- Hello. I'm Pastor George Pearsons. If the turn of events that
have occurred this year hit you hard and you need a breakthrough physically, mentally,
socially, or financially, look to God. He is your Source of Supply. Today use your Voice of Victory, declare God's Word by faith and let the Word turn it around. - [Gloria] Hello, everybody. Welcome to the "Believer's
Voice of Victory" broadcast. Pastor George is back
again talking to us about our prosperity, our blessing. Oh, it's good, you
don't wanna miss it. Welcome Pastor. - Gloria I have so enjoyed being
on the broadcast with you. - Well I've enjoyed it too. - [George] It is just
- You just come feed me all the time. - [George]
Well, it's a delight to come and to present these things and then to hear what
you have to say about it and to collect the
"Gloria-isms" that we have. But this is our 355th day
of teaching prosperity. - Wow. - And we've had 1.5 million of the outlines downloaded from this series that we've
done starting way back in 2010. And you can get not only
- Hallelujah. - [George] You can download
not only the series that we're doing, but all of the prosperity
outlines that we've done. look at the picture
of Gloria and me. You can click onto it and it'll take you to the
outlines that we have. And we would love to
have your testimonies. We want to hear what
the Lord is doing for you where
prosperity is concerned and how He's meeting your
needs and taking care of you and supplying supernaturally. And what we've been
talking about Gloria is God is my source.
- That's right. - God is my source. No matter what is going on
financially in your lives, no matter what is taking place, if you've been struggling, you need to know today
that God is the source of all of your supply. And we've been through
a number of scriptures. You can go back and watch
the broadcast They're available to you. - [Gloria] I was thinking
about what an opportunity that our watchers have. Because what we're sharing, what you primarily are sharing, what you're sharing it took years for us
to learn these things. - That's true. - And to walk in it and to get, I don't know, but to be able to make
it work, you know, to stay with it. And now they can just get
it overnight almost. - Yeah. Well, the thing about it too
- All the Word put together. - [George] But the same
renewing of the mind process, we all go through that and that's what it takes. But you're right. There has been a lot
of research done, spiritual research, especially with you and Kenneth where prosperity is concerned. I know that there's
a lot of criticism towards you about that. I like what Kenneth says about about just not really caring. - Yes. - "I can't tell you
how much I don't care." And so, but I'm just so grateful because Gloria there's so many
people who have benefited from listening to these messages and hearing what the Lord
says about your prosperity. You know you may be
looking at your paycheck and thinking how are we
gonna get out of debt? How are we gonna
pay these bills? The Lord is your source of supply and He will take care of you. And today on the broadcast, I wanted to talk
about this subject claim what you need. I wanted to give the people something that they
could take away and actually do right away where these are concerned. And this example, I received listening to
Brother Kenneth Hagin about believing for finances. Now he was in his traveling ministry which began in 1949. He'd been pastoring for 12 years and doing very well in the church. And then the Lord called
him out into the field. And he started going
out and he said in this message that I heard, he said the first year
was very difficult. He said that they were
struggling financially, they didn't have
adequate provision. It was, they, he said that they lived
in a three room apartment, the children were not
properly clothed or fed, the car was worn out
enough to sell as junk. And he said the finances
were not manifesting. - [Gloria] That was before he
learned how to walk by faith - [George] That was before
and the Lord corrected him. - And I, I remember
days like that myself. - [George] You remember
those days? - Some days, not that, not maybe
to that extreme, but boy
- Yeah. - [Gloria] It seemed like
it, we didn't, you know. We didn't know how
to believe God. - Yeah.
- So we just had to live from day-to-day.
- Yeah. But you--
- But that changed. - [George] But yeah
and you were learning and you were growing. Same thing for Terri and me, our faith was growing, our faith was enlarging, it was getting
bigger and bigger. But back then 1949, he's struggling and he's barely getting by. And the Lord
corrected his thinking about how to believe
for finances. And what was
happening was he was, he was just crying out to the
Lord in desperation about his situation. And the Lord brought
his thinking back around to a more targeted way
of using his faith. - That's interesting.
