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"Always Having All" - Pastor Nancy Dufresne - May 27. 2024
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We're so glad to be with you. And, you know, I just appreciate what God's been working in us in these last couple days. Sometimes I don't even know till I really get in the pulpit what direction, you know, and it's not through lack of preparation. It's just being ready to go the direction that he has for the people in the room. Because you can have a sermon on your paper and a different sermon in the room and you better make the choice, you know, when that happens. And I'm just so thankful that he's talking to us about higher thinking. The Word tells us his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. His ways are higher than our ways. He doesn't say that to magnify how low we are. He says that to invite us up. That's what it's he says, my thoughts are higher, so come on up. My ways are higher, so come on up. In other words, you don't have to stay where you're at. And how many of you thank God that the Word won't leave us where it found us if we'll cooperate with it and be a doer of the Word? Amen. And I say this. It is he who is working in me both to will. To will. What's that? Your inward agreement both to will and to do your outward agreement of his good pleasure. So just know this, when it seems like you're never going to arrive at what. What's all in your heart say, it's not me getting me there anyway, it's Him. Now, he does have to have my cooperation. He can't just pick me up and throw me there. But he will lead us there and enable and empower us and amen. I'm interested in his will and his plan and his purpose. Amen. And in his will and plan and purpose, it's higher thinking. Higher thinking I want you to look at. In fact, I'm going to read out of the living Bible translation so you probably. I don't know if you would have that one. Let me just read it to you. Joshua, chapter 5 and verse 11. Joshua, chapter 5, verse 11. And this is, as I said, the living Bible translation. And it says this then. Now this is talking about how after they had been. The Hebrews had been in the wilderness for 40 years, and God fed them, remember, with manna. And it says the next day they began to eat from the gardens and grain fields which they invaded. So they're touching into the land God had for them. And they made unleavened bread the following Day, no manna fell and it was never seen again. So from that time on, they lived on the crops of Canaan. What's that mean? Now they're eating the land that they were supposed to be eating of all along. And Dr. Bill Winston made this statement. I love it. He said, to go somewhere different, you have to eat something different. As long as they were just going to eat off of manna and not go for anything else, they would stay where they were. So God offers us higher thinking so we don't just stay where we're at. Amen. We're going to eat higher, eat higher. Just eat mental candy. Eat spirit food. The word is food for our spirit. And know this. The word is food for our mind. Your mind needs the Word too. Amen. I want to. God's helping us to think right about his provision, his care for us so that we don't rob ourselves and then blame it on the devil. I want to read something that somebody wrote in a biography on George Mueller. The biographer wrote this. George Mueller was a man. Do you know who George Mueller is? For those of you who don't know, Bristol, England, he founded an orphanage, and this is in the 1800s. And he just believed God by faith for the provision of it and built fabulous homes for the children. Had at the time of his death, over 2,000 orphans living under the umbrella of his faith. Training them, educating them, all the workers needed, all the provision needed. And it says George. And I'll say this, I was listening to something on Charles Spurgeon, who was an English preacher in England, really. And they said that he went. When Spurgeon traveled, he went to go hear George Mueller and had George Mueller to come to his church. And he said, I have never met such a man who walked with God. That's what Spurgeon said about Mueller. And it's written, George Muller was a man whose every fiber was bound up in God. A man whose example of faith and prayer will ever remain one of the brightest possessions of the church. I like that. That example is our possession, the example of him. And this biographer went on and said, George Muller learned the secret of boldly coming to the throne of God to receive all his needs met. Having experienced God himself, he realized that the puny supplies of man were dwarfed beside the reservoir of God's grace, which he tapped by faith. I love this next statement. He never found the throne vacant, nor the supplies exhausted. He kept asking, knowing that God, who heard, was able to answer. Amen. I want to read to you Isaiah, chapter 54, verse 2. And it says, enlarge the place of your tent. Yours, yours and the understood subject. Did you enlarge the place of your tent and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out? Spare not. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes, for you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, where it says, spare not one translation says, spare no expense. Spare no expense. What's this mean? Live according to what's in your heart, not what's in your head. If you live by your head, it will cheat you from living by what your heart wants to live. Dad should have gotten a bigger grunt because so many live, and I'm talking about believers, live based on their heads. Your head does not host. It is not the seat of the life of God. Your spirit is. So if we're going to live out of our head, we're setting aside the eternal life. We're setting aside the greater One who's in us. And we're drawing on just what we drew on before we were even his. God offers you to live out of your heart. And he'll fund it. He funds your heart. But we're just so much of the time living off of what our head can calculate and figure out. So know this. Spare no expense. I like that. How many husbands have ever said, honey, go shopping today. Spare no expense. Yeah, well, that didn't go over big either. I didn't hear one amien from a man. Can I tell you, my husband was that way toward me because he was so generous. I did not manipulate that, because that's wrong. I did not distort that and take advantage of that. But I knew because I did. Our personal finances for years. When we came up on our 20th anniversary, I didn't wear it tonight. I have it with me on the trip. I didn't wear it, but he said there was a jeweler in our church. And he said he pulled him back after church, in the service, after the service one night, and pulled him back in the back room and said, Our 20th anniversary is coming up. Ask her what she wants and make her anything she wants. And I knew we didn't have anything I want, But he was offering me what was in his heart. Not what was in his head, not what was in his bank account. He was offering me what was in his heart. God will fund your heart if you will live out of your heart. God funds what's in your heart because that's where his life flows and stems from. Live out of your heart. Make decisions out of your heart. And it will always be funded if you don't back down on what's in your heart. Amen. There was sometime years ago that in buying, I at one time had to buy for almost 40 people every Christmas, because I'm talking about relatives. And there were. And not just one gift for probably about 10 or 12 was multiple gifts. And so it was a lot. And I was thinking there was somebody not a relative, and I thought, I want to buy them a certain item. And it was. I had it. I had several of them, but I knew they didn't have any of them. And I thought, I want to buy that. But basically I didn't have any more in my account to do that with because it was not an inexpensive item. And about a week before Christmas, one of our congregation members said, I know you have one of these because I've seen you with it several times. But God told me to give you this. And it was a duplicate. It was the exact same thing. Why? Because I decided I was going to give them what was in my heart and not what was in my bank account. And God funded it. God funds your heart. Learn that God has funded your heart. So don't cheat your life by living out of