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The Intensity Of Your Desire | Carolyn Savelle | Ladies Conference 2025 | Wednesday AM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Well, if you've been around me a time or two, you know you have to do a hug like this. I'm hugging every one of you. I'm not a high five person. High five doesn't release oxytocin in you. I'm a hugger. So this is my great big hug to every one of you. Harry, My great big hug to you, all of you. So do you feel good? You can be seated now. We'll get in the word of God. I have something so exciting I want to share with you today that completely changed my life in 1999, and I'm praying it's going to change your life today. Fixing that feedback right. I want to tell you, and this is a bold statement, I'm going to pray and I'm going to say to you every prayer I've prayed since I got ahold of this key, since 1999 has been answered. So I want you to get your catchers out. I want you to listen to what I'm going to say today because I'm here to tell you every prayer you pray will be answered from this day forward. God is a good God. We just sang about it. Glory to God. I'm walking in a level with God that I've never walked in before. And I want to tell you how to receive what you've prayed and believe God for. The first question I want to ask you is, how badly do you want it? How badly when the doctors have said it's incurable? How badly do you want it? How badly do you want that new home when your credit's been ruined and the bank says you'll never qualify again? How badly do you want it? How badly do you want to pay your bills on time? How badly do you want your marriage restored when it doesn't look like there's a way for it to be restored? How badly do you want these things? What is it that puts that reservoir of power to work on the inside of you and causes your prayer to be answered every time there's a reservoir of power on the inside of you? But what is it that puts that reservoir of power to work every single time? So I want to give you the key to that reservoir of power that's on the inside of you. The secret that I want to tell you is your faith will produce, proportionately speaking, no greater than the intensity of Your desire. Let me say that to you again. Your faith will produce, proportionately, speaking, no greater than the intensity of your desire. Did you understand that? If you're just wishing for something, hoping for something, que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, it's not going to happen. Your faith is going to produce, proportionately speaking, according to the intensity of your desire. How badly do you want that thing? You have to become intense with your needs and desires. You can't just confess by his stripes, I'm healed occasionally and expect a miracle. You have to become extreme. You have to become intensely focused on getting your healing and refusing to settle for anything less than that. Let me give you some definitions. Intense means consecrated or concentrated. Concentrated in an extreme degree. Extreme strength, expressing great zeal, determination, earnestness, strained, unremitting. And I don't call that casual praying, do you? Intense means on purpose, eager, in pursuit, engrossed, absorbed, fixed, focused, attentive, intentional, deliberate, strained and willful. When you get to the place in your prayer life where you become intense, you become zealous, you become determined to get the victory. Then it will not be denied you. But you have to become intense, focused, strained, unrementing, willful determination that you're going to get what it is that you are believing God for. You have to get that way to be able to see the victory. In other words, we have a phrase in Texas, get fed up. You have to get fed up with it. It's time to get fed up. This age that we're living in, I believe that we are the culmination of the end of time. I was born in 1948, and I believe, and I declare this generation will not pass away until all things be fulfilled. The generation that saw Israel born again and become a nation. April Wood or May 14th or 15th, 1948. That's me. I will not pass away until I see all things fulfilled. So we don't have time to play games. We don't have time to play around. Have you ever seen an hourglass where the sand is running through it and it seems like it just takes forever for that sand to run through the neck of that hourglass. But when it gets down to the bottom, I'm telling you that sand is going so fast through the neck of that glass that it's over with like that? Well, I believe that's what's happening right now. Have you seen time speeding up? I mean, it's amazing to me, a month is almost like a week. Am I. I mean, you turn around and one whole month has gone by. And you feel like it's been one week. So time is speeded up. So God doesn't have time for us to play around with the things of God. We have to get the job done, and he wants us to do it now. So in this determination, in this intensity of desire, when you become purposed, engrossed, absorbed, fixed, attentive, intentional, deliberate, strained and willful. This is my grandson right on the second row. His name is Preston Jerry Savelle. So he is Jerry Savelle in the