Dreams Part 2

[Music] [Music] morning good morning good to see you again we are going to well thank you thank you I gotta admit here lately I've been taking a break here in there and relaxing a little bit so it's been good but we're gonna talk a little bit about that today as a matter of fact I mentioned some things I don't have a lot for you today and just have a few notes so we will go through these notes this is actually a book I picked up while I was in South Korea I'm not gonna try to put it back together right now but it's neat how they made it so I'll put that back together later so yeah but yeah that's how did my notes right there just one leads to another proverbs chapter one proverbs chapter 1 starting to verse 1 it says the Proverbs of Solomon the son of David king of Israel and that's amazing hear how the first thing that Solomon says here is he says who he is of course and says it's his proverbs but now notice he also named drops first off right out of the bat and says he is the son of David which should give him a little bit of clout among the Hebrew people and then he also says oh yeah by the way son of David king of Israel right so in they says to know wisdom and instruction to perceive the words of understanding to receive the instruction of wisdom justice and judgment and equity to give subtlety to the simple to the young man knowledge and discretion a wise man will hear and will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels to understand a proverb and the interpretation the words of the wise and their dark sayings the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction my son here the instruction of your father and forsake not the law of your mother for they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head and chains about your neck now and if you go through proverbs it is amazing if you want to be wise read proverbs and put it into practice it's just that simple it's not a secret it's right there it's written out tells you how to live protects you basically everything about how to live and it's amazing how many people will quote a proverb every now and then and how many people quote something and then say it's a proverb because they think it's in Proverbs it's not in there like you know cleanliness is next to godliness that's not in the book of proper please keep that one and do it right don't ignore that one that's a good one all right but it's not in the book of Proverbs okay so we talked we started last week talking about dreams and we're gonna talk a little bit more about it a little more focused on it this week too but we're going to take it from the other side you might say and if you remember if you remember last week we started talking about how children are naturally spiritual up until about the age of seven about the age of seven by that time and I don't think I think it's actually a combination of things actually I think one of the reasons why they move away from spirituality at that or being I should say moving away from the recognition of the spirit realm would be a part of the easy way to say it but I think it's twofold number one I think there comes kind of a point where they have to either remove into it or move out of it and by that time they've had a lot of help moving out of it usually about parents teachers different people around them that tell them oh that's nonsense so that's imaginary oh don't look at that you know though you're just making that up and then many times they're not they're actually seeing it in the spirit realm and many times especially if they are and and and I'm I'm trying not to be I'm trying to categorize necessarily but for for example if children are raised in a spirit oriented Church then they're going to be more likely generally to remain aware of the spirit realm as opposed to more of a head knowledge Church you know more of a natural Church and so it's important that children because we all know you know we I've been in situations different churches different places and you know we always say there's no such thing as a junior holy ghost the children don't have a different Holy Spirit than the adult does but many times we treat them like they do and we need to realize that it's the same Spirit of God himself that can inhabit a child that can inhabit an adult and many times the Holy Spirit and child actually has more free rein within a child than they do than he does in an adult and one of the keys to youth ministry I would say it would really be to help nurture that awareness of the spirit realm from the Spirit of God and recognizing the presence of the Spirit of God in their life and doing it from an early age imagine if you had been raised knowing what you know now by coming here if you've been here very long imagine if you've been raised that way imagine if that had been your first understanding of the spirit realm and the first understanding of the Holy Spirit imagine how much you would have missed you know in a good way right it was good that you would have missed it and so our job as parents and teachers of children different things is number one to help introduce them to the Holy Spirit introduce them to Jesus so that he has free reign in their life but also that they recognize his moving in their life and that means that we have to encourage their giftings because the Holy Spirit can gift a child just like he can an adult but many times we push them back I remember there's there's been several cases now where children were here or in other meetings that I was at where I was doing dhts an different things especially when it came time to pray for people and there was a lot of people praying and there were children there that were eight nine ten years old that had been through the whole seminar sat on the front row in many cases made notes I mean literally notes not just drawing you know stick to your drawings but it actually made notes and they would when it came time to start praying for people they would want to pray for people but adults wouldn't let them pray for they just treat him like oh you're a kid go away and they want somebody you know some anointed person to do it and many times they come to me which is great you know I'm glad that they that these children think to come to me and say I want to pray for people with nobody let me and when they do that I'll say okay who needs prayer and everybody will line up because I think I'm gonna pray for them and I get them all in a good line there and I said all right you're all need prayer yep okay now here except right now start praying and I'll let the child pray for them and they they're kind of like are they praying first and then you're gonna pray for us I'm like I'd rather be pray for that child and I wouldn't adult that child just believes right they don't have all this other stuff in their head you know that that generally church has put in there so in the book of Proverbs Solomon was trying to say learn these things if you learn these things you'll have wisdom so we act a lot a lot of times because we know that in the first Corinthians 12 it says that there is the gift of the word of wisdom but that's not everyday wisdom that's that's actually if you go according to what dr. Cimarron taught what Howard Carter caught taught what they but they all taught in there who days of church the gift of the word of wisdom was not well in it's funny because in some areas in non spirit-filled churches circles they thought the gift of the word of wisdom was if you were real smart you obviously God had given you the gift of wisdom well there is no gift of wisdom in that sense not in the nine gifts of the Spirit and first Corinthians but there are there's the gift of the word of wisdom which is just one word of God one thing that he gives you and it has nothing to do with just wisdom as we think of it it actually has to do with the future see what we call prophecy is not really prophecy in the gifts of the Spirit because prophecy according to first Corinthians 12 is actually to exhort and edify and comfort right that's that's not future it means to do prophesy means to bring out or or to bring out to a person or from a person the things that God has in them and just to encourage them to comfort them it is words that God gives by the spirit that meets their need at the time all right but it's not a prophecy but that is what it says not a prophecy that is the purest form of the gift of prophecy and the gift of prophecy technically has no future to it it has no it's not a future thing now we think differently because we talked about prophecies that were fulfilled we think about prophecy somebody given a prophecy or someone see someone given a prophecy and someone prophesying is two different things but we lump them all together and we always think it has something to do with the future the word of wisdom has to do with the future it's in other words God has given you a word of his wisdom about what to do in the future what to do to fix a situation or something you're going to walk into and it's a it's a word that tells you what to do right so the word of wisdom is God's wisdom in you so that you know what to do in that situation but prophecy doesn't have anything to do with a future per se I know it's confusing because we use different terminology and all that stuff but you just kind of got to get used to the way that they weren't they especially the King James Version was written no but going back if and the reason I bring this up is because you were here toward the end I assume and believe me this is not again God is doing something that I had not planned so he's working around me okay and there's no you're gonna do this no no no we need we need to go here because no no no you need to do this that's okay well we will do that and I said it's not gonna flow and he said don't worry about flow worry about effect I said okay okay so we'll worry about effect okay so no and you'll see because then as he put it together I thought okay well that makes sense I said but the people probably won't see it put together until the very end he said that doesn't matter as long as they're listening okay so so listen okay otherwise you're gonna be confused or whatever possibly I don't know now but as we said children are naturally spiritual and I'm bringing this out for a point because I want you to realize it's amazing we work in the early days if you're parenting a lot of times it seems like you're working to try to get them into reality and and the reality is there in reality because they're looking to spirit realm but many times you don't recognize it and you think they're just in you know fantasy world right and you know it was that albert einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge and yet we try to move children out of imagination and into knowledge and then we expect them to be great scientists or whatever else is you know that we try to get them to be and we try to put it in them of what we want them to do many times rather than what necessarily God wants them to do and that's one when they grow up they think well I'm going to college automatically what who said to does God want you to go to college or is he won't you do something else right he might not even want you to go to college right there there's different reasons for different things that he does right you know he may want you to go to college I can't figure out why but he may want you to okay and if he does he'll probably give you the you know fifty or hundred thousand dollars you need to bribe your way in as you know you can do now into the better colleges but if you want wisdom and you want your child to be wise all you have to do is take them to the book of Proverbs you know we have it listed as 31 chapters and generally we have 31 days in a month so really you can read a chapter a day put that