1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,440 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:17,040 Good morning. 3 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:18,040 Good morning. 4 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,200 Life House turn to somebody to give them a high five. 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,840 Tell them it's good to see you in God's house this morning. 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,080 It's good to see you in God's house this morning. 7 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:27,400 Man, it was like three high fives. 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:28,400 Turn somebody seriously. 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:29,400 Turn somebody. 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,400 Tell them it's looking good. 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,400 Tell them it's good to see them on a Sunday. 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,120 Yeah, come on. 13 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:41,360 Hey, listen, I appreciate so much hearing you all worship God together. 14 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:42,760 I hear the voices. 15 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,560 I see the hands go up. 16 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:45,560 Just continue to do that. 17 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:51,120 I can't tell you how important it is to come into God's presence and to acknowledge Him, 18 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,680 to let Him know He is Lord and He is God. 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:54,960 We come together to sing. 20 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,720 We don't do that just strictly out of tradition. 21 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,000 We don't do that just because that's what you do when you go to church. 22 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,680 You sing a song unto the Lord. 23 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,800 For some people, they just want to hear the song. 24 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,040 You sing and you step into God's presence. 25 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,800 Here's what I do sometimes. 26 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,240 You can do this if you want to, but sometimes I just close my eyes and I pretend that I'm 27 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,400 in heaven and I'm walking right before God and I'm singing to Him. 28 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,680 It changes your whole perspective when you're singing. 29 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,640 I'm not checking the coffee, those kind of things. 30 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,040 You watch all those kind of things. 31 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:24,040 You're on your phone. 32 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,080 You're just coming into God's presence. 33 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:30,080 You visualize yourself there because you are when you're coming in before the Lord. 34 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,120 I appreciate, I hear the voices. 35 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,680 I see the hands. 36 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,960 Just step into His presence because it is in His presence that everything changes. 37 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:38,960 It's just true. 38 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:43,240 I've seen it over and over again over the decades that I've had the opportunity to be 39 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:44,240 in ministry. 40 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,480 I've just watched God do that. 41 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,400 So just a little word of encouragement this morning. 42 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:49,760 Please step into worship. 43 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,140 Continue to do that. 44 00:01:51,140 --> 00:01:54,400 Continue to press through because God meets us truly there. 45 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,400 Amen? 46 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:00,280 Listen, this is the last message in the series called Bucks and Stuff. 47 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,560 You can see it on the wall on both sides. 48 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:03,840 Bucks and Stuff. 49 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:09,400 And there's so much more that I could talk about when it comes to money and possessions 50 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:15,880 and in God's Word because the Lord has a lot to say about our money, about our possessions. 51 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,480 And I've only done this for four messages. 52 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:19,480 This is the last one. 53 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,280 And if you've not got a chance to educate yourself and what God's Word has to say, I'm 54 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,840 going to challenge you to do that. 55 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,120 Please find out what God's Word has to say. 56 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,440 Spend some time, right? 57 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:32,840 Study God's Word. 58 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:33,840 Get resources. 59 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:39,080 I tell people all the time, don't depend on just a message or sermon. 60 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,200 You know what a message or a sermon is like from a pastor? 61 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,200 I call it an appetizer. 62 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,400 I'm going to give you a food analogy right now. 63 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,960 A message is like an appetizer and it should make you hungry for the main course. 64 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,000 The main course you've got to dig in and study on your own, right? 65 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,480 How many of you live on appetizers, you're going to get sick, right? 66 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:57,920 You're not going to be healthy. 67 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:59,340 Don't just live off of messages. 68 00:02:59,340 --> 00:03:00,840 Get into God's Word. 69 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,000 Find out what it has to say about bucks and stuff and you can check and make sure I got 70 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 my theology right when I'm preaching. 71 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Amen? 72 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Check it for yourself. 73 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,760 So, 2 Timothy 2, 14 says this, remind them of these things, charging them before the 74 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:20,120 Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers, but be diligent 75 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,120 to present yourself approved to God. 76 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,480 Some translations will say study to show yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need 77 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:31,040 to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth. 78 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,420 Get into God's Word. 79 00:03:32,420 --> 00:03:37,080 Find out what it has to say about bucks and stuff and anything else that you need to know 80 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,080 about in life. 81 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:39,080 It's there. 82 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,280 Study and find out what it says. 83 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:46,200 And before we kick off this last message, before I really get into the meat of this 84 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,000 message, I just want us to go in prayer. 