your head. And some may be sitting in here and go, I don't know what you're talking about. About living out of your heart. Well, you have to keep coming to church so that these things dawn. Amen. Because there were times when I was a younger believer and somebody would have said that, I'd go, I don't know what you're talking about. But as you grow in God and as you walk in God and you hear the Word taught, you begin to understand what the fullness of that means. Amen. So everything that's in your heart, God wants to satisfy. He wants to satisfy. He doesn't want you to lay down in bed at night and your insides feel cheated and your insides feel robbed from. You know what I'm talking about. We've all had those times and had those seasons. Well, let's not be okay with repeating that. Let's not be okay with that. Spare no expense when it comes to what's in your heart. If it's in your heart. If I could say this, faith is in your heart, right? Your heart, your spirit. Now, when we talk about the heart, we're not talking about the organs. So don't get duped. You can't. You don't have any faith in the organ of your heart. The heart of man is the center of man's Being. That's his spirit, right? You can't believe God with your heart anymore than you believe him with your kidney. Right? It's an organ. So people get duped into. Then they'll do this. No, that's not what we're talking about. You know, wherever this is. Jesus said, out of your belly shall flow. Out of your belly shall flow rivers. Not out of your head. Not out of your head. Out of your belly shall flow rivers, and in those rivers is abundance. And out of your belly, when you start flowing out of your belly, abundance starts flowing out. And God's provision meets that flow. He's obligated himself to that flow. So learn to live based on what's in your heart. Can I tell you this? I was talking to another minister last week about this, and it is the absolute truth, because we compared, if I could say this, notes in our own lives. And he said to me, he says, I've noticed that the biggest things, the biggest, most important and costly decisions of my life, I had no strong leading on. I just had an inward witness. And I said everything I did after Ed died, those eight projects that we had to finish, every bit of that was on the inward witness. Out of my heart, just out of my heart. It wasn't a voice. It was just out of my heart. When we were here last year, I couldn't really announce it to you on my birthday. I was here last year. Anybody remember? Happy birthday to you. On my birthday. We paid off our building on my birthday, while we. And I couldn't tell you because my staff was here and we hadn't told our congregation. I thought, it's probably not right to tell my Canadian family first. But that did not come because God spoke. That came because that was in my heart to do it. I had just. The day Ed died, God said, pay off the building. Pay off the building. So I knew that there was a divine order, certain things happening in our ministry. I couldn't put something else in front of that. And talking about, you know, we're talking about the airplane now, because it won't be long that you're going to smell jet fuel with us. It won't be long. But I knew that the building needed to be paid off. And I walked into the financial office one day and I did not know. I didn't recognize that we had enough money. If I drew from multiple places and strategically worked it, that we had the cash in the accounts. But it had not always been there. Believe me. Believe me. But I just walked in one day and my Financial gal said to me, she said, pastor, and this was in. This was in August. And I walked in and she said, by December, we have to get the building appraised. We have to get it refinanced. It'll be $25,000 to refinance it. I said, do we have to find another lender? She said, no, the same lender. You just had to go through the process. The interest rate is going up. So by the time we pay higher interest and the cost to refinance, you're at $100,000. And I said, you know what? I'm done with this. But I said it from here. I didn't say it from here. I said it from here. And I recognized. Wait a minute. That came from a different place. That wasn't just a frustration at circumstances. That came from a different place. And you know what I did? I pursued it. Why? Because I recognized it was out of my heart. And if it's out of my heart, God's in on that. God's in on that flow. Amen. So what's in your heart? What's in your heart? Now, know this. Sometimes when God said to me, after Ed died, he said, pay off the building. He spoke that why planted a seed. When God says it, everything God does and puts in you, it's in seed form. So it has to grow. It has to grow in there. But once it's ready for the right picking, you can tell this is no longer a seed. You know? So what am I saying? I didn't try to go. The day God said, pay off the building, I didn't try to go do something to make that happen. I recognize when God speaks something, he's planting something in me. He's planting something in me. So many times I will hear him say something at the planting, but when it came time to pay it off, he wasn't speaking. Why? Because he's not planting anything now. It's the inward witness. Now it's just my heart getting full. That seed grew up. That seed grew up. So now I just recognize that came out of my heart. And I did not hear God say, pay off the bill, empty out all the accounts. Because my flesh did not like that. We had been increasing so much and we had a surplus. And in 30 years, we'd never had it. Well, really 40 years now, we had never had a surplus like that. And, brother, it was like splashing around in high cotton. Woo, baby, baby, baby, baby. I can call up any department, say bye. I can call up in and say, do it and you don't know that feels so good after you have eked out the last. Let me see. This is the holy hanky. And you know how you're trying to make ends meet and you're going, and you've done that for decades. That gets old. That gets old. And it's not in the plan of God for your life. But you learn God in the eking out. You have to go through the seasons of learning God. You don't have to go through the seasons of not having something, but you do have to go through the seasons of learning God. And every man worth his weight in God has had to go through that season. So it doesn't mean you're failing because you go through a season of tightness on you, pressure that comes against the mind. No, God doesn't send it. But you learn God in those places, you learn God and you're grateful for those seasons. Because without those seasons, you wouldn't have seen that aspect of God in your life. Amen. But there comes a time when we done with skinny cows. I'm done with skinny cows. I'm living fat now. A fat cow. No, I didn't say I'm a fat cow. Don't go out and misquote me. Some people may say, I don't know what she's talking about. Well, stay around, read the Bible with us, and you'll find out some of these things. The skinny year, skinny cow years are over. Why? Because we learned to be successful in the face of skinny cows. If you don't know how to think right when there are still skinny cows, fat cows won't make you think right. Fat cows won't make you think right. If you think wrong, it's not good things that make you think right. It's the word that brings right thinking. Not good times that bring right thinking. Everybody thinks they're a humdinger of a faith hero when everything is paid. I just love some of these kids, you know, raised in our church, you know, because they were born in our church and they come up and they've listened to all this and they think they are faith humdingers. Come on. They think they are because they're eating Mama's food, living off. Living under Mama's roof. Daddy's buying their clothes and they say, God takes care of me. Yeah, well, okay. I don't know why I said that. Just to help some people along. