Don't Sabotage Your Blessings

[Music] [Music] I want to share with you a couple of things this morning it's we've already been alluding to it a little bit that we were talking about how God wants you to live in the blessing and not just being blessed but being a blessing and so this morning I want to because everybody isn't there we want to talk about how not to sabotage your blessing in other words many people are trusting God they're there they're seeing what the word says and they're saying that's true and it should be true for me why aren't I seeing it and so I want to share a couple of things about how you can sabotage your blessings which should also be telling you how what not to do so you won't sabotage your blessings amen the last thing you want to do is be holding back something God is trying to get to you right you want what God has provided for you so let me make some statements first first off what you believe is what you are experiencing right now let that soak in for a minute you know some people would try to argue with that oh no I believe this and I'm not seeing it no what you're seeing is what you have believed now what you're seeing today is what you have believed in the near and sometimes distant past but it is what you have believed and it is what you are believing why because believing in God and trusting God for what he said works and so what you are experiencing is what you are believing now I say that and like I said some people would argue with me on that and the be honest with ya I argued with myself on that years ago matter of fact I was I was riding in the back of a truck what what I did was I was always trying to train and do different things and so I would on purpose we lived up in the Sherman Dennison area and I would get a ride down to Dallas down to this area and then he said I got a ride because I didn't want to drive a car or come down on you know my own transportation so to speak and I would get a ride down and then when they would drop me off I would walk to Sherman or Dennison right because that was just part of the mental physical training and whenever you get dropped off and have to walk back and that's where you live there's a whole lot more motivation to get there and so you know it's not just saying well I'm gonna walk five miles or I'm gonna walk 20 miles or whatever else it is it's one thing to walk and then you go well that's far enough you're trying to walk back but it's a different thing when you get dropped off you know 4050 miles away and then you have to walk back home so you have a little stronger motivation and so I was walking back as a matter of fact and this truck pulled up pulled over a pickup truck and the guy said would you like a ride and I'm like that's not really why I was walking now I didn't need a ride but it was strange because at that time the I spent most my time walking praying and I just felt like I should take this ride you know I got dropped off to walk and I had just been walking probably 15 minutes I mean I wouldn't hurt anywhere where I was you know heading back but I just felt like I should take it that ride so I got in the back I started getting in and the guy said you know hop in the back I got in the back of the truck it was nice day so I'm sitting in the back and the Sun shine on me and I'm sitting there I'm still praying praying in tongues and just praying and then I remember you know sometimes you do things a certain way and I still had a lot of religiosity in me at that time and had some own sacred cows and all the other sacred cows I had had put him in before and so I'm sitting the back and I'm gonna pray right and I'm gonna pray this prayer and so I start praying and it's one of those Oh God you know and and I'm looking at my life and I said Oh God and I mean I'm serious I'm sincere I'm serious it wasn't there was no you no fakeness in it or whatever no fluff and it's just oh god when will I ever live what I believe you know and and I'm thinking because I'm sure I said it in a very religious way you know and I'll never forget it because I'm thinking I'm sure that God is sitting in heaven hearing this prayer and I'm sure he's telling the Angels hey buddy listen listen to this prayer oh it's so students this boy is serious he he wants to live what he believes listen Angels just listened to this prayer you know that's I'm just thinking that yeah I'm sure that's what God is doing you know and I'm saying oh god oh god when will I ever live what I believe you know I've been raised around a lot of Pentecostal preaching and so you know you have to have it's not what you're saying it's how you say it you know and you have to break it up not and I was praying that way right Oh God when will I see aren't you glad I don't preach that way normally I mean that would just that be too hard that would be way too hard to preach it anyway that's why I was praying and I'm expecting God to say oh my son what do you want you're trying so hard you know and I wanted a pat on the back for trying so hard you know instead what I heard from heaven was you are living what you believe you just don't believe what you think you do and I'm sit in the back of this truck now I'm like is there anybody else I could talk to up there my prayer is not having the desired effect I want comfort I want a pat on the back I want you to recognize how hard I'm trying and that's not what I got he just said I wasn't that I was already living what I believed I just didn't believe what I thought I did and I thought well if I think I'm believe how do I know what I'm thinkin I'm believing as opposed to when I'm really believing because it doesn't do you any good to think you're believing if you're not really believing amen and honestly that's where most people are this is the difference this is why most people don't walk in the blessings of God it's why they haven't received from God the things that has provided formas because they're not believing they're thinking they're even agreeing they're either be Kenyan used to call this mental assent when you mentally agree with something oh yeah that's true but you haven't taken it for you to say you know what the that is mine he's talking about me see until you realize that mark 16 believers will lay hands on the sick and they shall recover until you believe that you're the believer that Jesus is talking about in mark 16 you haven't taken it for you yet and you won't reach out and you won't touch people and you won't be a blessing to people you have to go beyond the oh that's a true scripture yes that's right jesus said it yes that's true you have to take it from that - that's me I'm the believer I believe I lay hands on the sick and they do recover so you have to make that jump from mentally agreeing to actually being the person is talking about so when you read Isaiah 53 or first Peter 2:24 and it says by whose stripes you were healed by whose stripes we are healed that has to be you you have to look at that and go you know what that's me right and then you have to be able to be willing to fight all of hell that's going to come against you to try to get you to back off of that and say this is where most people you know a lot of the faith teaching and people here it's you know it's it's microwave faith instant we want it now but ain't now it's not working you know well and then they even preach now faith is you know Hebrews 11 and that's not what that means right it's true now faith see that's true faith should be now but that didn't what that scripture is actually saying of now faith he said now faith is so say he's he's leading to the next statement well when you're if faith was always instant and we wanted to be instant everybody wants you want instant healing instant blessing instant answers to prayer of course you do right you'd be foolish not to but we also have to realize that the bible does talk about not growing weary in well-doing if we faint not see what that means is even the Apostle Paul and even Jesus in what he was when he talked about the in the the widow that went to the judge see we have to realize there is many times a process in between the time you pray and the time you see the answer that's when we call it the mean time because it's mean it's really mean right that's that mean time that's what that means anyone so we have to realize that there is that part where we have to continue on well we have to and even Gia he that endures to the end well I didn't sound all fun he that endures well what do you well I'm enduring you know so so what you do that well I'm derd the sermon at church I endured you know that's no we don't want you know enduring like I said doesn't sound fun like that and but there is a process where you have to as we say in the sports world will you just grind it out you just keep I was actually gonna bring something out and read it to you as a quote that's pretty good and it basically says most people wait for motivation you can't wait for motivation motivation is fickle it comes it goes you never know when it's going to show up when you need it the most that's when it's not there usually so you cannot depend on motivation you can't depend on you know being motivated you can only depend on discipline which means you know what to do you know the right thing to do and you just do it you make yourself do it you decide this is what I'm going to do and then you don't let anything stop you see now okay just because you know just in case you're thinking that I'm not speaking spiritual enough let me give you scripture right let's go to Matthew chapter 6 and let's look at verse 22 now this is Jesus speaking I mean you know he was spiritual amen alright so if he said it is spiritual right okay so Matthew 6:20 to the light of the body is the eye if therefore thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light near that if your eye beast single you're a whole body shall be full of light then just think about that right now look at verse look at look at the next verse 23 and listen this listen carefully but if then I be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness but now this is this sounds strange if you read it because first he says if your eye be single your body be full of light but if your eye be evil so what does that mean there's only two positions single minded or evil minded do you that your eye is either going to be single focused or it's going to be evil so anything other than single minded then single odd is evil do you see that so I'm not just making this up this is what he said he said listen you're either gonna be your body's gonna be full of darkness because your eyes gonna be evil if your eye is not single because if your eye is single your your body is gonna be full of light so what does that say that's telling us we choose whether our body is full of light or full of darkness we choose whether our eye be single or our our IV evil we choose you give that God doesn't choose that for you okay I know there's a whole lot of stuff out there on