85 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,160 And I want you to pray, not over God's Word, because God's Word is already blessed, but 86 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,320 over your hearts and your minds so that you take in what God's saying this morning. 87 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:58,320 You do that with me this morning? 88 00:03:58,320 --> 00:03:59,320 If you bow your heads. 89 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,280 Father, we come to you just grateful and thankful for your Son Jesus. 90 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:04,640 We thank you for the Holy Spirit. 91 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:09,560 Lord, we thank you for the Word of God that we go into on each Sunday and Wednesdays and 92 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,840 Thursdays and God in our life groups. 93 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,240 And Lord, we just dive in to see what your Word has to say. 94 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,800 And Lord, as we come today, God, I pray, God, that your Word will permeate our spirits and 95 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,840 our hearts and our minds and God, that it would be fruitful when it lands in those places. 96 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:28,320 And Lord, we just give you praise and we give you glory. 97 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,920 We know your Word's already blessed. 98 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,880 Lord, help us, Lord, to take it in and apply it. 99 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,800 We just give you praise and everybody say it together. 100 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:36,800 Amen. 101 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:37,800 Amen. 102 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,560 Well, how many of you know this? 103 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:47,200 We experience increase later because of what we're doing right today. 104 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:53,460 We experience increase later because of what we're doing right today. 105 00:04:53,460 --> 00:05:00,840 What I save, what I invest today will have everything to do with increase at a later 106 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:01,840 date. 107 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:08,560 Now, if I eat a bunch of food now, how many know that's going to increase my waistline 108 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:09,560 later? 109 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,120 Come on, it's true, right? 110 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,440 I'm living proof. 111 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:20,200 If I study in school today and I increase in knowledge, I'll pass the test later. 112 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,040 I'll get the diploma later. 113 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,760 I might even be able to get a job with that diploma later, right? 114 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:31,380 If I get the job this month, I'll get the increase and I'll be able to pay my bills 115 00:05:31,380 --> 00:05:32,380 next month. 116 00:05:32,380 --> 00:05:38,280 When it comes to our bucks and stuff, what we experience increase later because of what 117 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:40,880 we're doing right now. 118 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:46,160 If I save now, I can expect to experience increase later. 119 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:52,600 If I save some bucks on the expected day, I'll be prepared for the unexpected day. 120 00:05:52,600 --> 00:06:00,640 If I set some seed back this year, it will become my provision for next year. 121 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,060 Farmers understand this. 122 00:06:02,060 --> 00:06:03,060 They get this. 123 00:06:03,060 --> 00:06:04,060 They understand. 124 00:06:04,060 --> 00:06:06,440 They understand saving seed, right? 125 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:11,560 From today's increase, from today's harvest, so they experience increase in provision for 126 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:12,560 tomorrow. 127 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,000 A farmer will harvest corn. 128 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,560 Let's say, how many know what corn is? 129 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:17,560 Raise your hand if you know corn. 130 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:18,560 You've eaten some corn. 131 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:19,560 Thank you. 132 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,360 All right, just checking if you're still with me, right? 133 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,600 They'll raise corn and they'll raise field corn. 134 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,520 I grew up out in the country and a lot of farmers around our area had cows and they 135 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,520 would raise field corn. 136 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:33,360 Do you know what they do once they raise the corn and they get ready to harvest the corn? 137 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:38,720 They harvest the corn and they don't have their cows eat all the corn in one month. 138 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,840 They don't feed all the cows and say, let's just eat this all up in one month, right? 139 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:46,120 They don't sell all of their harvest. 140 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,000 They don't give it all away. 141 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,240 They don't dump it on the back of a field somewhere because they know that they got 142 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,660 to save a portion of that corn for next year. 143 00:06:56,660 --> 00:07:01,000 They got to save a portion of that corn to put into the ground, right? 144 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,080 Saving a portion of the harvest today brings an increase tomorrow. 145 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,880 If a farmer does this every single year, right? 146 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,800 If they've got a place in their barn, they might put the corn in a silo somewhere that 147 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,480 we used to put them in years in a corn crib. 148 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,660 If you put that, they put it somewhere and they store it away. 149 00:07:19,660 --> 00:07:21,960 They feed their animals all winter long. 150 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,120 In the next year, they've got seed to put back in the ground. 151 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,720 If they put it back in the ground, they grow another crop. 152 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,160 They repeat the cycle again. 153 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,080 They put some seed away, right? 154 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:32,080 They say some. 155 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:33,080 And guess what? 156 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:38,400 You got this perpetual increase that's taking place because of what they say today. 157 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,400 They've got harvest tomorrow. 158 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,100 It sounds super easy. 159 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:44,320 It sounds completely obvious, right? 160 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,200 It sounds like we should all understand this, but do you know that one in four Americans, 161 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:55,200 28%, have savings below less than $1,000 in their account, right? 162 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:02,720 This is the case for 32% of Gen Zs, followed by millennials at 31%, Gen X 27%, and baby 163 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,040 boomers at 20%. 164 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:12,760 Our ability to move into the future God has for us may very well depend on what you're 165 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,840 saving up today. 166 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:21,400 That's with our bucks and our stuff and in so many other areas. 