WEBVTT 00:00:02.260 --> 00:00:05.259 Welcome to the Life Bible Church podcast. We 00:00:05.259 --> 00:00:07.660 want to thank you for joining us today and we 00:00:07.660 --> 00:00:10.179 hope you find today's sermon impacting as you 00:00:10.179 --> 00:00:12.699 listen to it wherever you are in your daily walk. 00:00:12.939 --> 00:00:15.960 To find service times and watch messages online, 00:00:16.179 --> 00:00:20.120 see our website at lifebiblechurch .org. Now, 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:25.440 enjoy this week's message. Amen. Thank you for 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:35.109 your kindness. You may be seated. First, I want 00:00:35.109 --> 00:00:38.329 to give reverence to the Father, to King Jesus, 00:00:38.390 --> 00:00:40.429 to the Holy Spirit. Let's give God Almighty a 00:00:40.429 --> 00:00:50.990 big hand clap. To Pastor Brad and Jenny and the 00:00:50.990 --> 00:00:53.350 entire ministry team, let's give them a big hand 00:00:53.350 --> 00:01:02.829 clap. To our dear friends. Dr. Greg and the best 00:01:02.829 --> 00:01:05.530 part of him, his wife, Joanne, let's give them 00:01:05.530 --> 00:01:12.829 a big hand clap. To Jim and to his lovely wife, 00:01:12.930 --> 00:01:20.549 Erin, let's give them a big hand clap. And give 00:01:20.549 --> 00:01:31.430 your neighbor a hand clap too. I agree with the 00:01:31.430 --> 00:01:36.069 accuracy of all of those prophetic words that 00:01:36.069 --> 00:01:40.310 were shared publicly by Jenny and the one our 00:01:40.310 --> 00:01:44.689 dear brother shared. Allow me to say this, if 00:01:44.689 --> 00:01:59.409 I may. When Rachel was giving birth, She called 00:01:59.409 --> 00:02:08.729 her son the son of my sorrow. But Jacob changes 00:02:08.729 --> 00:02:13.530 his name to Benjamin, the son of my strength. 00:02:15.530 --> 00:02:17.949 Isn't it interesting that you have to go through 00:02:17.949 --> 00:02:30.400 sorrow to get to strength? So I was speaking 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:37.219 at a world conference. And prior to the conference, 00:02:37.419 --> 00:02:44.460 I had this angel visit me. And he had on his 00:02:44.460 --> 00:02:54.199 arms strength, stamina, patience, and perseverance. 00:02:59.879 --> 00:03:02.900 And I remember years ago when the Holy Spirit 00:03:02.900 --> 00:03:05.900 spoke that very scripture, I didn't want to hear 00:03:05.900 --> 00:03:09.680 it. It wasn't what I wanted to hear at the time. 00:03:10.580 --> 00:03:15.740 But he said, you have need of patience. That 00:03:15.740 --> 00:03:17.400 after you've done the will of God, you might 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.620 inherit the promise. Look at your neighbor and 00:03:20.620 --> 00:03:25.219 say, you have need of patience. That after you've 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:30.289 done the will of God. You inherit the promise. 00:03:32.150 --> 00:03:38.250 So, when your apostle talked to me about this 00:03:38.250 --> 00:03:43.969 conference, and he mentioned the theme, the prevailing 00:03:43.969 --> 00:03:49.949 church, it reminded me of a supernatural experience 00:03:49.949 --> 00:03:53.990 I had several years ago when I was in Amarillo 00:03:53.990 --> 00:03:59.889 in one of those unexpected encounters. where 00:03:59.889 --> 00:04:03.030 I was caught up to heaven, and there was a door, 00:04:03.050 --> 00:04:11.169 a portal. And on the left was a warrior angel. 00:04:13.210 --> 00:04:16.569 To the right, one very similar, very chiseled, 00:04:16.589 --> 00:04:22.389 very powerful. You may say, why would two angels 00:04:22.389 --> 00:04:28.019 be at the entranceway? Well, Those two angels 00:04:28.019 --> 00:04:31.579 have shown up in my life at least a couple of 00:04:31.579 --> 00:04:35.439 times I can mention. One was when my wife decided 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:37.779 that she wanted a Victorian house and I didn't 00:04:37.779 --> 00:04:46.480 want it. And she made me go and look at it. And 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.800 there were those two big angels, one on the left 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:52.220 side of the house, one on the right. And that's 00:04:52.220 --> 00:04:54.579 when I concluded that our Heavenly Father loves 00:04:54.579 --> 00:05:07.170 her more than me. You think I'm playing. And 00:05:07.170 --> 00:05:11.069 there was another experience which I'm not going 00:05:11.069 --> 00:05:16.529 to tell you about. But in any case, when I walked 00:05:16.529 --> 00:05:20.029 through the door in heaven, there was an angel 00:05:20.029 --> 00:05:23.769 with a scroll. And the words on the scroll was 00:05:23.769 --> 00:05:27.850 this. This is what it was. The watch of the Lord. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:37.379 is a secret weapon of apostles, prophets, seers, 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:41.920 and the victorious church. Everybody say the 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:45.920 prevailing church. And this watch of the Lord 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:50.100 is not what we think in terms of watches 6 to 00:05:50.100 --> 00:06:00.720 9, 9 to 12, 12 to 3, 3 to 6. It's... That Hebrews 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:05.300 where it says looking to Jesus. Everybody say 00:06:05.300 --> 00:06:09.500 watch and pray. Then it went on to say the watch 00:06:09.500 --> 00:06:16.839 of the Lord is a key to the intelligence of the 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:21.120 spirit and the ability to interpret the will 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.259 of God. Look at your neighbor and say you need 00:06:24.259 --> 00:06:29.490 the intelligence of the spirit. And a divine 00:06:29.490 --> 00:06:36.550 ability to interpret the will of God. So I'm 00:06:36.550 --> 00:06:39.889 going to start with this intelligence of the 00:06:39.889 --> 00:06:44.129 Spirit and this interpreting of the will of God. 00:06:45.829 --> 00:06:50.410 There was something else on the scroll. The scrolls 00:06:50.410 --> 00:06:55.110 of heaven, in addition to giving you insight 00:06:55.110 --> 00:07:00.500 into the will of the Father, They can reveal 00:07:00.500 --> 00:07:04.839 the operations of the enemy and the strategies 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:11.000 of Jesus to produce a body of overcomers. Everybody 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:17.279 say, the strategies of Jesus will make you an 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:24.519 overcomer. So what I have to do tonight as the 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:36.970 first night is I have to, Surprise you. So I 00:07:36.970 --> 00:07:44.269 decided to have this typed out in an attempt 00:07:44.269 --> 00:07:55.629 to make me be systematic and go point by point 00:07:55.629 --> 00:08:08.699 because you know why. So listen carefully. Are 00:08:08.699 --> 00:08:11.860 you ready? Now I said all that for a reason. 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.120 As you listen to this message, you'll understand. 00:08:14.259 --> 00:08:16.540 I'm going to speak to you individually. Eventually 00:08:16.540 --> 00:08:20.339 we'll talk corporately. But probably not tonight. 00:08:24.980 --> 00:08:30.220 Your life is not stuck because the Lord has said 00:08:30.220 --> 00:08:37.509 no to your prayer. Your life is stuck because 00:08:37.509 --> 00:08:41.029 you cannot yet carry what you're asking for right 00:08:41.029 --> 00:08:47.750 now. There are opportunities, resources, blessings 00:08:47.750 --> 00:08:51.830 hovering over you. But they're not waiting for 00:08:51.830 --> 00:08:56.590 your prayer to get louder. They're waiting for 00:08:56.590 --> 00:09:03.269 your capacity to become greater. The Father is 00:09:03.269 --> 00:09:07.720 not testing your desire. What he's looking at 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:15.080 is your internal infrastructure. For example, 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:20.159 you think you're waiting for wealth, but the 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.279 wealth that the father wants to give you is waiting 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:25.440 for a version of you that will not collapse under 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:33.460 its weight. Most people spend years praying to 00:09:33.460 --> 00:09:36.779 the father for more money. Better relationships, 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.500 greater opportunities, while completely ignoring 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:47.259 the real question the Father is asking. Can you 00:09:47.259 --> 00:09:52.139 even handle what you're asking for? Can you handle 00:09:52.139 --> 00:09:56.039 it emotionally? Can you handle it spiritually? 