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Out of your heart out of your belly out of your belly shall flow rivers, rivers, rivers, rivers, rivers Rivers. Rivers. Amen. We've just got to quit settling for living out of what our mind can figure out, calculate, manage. I like. We were sitting in the back room with Dr. Bill Winston, and I'm going to tell you some things he said. How about that? He said, this increase doesn't come by time. It comes by truth. You say, what's that mean? What that means is you don't increase because you get older. You don't increase because you've been saved longer. Some people think if I'm just. If I just stay around, I'll make more. No. If you don't get the word in you, increase comes by truth. It doesn't come by time. Meaning this. You don't come into prosperity the longer you're around it. You have to be around truth. Get that truth in you. Then know this. We don't have to decide that. It has to take a lot of time. If it doesn't come by time, why do we decide? It takes a long time. I was thinking about this today. Amy Semple McPherson. Have you heard of her? Okay. Some haven't, you know, some have, some haven't. Not everyone's been around these things. She got saved when, I believe she was around 17. She went to a tent meeting and heard a man, an evangelist by the name of Robert Semple. That's the first time she heard about the infilling of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. She got spirit filled under his ministry in a tent crusade. They started corresponding because he was a traveling minister. He was a little bit older than her. He was maybe like 26, 27 at the time. And she was about 19 by this time. No, she was closer to 18. And they began corresponding and they ended up marrying. And then she began to travel with him on the road, preaching. But it was always in his heart to be a missionary in China. So they were going around in their American travels, and they would cast that vision before the congregations they preached for. And then they were, you know, raising funds to go over to China and start their work. Well, they got over to China. They were there about a year, and he died. And we won't go into all that, but he ended up dying. She was pregnant by this time. So after he died, she gave birth to the baby. Not just maybe days or weeks after he died in China. And she was left over there and did not have a way to get back to the States. And someone sent her money. Somebody said, God awoke me in the middle of the night and told me to stay this money to you. And that got her back home. Well, she was devastated. You can understand. She's about 21 years old now, she's got a new baby, and she's lost the love of her life. He was the love of her life. And so she lost her footing because back then it was more so. She had a ministry because she was assisting her husband. She didn't realize that there was something on her apart from her husband. And so she settled down and tried, you know, to raise her daughter and ended up meeting a couple of years later, met a man by the name of McPherson. And so they married. Then she had her second child. And now she's got two young babies. So she thinks, now I for sure can't go. And she begins when her children are young, to start having physical problems. And she had several surgeries. Back then, if a woman was depressed and seemed to be getting worse and worse, they would just do hysterectomies on them. They just thought, there's hormone imbalances. And so that was a very common thing that if they couldn't really locate it, just do that. Because that was kind of a bit of a cure all. They thought, well, they did that. But of course it didn't work. It didn't make a difference for her. And she was taken off of the operating table. She had several operations. They tried different things. She was taken off of the operating table. And God used to say to her all throughout the day, when she was just a young mom at home, said, will you go for me? Will you go? Will you go? And she would say, God, I can't go. I've got a husband now. I've got young children. I. I have to take care of my home. And God would say, will you go? And so she really had no one that, if I could say, encouraged her in this. And so she ends up on her deathbed, they put her down in the basement of the hospital, which is where they put the people who were dying that they could no longer help. And so she's within hours of dying. She's down in the basement. When they send you to the basement, you know what that means. And so she's laying there dying. She heard the word of the Lord say to her, now, will you go? And she said, yes, I'll go. And she was within days, completely raised up. So she made a commitment to go. And she had. She had to. She left her husband in the middle of the night, which gives you the idea he didn't agree with this, but this is a Life and death situation to her. This is the exception. It's not the rule for women. You didn't hear a voice. But she began. She began holding tent meetings in different places. And they began to grow really spectacularly supernatural. And so her husband. She wrote to her husband and said, will you please join me in the work? So after a short time of her doing this on her own, he did come and help her. There came a point, though. Afterwards, he said, I can't do this. In his head, he's just living off people. He didn't like that she received offerings, and that's how they lived. He thought, people, I'm a charity case. And that was a problem for him. And he would. He ended up doing preaching and actually did quite well. And God, evidently, from different accounts, visited him in a strong way and says, do not leave the work. And he ended up leaving the work. He took a job in a city that they were holding a crusade in. So now she's back on her own. And he divorced her. Not because of marriage problems. He just said, I can't do what you do. And he did not want to go on in the work. So they were divorced. And then her mother traveled with her and helped her take care of the children. She was one of the first, I believe the account is, she's the first woman who made the trek without a man from the east side of the United States to the west. And I'm talking about no roads. And she talked about how they would get. They would get stuck in mud on different places. They would take off their petticoats and wrap them around the tires to get out of the mud. And they'd get stuck all night and sleeping in the car and talked about all of that. When she was 25 or 26 is when she went to start preaching. Well, God told her to go to California. She ended up in California. And she was just holding what she thought was going to be just a crusade there. But the crowds kept coming, and the crowds kept coming, and the crowds kept coming. And she was going to shut down the meeting and go to the next location. And a man stood up and said, if you will stay, we will help build you a church. Help build a building. And one man stood up and said, I'll build you a home. I will supply the wood. Another stood up and said, well, I'll supply the stone. Or different ones just popped up. And in that one service, everything she needed to have a home built for her was pledged. And one woman stood up and said, I know that all the builders and all these men, because men worked more with their hands. You found lots more of that in that time that it was common for people to be doers themselves. And this one woman stood up and said, I know that everything has been pledged for your home. And she said, I don't have anything like they had to pledge. But God was. God said to me, give her a canary. And so she said, I'm just. I'll give your home a canary. Well, that is exactly what her little girl wanted. She just wanted a canary. And another woman stood up and said, well, I'll supply all the rose bushes. And that's what her son wanted. He loved roses. He says, I want rose bushes. So they were all in this meeting when all this was pledged. And it was built in a very short time. And she called it the house that God built. And from then on, she started. You know, she had a rented location where they met. Well, God started dealing with her about a building. I didn't intend to go this way, but here we are. Here we are. In 1921, she started a building. She had been around those who were part of the Azusa Street Revival that was held in, like, an old stable, a barn type thing. It was a very basic structure. It was nothing noble about it in the sense of its construction. And so she had in mind that she was just going to frame up a building, a simple building for a church. But the money kept coming, and the money kept coming, and she was. She was a creative person. She was a visionary. And in her spirit, she began to see more inside than what she had initially planned. And the money kept coming, and the money