167 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:27,000 When Dixie and I were called into full-time ministry, and that was 20 plus years ago when 168 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,560 we were called into a full-time position, I took a 50% pay cut to take that ministry 169 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:33,840 position. 170 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,960 I was called to be a children and youth pastor. 171 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,400 I was over children and youth. 172 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,600 I was much younger back in that time. 173 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:47,400 We could only make that move because we had seed in the savings account. 174 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,800 We didn't eat all our seed previous to that. 175 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:55,400 We had done youth ministry on a volunteer and part-time basis for a decade plus before 176 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,400 that. 177 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,960 During that time, I was working a job and we were putting money away. 178 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:02,320 We had money in savings. 179 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:07,180 When I got the opportunity to take a position that was in Camp Hill as a children and youth 180 00:09:07,180 --> 00:09:12,200 pastor, we were able to make that leap because we had saved some money. 181 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,080 We had seed set back. 182 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,720 I'm not sure we'd have been able to make that move into full-time ministry if we'd have 183 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,800 eaten all our seed. 184 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:24,840 If we'd have used up everything we made previous to that point in time, I don't think we'd 185 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:25,840 have been able to make the move. 186 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,920 If I wouldn't have been able to make that move, I wouldn't have went on staff as a children 187 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:29,920 and youth pastor. 188 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,520 We wanted to serve there for four years. 189 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,080 In the last year of that calling, God called us to plant Lifehouse. 190 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,960 We came to Carlisle and we started out of our house with two families and began to grow 191 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:41,680 and went into a skating rink. 192 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:42,680 We bought this place. 193 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:45,040 We're now at two gatherings a year. 194 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:50,120 All that wouldn't have happened if we wouldn't have had seed set aside. 195 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:55,880 Our ability to move into the future that God has for us may very well depend on what you're 196 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:57,680 saving today. 197 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:03,240 We get ourselves into all kinds of trouble if we eat our seed, all of our seed, in the 198 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:04,660 time of harvest. 199 00:10:04,660 --> 00:10:10,560 If we consume all of the bucks the Lord has blessed us with and saved nothing. 200 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:16,640 And even God's smallest creature, some of His smallest creatures understand this bucks 201 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,240 and stuff principle. 202 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,480 Proverbs 6, if you've got your Bible, if you want to go to Proverbs 6, chapter 6 is going 203 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,840 to be verse 6 and it says this, go to the aunt, you sluggard. 204 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,280 I love that phrase, I don't know why. 205 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,280 It's just funny. 206 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:35,240 Go to the aunt, you sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which having no captain, 207 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:41,200 overseer or ruler provides herself supplies in the summer and gathers her food in the 208 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:42,880 harvest. 209 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,440 Aunts don't have rulers, they don't have bosses, overseers, they're self-disciplined. 210 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:48,960 God's put this innately in them. 211 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,160 Now listen, I don't understand aunt culture. 212 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,560 I know some of you are looking at me like, did you study this? 213 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:55,240 No, I did not. 214 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,800 If we got any science teachers or people that are outdoorsy that understand it, you can 215 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,240 talk to them afterwards. 216 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,360 But listen, the word of God says they save up. 217 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,400 And verse 9 says, how long will you slumber, oh sluggard? 218 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:07,960 When will you rise from your sleep? 219 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,800 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep? 220 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:18,560 So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler and your need like an armed man. 221 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:26,080 A bug, say a bug, a bug, an ant knows better than to eat all their seed. 222 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,760 They don't consume all their bucks and their stuff. 223 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:36,080 They hide some away in the time of harvest to sustain themselves in the winter. 224 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:37,640 They gather in the summer. 225 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:42,400 They're not lazy, they don't sit on their backsides hoping everything just works out 226 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:43,400 someday. 227 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,120 They don't just sit and munch and munch and munch and forget everything. 228 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,880 They gather in the time of increase so they've got something in the time of lack. 229 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:56,200 Our ability to move into God's future that he has for us may depend upon what you're 230 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,080 saving up today. 231 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,080 It's true. 232 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,520 It's in your bucks, in your stuff, and in just about every other area of life. 233 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:08,640 And this little description of the ant teaches us a thing or two from God's word about what 234 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,760 saving up really should look like in our lives. 235 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:14,160 Things like this. 236 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:19,560 Things like when is it the right time to begin to save? 237 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:22,640 When's a great time to begin to save for your future? 238 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,040 Well it's the right time. 239 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:26,520 Is it early in life? 240 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,120 Is it when you're eight, nine, maybe 12 years old, right? 241 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,920 Get your first chore to pay somewhere along the way? 242 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,760 Is it that early in life? 243 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,280 Or is it maybe in your early 20s where you begin to save? 244 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,960 And you get that first job or you begin to launch your career. 