00:09:56.860 --> 00:10:01.220 And really importantly, can you handle it structurally? 00:10:02.789 --> 00:10:05.490 Can your current systems, boundaries, and internal 00:10:05.490 --> 00:10:09.470 architecture sustain the blessings that you're 00:10:09.470 --> 00:10:13.769 asking for from the Father? So it is time to 00:10:13.769 --> 00:10:20.570 examine your capacity. Look at somebody say the 00:10:20.570 --> 00:10:26.889 capacity code. Say it again. We're looking at 00:10:26.889 --> 00:10:32.299 your capacity. After a while, you will begin 00:10:32.299 --> 00:10:35.639 to understand exactly why the answer to your 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.279 prayer has been delayed. And more importantly, 00:10:39.340 --> 00:10:41.840 you will have the blueprint to build the internal 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:45.559 structure that will make your increase inevitable. 00:10:47.139 --> 00:10:49.639 The world has sold you a deception and a lie. 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:53.179 It tells you to dream bigger, ask for more, manifest 00:10:53.179 --> 00:10:56.639 abundance, visualize success. But the word of 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.879 wisdom from the throne operates completely differently. 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.620 Here's the reality. You ready? What you cannot 00:11:05.620 --> 00:11:18.879 manage, the Father cannot multiply. You have 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:22.679 to be able to manage it before the Father will 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:27.100 multiply it. Management comes before increase. 00:11:32.809 --> 00:11:39.110 The prevailing church learns divine management 00:11:39.110 --> 00:11:44.289 under the master, the Lord Jesus Christ, and 00:11:44.289 --> 00:11:58.330 sees multiplication. What you cannot sustain, 00:11:58.629 --> 00:12:08.340 the Lord Jesus will not give you. He's paid for 00:12:08.340 --> 00:12:12.340 it. It's yours. It's part of your inheritance. 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:15.039 Ephesians 1 .11, in Christ you have obtained 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.779 an inheritance, but it's not released until you 00:12:18.779 --> 00:12:23.200 have the capacity to sustain what he has purchased. 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.539 Look at somebody and say, this is not punishment. 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:44.299 This is protection. Increase without the proper 00:12:44.299 --> 00:12:51.080 biblical infrastructure is not a blessing. Because 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:54.220 if the Father gives it to you and you are not 00:12:54.220 --> 00:13:01.200 yet ready for it, you will sabotage. Everybody 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:10.029 say, we want to avoid personal sabotage. Think 00:13:10.029 --> 00:13:11.690 about the last time you asked the Father for 00:13:11.690 --> 00:13:13.629 something significant, more income, a better 00:13:13.629 --> 00:13:16.990 relationship, a new opportunity. But I want you 00:13:16.990 --> 00:13:25.710 to consider the possibility. What if you wanted 00:13:25.710 --> 00:13:29.789 increase in results without a willingness for 00:13:29.789 --> 00:13:37.360 increase in responsibility? What if you wanted 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:40.460 a blessing without the added burden the blessing 00:13:40.460 --> 00:13:49.440 brings? The prevailing church is ready for greater 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:57.740 responsibility. So it can take the greater blessings. 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:02.840 The prevailing church is ready for the added 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:07.840 burden. that the blessing brings. Some people, 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:11.600 they want added gifting without the added growth 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:19.159 required to steward it properly. See, when it's 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:22.600 the word of the Lord, the word of the Lord reveals 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.860 to your heart where you are and where you're 00:14:26.860 --> 00:14:38.860 not. Somebody said it this way. When you're reading 00:14:38.860 --> 00:14:46.659 the Bible, the Bible is reading you. So this 00:14:46.659 --> 00:14:49.720 is what people do. When your prayer is not answered, 00:14:49.820 --> 00:14:52.860 you question the goodness of God instead of examining 00:14:52.860 --> 00:14:57.179 your own current capacity. Oh no, I'm prophesying. 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:58.840 I know I'm prophesying. You don't have to even 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:06.179 say amen. You question the goodness of God because 00:15:06.179 --> 00:15:07.960 you ain't getting it because you done prayed, 00:15:08.059 --> 00:15:23.620 you done fasted. But you ain't never asked. See, 00:15:23.620 --> 00:15:29.220 I'm going to help you. Look at somebody say, 00:15:29.299 --> 00:15:31.840 he going to help you a little bit. Let me tell 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.700 you something about transition. Transition is 00:15:34.700 --> 00:15:43.039 not the beginning of something new. Transition 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:49.259 happens because something old has left. Transition 00:15:49.259 --> 00:15:56.559 happens because something has ended. Change is 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:01.759 when your external circumstances are not the 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:04.960 way they were before. Transition is internal. 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.679 And transition happens when something has ended 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:19.860 and you are in between where you were and where 00:16:19.860 --> 00:16:23.259 you need to go. Look at somebody say, it's a 00:16:23.259 --> 00:16:27.820 long hallway. Somebody say, it's a hell way. 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:33.830 Well, it's that too. And when you are in transition, 00:16:34.049 --> 00:16:51.049 you have in your soul a real anxiety. You have 00:16:51.049 --> 00:16:58.269 a sense of uncertainty. Uncertainty does not 00:16:58.269 --> 00:17:04.509 mean you don't have faith. The problem is this. 00:17:05.190 --> 00:17:12.190 The map you knew doesn't fit the territory in 00:17:12.190 --> 00:17:22.930 which you now find yourself. Okay. Because what 00:17:22.930 --> 00:17:26.309 you knew in that season isn't what you need to 00:17:26.309 --> 00:17:30.829 know for the next season. And now things are 00:17:30.829 --> 00:17:35.009 not familiar. Which means now I have to get quiet. 00:17:38.250 --> 00:17:47.069 And I need to say, Lord, I know you want to bless 00:17:47.069 --> 00:17:52.769 me, but what do you have to build in my infrastructure 00:17:52.769 --> 00:18:01.549 first? So when your prayer is not answered, you 00:18:01.549 --> 00:18:03.390 quest the goodness of God instead of examining 00:18:03.390 --> 00:18:06.009 your own capacity. Let me tell you what Jesus 00:18:06.009 --> 00:18:10.589 sees when you pray for increase. Jesus looks 00:18:10.589 --> 00:18:14.529 at your own financial discipline. Jesus looks 00:18:14.529 --> 00:18:18.009 at how you handle pressure. Jesus looks at your 00:18:18.009 --> 00:18:19.829 emotional regulation when you're under stress. 