the sovereignty of God which 99.9% of it is totally false and there's a whole lot of stuff out there about how God is in control and I can tell you most of the time you hear that it is to comfort someone who is going through hard times of some sort and they talk about how go at the door God God God is in control and he knows this whole thing and this is all working towards some better thing for you okay that is not Bible you understand for God knows God can take things bad and turn them for good if you are if you love God and are the called according to his purpose about says but all things don't work together for the good for everybody all things work together for the good for those that love God and are called according to his purpose so when people say what they hear about that car wreck killed those five teenage kids well you know and I know it but but I know some goods gotta come out you know because all things work together for the good that is totally out of line with Scripture right know what that is is the devil comes to steal kill and destroy right and Jesus came that we might have life and that more abundant and generally speaking in situations like that and I wasn't meant to get off into this that far but yeah I kind of open this can of worms so I need to make sure that you understand where it goes that good things can come out of bad situations but that doesn't mean that God intended the bad situation here in the next couple of weeks I'm gonna be teaching on the foreknowledge of God and the foreordination of God and then God causing things because those are totally different things just because God for knows something like a prophecy you see a prophecy in the Bible just because God prophesied something through one of his prophets doesn't mean that that was God's will for it to happen it just meant that he knew it was going to happen right why because he knows the end from the beginning it doesn't mean that he is saying this is what I want to happen this he said it's okay it's just like a parent with a child you see a child running with scissors what do you tell them don't run why you're gonna hurt yourself you see I'm running we're you know we're playing with a sticker then but to stick down hopefully you're not saying or you'll put your eye out please don't be saying that over your children all right but you can warn them and say look don't do that one because that's not wise you could hurt yourself or someone else what are you predicting that or are you saying that your will and you're trying to speak that into existence of course not you have wisdom to know that if this happens that's probably what's going to happen and that's how God operates in this earth most of time it's that he knows human nature and character so well that he can say here's what will happen here's what's going to take place so we have to realize that God is not in control of everything if that were true he wouldn't tell us to choose anything yeah well it's not a matter of our choosing it's a matter of him just moving us like Pope like like puppets like puppets okay so now you get this see that's what makes it so amazing that that God has created this earth put us in it and has given us such Dominion and authority on this earth that what does that that mean we lost about faith in God and believe me faith in God is everything all right but we sometimes don't talk about God's faith in us that he left this to us he let Lister let's take it in a different direction he left the Great Commission to us amen what does that mean that means that he has to rely on us to get the job done to preach the gospel to every nation he has he he has enough faith in us that he says they will get the job done think about that it's one thing for us to have faith in Him because I mean come on he's never failed he's never messed up he's never changed his mind but he has faith in us and when if he has faith in us let me tell you he has a whole lot more faith than we do why because he's having faith in us it takes a lot more faith to have faith in us than it does for us to have faith in him amen he is actually really easy to have faith in and when people said well I mean I'm trying to believe God gosh I'm touched I'm you know I'm trying to have faith I'm just trying to believe God please don't say that you sound foolish what it's not hard to trust someone who has never lied never failed never changed their mind that's the easiest person in the universe to trust don't make it sound like it's so hard if it's hard for you to trust him let me tell you the problem is not in him it's in you amen so all right let's look at this drop down could we could go into all this but I don't take that long drop down to about verse so let's see we start at verse 30 he says wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field which today is and is in tomorrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith therefore what because God will take care of you because God will clothed you because God is good okay therefore take no Thought saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be clothed with clothes for after all these things do the Gentiles see in other words don't sit around worrying when he says take no thought he means take no anxious start don't don't worry don't see where I go what am I gonna eat what you know what but if the stock market crashes I mean that's gonna wipe out our 401k mewar where we gonna eat for that you know two years down the road what I mean cuz we know what's gonna happen what what's gonna happen to our more what if we can't pay the mortgage on our house see he said no no don't don't be like that he said what your heavenly Father knows that you have need of these things and if your heavenly Father takes care of the grass takes care of the birds and you go back and read the whole story swear he's talking it he said how much more will he take care of yous what's he saying look don't be anxious don't be worried he's not saying don't plan because all of proverbs is about planning he's not saying don't make plans he's just saying but make sure that your plans have trust in him right that all your plans that you you put them before him you don't just say oh this is what I'm going to do know that your plans include him see people say I'll tell you well you know we're doing this so our kids can go to college well have you even asked God if he wants your kids to go to college well no it's just what we need for our job what for the job that you want them to have for the job God wants them to have because maybe the job God has for him doesn't include that boy y'all quite right so now notice he says here for after all these things do the Gentiles seek in other words the Gentiles who is that people that don't have a God or at least not D God right he said that that's how people that don't have a God that's how they have today watch because they got to take care of themselves so they've got to worry about tomorrow they've got to worry about these things it's funny when I was reading this because it says take no Thought saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be clothed when I read that wherewithal shall we close it reminded me of several different people like Zuckerberg Steve Jobs Elon Musk different people like that that super successful and the one thing you know what the one other thing one of the things that they all have in common other than they all get up at 4:30 or 4 o'clock or in the morning and you know what they all say they haven't coming they all wear the same thing every day right now I don't mean they all look the same I mean Steve Jobs always wore the exact same thing had his you know his his turtleneck right Zuckerberg has his hoodie right everybody has are these these super successful people dressed the same way every day you know what it wasn't because Zuckerberg can't afford a new hoodie believe me right it was because they realized that willpower is so vital and that willpower is like money and everything you use your willpower on the tracks or extracts from your overall amount of willpower so let me put it this way what that means is this when you wake up in the morning the the first hour so you make more decisions usually in that hour then you make the rest of day now you think no I don't make any decision my first decisions ahead is a kitchen and get coffee that's it that's the only decision I'm thinking no no you have to make the decision when the alarm goes off to get up gene that's part of your willpower now diminished okay deciding to brush your teeth to put the lid back on the toothpaste that's all draining your willpower believe it or not they've proven this every decision you make whether you make the bed right then or you wait till later to do it that's a decision see when you get up to get dressed you look to your closet Internet no no not that not this every time you go no you're using willpower that your willpower drops it's no wonder by the time you actually get to work and somebody says here I want you to do this like is the highest thing I think I just can't got it today no it's because you've already used the willpower at that point so these guys said I come from Jersey gasps these guys seem like they got they see they they got these youths out there you know I'm saying what say you know anyway that's the whole diffident is that anyway okay but they made a decision early on I'm not gonna make any of these decisions that detract from our willpower so they just bought several of this they don't wear the exact same piece of clothing but all their clothing looks the same so they don't have to make a decision they wear the exact same thing all the time now that can be a little boring but I guess it leaves them free to make other more important decisions so that's that's part of what I'm talking about and when I was reading this he said take no thought about what you'll be clothed do you realize these guys do that they take no thought about what they're gonna wear it's already that decision has already been made that thing is not even a part of their life anymore they just get up and do it right now moving on that's not my message okay but not a mad one necessarily but anyway now notice first off look at verse 33 well actually 32 says for all these things that after all these things the Gentiles seek for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things so now notice he said listen your thought your heavenly father he knows you have need of all these things right he's not saying you don't need him he's saying he knows you have need and he said but listen trust in him that no matter what's going on he's going to take care of you right in other words you have to look at it from the point of view of you know what whatever the job market is tomorrow okay good bad you need a job don't need a job whatever whatever it is whatever area of your life that could go up or down in that area you have to take knowledge or take comfort in the knowledge that no