flesh, right here. Jerry Savelle sat in our service today. So Preston Jerry, when he was a little boy, he was two years old. Can I tell how old he's going to be? He's soon going to be 34. But when he was 2 years old, the whole family was in my family room. And all of a sudden, Preston just did this. And then he just began to do this. He was squeezing his little hands, and he was squeezing them, and he began to just shake. And his whole little body just began to shake. Well, all the family began to laugh. And that made him do it even more because we were laughing at him. What was he doing? Everything in him was strained. He was strained like this. And his little body would lock it up. He wasn't having a temper tantrum. He was not having a seizure. He was entertaining us and making us laugh. And the more we would laugh, the more he would do it. And so then, as the other grandchildren came along, they learned the Preston shake. That's what we named it, the Preston shake. So every time I think of the intensity of desire, focus, fixed, determined, intentional, deliberate, I think of the Preston shake, where I get everything in my entire being is focused on that one thing that I'm believing God for. And I begin to do this, and I begin to do this, and I just begin to shake. And it will not be denied you if you get that way. Faith, I'm telling you, your prayers will be answered. Just like that. You will see things begin to come to pass. You've wondered, I've prayed prayers. Sometimes it would be answered. And it would take a while. Maybe a month, maybe six months. No, I'm telling you, I'm here to announce to you your prayers can come to pass within days, moments within moments. And I'm going to say something right now had marked it out in my notes. But all I have to do now almost, is just think it. Just think it. I can just think it. I can just desire it and just think it. Then the next thing I know, it's there. It's right there. That's what God wants in our lives, because we're coming to the end of time. And God has everything prepared for us ahead of time that we have need of. And so we have to learn how to pull it out of the spirit realm into the natural realm. He doesn't want you struggling in life and having need and lack and want. It's prepared in the spirit realm. He wants you to reach into that spirit realm and bring it into the here and now. Amen. Amen. Glory to God. When I think of this, there's a scripture that comes to mind. Then they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. But when he heard it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, saying, jesus, son of David, have pity and mercy on me. And look what it says. It's in parentheses in my Bible. Now. Now is a key word now. Have pity and mercy on me now. Faith is now. Faith is now the substance of things hoped for now. And many severely censored him, reproved him, telling him to keep still. But he kept on shouting out all the more, you, son of David, have pity and mercy on me now. And Jesus stopped and said, call him. And they called the blind man, telling him, take courage, get up, he's calling you. And he began to shout even louder. And throwing off his outer garment, he leaped up and came to Jesus. And Jesus said to him, what is it that you want from me? What do you want me to do? And the blind man said to him, master, let me receive my sight. And Jesus said unto him, go your way. Your faith has healed you. And at once he received his sight and accompanied Jesus on the road. And I want to warn you right now, people will tell you to shut up. They told me, Carolyn, you become fanatical about this. Be quiet. Shut up. Sit down. Don't say anything. No, I'm going to shout even the louder. Faith is now. God wants us to have our needs met now. He wants your healing to come to you now. So I'm going to shout even louder. There are no more delays, you see, when you cease to struggle, when you get so intense on the inside you nothing can stop you all at once. It will come to you immediately. You will receive what it is that you're believing God for. The delays are gone. Why? Because as I've said already, we've run out of time. The word of God needs to be fulfilled in your life. Have you ever seen a puzzle or put together a puzzle? I love doing puzzles. Jerry hated doing puzzles. But I would dump a puzzle out on the table, set the box up, and then I began to build my borders, and then I began to put all the puzzle together. And if there's one piece missing of that puzzle, then I am upset. And there are some people in my family that come along and take one piece of puzzle out and hide it until you're at the very end, and they come and get to have the privilege of putting the last picture piece in the puzzle. That's not fair. That is not fair. You're the one that spent all the time in the labor putting that puzzle together. You should be able to put the last piece in, right? Yeah, that's right. Right. Well, I want to tell you, God's given me a piece to the puzzle for the end time, and I'm not gonna hold that last piece away from you today in this service. I'm gonna give you the last piece for you to put in. And that is God wants about the things of God. He wants you to receive what it is you need in your ministry, in your