- We have to be targeted. Faith is very targeted. It's very targeted and is very succinct
in the way it operates. And so He gave, He gave Brother Hagin
a three step process of how to believe
God for his finances. And let me give you the steps.
- Okay, good. - Step number one is
claim what you need. Claim what you need. What is it that you
are believing for? What is it that
you need right now? What bills are outstanding? What things need
to happen in your, the financial realm. Claim what you need. And then the second
step, Gloria, was, say this out loud, Satan, take your
hands off my money. That's what the Lord said.
- Satan, take your hands off my money.
- Yeah. The Lord told him say it, "Satan, take your
hands off my money." And then the Lord told
Brother Hagin to say, "Go ministering spirits and cause the money to come." So those three
steps that he took, very simple. Claim what you need, Satan, take your hands off money
- [Gloria] Let's talk about claim what you need.
- Okay good. - [Gloria] In other words, believe you receive
when you pray, like the Bible says.
- Yes. - Mark 11.
- Yes. - Believe you've
receive when you pray. - Yeah. - Claim it, take it.
- Claim it. - Or take it.
- Yeah. - That word claim you, you, you stake
- [Gloria] Did you look it up. I haven't look up. - [George] You know I didn't
look up the word, claim, but I was thinking
about staking a claim - Uh huh, that's good.
- And how settlers would - I think that works. - [George] The wild West, and they would go out there
and stake their claims. - Put their stake in the ground. - This is my yard,
- Yep, claim it. - This is my land. - Claim it.
- Yeah. - You know there's, I just thought of this. There are buildings
around Fort Worth that have unclaimed furniture and that there are there, there, I'm thinking to myself of all the benefits that we have in the Word of God, many of them are left unclaimed. So there's a, there's a place that we claim what rightfully belongs to us.
- It's like, who does this belong to?
- Yeah. - Well, I don't know.
- Yeah. - [Gloria] Well, I
don't know either. It's not mine. - [George] Claim what you need, claim what you need
or take what you need. Lay claim on it.
- Receive it. - Possess it. That's another,
that's another way. Possess what you need. Then Satan, take your
hands off my money. - That's right. - There's a spiritual
outlaw out there who is trying to keep back.
- A thief. - A thief. The one who comes to steal
and kill and destroy, who is endeavoring
to take from us or keep what belongs to us. Satan, you take your
hands off my money. And then I like this, "Go ministering spirits and
cause the money to come." He sent out the angels, the angelic forces to go get it and bring it. I can't tell you how
many times, Gloria, I have used this
- Yeah it works we do too.
- For what Terri and I have believed for, what we believe for
here in the ministry. And we ran into a situation in 2018 around May. We were running, we were we did a projection
into the end of the year and it was looking like
we were headed towards a $4 million deficit. - That's not good, George. - So I saw that and as the CEO, I approached it like this. I said, okay, spiritually here's
what we need to do. We need to lay claim on these finances.
- Take it. Now there's some things
that we did in the natural. There are things that I stopped, there are things
that I held back on, there are things that we
postponed till later on until we got this
thing under control. And we, we claimed, we
believed God for the supply. And I wanna read this to you, it's not on your
notes, but it's, it was the scripture that we used. And it's the scripture
that we continue to use to this day. In Deuteronomy 28:11 it says: "The Lord shall make
you plenteous in goods." Deuteronomy 28:11. I like the Amplified
translation it says: "He will make you have a
surplus of prosperity." A surplus,
- More than enough. - More than enough. A surplus of prosperity. The NIV says
"abundant prosperity". So we claimed that Gloria, we claimed that
scripture last year. And as we went through
the year and when you're, when you're headed
down a trajectory of
$4 million deficit, you there, there's some things
that you need. - [Gloria] Time to
stop smelling roses. Let's look at this.