matter what happens you're having the father is going to take care of you no matter where you're at like Paul said you know man I've been I've been up and I've been down but God is always taking care of me that's it's a paraphrase but basically that's what he said so you have to have that that understand that's one of the things they were that we were tire I was talking that's not with the Georgetown Australia and we were talking with this thing because we're talking about certain aspects of character and and just your natural inclination toward things and I have never been what financial people would call risk-averse all right in other words I would do things the risk and I'm not saying I just did it without thinking about the risk or the consequences but I would look at and go yeah you know I'll survive you know worst case scenario I'll survive okay best case scenario I thrive the worst case is I can survive and if I survive then I'll take the risk right and so we would jump in a car and go across country and people say we know you go here you go there and you're gonna move here all right you got a job lined up nope don't have a job lined up well what are you going to do well I'll get a job when I get there what but but what what guess what there's people there eating there's people there in houses there's people there that have clothing there's people there that have jobs so I know all that's there so why would I be real concerned ahead of before I get there before I need those things there I know if I get there people are surviving there if they can survive there I can survive there so I can go there now we jump in a car and go there were about time we got there our money begun and I would get a job and I've never went without a job in the sense that I couldn't find a job or something it's always but God always took care of me he never let me down we never starved you know whenever we never had to fast on purpose I mean you know other than choosing to we never had to and so I was not too risk-averse right I was willing to take risk and that's a big thing toward you actually stepping into your destiny because your destiny will always require risk it will always have risk that that's part of it why because risk and you stepping into risk in it at least in the major for you as a Christian proves you trust God and I'm not talking about being stupid right but I'm talking about you trusting God to say you know what I will get there he will bless whatever I put my hand to and we will move forward we'll make it a mint that's part of just having faith in God now notice here he says or just don't don't look after all these things God knows you have need of all these things look what he says in verse 33 but instead of worrying is what he's saying instead of going after these things and worrying about having them say he's not even saying it's wrong to have these things he said it's wrong to worry about it why because worry isn't faith and whatever is not a faith to sin so he says but instead seek ye first the kingdom of God the reign the rule of God and His righteousness and watch what happens and all these things shall be added unto you you hear that so he said listen I God knows you need these things and but he just don't want you worrying about him because then you're acting like he ain't gonna take care of you instead seek first the kingdom of God the advancement of the kingdom the reign of God the rule of God in your life seek first that Jesus is Lord over your life and you're living the way he wants you to live seek first that and his righteousness now how many of you know that the Bible says that if you made Jesus Lord of your life you've been born again and you are what the righteousness of God in Christ so he said seek first the righteousness you've sought first the righteousness you become the righteousness of God guess what there's only one part of this step that's not you know that we haven't talked about yet what is that all these things being added to you as he said if you seek first the kingdom and you seek first his righteousness all these things shall be added well you sought the kingdom why because that's what you were looking at when you got born again you became the righteousness of God in Christ so you have sought that and now you have attained that you have it so there's only one part now to fulfill what's that having all these things added to you amen all what things closing the food whatever it is that you need now that you have sought first the kingdom of God in his righteous these things are being added to you since one of the things that always bother me about a large part of the Christian Church was that even under the Old Testament Old Covenant it said that God told the Jews he said all of these blessings will overtake you in trace of what it says is you won't even be able to outrun them these blessings are going to come upon you and as I said before the word picture there is like a tsunami tidal wave you can't outrun it it overtakes you overwhelms you it is so much more than just what you needed see imagine if you said men I'm so thirsty well if I could just get a glass of water and all of a sudden a tsunami wave hit you okay that that's the picture of God's provision do you give that God doesn't give you a cup he floods you amen this is good news I don't forget they're not this is a good news right what why because God doesn't do anything little he does things extravagantly he's not wasteful but he is extravagant in other words he does think what Jesus said I've come that you might barely get along but you'll make it is that what he said no he said I've come that you might have life what and that more what abundant more than enough see if it's not more than enough it's not abundant right and it's the same way go back and read even all the Blessington of the Old Covenant they were abundant blessings you're gonna be blessed to be blessed meant you had more than you needed in every area of your life you give that surplus exactly so that's what God is trying to show them now watch this so now it's and I guess going back to us about the church that part of the church that bothered me was you've got the Jews had this understanding of these blessings overwhelming them just overflowing them overtaking them the way King James says it and then you get in the Christian Church and everybody's yeah and it'll all be worth it over there well you know it it doesn't matter here you know I'll just suffer through and get by just my little bit here well guess what if you're just getting your little bit you're selfish why cuz all you're doing is worried about taking care of yourself see was it was never enough it was a big chore for me to take care of my family and I didn't always do it and I didn't always do it right and do it well or do it enough but I always knew that if God wanted me to take care of my own he also wanted me to take care of others when we went to the camp meeting in Tulsa back in nineteen eighty eighty yeah eight we went up there in a borrowed suburban Chevy Suburban which was connected to a borrowed 32 foot camper trailer that people let us use to drive up people I've never met until I walked up and they gave me the keys and they let us take it to Tulsa right and there was no place to put it so he parked it in a park and walked across the street to the convention center and the park is where all the homeless people lived and I had a wife and two children I think both were in diapers at that point yeah both were still in diapers and we ran out of food real quick we were gonna be there a whole week we took off up there even it didn't even have enough money to get gas to get there we sold stuff when we left we were over in Wiley and when we left there we sold stuff in Sherman to get gas money to go on from there and when we got there we had a little bit of money a little bit of food and I think our second day there we ran out of food and so we prayed and while we're praying there was a knock on the door of the camper and some little ladies had brought us some food and diapers that fit both of our children right and now think about this we ran out of everything but guess what we were doing the whole time when we had food we were out because you have to kind of get outside the little camper every now and then and we would sit out in the park and we would make hotdogs or whatever ways we were making just whatever was cheap I'm sure but we were making this food and people were walking up homes be walking could could I have some of that and we were feeding the homeless I didn't send there go ahead no no this is all week I know we gave out and and we ran out but every time we ran out God brought us more every time and in honestly it's amazing how many people want miracles in their lives but they never want to get into a position where they need a miracle you understand what I mean by that so you know it's like we'll just help you everybody wants to raise somebody from the dead but ain't nobody volunteering to die you know you know you want to be raised from the dead no I don't want to die don't you want to be a part of a miracle no see that's but that's how people are right but that's what we did that's that's what you know my wife and of course my kids were too young that was Erica and John they were too young they didn't know anything but we were I mean it was minute by minute literally and and don't think that the enemy wasn't screaming in our minds constantly saying you know you're going to go under what are you gonna do you're you know several hundred miles away from home and nobody here can help you nobody will help you know all this stuff and yet God entered and you know what he always used the money didn't appear we weren't sitting at a table the money just started appearing God used people to bring it he used people to bless us and it's just amazing but had we not had we had sit back look well here's what it's going to take to get there here's how much money it's going to take while we're there here's how much money it's going to take for food and gas and and all this what man we just don't have that money well guess we better not go well guess what we wouldn't have a year of miracles to talk about now but we were as I said we were not risk-averse we were willing to step out into the risk now some people would call it foolishness or you know whatever but I would I had to find the answers that I was looking for and I believed that those people had it and so I did whatever I had to do to get there I could go on and on tell you about the whole year is amazing but now here's what I want to bring us back to there are people right now people I've known in the past too that died of sickness or disease and yet they died confessing that they were healed by the stripes of Jesus what is the answer of that why how can they die confessing that Scripture I've just gave you the answer while ago if your eye be single your body be full of life but if your eye be evil there are