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"Every Believer's Authority Over Fear" Part 2 - Pastor Jennifer Field - Jun. 19. 2024
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So tonight we're going to continue talking about every believer's authority over fear. It is such a beautiful subject. It deserves time. It deserves drilling down into it so that we can root out things that God doesn't want us dealing with. I mean, since we left on Sunday, how many of us have had to say, oh, no, you don't. Show of hands. Yeah, I've said it. Think about that. That's how the enemy, that's his first weapon with us. He's trying to plant the seed, he's trying to plant the threat. He's trying to get us to receive it. But the Word has been given, and that's where we live. We don't allow those things to come. And it's good that you can. You have to start with identifying. That's where you start. That's where the. That plant grows up out of the ground. That's when you begin to do the actions of the Word by understanding it. So let's talk about Job. We're going to go to Job tonight. Job one, verses four to five. This will be familiar to you. I remember growing up and having this taught a certain way, and it was about Job's trouble and how Job served God even though God destroyed everything that Job loved. And it wasn't taught that way, but that was the inference. It was kind of like, cling to God because I don't know about you, but this was a difficult book for me when I first had it taught to me, because I don't believe it was taught correctly, because how can listen if you can't have faith? Totally, you can't have faith. It's like if someone says to you, God heals sometimes, sometimes he doesn't. Well, we might be on a journey of receiving, but if you can't believe that he always does it, you have no ground to stand on. It has to be absolute. That's why you can trust. And so when I first started to hear the truth about this book, because it always sat a little wrong with me, my heart just exploded with joy because I thought, that's it. That's it. Those verses, you know, you'll see it in here. But the verses talk about Job says that which I greatly feared has come upon me. And it talks about how he did the sacrifices. And I'm going to read it. But God doesn't put anything in the Word, so we can just go past it. Every word in the Bible was selected. You understand that over those how many years, how many centuries that God selected scenarios, wrote it by his Holy Spirit referencing something, that he selected it. There's so many things that didn't make it into the Word. There are historical books. They shed light, they're great, but they're not inspired Scripture. So when God puts something in his Word, we need to take time to try to understand with the help of the Holy Spirit. What's he saying? So let me just read this. Verses 4 to 5. Job's sons would take turns preparing feasts in their homes, and they would also invite their three sisters to celebrate with them. When these celebrations ended, sometimes after several days. So this was a party, a partying bunch. Job would purify his children. He would get up. Now, if you're old enough to throw a party, you're a young adult. You're not a little child, right? He would get up early in the morning. So that tells me. I mean, I'm speculating, but he probably didn't get a great night's sleep and offer a burnt offering for each of them, not for the whole group. He selected an animal for each of them. For Job said to himself, perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Does that sound like a good thought? Does that sound like that came from heaven? Job is in worry, and this was his regular practice. So a concern obviously came into his heart, because that's the first thing that the Word goes to, is this scenario, this parent going and beginning to sacrifice animals every morning. And let me tell you something that might shed a little bit of a better light on it. Ten animals at a time, because there was 10 children shedding their blood just in case one of his children went astray. And let's just do it by today's numbers. Back then, they had their own numbers, but it's on par, you know what I mean? Today, cattle can cost up to 3,000 per animal. So if you multiply that by 10, you've got $30,000. Now, he was the richest man in his day. He was the most blessed. But $30,000, day in and day out, because your kids have been partying for days, okay? So. And he's concerned. You can tell. He's putting everything that he has into getting their sins covered with animal sacrifices. But Job is doing it afraid. Because the Bible tells us in the verses to come, it says that he was scared and he was spending a lot of money to get those animals sacrificed. So I'm painting you a picture, okay? That attitude of just in case, better safe than sorry, random acts of throwing prayer at something to try to cover it, that does not work. And actually it's dangerous because the root of that is fear. The root of it is fear. The word says he was afraid. He says it out of his own mouth in chapter three. I believe it is where he says, that which I greatly feared has come upon me. I mean, it's right to pray for our children or family members. This particular thing is about Job's children, so we can think about our own. But it's not okay if our prayers are not faith based. It's not okay. It's not faith. So you have to make sure that you don't do that. You're not frantic. That's why I would say to people, I don't get up every day and apply the blood over my children. You think, what? I don't need to. I'm in covenant with God. My covenant doesn't fall off a cliff because that's the law. It doesn't stop because I didn't utter those three prayers to cover, you know, parents, husband, children, car trip to school, school, in case there's a shooter. People are facing that. He's out ahead of us. Remember what Peter said. Not Peter, but in the book of Peter. We're kept by the power of God through faith. That's what keeps us. And there's lots of referring to the blood, there's lots of thanking God for his protection, but it's not the letter kills. Okay? That's why the Pharisees could never enter into anything of God's goodness, because it was the letter of the law. There's a spirit in the earth and it's legalism. And it can be such that you can do nine things right. But if you do the 10th thing wrong and someone with that spirit catches you, they're going to grip a hold of that one. They're not going to let you out of that box. That's legalism. And it kills and it doesn't kill us. And that's not the spirit that we walk in. But you have to be careful that the things that you learn of the Spirit, that you don't nail them down into a legalism because it will wear you out. It will