- Exactly, exactly exactly. - [George] So as we
went through the year, this is what we would do. We would claim, we claimed the finances that
we need for the ministry. And we would say, and I'm
talking about my staff, I'm talking about our staff, I'm talking about
my executive team, Satan, you take your
hands off our money. You take your hands
off our money. And I said, "Ministering spirits go and bring the finances to
Kenneth Copeland Ministries to cover all of this." We were, we were involved
in the building project of the Student Life
Center for KCBC. There was a lot going
on and a lot happening. - [Gloria] Well, somebody
might not understand why it'd be so much, but the television
bill was what? - [George] Well, television it's over a million - A month?
- A month, yeah. So that in itself
- That's some serious money. - [George] So you're
continuing, but we, but here's what
happened, Gloria, you and I together back
in 1989 and Kenneth, we went through the
$6 million deficit. And when I, when I heard we were headed
towards a $4 million deficit, see that was, that was in 1989. Here we are 30 years later. And I'm like David. I've wrestled the bear and I've wrestled the lion and this uncircumcised
Philistine is nothing in my sight. And there was a boldness that rose up on the inside
of us about this. And so we did that, we claimed what we needed. Satan, take your
hands off our money, go ministering spirits and cause the money to come. And Gloria we had
extra money coming in, things that were taking place and it was on, I remember dates. I remember dates. It was July the 10th of 1990 - 1990 - That we completely got out
of that $6 million deficit. - Wow. - Nine o'clock in the morning we paid the final TV bill. Well, I remember
this one last year, because on December 6th of 2018, it was Kenneth's
birthday that day. They came to me and they said "The projection of $4
million is not there anymore. As a matter of fact, we now have money in reserve."
- Praise God. - Isn't that a testimony?
- Now you came out July when? - That was July the 10th of 1990. - 1990. - [George] We paid, Jan
your sister over accounting, she came with the check to
pay the final television bill of that $6 million deficit. And I remember it so well, it was a bright, sunny morning. I can almost remember
what she was wearing. It was so, everything
was so crystal clear because Gloria, that was a major, major.
- Oh, it was. - Victory.
- Yes, it was. - This was the victory
that overcomes the world, even our faith. - [Gloria] You had to
take the victory though. - [George] We had take
the victory on that and this very simple
three step process it worked.
- Praise God. - It worked for us. And so Brother
Hagin applied this and he said, Brother Hagin said
this and I quote, "Before the Lord spoke to me, I would pray, fast, weep and
cry and still barely skim by." But after receiving this word, Brother Hagin walked
over to the church where he would be conducting
a service that evening. And it's here, at the
bottom of your page there, down there.
- Okay. - Point 5. - Okay. - He said, "I stood on the
platform in that empty church and I said, 'I claim $150 this week, Satan'" $150 is pretty good for 1949. "Satan, take your
hands off my finances, go ministering spirits and
cause the money to come." He said, "I tested this
out time and time again. I got the money I
claimed, every time." - Praise God.
- Every time. So what do you do? The three steps, you claim what you need,
- Yeah. - Then you say, Satan, take
your hands off my money. That's what we did
last year, Gloria. That's what we did over that
projection that we received. Satan, you take your
hands off our money and the ministering
spirits, prosperity angels, you go out there and you
bring in the harvest, you bring in those
finances to us. And He was so faithful and He was so good to
us that we came out (Gloria coughs)
- Excuse me. - [George] We came out
the end of the year on top, on top.
- Praise God. So in how many months? - Well, that was May the 17th that they told me, they told me about it. And that was December the 6th, May, June, July, August,
September, October, November, December, that was about seven months. And it turned.
- Praise God. - Gloria it turned. And I just believe right now there's a turning for those people
that are watching us. - Amen. - There's a turning if you claim in faith. The prosperity that
God has for you, He will turn your
situation around. He'll turn it
around to the place to where you will see Him provide.
- [Gloria] If you get serious, He'll get serious. - Yeah, that's right. That's exactly right. If you get, if you get, I gotta write this down. If you, if you get serious
- Get serious. God will get serious.