kept coming, and she would travel. She started in 1921, and she ended up with $5,000 in 1921. That's big bucks. When it was like a dollar a day, less than a dollar a day in some situations back in 1921, a day's wages. She's got $5,000. So she goes to her contractor and says, what will this build me? What will this get me? He said, that will dig the hole. She said, you dig the hole, God will fill it up. I see. That's our assignment in life. Dig a hole that God can fill. And if we don't have a feeling, it's because we haven't dug a hole for him to fill. People are waiting for the filling, but they've not even dug the hole. I was saying today, we were talking about it at lunch. I said, when you go dig a hole for God to fill up the Devil will tell you that's your grave. Tell him it's your foundation. Because a hole either ends up as a grave or foundation, right? So she goes across the country holding crusades, and she's presenting this vision before the people about her church. And she started selling, for a dollar, little bags of cement, dry cement, not with concrete yet. You know, it's just dried. And so they would. She would say, you take this and you pray over this, and you use your faith. And she would. For a dollar's donation, they would get that. And she came back in 1923, that building was completed. Paid cash for it. All along the way. You need to get online and look at the pictures. It's amazing building. It was the largest freestanding dome in the United States at her time. You stand on the platform in that building. It seated 5,500 people. It was the best building for a setup I've ever seen for a local church, the absolute best, because no one was far away. She had the ground floor, of course, she had a balcony. And the balcony came so far forward. Forward. And then she did not want the people, when she gave the altar call to leave the balcony and go out to the lobby to come down to the main floor. So she had ramps put from the balcony down the sides of the sanctuary so that they did not have to leave the presence of God in the room and walk out of his presence. Because she said, by the time they walked down here, the enemy's worked on them. So she had ramps. They've removed those ramps now, but she had ramps so they could walk directly from the balcony down to the altar. She was really. She was so much ahead of her time. So much ahead of her time. But I was thinking about this. She completed that by the time she was 33. You know what I thought is, my gosh, I'm behind. What's this mean? It's what Bill Winston said. Prosperity doesn't come by time. It comes by truth. What's that mean? We can go as fast as we'll grab the truth. We can go as fast as we can grab the truth. If things are not advancing in your life, grab more truth. It's not the passing of time that's going to bring you into it apart. It's truth that brings you into it. So if you're not satisfied on your insides, grab more truth. Feed more truth into you. Amen. Is anybody getting helped by this? Yes. Bill Winston went. He said this in the back room. I just sat and wrote, you know, he said, money is a Mean master. It will try to intimidate you. And you have to show it who's boss. Look at that. You have to show it who's boss. What's this mean? You can't let money tell you no. When God has told you yes. You can't let money tell you no. Why? Money is nothing but a tool. It is nothing but a tool. It is not a master, it is not a lord and it's not a leader. It's not to lead your life. Money is a tool. It's only to help you fulfill what's in your heart. Amen. My dad could build anything, make anything. He was amazing with his hands. My son Steven is the grandchild that got my daddy's wiring. He was so wired like my dad. Stephen, when he was 12 years old, was taking computers apart and putting them back together. I mean, he was. All the time he was taking, everything got taken apart in my house. Daddy Ed had bought Stephen a dirt bike. He was 12 years old, bought him a dirt bike. And my parents were out visiting us in California. And the morning after he got the dirt bike, my dad came up early to my bedroom. He said, nancy, you need to get down to the garage. I go, oh, man, that doesn't sound good. I get up out of my bed, I go down to the garage. And Steven, it's like 6 o' clock in the morning, he has taken apart every nut, bolt and screw on that dirt bike that he got the day before. It's all laid out. Nothing is connected. Nothing is connected. Nothing is connected. And Daddy, who knows what it takes, looked at me and said, he will never get that back together. I said, I can't even handle this. I just walked out. I cannot even. I'm gonna let his daddy handle him. I cannot even. I cannot, I cannot, I cannot. Because if I handle it, there's gonna be parts of Stephen all over and I won't even try to put him back together. I came in from the office at 5 o' clock that day and every single bit of that was put back together. And there was not one piece left over. I mean, he's just wired for that. But Stephen, with all the equipment that he uses, see, he would used to get his daddy. He suckered his daddy into all kinds of stuff. Stuff, because Ed was good at stuff, but Steven was. He was a whole other level. He was a whole nother level. Ed was excellent at it, but Stephen had a whole nother level of this. So Ed and him could talk the same language. So you heard me say the other day, I mean, Steven would work his daddy, Daddy, I saw they got new equipment out on, and they would go, really? All right, let's go. You know, and they're going and buying something. Ed loved to buy stuff. Well, I do, too, actually, just not the same stores. And. I saw my daddy work with equipment all the time. My daddy would get so frustrated. He'd be out under his tractor working on it, you know, or something, and he'd say, baby, hand me such and such. And I didn't know what he was talking about. So I just pick up something out of the toolbox and hand it. He said, who taught you this? Evidently not you, because I didn't know the tools, you know, and then he would not even look at it. He would reach out and just do this. And he could find it by touch. That's called skill. That's called skill. And I couldn't even find it looking at it. Right, right. Because he knew his tongue. He knew his tools. Money is a tool. Know your tool and know that it's not your boss. Daddy never picked up a wrench and said, should I work on the tractor today? Wrench. He did not ask his wrench, his tool, for permission. He picked up his tool at his will and used it, and it served him. Money is to be picked up at your will and used to serve what's in your heart. And if you go in and say, can I afford this? You're asking the wrench for permission? Tool. I don't know. Am I the only one that likes this in here? I mean, this stuff? What am I doing? I'm giving you permission to quit serving what the world serves. The Word has given us that permission. Money is a tool. What's the tool for? The plan of God. The plan of God. It's for the plan. The tool is for the plan. And God sows the plan in your heart. And when you will act on what's in your heart, you'll stay with the plan. But if you're going to act, what's on your head, the plan will be robbed from. Because the plan is not sown in your head, it's sown in your heart. Praise the lord. Whenever in 2011, March of 2011, we were moving into a home, and the day we were moving in, God said to me, you'll only be in this home four years. I did not say a word to Ed. You don't tell a man carrying furniture that you're going to do this again in four years. I just did. You know, part of wisdom is knowing when. I'm just saying, ladies, knowing when to have conversations, men when to say things. This is part of it. And I never found the time of when for that which God said to me. I never said a thing to Ed about, you'll only be in this house for four years. At the two and a half year mark, he went home to be with the Lord. The home we had been in was lovely. I completely enjoyed the home. And God said to me about two weeks after Ed went home, you understand, I've got all these projects on my plate to finish. $6.5 million is now what I'm responsible for. I need at least a couple million immediately. I didn't know how much I needed. And in the midst of all of this, when the plate is full and it's fallen on the floor, you know, it's so full, there's stuff, there's responsibility