00:18:27.569 --> 00:18:34.930 Increase. Causes stress. Increase impacts your 00:18:34.930 --> 00:18:39.109 emotions. Increase means you got to get more 00:18:39.109 --> 00:18:44.549 organized. What Jesus looks like when you pray 00:18:44.549 --> 00:18:47.710 for something is he looks at your relationship 00:18:47.710 --> 00:18:50.349 patterns, your time stewardship, your boundary 00:18:50.349 --> 00:18:54.210 management. Listen to this. This is really important. 00:18:54.289 --> 00:18:58.430 You ready? And based upon what Jesus observes, 00:18:58.609 --> 00:19:02.089 he calculates exactly how much you can carry 00:19:02.089 --> 00:19:14.049 without breaking. That calculation determines 00:19:14.049 --> 00:19:23.670 your current ceiling. That ceiling is not arbitrary. 00:19:25.069 --> 00:19:34.130 It is architectural. It's how you think. It's 00:19:34.130 --> 00:19:43.529 what you think. Are you still with me? Matthew 00:19:43.529 --> 00:19:57.920 16, Jesus says, I'll build my church. Is what 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:01.640 you're thinking and how you're thinking really 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:06.500 going to take you where you want to go? Has it 00:20:06.500 --> 00:20:25.220 so far? That calculation is built from your habits. 00:20:26.029 --> 00:20:29.670 your systems, your emotional capacity, your spiritual 00:20:29.670 --> 00:20:34.170 maturity, and your ability to handle responsibility. 00:20:36.809 --> 00:20:41.009 Okay. All right. All right. All right. Okay. 00:20:46.089 --> 00:20:50.849 Everybody say transition. Are you ready? When 00:20:50.849 --> 00:20:54.049 you're in transition, the teacher isn't talking. 00:21:05.900 --> 00:21:09.839 The silence is not abandonment. He's already 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:11.759 told you everything you already need to know. 00:21:17.339 --> 00:21:19.920 The teacher never talks while the test is going 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:25.700 on. That's why when you go into a prophetic meeting, 00:21:25.779 --> 00:21:28.480 the person who's prophetic prophesies all around 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:49.789 it. Still with me? So when you're in transition, 00:21:50.049 --> 00:21:54.849 you must put into application the lessons you've 00:21:54.849 --> 00:22:01.069 already been taught. The principles that have 00:22:01.069 --> 00:22:05.470 already been revealed. Look at somebody said, 00:22:05.609 --> 00:22:15.589 this is the season for your stretching. See, 00:22:15.670 --> 00:22:17.569 this is, okay, let me show you. Let me, okay. 00:22:19.230 --> 00:22:21.509 See, this is what we think. This is what we think. 00:22:21.569 --> 00:22:28.769 Bless our sweethearts. We think that when Jesus 00:22:28.769 --> 00:22:33.650 knocked Paul to the ground and he sees this great 00:22:33.650 --> 00:22:41.549 light, he had had letters from a earthly high 00:22:41.549 --> 00:22:44.799 priest giving him authority. And now Jesus appears 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:51.000 as the heavenly high priest. And he looks up 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.019 and he sees Jesus and he says, who are you, sir? 00:22:54.220 --> 00:22:58.740 We think that that's where Paul got converted. 00:23:03.539 --> 00:23:15.809 I submit to you that that's Where Paul got collapsed. 00:23:28.470 --> 00:23:33.990 Listen to me. Everything he thought he knew. 00:23:39.289 --> 00:23:45.470 That he read. In the word of God. That he misinterpreted. 00:23:48.549 --> 00:23:51.109 When the light shined. He went through a collapse. 00:23:52.470 --> 00:24:06.849 Everybody say that's loss. How you know you're 00:24:06.849 --> 00:24:12.950 in transition. Is when. things you thought you 00:24:12.950 --> 00:24:17.349 knew that aren't working. You have to face the 00:24:17.349 --> 00:24:21.430 reality that it ain't working and something needs 00:24:21.430 --> 00:24:26.009 to collapse so you can get the mind of Christ. 00:24:32.789 --> 00:24:37.009 Transition is the doorway to transformation. 00:24:41.729 --> 00:24:45.150 Before, remember I told you transition is not 00:24:45.150 --> 00:24:47.410 the beginning of something. It's because something 00:24:47.410 --> 00:24:50.710 has ended. There's something you have to let 00:24:50.710 --> 00:24:52.109 go of. Look at somebody and say there's something 00:24:52.109 --> 00:24:57.329 you got to let go of. So you can receive something. 00:24:57.430 --> 00:25:00.710 Everybody say receive something. So watch this. 00:25:04.730 --> 00:25:06.930 When you understand this, everything changes. 00:25:08.750 --> 00:25:11.299 You stop. begging the Father for more and you 00:25:11.299 --> 00:25:15.460 start building for more. You stop waiting for 00:25:15.460 --> 00:25:17.380 the blessing of Jesus and you start creating 00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:21.160 the vessel that the blessing can fill. When you 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:23.400 comprehend the principle, the code of capacity, 00:25:23.660 --> 00:25:27.279 you understand that there are laws that govern 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:30.539 divine provision. These are not suggestions. 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:33.400 These are not good concepts. They are operational 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:35.960 principles that determine whether the Father 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:39.700 releases resources into your life. or withholds 00:25:39.700 --> 00:25:46.000 them for your protection. Oh, no, no, no. Let 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:53.460 me help you. So Jesus tells a story. One man 00:25:53.460 --> 00:25:57.279 gets five. One man gets two. One man gets one. 00:25:58.099 --> 00:26:01.339 The man with five makes more. The man with two 00:26:01.339 --> 00:26:06.220 makes more. The guy with one doesn't make any 00:26:06.220 --> 00:26:10.569 more. The man with five who made more gets commended 00:26:10.569 --> 00:26:13.430 by God. The man with two who makes more gets 00:26:13.430 --> 00:26:16.190 commended by God. The man with one who doesn't 00:26:16.190 --> 00:26:20.410 make more gets condemned by God. Why isn't the 00:26:20.410 --> 00:26:24.009 father giving me more? He doesn't want to condemn 00:26:24.009 --> 00:26:27.470 you. He only gives you what you can increase 00:26:27.470 --> 00:26:32.609 so at the end he can commend you. This is not 00:26:32.609 --> 00:26:35.529 an issue of abundance. This is the issue of architecture 00:26:35.529 --> 00:26:43.420 and capacity. There's a difference in the thinking 00:26:43.420 --> 00:26:46.039 of the one who had the five and the two and the 00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:52.000 thinking of the individual with the one. So now 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.779 we're going to examine some laws. Remember I 00:26:55.779 --> 00:26:59.960 said the father will withhold some things to 00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:03.019 protect you until you're ready for it. Everybody 00:27:03.019 --> 00:27:06.940 say the law. The first law is the law of vessels. 00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:11.900 So the blessing takes the shape. of the container. 00:27:13.420 --> 00:27:16.240 In the book of 2 Kings, we encounter Elijah and 00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:20.079 the widow who comes to him in desperation. Her 00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:22.539 husband has died. He was a son of the prophet. 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:25.619 He was in debt. She had two sons. The creditor 00:27:25.619 --> 00:27:29.039 says, pay me or I'm going to take your two sons. 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:32.339 Now she has no means of support. And she goes 00:27:32.339 --> 00:27:35.619 to the father prophet, Elijah, and explains, 00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:39.339 this is my situation. His first question was 00:27:39.339 --> 00:27:51.029 this. What do you have in the house? I'm sure 00:27:51.029 --> 00:27:53.210 her first response is, I don't have nothing. 