245 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:45,840 Maybe it's when you're in your middle age. 246 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:46,840 How many know? 247 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:47,840 Well middle age, right? 248 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:48,840 I just stay in middle age. 249 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,280 No matter what age I am, I just stay on middle age. 250 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:52,280 All right? 251 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,280 I'm middle age. 252 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:54,280 I'm 50ish. 253 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:55,280 Okay? 254 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,520 So yeah, maybe a couple extra issues on there. 255 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:00,520 All right? 256 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,080 But you know, so is it in that mid-life time? 257 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:05,400 Is that when you begin to save? 258 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:06,400 Is it late in life? 259 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,320 Do you just wait until you're in your 60s and 70s and figure life's almost over so I'm 260 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,240 just going to start packing money away? 261 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:13,760 No, right? 262 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:14,760 Come on. 263 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:15,760 What should we save? 264 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:21,200 We save any time we're harvesting or realizing an increase in our lives. 265 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:22,520 That's what we learn from the end. 266 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:28,720 Any time we're harvesting or we're realizing an increase in our lives, that's the time 267 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:30,800 to begin to save. 268 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,600 Any time we see increase in our bucks, right? 269 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,360 That's the time that you start saving for the future. 270 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:42,560 There's not a particular season of life when it's okay or when it's proper to begin. 271 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:43,760 It's not an age thing. 272 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:44,760 It's not 10. 273 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:45,760 It's not 30. 274 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,320 It's not 60, 70 or 80, right? 275 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:49,520 Or 90 even. 276 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,320 It's not when I'm making a bunch of money or a little bit of money. 277 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:57,920 How many of you can make a little bit sometimes and sometimes you can make a bunch, right? 278 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,360 It's any time. 279 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,200 Say any time. 280 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,640 Any time the Lord's bringing increase into your life should be a time when you're saving 281 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,760 for the future. 282 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,480 My grandfather was great with managing money. 283 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,480 He did not have a high paying job but he was incredible at saving money and managing money 284 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:21,680 and he used to pull me aside even as a kid and he'd say those little sayings that grandparents 285 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,000 do sometimes that I do with my kids and grandkids, right? 286 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:30,800 And he'd say, Kip, you need to save some bucks for a rainy day. 287 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,760 He pulled me aside, puts on, you need to save some bucks for a rainy day because he says, 288 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,560 Kip, it's going to rain. 289 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:39,560 It's going to rain. 290 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:40,560 It's going to rain. 291 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:41,560 How many know it's going to rain? 292 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,680 Yeah, I don't talk about the wet stuff we had last night, right? 293 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,400 The car's going to break down. 294 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,080 The kids are going to need braces. 295 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,680 The dog will have to go to the vet because he dug up a soup bone in the backyard and 296 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:57,480 bit down and it's flipped over his eye teeth and you're going to have to pay, oh sorry, 297 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:58,480 that was a little story of mine. 298 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,480 All right. 299 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,800 And you're going to have to pay the vet lots of money, right? 300 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,160 You're going to break or destroy something. 301 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,480 Something's going to blow up or cave in, right? 302 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:08,480 It's true. 303 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,100 It's going to fall apart when you don't expect it to. 304 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:13,600 It's going to rain, people. 305 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:14,800 It's going to rain. 306 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,280 Tell your neighbor, prophesy for the person beside you right now. 307 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:19,280 Tell them it's going to rain. 308 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:20,560 It's going to happen. 309 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:21,560 Tell your kids, right? 310 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,520 It's going to rain. 311 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,760 So when's the right time to save up for a rainy day? 312 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,160 Any day God's given you increase in your life. 313 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:31,160 That's the time. 314 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,000 Anytime harvest is coming into your life. 315 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:40,880 Proverbs 10, 5 says this, a wise youth harvests in the summer, but one who keeps or one who 316 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,720 sleeps during the harvest is a disgrace. 317 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:50,440 Anytime there's harvest, anytime there's increase, say something up. 318 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:56,040 When I was a kid, one of my first paying jobs that actually paid me some money was I went 319 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:00,920 and I worked for a dairy farmer who lived up the road and we brought in hay. 320 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,540 Now back then we didn't have all the fancy equipment I see around the farms here today. 321 00:16:04,540 --> 00:16:08,360 They had an old baler just dropped it down and we had to load it all by hand. 322 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,440 We had to chuck it up into a wagon somebody was stacking, right? 323 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,160 And then you had to drag it over to the barn and you had to throw it up into the hay mow. 324 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:16,720 And that was one of my jobs. 325 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,080 And one of the things that I learned that principle I learned just watching all that 326 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,440 is is that you store up for the winter time, right? 