life. He wants you to receive all that you need for your ministry, for your calling, for your life. So you get to put the last piece in. Amen. Amen. So if you'll lock into this and take hold of this today, what I'm going to share with you, it will change your life. Now let's look in Ephesians 2:10. For we are God's own handiwork, his workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus born anew. That we may do those good works which God predestined, planned beforehand for us, taking paths which he prepared ahead of time, that we should walk in them, living the good life which he prearranged and made ready for us to live. God has prearranged a good life for you to live. People get upset when they hear preachers or other believers in the congregation prospering. But that's your heritage as a child of God. If you're faithful to God, he'll be faithful to you. God doesn't care what kind of home you have or how many you have. He wants you to have a good one. He wants you to have the one you desire. He doesn't care. People are the ones who care and put limitations on you. God does not put limitations on you. According to Ephesians 17:9, God not only wants to have you having the desires of your heart, but he also wants to lavish you with blessings in him we have redemption, deliverance and salvation through his blood, the remission or the forgiveness of our offenses, in accordance with the riches and the generosity of his gracious favor, which he lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding, practical insight and prudence, making known to us the mystery or the secret of his will, of his plan and of his purpose. And it is this in accordance with his good pleasure, his merciful intention, which he had previously purposed and set forth in Him. So I want you to look at the word lavish. The word lavish means to bestow with profusion, produce in abundance, extravagant, very abundant, more than what is needed, and to pour out as wastefully. God wants to produce abundance in your life. He wants to be extravagant with you. He wants to make more than what is needed. There is no limit with God. God wants to lavish you with his blessings. Since I tapped into this revelation of intensity, of desire, I don't even have the voice. As I said earlier, my needs, it's just like. Or my desires, they just happen. Years ago, the way this became so real on the inside of me, back in the. I don't know, 30 years ago, there was a brand of clothing called St. John Knits, St. John's Suits. That was the epitome. If you go to St. John's suit and you got to. Wore it to a meeting, wear it to a meeting. I mean, you were a fashion plate, right? A fashion plate. So I desired one of these suits. And so for my birthday, Jerry said, carolyn, I'm going to buy you a St. John's suit. Go down, pick out, whatever. So I went to the store and I picked out the clothing that I wanted. Okay. Came home, showed him. This is my beautiful new suit. Thank you for my birthday present. And so I wore it. Wore it to the next meeting we're at. Oh, I love this. I just love it. Feels so good. Like if you have Grandma's coconut cream pie, coconut meringue pie on a Sunday. And it's good. You taste it, it's good. Don't you want a piece of her pie next Sunday? I know. I'm that way. Jerry's mother made the best of coconut cream meringue, not cream meringue that was this high, you know, every Sunday. Oh, I loved eating it. Well, Jerry gave me that soup and I loved it. So I remember just saying to the Lord. Lord, I love this. Oh, I want some more. This is the truth, what I'm going to tell you. The next week, we went to a church in Birmingham, Alabama. And the Driver picked us up the. The airport, took us to the guest house. The church had a guest house. And we go in and all these clothing are scattered all over the bed and just stuff everywhere. I said, sir, I said, I think housekeeping didn't come to clean. The pastors would be embarrassed. Housekeeping didn't show up. He said, no, ma'. Am. Here, read this card. Well, I took the card and it said, the pastor's wife has had it on her heart for months to bless you when you came, for all of your sacrifice and dedication to serving your husband all these years. This is like 28 years ago, y'. All. And all these clothes are for you. All of this that you see is for you guys. 12 of those suits. 12. 12 of those suits. Plus the St. John earrings and jewelry. Stuart Wiseman shoes and handbags. 12 of them. 12 of them. 12 of Them. 12. You do the math. If they're like 2,000 or $2,500 a suit, you do the math. You do the math. That's exactly right. Well, what did I do? I came home and I shared with my friends, my closest friends. I gave them all. Well, this is the truth, what I'm going to tell you. The next week, I go to another church with Jerry. Jerry's preaching. The pastor's wife says, carolyn, I see you're wearing such and such. Well, we know the brand. When you see someone wearing it, you know the brand. I said, yes, I love them. I said, God's just blessed me. I said, I'm so blessed. She said, well, you know, this is a ladies meeting, right, men, you plug your ears. She said, I'm going through the change of life and they're too hot for me. She said, I can't wear them. She said, would you mind if I brought mine to you and blessed you with mine? She I've only worn them a few times. I'd be honored to have your fruit. I will wear your hand me downs any day of the week. Yay. Guess how many she brought me. 22. 