00:27:53.289 --> 00:27:56.730 And then she thinks. So that's what crisis does. 00:27:57.029 --> 00:28:04.789 It makes you have a brain freeze. Makes your 00:28:04.789 --> 00:28:10.049 emotions, paralyzes you emotionally. You have 00:28:10.049 --> 00:28:14.549 a transchemic attack. And then after she calmed 00:28:14.549 --> 00:28:16.670 herself down, she goes, wait a minute, I got 00:28:16.670 --> 00:28:25.710 a pot of oil. She had reached the absolute bottom 00:28:25.710 --> 00:28:29.509 of her capacity to survive. The prophet says, 00:28:29.650 --> 00:28:31.049 what do you have in your house? She replies, 00:28:31.309 --> 00:28:35.950 this small bottle or jar of oil. Then he gives 00:28:35.950 --> 00:28:38.769 her an instruction that seems unusual. Go borrow 00:28:38.769 --> 00:28:42.819 from your neighbors, empty vessels. As many as 00:28:42.819 --> 00:28:46.579 you can gather, pour oil into them. Even though 00:28:46.579 --> 00:28:49.019 the instruction made no logical sense, the woman 00:28:49.019 --> 00:28:52.079 obeys. She gathers vessels from every neighbor, 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.339 filling her home with empty containers. Then 00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:59.779 she starts to pour. Watch this. Here's the miracle. 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:06.500 The oil flowed until every vessel was full. Not 00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:15.099 one drop more. The blessing matched exactly the 00:29:15.099 --> 00:29:20.980 capacity she prepared. The provision was not 00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:24.299 limited by the father's resources, but by her 00:29:24.299 --> 00:29:30.099 own preparation in receiving. She could have 00:29:30.099 --> 00:29:33.339 gathered 50. She could have gathered 150. But 00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:37.900 the code reveals the oil would have filled whatever 00:29:37.900 --> 00:29:53.220 capacity she created. The creator fills the capacity 00:29:53.220 --> 00:30:02.880 that you provide. Everybody say the law of vessels. 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.480 Here's the point. This is how divine provision 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:10.599 operates in your life right now. The father gives 00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:12.359 the blessing. The father gives you the opportunity 00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:19.009 to receive the blessing. But only equal. to the 00:30:19.009 --> 00:30:39.769 capacity you have built. Why would the Father 00:30:39.769 --> 00:30:58.869 give you abundance when you think scarcity? I 00:30:58.869 --> 00:31:00.710 remember there was a very good brother that I 00:31:00.710 --> 00:31:03.210 knew for a long time. I planted this church and 00:31:03.210 --> 00:31:06.250 he was on the board. And when we decided to do 00:31:06.250 --> 00:31:11.430 big things, he resisted. His mind was too small. 00:31:16.009 --> 00:31:20.349 Come on now. If the truth be told, every single 00:31:20.349 --> 00:31:26.420 one of us struggle with this. Abraham is struggling 00:31:26.420 --> 00:31:28.960 to have one son and the father is saying, look 00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:30.920 at the stars in the sky and the pebbles on the 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:37.380 beach. And the father keeps showing him abundance, 00:31:37.579 --> 00:31:40.220 abundance, abundance. My promise, my promise, 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:43.180 my promise to increase his capacity. And the 00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:45.059 father has to say it and show it to him and tell 00:31:45.059 --> 00:31:46.940 him over and over and over and over and over. 00:31:47.740 --> 00:31:49.819 Look at somebody say, and you're a son of Abraham 00:31:49.819 --> 00:32:01.269 for sure. This is not a criticism. This is simply 00:32:01.269 --> 00:32:09.430 an observation. I'm a son of Abraham, too. How 00:32:09.430 --> 00:32:17.910 do you think I got this message? Because I would 00:32:17.910 --> 00:32:22.190 have these supernatural experiences, and I wanted 00:32:22.190 --> 00:32:25.170 it to continue, but it stopped. So why did it 00:32:25.170 --> 00:32:28.259 stop? I'm talking about in the experience. It's 00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:33.460 because that was all I could take. It wasn't 00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:35.880 all the father wanted to show me. So what he 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:38.420 would do is he would show me part one. Give me 00:32:38.420 --> 00:32:45.279 time. To process it. And then he would show me 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:55.900 part two. Because my capacity was. I'm just telling 00:32:55.900 --> 00:32:59.559 the truth. And see, it's not even humility because 00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:25.539 I know I got company. Okay. You ready? Look at 00:33:25.539 --> 00:33:27.140 somebody say, you need to prepare your vessel. 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.440 Second law. Everybody say, it's the law of weight. 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:36.599 When the father gives a gift, whether it's a 00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:39.660 natural gift or a supernatural gift, he gives 00:33:39.660 --> 00:33:43.000 the responsibility along with that gift. Every 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.500 blessing that Jesus purchased carries weight. 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:54.269 Ready? Every increase comes with pressure. Every 00:33:54.269 --> 00:34:00.069 promotion brings new demands. And if the responsibility 00:34:00.069 --> 00:34:05.089 crushes you, the gift is not a blessing. It's 00:34:05.089 --> 00:34:12.190 a burden you're not yet ready to carry. Consider 00:34:12.190 --> 00:34:14.269 the businessman who prays for a million dollar 00:34:14.269 --> 00:34:17.570 contract and then he can't sleep when he gets 00:34:17.570 --> 00:34:23.780 it. Because in his mind, he's not up for that 00:34:23.780 --> 00:34:27.039 level of responsibility. Consider the woman who 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:29.659 wants to be married and then feels trapped when 00:34:29.659 --> 00:34:31.820 she has to consider her husband in every decision. 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:53.969 I did go there. I intended to go there. Consider 00:34:53.969 --> 00:34:57.130 the employee who wants a promotion and then crumbles 00:34:57.130 --> 00:34:58.989 under the pressure of having to lead others. 00:35:01.590 --> 00:35:04.190 These are not success stories. They're capacity 00:35:04.190 --> 00:35:07.849 failures. The father evaluates your readiness 00:35:07.849 --> 00:35:11.369 for increase, not by your desire for it, but 00:35:11.369 --> 00:35:14.349 by your current performance under your current 00:35:14.349 --> 00:35:19.889 weight. In short, if you're complaining now about 00:35:19.889 --> 00:35:22.460 your performance, pressure, and responsibility, 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:25.599 why would the Father bring more blessing, more 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:29.059 responsibility, and more pressure, and more burden 00:35:29.059 --> 00:35:38.619 with divine increase? Look at your neighbor and 00:35:38.619 --> 00:35:40.559 say, I'm thinking you need to repent right about 00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:52.150 now. See, the reason I'm telling you to repent 00:35:52.150 --> 00:35:54.829 now is because by the time I get to the end of 00:35:54.829 --> 00:35:56.510 the message, you'll go, I know I needed to repent 00:35:56.510 --> 00:35:58.210 about something, but I can't remember what it 00:35:58.210 --> 00:36:04.449 was. I've been there. It's like, I know I needed 00:36:04.449 --> 00:36:09.230 to