into them you know at that night before they go to bed have them read it or record it and play it for me you know get them to read it throughout the day or whatever it is and you put that in them and you know the first and every day go according to the number of the day and just work through it and start over and work do it and start over haven't read other things too obviously but this should be a constant thing in them this should be their normal habit and if you do that they will have wisdom it's just that simple if you listen you read it and you put it into practice you will have wisdom amen no because I'm trying to tie these two things together actually what would do that here but as we said you know when we talk about dreams because and you say what do you talk about wisdom and dreams it's because the last thing you okay the number one area you need wisdom is in your dreams now in this case I'm gonna talk about the dreams you get while you're asleep and that's of course those are godly dreams and not pizza dreams like we talked about last time okay if you have godly dreams now those dreams will be from God obviously and it helps show you things I've had several dreams and and I've had one dream especially that has been consistent over about the last five years and it happens about every about every three months it'll come back around and it'll stay with me until it starts to fade off and then it'll happen again but it stays with me and so right now it's a friend of mine many of you know him Kim Monroe that we've talked extensively over different things and and there was a time where he asked me poor Mike he said what dreams have you been having what's the dream God given you and I said what do you mean dream god-given dream you mean like a dream a vision a future a plan a goal or that country or no no no while you're asleep what dreams are you having and I said well I'm I don't know if this is from God or not I said but that's what because but it stays with me it's kind of a strange thing I said I'm not sure and I explained it to him and he said here's this and this is it and I'm like wow okay that makes sense and since then I haven't had it as often but when I do it's more impacting but it's the same thing over and over again and what he and it's funny you know if you we talk about Joseph and his dream last time and now he had two and same thing with Daniel how they were able to interpret dreams and if you ever noticed that the interpretation of the dreams they the interpret you look at me think how in the world did you get that interpretation because it has nothing to do with a dream you know in other words would be like you know I saw a cow standing in the middle of the road oh that says that you're going to someday go to South Africa and it's like how do you get that what do cows standard millet I've never seen a cow in the middle of the road in South Africa I've been there many times never ostrich yes cows no so how could you see sometimes God gives you the interpretation the interpretation has nothing to do with the actual visuals of the dream and you can see that with Daniel you see that with Joseph sometimes some of Joseph's dreams you could actually go oh okay I could see that but many times the interpretation but whenever you hear it if it's right you'll go it just clicks as I yeah that's exactly right and it alleviates the question that's how you know it's real a lot of times because it will alleviate the question in your mind of what does that mean so when you talk about this you know Oral Roberts had two signs on his desk if you walked into his office that large officer but if you walk to his office he had two signs on his desk one sign said make no small plans make no small plans nothing about that that's just what he had on there and then the second one his mother told him to put it on there totally you should always keep this in front of you there's another sign that said always stay humble in your own eyes and so that's from his mother but he had those two signs on his desk now think about this make no small plans but always stay humble you see how those two things fit together he could have made he could have said make no small plans and he could have went off into ego could have went off into all kinds of personal stuff but on the other hand this said always stay humble and that balances you don't have a sign of my office I got a bunch of the sons in the office parent one of them says when do you feel like quitting remember why you started and that's the one that's most prominent in my office and because I always go back to why I do what I do and so but though that dream no I'll give you another thing and I want to I'm trying to show you some things because there are some things many of you have had going on in your own heart that maybe you didn't even think was a dream or maybe it was something that was impacting to you at one point but then you kind of buried it why because just life happens you know and you just kind of you start out with a dream you want to do this and you end up going this direction and you end up settling for a job that you don't even like you know the worst thing that what was it Myles Munroe said the worst thing you can do is be successful at the wrong thing well because many times when you're successful with the wrong thing you end up getting locked into something that has no life in it for you and you know I can't imagine especially well I've never a nine-to-five type of person because whatever I'm into I'm a hundred percent in so it was never nine-to-five no matter what I did it was from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed and many times even dreamed while I was sleeping about the very thing one because I was completely consumed by no matter what I've done always been completely consumed by it and John Lake was talking about a time whenever there was a man that he worked for it was a big insurance company and he went into this man's office and there was this mahogany desk it's a beautiful desk hand-carved and graved all this and had the man's name engraved on the on the top of it and he remembered looking at that and thinking man that is beautiful I want to have something like that someday and then he left and didn't even think about it and then several years later I think it was almost almost ten years later ten or maybe even longer that he was hired for an insurance company to actually oversee some of their investments and whenever they and they gave him an office when they hired him and whenever they showed him his office they walked in and there was a desk that looked identical to the one he had seen years before and it had his name engraved on it he had never told one person about that but what deep calls unto deep there are things that are in you that's in there and this is the problem see people don't realize what's in them sometimes and what's in you is what you're having because what's in you comes out in your words even if it's not specific it's in there because you have several months you know and and you you can be talking and yet at the same time thinking about something else right you ever done that ever listen to somebody and you're thinking hopefully you're not doing that now listen to me and think of but but does that make sense because you've got that and there are some there's things going on in you and you have what what people now they're calling self talk and all that kind of stuff and you know you can be talking positive outward and putting on a good front and yet inward have this negative self-talk and the bad part is you can only fake it for so long because before very long what is in you out of the abundance of your heart your mouth will speak and honestly you your mouth didn't even have to speak because how many know that the one major overlying rule or law in the universe as a law of sowing and reaping then right what you're living right now is you're reaping of what you've been saying and doing and thinking years in the years before and it's in its and people in it it's sad because many times you can hear people you know they'll get into you know kind of the confession message they'll hear that which for me is one of the most important things I've ever learned and that's just simply agree with the Word of God you know people call it confession they call it acknowledgments all these different things but honestly it's just agreeing with the Word of God that's all you really do it but then you've got people that hear that message you know they'll go to Tulsa they'll hear the message on confession and there was an OK I could have anything I want I'm gonna start saying if I just said and they say it say it say it said in on afraid they're not saying it because they believe it because the kita to confession technically is you have to believe it in your heart and say it with your mouth and watch and even if you now you can say it until you believe it but you have to realize a lot of people never believe it and they just say it and when you say things you don't believe now you're just doing vain repetitions which Jesus said not to do so there comes a point where it's better to settle down first and make sure you believe something and then start saying it but many times you're saying one thing and that's what we see in the church lot people saying one thing and yet inside them they have a whole different self-image and they have a whole different self-talk going on inside and the bad part is if they're fooling anybody they're only fooling themselves because everybody can tell where you are spiritually by your life because your life is the result of what is in your spirit and what's in at least in your mind that's overriding your spirit because in the spirit you're blessed you're healed if you're born again okay you're blessed you're you're healed all these things are in you and it's who you are in the spirit but if your mind has not been renewed to the Word of God to the point where you actually agree with the spirit and not just with words word only you know we don't Bible says not to love and word only but also indeed what you and loving word only you can faith in word only you can you know all these you can peace in word only right in other words what that mean that means that when you walk in the door and say how you doing oh blessed and highly favored and you went in that way in the parking lot right so I mean it's somewhere there's a you know a split right and so the key is to not have something inside of you that's sabotaging and I'm talking about a mindset or a thought pattern and we're going to talk a little bit about that today because if you're gonna have God's dream for you come through your life you're gonna have to get your mind in alignment with your spirit which is in alignment with his spirit and all that has to line up when you do you start to see a difference in your life and so really it comes down then I mean we are spirit beings as a whole but we are spirit soul and body and the problem is many times our soul in our body have ganged up against our spirit because our soul in our body are so used to the natural things and our spirit is in your spirit really doesn't think about so much about the natural realm of what's going on it just knows what reality is and the reality is what God says it is so your spirits thinking one thing but your body's saying you know your spirits saying nothing shall by any means hurt me and yet your mind is listening to the news your soul is listening to news right and because you've caught something before your body has been sick before then your body and your mind agree well that's what I did but but so that thing about nothing can by no means hurt me that that's not true because I've experienced something different what that doesn't mean anything what's true