wring your prayer life out. It will give you a sense of condemnation. You don't even sometimes listen. I had to deal with that. You don't even know. You feel condemned. You don't even know. But it's like it stands off here and it has this thing. You didn't do enough. You didn't say enough. You didn't pray enough. You didn't read enough. You didn't meditate enough. You didn't, you didn't, you didn't. And then some people will say, well, I didn't, I didn't. But it's not. There's a higher law than that. There's something that's higher. And if you allow the enemy to come in and tap, tap, tap, tap, tap on your mind, he'll wear you out. So you can't let him push you into legalism. Okay, we're not our family's savior. People can say, what? No. You are given a position in the realm of the spirit that you get to take up and you go in and you are effective there. But you're not to take on the mistakes. You're not to take on their difficulties other than fighting in the realm of the spirit for them. And by fighting, I mean taking the word, praying in the spirit, enjoying your time with God. When he brings urgency, then you go with him. Right? But we're not our kids savior. Jesus is their savior. And our trust is in him. So for a lot of us, it's learning. It can be learning how to trust him when it doesn't look like things are going so well, you know, and when you've got, you know, Job's comforters that come and say things to you that could hurt. But if you're protecting your mind, then you don't have to let one. The goal is to not be troubled any moment of any day. That's the goal. And I don't know about you all, but I didn't even know that place existed some years ago. Not that many years ago. It seems to me in conversation right now, I'm saying a lot of. I'm not talking about that. I'm not. Nope, we're not going there. And it's not because people are saying really bad things to me. I say it to myself, no, Jennifer, we're not going there. We're not talking about that. We're not ruminating over that. I have choices today. I don't have to think any of it. That's a beautiful place. And you will find that your soul is freed up. Your soul is happy because you have a guard over your mind. Even when you deal with problems, you don't have to let the problem get inside. You don't have to be afraid. You don't have to succumb to worry. It's important to know that Job's children perished. So you can see that those sacrifices and all that money and all that blood that was shed under The Old Covenant. Not only did it not help, Job didn't know what we know, but a door was opened and the enemy came in to just. He wanted to wipe him out totally, including Job himself. But thank God, Thank God he was spared. It's a hard book to. God didn't do it. The enemy went in and we see what he does. I mean, this is. If you read Job, it doesn't even sound like a story that's real. It sounds too much, right? A storm came and a roof fell and the only thing he got. I shouldn't laugh. That's not right. I'm not laughing at this, but I'm just saying he was left with that wife of his. Everything else got taken away and she was left anyway. The devil knew what he was doing, I think. But I'm joking. You know what I mean? It looked like Job had reason enough to fear. It looked reasonable for him to be afraid to get up in the morning. Because when the Bible describes your partying and how long it lasts and that you've dragged all your siblings in, this is not pleasing to Job. He knows what it is to live holy before God because the Bible calls him a righteous man. So he knew some things about living right. So what he's seeing leads him to believe my kids aren't right. That's what it's saying. But the Bible does not give us any right to be afraid. It doesn't justify it. It forbids, tells us that the open door is there and that for us we have to. Whatever it takes to shut that door, we have to do it and we have to be militant about it. Job 3, 25, 26 says, for the thing I greatly feared has come upon me and what I dreaded has happened to me. I am not at ease. I have no rest, for trouble comes. So I won't ask for a show of hands. But if I were to say, put up your hand if there's a thought that's been troubling you, a deep seated fear in your life that's been just coming up for years, coming up for years. I think most of us could say either whether we've dealt with it or not. We know what it is to have something speaking to us about a fear. And we have to deal with that. You can't just let it sit there and torment you. Remember on Sunday I said, your fearlessness is your deliverance. Fearlessness is the meditated word. Answering that lie. Remember Pastor Nancy taught us better than anyone, when it speaks specific words, we have to answer it. Specifically. But what I find the human condition really is is more like we buckle down and grin and bear it. We might throw a few at it like oh, I'll be fine or I'm okay or well, yes, bless God, we almost get, we can get religious like yeah, we're fine, I'm fine, it'll be okay, whatever, throw some jokes at it. But it's still there. It's still there and our job is to dethrone it because it is an enemy and it's coming. It wants you to believe it, it wants you to operate out of that place. It wants you to be tormented by it and it wants to fill your life. It doesn't want you to have a faith filled life. It wants you taken up, the energies of your soul taken up with either ignoring it, half hearted attempts at it really in fear, but trying to look like we're in faith. And really what needs to happen is we need to just, we need to sit down with God. We need to face this thing and we have to understand what words are given to us that will speak to this fear. Do you understand what has the enemy been saying? That something's going to look this way and our response has to come out of the word about instead of the thorn tree will come up the myrtle tree. So instead of what you're saying is going to happen, I have my born again spirit with dominion on the inside of it. The Holy Ghost himself has given me a book not just with sparing phrases, phrase after phrase after phrase, story after story. And these are not anecdotes or legends. We know the characters of these stories. These are men and women given to us in the earth in times past that have overcome insurmountable things because they did the principles of the word, even under the old covenant, whether they stretched out the rod or they shouted and the walls came down, instructions of God. And you notice Old Testament and New Testament God is always commanding us because he knows who we are. He's always saying, do not be afraid. And so some things really have to be addressed. And because you can see that job, he's frantic. The human nature is to start moving, to