22 of those St. John's 22. I'm not exaggerating. So guess what I did. I came home and I blessed my friends with those suits. Guess what produced that. It was the intensity of the desire. I was focused. I was fixed. I was determined. I was willful. It was. And let me tell you this. One day I was in Bible school and I just said, you know, I would love to put the decor, decoration, all of this landscape, building homes. All of that's just in our blood. She's a professional decorator. It's in my blood. My daddy, my aunts, my uncles, everybody's builders and carpenters and, oh, I love to draw house plans. And I just love to put shingles on a roof. I'm a strange bird. I know, I know. But my daddy had me on a roof laying shingles when I was a little bitty girl with a hammer and nails. I mean, I can ride a tractor. I can shoot a gun. You raised in the south, right? You can shoot a gun? Yeah, I shot an armadillo right between the eyes. Kathy Duplantis and Jesse were at my house. And Jerry and Jesse had left to go meet the Copelands, and they were riding the bike, so they had to go a few days early to get to Colorado. Kathy was at my house. So Kathy and I were in my swimming pool, and we're playing. And I said, kathy, don't be alarmed. I'm going in the house and getting my gun. There's an armadillo I've been wanting to kill. I said, it's digging up my flower beds. I'll be right back. So I ran upstairs, came back with my.22, and I got that sucker right between the eyes. Right between the eyes. She said, carolyn, Jerry's always said you were Annie Oakley. You really are. Jerry says, I pity the fool that tries to break in the house on Carolyn Savelle. Cause I have a gun here and a gun here and a gun there and a gun here that's beside the police. But what a God we serve, that intensity of desire. So let me tell you, when Harry's miracle story here, your miracle story, when Jerry went in the hospital because he had a clogged artery, and they were just going to remove the plaque out of his artery. And when he got in there, they came out of surgery perfect. Everything went great. But all of a sudden, some of the plaque broke off and went to. Traveled to his brain. When it traveled to his brain then. And we'd gone to eat and celebrate, my two girls and their husbands, we'd gone out to the restaurant. We were only gone one hour. We come back, and they said, no, he's had a stroke. So long story short, he couldn't talk, he couldn't walk, he couldn't communicate. He couldn't do anything. And so after a few days, they released him. We brought him home, and there he was. He'd sit at the table, and he'd just groan and moan, and he couldn't communicate with us or anything. And then we had these balls that he would have to squeeze to try to get movement in his hands and everything. And my granddaughter Rachel, after so many days, oh, she put this putty up there. And saying, I'll put coins in the putty. She said, now, Papa, you have to work to get the coins out of the putty. And so Jerry would work and work and work, trying to struggle to get the coins out of the putty. And he might get one out and get another one. And then she'd put them back in there, and he'd get so mad, and we could tell by his eyes that he was mad at her. You know, don't put that coin back in that putty. I don't want to do this anymore. He would say, I don't want to play this game anymore. We knew that's what thinking. But she put those coins back in that pudding and say, here, Papa, do it again. And she'd make him do it. She'd make him do it. She'd make him do it. She'd take him in our gym and one whole wall is mirrors, and she set him on the bench, and his shoulder was drooped down like this. And she'd say, no, Papa, lift it up, lift it up. She'd make him do these exercises over and over and over. Well, after a few days, after a couple of weeks, he grunted one day, and that's how he communicated. And he point. He point like that. She says, papa, you want to go out to your museum, to your shop, to your garage? And he did that. So they went out the door. They went out the door. She unlocked. She got to his museum. She unlocked his museum, took him in. And when she opened the door to his museum and all these gorgeous cars lined up in there, and he had so many. They're on. They're up in the sky, up in the air, too. They're layered. The cars were layered. His cars are layered. And then he has all these gorgeous motorcycles. And then he has a couple of motorcycle garages that's filled with 20, 30 motorcycles. I'm just telling y' all the truth. And so he goes in there, and the keys are in the motorcycle. So he'll go over. See, he couldn't do anything. But somehow when he got in there, in the environment that he loved, he was able to crank the motorcycle. These old antiquey things that are hard to start, he was able to start the motorcycle. Then he went to another one. He started that motorcycle, went to the other one. He started that motorcycle, and they turned around to go out, and he got over here. And he says, rachel, give me the