just laying all around. You know, the plate can't even hold it all, it's that full. And God said to me, you'll remember I told you you'll only be in this house for four years. I'm at the two and a half year mark. And I said, I do remember that. I was trying to forget it because I don't need another thing on my plate. I've learned this about God. He doesn't wait till your plate is clean before he expects you to advance. He will put more on you when you can't take anymore so that it's evident you're not doing it. He's doing it too many times. We want to wait till things are opportune. And he does it at the most inopportune because it's not you doing it anyway. It's evidence to him and testimony to others that you're not capable of this. He did this. And in the midst of this time, this season, I found out. God showed me that it was Sister Amy's castle that he was going to give me. And then I was able to pay cash for it. For the first time in 30 years, my husband and I had never paid cash for a home. But God did what only God could do, right? In the midst of owing all this, God kept giving me things with no price left on them, no expense, no payment connected to it. Why? It's about the plan. As long as you stay with the plan, the plan is already funded. The plan is already funded. So in the midst of this, God said to me, he said that it was Sister Amy's castle that I was going to get. And I had a. I had a sum of money. A sum. Not a huge sum, but a sum. And I said to God, I said, God, you know, I'm a widow. It's good for widows to have a sum somewhere, you know. And I said, is it wisdom for me to take every penny I have and put it toward a house that only needs more work? In fact, the purchase is the cheapest part of this house. It's the cheapest. It's multiple millions to renovate this. And this is the cheapest part. So taking what if I had this money right here, I could pay off my current home and owe nothing. But now you're telling me to go buy more expense. Is that wisdom for a widow? I'm trying to counsel God on these terms. And he said something that changed my life. He said, the money is for the plan. All I have to do is be interested in the plan. And the money shows up if I stay with the plan. Stay. Stay with the plan. Stay with the plan. Stay with the plan. Why? Because every plan that came out of God came with a supply. It's already funded. If you walk out the plan and stay in faith, all the supply that's already been authored for the plan will come to you as you walk by faith. What's that mean? As you follow the plan of God that's in your heart, it's already funded. It's already funded. Then why don't I have the money? Because it's waiting for your faith to show up. It's your faith that receives the funding that has already been allocated to the plan. Does that make sense to you? Spare no expense. Don't cheat the plan. I love something. Brother Copeland told the story of how, when he and I don't know, do you know, is it the emic church building or his office building? And he was showing people through it. Do you remember this story, Brother David? Okay, so Brother Copeland had finished some building there at their headquarters. And he was walking through some of his partners that had come and I guess close minister friends, and they had just completed the building. And he's walking through and they haven't occupied it yet. And he's walking through and he said, well, we were going to do this in this room, but we decided to do this instead. And he said he realized he's walking through the whole building and he's saying that all throughout the building. We were going to do this, but we did that. And we saved money by doing this way and we saved money by going this way and leaving that off and Doing this. And after the people were in the building, they had gone through the whole building. He had been the person, personal tour guide. And they've left the building. He's in the building by himself. And God said, I want to talk to you about something because he has talked this all through the building. I saved money. And God said, if you saved the money, where is it? Only God has a way of asking you something that jerks you down to some sock level. You're down at your loafers now. If you saved all that money, where is it? He said, well, I don't have it. He said, because you didn't save the money, you cheated the vision.
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Do you know what building that was? It was the office building. You cheated the vision. I said it last, I think, last night when I was going to put down. Put cheaper railings on the building we were finishing. And I decided, I can't have those railings preaching to me in my unbelief. Every time I look at them, saying, you didn't believe. You couldn't. You didn't believe. Not that I couldn't. I didn't. Let me tell you something. You can believe everything that's in your heart. Will you? Will you? Amen. Praise the Lord. Spare no expense because you're cheating the vision. When you spare the expense of what is in your heart, don't build what's in your head. Build what's in your heart. And I'm not just talking about a structural building. I'm talking about a life. Talking about a life, you're building your life. What kind of family do you want? What kind of marriage do you want? What kind of profession is in your heart? What about your local church? What's in your heart for your local church? Can I tell you what's in your heart? Listen to the pastor's vision and you'll know what to put in your heart. Ask him to tell you over and over so that you don't feel. Forget it. Amen. So Bill Winston said, this money is a mean master. It will try to intimidate you. You have to show it who's boss. You have to show it who's boss. What's that mean? You're not. You're not calling the decisions of my life money. You don't decide where I go. You don't decide where I live. God does. The plan does. Now, that puts a demand on you to hear. You don't just grab something out of the clear blue sky and decide. It's God. You hear? You hear? Amen. And you walk out. What you hear. If you will take God shopping, you'll get more. More. If you take your wallet only shopping, you'll leave a lot of what's in your heart in the store. I've taught our congregation through the years, if it's in your heart for a home, don't decide what you can afford and not look beyond that scope of a home. It's fine. Wherever your joy is full. God wants your joy full. Notice this. He wants you to have what you want because you're the one living in it. He wants you to have what you want. I'm not just talking about money, people. I'm talking about a mindset. Please don't think, oh, she's talking on finance. I'm talking about a mindset, a way of thinking that God can move with. And I will tell them, look at what you think you can afford, that's fine. But then go look at what you think you can't afford. Why? Just so you don't get rutted in what you can afford so that you don't just settle there and stop there. Because if you'll take God shopping, He'll talk to you about the location you're at. I have walked into many homes and they're just, oh, nice home, don't want it. Nice home, don't want it. And then walk into a home and go. The bells go off. Oh, your spirit gets thrilled. Oh, what was that? God came shopping with you. And I've ended up with more than what I ever thought I would have at the time. Why? Because if you don't even walk into a place, how's God going to tell you? This is it. He didn't tell Abram where he was going to arrive. He had to get up every day and move closer to it. Move every day, closer to it, move every day. He didn't give him an address. He didn't give him a map. Just get up every day and keep moving and I'll tell you when to stop. Yeah, what am I saying? You have to get on the territory of something that you think you can't have and wait and see if God says something to you about that. Amen. Why? Because the way we think is going to have an effect on how fast we as a congregation can move into what God has for the congregation. The next thing, we've all got to come up in our thinking. All of us, all the time. All the time. He's offering us so much more. Always offering us so much more. Morgan made this Statement. Where you invest your time and money shows you where you think your prosperity flows from. Did you get that? Where you invest your time and your money shows