do this, to do that. It's frantic. It's trying to fill in what that lie and that accusation, that threat is making you feel. So that can come with a whole host of behaviors because we're trying to anything but that. And God says, I want you to enter into my rest because you can't do it, but I can do it through you. I need your faith. You Just believe me. And how many of us can say that we know what it's like to believe for a little while and then quit? Or we believe half heartedly, but our speech is deplorable. What we're referring to the jokes we tell because we're in pain, but we don't want anyone to see it. The deflections, but that's not the way to deal with these things. God wants to go right to the core root of you and make sure that there's no fear. And that's his work of righteousness in your spirit. And you have every right to say, I'm not taking this anymore. And while things are being spoken to and they will change, I'm telling you, faith. This is not accusing because I have things in my life, but real faith. Faith can move a mountain. That's what the word says. I mean, we all want to grow our faith, but he's saying a speck of the real stuff, the believing in the heart, the refusal of other thoughts, even though they come. Moves. It doesn't say it moves hills, moves little creeks, little stones, moves little. It's in a mountain. Mountain. This is just stop for a second. God gives us imagery so we can understand it. Big things, threatening things, things that loom, things that block out the sun, things that if you had to traverse them, it takes days and it's dangerous. That's what God's talking about. He's saying real faith in the heart. And you know, he wants you to know, if you believe me for it, I'll do it. But what happens is with no spirit food, not addressing the spirit of fear properly, we're stuck at will you do it? Really? Will you do it? I don't know anybody who's had that done for them or years have passed. Lord, I think maybe I need to go to plan B. But that's not what the word says. The word says root that fear out. You have the authority and the power to do that. You have the authority and the power to believe right, to speak right, to act right. And your fearlessness becomes your deliverance. It really does. You have to keep death out. Job exposed his family ignorantly, okay? That's why it's so important to abide by spiritual laws. That's why we learn the word so that we can keep the flow of death, the flow of destruction, the flow of doubt out. Because doubt is a breeding ground. Oh, it's the devil's playground. If he can get us into doubt and then there's zero confidence, then you go from whatever spirit you went up into your head and there's nothing there except worry, thoughts, Plan B, C, D. There's nothing there. Nothing there. Fear has a drawing power just like faith. Faith repels destruction. Come on, somebody say amen. Faith repels destruction. I love that he sent his word and healed them and delivered them from destructions designed for them. Every weapon formed. There's a way through it if you believe God. So I'll end that part on Job saying, obviously we know that the obvious lesson about our kids is get in faith, stay in faith. If you go through a dark season, stay in faith. Just keep proclaiming, Just keep speaking over your children. And I'm going to say this. If you run into something where you can't talk to them because they're just not getting it, doesn't make them a bad kid. Just they've run up against something and you can tell. You can talk till you're blue in the face and it just doesn't land. Stop talking to them about it. Just go into the prayer closet. Stop worrying, stop forcing because you're so upset and because maybe alarm is near, you know, maybe they got in the third, you know, fight in the last two weeks. And as you can tell you saying, if you do that, I'm going to take this away. I'm going to. If there's something that prevails, that keeps going, you have to turn your back to that. You have to go into your prayer closet, but you can't do the frantic throwing prayer at it. And you're in your prayer closet and you come out and they make you mad and you rant at them and you're going to do this, and I told you not to do that, and then you're going to pray. You cannot do that. You have to settle it how you're going to handle it. There's something that I'm dealing with right now with one of my children. And I've talked about it and I've talked, but it's not like a thing where I'm angry, but it's this thing where I realize they need help with that, but I can't give. If I do it naturally, I'm going to do something that's going to give them a complex. If I do that, I just know this child, there's going to be something in there. I'm going to hurt them. The very thing. And I don't mean I'm yelling at them. The very thing that I mean to help them with, whether it's setting up rules and regulations. And their rules. And regulations are good. I'm not saying don't do that. I'm saying with this particular child, and they're not rebellious, I see the potential for hurt. But if I go after them, talking to them, setting up these little rules, I know my spirit knows it's going to hurt. If I listen to all the parenting things, the good common sense. And it's good common sense. And it might work with most kids. It will not work with this child. And they're not a bad kid. So what do you do? And I realized because of Pastor Nancy, because she talks about how to be peaceful and how to not be afraid. And the room that you hold in the realm of the spirit, all the authority. See, in being in the realm of the spirit, you actually have to have faith when you're in there, because that's where you change things. But if you are giving more attention to setting everything up perfectly in the natural, then when you try to use your faith by being spiritual about something, at first, the devil will fight you. Whether it's that. I'm talking about behaviors of a child. So I'll refer to that. Whether that child looks worse. Worse. Way worse. See, then you have another decision to make, because your faith brought into the prayer closet is more than enough. It's more than enough. Just give it time. Well, what do I do in the meantime? Rest. Well, I don't think I can. You can. Your mind is your own. You can choose. When we were down in California, Pastor Chris Cody. I don't know if any of you saw his message. I loved his message. And I told him afterward, I said, you just have a great ability to connect. Like really, it's a gift, you know? But he said he talked about how God told him he had a bad breakup and he couldn't get this. He was obsessing about it. He couldn't get this girl's name out of his mind. And he was broken about it, very broken. It was no small thing. And