key. He talked for the first time. He said, rachel, give me the key. She started screaming. She said, papa, Papa, you talked. Papa, you talked. And, papa, you moved your hand and you took the key. And he was able to put it in the lock and lock the door. From the time from walking from that museum back to the house, he was completely and totally healed and made whole. Completely healed and made whole. I'm here to tell you. It was the intensity of desire. It was because we were focused. We were fixed. We were determined. We were willful. We were unremitting. We would not let go of the promises of God. We would not let go of the promises of God. That's the God we serve. That's the God we serve. Three weeks later, he was out preaching around the world again. Couldn't keep up with him. Oh, my goodness. That's the God we serve. Oh, my goodness. So let's look at this. God wants to lavish us, lavish us with abundance. Lavish. The word lavish means to bestow with profusion, produce in abundance. Extravagant, Very abundant. More than what is needed and to pour out as of wastefully. God wants to produce in your life. He wants to be extravagant with you. He wants to make more than what is needed. And there's no limit with God. We limit God. God does not have limitations. We're the ones who limit God. Glory to God. When I was a little girl, I always desired to have a playhouse. And my sister Jan and I, we used to rake the leaves up in the fall and the pine straw in the spring. And being raised in a builder's home, we'd make the little perimeters and line that pine. Did you do that in the South? We'd line that pine straw up, and we'd make our living room. We'd make our little bedroom, we'd make our little bathroom, our little kitchen. And mother would give us all the leftover Mason jars and cutlery and all this stuff, and we'd pretend and play house. And so when my daughters, two daughters were growing up, I desired to have a playhouse for them so much. And. And we were believing God to be able to put a new winter coat on them every winter as they grow. I mean, there was no extra to be able to do anything like that for our children. And so finally, when my grandchildren came along, I said, jerry, I said, I've got to build a playhouse for these grandchildren. I said, we ran out of time with our girls, I mean. But now my grandchildren are here, and that's A whole different ball game. I mean grandkids were the best of thing since, you know, peanut butter and sliced bread. I mean grandkids are our, they're our reward for not killing our own children, right? Yeah, yeah. Our grandchildren are our reward. So I said, I have got to build a playhouse for my grandchildren. And so they said okay. So I called the carpenters on staff and they said, what's it going to be? 10 by 10, 10 by 15? I said no, I'm going to build my grandchildren a playhouse. I'm going to lavish my grandchildren with a playhouse. There's no limit. And I just gotten this revelation to pour out as of wastefully extravagant, more than what's needed. And they said, okay, give us your plan. So I drew the plan out, I went out there with them, we staked it out, we got it all ready and we ordered all the lumber and it began to go up. And I remember one day walking out to the back door of my house and I went, dear God, what have I done? What have I done? And I walked out there and I was talking to the carpenters and I said, guys, I said, I knew, I know square footage, I know all, but what have I done? They looked me in the eyes and said, Mrs. Savelle, don't you dare back down and don't you allow Satan to steal from you the revelation on to lavish your grandchildren that God wants them to have this. And they preach back to me what I preach to them. But Satan comes immediately to steal the word that's been given to you. So you have to stand and put your stakes in the ground. You're not taking from me my revelation that God wants to lavish pour out on me as of wastefully. Guys, I built them a 1200 square foot playhouse. Yeah, it's a, it's a. You walk. Oh, it's Victorian, three sided porch with the columns and you walk in. There's the foyer, a music room, the dining room, the living room, all with fireplaces, little miniature furniture. Oh, where's Saint? Saint loves the playhouse. Saint loves playing in the playhouse. And it's three bedrooms upstairs. The kitchen. The kitchen is so adorable. The kitchen. I had custom made cabinets that had an artist come in. She painted bunny rabbits and trails and villages and oh my goodness. And a laundry room with a little washer and dryer. One of my carpenters made the washer and the dryer and he made the stove and the washing machine makes a chug, chug, chug, chug, chug sound, you know, and you go up the Stairs and three bedrooms. Then up on the third floor is a playroom, a big playro. Is there a picture of it somewhere? Yeah, and that was the only mistake I made. I made it 6 foot instead of 8 or 10ft. So that 3 or 4. Yeah, Happy's like this when he walks in the playhouse, you know. But I began to pour out as of wastefully lavish my grandchildren. But I'm here to tell you Satan will come immediately to try to steal from you that revelation. And I'm telling you imagination is a gift from God. God gave you your