327 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,760 They brought in a lot of hay for the cows that they had and they made sure that the 328 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,880 barn was completely full. 329 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,520 They gathered in the harvest time so that there would be seed, right? 330 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,720 Or there would be provision when the time of lack came in the winter times. 331 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,680 Even at 14 years old, right? 332 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:46,780 I understood I started to see that you need to save in the day of increase. 333 00:16:46,780 --> 00:16:51,720 Anytime there's increase in your life, it is the right time to save. 334 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,240 If you're a farmer, you save during the harvest. 335 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,760 If you're self-employed, whenever you send out the invoice and the pay, right? 336 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,520 And the check comes back in in the mail, that's increased. 337 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,640 That's the time, right? 338 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:07,200 If you got a job and you're employed and you receive a paycheck every two weeks or every 339 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,240 week or every month, once you get paid, that's the time you do it. 340 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,600 If you receive income in any other kind of way, it's harvest time. 341 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,840 Set a portion back. 342 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:19,760 Can I make a little statement? 343 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,560 Don't eat all your seed. 344 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,560 Don't do it. 345 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,320 It happens in the United States at an alarming rate. 346 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:33,520 If you're looking for a simple plan, a good biblical plan to do this, something that you 347 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:38,840 can remember in your mind and in your heart, I'm going to give you a little phrase. 348 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:39,840 Give to God first. 349 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:40,840 Okay, say it. 350 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:41,840 Give to God first. 351 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:42,840 Right? 352 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:43,840 Save second. 353 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:44,840 Spend third. 354 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:45,840 All right? 355 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:46,840 Give to God first. 356 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:47,840 Save second. 357 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:48,840 Right? 358 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:49,840 Spend third. 359 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:50,840 All right? 360 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:51,840 Say it again. 361 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:52,840 Give to God first. 362 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:53,840 Save second. 363 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:54,840 Spend third. 364 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:59,640 All right? Save second. Spend third. 365 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,440 You can start applying a little principle, and this is the starting point, right? 366 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,440 A 10-10-80 principle. 367 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:06,840 Ten percent to God, right? 368 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:12,260 You tithe off your income and you give ten percent to God, then you pay yourself ten 369 00:18:12,260 --> 00:18:13,260 percent. 370 00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:17,720 You put ten percent of your money into a savings account and you save up. 371 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,720 Then the 80 percent's for spending, right? 372 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,080 And I even alter that sometimes. 373 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,840 I make it a 10-10-10-70 rule, right? 374 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:30,880 Ten percent to God for tithe, ten percent to give and to be generous with, ten percent 375 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,960 to save and live off of the 70 percent. 376 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:35,880 It's a way to begin. 377 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:44,340 Any time there's increase, be like those pesky little ants and capitalize in saving up when 378 00:18:44,340 --> 00:18:46,040 increase happens. 379 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,840 How many know ants are opportunists? 380 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,800 Amen, they are. 381 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,280 You drop a half a hamburger bite on the ground at your picnic, right? 382 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:55,280 Come on. 383 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,680 How many know there's a five-second rule? 384 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,880 Yeah, right? 385 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:01,920 Dixie actually read something online the other day. 386 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,760 She said the five-second rule has actually changed to 25 seconds because of the increased 387 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:06,760 price of groceries. 388 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:11,840 So many know there's a 25-second rule now, right? 389 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,960 Because they just cost too much. 390 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:19,080 Would you drop that half a bite of hamburger down onto the ground, and what happens at 391 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,900 half an hour later? 392 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:25,200 You come back, right, and there's 14 ants carrying your bite away. 393 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,060 It's just going, you don't even know how, you look down and your bite's moving across 394 00:19:29,060 --> 00:19:30,060 the ground. 395 00:19:30,060 --> 00:19:33,040 Because the ants are taking it back, right? 396 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,280 They got it going on. 397 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:41,960 They move, they get engaged when there's increase to be had. 398 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:48,720 This little ant passage in scripture teaches us about bucks and stuff, and it teaches us 399 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,880 an additional principle, too. 400 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:52,960 And it's this. 401 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:59,920 There's nothing to save if we never do anything about creating increase in our lives. 402 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:03,980 There's nothing to save if we don't ever do anything about creating increase in our lives. 403 00:20:03,980 --> 00:20:08,680 We cannot save if we're not working towards creating some kind of increase. 404 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:13,080 We cannot create increase unless we go to work at something. 405 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,480 Tell someone sitting beside you, some of you want to do this for so long, turn somebody 406 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,120 beside you and tell them, go to work. 407 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:20,120 Come on, go to work. 408 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:21,120 Go to work, all right? 409 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:22,120 Go to work. 410 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,800 Oh, you engaged in that one. 411 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,680 Yeah, go to work, right? 412 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:32,000 And if you're married, if you're married in life, this might be a team effort, right? 