is what God said is true and then whenever you get your body in your mind and your soul in alignment with your spirit now what is in your spirit becomes true for you but until then your body and your soul are going to allow things to happen and then you take that as the final you know final statement on it and all of a sudden now you think well that can't be true oh then it must be when I get to heaven no it's for here but most people never take the time to actually train their soul and their body to function the way it was meant to which is in conjunction with their spirit now we're going to look at the you know I just wrote down some basic neried a couple OOP to you it is built into every human being born on this earth to dream a big dream for their life it's it's just born into you and the thing is in the early years you have these big dreams as a child you mate you think I'm gonna be an astronaut when I grow up I'm gonna be a fireman I'm gonna play and it's always a hero right always somebody either important somebody helpful somebody you know heroes something and these children have big dreams and then you know they get a teacher in school that says well now you know we're gonna have to hold you back because you're not as smart as the rest of the class and all of a sudden you realize well I probably won't be able to be an astronaut if I'm not as smart as everybody else you know and there was the experiment I'm sure you've already heard about it but the teachers they didn't even tell the teachers but they pulled together a group of people and approached you to gather all the information on it but I'm telling you the best I remember it but they pulled these kids together and they pulled all their files and they changed their files and they put them into two groups and now these children were all the same intellectually according to their grades previously but when they move them to the next grade they changed their files and they said these half of this class after these group is behind and they are slow learners and the other half are gifted and they told the teach that gave the teachers those files and the teachers treated the gifted children like they were gifted and treated the slow children like they were slow and guess what it was a self-fulfilling prophecy as we would say and then the children that were and they were all the same but the children that were treated slower became slower and the children that were treated gifted became gifted it was all based on how they were what was expected of them and think about that so that means that you can literally shape the child's intelligence you can shape the child's future in many ways because what are you doing whenever you treat them that way you are forming a self-image in them now think about this what is God's image of you because that's the image it counts what does God say about you well I can tell you what his image in for you is is Jesus Christ because you are to be conformed to the image of his son and they're right you'd be to be conformed to the image of Christ we were to have the mind of Christ functioning in it so if that's the the if that's who we're supposed to be functioning like it's if that's who were to be conformed to the image of that means that we have the capacity to be like him amen so we're all born to dream big dreams the the problem is many times well and more you need wisdom which is where I was going earlier where you need wisdom is to be able to differentiate between the God dreams and just maybe some good dreams right and so you have to be able to tell what is from God what does God want for you right now it's amazing because god I always said God is a equal opportunity blesser you know he basically says here you go there every person has access to this what do you want to do with it but most people but it the bad part is you can go to different churches and different churches we'll put this this should hold this one and show you this there's God they'll take this and go okay yeah but here's here's God's image of you here's what God wants you to have - this page we can't have this page and now - I'm gonna take out the whole 1st Corinthians chapter 12 to rip that whole thing out because that's not what we're doing anymore take out mark 16 take out Matthew 28 except the part that says to go and witness you got to do that or God doesn't love you you know so they'll put you in depending on the church you go into they have a box and and they help you decide what God's dream is for you but the real key is find out what did God say his dream for this say and they'll put you in and you know I've been in places and I'm probably gonna talk about this too because some of the main areas that there's been so much confusion was almost every area to be honest with you everything I look at I find sacred cows whenever you go back to the Bible and see what it says talk about spiritual warfare the sacred cows in the church about spiritual warfare talk about faith or sacred cows about faith healing we all know there's sacred cows about healing in the church right and you talk about everything but the two areas the two main areas where people need the most help is in the area of health or healing and finances and it's amazing because people blast me a lot of times they said why why do you only talk about healing that's all you asked me to talk about I'm sorry when I go places you know that they'll say would you come to a DHD the divine healing technician training I say yeah I'll come I'll come teach the DHD then I get there and somebody write a question sitting in the other zone why are you only talking about healing because that's what they scheduled me to talk about it's not the only thing I know but it's what they wanted me to talk about so I'll talk about that and but the funny thing is I can talk about healing some people get upset about that but if you talk about finances a lot of people get upset about that right because always in for it for the money well I can tell you it isn't I don't I don't get any paycheck from this church right I matter of fact there have been times when we have put money in to keep the thing going to pay the rent and stuff there's been times like that so it's not I don't do this for the money amen I do it to help people I'd do it to help some of the things I've learned to share those things the matter of fact that was a hard thing for me because I was raised really almost I would say was trained to be double minded because my parents might my dad was a policeman so we had strict laws understandings you know things like their rules which I found everywhere to get around them but nevertheless they were they were the rules were there regardless you know to to journey the two worst people in town is you know the preacher's kid and the policeman's kid and and I ended up being both you know my dad was a policeman my mom was a preacher so what do you know what you do that so I had both worlds you know but the amazing thing was is that the way I was raised we'd go to church and I'd hear a lot of condemnation especially in the Pentecostal church Baptist Church wasn't so much we didn't hear there as much but and we were kind of bouncing between the two because well we had to kind of my dad was the Baptist Church was the social Church to go to in community after all the deals were made it's where all that you know all the stuff happen the Pentecostal church was across the tracks and it was not looked up to or you know you were kind of frowned upon if you went there but those were the two churches we went to and there was a you know you'd hear all that well you can't do this well you don't do that all you do that you do that you go to hell and after all you do that you'll wish you went to hell you know because that's it's really bad but you know God will forgive you but the Pentecostal church that wouldn't that way it's pretty much you know soon as you do it you don't know and if you it's certain see I could never live in California as a Pentecost I return the ground shook I think it was opened up hell was gonna swallow me up as you know so but that's just the way it was we just kind of expected it you know and so I got I heard that it was a whole bunch of thou shalt nots you know not much thou shalt write which Jesus was more about thou shalt than he was about thou shalt not right and so I was raised but the thing was I heard that in church this is the amazing thing I heard all the negative stuff in church and yet my mom and dad were extremely positive and and every I never heard from my parents they never told me you can't do something you know they said they would tell me no don't do wrong don't do this yeah I heard that but I mean they would never tell me what they did tell me was this whatever you put your mind to you can do you can do it don't ever let me tell you you can't do it you can do it anything you want to do you can do anything you want to be you can be right Stonewall Jackson if you remember the Confederate General I know it's not politically correct to quote these guys now but nevertheless he still said it and he said it is a truth that you can resolve you you can be whatever you resolve to be and that was his philosophy that's what he understood thing and he was a strong Christian as a matter of fact so but I was always told whatever you whatever you want to do in life you can do it I never heard that I couldn't do I never heard you're stupid and my parents never call me names then they never called me a name they never put me down and everything none of that I never got any of that most of them they I was an only child well not most times I was always an only child but because of that I was raised around mostly adults and so they treated me like an adult they talking about can adult and when I heard adults talking I didn't understand certain words so I got a dictionary and I'd run the other room and look up the word and figure out what they were saying come back in and you know miss part of the conversation but that's how I learned and so I wasn't I was always taught and so from early on I've always been extremely positive optimistic and knew that whatever you know was in front of me I could achieve if that's if I decided to do it and then whenever I really got in the Bible age 9 and started reading the Bible my mom taught me how to read obviously using the King James's most we know but from age 9 when I accepted Jesus as Lord and gave myself to him then I started reading the Bible in earnest for myself and from that time all the way to 17 when I actually entered ministry started entering into ministry I just read the Bible a lot and then I started finding out that I can do all things through Christ and I thought man that just turbocharged everything you know and before I knew I could do it but now I know that I can do it because Jesus is in me that changes everything all of a sudden it's like I can't fail how can I fail if Jesus is with me right now if I can do all things through Christ and there's nothing I can't do amen all things are possible in the believes will bless God let me find something to believe right if it's all possible in the believes I want to believe something right and I want to believe the good stuff I don't believe the right stuff amen and so I started that that's just always been in me so when I got around people that were negative or you get around people that call their kids names and stuff I just a man it shocked me when I would hear things you know parents say things to their kids or about their kids and I think man you know you don't realize what you're putting into that child and so anyway you know what I'm really talking about though is what dreams because I know there are so many Christians and then this is what I get emails letters all kind stuff from people