people that quote the Bible and like I said there they were they are where I was at when they thought they were believing but they weren't believing and they think they're believing right up to the point where they died rather than actually get to a point where they believed now one of the keys to getting to a point where you are believing the Word of God is you have to become single add as we would say single-minded yet we focused I cannot emphasize this enough if you're going listen if you have been diagnosed with something let's say it's terminal in the words of our president what have you got to lose you're dying go after truth amen put all your eggs in as I said put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket all right so get focused get single money cut out distractions that's what he talks about the cares of the world is what causes the word of God in mark chapter 4 Jesus said the cares of the world cause the Word of God literally to not produce so you have to get rid of those cares that word care means distractions and distractions can be anything and I definitely don't have enough time to talk about today but I want you to realize if it's serious for you listen nobody's as serious about your situation as you are so you can't try to find people go man this is what I'm going through you know will you have the same emotion about this that I do will you join in here with me and have the same emotion the same feelings to the same degree that I do I can tell you most of time no they won't they'll feel sorry for you or maybe they'll agree with you or something but usually a short time after you separate or part ways and you're not in each other's eyesight they're thinking about something else you may have that pain going on in your body but they're thinking something else so it's up to you to decide to get single-eyed and cut out everything else I've told people before they say well what you know they'll come to me and say what what should I do with this why should I said you know I can't tell you what to do with your medicine I'm not going to get involved that well what would you do well that's the same thing right if you had what would you do if you're in my situation well now that's me telling you what to do because that's what you're going to take it as but the fact is this I told I said if I was diagnosed with a terminal illness or a terminal something or something like that there's something really serious I said and and this was my mindset okay and I'll show you how God corrected it to a degree but I said probably I would go find a cabin in the woods somewhere and I would stay there and I would focus on this until I either walked out well or they carried me out dead that's probably what I would do right and then as I understand the the intention there is right but God because of the position I mean maybe maybe this isn't you know maybe if you're not in a position where people are putting a demand on you where you need to pray for him and minister to him you could do that if I was in a position where people weren't calling on me all the time then I could do that but for me to do that now would be selfish you understand so instead I have to be able to if I had been diagnosed with something like that then out of time I'm well so I'm not talking with that but I'm saying if if there was that instead of me going to a cabin I would have to be able to focus get rid of the distractions and still be able to meet the needs of the people that are pulling on me and yet that means I would have to cut out all the stuff because now I'm fighting for them and for myself right under that circumstance and so I would have to know how to become totally single odd but the problem is too often just like in everything else we're in this country especially many of most other countries now we have completely abdicated our position of responsibility and everything and give it to somebody else you give the responsibility of your health to doctors you give the responsibility of your security our safety to the police department you give your security your bank your financial security to your banker or your financial instead of whatever is we have and you give the responsibility of your children over to the school system and then grappling they don't do as good a job as you think they should right and what we've done is we have completely abdicated our position of responsibility to everybody else to a point now we're hardly in it and now nobody wants to accept responsibility for anything when my first daughter died and then right after that our second daughter was well nine months later our second daughter was born and from from early on we were constantly having to deal with the same thing that killed my first order which was double pneumonia was attacking my second daughter tried to kill her every year I mean it's just like like clockwork and I remembered because I made a decision because I told God God you gave my kids to me you didn't give them to the doctors you didn't give them to this person ago you gave them to me they are my responsibility and so I had to learn how to be able to pray for them get them well whatever was but I made a decision personally that I would never turn my children over to somebody else's responsibility all right I'm not saying I wouldn't you know provide them with medical care if they needed it I'm just saying I would never abdicate my position of responsibility as you know the buck stops here with my kids and so no so the real key here is making sure that we are doing whatever we have to do to believe right well faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God so that means that you hear the Word of God you act upon the Word of God and faith is generated so that's the first thing that you have to do to make sure you're believing is make sure what you're believing is in line with the Word of God most people believe they're believing when they're not believing the word they're believing the traditions they've been taught in church and believe it or not the traditions you've been taught in church won't get you well right they won't get you blessed they won't get you to where God wants you so you have to first go back to the Bible and say I don't care what I find out in here but whatever I find out its truth and I'm gonna live by that even if it goes against everything I've been taught in church or by family or anybody else and if I have to completely disagree with family I will do whatever I have to do to get to the truth that's called being single I'd you say well but you know but but family is important family is important but how how did Jesus say family what did Jesus say about family he said two things about family who is my mother and my brothers and my sisters but he that does the will of God that's family you get that what else did he say about family well those of your own household will be your greatest enemies that's what Jesus said right and I don't mean you treat them what because Jesus said how do you treat your enemies will you bless him you don't treat him like enemies right you bless him you say good you do good to them right you don't look at me you're my enemy Jesus said you're my enemy you know no it's you bless your enemies amen so now listen carefully if you have a mindset that believes something different than what you're saying meaning if you're quoting scripture okay if you're quoting scripture but you have a mindset inside that believes differently or says differently than what is coming at your mouth you will have what you believe more than what you say your that so what does that mean that means that this is why people confess the Word of God and yet died of sickness from disease one because they're saying the right thing they're just not believing the right thing they want to believe the right thing but they have not convinced themselves yet to believe the right thing right this is this see that's one of the things that God does through us is that he he brings out these areas that are like gaps that we have to be able to fill in or we're gonna have this Swiss cheese type of theology and we can't have that it has to be solid amen so if you have a mindset that but listen carefully if you have a mindset that believes something different than what the Bible says then you don't say we call it a mindset you know what the Bible calls it a stronghold you give that so your mindset that is different than what the Bible says is actually stronghold thank God we had been given weapons that are not our weapons but they are spiritual pants they're weapons of God their gods weapons and they are what mighty they're not carnal they're spiritual weapons that are mighty through God for what to the pulling down of strongholds what is our weapons the Word of God is the first one right so the Word of God is our first weapon and that weapon primarily is to be used to brought down strongholds which means you have to change your mindset if your mindset slash stronghold does not line up with the word of God now what you do want is I've never heard you may preach it like this necessarily but what you want is you want a stronghold in your mind of the Word of God you give that because the Bible says he is our strong fortress he is our strong tower right so we want God to be our stronghold we want the Word of God to be a stronghold in us we don't want man's traditions or anything else to be a stronghold in us we want our mindset to be the Word of God amen now how do you get now think about this how do you get the Word of God to be a stronghold in you like that stronghold was that you had to pull down that exalted itself against the knowledge of God how do you get the Word of God to be a stronghold the same way you did the other way you thought about it you said it you you you you act upon it it's exactly and you didn't get there overnight you build it brick by brick you build a strong defense which is your faith in God brick by brick what brick what is brick by brick mean and our analogy scripture by scripture you read a scripture you believe a scripture you quote it you say it use you put it in different wordings you meditate upon it what does this mean it takes you all the way back to Joshua chapter 1 that if you meditate in this day and night what does that mean single-eyed these words will never depart out of your mouth in other words they will never stop coming out of your mouth these words my words he said have to come out of your mouth night and day where does that that's being single-eyed if that's the only thing that comes out of your mouth guess what okay let me give you another word for it notices called just called getting obsessed and see people don't like that oh he's obsessed you know well you don't read the Bible too much and you'll get obsessed you you'll go crazy if that's not the biggest lie of the devil right so we have to realize and that's what happened with me whenever my daughter died I got obsessed with finding the answers about