repent. What was it? What was it? What was 00:36:09.230 --> 00:36:14.429 it? So now I'm going to do a pause. I'm going 00:36:14.429 --> 00:36:19.050 to pause. Here's my pause. Let's see how sanctified 00:36:19.050 --> 00:36:30.280 you are tonight. Let's see how I sanctified y 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.639 'all tonight. How many of you have been asking 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:34.320 for something and it ain't come yet? Raise your 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.159 hands. Raise them up high unless you got a shoulder 00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:40.320 condition. Look around the room. Look around 00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:43.679 the room. Put your hands down. How many of you 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:50.440 are honest enough to say you really aren't ready 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:54.179 yet for what you're asking the Father for? Raise 00:36:54.179 --> 00:36:58.980 your other hand. Raise it up high. Look around 00:36:58.980 --> 00:37:13.840 the room. How you think I know? Jesus said to 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:16.139 his disciples in the book of John, he says, I 00:37:16.139 --> 00:37:19.000 have many things to say to you, but you can't 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:21.599 bear it now. In the Greek, it means you can't 00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:26.119 stand up under the weight of it. Lord, why can't 00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:30.360 I have this experience? You can't stand up under 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:35.420 the waiter. It go to your head. You cannot handle 00:37:35.420 --> 00:37:39.199 it. You won't steward it properly. So I'm only 00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:53.059 going to give you what you can handle. Did you 00:37:53.059 --> 00:37:54.519 already forget what you needed to repent over? 00:38:09.710 --> 00:38:12.829 I'm going to give you 30 seconds to pray. Ask 00:38:12.829 --> 00:38:14.650 the Lord, what do I need to repent over right 00:38:14.650 --> 00:38:16.869 now so far in this message? And look at somebody 00:38:16.869 --> 00:38:21.989 and say, this is just the beginning. Because 00:38:21.989 --> 00:38:23.849 see, I have a philosophy. If I got to repent, 00:38:24.170 --> 00:38:26.650 I'm going to get as many people to repent with 00:38:26.650 --> 00:38:31.690 me so I feel better. Look at somebody and say, 00:38:31.730 --> 00:38:33.690 never repent alone if you can repent with company. 00:38:35.889 --> 00:38:38.489 Come on now, take 30 seconds. Go ahead and pray. 00:38:42.059 --> 00:39:17.820 Thank you, Father. How do you handle the pressures 00:39:17.820 --> 00:39:21.159 you already have? How do you manage the responsibilities 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:24.199 currently on your plate? How do you respond to 00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:26.280 circumstances that require you to stretch beyond 00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:31.280 your comfort zone? Your answers to these questions 00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:34.719 determine what the Father can safely place in 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:38.500 your hands. The truth that will transform your 00:39:38.500 --> 00:39:42.820 approach to increase is this. Instead of thinking 00:39:42.820 --> 00:39:47.320 you're asking the Father for gifts, Ask the Father 00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:51.239 to build your capacity so that you can handle 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:58.280 greater responsibility and greater weight. And 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:05.219 he can trust you. And that means competence under 00:40:05.219 --> 00:40:18.570 your current conditions. See, My communion with 00:40:18.570 --> 00:40:25.570 the Lord is what gives me competence. My communion 00:40:25.570 --> 00:40:30.110 with the Lord that gives me competence gives 00:40:30.110 --> 00:40:37.630 me courage. My communion with the Lord that gives 00:40:37.630 --> 00:40:42.429 me competence and courage gives me confidence. 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:53.099 That confidence brings me comfort. And when I'm 00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:57.699 in a place of comfort, I enter a place of silence. 00:41:00.619 --> 00:41:03.719 Because you cannot hear the Father in anxiety. 00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:11.179 Be anxious for nothing. But in everything with 00:41:11.179 --> 00:41:15.239 prayer and supplication. With thanksgiving, let 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:18.599 your requests be made known to the Father. See, 00:41:18.659 --> 00:41:21.280 let me tell you our problem. Look at somebody 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:23.639 say, I hate that he's getting ready to talk about 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:31.380 you some more. No, please hear me. You ready? 00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:33.539 Look at somebody say, you're not going to like 00:41:33.539 --> 00:41:40.559 what he's getting ready to say next. We equate 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:55.550 God with intensity. We equate God with peaks. 00:41:57.670 --> 00:42:03.230 We equate God with supernatural surges. And then 00:42:03.230 --> 00:42:06.250 we wonder, when I go from the peak into the valley, 00:42:06.349 --> 00:42:09.190 I think something's wrong. Look at somebody say, 00:42:09.289 --> 00:42:17.269 ain't nothing wrong with you. So at a certain 00:42:17.269 --> 00:42:21.510 point, you've got to quit looking for the peaks. 00:42:22.510 --> 00:42:27.409 And the surges and just develop capacity for 00:42:27.409 --> 00:42:34.130 steadfastness. Because if you develop capacity 00:42:34.130 --> 00:42:37.530 for steadfastness, now you will encounter the 00:42:37.530 --> 00:42:41.190 surges. So you don't live from manifestation 00:42:41.190 --> 00:42:43.630 to manifestation. You live in the application 00:42:43.630 --> 00:42:48.289 of the word every day. And I'm going to show 00:42:48.289 --> 00:42:52.139 you something. And I'll elaborate on this later. 00:42:52.900 --> 00:42:55.820 When Elijah is in trouble and he goes to Horeb 00:42:55.820 --> 00:42:57.699 and he goes in that same cave that Moses was 00:42:57.699 --> 00:43:02.280 in, he was looking to have a replay of the experience 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:10.440 that Moses had. And the Lord wanted to show him, 00:43:10.500 --> 00:43:12.400 you're not going to have it because what the 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.179 Lord says is what you're doing here. And then 00:43:15.179 --> 00:43:17.969 when he walks out, he sees an earthquake. Going 00:43:17.969 --> 00:43:20.489 back to Moses. He sees a fire. Going back to 00:43:20.489 --> 00:43:30.889 Moses. Are you hearing me? He sees a wind. Going 00:43:30.889 --> 00:43:34.090 back to Moses. And then he finds out the Lord 00:43:34.090 --> 00:43:37.070 ain't in the wind. The Lord ain't in the fire. 00:43:37.250 --> 00:43:40.469 And the Lord is not in the earthquake. I'm not 00:43:40.469 --> 00:43:45.710 going to do for you what I did for Moses. Why 00:43:45.710 --> 00:43:48.090 are you looking to experience me like somebody 00:43:48.090 --> 00:43:52.050 else? No, you're going to experience me in the 00:43:52.050 --> 00:43:58.929 Greek, in the Hebrew, in a still, small voice. 00:44:04.269 --> 00:44:08.230 So we think, I got to have an experience like 00:44:08.230 --> 00:44:15.010 Moses. Do you want to know what the real deal 00:44:15.010 --> 00:44:18.070 was? You know what God's really showing, Elijah? 00:44:20.409 --> 00:44:25.389 The earthquake's on the inside of you. But I'm 00:44:25.389 --> 00:44:33.949 still here. I called you to bring fire down from 00:44:33.949 --> 00:44:36.210 heaven. I didn't tell you to kill 850 people. 00:44:47.820 --> 00:44:50.559 God is showing Elijah his internal condition. 