God spoke to him and said, I don't want you thinking her name. And he said, at that time, it's like I was obsessing, thinking all. He said, I don't think I could go like two or three minutes without her name coming up. And she had broken it off. So he was extra heartbroken and feeling rejected and as low as low can get. He told us this, but he said her name would come in and he would slam her name down. You know what I mean? Because he was determined to do what God said about not allowing her name in his mind. Now, if you've never experienced that, well, good, I'm glad. But when you're. When something is haunting you, bothering you, peckering at your brain, bringing pain, you may have to do that at first, where you take that and you slam it down. For him, it was her name. For some of us, it could be a worry. It could be a picture of an outcome that's frightening. It could be lies. It could be so many different things. But instead of us narrowing in, trying to batten down the hatches naturally, it is just so much better. We can do as much of that as we can without doing harm. Let your spirit guide you. But really, you have a closet to go into. So on this child, I've said to the Lord, Father, I know I can set on course something through actions. I can police, I can monitor. I can do this. I can do that. But I said, I can't explain it. I just know here in my spirit, it's not going to work. How do I help him? How do I help him? And God was just so kind to me. He said, will you bring your faith in and let me handle it? Let me balance what I don't have to set this, this and this. Well, listen, for a child that's not struggling in an area, those normal rules perfect. It keeps harm away. But if they're struggling and they don't know what to do, you need to go in on their behalf. Because the spirit of God will rise up on the inside of them and balance them. They don't even need to know you went in. You can talk about it later. There's so many things I've talked to my children about after it was over. And there's so many things that when I started that it got worse fast. But I decided not to be afraid. I did. I had to make that choice that I believed the Word would work. I believed throwing seed into it with the Word. I mean, we sit in church and we hear like, the Word cannot fail. And we all go, yeah, but the Word cannot, not if it's believed. God is going to move. And he's told us over and over again, I'm going to move for you. I'm going to move. You do the speaking, you do the believing. I'm going to do it. I'm going to surprise you. I'm going to show you things, great and mighty things which thou knowest not. So he likes surprises, too. And he likes doing things a certain way. And some things are dramatic and some things are like that you thought would be dramatic are not dramatic at all. But the end result is dramatic. But how we did it, he did it in the realm of the Spirit, whether he touched them and things changed. And you just look and you see things improving and changing. It's beautiful. It's beautiful to not be afraid when the storm is raging. It's beautiful to walk on water. Listen, Peter wasn't the only one that was walking on water. Jesus was walking on water. Well, he was the Son of God. He was a man with the anointing on him. He was showing how to walk on water in a storm and not be afraid. And the religious world missed it. It's all about Jesus. And Jesus is saying, I want you to do what I'm doing. See what I'm doing. I want you to do this, and you're going to need to learn it from me. But this is what I want you to do. Right? That's what he wants from us. Okay, so we're going to switch now. We're going to go into the next underlined point I have here, which is no fear. When resources are low, you can be afraid. If money is not a renewable resource, we're not allowed to be afraid. What I'm saying is for the believer, it generates, it regenerates and regenerates. There's no end to what God has promised us. But there is a faith walk with money that allows money to really flow. And it's not in the arena of budget it to death. It's not. It's good to have a budget. It's good, it's responsible, it's normal. But you don't want to live there where everything is budget, budget, budget, budget. And then you want to almost step back and have a knowledge of it, but your focus is on the realm of the spirit and what he made you. He made you rich. We have to believe that. And we generate it up out of our spirit, man. So it's like, I'm not saying I'm perfect in it, but I don't really care anymore. I do have a budget. But if I go over, I am so aware these days, because I'm stepping forward. I'm aware that I always say, who cares? God will swallow it up. Who cares? God will swallow it up. But I mean it. I really mean it. But before, it took faith to say that, like, yes, God, you're going to bring me extra because we're over or we're in a deficit. But now I really mean it. If my spiritual mother can overcome by not Worrying by not overworking if she can overcome $6 million in one year. Money's a renewable resource for me. And when she stands in the pulpit and she says, don't fixate on the numbers, remember, she had to go into the office. Come on. That is an event that presented itself as fixate on the numbers. Because it's not even just you. You got a staff that they're not going to get paid. And it's imminent. It's not a month off. Like, she almost didn't have time to think, but she knew something that I'm not in this alone, God. We got a bill, we got bills to pay. And then she went home and did her nails, and she tells that story. So let's just look at it for a second as a case study. She does go into the office, she does talk to Francine, because it's normal to go, well, I got, you know, 20, 30 staff, 40, whatever, and it's coming up by the end of the week. And what's in the account? And I think they had 100,000 and they needed, like, way more than that or something like that. I don't know. But it's normal to check. It's okay unless God says, don't. But normal to go in and check and then to see it. And the response be, you and me. You and me. See, that was alive in her. But our finances. God does not love her any more than he loves us. It's her position on it. It's her speaking. It's her guarding her mind. These principles sound so simple, but they enable us to live a completely different life. And, yes, people say, well, you know, if that's the truth, then I can go out and spend a million bucks to. No God will lead you. He doesn't want you to crash and burn. But there is a. You never. Okay, this might be a weird way to say it or compare it to, but remember when you were a kid and older, kids seemed so much older. And then, like, you got in your 20s and, like, it didn't matter if your friends