healing and guess what seek and you shall find and I saw it and saw it and saw it and piece by piece that strong to all the strongholds I've been taught before started coming down and I started replacing those false stronghold bricks with the word of God bricks and I built a new stronghold and you know what I found out that not only does God want us to be healed he wants us to live well he wants us to live healthy he wants us not not just get well not just get healed when you get sick he wants us to live free of sickness and disease he wants you to live in a way that you're not afraid to touch the contagious person right because if you just get sick and get well and gets it and get well you'd still hesitate to touch a contagious person because you know you're probably going to catch it but if you start to realize like John Lake said that the the Spirit of God in me literally causes me to become immune to sickness and disease and sickness and disease germs that touch me die because they are touching the life of God when you start to understand that now you start to live in divine health now you start to live well you're not afraid to touch anything you're not afraid to drink anything this is how he said you drink any deadly thing and it won't hurt you how do you think you got there you had to build a stronghold in your mind that the Word of God defends you protects you and nothing shall by any means hurt you see this is most people never get their one because they're not single eyed they have you know a dozen eyes now if you remember years ago there was a movie Last Samurai Tom Cruise was a US Calvary officer and he went to Japan and started working with a local warlord there and he was learning how to wield a samurai sword and he kept getting he kept getting hit they just and they were using wooden swords and so finally this kid came up to him and said ah too many mines too many mines and I'm listening I'm like wow you know even the world understands what double mindedness is and that double mindedness doesn't work right one that's the that key one of the keys to samurai which I don't know if you know what samurai means but the word samurai literally means one who serves that's what it means it doesn't mean warrior it means one who serves but the whole point of it was that the ideal position for the samurai was literally one strike one kill that's where snipers get the idea of one shot one kill it's the same same thing but with a samurai it was one strike if when it there's no same when a semi pulled his sword it was not replaced until there was blood on it in other words you didn't pull it foolishly but if you pulled it you meant business and it should only take one strike most samurai battles duels could take hours before the first strike was ever because I knew they would stand there in a position and they wait for a momentary weakness in their mental Constitution and whenever they saw that weakness then they would strike and who usually whoever struck first is the one that lost so the idea was one strike one kill that's it everything was focus they even have a word for quemic which meant focus and so the whole point here that I'm getting across is that Jesus had that kind of focus he had that single eye they said oh do this no I'm coming for this oh great revival broke out here Jesus let's stay well no I got other cities I got to go preach to what I'm on a deadline I got an appointment at a cross I got to carry this on no he stayed single odd mission first I mean this this is the mentality that he had this is not strange to Christianity this is Christianity right now watch this in mark 11:23 yeah but most everybody didn't know this one for barely I say unto you that whosoever whosoever shall say unto this mountain be thou removed without casting the sea and shall not doubt in his heart doesn't say not doubt in your mind it says shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass shall come that's future okay he shall have whatsoever he said therefore I say to you whatsoever things what notice things you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them no the key to mark 11:23 is this it's believing not just saying see people have emphasized the saying the saying is important but the saying isn't important until you believe it because what you're going to have is what you're believing not what you're saying yet it so it's important that you believe right because a lot of times you'll say the right things but you're believing something different and the bad part is you'll have what you believe and then people think that stuff doesn't work no it does work whenever you believe right you get right you get it it's not just the words that come out of your mouth your words coming out of your mouth have to line up with what is in your heart it's the believing the key is believing and when you believe you say the right thing because when you believe right you say right when you say right you have right because you believe right amen now this is I know this is you know on purpose I I wanted this to be very simple very very concrete something that you could take out of here and go okay now I know exactly what I need to do right I don't want this to be some just a three old preaching you know type of thing this should be a training this should be something that you can take and work it amen so all right now look at double double minded being double minded means believing two different things that cancel each other out you get that being double minded means believing two different things that each one cancels out the other okay now so you can say by your stripes I'm healed but if you're believing that you're only going to get sicker well that's because you know I've looked it up I searched it on Google and it says this kid this doesn't just get better it gets worse and if that's what you're believing then even if you're saying well you know by him stripes I'm healed by stripes I'm healed by stripes I'm healed then guess what you're gonna keep getting worse why because that's what you believe you believe what you read in on Google and suppose what you read in the Word of God everything is subject to change anything you can touch feel is subject to change you got that and according to James that if we use our words correctly we can turn the whole body yet that's what the Bible says that's not what Kenneth Hagin said Kenneth Hagin didn't invent that right the Bible says that if you put this bit in your mouth and the bit is the Word of God and when you put the bit in your mouth you can turn your body any way you want it to go so that means you get to choose you want your body well you want it strong you want it healthy or do you want your body sick and weaker I remember a euston we lived in Colorado and every day I jog walk jogged or having whatever worked out about five miles and I was going back and forth with us and I had a statement that was in line with whenever how I would run the pace of my run so that because I was trying to speak because that also increased the cardiovascular benefit of what I was doing and so I was said and every time I'd take a step I would say I'm getting stronger and I would say today I'm stronger healthier fitter than I was yesterday and I kept saying I'm getting better I'm getting stronger I'm getting healthier I'm getting fitter and I would just I would use that and every time I'd step I would say one of those things and I was constantly reinforcing that now why because well several reasons it helped with the cardiovascular like I said but it was also reinforcing and it was helping me believe stronger so double mind is believing two different things that cancel each other out James 1 verse 5 says if any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God which gives draw men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him but let him ask in faith nothing wavering no wavering you get that wait a maybe maybe nothing no no we'll talk about this another time but because I've got stories unwavering okay for he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed for let not here that let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord no listen that does not say don't let that man think that God isn't going to give him anything it does not say God's not going to give you something if you're double minded it says don't let the double minded man think that he will receive of the Lord what does that mean well the Bible says that God has already blessed us God says he's already given us everything so it's not a matter of us of God getting it it's not a matter of God giving it it's a matter of us receiving it and God has given but if you're double minded you won't receive what has been given do you get that this is so big this is I mean you got to get a hold of this because most people think well if I'm double minded God's not going to give it to me no God cannot not give you what he's already spoken and said I'm giving you right so the giving part it's already done health healing wholeness blessing prosperity all that that's already done that's a done deal God is already given but the reason most people don't receive it is because they're double minded so if you get single add then you will be able to receive all the blessings that God has given you and that's when I said in the beginning I'm trying to teach you how not to sabotage your blessings what because they're coming see sabotage means setting up a roadblock doing something to take a train off the track in other words the trains come in but if you're going to sabotage it you're going to make it go off track what I'm trying to tell you as the Train of God's blessings has already it's coming it's already been going it's already left the station heaven you got that it's already been given I don't want you to sabotage it so that it gets derailed and doesn't reach its destination which is your life are you with me I mean how many of you want to live in the fullness of God's blessing in your life I mean come on do you want Jesus to have died for anything in vain I don't so no it says here a double minded man is unstable in all his ways and it's the double asiya the double mindedness of the person that makes him unstable which makes him not able to receive so now finally real quick last piece this is in third John starting in verse 1 it says the elder unto the well-beloved Gaius whom I love and the truth look at verse 2 any of you know the scripture is inspired of God you believe that so whatever the Bible says that's God speaking to us is that true ok beloved are you beloved what the Bible says isn't it now we have been what received right in the beloved now we are the beloved is that right we are the beloved okay and it says and that just so you know that we're beloved is number 27 in Strong's Concordance I'm going to give you several numbers here and it means those who are living inside of the love of God what is that you so the so he's talking about you right beloved right he