you where you think your prosperity flows from. If people just spend all their time on their job and not any time sowing the word, they think their prosperity flows from the job. But if you'll take time to sow it, that word in you, that's where your prosperity flows from. Amen. From what you put in you. What you put in you. Praise the Lord. I love this by my husband. He said this. He's talking about the supply of God, that every need has a supply. And he said this. When Jesus was in hell, there was a supply to get him out. Now go with me to John, chapter six. John, chapter six and verse nine. Your pastor was quoting this, I believe, Sunday morning when he was receiving the church offering. John, chapter six, verse nine, the Amplified Classic translation. So if you have a device that'll let you pull up the Amplified Classic, do that. John, chapter 6, verse 9. This is when Jesus wanted to feed the multitudes, right? He said, there is a little boy here who has with him five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are they among so many people? And Jesus said, make all the people recline. Sit down. Now, the ground, a pasture, was covered with thick grass at the spot. So the men threw themselves down, about 5,000 in number. One account of it says they sat down in company. He's a 50. What did Jesus do? He brought order. Why? So that multiplication could take place. God is not multiplying disorder. So many times people are looking for increase. Well, you have to get things in order because God's not going to multiply something that's not orderly. He's not a part of multiplying chaos. So Jesus shows us in this multiplication process, make sure things are in order. Everything in the natural, all around you get it in order. Get your home in order, get your car in order. Get. Get. Get your house. Get just everything in order. So he had them to sit down in order. Verse 11 says, Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to the reclining people. So also he did with the fish. Look at this next phrase. As much as they wanted. As much as they wanted. In other words, when Andrew hands this to the family here, he doesn't say, I know you got a lot of kids. Don't take so much. There's a lot of people out here. Put your st. Put your big old hand back the Disciples were not there monitoring the portions that were being taken. And I guarantee you these people haven't eaten in three days. You see a grown man who hasn't eaten in three days, We're talking gobs, right? As much as they want to. Jesus did not hand it out to the disciples and say, you know, we got to make this stretch, boys. Don't let somebody take too much. Don't, don't. You know, we're going to have a server at the table, we're going to walk the people through, and we're going to hand you a tidbit. No, it's no servers measuring it out. As much as the people wanted. That is your invitation. As much as you want. As much as you want. It didn't say as much as Jesus wanted. It didn't say as much as God wanted. It didn't say as much as the disciples recommended. As much as they wanted. Can I tell you what your life has? As much as you want. And if it's not much, want more. Want more. Want more. Spare no expense. I'm not saying go out and run up bills and live off credit cards that you. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about get your faith going. Get your faith going. Get your words going. Get your believing going. Get your divine spiritual steps moving. Amen. Jesus did not tell them there's no limits. Jesus put no limits on this. There were no limits. The mind is a limiter. The mind will always put limits on you. That's why I said, don't live out of your mind because it's limited. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Whenever. Well, I love this. You know, this, the story. Turn with me to Luke, chapter 15. Luke, chapter 15. In verse. Well, Luke, chapter 15. This is the story of the prodigal son. You know this. He comes back home, the Father's throwing him a party. Why is the Father throwing him a party? Let me tell you why he's throwing him a party. Because repentance is rewarded. Know that God rewards repentance. When a man repents, he's rewarded. Repentance means change. So how do we know if we repented if we've changed? Because there are some people that apologize to God, but they don't change. That's not repentance. That's an apology or a regret about something. But repentance means change, means I'm not going that direction anymore. When people say I've repented, but they keep going the same direction, that's called false repentance. That's not a repentance. That's not true repentance. Repentance involves change. So this prodigal son, he changed, he came back. And the father rewarded his repentance. He put a ring on him, he put a coat on him, he killed the fatted calf. He threw a party. Know this week, people, people who are not strong, spirited, will not repent. When you live in a household with a spouse and children and you've never repented, something's off because you can't live with people and not bump into them. There has to be repentance going on in a home. And that's not a sign of weakness, that's a sign of strength. A strong man will repent, a weak man will not. He'll let somebody else take the blame. I love something Brother Copeland said. I had never thought of this. He said God gave Adam and Eve an opportunity to repent and they didn't. They wouldn't. Why would they not? Who had they just been fellowshipping with? The serpent. Amen. And so I want we know the account with the prodigal son. The elder son comes in from the field he's been working. What do we see? We see, we see two extremes with these boys. One just wants to enjoy the privileges of sonship. And one, just, one is just working under the hard labor of responsibility. There are responsibilities in sonship and there's privileges. And if you leave one and don't take the other, you're going to get off course. You can't just partake of the privileges and not carry out the responsibilities. Amen. You say, well, how do you carry out the responsibilities? What about playing a role in the local church? Right? A responsibility toward the church family. The privileges of coming and hearing the word and being together, enjoying the fellowship. But then there's responsibilities so that we can all come together, together and do that. Right? So the youngest son just wanted the privileges of sonship. The oldest one just took on the responsibilities and became hard and rigid. He was cold hearted. He was a hard hearted young man. And so he's mad because of the father's generosity to a repentant brother. And so he says, you never did what you're doing for him, you never have done that for me. And I didn't do what he did. No, but your heart is hard. That's pretty bad. And so the father says, it's not right for you not to come in and celebrate with us. And so this, the older son, he's offended at the this. And he says, you Never did all this for me. The King James translation of Luke 15:31 says, the Father said this, you are ever with me. All that I have is thine. The Amplified says, all that is mine is yours. Do you think this earthly Father is better than our Heavenly Father? If this earthly Father says, all that is mine is yours, God, how much more? All that is his. All. All. All that is his is. The mind can't comprehend that, but the heart can grab it. I said the heart can grab it. Build that in you. Build that in you. All that is his is mine. That's why I don't have to rob from one arena of my life to fund another. I don't have to rob what's in my heart because all that is his. It's mine. And it's not by earning, it's by sonship. It's by sonship. Then I'll close with this. Second Corinthians, chapter nine. I say, I'll close with this. This isn't one other, maybe. Second Corinthians, chapter nine. You know this verse? Second Corinthians, chapter nine, verse eight. I'm trying to give you snippets of what to build on. Build in yourself. When we looked at the multiplying of the food, they took as much as they wanted. Build that in you. They took. They took as much as they wanted. Then the Prodigal Son, the Father of the Prodigal Son, all that is mine is yours. Build these things in you. When you lay in bed at night, instead of worrying, instead of calculating, say this. Let it roll around on the inside of you. Second Corinthians, chapter 9, verse 8. King James