were 60 or 30 or, you know, 19. It just closed the gap. It didn't matter anymore. It's like that can happen in the realm of the spirit. She had closed a gap that whether it was 6 million or whether it was building a house, she knew enough. She'd already been to the University of the Spirit. So you got to understand that was such a jump for her. There was no way she could have prepared for it. Like, okay, so this year, you know, we had Bills that came to extra 50,000. And God got us out of it. Praise God. Or we put 100,000 into a home, or we bought land. And there's faith there. But there's no way that she was positioned that in one year she had to overcome 6 million. Do you understand? Like, there is a place where the gap closes. There is a place where you hear ministers say, well, I can believe for a million as much as I could believe for one. So they're not really focusing on next year. I can believe for 1.5. It's kind of like, I know how to believe now. Because what happens? This is what happens. You get down in your spirit. That's what they're saying. Once you get into your spirit on your finances, you can acknowledge any budget, it's fine, but it does not have the last say because you've got an entire dialogue of how to speak to things, how to answer. Lack. Lack is an enemy that Jesus destroyed at the cross. But if you never engage, if you never engage the spirituality of dealing with money and resources, you're stuck. He will cover you. He'll make sure that you're not. That you're taken care of. But that is not Bible money. It's excelling. And you can't excel when you're fixated on the natural side of finances. You can know natural side of finances. But I'll talk about this. It's in one of the points, and I'm not joking. I don't find this funny. Groceries and gas, you should never. You should never ruminate over it. You should never worry over it. You should never get mad over. Should not affect you at all. People say, well, it does. Well, this is homework for you, and I am not joking. You need to live so free, far above. Why? Because you do a budget and you can check it, but you have a renewable resource. Well, I'm not seeing it. You have to say it. You have to believe it. It's a cycle. And I'm telling you, when you begin to step out and do things, step out and do things, the money always comes because there's a cycle. Look, the word tells us this, and we think, we know it. You know, you give a good measure, it'll come back to you. Do you understand? That's cyclical. That is in the word. That is a picture of the word. Is true. It's cyclical. People say, well, you know, if I give him good ground, I get back. The word is not that hemmed in. I'm sorry, it's not. I get Benefits. Because my heart was liberal in sewing. You understand? If somebody took money and stole it, what does God say? He says, they take your coat. Let them. Yeah, give them your other one. They slap your cheek, turn your other. They can't get you. They can't get to you. You don't have to run that person down the road. Jump on, tear the cloak out of their head because you stole from me. You know, we're bigger. What's in us is bigger. But it's. The energies of God are longing. They're longing for movement. They're longing for movement. They're longing for movement in our finances. So there's a supernatural well, and it grows in you, but it simply starts by the word speaking. Speaking and doing. Speaking and doing. Because we got to get supernatural in our finances in this church. Listen, the vision is awesome, but we have an obligation to show Abraham's blessing personally. Personally. And then you've got people saying, you know, if I was rich, I'd give it. I'd do this and I'd do that. Awesome. But what about you? What about being rich to be rich because your father is rich? What about not letting all that hatred that's out there affect us and cause us to step back from an inheritance that has already been given? I say we be bold about it, because the criticism is going to come anyway, you understand? We know great givers. I mean, brother Kenneth Copeland flew his plane over to Afghanistan, I think, what took 5,000 soldiers out of. Do you know how much money that cost to take them? Like, millions. And they talk about him like he's a devil. So obviously you're not going to win them. So settle it and just look to the Word. The Word will tell you how to act about money. The Word will tell you that when you are at the gas pump, rejoice. Craig was telling me about how it was hard to see the poverty. It's always hard, you know, in Liberia. And after I got off the phone with him, I walked my property. And it wasn't just because I was faced with someone else's poverty, but it reminded me to walk my property and thank him. It reminded me what we've been given, naturally, is one. I'm not talking about naturally. That's just the overflow, what we've been given, the great. The bigness in the spirit. So we're about to break out. I'm telling you, there's people I'm believing for this congregation. The word has gone in. I'm telling you. Listen, I got a beautiful story for You, Phil and Fern Halverson, you've heard of them. They're prayer warriors. They say in one of their testimonies they were talking about they had this real desire to help people, which is awesome, but God would have honored it if they wanted a bigger home. I'm just saying it's good to be noble. We all want that because righteousness lives in us. We want to help, we want to do the kingdom. But it's okay to want things. It doesn't make you materialistic if you don't put it in front of God. God is the one who's dictating that were big, that were overflowing, that were wealthy, that were rich. This is God. But they said we wanted a certain income that we didn't have. So we named the income to God and started to tithe on it like we already had it. And there's a woman in this church that's done the same thing and gotten a brand new job based on what she was giving. But they. And not everyone feels, you know, an unction to do that. And that's fine. I'm not telling you to do that. But they wanted to do that. And so. But that tells me that wanting to move forward in God and finances. There's so much that we initiate. But one of the things that you initiate is stop thinking about money within a period on the end of the you have a renewable resource that will fill up. You give it out if you start talking and believing, because he promises that that is there, that flow is there, that well is there. And I suspect what's happening is many of us are so budget conscious that there's no way, you know, like you take the bowling ball out and another one rolls in its place. Like you've seen that, right? Because we're so natural about money. The bowling ball stays there. We don't