says I wish now that word wish and let me just read it on then I'll go back you the definitions beloved I wish above all things that's pretty hot right that you may prosper and be in health be in health even as your soul prospers you hear that for I rejoice greatly when the Brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you even as you walk in the truth I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth and notice all of that is said about walking in truth and doing much right and the truth that was in them and in the middle of that he said it beloved I wish I pray I crave I desire my my earnest purpose is that above all things everything else is that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers now notice this let me give you some of the words here you get these out here should have had them separately sorry but here is the definitions of the words so the first one number 27 beloved it's got potatoes no that's not right it's close to a gap a toss there you go it means beloved dearly loved beloved dear now the next one I wish it's the Greek word number 21 72 Strong's Concordance you coma he and it means literally to wish by implication to pray to God to pray or to will okay above above what above all things while the word above is a it's a Greek word number four zero one two Strong's Concordance and it's the word Perry and it means literally respect to ensure fund the main part of the do ya above superlative it means to be on top of okay all things that word is number thirty-nine 56 it's word puffs which means everything everything I wish I pray to God above all things God's will above all things be here that his will above all things is that you may prosper okay now what does prosper because you don't like the word prosper then you're gonna have problems with this but the word prosper is number twenty one thirty seven is you audio and it means literally to help on the road and get this it means to succeed in reaching to succeed in business affairs to prosper to have a prosperous journey okay and so he says I wish above all things that you can succeed that you can move forth now listen I'm not listening carefully I'm not talking about prospering meaning you stack up money and you have so much stacked up that you are you know well like David said don't make me so rich I that I should forget God are so poor that I should steal right so I'm not talking about when I talk about prospering here I'm talking about the biblical prospering which means to be successful in everything you put your hand to you give that know he says and get this I wish above all things that you are successful that you prosper and that's what he told us in Joshua chapter one that if you meditate day and night you will prosper and you'll have good success and yet people said oh God doesn't want you to prosper he doesn't want you to have a good success you know he wants you to dragged through the mud he want you to have a hard time here cuz it's gonna be so good over there yeah that is not Bible God created the earth to be in the likeness and image of heaven and that's why he said pray thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven he said guys your job here is to make Earth look as much like heaven as you can well guess what no poor no crippled no beggars in heaven do you that that's not the way it is in heaven what because that's not how how a king treats his subjects speaks more about the king than it does the subjects do you give them God wants you prosperous he wants yet God would love everybody in this room here to be able to support a hundred missionaries how many of you know that would take some money amen I'm trying to get you to think out of the box out of the religious box that says well you know ask for no more we can't think that way not if we're listen he gave us a great Commission he said go into all the world there's over 200 countries in the world there is not a country now I mean you know based on that there could be variations here but I don't know of a country in the world that you can get to for less than a hundred dollars you know maybe it may be some special bargain but if you're going to go to 200 countries and it's going to cost you a hundred dollars to go to each gun let me tell you most countries you ain't gonna get there for a hundred dollars right for me to go to South Africa it's usually eighteen hundred dollars easy and that's if we time it right and get it cheap right to get from Australia to here it's anywhere from thirteen to sometimes two thousand dollars and I'm talking about coach I'm talking about economy class you know where you feel the people's knees in your back right I'm not talking about the you know first class when they got the little cocoons up there it's you get to sleep in and you know they have people come by a fan in you and feeding your grapes I don't know I don't know what they do if they're never wrote up there's I don't know okay my wife one time she they asked her they said don't you how do you like traveling she goes oh it's great if you like sitting in a Walmart buggy for 24 hours to get some work that's kind of how you're doing you have to kind of scrunch up like you're in one of the carts at Walmart because that's about how much space you have if you're lucky right so but so if you're going to go to all these countries where God has told you to go guess what it's going to take money in there right and you could try to walk there but I can tell you're not gonna make in your lifetime right now that's your good swimmer too I mean come on so I'm just saying we have to we can't think religiously we have to think biblically and all through the Bible the blessings of God are always to prosper and whatever you put your hand to his product listen if you plant a flower in your flowerbed at home if that thing doesn't grow it's not prospering do you get it so prospering is all relative you know prosperity in some countries is one goat instead of two goats right so the prosperity is it's it's all relative but the whole point is God wants you to prosper wherever you are and I'm not talking about you stacking up money if you got money stacked up you know you're to be putting it out somewhere to be helping the gospel I'm not saying you shouldn't have something you know to help the Bible says it a a good man leaves an inheritance for his children and his children's children how much you know if you're leaving inheritance for your grandchildren that can be a goodly amount of money I mean it's just making sense T I hope I'm breaking some barriers I'm you know honest I'm just making some religious people just really mad you know I'll get emails and all kinds of stuff you know but it but it is amazing to me some of the stuff that I saw here is it's amazing he says and I want you to be in health and that word health means to have sound health and their listeners it means to be in health to be sound to be whole he says even as our to the same- here's a here's a key God wants you to prosper to the degree your soul prospers see here's most people try to prosper beyond where their soul has prospered and when you'd prosper beyond your soul prospering that's where you get into sin with your money that's whenever you start forgetting God say you're to prosper as your soul prospers as you grow in the knowledge and wisdom of God you should prosper because you don't know how to wisely use the prosperity that God has given you so when I talk about prosperity I'm not talking about you driving the you know having five of the newest cars and you know three different houses and different I'm not talking about things I'm talking about God giving you abundance in life so that you can abundantly help other people without you having to go back and you know God you know please help them I can't but I hope you do now God says no you see the need you meet the need Oh God well I can't give what I got okay you're not prosperous let me tell you I know poor people who because of what you talk about the love of money in the middle of of money you know money is the root of all evil no the love of money is the root of all evil right but let me tell you I know some poor people who love money more than most rich people I know some poor people who think about money more than rich people think about it because it's always on their mind cuz I need it that's not God's will God God wants your mind on him and how you can be a blessing on this earth not just where your next meal is gonna come from amen so now I want to move on quick because there's there's more than this but he says yeah real quick what now here's here's the question now where I actually have some handouts we're gonna pass out in just a second here but here's what I got to ask you what do you believe about you being blessed by God because it's not what I believe about God blessing me that that may or may not help you that much but what you believe about God blessing you will determine how much of God's blessings are in your life you know they did an experiment and this this wasn't a Christian thing but it was amazing that they took a room full of people and they said they told this person or they told the people this person is going to pass out $100 bills but he's only going to give it to people that he feels like he should and the amazing thing is he this person went through and as he went through he would stop and decide whether he's going to give it to him or not and then afterwards they did a poll and they said did you think he was going to give you $100 do you know that eighty eighty four percent of the people that did not receive the hundred-dollar bill said I didn't think he was going to think about that they had no expectation and because you've gotta realize there is a supernatural element to your believing that causes things to come to you that expectation we call faith right and but the thing is whenever if you have that expectation these people they didn't expect it they didn't even expect to get it this person they had enough 100 $100 bills to give every person in the room and yet they did not mean he did not receive it just because they didn't think they were going to get it now that put out something that affected the giving of the person that had the money now think about that yeah now look at it in the reverse well yeah you know it's flu time and I get it every year I'd stop it so I'm sure I'll get it again guess what you're doing you're calling deep under deep that's deep stupidity calling deepest in this answer is calling deep under debt see you want because you you it's the law of sowing and reaping it's the law of expectation so you have to change your mindset on that right now another one okay do you but then listen carefully here's the question do you believe now we're talking about what you believe about how God blesses you about being blessed by God do you believe they God rewards you only according to your obedience because see if you believe that God only rewards you according to how