00:44:53.719 --> 00:45:01.860 Elijah was in self -pity. He's angry. He's angry. 00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:05.340 He's depressed. That's why he said, Lord, it's 00:45:05.340 --> 00:45:08.860 enough now. Let me just die. If you want to die, 00:45:08.980 --> 00:45:20.159 that means that you're angry. See, we don't think 00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:22.639 we got it until we got it like somebody else 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:29.500 had it. And what Elijah got was a shattering 00:45:29.500 --> 00:45:35.420 silence where the Lord was there. So we think 00:45:35.420 --> 00:45:38.420 if I get this dramatic supernatural experience, 00:45:38.579 --> 00:45:42.039 ooh, I have arrived. Look at somebody and say, 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:49.550 are you kidding me? So we love the sensational 00:45:49.550 --> 00:45:55.349 and the spectacular. And what this mighty man 00:45:55.349 --> 00:46:04.730 of God gets is a still, small voice. But James 00:46:04.730 --> 00:46:07.710 gives you a clue. He's a man of like passions 00:46:07.710 --> 00:46:19.849 like we are. But you don't believe him. It's 00:46:19.849 --> 00:46:35.369 suicidal. The brother wants to quit. He's calling 00:46:35.369 --> 00:46:37.889 down fire from heaven. He's in a state of spiritual 00:46:37.889 --> 00:46:41.590 exhaustion. And some sister named Jezebel says 00:46:41.590 --> 00:46:43.650 in 24 hours, your head, you're going to lose 00:46:43.650 --> 00:46:46.849 it. Now, wait a minute, man. You just called 00:46:46.849 --> 00:46:49.710 rain, you just called fire, and now you scared 00:46:49.710 --> 00:47:00.969 of this sister? You're mad. Because things didn't 00:47:00.969 --> 00:47:16.090 work out the way you thought. Look at somebody 00:47:16.090 --> 00:47:25.250 and say, there's help for you tonight. You know, 00:47:25.309 --> 00:47:33.449 there have been times where I have registered 00:47:33.449 --> 00:47:39.849 to heaven my complaints. Have you ever given 00:47:39.849 --> 00:47:45.960 God the what -to -for? Have you ever accused 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.559 him of being unjust? Act like y 'all don't know 00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:56.239 what I'm talking about. Have you ever given God 00:47:56.239 --> 00:47:58.019 a piece of your mind that you really should have 00:47:58.019 --> 00:48:02.139 kept? And then after you got done, you had to 00:48:02.139 --> 00:48:25.920 repent? The father withholds whatever would destroy 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.099 you and releases whatever you can steward successfully. 00:48:29.380 --> 00:48:32.440 Your current capacity is not an insult to your 00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.139 potential. It's an accurate assessment of your 00:48:36.139 --> 00:48:39.219 present ability to carry weight without breaking. 00:48:43.500 --> 00:48:45.480 Preferably, the father likes to make the man 00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:49.280 before he makes the minister. When a mentor gives 00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:51.119 a man a ministry before he's ready, there'll 00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:54.860 be mismanagement. Many times leaders promote 00:48:54.860 --> 00:48:58.119 people based upon their potential, not upon the 00:48:58.119 --> 00:48:59.579 actual performance of their responsibilities. 00:49:01.780 --> 00:49:09.619 Are you still here? Let me tell you something. 00:49:11.199 --> 00:49:13.440 This is a different code, but I'm going to mention 00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:20.460 it. Here's the code. It's called the assignment 00:49:20.460 --> 00:49:30.119 code. You ready? The father always funds your 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:39.179 assignment. He won't fund your dream, but he 00:49:39.179 --> 00:49:43.119 will fund your assignment. That's why the money 00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:46.219 has to come. Okay, you heard me, but you didn't 00:49:46.219 --> 00:49:54.460 hear me. This church is God's assignment. So 00:49:54.460 --> 00:49:57.659 if God has to speak to a millionaire, give that 00:49:57.659 --> 00:50:02.579 millionaire the address. Write out a check for 00:50:02.579 --> 00:50:05.780 however much money you need. God will do that. 00:50:11.059 --> 00:50:19.880 I can't go into details, but let's just say I 00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:24.219 know an individual who needed. Over $2 million 00:50:24.219 --> 00:50:32.079 to get a studio. And God provided an empty studio. 00:50:32.619 --> 00:50:35.380 And two persons walked up and gave him over $2 00:50:35.380 --> 00:50:48.340 million to purchase the studio all at once. But 00:50:48.340 --> 00:50:51.300 that's another level. Look at somebody said that 00:50:51.300 --> 00:51:11.800 one was for free. See, I know I have. I know 00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:13.699 I stretch people with some of the stuff I say. 00:51:18.840 --> 00:51:29.619 But I have a friend who gets geographically translated 00:51:29.619 --> 00:51:37.429 to another place, to a guy who needs money. He 00:51:37.429 --> 00:51:39.650 ain't got no money. The guy who gets translated 00:51:39.650 --> 00:51:42.909 ain't got no money. And God says to him, just 00:51:42.909 --> 00:51:47.429 reach in. You will have the money that this guy 00:51:47.429 --> 00:51:50.650 needs. And he reaches in and boom, there it is. 00:51:51.690 --> 00:51:53.489 Look at somebody saying it's exactly what the 00:51:53.489 --> 00:51:57.530 guy needed. Before he got translated, he didn't 00:51:57.530 --> 00:52:07.150 have it. you say you believe that God can't put 00:52:07.150 --> 00:52:12.030 a coin in a fish's mouth. So you gonna tell me 00:52:12.030 --> 00:52:17.489 God can't do supernatural money? How many of 00:52:17.489 --> 00:52:19.550 y 'all been fishing? Raise your hand if you've 00:52:19.550 --> 00:52:34.480 ever been fishing. You ever found a coin? I could 00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:38.659 tell you of cases where people found money in 00:52:38.659 --> 00:52:45.659 their bank account that wasn't there. See, I'm 00:52:45.659 --> 00:52:57.260 going to get myself in trouble. So I probably 00:52:57.260 --> 00:52:58.880 should tell you this before I tell you that. 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:06.179 So anyway, there's this woman. Her name is Bertha. 00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:11.000 At the time, she lived in Germany. At the time, 00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:14.219 she was missing some body parts. At the time, 00:53:14.219 --> 00:53:16.219 she said this really handsome black man appeared 00:53:16.219 --> 00:53:23.739 in her house. I inserted that part in, but it 00:53:23.739 --> 00:53:27.280 was a black man. And he had angels that had body 00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:31.119 parts. And she was frightened. So he laughed. 00:53:31.789 --> 00:53:34.929 And he left with the angels. And then she's watching 00:53:34.929 --> 00:53:38.190 It's Supernatural. And she goes, that's the guy 00:53:38.190 --> 00:53:43.030 that was in my house. Called Supernatural. They 00:53:43.030 --> 00:53:46.190 gave her my number. She comes to Syracuse, New 00:53:46.190 --> 00:53:49.329 York to come to a service and gets her supernatural 00:53:49.329 --> 00:53:55.750 body parts. So I don't know how far. See, you 00:53:55.750 --> 00:53:57.949 can do it. I'm going to tell you another one. 00:53:58.650 --> 00:54:00.329 Before I tell you the one I really want to tell 00:54:00.329 --> 00:54:05.760 you. And I can tell you what her hair was like 00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:10.780 before she came. So this woman, I'm preaching 00:54:10.780 --> 00:54:16.780 at a Puerto Rican church. It was Brian and Jessica 00:54:16.780 --> 00:54:21.539 Valley. You know them, don't you? Okay. I'm preaching 00:54:21.539 --> 00:54:24.760 there. And this white woman comes into the service. 