create a need. And by need, I don't mean we're bottoming out and we can't buy groceries. I mean, we don't create a need. So if we're not trying to create needs, that God, it's like his flow just goes and comes and just it comes. I am proof. I am proof. In years, even this year, I've stopped looking. I just listened to if I want to, if I want to, I'm going to do it. And I'm telling you, I turn around and there's, there's gifts, there's this personally, not just to the family, because I'm giving my personal. And it's like I've Stopped asking my budget. Now, you understand, unless God gives me an amount, I have common sense. I mean, I might. Let me just say this. You can have common sense. That's generous. It's still common sense. But if the Holy Ghost says to do something that doesn't make sense, I'm doing it. And I'm not asking. I'm not asking if I can do it. Because why? Because as soon as it goes out, it's right there. Because he's the one that makes the loaves and fishes multiply. What's in your hand. I mean, how many times does he have to say it to us if we're constantly going, oh, the budget, the budget, the budget, the budget. I'm tired. I don't want to hear that anymore. All of us, most of us, all of us have common sense. We know if at the end of the month, if we're in a deficit or maybe we went a little over on this or that. Can I ask you to just think a little bigger, that if there's a deficit, just thank the Lord that he's giving you what that deficit is because you were able to be generous that month. And then before you turn around, it'll be there. It just requires a little bit of faith. Just a little bit. But once you get into that flow that I keep saying it, it's a renewable resource. But if you want to stick to your budget and you want to nail everything down, you want to look at your budget to see if you can give to that person that you felt like you wanted to give them a gift or. I've already bought three birthday presents. I would like to give it to them. I'm not going to do it. That birthday present. Go and do it. Go and do it and watch God. And if your mind hurts, definitely do it. Because he's trying to get you into that easy flow, easy flow. And it's true. Because then you bless that person, you feel good about it, and you turn around and the money's there. I'm serious. It is that easy. But getting people to stop and believe and looking at the budget, because to begin saying these things, it can sound so like, well, it's good to have a budget. Yes. Unless that budget has you hemmed in. That's it. It's true. Because the people that I know are not operating. They have budgets, but that budget is not telling them, I can't give. I can't do this. I've said to. And I mean this. I said it's great if the budget allows us to go on vacation. But make no mistake about it, I am going on vacation whenever I want, wherever I want. And I have said. And, Father, I thank you. You'll pay for it. And he pays for it every time. So it's because of faith, because of the system that he put into place. And it's easy and it pleases him. It pleases him that you go. I don't care what we want to do a 20, 30 vacation, let's say. But we've got 12. 12 grand. What, we stay home that year. No, I'm going. Father, I thank you. Paid for it every time. Every time. The money's there every time. Why? What is that? Action. I'm in this with you. I'm in this with you. He wants me to have it. I see it all through his word. If I want it, he wants it. That's the place. And I'm telling you, that's just the beginning. That's just the. Ooh, the start. But that's where he wants us. That's exact. And it's. When you first start operating, you're letting, you know, you let go the cords of the budget. It's still sitting there. You can see it. But you don't want it pushing you around. If you're going into a service. I'm not even talking about services here. I'm talking about maybe you travel to California and you've spent your last dime to get there. Do you understand what I mean? And honestly, you get into a service and you're like, I got this for the services. And God will just trample all over your budget. Your budget. He does. That's what he does. And he's good. He doesn't take anything from us. But listen when he says that, because as soon as you take it and sow it, it's coming. Why? Because he said with whatever measure, we got his word on it, whatever measure that you give, it's coming. And if you want it so that you got to press down, shaken over big, big. But the spirit of God is. Now he's with you. So he's directing. He's like, let's do this. Okay, let's do this, Father, you know, if I do this, it looks like I'm not going to be able to do that. So I'm going to do this. Can you pay for this? Thank you. Done. Done. And it is that simple. But when you first start to try to operate supernaturally with finances, the enemy will oppose you at first. Just walk over him. He always. That's his job. He will stop talking to you about those things because it's not effective. So let's initiate some things that are in our hearts and it could be a vacation for ourselves. If you're sitting in here and you haven't gone on vacation in years, you need to go whatever suits you. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm not trying to boss you around, but there's compartments in us. And God wants us blessed and he can't. He can't bless us if we're always hemmed in. He'll pay for it. I promise you he will pay for it. If you will speak and believe. Speak and believe, that's all you need to do. The money will come. I think I gotta skip that part, Lord, because that's like. Should I skip that? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know which part. Because I've got, like, different numbers here and I'm trying to see what's coming up. In my spirit, let me say this. We entered something in the last three or four years where now people are saying, isn't it awful? Our kids can't buy houses, we can't buy houses. I know what it looks like. But that is not from God. That is not our problem. Well, yes, it is. It's not. It's a believing problem. It's a believing problem. If Dr. Ed, I'm going to tell you a story which most of you have heard, and God don't love Dr. Ed any more than he loves us. Any more than he loves you. Okay? It's a believing issue. Dr. Ed was familiar with doing things and not being dictated to by his budget. He was great at it. He did it all the time. He's always into some project he didn't have money for, but it got done. But he moves to California. And if you hear Pastor Nancy tell it and listen to the details, they didn't have anything. Like, she didn't have furniture. Like she had a little bit, but not very much like a couch. She names the furniture she had. It was not luxury. And I don't know how