well you obey you have a religion of works not of grace that makes sense now I'm not I'm not talking about living loose and just oh I didn't do anything I want and God's going to bless me I'm not I'm not talking about that but notice let me give you the scripture Psalm 103 verse 10 god he hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded US according to our iniquities God doesn't give you he doesn't reward you based on your obedience level you give that God has blessed you decide where you line up in the blessing do you get that no watch okay Matthew let me give you another one you say that's Old Testament you know Matthew chapter 5 verse 44 but I say unto you love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you 1 verse 45 says so that you may be the children of your father which is in heaven so what does that mean that means if you're doing these things you can be the children of your father which is in heaven right that's why you do these things now then he says for he makes his son su in the Sun to rise on the evil and on the good hear that God makes his Sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain which was a blessing on the just and on the unjust what does that mean God treats everybody good do you get that and now if you say well I'll be a but I'm the unjust well guess what you get the rain sent to you too so you God doesn't treat you according to your obedience because if you do now you have a religion of works but you have to realize that how you align yourself with the Word of God is how the blessings of God actually get to flow through your life you that now so it's not up to God on that it's up to you to decide where you're going to walk it seasons 1:3 blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath pass'd tents blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places for 2nd Peter 1 verse 3 according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain and laughing godliness how through the knowledge of him here that how do you get these blessings through the knowledge of him if you don't have the knowledge of him these blessings can't be in your life it's not that God hadn't given them it's you don't have the knowledge to allow them into your life whereby or do this knowledge whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature there are promises promises are to be fulfilled but you have to take these promises and say that's true to me but that's how you get these in your life now now listen carefully try not to end this on a negative note but this is a fact okay I know people that will badmouth preachers that are wealthy or prosperous okay I'm not talking about over that I'm not talking about gold faucets and air-conditioned dog houses all right I'm not talking about that stuff right that's ridiculous anyway know the whole thing but if let's say if a preacher lives by what he's preaching if he's sowing and reaping then you know person has a right to bad-mouth the reaping that God has provided the law that says if you sow you're going to reap and if the preacher is living by really what it comes down to in some case you could say well does that preacher really believe in what he's saying because he preaches sowing and reaping but we don't see much reaping in his life well what's he doing you see them saying but so but I know people that were badmouth preachers that are prosperous but as it's usually the people that are not prosperous that are doing the bad-mouthing right it's just like pastoring a small church and blasting a big church well you know that that's where small you know and we're like a family that big tree you couldn't be a family with that big church now cuz you know that's just too big that's good no let me tell you some of the big churches have gotten much better cell systems and that kind of stuff there's they're taking care of their people good that it's it whatever God does he wants it to grow I got blasted not too long ago because just because I called my group of elders together and said listen here's what we need to do we want this message to go out we want to go all over the world to do that listen I would rather have ten thousand mouths go out of here and talking about what they heard in this service then to have 20 mouths going out of here amen does that make sense I mean come on if you want if you have a message it needs to go to the world you need to give it to as many people as possible does that make sense I'm trying to break some most Christians don't think things through they just spout things out you know but now notice I know these it's amazing these people that are bad mouth preachers that are living out the law of sowing and reaping and yet these same people if they were offered a job at $1,000 a week increase payroll increase they'd jump at it right and they'd say oh s Jesus he's blessing me but they don't see the blessing of God on other people's lives but these same people that would that a blast a preacher you know they they every week man they're buying a lottery ticket think about that well at least the preachers trusting God right not the God of luck or Lady Luck or whatever it is right or there they're sneaking off up to casinos to gamble do you give that and I know these people I know people that do this right and that's what and yet they'll blast a preacher because he's prosperous because he trusts God and he and and yet God is blessing and yet they're broke always had been broke and they will remain broke they're not a blessing to anybody not even their own family because they can't afford to take care of their own family that is not the will of God God's will is that we can take care of our own and others amen I mean I would love for you to come and tell me hey I just had this invention I got it patented and now you know I made you know six million dollars off of it and we're planting Bible schools and churches and in 200k I would rejoice with you amen not great man picked this message out there run with it get it out there to him that's why we do the things that we do with the Bible school and things like this that we give it away to people as much as we can right and so one is because we're wanting this message to reach the world but to do that we have to understand that see the idea that God doesn't want you to prosper bleeds over into everything else you do and and because that it creates in you the expectation to remain without so we can't think that way that's not God's will right so finally Ephesians 3:20 now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think what does that mean that means that God wants and can do beyond what we can ask or think so let me just put it to you this way whatever you're thinking or asking God for it ain't is big is what God wants to do because God can do more than what you can ask for think that means there are no limits in what God can do except you you limit what he can do through you okay no here's here's what we're done don't sabotage your blessing by not believing that God wants to do more for you and through you Philippians 4:19 says but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus here's the point you realize God does not meet your need according to the economy of the country you live in he meets your need according to the resources of heaven right let me give you an example let me ask you this do how many $1 bills do you think Donald Trump not as president but as businessman or whatever how many $1 bills do you think he cares around in his pocket every day yeah probably none right I guarantee you if he carries money I guarantee you the ratio of bills from $100 down to $1 $100 the ratio is a it's a bigger number for the hundred dollars than it is the one dollar a mint you get that what now yeah most people actually at this point have gotten to a point where they don't even carry cash you know they got a car to whatever it is but the reason I'm saying that it's because this if Donald Trump businessman not president but his business man was going to try to meet your need he's not going to look at you and go well what if what have you got let's see how we can rearrange your stuff you could sell the car you could sell maybe you could sell some of your furniture and you would have enough money to pay your rent you think that's how he would think no he would think in terms of how he thinks not in terms of how you might think you get that so if God's going to meet your needs according to his riches in glory he's going to meet your needs according to how he thinks not according to how you think are the world thinks you give that I mean thing but if you ask God hey would you give me a handout God would you know I mean he streets are paved with gold he's gonna throw you you know he's not going to toss you a quarter right he doesn't think that small that makes sense so if he doesn't think that small and we're at the mind of Christ we shouldn't think that small okay say all I'm talking about is realizing that the word impossible is just a word and it doesn't apply to God or to you if you have faith in God amen because you can do all things well you know I'd start that business and I think I'd do really good at it you know if I just had this but I but I know that's impossible because I you know I just I just don't have the backing excuse me you're backed by heaven right but if you limit your backing to your job didn't guess what you're not going to have it but if you expand your backing to heaven then God can be even if you're working a nine-to-five salary job God will find a way if you're trusting him to start that business or whatever else is God will find a way he'll either bring a partner in he'll bring somebody along it says I want you to run this for me and then you'll end up owning that somehow God will move heaven and earth to align with your faith in Him the problem is most people have what they believe and most people believe really small see I believed in that I believed really small at one point I believed in that and that's why I only you know ministered one person at a time one because that's what God God put my hand and that one person got in it and then I heard a man speak that thought bigger his name was TL Osborn and JL offering God a steel oven how many of these people can I heal at a time can I heal 50 at one time yeah God your your God of course you can can I heal 500 at one time yeah you can't have them can I heal 5,000 yeah God your God you can heal 5,000 at one time he said then you just speak the word and can I heal him all yep didn't speak the word and I'll heal them all and he said and when I heard that God got bigger in my mind oh wow yeah I can lay hands on people individually or I can and now I've been in the country were there were 120,000 people in one meeting and I said how many of you are sick and there was over 10,000 hands that went up we got to some video gen tha's was in the Zimbabwe 10,000 10,000 hands went up and I had like two minutes I couldn't teach I wasn't trying to build