imagination and it is a gift from God. So don't you dare let the devil, when you begin to think of things and it seems so impossible and so unreasonable. And where am I going with this? God put the desire on the inside of you and your imagination is there by him. And do not let Satan come. I decorated it looks like a miniature version of my home. Inside all the drapes, the sofas, the fabrics all match. Three or four different fabrics on the sofas, the drapes have two or three different fabrics on them. Just everything's custom made, the furniture's custom made, all the little baby grand piano in the music room, you know, and just, it's just, oh, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun. So God wants to lavish you. So what family were you born into? In today's society, people base their importance or their value on what family they were born into. If you were born into a family of self worth, then you automatically have kind of instilled in you that you're worth something, that you're worthy. But if you were born in a lower class family, then you have to work your way up to revelation, knowledge of who you are in Christ Jesus. But if you were born into the Rockefeller family or some other wealthy family, you would probably inherit millions of dollars upon birth. You would never have to worry about paying your bills on time, on a mortgage, on what car you're going to go down and buy when you turn 16. They just go into the dealership and pick out whatever it is they want. So the struggle for them has ceased. Well, what family were you just now born into? You were born into the family of God, so your struggle of receiving should be over. You're not just born into any family, you're born into the family of God. You're a child of God. You're a child of the most high God, the most high God. It says, even as in his love he chose us, actually picked us out for himself as his own in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, consecrated, and set apart for him, and blameless in his sight, even above reproach before him in love. For he foreordained us. Oh, I love this. Destined us, planned in love for us to be adopted, revealed as his own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of his will, because it pleased him and it was his kind intent, so that we might be to the praise and the. The commendation of his glorious grace which he so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption, deliverance, salvation through his blood, the remission, the forgiveness of our offenses, shortcomings and trespasses which he lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding. He lavished. That's what the word I want you to get again. He lavished. Lavished all of this upon us, making known to us the mystery and the secret of his will and of his purpose. He planned for the maturity of the times and of the climax of the ages, to unify all things in him and head them up and consummate them both in Christ, in heaven and things on earth in Him. We also were made God's heritage portion, and we obtained an inheritance. And we have been foreordained, chosen and appointed beforehand in accordance with his purpose, who works out everything in agreement with the council and the design of his own will. You were designed by his own will. He has purposed and planned all of this ahead of time, like I purposed and planned that ahead of time for my grandchildren. He's planned and purposed things for you ahead of time. Now if I keep going with my notes, let me share with you. I have seven grandchildren. Now, when God revealed all this to me, they all operated. They were all young and they all operated at different levels of revelation, knowledge of even knowing who Jerry and I were. The oldest one was 10. Preston was probably 8. And the 8 year old at that time, all he wanted to do was eat donuts and play with toys. He ate donuts and played with toys. The ones under that they didn't even know they really had a grandparent. And these grandparents planned something ahead of time before they got here. We planned every time everyone was born, we did a trust fund for every one of the children. So every month we'd put a little bit of money, $100 a month for every child. Every month I started a little trust fund for every one of them. They didn't even know what a trust fund was. They didn't even know we were their grandparents. And that we loved them. So all seven grandchildren operated on different levels of revelation knowledge. Now the 10 year old, he was the oldest, he got so smart every month he called papa, how's my trust fund doing? Has it made any money this month? Can I have some of it and buy a car? He's only 10 and he was wanting his cousin car at 10. Well son, you're a little too young for that car right now. We have to wait until you're six years older before we can get you your first car. But they all operated on different levels of revelation knowledge of even knowing we were their grandparents. That's how we all are in here today. We're all operating on different levels of revelation knowledge of knowing who you are in Christ Jesus. The more knowledge you have of God and His Word, the greater level you're going to walk in the receiving ability of what God has laid up