asking me these questions and as I said I you know I could go we were talked about this the other day that I could go teach on nuclear fission and that's there are there any question they say is it God's will to heal I said it wouldn't it wouldn't matter what I'm teaching on I'm going to get healing questions okay and I don't mind that I mean that's you know I thank God I'm grateful to God that he's given me some wisdom and knowledge in that area and that we've seen it effective so I'm thankful for it but it's just funny because that's automatically where it goes no matter what I teach on it's going to go back to healing and even if I start teaching on something is going to go back to healing generally speaking but I know and but the other thing that I get from people a lot of times is you know what does God's will for my life what I'm supposed to do you know would you prophesy and tell me what God's will is that's not the purpose of prophecy that's not the purpose the purpose is to encourage and to edify and to comfort into to build up and and it's not for me to be your Holy Spirit to tell you here take this job don't take that job live here get this house buy this car that's that's more that that stuff was happening in the 70s and it got way off and it caused a lot of problems God wants to be your Holy Spirit he wants to lead and guide you and but here's the beauty of it and one of the main things you know we've we've emphasized a lot of times of walking with God and being a certain way but we have to rise to you know God knows that we don't necessarily always hear him perfectly so there's grace that if you make a mistake you didn't hear Purvi you didn't make the right step you didn't you know you made a wrong deal you did something wrong okay there's there's grace err gobble go you know what you messed up okay recognize why and get back on track right and keep going you're still breathing they're still hope amen but a lot of people you know you made that mistake that's it you know and then they cut you off for that and that's one of the problems is that we want grace for ourselves we want judgment for everybody else and now you know I've said all these recently even more so but still here's the thing as I said before it's built into every human being to dream a big dream for their life and and a lot of the people that write me or that I see in meetings they'll say well you know what does God want want me to do with my life and I said well I don't know you know I know he wants you to be conformed to the image of Christ you know I know he wants you to love God and love your neighbor do to them what you would do for have done to yourself those are Givens all right I know that now specifically where to live what job to take I don't know that and this God told me specifically but one thing is that I've learned is that what God too often we want all the details which totally takes the idea of faith out of the picture see faith it's funny because faith knows and yet it doesn't know what I mean well that is this faith knows okay let's say for like healing you need healing okay faith is sure that healing is for you and if you're gonna get healed on your own faith you're gonna have to believe you're going to be for sure you have to know that it's God's will to heal you right if you're gonna get it on your own faith now so faith has to know and yet at the same time faith is walking with God without knowing in other words faith is trusting God that the next step is going to be the right one you know and the beauty of it is guess what even if it's not the right one God can fix it he can turn it around right in that right that even if you make the wrong step he'd go okay that's going to take it's going to get a little bit longer to get where I want you to go but you're still going to get there what because you're following him amen and if people get all worked up in this stuff I had in the last week I've gotten two letters from the same person both on the Church of Laodicea and how that's this time and this the whole church world is deceived and which yeah I tend to agree a lot with it yeah but it and then they go through and it's and you know it's funny because I get several different kinds of letters and you can always tell letters that are generated from a religious mind because it the whole page is filled and it's like there's no paragraphs it's just it's like they dictate it into it and it just went straight through there's no spacing there's no usually there's no real punctuation it's just the and and you can usually tell a religious minded person almost I would even say a religious spirit because when they start talking about spiritual things they start talking and they get talking faster and faster and get talking and and all of a thing this just starts building up and they're almost excitable you know they're so excited over it that you can't even understand what you're saying because one sentence runs into the next and I'm not talking about just being excited I'm talking about there is a thing that you can hear that starts to happen when a religious spirit takes over and you can see it whether they are speaking or whether they are writing you'll see it and and it's amazing to me because these people they'll write me and it's always about end time stuff everybody's trying to get me to believe they're in time version and the funny thing is I don't care I could care less right now if God wants to show me what's gonna happen tomorrow I'm open if the Holy Spirit wants to show me now I'm not gonna be swayed by some person you know telling me to run to the hills and hoard up food and water and get ready because in 24 hours you know Armageddon is gonna start which is where a lot of that stuff leads to right but understand if God wants to warn me he can warn me guess what I can hear him and if I'm having a hard time hearing him he's got people that I know and trust that he can talk to me through that doesn't mean that he just talks me through anybody I don't just listen to anybody if I listen to anybody that means I have to listen to everybody and if you listen to everybody you just gonna be really confused right because hardly anybody saying the same thing right but all these people want arriving they want to tell if these in time stuff and I could I'm telling you I could care less about in times right because all that matters is are you right with God or your loving God are you loving people are you doing to others what you wander if you're doing that whatever comes next doesn't matter what because God's going to take care of you in it or take you out of here you know who knows whatever it is right bottom line is God's gonna be with you in the honestly whatever happens it's gonna take faith so have faith in God amen not have faith in the government to protect you not have faith in this thing or that thing have faith in your water supply right our have faith in your food supply I mean it's you know and you and it doesn't I'm a I'm a strong Second Amendment guy all right and I exercise my rights regularly okay my house I can step out the back door and shoot guns right and I do it regularly right and my next-door neighbor does the same thing we get that sometimes you think there was a gun battle going on get here you know we're both shooting all right so I enjoy guns have always been around guns I enjoy shooting them I'm decent at it so you know I enjoy it but I'm not a fool to believe that if no and I even have a shirt that says you know the Second Amendment doesn't change just because technology changes right I have another shirt that says if you're coming for mine you better bring yours I just let you know okay just for disclosure okay but I'm not a fool to think that an individual could withstand a governmental takeover in that sense it's not gonna happen yeah I think there are technologies too good right it is you're not going to do anything about it may best thing you do is vote that's the best thing you can do right if you want to if you want to preserve rights and preserve it vote all right and listen this is totally derail but anyway it's all right it's all true okay and and I've had people cuz they you know I you know we there's a concealed carry license here and died in Texas and even open carry so but and and I practice that all right at the same time the other well you you're a preacher why you carry gun anything for me say I get to choose if I let you do something to me or not I get to choose that but if I come upon a scene where there is someone in danger that's what that's for it's to help somebody else it's not for myself myself I can make that decision or if a police officer needs assistance amen I'll be there to assist which the best thing to do is give him your pistol action that's whole nother thing you know last thing you want to do in a gunfight is walk up behind the policeman carrying your gun that's you just don't want to do that that's not a good situation listen unless they know you very well okay but all I'm saying is that I don't even know what I'm saying that but anyway it's talking about dreams that's what is dreams there we go but anyway but I get these letters from people trying to tell me what in time thing and honestly none of that matters and I see so many Christians that are hung up on these tangents these things that don't matter you know what matters okay are you right with God if you died right now where would you go that's what matters beyond that the future doesn't matter you know I'm talking about endtime stuff right what matters is that no matter what happens you're you can walk with God because it like I said last time I have people all time well I just yeah oh the mark of the beast that's coming they're gonna put it in here the chip in your head okay you know that could be true things are moving that direction if you want to believe that you could different believe that right I'm not saying I don't believe it I'm not saying I do believe it I'm not going to tell you my position on it right cuz I'm not gonna try to sway you and your position but I'm just saying that there are things all over the world right now that are moving toward a cashless society because that's the only true control right and so there is things like that that's going on so that's a you know definitely possibility and even if it wasn't an end time scenario it could still be a political scenario right and just because this political doesn't mean it's necessarily in times C that's what product that's what happened during World War two Oh Hitler oh he's the Antichrist Oh Mussolini he's the Antichrist no no okay there did Joseph Stalin he's the Antichrist you know until he died and all their Antichrist died and then they got nothing to say right eighty-eight reasons why Jesus is returning in 1988-89 reasons why he didn't return in 1988 I mean every year they have to upgrade their book so it doesn't matter right what counts is are you walking with God do you trust God do you know God what would happen now now beyond knowing where you would go if you drop dead beyond that it's not the end times you need to concern yourself with its the now times how to live now how to live free of sickness and disease now amen how to live prosperous now you say why you know why you talk about that because believe it or not listen um there's some stuff I actually jotted some notes that I want to share with you on purpose because these are the two areas where most people need help in and recently as I told you the other day I was talking the week I took off just to spend talking with God and then talk to myself also know sometimes you know you just need to look in the mirror and talk to yourself you ever notice that you listen to me don't look down when I talk to you talk looked right at me okay look me in the eye right