or what I forget now, but they see a magazine cover of something and there's this gorgeous 12,000 square foot home, you know, with two guest houses in the back and a big fountain in the front, and acres of land up in the mountains of La Cresta. And God says, that's your house. That's your house. So though somebody might think, well, yeah, but God has to say, that's yours. Desire stirs miracles we initiate things. And so he goes and he doesn't have any money. And it's a big house, beautiful house. I only saw it from the gate outside. They had moved from it by the time I found out about it. But Doctor goes in and says, the two sons are selling Mom's house. And they meet with him and he says, God told me this is my house and I don't have any money. And how are you going to get me into it? That's what Doctor said to two strangers. No money. God told me, this is my house. How are you going to get me into the house? I don't know what they felt or what they thought, but they went back to their mother and she found out that this was Ed Dufresne and she had been healed in one of his meetings years before Divine Setup. And she said, do whatever he asks to get him into the house. And they moved in. So we are a different sort of. We're not just number crunchers about what we can and can't do. I'm sorry, we're not. We're different. When we're talking to God and we're wanting things, a lot of times we're delaying it because first of all, we don't believe that he can get us into a house. So I was talking to someone the other day, and they're like, yeah, everything's changed. Like, our kids are not going to. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That doesn't apply to children of God. A miracle can get you in. A miracle is all you need. You just need God's interaction. Forget the word miracle. God's involvement. That's it. God's. And he promises to be involved. But if you are, budget, budget, budget, budget. Everything is only what I can see. I cut my cloth according to my budget. It's going to be really hard for God to get a flow of finances into your life. But you don't have to live like that. You can change it so quickly. And there are seasons. There are seasons. I know, but. But while there's a passing of the baton, so to speak, you're supposed to be elevating up to the next one. It's not from here. And then we, you know, like, you want to move through. You want to gain speed through into the next thing. Right? God has talked to me about. He calls it a Jerusalem house. I like my house so much. I enjoy my life there. But he said, and listen, right now I'm looking at my house. There's so many things I want to do. I want to develop it. I want to. What do you call it? Construction off the back with a kitchen outside, you know, a little prayer house, beautiful landscaping with lights all set up. And then the inside of the house is nowhere near where I want it. And I'm not talking about tearing down walls. I'm talking about design. Design artwork, wainscotted walls, coffered ceilings. I want it beautiful. And so my budget is telling me you can't, you can only do so much for this unit. And I don't think I'm going to listen to that. Right, Listen, I'll tell you, I can live without it. I can live without it. I'm not obsessed with it. Like, oh, it's no good unless it's perfect. It's not that. I just know there's a well on the inside of me. See that if I'm looking only at a budget, that will kill all those dreams. And I might get there, but there'll be no supernatural flow that helped me. I'll have to eke it out and take forever because my budget said I can't. But that's not what God is saying. God is saying, what you got, what are you bringing? What are you willing to believe me for? You willing to say it? You willing to joy over it? You know, I believe sometimes it's as simple as going through your house and dancing your way through your house, dancing your way through, calling it full. Remember Bill Winston said at the table where we were, he said, I'm going to get two more planes, two bigger ones. And we're like, yeah, like, yes, at the table. And he goes, what do I care? I'm not paying for it. Now stop and think about that because he means it. God is not asking you to pay for all those dreams. He's saying, if you'll take me with you, do it my way, say it my way, believe it my way. Get the anointing moving in. You get your eyes off the budget I'm planning on adding. Budget is only what you can see. And how many of you know, for faith filled people, you don't want to remain there. That's not where you belong, hemmed in with natural things. You want that supernatural flow. It's a gusher. It brings surprises, it brings adventures. And it gets you thinking that way. Of like, who said I can't have that? Who said, see, you stop agreeing with the enemy because he'll tell you, you can't. You can't have that business. You can't have that home. You can't have that vacation. You can't pay for private school for your kids. If you want it, you can't have this, you can't have that. And you know what? Your budget will stand there and go, mm, it's true, it's true. But that's not where we operate from. That's just something we glance at. We glance at it. If we have savings accounts, you can have little goals and this. But you have to bring God into your finances. He is longing to break you forth. Well, I didn't go to university or I didn't do this, I didn't do that. Well, it doesn't. It doesn't matter. Like, Abraham didn't say that I don't have enough schooling. I know what you're going to think. It's like, what was different then. Yeah, but you have to understand, the first infusion of wealth into Abraham's life was that king. I thought about it, and the Lord answered me. I said, why would a king that's mad. He's mad because he took Sarah. And God said, you're a dead man. Okay, great. You know, why would he bless Abraham? Well, I'll tell you why. He blessed Abraham because up to that point, that ungodly king did not know the great Jehovah. And when God had an audience with him, he touched royalty. He touched the king of all kings. The presence of God came and made him aware. And even though he was mad at Abraham, he blessed him. He blessed him. He recognized, oh, this. This is God. And this is a man that God is protecting. And I'm going to bless him because he touched something holy. That's why. Not. Because he was impressed with Abraham. If we're moving, I'm on finances tonight. This is about fear. I mean, it includes fear, a lot of fear with finances. But. But it's all about turning to your spirit. Turning to your spirit with money. Turn to your spirit with money. Okay, I'm going to get out of the boat. I'm going to step on the water. But I promise you, if you do, Jesus is there. And when, he'll tell you, do