and prepared for you. So just get in God's word and find out what God has laid up for you, what's been laid up in store for you so you can receive your inheritance. Amen. Amen. Glory to God. You know we have. If I go by my notes here, maybe I'll just talk out of my spirit. For we are God's own handiwork, his workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus. That we should do those good works which God predestined, planned beforehand. Oh, I love this. Taking paths which he prepared ahead of time. We took paths that we prepared ahead of time for every one of those grandchildren that we should walk in them. Here we go. Living the good life which he prearranged and made ready for us to live. Oh, the good life which he prearranged and made ready for us to live. Paths for us to walk in that we should live good life. Live the good life. Glory to God. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. So what heritage have you been born into? I'm here to tell you. We just read it. We just read it. You're born into what? Family? The family of God. Whose child are you? God's if I can in the natural, for my children, just in the natural. How much more can our Heavenly Father think of that for us? He's taken paths ahead of time for us. He's given us everything that pertains to life and godliness. He's given us all the keys to the kingdom. You know I have. When you pull up to my property, it's on five acres, you pull up to my property, there's a gate. Well, I've taken the necessary Steps. I've given my children, my grandchildren, the gate opener. They all have a gate opener. So when they drive up, they push the gate opener, they drive down the driveway, and they come to the back of the house. Well, guess what? I've also given them a garage opener. They can get in the garage. So they have the gate opener. They have the garage opener. But the. The back door of my house coming in, because we have so many workers that landscapers, people working. I have a lock on my back door, and it's a combination lock, so I can leave the garage door up when I go to work. And the workers working, they can't get in my house. So my kids, my grandkids all know the combination. They push the buttons. They can just walk right in Mimi's house. Well, Sunday night, Preston Christian and Lil Rosie came over to visit me, and they came up to my bedroom. I have a sitting area in my bedroom, sofa and chairs. They came up and checking on me, see what I was doing? I was preparing for this meeting. And little Rosie loves to play in my closet. So Preston said, mimi, what's the combination? I gave Preston the combination to my closet door. Preston knows my combination. So I push the numbers. I have my closets locked. Jerry's closets are locked. We have jewelry in there. We have things, so it's locked. So Preston unlocked my closet door. Little Rosie, the jewelry cases, she knows to pull those out. She can play with those. She had long necklaces. She was just wrapping necklaces around her, playing with all my jewelry, just. Oh. And this great grandmother's heart was just, you know, if you think grandchildren is the epitome of joy, just get to be almost 80, and you get those great grandchildren. Love beyond description. Beyond description. So she was all wrapped up in jewels. And I said, oh, Preston, by the way, way, since you're here in my closet, let me give you the combination to my safe. So I pushed my combination to my safe and gave him the numbers. I said, I want you to see what grandmother has in the safe. I learned from Jesse Duplantis a long time ago when Katrina came through. You better house some cash. You better have some money. He was able, he and Kathy personally was able to help so many families. Get them rented apartments, help them with automobiles, help them with food. I'm not a doom and gloom preacher, but don't you ever be caught without store up. Have something. Have something. Don't live down to your last penny and your last dime. Well, anyway, I've made steps ahead of time. I gave My grandson, he knows the number to get in. He knows these numbers. He knows the numbers of the back door. They all have openers. God's done all that for us. He's given us the key to get into the treasuries of heaven. The very treasures of heaven. The treasuries of heaven. He's given us the name of Jesus. He's given us the blood of the lamb. He's given us the word of God. So whatever we have need of, we don't have to struggle in this life anymore. It's all been given to us. My children, it would look awfully strange if I got up one day and there are my two daughters outside the gate, shaking the gate, shaking the gate, shaking the gate, saying, mama, let me in. Let me in. Mama, let me in. Well, honey, what's wrong with you? I gave you the gate opener. All you have to do is push the button and come right up the driveway, or they're at the back door pounding and pounding. Well, where is your key? All you have to do is use the key to come in the back door. What's wrong with you? So God's given us all of the access to the treasuries of heaven. Oh, my goodness. What. What a God we serve. What a God we serve. You know, when I was growing up, I would go to prayer meetings all the time. And yesterday I told you just a little bit