there's times when you have to just talk to yourself and so I was I was able to get off by myself and I met this man and we talked and we had pretty much had dinner each evening and we would talk for about two hours and it was it was a great time and he was multi-millionaire and was talking some investments of stuff but he was really interested in he had heard about me and so we I got to give him testimonies and different things and show him some videos and different stuff and it's just it was a great time to spend together and in that but he was a he's a very successful businessman and so we started talking about things and and he was asking me about how we do you know our finances you know investments or I'm like I invest in the kingdom I don't have any investments anywhere else I don't have investments in stock or anything you know other we just invest in the kingdom is basically what we do and so he was asked me about how we did this and I said well essentially it's real simple basically the way I live my life and these are two of the things that came out in the talking I didn't realize and he kind of brought him out just because of the questions he was asking but number one the probably the number one thing in my life is I'm extremely all the time grateful to God for what he's done what he's done in my life what he's done in me what he's done for me what he does with me how he works through me I people have no idea how grateful because I'm saying I shouldn't be I should be dead I've had guns pulled on me knives pulled on me I was run over by a car when I was a kid I mean I should be dead but I'm still here and and you know functioning you know I could be even when I got hit by the car I could have been in a ward somewhere the rest of my life mentally incapable to do anything so I'm just thankful that I'm here I should be dead and you know if I'm not if I wasn't dead I should be in prison one of the two I mean you know one of the two early on right because my life was just crazy you know and and the bad part was I knew better my dad was a cop you know and a lot of things I did I did because he was a cop because that was my rebellion against him because I was you know feeling certain ways right and you know it was stupid but nevertheless it's what happened but nevertheless Here I am and God took that life that was definitely headed nowhere and turned it around and now he said I'm going to go around the world and see all kinds of amazing things and you know be people say I'm a blessing to them so he's allowed me to be that and I'm just thankful and grateful for every day and that I get to do and the thing is because we were talking about dreams and and these goes and I never knew really what dream was in me I had certain ideas I had certain things that I could see in certain areas I was moving toward but I remember whatever I was trying to decide if I should go into full-time ministry or not because I already had a career I had actually had several careers in my life but my main career was I said before was in martial arts and I was looking at opening schools across the country and I had three here in Dallas and it was setting up kind of a chain of schools but God had a different dream so that was that was my dream but it wasn't God's dream for me and so I remember because when we started talking and I told God I said okay should I go into ministry I should or not and I he basically because what my question was he asked me what would you what could you do to do the most good for the most people for longest time I said that had it be ministry because that's ministry I could help more people I could do okay I could help more people better and I could help them because there's no other field that I could help them eternally but in ministry I could help people eternally now just because I understand that didn't mean that that that I should go into ministry because of that right because you're a minister whether you're in ministry or not but I didn't understand that at that time and so for me it was like yeah okay and I'll never forget because I was I remember thinking at that time I was working also I had uh I was in fast food management and I'm ever thinking that's the reference that God used because I was giving people a meal that would last a couple of hours and then they'd have to get another meal and I could only help the people that actually came into the restaurant where I was at so I could only help a certain amount of people for a certain amount of time and I sure couldn't help them eternally but I knew in ministry I could help a lot more people and I could have them for a lot longer right and so for me and I'm never thinking well if I was to go down to the Texas Employment Commission and try to find a job they're gonna ask me what I like what I'm good at in these areas and they're going to try to put me in a job where I would fit and I would enjoy it because they know if you they put you in a job you hate they either got to pay you a whole lot of money to stay there or you're not going to stay there and so I said well god is at least as smart as a Texas Employment Commission right so he knew that he had to put me in a field that I would enjoy what I do and that I would be proficient at it so that because of his gifting that would make it to where I would want to do it and would enjoy doing it amen and the real key see yeah I can tell you if you're in the job you're supposed to be doing I can tell you how to figure how many of you want to know if you are doing the job you're supposed to be doing I'm you know okay there's two okay okay the rest you like no I don't want to know because I might have to quit my job no yeah you're in the job you're supposed to be doing if you can do two things number one if you don't wake up every morning dreading going to that job okay if you if you wake up dreading going to that job that's not your job you're supposed to be in I don't care how much money they pay you because it's messing you up right number two if it's the job you're supposed to be in you would do it even if they didn't pay you what because if you do the job that God has for you he'll pay you right whenever I first started ministry I didn't get paid to minister I paid to go Minister I did I didn't go I didn't get offerings I didn't they didn't even take up offerings I would go and I would pay for the gas to get there I'd pay for my hotel to stay there and I didn't get anything coming back but God always met my needs he always took care of us right but the key is if you're if you're doing want you what god has for you you would do it for free you would do it even if you had to pay to do it right what because that's that's what's in you and you and you in the thing you know people don't always say well you know find what you love to do well that's true but you also have to know that your mind is renewed to love what God wants you to love right because you can love the wrong thing amen so no no I need to hurry here but God intended if God put it in you to dream big dreams it's because God intended every person to be great he said well you know automatically you have to stop and think what do you mean by great because what God means by great means by how many people you can serve remember that's what Jesus said he that would be great among you must be the servant of all and they're right so God's measurement of greatness is not your fame your fortune your reputation none of that it's how many people are you serving how many people are you helping right and you can do that no matter what job you got because your job shouldn't be all-encompassing to the point where you're not helping people other than at your job right so Jesus even told his own followers how to be great which was as we just said to serve children are naturally or we should say automatically spirit minded like I said up until about the age of seven unless it's trained out of them then when they come to Christ didn't it's amazing up until seven they're spiritually minded then we start training it out of them then when they get saved at you know fifteen twenty forty whatever the ages they spend the rest of their life trying to get back to where they were as kids of being spiritually minded what if we could just keep them spiritually minded and they never had to grow out of it imagine that imagine where you'd be if you have been spiritually minded all your life imagine the difference imagine the different viewpoint because at that and then having truth of the word of God because you can be spiritually minded meaning minding spiritual things and yet if you have the wrong view of God then you're spiritually mindedness is not going to really benefit you or anybody else because you can you can love spiritual things you can love spending time in prayer you can love spending time you know speaking in tongues or whatever it is you can enjoy the spiritual atmosphere of a church but if you think God is sitting on his throne like Zeus throwing down lightning bolts and just waiting for the chance to smack you down waiting for you to mess up so he can smash you down then your spiritual mindedness isn't going to help you it's only going to teach you to be more afraid of God and it said because we have to realize that if God listen if God was mad at you you in trouble Amen it's like we ran to the other week whenever they said when God told him he said you know you what you said about me I'll be that to you and your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness and whenever even whenever he spoke to a bimolecular a dead man that's not good right and and yet and it said because that's how a lot of people look at God and they don't realize that if you're in Christ you are in the grace of God and His grace is helping you he's man it's a funny how you say well God is blasting the sinners but trying to bless the Christians and you got some Christian God's trying to blast Christiane's you know just so they'll be better Christians it's amazing because that's not what the Bible says baba says he causes the Sun to shine the rain to fall on the just and the unjust and he said you're gonna have storms in your life and whether you whether your house survives the storm or not it dependent on God it's dependent on whether you build your house on the rock of his word you do what he has said or not in other words he said listen I'm not causing this storm to come on you I'm causing the the no when he said the Sun to shine we all know that's good he says and the rain to fall that's actually good too right because rain and in those days meant crops and it meant your animals were fed and water and all that it meant it was good so what he was saying is God is good to the just and the unjust God is good to you even when you don't deserve it and yet as Christians many times we had this whole different view of God like he's trying to beat us up or do something bad to us and when in the whole time he's trying to say look I want you to be blessed I want you to have a life everything he said was about us having life in abundance right being attached to a machine that you have to drag behind you isn't that life in abundance having to go to the hospital once a week and having dialysis is not life in abundance it's not God's will amen seeing somebody on the side of the road seriously you know really hungry somebody I'm not talking about a partner tournament bum I'm nothing about a person that doesn't want to work for a living I don't know what a person who's just bad circumstances hurting right and not being able to stop and bless them that's not life in abundance life in abundance means to have everything you need and enough extra to help somebody else get where they need amen I mean yeah I read these stories about people like Tony Robbins and he feeds four million