- God we'll get serious. What'd you say? (Tim speaking in the background) He'll get serious. He will get serious. And that's what we're doing. Tim, what do we have left? Five minutes. That's good. I wanna read a scripture to you. If you go to your
second page, Gloria. In claiming what you need. In Joshua 18:1, I wanna read to you
the first three verses. It says, "Now the
whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled together at Shiloh and set up the tabernacle
of meeting there. And the land was
subdued before them. But there remain among the
children of Israel seven tribes, which had not received
their inheritance. Then Joshua", I like Joshua.
- I do too. - I want to meet Joshua
when I get into heaven. I just so am impressed with him. "Then Joshua said to the, said to the children of Israel, 'How, how long will you neglect to go and possess the land which the Lord, God of your
fathers, has given you?'" - [Gloria] In other words how long are you gonna sit
around here and do nothing? In the modern speech.
- In modern speech. How long are you
gonna sit around? Really, that's
the truth, Gloria. How long, how long
are you gonna want to, how long are you gonna be slack? One of the translation says, "How long will you be slack?" I like this. "How long will you neglect
to go in and possess the land that the Lord, God your
fathers has given you." And the word possess in the Hebrew, it means to take possession of. To dispossess and drive out.
- Wow. - Dispossess. You gotta you gotta dispossess the devil, drive him out.
- That's right. - Of your finances
- [Gloria] Absolutely. Of your finances, of your
house, of your family. - Of your everything. - Don't give him anything. - [George] Now, the word claim, you were asking me a moment ago about the definition
of the word claim. I looked it up in the dictionary and it means to take
as the rightful owner. That's what claim means. - Oh I like that. That's--
- Claim, to take as the rightful owner, to assert in the face of
possible contradiction. You were just talking
about getting serious. I like to talk about
getting aggressive. - Getting aggressive.
- Bulldog faith. - Amen.
- Getting, getting bulldog faith, where your provision
is concerned and the supplier getting
to you what you need. To take it, to take it. Joshua 18:3 in the
Good News Bible. It says, "How long
are you gonna wait before you go in
and take the law the land?" I like the Gloria
Copeland translation. How long you gonna sit around. - That's right. Did I translate that way?
- You translated it that way. How long? How long are you
gonna sit around - And do nothing.
- Do nothing before you possess and take
the land that belongs to you? God is the source
of all that we need. But we need to take and receive from Him what he has so wonderfully presented to us to receive by his grace. We need to take that. We need to possess it. We need to take hold of it. - [Gloria] We found out, well we've been walking in the Word a long time, as you know. And we found out everything operates the same, whether it's a little
something or a big something. - Yeah. - Whether it's paying your rent or paying cash for a new house, it operates the same way.
- Same way. - It just takes, one takes a certain amount of determination more
than the other. - That's true Gloria. - But that's, it's a, you know you just receive
from God by faith, the way he talks about it and you do it and you'll get it, whatever it is.
- [George] I like, I like what you're saying there. I like, I like the, what you've just talked about, the determination, the taking it seriously. not sitting around, getting, getting serious about your faith and boy, that really, that strikes a chord
in me because I was, I was reading this
just yesterday. Let me see here. This is in Hebrews 11 and faith, faith is an aggressive force.
- That's right. - It's in the Greek
it's the word, "Pistis", P-I-S-T-I-S, and it means aggressive, to aggressively take
what belongs to you. And I was reading this
yesterday in Hebrews 11. Let me read this to you.
- Okay. - It says in verse 32, "And what shall I more say for the time would fail
me to tell of Gideon and Barak and of Samson
and of Jephthah, of David, of Samuel and of the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms, who through faith
wrought righteousness, who through faith
obtain the promises, who through faith stopped
the mouths of the lions, who through faith quenched
the violence of fire who escaped the
edge of the sword, who out of weakness
were made strong." I like what the Message says, "Turned disadvantage
into advantage and waxed valiant in fight and turned to flight the
armies of the aliens." - Praise God.