413 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,720 One of you might be going to work and if you've got small children, one might be staying back 414 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,080 and working at home and taking care of the kids. 415 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:42,920 One's going out and earning some bucks, and you're doing this together in a joint effort. 416 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,480 You might be in a household where there's two people working. 417 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,320 Sometimes it's the husband and the wife working together. 418 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,840 You might be engaged in business or investment ventures of some kind to create increase, 419 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:53,840 right? 420 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,640 You might be independently wealthy, and if you are, we're a little jealous. 421 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,360 We'll just say that right out loud, all right? 422 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:01,720 We got to pray about that, but you might be managing a portfolio. 423 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,800 You might be retired and living on a fixed income, right? 424 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,960 And again, if you're retired, we're a little jealous as well, all right? 425 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,600 But you're working, you might be working a job independently wealthy. 426 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:14,840 You might have fixed income. 427 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:20,000 You might be retired or receiving all the provision you need in some way, but go to 428 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,240 work at something. 429 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,000 It might not be physical labor. 430 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,400 It might be physical labor. 431 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:26,880 It might be spiritual labor. 432 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,880 You might be praying or encouraging or exhorting somebody, right? 433 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:35,360 I mean, no, we need some exhorters, some people that are willing to lift other people up and 434 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:38,020 speak into their lives in a spiritual manner, right? 435 00:21:38,020 --> 00:21:44,040 It might be that you write well, whether God, whatever God's given to you to use in the stage 436 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:49,800 that you're in, use it for His glory and go to work. 437 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:50,800 Work is biblical. 438 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:51,800 It is. 439 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:57,760 It's biblical for us to work in whatever capacity that I'm able to work, whatever God's given 440 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:58,760 me, right? 441 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:04,920 And as I thought about this, I thought about some people in history that were special at 442 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:09,600 this that kind of really took away any excuse I might have about not working. 443 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,760 And the first one I thought about, I remember learning about in school when I was a kid, 444 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,480 and that was a long time ago, right? 445 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,800 But how many know who Helen Keller is, right? 446 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,800 Helen Adams Keller. 447 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:18,800 All right. 448 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,600 What are they teaching school these days? 449 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,880 Come on, like five of you know, right? 450 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,720 She was born June 27th, 1880. 451 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:31,520 Helen Keller was an American author, a disability rights advocate, a political activist and 452 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:32,520 lecturer. 453 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,640 She was born in Alabama. 454 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:40,000 But the unique thing about Helen Keller is that she lost her sight at 19 months old. 455 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,900 She lost her vision and her hearing. 456 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:50,480 She couldn't hear or see at 19 months of age. 457 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,760 And she went to work. 458 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,680 She's known she's written in the history books. 459 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,240 How many of you have ever heard of Johnny Erickson Tata? 460 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,440 Anybody heard of her? 461 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:02,440 Johnny Erickson Tata. 462 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:03,440 If not, you need to look it up. 463 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:04,440 Google it. 464 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:05,440 Not right now, but do it later. 465 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,440 All right. 466 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:11,120 She was born in 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, the youngest of four daughters to John and 467 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:12,680 Lindy Erickson. 468 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,440 Her father participated in the 1932 Summer Olympics as an alternate for the United States 469 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,800 wrestling team. 470 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,800 And he was also honored at that. 471 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,800 He's a distinguished member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in the museum. 472 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:31,040 But with her example of her parents, Johnny lived a very active life all throughout her 473 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,280 years growing up. 474 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,840 She enjoyed riding horses, hiking, tennis and swimming. 475 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:43,000 But on July 30th, 1967, when she was 17 years old, she drove to she dove into the Chesapeake 476 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:48,520 Bay and after misjudging the shallowness of the water, she fractured her fourth and fifth 477 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:54,440 cervical vertebrae and became a quadriplegic, tetrapolegic, paralyzed from the shoulders 478 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:55,440 down. 479 00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:00,440 During her two years of rehabilitation, according to her autobiography, Johnny experienced anger, 480 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:04,120 depression, suicidal thoughts and religious doubt. 481 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:10,200 However, say however, during occupational therapy, she learned to paint with a brush 482 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,400 between her teeth and began to sell her artwork. 483 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:19,600 She also writes this way, although most of the time at this point, she uses a recognition 484 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,000 software to write. 485 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:27,600 To date, she has written 40 books, recorded several musical albums and started an autobiographical 486 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,000 movie about her life. 487 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,760 She starred in it and is an advocate for people with disabilities. 488 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:37,600 She founded Johnny and Friends in 1979, an organization to accelerate Christian ministry 489 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,000 and disability communities throughout the world. 