people a year himself not his company himself 4 million 4 million people a year he provides food for and I thought churches don't even do that and here's this guy you know that has honestly he's living off of biblical principles without including God in the mix that's all he's doing all the New Age stuff all of the positive mental attitude all that success motivation stuff that's all Bible it's all proverbs every bit of it's proverbs everything they're telling you to do is proverbs they just don't include God what because if they're not born again their basic nature is still selfish no matter what even the people that have great benevolent you know foundations it's still selfish and reason most of them do it is because it makes them feel good or look good which is selfish not for the good that it does does this make sense so God wants us to have life in abundance in every area of our life you know I thank God and listen I never knew the dream in my heart was to be free enough to be able to go anywhere anytime and not depend on anybody said a lot of preachers there's preachers uh just recently yeah we were at a church recently and I didn't talk to him about it but I think God actually talked to him about it I think it was guy was with me and he talked to the preachers there and he said they couldn't believe how we do things cuz I went in there I didn't ask him for a dime I didn't ask him for anything I didn't demand anything we just went in and while we were there God and the minister got to pray he said I can't he couldn't understand how we did things he said most of these guys that he brings in well-known people he said they'll tell me I got to have $50,000 to come they're guaranteed and he said they said and yet you come in here and you do all this and these people good deal and these people get blessing all this and you don't you don't expect anything that's it just because and see people hear this and they think oh he's conceited no nobody no human can pay me what I'm worth what because what is it worth put your hands on a person has cancer and the cancer disappeared you can't pay for that I'm not I'm not telling you when I say you can't pay me what I'm worth I'm not saying me in and of myself I'm saying because of what Christ is in me and who he is in and what he does you can't pay for that right and that's why I don't make people pay for it I received it freely I'd give it freely amen but I expect and this is what stood out and I'll finish up here in just a second I was talking this man okay god I'm trying to tie all these together and say it'd be easier if I just say it in tongues and you just get the interpretation but but what is is that I didn't know the dream was in me to be free to travel like that and do what I do right and yet God knew and it's in there and yet and now because of the the blessing see Christians are always chasing blessings and also the blessings were supposed to overtake you right you shouldn't have to chase them and so I'm talking this guy and the reason okay I'll tell you why I was talking this guy the reason I was talking this man was because he picked me up at the airport right because last week or due to whatever was whenever I left I got to go to Turks and Caicos which is in the Caribbean right it's a little bitty Allen it's amazing the line it's expensive a lot I'll tell you that do you know a package of microwave bacon which is how I judge things okay okay I can tell you the economy of a country based on how much a bottle of coke costs and how much microwave bacon cost right a package of microwave bacon here cost I believe was at 297 I think it is 297 right we're playing The Price is Right okay well do 297 somewhere in there right now you go to Turks and Caicos and you go to the store and buy one package of microwave bacon the exact same thing that costs 297 here it's 7:05 that's right most expensive bacon I've ever eaten my life and that's pretty much what I lived off of other than when I went to eat I eat one meal a day usually at snack on bacon in the morning and then in the evening I go to eat with this man which he always paid for supper so it was good anyway so back I was meeting with him and so I got to spend the week there in Turks and Caicos and why did I get stuff in the week there because not because I would go there and we're in a cabin or I'm in a beach house thing and all this kind of stuff but there was a person that we met in Miami they said hey we got a house in Turks and Caicos anytime you want to go there let me know and I were on the said hey I'd have to go there cuz I want to finish writing some books and I just want like spend some time they said okay the dates are good go so I went down there and spend a week right and then while I was there they said oh we want to let you know we also have a house in Jamaica and if you want to go there and what no Jamaica Jamaica mana sounds good [Laughter] okay next we need to take off Jamaica sound pretty good and then somebody said did they hey we got ranch up in Colorado that will stock it with food and you just go there it's on a lot of acreage up there and you just go through and be alone with god I'm like sounds good let's write that name down I'm like you know so that there's three weeks out of 52 if I can get another 48 49 week so I can live free the rest of my life let's go I just cap surf around but now I'm thinking if you ask my family we for the first 15 years we never took a vacation we'd never took it and anything now when I say hey you want to take a vacation they always know it's attached to a meeting right and then words like okay it means we go somewhere and we stay there two extra days and relax and then we go in and I said no it would just go but for fifteen years we didn't do anything like that we didn't take any vacations or anything but and yet now God is giving me places to go for free that I can go there and just relax and just spend time with God and so it's a it's a blessing but I never asked God for that I didn't tell God give me a place to go give me I didn't do that what and this is what stood over this this man he said what we started talking about it because his mother's Jewish and his dad's a Christian and so he was raised with proverbs and I mean that's all we talked about the whole week I was there and I we talked about proverbs and we go through and and I've mentioned the scripture or I'd be saying something Jesus said and he would take it back to proverbs and then we talked about proverbs and talk about how that works in this what goes on and it was just an amazing good time now in that at one point I told him this no I want to get to this because this is this is what I believe will help you because there's other stuff here too yeah okay yeah yeah let's look at these scriptures okay here's the things most of our discussions are based around the book of Proverbs even though we just met he helped me see some things about myself that I didn't realize before yeah and one was that the two core essentials of my life for this number one I'm truly grateful and thankful to God for where I am in life and all that I have and everything he uses before I'm really that's my core nature I'm thankful to God that's not something I do well I okay I got to give thanks no I don't I don't have to give things I live thankful toward God now number two my basic nature is to help anyone that asked or if I see somebody that needs help I help even if it technically is my responsibility that's in me it's a part of my core basic makeup right and I even if I you know I don't always feel responsible but always if I see somebody with a need I had that thing like I got to help him so it's just in me now there one thing that I shared with him that seemed to impact him most was this and this one I'm sharing it with you because it impacted him to where this is all he wanted to talk about afterwards and this is what like the second day we were together down there and someone's share with you maybe it'll help you okay God said that he would meet all my needs through Jesus's provision right that's true right Philippians 4:19 okay now and I let this man I told me I said I haven't prayed for myself in years I haven't prayed for one thing for myself in years I do not pray for my needs to be met any more than a child has to beg experince feed him see I truly believe I know and believe the love that God has for me I don't know why has it for me like that but he does and I believe it and because of that I know that he's gonna meet all my knees because he said he would and as a good father I don't have to beg him to meet my needs right I don't have to beg him any more than a child has to beg pen are you gonna feed me today you're gonna no there's no question about it I expect God to meet my needs I don't pray about my needs and honestly I have no needs one because God has met them and he continues to meet them and so I don't pray about them now I live thankful but I don't ever pray I don't ever ask him god please pay my bills God please make sure I got a paycheck god I don't that never I never think about that right now here's the thing I do not pray for my needs to be met any more than a child has to beg experience 1 Matthew 6:33 but seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you so there he said now notice Philippians 4:19 but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus notice he's going to supply my need through Jesus's provision he doesn't do it based on my work he doesn't do it based on what I produce does that make sense so it's all based on Jesus's meeting my needs and then we know Ephesians 1:3 it says that God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places and they're right again how through Christ is that right so God meets all my needs and it's all on Jesus prevents so it's not how well I perform so if I do okay if I do good good if I mess up guess what God's still gonna meet my needs but now here's the other part that I've learned mainly through doctors I'm wrong when I do mess up I am real quick to repent real quick I mean as soon as you realize BAM I don't wait well know I'm no good I don't know I just don't know why God puts up with me know that I don't even give God time to think about what I did wrong right it's just man mess it up man I'm sorry I'm sorry sorry sorry right and I get right okay right back with you fizzy forgiveness cleansing Thank You Father Jesus name and I keep on walking amen so and because that was a a trait of King David yeah who I mean look in the Bible who messed up more than David and yet he was a man after God's own heart the apple of his eye he said at one point I mean think about that and yet what because he repented quick even if when he messed up but he ran hard after God amen and he was always talking to God God don't forget me God don't leave me God don't take away your Holy Spirit God give me now why did he have to pray that because that was a possibility but in me so I'm not praying that I'm praying God thank you for your cleansing God thank you for your restoration God thank you for forgiveness I thank you that I can walk in this even though because nobody knows my faults better than me or possum I love my wife right and and so those are the two you know where the two peoples know best right and yet I believe in God's ability to forgive and forget to choose to forget actually God doesn't forget he actually chooses not to remember it's a different thing right and so and when you learn to choose not to remember it's amazing how your relationships have changed because say you choose not to remember whenever you hear a conversation going a certain way you know what's going to end up and you change the conversation because you don't want to end up there because then you'll remember something but you can choose not to remember by