- [George] If you are wanting to take hold of what God has
so wonderfully provided for you as source, you need to take
it with your faith. As Gloria says,
you've got to take it. You've gotta be aggressive, determined, and serious about doing this. Boy, this just got all
over me when you said that. To get, we have to be
serious and determined. When we were going through that projected deficit last year, we got real serious about our faith. - We got seriously serious.
- Seriously serious, but you know what? We got over it. Money has come in, money's in the bank, but I am no less serious today than I was when we
were dealing with that back in May of last year. You have to maintain
a place of faith and take that stand and not give up and not quit and not give in for by faith, you will receive, if you stand and believe. It will come to pass. Oh, you got me real
excited about that. - [Gloria] Somebody might say, well, how could to
get behind how much, how many millions? - [George] Well, it was
projected 4 million. We weren't
- How could you do that? Well, I'll tell you how. You can have a television
bill every month, that's 2 million
- Exactly, exactly, - Or whatever it was
- Exactly, exactly. - You had to get
behind very far. - That's right. - What was it? Probably 2 or 3
million at the time. But,
- But we got through and you're gonna get through. - [Gloria] If you'll
stand on the Word. And say the right thing. Don't give up, don't say, "Well, I guess
it's just not gonna work." Don't quit. Don't ever quit. George and I will be right back. - [Becky Haas] So in 2014, my Chief asked me
to write a grant for called a Family Justice Center. And so when, our
governor's safety plan was to create 10
Family Justice Centers and what that model is is where an individual who's a victim
of sexual or domestic violence goes to one location and they're able to tell
their story one time and they can have
help with legal and law enforcement, all the kinds of services. I went to another town to
see a Family Justice Center, and I heard about
trauma-informed care. And when I heard it, I knew because of the scriptures that God is the original
lifter-up of the downcast. Jesus opened His ministry
in Luke 4, said that "I've come to heal
those whose lives are broken down by calamity." And what this training is is that in the late nineties two doctors, one in California and one that works for the
Center for Disease Control, which is pretty big
in the United States. And they found by asking people 10 questions, the higher they scored, the more likely they
would use drugs, the more likely
they'd commit suicide, the more likely they'd need
mental health services. And so it showed that while these things
are predictable, we could prevent them. And so there's a phrase
in criminal justice called "Cradle to
Prison Pipeline". And it totally explains
it by understanding this. So when I first heard that, I felt like the Lord said to create a system
of care in our town to train our organizations. And in less than three years, we've trained over
3,400 professionals. We now have 31 organizations, including two universities and a hospital and
a healthcare system coming together
around this education. And on September 5th, we hosted a forum that is now said
it's a national model that was created in Johnson City to educate your
community on this. We had two governors'
wives come, we had people from
20 other States come to learn about this, and I'd never heard those words ever in my life to create a trauma-informed
system of care. But step by step by step, the Lord showed
us and we did it. I feel very honored
to be a partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministry. And, partnership
means a lot to me. Most recently, I believe it was not
this summer, last summer, there was a day of increase and Pastor George was
talking about acceleration and I had really felt
that in my heart. And, you know at the time, I'm believing God, a
harvest on every seed. And, but I felt led to sow
the largest seed I could into the Kenneth
Copeland Ministry and to latch onto that
acceleration anointing. And so I sowed that seed online cause I was watching
the Southwest Believers'. I was actually on my
bike riding a trail, listening to it, streaming
live on my headphones. And as soon as I got home, I went online and sowed
that gift and said, "Lord, I'm gonna tap into
that acceleration anointing on my life." And it was after that that then our university
president said, "We wanna be the first
trauma-informed university." Our healthcare CEO, one of the hospital's
CEO's said, "We want you to help us to be
a trauma-informed hospital." So we really begin
to see things. And then within a few months, a federal organization, it's the Substance Abuse Mental Health
Services Administration, federal administration, each state they probably
put 60, $70 million a year in each state, that's how large, they said, "We wanna come
learn from Johnson City. You've created a
national model." And so by being a
Kenneth Copeland partner, I believe that in that just that's one example of tapping into an
accelerating anointing. ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed
today's teaching from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, and
remember Jesus is Lord.