00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:26.420 She had never been to church. Matter of fact, 00:54:26.480 --> 00:54:27.579 she didn't go to church. She didn't even know 00:54:27.579 --> 00:54:30.139 the Lord. When I give an altar call, she comes 00:54:30.139 --> 00:54:32.400 up and gives her heart to Jesus. And this is 00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:37.690 her testimony. She had a dream. This really handsome 00:54:37.690 --> 00:54:43.929 man, she didn't say that part, told her to come 00:54:43.929 --> 00:54:47.809 to church. She had never been to that church. 00:54:48.230 --> 00:54:53.769 Why? Of all the churches in Kissimmee, did she 00:54:53.769 --> 00:54:58.050 come to church on the day I was there to give 00:54:58.050 --> 00:55:12.329 her heart to Jesus? It was a sign. So this woman, 00:55:12.409 --> 00:55:16.150 her name is Robin. She says this really handsome 00:55:16.150 --> 00:55:22.789 man appeared to her in a dream. Gave her instructions 00:55:22.789 --> 00:55:28.170 on how to worship God. So that there could be 00:55:28.170 --> 00:55:32.650 a financial, supernatural provision of increase. 00:55:38.670 --> 00:55:48.010 And it came. On one occasion, she goes to the 00:55:48.010 --> 00:55:59.050 bank and she gets a printout of money that wasn't 00:55:59.050 --> 00:56:04.289 supposed to be there. And she says, there's a 00:56:04.289 --> 00:56:08.280 mistake. They said, no, it's your money. Because 00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:09.820 she's, you know, a woman of integrity, so she 00:56:09.820 --> 00:56:11.679 figured, this ain't my money, but look what somebody 00:56:11.679 --> 00:56:17.840 said, but the bank said it was her money. Let 00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:24.800 me tell you one more that's going to mess with 00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:30.119 you. As a brother, do you know Keith Miller? 00:56:30.820 --> 00:56:33.159 You know Keith? So Keith does this testimony. 00:56:35.849 --> 00:56:37.949 He said, God wants to bless people financially. 00:56:39.429 --> 00:56:41.590 If you want a financial blessing, come up to 00:56:41.590 --> 00:56:43.690 the front. Do you know only two people came up? 00:56:45.070 --> 00:56:48.969 A husband and a wife. He prays over them. She 00:56:48.969 --> 00:56:54.849 goes in after the meeting to pray on her home. 00:56:55.849 --> 00:56:57.550 And the person said, what are you doing here? 00:56:58.849 --> 00:57:02.230 I'm here to, you know, pay down on my home. Don't 00:57:02.230 --> 00:57:04.570 you remember you came in the other day and paid 00:57:04.570 --> 00:57:10.500 it all off? It was the day that her and her husband 00:57:10.500 --> 00:57:30.019 came to the... I can go on. See. See, listen, 00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:31.880 let me tell you something. We say we believe 00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:34.019 the Bible and we say we believe in the supernatural. 00:57:34.300 --> 00:57:36.300 Then when we talk about it, somebody got a problem 00:57:36.300 --> 00:57:54.960 with it. Third principle, and I'm closed. And 00:57:54.960 --> 00:58:00.739 I should do something after that, I guess. My 00:58:00.739 --> 00:58:05.559 wife says I'm a long -winded preacher. My wife's 00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:11.380 been known to bring snacks to church. Joanne. 00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:16.780 They think I'm joking, but she really has brought 00:58:16.780 --> 00:58:26.070 snacks to the church. My wife has spies. Veronica 00:58:26.070 --> 00:58:29.349 from California, stand to your feet. Where you 00:58:29.349 --> 00:58:33.650 at, Veronica? Did my wife call you? Has she called 00:58:33.650 --> 00:58:41.710 you yet? She's from California. You will be asked 00:58:41.710 --> 00:58:44.449 to give a report. You have my permission to tell 00:58:44.449 --> 00:58:53.079 her whatever. I'm sitting there. She says, hi. 00:58:53.300 --> 00:58:55.000 I said, come around. I said, Veronica, what are 00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:58.880 you doing here? She's from California. She's 00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:11.579 a spy. My wife calls up Pastor Brad, informs 00:59:11.579 --> 00:59:16.639 him, don't let my husband have too much ice cream. 00:59:24.170 --> 00:59:30.610 She's going to tell the apostle what to do. And 00:59:30.610 --> 00:59:38.530 get a report from a spy. When you've been married 00:59:38.530 --> 00:59:50.070 46 years, you just accept it. Veronica has never 00:59:50.070 --> 01:00:02.989 been here before, have you? wife believes my 01:00:02.989 --> 01:00:15.190 capacity to resist ice cream is her. And she 01:00:15.190 --> 01:00:18.190 already knows I'm still eating ice cream. But 01:00:18.190 --> 01:00:19.750 she just needs to have her say it. It makes her 01:00:19.750 --> 01:00:31.900 feel better. Ready? Third principle. Everybody 01:00:31.900 --> 01:00:39.840 say expansion. All right. Watch. With this, I'm 01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:45.639 going to try to close. Acts 20, 32. Paul says, 01:00:45.900 --> 01:00:50.260 I commend you to God, which is able to build 01:00:50.260 --> 01:01:00.340 you up. Make you strong. Give you the capacity 01:01:00.340 --> 01:01:02.719 to receive your inheritance among them that are 01:01:02.719 --> 01:01:14.059 holy. 1 Corinthians 14. He who speaks in a tongue 01:01:14.059 --> 01:01:18.880 speaks to God. He who speaks in a tongue builds 01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:25.320 up himself. Jude 1 .20. Build yourself up on 01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:28.400 your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. 01:01:30.030 --> 01:01:34.309 Let me show you the pattern. You ready? God makes 01:01:34.309 --> 01:01:37.889 sky, and then he fills it with creation that 01:01:37.889 --> 01:01:43.789 flies. God makes water, fills it with creation 01:01:43.789 --> 01:01:50.230 that swims. God makes land, fills it with things 01:01:50.230 --> 01:01:53.449 that move off the land. The pattern is God first 01:01:53.449 --> 01:02:05.130 forms, and then he fills. What determines the 01:02:05.130 --> 01:02:12.230 filling? Everybody say the formation. Expansion 01:02:12.230 --> 01:02:24.269 is about enlargement. How are you enlarged? Everybody 01:02:24.269 --> 01:02:36.260 say distress. Put up on the screen for me. Psalms 01:02:36.260 --> 01:02:41.019 4. Start with verse 1. That's why this church 01:02:41.019 --> 01:02:47.380 is about to be enlarged. Hear me when I call, 01:02:47.539 --> 01:02:50.860 O God of my righteousness. You have enlarged 01:02:50.860 --> 01:02:57.519 me when I was in distress. What is going on in 01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:03.150 my life right now? The reason that you are under 01:03:03.150 --> 01:03:08.309 pressure and you are in a tight place is because 01:03:08.309 --> 01:03:12.510 the scriptural pattern is you are formed in the 01:03:12.510 --> 01:03:20.989 tight place. And then as a result of that, your 01:03:20.989 --> 01:03:25.590 inner capacity expands. And then he brings you 01:03:25.590 --> 01:03:34.590 into a broad place. That's why you felt more 01:03:34.590 --> 01:03:46.909 pressure now than you have before. Are you still 01:03:46.909 --> 01:03:58.090 here? And so let me tell you what the squeeze 01:03:58.090 --> 01:04:07.619 does. The squeeze makes you face yourself. Now 01:04:07.619 --> 01:04:14.519 you see your shadow. You see the darkness that 01:04:14.519 --> 01:04:25.619 your activity has been hiding. You see the darkness 01:04:25.619 --> 01:04:32.900 that your distraction has been blinding you to. 01:04:34.260 --> 01:04:37.010 And in the squeeze, All of a sudden, certain 01:04:37.010 --> 01:04:40.070 activities stop. And now you actually have to 01:04:40.070 --> 01:04:48.309 look at yourself. And now you have to say, okay, 01:04:48.389 --> 01:04:53.769 Lord, I need some more spiritual formation. Now 01:04:53.769 --> 01:05:03.730 watch me. I'm closing. Everybody say information. 01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:10.679 Information is for your mind. 1 Corinthians 12. 