changing the conversation not going there you just don't go there what because if we go there and they gotta choose to forget but if you don't go there all you're doing is choosing not to remember which is what God said he said and I will remember your sins he didn't say I'll forget your sins he said I will remember them no more it's a big difference right and it's big so no here's the thing though God said he would meet all my needs supply all my needs according to the riches in glory and it that if I seek first his kingdom his rights then he would add all these things to me is that right no so that's the two basic scriptures now notice he said that to the Philippians right he didn't say to the Romans or the Ephesians technically and one because the Philippians had partnered with him and was helping Paul in his mission and so he saw their how they lived with generosity and so he said listen as generous as you are the way you're generous toward me God's gonna meet all your needs what because you're generous what is that sowing and reaping do you get that so now notice and then finally in this this is a difference okay I don't pray for my own needs why because God said he will meet my needs and he'll supply my needs and all these things that I needed would be given to me so I don't even pray about them I'm thankful I'm grateful to God you know but but I don't pray about now what I pray about is mark 11:24 mark 11:24 he says therefore I send you what things soever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them notice he didn't say pray when you pray that whatever things you need he didn't say pray for things you need he said pray for things you desire why do you pray for things you desire because you don't have to pray for things you need because he's gonna meet your needs so when you realize that God's gonna meet your needs now you relax what is that that's faith you trust God he's going to meet your needs that means that leaves you free to pray for things you desire do you that so he meets your needs and then you ask for things your desired now here's where he finds out what your heart is what do you pray for what do you desire because if you do that oh lord oh god bless me give me money god bless me give me a house god bless see that's the wrong desires not wrong to have those things because member here but the problem is you're desiring them when he's already said he's gonna meet those because that's what Mark 6 Matthew 6:33 says he'll meet and they're right house clothing food all that that's all covered under Matthew 6:33 so why would you pray about that why would you desire that saying your desire it says that when you trust in the Lord with all your heart he will give you the desires of your heart so first off you have to put the desires in you he doesn't just give whatever you desire he's gonna give you he's gonna put the desires in you and then what you desire you're gonna pray he's going to give you so I don't spend my time praying for my needs I expect them to be met one because he's a good father and he's never failed me so I expect him to me now what do I pray for well i pray for what i desire and when i pray for what i desire I have to believe that I receive it when I pray so what do I pray for I pray that this message expand I pray that the gospel gets into countries that has not gotten into I pray for Bible schools to be built up I pray for churches to be playing what see that's the desires of my heart that's my desire right and that's what I pray for and I believe that I receive and guess what this message is expanding around the world what and people are being fed and people are being we got orphanages that we support and I want more I want to do more of those those are my desires my desire is to eliminate sickness and disease on the earth you think that's seriously great yeah what as it isn't on in heaven so should it be here is that right is there any second sort of disease in heaven No then we are to be able to eradicate it here at least among Christians at least amen we ought to be living in divine health we ought to be look at the Israelites that were in Egypt all the things that were going on see Egypt had physicians the Israelites didn't even have physicians one didn't need them you don't need to be a physician if your constant living in divine health amen and so that's my that's what I pray for saspa when I go to God I don't go to go Oh God give me this oh god I need I need a house I've got to need a car god I need that I got any more money God in there no that's no what I spend my time I spend my time guess what when I pray my desires there his desires that's what I spend my time talking to God back God where do you want to see a church planted next God where do you want to see Bible schools planted next what do you want to see rise up next and it's amazing because the more we do this the more the blessings continue to increase I could tell you all these things see the desire in my heart was to be free enough to go you know go back to my office get on the phone buy a plane ticket no to Europe to Ukraine or Russia or anywhere else and be able to go tomorrow and get on a plane and go there and be there a week and not expect anything from those people but to be able to go there and be a blessing and come back it's amazing I get to go around the world I get to encounter all kinds of amazing cultures I love cultures I'd love to see the different clothing the different things that they wear their different where they live not big on the food they eat necessarily but and I really enjoy the cultures right and I love interacting with people in a different culture I love it and I get to go there and meet people and meet these amazing people and while I'm there I get to watch Jesus fix their you know change their lives and fix their bodies and usually want to come home guess what if I don't come home with a little extra money in my pocket is here waiting on me when I get here what because he supplies my needs I mean I'm at the people we were trying to get a go when do you think you'll retire I'm living a retirement life now I get to travel and do all the things that people supposed to do when they retire I'm doing it now amen so why would I ever think about retiring necessarily like that right but the whole point is that this is it was in me because and you say how do you know is it because I'm loving every minute of it I mean I enjoy this life I'm thankful to God for it but I didn't sit down and go okay god this here's what I want to ever do but I knew it was always in me to live this life it's always been you know I was a vagabond I was a gypsy what do you want to call you know we we moved on you could ask my wife how many times she kept count but I don't you know I I don't know I didn't know we moved pretty much you know for a while for probably the first 10 years of our marriage I moved every time the rent was due that's pretty much way who s been honest with you she didn't let me tell any stories but it's true right all it does is show that what God can do with the life that you know is given to him amen even a person that makes mistakes because I can tell you we hadn't done everything right we've hardly done anything right and yet God keeps blessing it and he keeps increasing and it keeps growing and he's blessing us and and you know now it's amazing because I used to have to have okay I had family my mother in law okay first off that's a car Mike we didn't have one right and I bought cheap cars you know throwaway cars right buy a car for five hundred dollars and it wasn't worth $500 and I'd pretty much drive them until they burned up and then Jim find another one because I didn't know anything about cars either but but it was amazing because from that now I look in our life now having you know been in ministry 20 years now and that kinda thing it's amazing I've given away and and here's the thing dr. Summerall helped me see this about finances okay but there was another man named Kovac van Rensburg in South Africa the most generous hearted person I've ever met in my life and I watched how he lived and it was amazing and I heard he had given away all of these vans and cars to ministries and different things to be like and I'm hearing this and how he doesn't and we're sitting there one day and this guy walks up during the offering and people are putting money up on the platform and he walks up and he hands Kobus just watch and Courvoisier he said the Lord told me to give this to you and covers looks at him because I bless your brother and he turns over and hands it to me and goes here you can have this I got five of them and he hands it to me it was a Rolex you know like that's a Rolex you got five Rolexes that's very helpful and he gave me that and so and I kept it you know ain't no fool I wasn't gonna try to do use that false humility a whole no I couldn't no no yes give it to me I'll do with pride later give it to me but he just and I saw that I thought god I want to do that I want to give away cars I want to do this stuff and you know since that time we've given away about I think I've given away two or three Tahoe's right now listen when we started first start giving away they weren't that great they had a lot of miles on them and that kind of stuff but I was giving away the best I could I could have sold it could have traded it we didn't we gave it away and so and I'm giving away to actually give away three to two or three Tahoe's I've given away a van I've given away no to van two or three van I've given away two Mercedes they weren't new they over Sadie's it's got the name on it got the symbol so there you go what new but but and and I've given away a harley-davidson now that that went to my son but I don't know that counts is giving away or not but tear them as well give it to him he's gonna get it one way or another anyway so but but and I and I've got you know other cars that said I'm not I don't I don't ever want to sell a car again I want to give him away and I don't want to give away junk cars I want to give away good cars right why because I want it to be a blessing to people and God has allowed us to do that to where we've paid people's mortgage women that we're gonna lose their house and you know their husband went to prison or something and their daughter they had a daughter Stephanie we heard about it and really paid their mortgage so they couldn't get kicked out of their house we paid people's electricity we put people in hotels when they need it we've been able to bless people what because we've been sowing and we're reaping see and that's why when people come to me I hear there's certain people always come around well why do you think about that Kenneth Copeland his plane went there just to do penance in his new plane here's what I think they ain't my servant ain't none of my business and and if you don't like it then quit giving them money and if you don't give them money you got nothing to say with what they do with the money if you do give them money and you don't like it quit giving them money either way shut up amen you know I mean come on they're not your servant they're not my servant if if they're God's servant they're God's servant that's up to him it's not my business right but now here's what I do know and this is a long time ago so I can't speak for today this is what I do know I dunno I heard dr. Sumrall say with his own lips he said Kenneth Copeland was the most generous man he'd ever met he said he gave more than any other person he'd ever met now here's my question to you if a person continues to sow more and more and more who can say anything about how they reap do you that now I'm not saying I would necessarily spend my money the same way somebody else spends their money in reaping I'm just saying if a person okay if a person gives