about me, but my family in East Texas. Maria Woodworth Etter, George Seymour. Oh, my goodness. Old brush arbor days. My grandparents. My grandmother, an old Pentecostal woman with hair down to here, you know. And my daddy went off to World War II. And my grandma, she said, my great, great grandma, she said, ain't no harm gonna come to my boy. That's how she worded it. Ain't no harm gonna come to my boy. Every person in my daddy's platoon was killed by my daddy. My daddy was wounded jumping, diving into a foxhole in World War II. My daddy came home, became a carpenter. Well, when he was sent home From World War II in Paris, France, where he went to recover in the hospital there, then they sent him to Fort Worth, Texas, where he was an MP officer, never realizing that his children would grow up in Fort Worth, Texas, years later from Louisiana. But my great grandmother's words came to pass. Ain't no harm gonna come to that boy. Ain't no harm gonna come to that boy. And my daddy's grandmother, my great grandmother, she told her family, she said, well, the Lord showed me I'm gonna Go home to heaven tonight. She went to church. She died shouting in church. She told her whole family, get prepared, I'm going to heaven tonight. She went to church. And right there on the second row, praising God. Her spirit just left her body and there she went. That's my daddy's grandmother. Oh my goodness. I want to go that way, but I'm ready for the rapture. You know, everything's been fulfilled. I mean, everything's ready. We're ready. I'm ready. Are you ready? If you're not ready, right now is the time to get ready. Right now is the time to get ready. So we have a heritage. This is our heritage. God wants us to have an intensity of desire on the inside of us. So in these final days that we have left on planet Earth, we will not be denied anything. We need to get this gospel out there. If you need a new van for your ministry, if you're believing for land, if you're believing for buildings, if you're believing for equipment, whatever it is you're believing God for, you just get so focused, so fixed, so willful, so determined on the inside of you. And I'm telling you within just moments that thing's going to be manifest in your life. I don't struggle with my faith anymore. You know, one time not too long ago I thought, you know, I'd just love to have. That's a strand of pearls. Guess what? Next meeting I go on. That was the gift I was given, was a strand of pearls. And it was the very one that I was wanting. Just within three days there was the strand of pearls that it was what I wanted. Those are natural things which don't really amount to anything. But God still wants to give you the desires of your heart because the desires of your heart were placed there by him. If you love God, then you know these desires are placed in you by God and the desires and the imagination, God gives it to you. You know, I've watched so much lately online of different things where the homeschool kids are homeschooling and how that they used to, you know, they put you in class. The little bitty ones, they've got things so messed up. They send the high schoolers to school at 9 o' clock and if the little bitty kids have to be at school by 7:30 or 8 in the morning, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I'd love to revamp all of that. You know, let the little kids go to school at 9 and let the younger, the Older kids go to school at 8:30 in the morning, but the kids are made to sit there in a chair from 8 o' clock in the morning to 3 o' clock in the afternoon. And they're three and four and five and six years old. And they don't have any creativity or any imagination. Oh, I've watched so many homeschool things lately that they need to. Little kids need to get out there and roll and tumble and little boys need to jump in mud puddles and little girls and get mud on them and play and learn to do all let their little imaginations grow and be creative. Because God gave us that imagination. So today I want to tell you, let your imagination grow. Let it get big in God. Sit before the Lord and just say, where? Where do you want me to go from here? What do you. What do you have for me? What? How big? How big can you dream? How big can you imagine? We serve a big God. He can give you big ideas, big plans. How big is our God? He's bigger than that. He's bigger than that. So allow your imagination to just grow on the inside of you. Amen. Amen. Amen. I'll just stop. Look. Look how much more I have. I'll just stop. Let's stand up. On your feet. Father, we love you. Today we praise you, we magnify you. What an honor and a privilege it is that you would send Jesus to just love fallen humanity. And that you would love us so much to send your son. We're humbled by the fact that you have a great and glorious future planned for us. Planned before the time began. I thank you Father, that today you're going to reveal in the hearts of your children that glorious plan. And may we grow in our faith from no faith to little faith, to great faith, to exceeding great faith. And that we can accomplish all that you've called us to do in this final hour. We thank you for it. In Jesus name, amen. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.