Translation and God is able. To make all grace abound toward you. I want you to see this next phrase that you always having all. You always having all. You always having all. Go to bed at night saying, I always have all. I always have all. I always have all. What's sufficient at all? I don't just get a percentage. All. Always having all. Always having all. Always having all might not be evident in your account. It's evident in your spirit. And that means you can cash it in anytime. Cash it in anytime. Anytime. If you will, take one what you have and use it on the plan. Fund the plan. Don't cheat the plan. You'll always have all. You'll always have all. Amen. I want to close with this scripture. This is an amazing scripture to me. Second Samuel, chapter 12. Second Samuel, chapter 12. And I'm going to read again out of the amplified clothes Classic Translation. Can I tell you this? If you're going to be money minded, you're going to live without. If you'll be plan minded, if you'll be provision minded, supply minded, life gets sweet. Second Samuel, chapter 12, verse 7, the Amplified Classic. Now we to set this up. David had sinned with Bathsheba. He was. She was another. She was the wife of another man. David thought, I want her. I've got power, I've got authority. Take her, take her husband, put him on the front line in battle. He knew he'd be killed there. And that's what happened. He was killed there. So God sends the prophet Nathan and gives him a scenario to say to King David. And he said, what would you think if somebody had one? This is one animal that was so dear to him. And somebody knew how dear it was, but took it anyway for themselves, although they had enough. And David said, that man shall die. That man shall die. Because it was so against righteousness, the example that the prophet gave him. And then we see this verse, Nathan speaks to him and said. Then Nathan said to David, you're the man. You're the man. You're the one I'm talking about that is violated. You are the man. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel. Listen to this. God is saying through the prophet of God to the king, I anointed you king of Israel. You know this. There was another man in the office of king. When God anointed David, God took of the anointing that was on King Saul and gave it to King David. That which was upon another man. I gave you. I anointed you. I anointed you, king of Israel. I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. I gave you your master's house. Now see, when we say house, we're talking about palace. We're not talking about, you know, the little lean to down the road. We're talking about where the king lives. I gave you meaning that you have to build this. It came in ready made. You walked into royalty's home and he says, and I gave you your master's house. And I gave you your master's wives. Spoiled him. Gave you everything that I'd given to him and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. Look at this next phrase. And. And if that had been too little, if all of that had been too little, I would have added that much again. What's that mean? I'd have doubled it. I would have doubled it. What's this mean? Your increase is not going to offend God. He's telling the wealthiest man in the nation, I would have doubled everything for you. But you went trying to get it for yourself, and when you got it for yourself, you injured others. When we go to get it for ourselves, somebody's going to get hurt. A marriage hurt. Something happens. When God increases us, no one's injured. When we increase ourselves, even unknowingly or unsuspectingly, we don't realize many times we injured somebody else. It matters how you handle business. I said, it matters how you handle business. When God told me he was going to give me Sister Amy's house, the house wasn't for sale. Others had tried to buy it. Even people that were on the board of the church that owned it tried to buy it, and the pastor would not sell it to them. So I sent word to the pastor that I would like to buy the house. I didn't hear from him for three months. He didn't make any kind of contact with me. And I just didn't do anything. I just waited. And one day a phone number came up. And, you know, I don't answer phone numbers that don't have a name on them. A random number. No. And a random number came up, and the Holy Ghost, that's the pastor, pick up the phone. So I picked up the phone. So I knew who it was on the other end. And I had never met him. I'd never spoken to him. And he introduced himself. And I said, pastor, thank you for calling me. I said, I've sent word to you, and I want to again restate what I'm offering you. I would like to buy Sister Amy's home if you're interested in selling it. See, I don't have to sell. God told me you're. You know what? When you hear from God, your manners shouldn't leave. Because love. Love has good manners is what one translation says. And you can't blame bad manners on your office either. I've heard people say, well, they're just a prophet. That's why they're that way. Don't pass off bad manners onto the office. No, no, that's lack of skill. That's lack of skill, and that's just letting the flesh reign and calling it something spiritual. And it's not. And so I said to him, I said, I didn't know if you would be interested in selling the house, but if you are, why? Because I don't have to bully somebody with my words and take away their option. Their option is selling their option. You have to honor another man's option. And so I said, I didn't know if you were interested in selling it, but I would like to buy it if you are. And he said, well, I'm really not interested in selling it. But he said, I know of your husband and I know of your ministry, and because it's you asking, I will sell it to you. Now listen to what he said next. He said, nancy, how much do you think the house is worth? And I said, pastor, I have no idea. That's not my. That's not my call. I said, it doesn't matter what price you ask. Then I said, God told me that's my home. So since he told me that's my home, the price is up. It's up to him to get me whatever you ask. Now, if I'm looking to up me, take advantage of someone. You can't rob a brother and live under the blessing. You be a blessing. You be a blessing. You can't take advantage of someone and then call it God increasing you. That's a lie. That's an unrenewed mind. And so I said, pastor, I don't know what the house is worth, and I don't. Whatever you set the price at, I will pay it. I'm not going to sit and haggle with him. Why? Because God said, that's my house. It's his problem. You understand this. He's a precious man. He was so kind to me. He was so honorable to me. I didn't have to fight for myself. When you realize that, you don't have to fight for yourself. How peaceful life is. How peaceful life is. And God told David, you fought for yourself and look what it got you. And from then on, he began to decrease. Then on, he decreased. He was never just keep adding to. From then on, it was nothing but problems with his children, his own son trying to kill him from then on because he violated another man's household. And. But I want you to see the scope of God's thinking toward your increase. If what I gave you did not satisfy you, I'd have given you you that much again. I'd have doubled it for you. I would have doubled it. That's a king's offer. That's a king's offer. We don't just live under the double. We have a better covenant. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Aren't you glad you're not left to your genius? But you have a divine genius to help you. That's why. And the Holy Ghost is going to speak to you, out of your. To your spirit, if you will move with your spirit. You're moving with the Holy Ghost. Amen. Father, we thank you today. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. You're helping us. You're helping us. You're helping us. We thank you so much. We thank you so much for the fullness of the plan and will not settle for less, will not reach for less. We thank you, Father. All that you have is ours, and we can take as much as we want. So we enlarge our taker. We enlarge that hand of faith by coming up in our thinking. Father, we thank you for these precious people, people who have joined with the greatness of your plan for this place. And we thank you, Father, for giving us light and revelation so that we can move with you at full stride, not limiting or holding back the plan, not limiting or holding back what's in our pastor's heart. But we keep pace. We keep pace with what you offer us. You know, in. In the renovation process of the home that I'm renovating now, God said this to me. He said, the money will keep pace with you and the builders, meaning this. It's quick as you tell them to go. That's how quick the money will come. You go slow, it'll come slow. We set the pace. So much of the time we're thinking, well, we're just letting God. We're letting God. God will go as fast as you'll go with him. Amen. Because I look at Sister Amy and I think, my, my, my. From the time. At the time of 25, she started on the road, fulfilling the ministry. By the time she's 28, she's filling auditoriums of 10,000 people. By the time of 33, she is a world force. A world force. One of the most recognizable people in the world. Why? Because it's not about time. It's about how much that truth gets in you. You sow that word. You speak that word, and you can accelerate things. Amen. Speeding up the manifestation of things that's in your heart. Hallelujah. Stand with me to your feet tonight. Father, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. I would just say this to you. I'd offer you this. When you're laying in bed at night or any other time, you've got just time to yourself, search on the inside of you what's in your heart to do, and what are we doing with the word toward that? It won't happen just because it's in There. It happens because we do something toward what's in there with the Word. The plan of God in our life is not automatic. It's waiting on our faith. Amen. So we can't just live on autopilot and think things are just going to show up automatically. We have to take steps. Faith is a mover. I said faith is a mover. And if you realize that some arena or some arena of your life is not moving, stir it up. Stir it up and the devil will always tell you it's too late. No, it's just too late for him. It's not too late for you. It's too late for him, but not for you. He's talking out of his own future. When he says it's too late, that's his future. It's not your future. Amen. What you laid down, pick it up. Why? Because spiritual things don't rot. They're not like natural things that grow old and rot. Spiritual things don't rot. He may redirect some things just because some opportunities of the past may not be there anymore. But that doesn't mean the plan is lost. Amen. He knows how to redirect you. If something has been lost, he knows how to get you to go gather it back up.
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Pastor Nancy.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You said just a moment ago, if you're money minded, you'll go without. If you're plan minded, you'll always have more than enough. You had the money to pay off the building and you didn't even know it.
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Didn't even know it.
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About 20. In other words, how can anybody say you're money minded?
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Yeah. When I wasn't calculated, you weren't even count.
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You had it. Look. If you're money minded, you'd have been looking and counting and every day looking and counting, looking and counting, adding, adding, adding. Looking.
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God had to alert me because, my Lord.
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Okay, when you said that. Now it's getting to be almost 20 years ago. I was backstage in the believers convention. I think it was in Fort Worth. I think. Brother Jesse Duplantis was preaching. Brother Copeland was sitting on the side in his little. He's behind a curtain there. He's in the service. Even when you don't know he's there.
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Yeah, Like God.
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I know. It's like remembering the wizard of Oz. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. That's a bad illustration. Really bad. I was sitting in the middle. Brother Copeland came flying out of the side. I didn't know if I was in trouble or if he Was going to. Gloria came from the audience and was coming backstage. I heard it firsthand. Brother Copeland looked at her and said, the word of the Lord just came to me. I was coming to get you. And Gloria said, God just spoke to me. I was coming to get you. And he said, well, what did he say? And brother Copeland said, you go first. To her, she said, kenneth, the Lord just told me we have the money to pay cash for the jet and we don't even know it. Go look at the accounts. You already have the money. Brother Copeland said, that's exactly what he told me. Now how can anybody say to the Copeland's, you're money minded when you didn't even know you had the money? Is my point. He was plan minded. What was he doing preaching the word from the top of the world to the bottom and all around the middle. What was he doing? His assignment. Taking people from milk to the meat. What was he doing? Just getting the word of faith out on every available voice. In other words, God had already deposited the money. He had it. And he didn't know he had it. When you said plan minded, not money minded. Yeah, I've watched this firsthand for over 30 years. That one night marked me for the rest of my life. Guys, we're not talking a few thousand dollars.
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Millions. Millions. And what? Brother Copeland said that when they bought that plane, that was the only.
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The.
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The only new aircraft in the body of Christ. All others were. And nothing wrong with used. But God said, that's the only new one.
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The only new one. And the Lord told him, said, I need you to do this to break a barrier. And when you do this, others will jump through the hole that you punch there. You got to be the first one to pay cash for a brand new jet. I can't remember the amount. I know it was a lot. It was my point. Not money minded. Plan minded. God got him the money even before they knew it was there.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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All I have needed. All I have needed. Great is life. Say that again. Great.
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Great is.
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Great. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, to. To me. To me. To me.
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Yeah. Have you ever noticed that when the enemy attacks, he attacks the mind? If he attacks the finances, he still attacks the mind. If he attacks the body, he still attacks the mind. If he attacks your marriage, your home, your children, he still attacks the mind. Because there's always coupled with any attack, an attack on the mind. Why? Because if you think wrong, then the attack works. But if you don't think wrong, no attack will work. That's why? He has to attack the mind to try to get you to think wrong. What's that mean? He's got to get you in the mental arena. What's that tell you? Don't go there. Because the mental arena is the place of failure. I'm talking about to think against the word, to sight in against the word in your thought life. Amen. There's. When the devil makes that his battleground, that's your cue. Stay off that ground. Amen. Why? You have higher ground to operate from. You have. You have a spirit created in the image of God. And it will function as God authored it to. Amen. Father, we thank you all. We have needed. All we have needed. All we have needed. All we have needed. But can I tell you this? You have to practice. You have to practice not going there. You have to practice. I never, never, never on a Sunday after receiving offerings, never walked in on a Monday and said what came in. I wouldn't do it. It's a bad habit. A bad habit Because I'm led by here. I'm not led by what comes out of an office, a business office, financial office. I'm led out of here. I just keep pace with what God says. And isn't that the joyous way? Yeah, it's such a joy. We thank you, Father.