and then they reap who can anything about their reaping that's just between them and God I mean that makes sense and what does that mean that comes back to us what does that mean look at our own lives let's figure out what we're doing right and let's serve God the way we're supposed to serve God and quit worried about how everybody else is serving God right it's because too many people try to be the holy spirit for other people when they need to turn that spotlight on themselves and say okay what am i living and yet and it's amazing too because some of the people that have come to me well what about this what about that I just don't think this is right okay but yet so let's take Joel Osteen for instance and I'm knowing I'm past I've said things about Joel but I'll tell you this I do know he helps people there are people at the level where he helps them that is good here's what I know he was his networks is about 40 million right I know that his salary when he first began pastoring the largest church in America okay he was making $200,000 a year from the church guess what he doesn't receive that anymore why he quit taking a salary from the church and he lives off of the income from his books now I don't care if he's they say he's got a 10 million dollar house I don't care if he's got a 50 million dollar house if he bought it with his own money from his own books who is anybody to say anything about what he does with it they meant he was the way he's using God's money well he's not taking it from the church he's not taking it you know from anybody like that and if you don't want to give it to him don't buy his books in that simple and it's funny because people will say well oh guess what I got a $500 a month raise go oh it's a blessing of God so your $500 a month raises the blessing but he's five million dollars is greed come on where do you make your profit from from your business from your job well he writes books but does this make sense all I'm trying I'm not defending anybody I'm not saying anything's right or wrong in that sense I'm just saying look before we start blasting other people we need to look at ourself because a lot of times when you blast somebody let's be honest it's just done out of jealousy because because people yeah you know big church like that well they must have water down the gospel to preach it okay if Joe will called me and said listen the brother curry you know I'm gonna have to go overseas for a couple of months I'd like for you to come down and take over the church guess what I'd say I'll be there tomorrow why because I would reach more people amen I'm not gonna say no now I admit they wouldn't keep me long because they are used to a slightly different message they probably wouldn't probably wouldn't keep me around too long right so but does this make sense to you I mean if God wants to bless us if we say that but where do you put the limit where do you decide to stop because I can tell you the more God has increased us the more we have been able to bless other people and and let me tell you the hardest time was when I was broke it was hard to tithes when I was broke but guess what as I did tithes and I did give above even the tithe and even then and now that is grown to where my tithes is bigger now and yet honestly my giving is about 40% now whereas used it was barely 10 what because now it's amazing when you know that God's going to take care of you it's amazing how free you get with stuff and you and and it really does get to be fun to give more than receive right why because you know God's going to take care of you it's this applies to healing it applies to finances it applies to everything but to get there we got to get right in our hearts and quit being jealous about what somebody else has and who cares what they do with it you know the big thing is what would you do with it right because if you have this thing this ceiling on you that says well that's all wrong and guess what God will never be able to use you to bless other people to the degree that he's using some people to bless other people so you have to decide and and whether you're evil I can't do anyway because my job would never let me then don't limit yourself to your job amen let God be your limit and don't limit God let him live big through you I mean in every area life in abundance in every area not and I'm talking about having more help than you to give away you know I have people write me again all the time telling me to quit drinking cokes you know and they try to as if I've never heard it you know of all of the dangers and evils of coke right and they were telling me well you know if you quit drinking cokes you wouldn't have to clear your voice let me tell you something I clear my voice when I drink water coke burns out everything I don't have to clear my voice I never have to clear my voice when I drink Coke I only clear my voice when I drink water which is probably good my body goes what is that now I will tell you you know again full disclosure I've been going to the gym I've been doing my supplements because I know I don't get all the right nutrients out of my stuff I listen I told you and that's still true I've never eaten a vegetable right I have drink some right what does that mean that means I blend stuff right I blend greens and all kinds of stuff and I'll drink that stuff down cuz I can drink anything just about but you it ain't gonna happen if I have to chew it and swallow it it's coming back out but I can drink it down really quick right and it I can it so it doesn't matter but as long as I'm doing my supplements and and my you know juicings my protein try to do protein drinks every morning and so what it's it's see you don't know that and you're all worried about me drinking cokes but I do have other supplementation that I take in and honestly the more the more I do my supplements regularly I don't drink cokes as much you know right now I probably drink maybe two a day at the most maybe two and that's down okay that I'm talking about the little 16-ounce custom I listen I used to drink six two liters a day a day I would go through 6 2 liter drink cups I'm telling you it is a miracle it is I believe in divine health and and I will tell you listen if if and when okay I quit drinking cokes for a year right and if and when I totally quit drinking cokes okay which I can see in the near future I could see that happening right and it's it's out there you know it's it's but and but the reason would be not for I wouldn't do it thinking this is going to help me be healthier now the only reason I would quit drinking them would be the weight I would lose without having to work it off if I quit drinking that's the only reason if I go drinking the cokes right that's the only because I haven't noticed no real bad side effects from drinking cokes right and like I always say you know it's all the people that eat all the salads and stuff that are in my healing line so so apparently what you're doing ain't working for you so quit trying to sell me on it I mean don't try to sell me a Chevy when you're driving a Ford come on hey so hey so you're gonna sell me on something you I want to see you be first you know I wanted to see you been getting the benefits of it first right and if it doesn't kill you then I might try right this make sense to you though so and I did mention earlier we are we are starting a gym but because our bodies were meant to move amen and now I do know there's certain nutrients and stuff that you don't get however however do you know where was I I was somewhere and I read what country was I in well I was in another country and yeah somewhere I don't manage it though anyway sorry I'm just but on the bottle had to be in Europe but on the bottle on the coke bottle the first thing listed vegetables in the coke there sneaking it in on me is that you know that right that's right where was it Poland yes there you go Pope that's why there we go so and it said vestrana thought there it is right there and I've been drinking it didn't even know it so there you go so so next time you see me drinking a coke don't try to stop me just give me a thumbs up for drinking my vegetables now I've given them a bunch of time to start tabbing to me and they won't even task so I'm not gonna not gonna advertise for them anymore so anyway however well feed you wanted to advertise for me either but feed you water if you're gonna drink water drink Fiji water I just say you know I was talked about being Church water because it's in a square bottle and it doesn't roll if you drop it right well that's that's true but it also has very high silica in it which binds to the metals in your body and actually pulls the metals out of your body it is the healthiest water you can drink so it's good it's really good so it's good to drink so and if anybody anybody that's watching if you work for Fiji tell them to send me a check thank you I'm doing a plug for them I gotta say but Chuck anything out there today the real key is just the dreams there's dreams and people that I hate to see people they put their dreams down and settled for a job they put their dreams down and settle for existence and not a life I never wanted that people used to blast me my best friend used to blast me curry man you gotta get stable you got to get a like you got to get you gonna you got to make a living and I'm like well while you're making a living I want to make a life you know and I didn't follow the pattern and then he gets handed a pink slip and gets fired and they tell him go go away and you know I get I never gave him that option I quit I don't I remember ever getting fired from anywhere I just quit but he worked a system and the system worked him over and I bucked the system and I went the guy went God's Way and I trusted him and God has blessed us all I'm saying is just look at the dreams that God put in your heart follow that dream I had a dream of preaching the gospel around the world since it's the earliest dream I can remember right that it was a real thing with me and God has brought that thing to pass and honestly I've not done anything to make it happen we've never just went places we always went because somebody invited us so that had to be on God wasn't on us we didn't make things happen amen so look inside look at that dream that God gave you maybe it's been buried a wild me he said well I'm too old now to do it mm-hmm no you're not too old Colonel Sanders was 87 whenever he was started going pretty much town to town selling his chicken recipe I mean a lot of these guys started really old so just get started you know he said well it's like somebody's the other day they said they were telling they had a child I wouldn't necessarily use that it's a good thing to use it but they said you know family the child now I'll be 67 or something when the child is graduates and I'm like well so what how will you be in 18 years you know if you don't have a child how you're still gonna be 87 no matter what or 67 because she's still gonna be that who cared my little start now and then didn't say you have to finish it but it'd be better to die working towards something than to die sitting on your front porch in a rocking chair unless that's your dream maybe that's your dream out hey it's not my dream amen so just find what God has put in your heart don't settle for Less but make sure it's God and if it is God it'll always help you love people and love God that's real simple amen amen all right now if you need ministry I'm going to put my things up I don't want to come back and minister to you and so my team will help organize you other than that you're dismissed god bless you and we will see you again soon god bless [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: 98min 7sec (5887 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 09 2019