their faith I was there to demonstrate Authority and I gave a command of healing and said be healed in Jesus name demons leave sickness go be healed I gave the command I said now check yourself and if you were healed and can tell it stand up raise your hand we want to say and they said they counted they approximately approximately 10,000 people stood up one command one because it was God's meeting their need from heaven not us meeting their needs from Earth God wants to supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus do you realize what that means you have no limits you've got an unlimited backer in anything you put your hand to you can put your hand to people they'll get well you put your into business it'll prosper it may not always look like it's prosper me but guess what when it doesn't go oh no you don't know you you shut up mountain get out of the way you can't do this because you're gonna prosper what because he said whatever I put my hand to will prosper amen this is how we don't sabotage your blessing God has given it don't refuse it about believing differently amen now I'm gonna hand these hand out I haven't like they're gonna hand these handouts to you I know this wouldn't live longer but I think you'll see it was worth it if you will put this into practice now this page is called I don't want to sabotage my blessing and it's just I want you to take this home fill it out you don't have to bring it back but I want you to fill that do it alone you can do it if you have a spouse that's good you can do it together but think about you think what you're looking at here this is about you and God okay it has six questions number one what does God want me to do what is his plan for your life okay number two what does God want me to believe about him that will allow him to do what he wants to do through me in other words how do you have to change your mind to allow God to do what he really wants to do through you number three what do I believe right now that doesn't allow me to receive God's blessings well you know this I know he wants to keep me poor so I'll stay humble and there poor people are some of the proudest people I've ever met right yeah it's amazing look at something but the whole whole idea what tradition do you believe that is stopping God's blessings from flowing through your life in what way are you rejecting you might not think you are but in some way if you're not walking the fullness of God's blessings somehow you are resisting and rejecting God's blessing because he's given now you have to change your mind to be able to walk in those blessings number four where did I learn the wrong doctrine that became a stronghold whatever was whatever idea that is the answer number three that's a stronghold where did you learn that go back who told me that first who took well you know if you don't pay your tithe God will make you sick you have to pay it to the doctors you know he has a way of making sure he gets his time one way or another well if you're giving it to the doctors he ain't getting it right so don't don't make it seem like God's doing this huh no that's not the way worth but you may have heard that kind of thing go back and figure out where did I hear that and then that'll take you back to saying okay now I have to reject that never finally number five who are the people around me that helped reinforce that stronghold who am i listening to that'll say oh don't do that you know cuz I mean you know God God may not want you to do that he might I want you you know he makes he gives some people to be blessed and other people not to be blessed there's nowhere in the Bible okay so who around you is putting doubt unbelief and helping build strongholds of doubt and unbelief in your life whoever they are be nice be polite but separate yourself from what you will never fulfill God's will for your life if you surround yourself with jobs comforters right you have to surround yourself what you have to surround yourself with people that will constantly not look at who you are and where you are but look at who God is in you and what he has for you see that's what prophecy really is it's not proceeding seldom is about where you are right now prophecy is always calling out of you the good things that God has put in you to say this is how God sees you see and so what you need is to surround yourself with people that will prophesy to you on a regular basis until you know God created you for bigger for better for greater things he created you to be a blessing he created you to serve people in this way I've been able to feed the hungry you know I heard the other day what's the name Tony Robbins say he feeds three million people a year with his charity Tony Robbins one man feeds three million people a year every Christian ought to be able to outdo him think about that it's amazing that one person can do that and then in the church well you know it's because we're self-centered and we think that this whole thing centers around us not about reaching the homeless not about reaching the hurting not about reaching people that are that are hungry anything well God's going to keep me poor to keep me humble know what that what what's happening there is that you're not being able to be a blessing to other people and it's because you're selfish because your mind is on you and you think God is doing that to you well now what he's done is he's actually blessed you but you refuse to accept it so number six who are the people around me that I know that help me change my mindset every day does he we just talked about the people now get a look at this yeah I gave you a list of five names five spaces for the people that helped reinforce the stronghold of doubt and unbelief then I gave you five spaces for the people that helped you change your mindset to a godly mindset to a Bible mindset and hopefully your list of people that give you a godly mindset is longer than the list of people that give you a stronghold mindset because I can tell you this whichever list is longer that's how you're going to end up that's what that's where you're going to end up right that's the old story you know two different animals whichever one you feed that's the one that wins and when you have if you have five people talking doubt five people are talking positive you're going to stay where you are and never change or at the very least you will start to go negative because everything runs down but if you can start eliminating the negative and start emphasizing the people that encourage you and push you forward and give you positive feedback if you can increase that number then you will start to watch yourself move up amen is there anybody here against moving up alright make sure I'm talking the right crowd here right good the art will pray for you cast that religious devil out so anyway y'all get anything out of this this morning amen amen all right well now those of you that are watching by internet listening to us right now and those here local also if you have not made Jesus Lord of your life you need to do it now right now make him the lord of your life the blessings of God God makes the Sun to shine to Justin the unjust but let me tell you whenever you align yourself with God and you make Jesus the Lord of your life everything starts to turn around and starts to change especially if you're getting a hold of truth but the first step to walk in the fullness of the blessing of God is making Jesus Lord Jesus died so that he could be your Lord and now he asks you to live with him as your Lord so that he can live his life through you so make Jesus Lord that's very something you say out of that very someone Jesus you are Lord and I take you as my lord I make you my Lord and I will obey you and when you do that guess what happens you get born again and when you get born again you get recreated when you get recreated all the old stuff gets taken out and everything good gets put in you and you know you're a brand new person you got a brand new life and what I've been talking about today is how to live this brand new life this life of Dominion that we call Dominion life is the life Jesus died to give you and we're trying to get you to get it so make Jesus the Lord of your life now those of you that whether you have made him Lord or maybe not garlis you're maybe you're sick and body I can tell you right now whether you are whether you belong to God or whether you don't God want you well jesus paid the price for every person to be healed and he wants you well now it's much easier to get well and stay well when you belong to the one that makes you well so that's another reason why it's good to be born again and make Jesus Lord but right now as his representative I have the right and the authority to speak to your body and to command it to be healed so that God's will will be done on earth as it is in heaven if you were standing before God in heaven right now you would be well why because that's God's will no sickness no disease in heaven therefore his will being done on earth or on this earth means that you are to be healed right here and now regardless of any of the other stuff regardless of wine how you got sick why you're sick and you know all the sudden you regardless of all that Jesus died part of it was to make you where you could be well so right now in Jesus name I speak to your body I speak to that sickness and disease right now sickness and disease ailments pains addictions habits right now in Jesus name right now I command you go leave them and never return you have no place in them whatsoever you are defeated and now a representative of Jesus has shown up to tell you and evict you and to tell you to go so sickness and disease go now in Jesus name right now be healed body you will function correctly be healed now head to toe spirit soul and body mentally physically socially every emotionally every area Jesus makes you whole in Jesus name Amen amen there right now begin to do what you couldn't do before check that out that pain is gone used to be there it's not now that tumor it's gone check it out then write us and let us know let us know what's taking place because God is not bound by distance by time you know even if you're watching this by DVD you know six months from the day I preached it his word is alive and well and it is effective right then so you can be healed right now in Jesus name Amen god bless you god bless you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: John G. Lake Ministries

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Keywords: John G. Lake Ministries, JGLM, Curry Blake, Divine Healing Technician, DHT, New Man Seminar, Life Teams, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Dominion Bible Institute, Diversities of Tongues, God's Son Man's Servant, Renewed Mind, Healing in the Atonement, Killing Sacred Cows, iChurch, JGLM Media

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Length: 96min 56sec (5816 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 19 2018