01:05:10.739 --> 01:05:12.420 I don't want you to be uninformed. I want you 01:05:12.420 --> 01:05:21.420 to have information. Right? Ephesians 117. I'm 01:05:21.420 --> 01:05:23.420 praying to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, 01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:25.780 the Father of glory. May he give to you a spirit 01:05:25.780 --> 01:05:28.659 of wisdom and revelation. The apocalypse is not 01:05:28.659 --> 01:05:33.039 about end times. It's about unveiling. Look at 01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:34.420 somebody and say, it's about seeing what you 01:05:34.420 --> 01:05:41.820 didn't see before. that the eyes of your understanding 01:05:41.820 --> 01:05:45.699 may be flooded with light. Now you have properly 01:05:45.699 --> 01:05:50.559 framed pictures of what the kingdom of God is 01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:59.400 actually like. Everybody say, information, revelation. 01:06:00.860 --> 01:06:05.760 So James 1 .22 says, Be ye doers of the word, 01:06:06.019 --> 01:06:14.199 and not hearers only. Everybody say application. 01:06:15.460 --> 01:06:20.199 Doers is which has to do with creativity. You 01:06:20.199 --> 01:06:23.739 ready? It is when you are leaving where you were 01:06:23.739 --> 01:06:27.480 in transition to where you're going. This is 01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:31.699 the part where there is an increased creativity. 01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:47.159 That's called wisdom. Wisdom is creativity. Okay? 01:06:48.340 --> 01:06:52.679 In the spirit of the age, there was a study by 01:06:52.679 --> 01:06:55.500 Dr. George Land. He found that children five 01:06:55.500 --> 01:06:58.440 years and younger, 98 % of them had creativity. 01:06:59.420 --> 01:07:02.860 He checked them at age 12. He checked them at 01:07:02.860 --> 01:07:07.960 age 18. Ready? Through the educational process 01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:12.599 of the spirit of the age, Only 2 % of them retained 01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:16.940 creativity. 98 % of them had lost it because 01:07:16.940 --> 01:07:19.940 they conformed to the spirit of the age rather 01:07:19.940 --> 01:07:22.900 than submitting to the spirit of God that brings 01:07:22.900 --> 01:07:34.119 creativity. They lost the ability to see. Information. 01:07:34.920 --> 01:07:41.449 Did I say information? Revelation. Application. 01:07:41.449 --> 01:07:52.130 Are you ready? Manifestation. Jesus said, if 01:07:52.130 --> 01:07:57.110 you'll love me, you'll keep my words. My father 01:07:57.110 --> 01:07:58.829 will love you, will come to you, will live with 01:07:58.829 --> 01:08:01.630 you. He who has my commandments and keeps them, 01:08:01.670 --> 01:08:03.090 he it is that loves me, and he that loves me 01:08:03.090 --> 01:08:05.250 shall be loved by my father, and I'll love him, 01:08:05.309 --> 01:08:12.719 and I will manifest myself to him. Everybody 01:08:12.719 --> 01:08:18.720 say manifestation. You ready? Galatians 4, 19. 01:08:19.220 --> 01:08:21.899 My little children of whom I travail in birth 01:08:21.899 --> 01:08:28.899 again until Christ be formed in you. Everybody 01:08:28.899 --> 01:08:33.119 say there's a prophetic process. Watch this. 01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:37.479 Everybody say information, revelation, application, 01:08:38.039 --> 01:08:44.010 manifestation. Everybody say, to bring you in 01:08:44.010 --> 01:09:01.649 formation. To bring you in formation. So what 01:09:01.649 --> 01:09:04.989 is getting ready to happen? So Philippians 2 01:09:04.989 --> 01:09:08.670 tells you, work out your own salvation with reverence. 01:09:09.860 --> 01:09:14.279 But then Hebrews, but that's verse 13 in chapter 01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:17.960 2 of Philippians. It says, God works in you both 01:09:17.960 --> 01:09:21.279 to will and to do of his good pleasure, which 01:09:21.279 --> 01:09:23.260 means to the degree that God works in, you got 01:09:23.260 --> 01:09:26.979 to work it out. And in some cases, God's got 01:09:26.979 --> 01:09:29.899 to work some stuff out before he's got room to 01:09:29.899 --> 01:09:33.060 work some stuff in. Look at somebody say, God's 01:09:33.060 --> 01:09:37.039 fixing to work some stuff out so he can work 01:09:37.039 --> 01:09:40.470 some stuff in. Look at somebody and say, it's 01:09:40.470 --> 01:09:46.109 going to require in your mind some things you 01:09:46.109 --> 01:09:51.029 thought, some things you believed. You're going 01:09:51.029 --> 01:09:54.350 to be more than converted. Some things are going 01:09:54.350 --> 01:10:03.789 to collapse. What things were gained to me, I 01:10:03.789 --> 01:10:16.489 counted loss for Christ. Yes, I count all things 01:10:16.489 --> 01:10:20.149 lost to have this excellent, intimate, firsthand, 01:10:20.470 --> 01:10:24.789 first contact, personal, intimate relationship 01:10:24.789 --> 01:10:28.050 with Christ. For whom I suffered the loss of 01:10:28.050 --> 01:10:32.409 all things. What was the scripture? You got illuminated 01:10:32.409 --> 01:10:40.270 and you experienced loss. That I might know him 01:10:40.270 --> 01:10:42.970 in the power of his resurrection, the fellowship 01:10:42.970 --> 01:10:46.260 of his sufferings. Being conformed to his death? 01:10:47.159 --> 01:10:54.079 Death is collapse. So I have to go through a 01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:57.619 period of collapse to know the resurrected Christ. 01:10:58.279 --> 01:11:01.300 What is collapsing? The things that I believe 01:11:01.300 --> 01:11:03.880 that won't get me where the Father wants to take 01:11:03.880 --> 01:11:08.579 me. The things that I believe that are not contributing 01:11:08.579 --> 01:11:12.220 to the building, the infrastructure that's necessary. 01:11:13.149 --> 01:11:16.649 That will keep me from being the vessel and have 01:11:16.649 --> 01:11:20.630 the ability to carry the weight of what we call 01:11:20.630 --> 01:11:26.210 the glory. So here's what I want to encourage 01:11:26.210 --> 01:11:31.229 you. If you feel, if you feel like you are failing, 01:11:31.350 --> 01:11:46.800 you are wrong. Ready? The disorientation that 01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:57.800 you feel is a result of a transition. The reason 01:11:57.800 --> 01:12:02.199 you feel uncertainty is because you have never 01:12:02.199 --> 01:12:08.279 been this way before. You don't know what to 01:12:08.279 --> 01:12:16.449 expect. You don't know. Your map worked for them, 01:12:16.569 --> 01:12:21.850 but now you're in new territory. Here's the thing. 01:12:23.329 --> 01:12:29.310 Tomorrow will be better than today. I'm trying 01:12:29.310 --> 01:12:32.869 to close. I keep trying to close. I keep, I'm 01:12:32.869 --> 01:12:41.689 trying to close. But you know, Kim Clement said 01:12:41.689 --> 01:12:44.850 something. He said, somewhere in the future, 01:12:44.909 --> 01:12:46.670 you look a whole lot better than you do right 01:12:46.670 --> 01:12:54.050 now. He was rapping. Look at somebody say, somewhere 01:12:54.050 --> 01:12:58.909 in the future, you look a whole lot better than 01:12:58.909 --> 01:13:01.470 you do right now. Everybody say it. Somewhere 01:13:01.470 --> 01:13:05.829 in the future, you look a whole lot better than 01:13:05.829 --> 01:13:08.989 you do right now. One more time. Somewhere in 01:13:08.989 --> 01:13:11.590 the future. You look a whole lot better than 01:13:11.590 --> 01:13:16.390 you do right now. So Joshua says, sanctify yourself 01:13:16.390 --> 01:13:20.470 today for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders. 01:13:25.810 --> 01:13:28.649 Thank you for taking the time to listen to this 01:13:28.649 --> 01:13:31.270 week's message. We are so grateful for those 01:13:31.270 --> 01:13:34.010 who tune in each week and have given generously 01:13:34.010 --> 01:13:37.069 to this ministry. If you would like to give. 01:13:45.980 --> 01:13:48.800 If you are in need of prayer, send us a text 01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:54.619 message at 541 -625 -1365. We would love to pray 01:13:54.619 --> 01:13:55.000 with you.