490 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:46,400 In 2007, Johnny and Friends International Disability Center in Agorah Hills, California 491 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,920 was established, led by Tata and John. 492 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:56,440 Johnny and Friends International Disability Center runs a multi-faceted nonprofit covering 493 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,240 a number of program outlets. 494 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:03,320 The longest running program is Johnny and Friends Radio, a five-minute radio program 495 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,000 that began in 1982 and still runs to this day. 496 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,120 It's five minutes in length and it's over a thousand different broadcasts that put it 497 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:12,840 out. 498 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:17,560 Paralyzed from the shoulders down, she goes to work. 499 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:24,440 The Lord designed us to work, to create increase, no matter what your age is, what your abilities 500 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,520 are at this point, right? 501 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:27,880 It's biblical. 502 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,320 Genesis 2 wants this, so the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them 503 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:33,680 was completed. 504 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:38,840 And on the seventh day, God had finished His work of creation. 505 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,580 So He rested from all His work and God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy because 506 00:25:43,580 --> 00:25:48,500 it was the day when He rested from all His work of creation. 507 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:52,320 God worked six days and rested one, right? 508 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,320 Increase took place because of God's work. 509 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,320 You're here, right? 510 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,000 It's creation because of God's work. 511 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,080 Do your children a favor. 512 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,220 Teach them to work. 513 00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:02,880 Teach them to love their work. 514 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,520 Teach them the satisfaction that comes along with work. 515 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,560 All through Proverbs, it tells us in Proverbs 13 and 11, wealth gained by dishonesty will 516 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,840 be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase. 517 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:20,680 Proverbs 12 and 11 says a hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies 518 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,320 has no sense. 519 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:28,600 Proverbs 13 and 14 says lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will 520 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:29,600 prosper. 521 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,560 Proverbs 12 and 24, work hard and become a leader. 522 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,000 Be lazy and become a slave. 523 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:42,520 Proverbs 14 and 23, work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty, right? 524 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:50,800 If we're conscious, if we're awake, we can work at something to bring increase into somebody's 525 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,600 lives and even into your own lives. 526 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:59,360 If we create increase, we can save now for someone's future. 527 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:04,000 I love the story Mark Patterson tells in his book Circle Maker. 528 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,560 He says this, Hony the wise one was also known as Hony the Circle Maker, and by drawing a 529 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,800 circle and stepping inside of it, he would recite special prayers for rain, sometimes 530 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,020 even argue with God during a drought, and the rains would come. 531 00:27:19,020 --> 00:27:25,360 He was indeed a miracle maker, a wise, but as wise as he was, Hony sometimes saw something 532 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:26,880 that puzzled him. 533 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,840 Then he would ask questions so he could unravel the mystery. 534 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,400 One day Hony the Circle Maker was walking on the road and saw a man planting a carob 535 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,760 tree. 536 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:41,640 Hony asked the man, how long will it take for this carob tree to bear fruit? 537 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,460 The man replied, 70 years. 538 00:27:44,460 --> 00:27:49,120 Hony then asked the man, and do you think you will live another 70 years and eat the 539 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:50,920 fruit of this tree? 540 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,720 The man answered, perhaps not. 541 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:57,840 However, when I was born into this world, I found many carob trees planted by my father 542 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:03,940 and my grandfather, just as they planted trees for me, and I'm planting trees for my children 543 00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:09,680 and grandchildren so they will be able to eat the fruit of these trees. 544 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:15,080 Psalm 1322 says, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth 545 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,560 of the sinner is stored up for the righteous. 546 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,640 Pastor Eric is coming at this time at the East Shore campus. 547 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,760 I'm going to ask you to all stand. 548 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,840 We're going to get ready to pray in just a moment. 549 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,200 If you're listening online, thank you for being here with us and worshiping, and I want 550 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:41,040 you to find a place as well to get yourself aside to pray, to prepare your hearts. 551 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:46,440 But this message leads us at the end of this message series of bucks and stuff. 552 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,220 Work at something to create increase. 553 00:28:50,220 --> 00:28:51,220 Work at something. 554 00:28:51,220 --> 00:28:55,280 Maybe your monetary needs are covered and you can volunteer. 555 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,540 Maybe you need to provide for your family and you've got to work to create that increase. 556 00:28:59,540 --> 00:29:04,080 Maybe it's not a monetary increase we're even talking about in somebody's life, but get 557 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,080 prepared. 558 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,240 It is what you are saving up now. 559 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,120 It's what you're doing in the increase that has everything to do with what God's going 560 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,800 to do in the future in your lives. 561 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,480 Do it now. 562 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:23,600 In the time of harvest, in the time of increase, set aside who knows what God's preparing for 563 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:24,600 you. 564 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,040 As I prepared this message and I thought about this moment in the message, I thought about 565 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,960 all the people that are in this house, and I think about all the, and I know a lot of 566 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,920 you, and I know some things that you're engaging in, and places you're going, and general directions 567 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,320 you're heading, and I'm thinking who knows, right? 