this, do that, don't worry, I'll make it up. Don't worry. It's okay. I don't want you thinking about that. I don't want you worrying about that. I'm telling you, he is good for his word. He's awesome. He is awesome. So let me just say this. Don't you ever say we live in a time where we can't get houses. Don't say it. Don't believe that. Don't even look at it. Don't look at it. It doesn't pertain to you. It only pertains to you. If you're going to go and look at your budget and let that budget talk to you like it has a tongue, talk to you rather than the word of God, because that's what you're doing. That thing is talking to you. Not enough. Not enough. Can't do it. Not enough. That woman, that widow, she didn't have enough and she said it. But the prophet, if you read it, the prophet didn't say to her, make me a cake. He said, make me a cake. And then he gave the word of the Lord to her. He told her exactly what would happen. It wasn't like, give me a cake and then not saying anything to her, but what that would produce. Look how good the Lord is. He told her exactly what would happen. The word tells us exactly what will happen if you give and you believe you're going to get this. So you don't have a right in the kingdom to say, I can't have this. I can't have this. You can have it. You should have it. You should be speaking to it. Don't make it hard. Get it up out of your spirit. Joyful, not straining. Remember, the branch does not strain to bear fruit. It pulls its energy completely out of the trunk. Wasn't that a masterful. Masterful. I need another life so I can just sit and write all those notes. Honestly. But. Or a clone. No, never mind. Forget it. No, forget that. I don't want that. But I'm just saying we don't realize how much we let those things dictate to us what we can do. That's not the voice we listen to. Don't tell me I can't have it. I say, God leads me into things. Leads me because he has taken out of the equation lack. God has taken out of the equation lack. And people say, well, I don't really see it. No, because you're not in faith yet. You're still budgeting everything to death, which is why he's faithful as far as you're letting him be. Right. Because you don't realize it, but your fear has kept you. It's kept you. It caps you. That's why I'm saying it's not always the boogeyman. You know what I mean? Or an empty account. We're not going to eat tomorrow. It's not always that severe. It's just that it's here. It's Here, and it tells us things. And we're talking because we're talking the Word, because we live in a completely different economy, a different kingdom. And people that are breaking out on the left and the right, they're talking. Not only that, they're mocking. They mock lack Brother Jesse. It comes off of him in waves. He's so established spiritually in that truth. And what he's saying to the body of Christ is, follow me in. Follow me in. Stop trying to bear your own fruit. Just follow me in. Follow me into the ease of the spirit. Because it's not. You're not. You don't want to be the disciples. They're looking at the fish. It's not a sweet little story. There's thousands of people. They don't know how to meet the need. And Jesus says, give it to me and I'll bless it. And then he starts handing it out. Renewable resource. Why? Because faith was added. Because if Jesus said, oh, you're right, we don't have enough, why did he not say that? Because he knew the Father would step in. He knew that dance, my part, God's part, and he just went for it. And God wants. He doesn't want it to be hard. He wants us to move into the supernatural. Giving, sowing, reaping. You better be a good reaper. You need to be a good reaper. Don't pull out none of that religious nonsense about, you know, it's not for me, it's all for. No, you need to learn how to bless yourself. You need to learn how to be luxurious. You need to exude the glory of the Father in everything you do. If we're going to go into a glory center and we're going to have beautiful things like chandeliers and stuff like that for his glory and for his name. And the papers can write about it if they want. He deserves it. Then you're going to have to learn to stop the wrestling match of we shouldn't have this, or I can't have this, because it's not. It's the wrong way to think. If somebody else can have it, you can have it. You're his child. Who else is it for? He just demands that he's first. And listen, if he's first, you won't be covetous. You won't lust after money because he's first. Why would you lust after the thing when you can love the giver? Why would you care about this when you got him? Like, it's wrong thinking to be pulled into those traps of lust and covetousness and greed. No. And actually, they clog the pipe. They stop things. But you want that flow. Flow in your life is so important. It's so important. It's so important. And it's easy. It's like they say. Many ministers in our pulpit, I think. I don't know who said it specifically, but if it's hard, we're doing it wrong. It's not hard. Everything that's natural brings the tug of. I don't know how to do it. No, no, no, no, no. Speak and do. And I'm going to say this. It's great if God talks to you, but you can initiate this. This is not all about, well, God, what do you want? Like, it's good if he speaks to you, and he will, but you initiate. He's saying, just step into the river. Step into the river. Get things done. Enjoy, break out, enlarge. Amen. Okay. Well, praise the Lord. It's the Father's heart. The Father's heart. And listen, if you got stuff, you can be a blessing. You got stuff, you can be a blessing. Amen. And if you don't, you're not going to be as big a blessing. You can still be a blessing because everything's not money, right? But we want full impact, full force. Amen. And he wants us to think right about. Father, you changed the sermon tonight, and I'm grateful. I thank you for that. I'll end and then we'll pick up the offering. Father, thank you for your word. I thank you for your spirit, Lord. I love that flow. I love it. I can feel it just coming up like a fountain right out of my spirit. I'm impressed by you. I love your points. I love your influence and your unction. Father, I thank you for this congregation that they're so special to us, Lord. They're faithful and they're good. They're good people. I thank you for them, Lord. I know. I know when the word is going in. And, Father, I thank you. You just multiply them way beyond anything. They could just think up and help that revelation of the supernatural side of finances to just come alive in them and that they were built for this. You're in there. You're in their spirit. They're built to multiply and to increase, and I thank you for it tonight. In Jesus, mighty name, amen.