GET BACK TO
- 1:38:52IT. BUT I DID A, THIS IS BEFORE, YOU CAN FIND THESE ONLINE NOW,
- 1:38:56BUT I DID A BUDGET SHEET. I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE I CAN PULL
- 1:38:59THAT BACK OUT, BOB, AND PUT 'EM IN THE FOYER. AND I HAVE TO
- 1:39:03CHECK IF I STILL LIKE IT FIRST, IT MIGHT NEED TO BE UPDATED. BUT
- 1:39:06THE POINT IS, IS I PUT OUT A WHOLE LIST TO JUST TEACH PEOPLE.
- 1:39:10YOU KNOW, IT WAS ONE OF MY JOBS IN THE BANK IS TO HELP PEOPLE
- 1:39:13THAT CAME IN, DIDN'T KNOW WHY THEIR ACCOUNT WAS OVERDRAWN. AND
- 1:39:17I REALIZED NOT EVERYBODY, I'LL SAY THIS IN CLOSING, NOT
- 1:39:20EVERYBODY GREW UP WITH PARENTS THAT MANAGED MONEY WELL. SO A
- 1:39:25LOT OF TIMES WE INHERIT THE ILLS OF OUR PARENTS AND OUR FAMILIES
- 1:39:30AND THE GENERATIONS BEFORE US. BUT THE THING OF IT IS YOU CAN
- 1:39:34LEARN. SO TEACH YOURSELF. THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD PROGRAMS AND SO
- 1:39:39MANY GOOD THINGS THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM AND TRAIN OURSELF AND
- 1:39:44TEACH OURSELF. I'M NOT SAYING YOU HAVE TO BECOME AN ECONOMIC
- 1:39:47EXPERT, BUT LEARNING HOW TO JUST MANAGE YOUR OWN FINANCES
- 1:39:50EFFECTIVELY IS KEY. AND YOU KNOW GOD WILL HELP YOU. BUT INVEST IN
- 1:39:55YOURSELF. DON'T JUST BE LIKE, "WELL, IT IS WHAT IT IS." AND
- 1:39:59I'VE KNOWN PEOPLE WHOSE FINANCES ARE A DISASTER, AND THEY'RE THE
- 1:40:03SAME WAY 30 YEARS LATER. MAKE A CHOICE AND A DECISION. "WELL,
- 1:40:08GOD, HELP ME GROW." AND WHAT'S THAT SCRIPTURE? MATTHEW 3, 8,
- 1:40:16JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS PREACHING. HE SAID, "BRING FORTH FRUITS
- 1:40:19THAT ARE MEAT FOR REPENTANCE." IT SAYS MEAT FOR REPENTANCE IN
- 1:40:21THE KING JAMES. IT MEANS WORTHY OF REPENTANCE. SOMETIMES
- 1:40:24BRINGING FORTH FRUIT MEANS YOU JUST GO LITTLE BY LITTLE. FRUIT
- 1:40:27DOESN'T GROW IMMEDIATELY. YOU DON'T PLANT AN APPLE SEED AND
- 1:40:30POOF, THERE'S AN APPLE. MAKE SMALL DECISIONS TO BE A BETTER
- 1:40:34FINANCIAL MANAGER. LIKE START WITH BALANCING YOUR ACCOUNT
- 1:40:37EVERY SINGLE MONTH. DON'T JUST FLY BY. AND YOU KNOW, WE GOT
- 1:40:41PROGRAMS NOW TO HELP US. ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT CAN HELP US
- 1:40:45LEARN HOW TO BE A BETTER FINANCIAL MANAGER. AND I'M NOT
- 1:40:49SAYING DON'T GO SPEND $800 ON THE FINANCIAL PEACE SERIES. I'M
- 1:40:54NOT SAYING IT'S NOT GOOD. DO SOMETHING SIMPLE THAT YOU CAN
- 1:40:58DO. I REMEMBER ONE TIME I THOUGHT, I'M GONNA BECOME AN
- 1:41:01EXPERT ON THE STOCK MARKET. I'M GONNA DO IT. I WENT AND ORDERED
- 1:41:05THIS WHOLE THING AND NEVER READ THE FIRST CHAPTER. I'M LIKE, I
- 1:41:09LOOKED AT THAT AND I'M LIKE, I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU. I DON'T
- 1:41:13KNOW, THEY GOT ME FOR MY MONEY AGAIN, JUST LIKE THAT
- 1:41:15FRANKINCENSE OIL. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY. I'M LIKE, LORD, I'M A
- 1:41:20SUCKER FOR THIS STUFF. AND YOU KNOW, I'M LIKE THAT, THAT AGAIN,
- 1:41:25START SMALL, DO SOMETHING, BUT BECOME BETTER AT HOW YOU MANAGE
- 1:41:29YOUR MONEY. IT WILL MAKE GOOD FOR YOU. AMEN. DID YOU GET
- 1:41:32ANYTHING OUT OF IT TONIGHT? ALL RIGHT. HUG SOMEBODY AS YOU GO.
- 1:41:37PLANT SEEDS OF GOOD IN JESUS NAME. INTERNET, THANK YOU FOR
- 1:41:41JOINING US TONIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU. TUNE IN TO PASTOR HANK
- 1:41:44FRIDAY NIGHT AND THEN WE WILL SEE YOU ON SUNDAY. BYE-BYE.