568 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,400 God might have you saving up back here for where you're just about head to right now. 569 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,120 Maybe He's working something out in your life. 570 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,560 In the moment of increase, start saving up, start thinking, because He's got a future 571 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,140 plan for you, right? 572 00:29:51,140 --> 00:29:54,120 This isn't just for one person or two, this is for all of you. 573 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,360 For anybody that calls on the name of the Lord, and if you're here this morning and 574 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,960 you don't know the Lord, you can. 575 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:00,960 He can set your steps. 576 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:06,000 The word of God says that the righteous steps are ordered by God. 577 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:11,220 But if you're in a time of increase right now, set something aside, because who knows 578 00:30:11,220 --> 00:30:12,920 where God is taking you. 579 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,920 Follow that 10, 10, 80, the 10, 10, 10, 70. 580 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,320 Follow it and see what God does in your life. 581 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:20,320 Amen? 582 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,840 I believe that for the people that are in this house. 583 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,740 I believe that for those who are at East Shore. 584 00:30:24,740 --> 00:30:29,460 I believe that for the people that are online this morning. 585 00:30:29,460 --> 00:30:33,880 God wants to, God is always about launching us forward. 586 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,560 He's always working. 587 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,280 He's working back here, because He's going to do something out there. 588 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,340 He's working in the present, because He knows your past and where you're headed. 589 00:30:43,340 --> 00:30:47,480 He does all that, all the time for you. 590 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:48,480 He's not like us, right? 591 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,620 If I stood on a chair, all I could see was four walls in this room. 592 00:30:52,620 --> 00:30:56,040 He sees it all, in real time. 593 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,560 Actually, beyond time. 594 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:58,560 That's a whole other subject. 595 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,480 That's an awesome subject. 596 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,280 He knows it all. 597 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,680 How many of you want to be ready when the time comes? 598 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:13,800 When the time comes, when God launches you, just like He did Dixie and I, when that opportunity 599 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,600 came and He said, now's the time. 600 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:16,760 You can go full time. 601 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,760 Somebody made the offer. 602 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:23,160 If we wouldn't have been ready, we would have had to say no. 603 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,160 Who knows what God has for you? 604 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,160 I'm asking you to bow your heads this morning. 605 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,640 Lord, you know who's in this house. 606 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,320 God, I'm stirring in my spirit. 607 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,960 I know you're speaking to somebody. 608 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,040 God, I know there's different ones out here right now. 609 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,040 They need to acknowledge this. 610 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,160 God, whoever it is, young, old, somewhere in between, you're speaking to them right in 611 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,160 this moment. 612 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,160 I just want this just for your acknowledgement. 613 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,720 The Holy Spirit's speaking to you right now about something. 614 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,000 He's tugging on your heart. 615 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,680 If that's you, just raise your hand up, put it right back down. 616 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:56,680 Be honest. 617 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:57,680 Be honest. 618 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:58,680 Sometimes it's in the acknowledgement. 619 00:31:58,680 --> 00:31:59,680 Thank you. 620 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:00,680 Thank you. 621 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,680 It's in the acknowledgement that God speaks. 622 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,000 Lord, I pray for each one in the house. 623 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,520 I thank you for the hands that went up and God, for the ones that didn't. 624 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,480 Lord, I pray right now. 625 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,280 God, you're stirring in lives. 626 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,880 God, some of them, they're in a moment of increase right now. 627 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,960 God, they need to be setting aside because you're getting them ready to launch. 628 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,640 You're getting them ready to launch them and they're going to need the provision. 629 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,160 God, some of them, Lord, are in the launch spot. 630 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,280 Lord, they've already, God, been in a place where they've set aside. 631 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,360 God, you're getting ready to launch them forward. 632 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,160 God, they're stepping into new things. 633 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,560 Lord, I pray right now. 634 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:34,880 God, be with them, Lord. 635 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,200 Let them know that you're in the middle of their mix. 636 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,600 God, you're in the middle of wherever they're going. 637 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,240 God, you're in the middle of what you have for their future. 638 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,160 God, give them ears to hear, Lord, as they get ready to step through. 639 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,120 Give them a step-by-step plan as they go through. 640 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:53,880 God, even show them the small things, like what they need to do in that moment, what 641 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,920 they need to spend in that moment. 642 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,920 Right now, Lord, is a way of closing this message series out. 643 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,920 God, I pray your hand would be upon them. 644 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,920 I thank you for this. 645 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,920 In Jesus' name. 646 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:11,920 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church. 647 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,920 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 648 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,960 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 649 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:42,320 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.lifehousecog.com.