God My Provider | Shawn Bolz | Expression58

Thank You Hana wow I'm so glad to be here you guys I'm so glad to be and home Church I've been watching online and the team has been doing so awesome so sacrificial and so thank you so much for everybody in the community and the family has made every Sunday and all the in-between so special Shree and I are so so happy to be a part of this community I just have to open my my notes here and you know why we've been home in the lockdown I just think it's so interesting some of the themes in God that have come up in Sri in my heart and our family's heart and one of them and as I honor Sri today is for being an incredible mom but one of them is it's so funny the level of parenting you have to do especially if like a five and a seven year old or whatever age I'm sure is challenging when all of a sudden your homeschool mom and dad you're working you're doing everything else and you become a butler and this I didn't know I was gonna be a butler and and treated know she's never made but for sure we have become our children I think I hear my name well dad about 3,000 times a day linked to the need that I needed fulfill to one of the society children and most the most important meetings that I've done over the last maybe two months one or both of my child's have come in and been a part of those meetings at some point or interrupted and I think of that newscast her video that went viral before all this happens again newscast from his basement and all of a sudden his child runs in and his wife pulls the baby out and he'll no one had ever seen that happen before we're like wow and now I think it's like commonplace whenever you're gonna zoom meeting a Skype online or some sort of service video service or TV show and your children coming in to wrap but I don't look at them as an interruption I look at those like part of the joy of what we're doing right now but it's been so interesting well I'm gonna talk to you guys today about God as a provider and I think one of the most mysterious ways he reveals himself or one of those practical ways is as a father who provides first children and I think the way that we get to know God the most as provider is when we need a provider and we're in know we've been in no position like this one were in right now in the world especially I'm speaking to most of you from America but I know there's many people from around the world watch where we've needed to know God as a provider like right now and I think Abraham's story this is where God is a provider really has seen first besides creation itself which is such a beautiful picture as the father providing around humanity everything we would need to thrive and our connection to him ourself in the world around us then we see the next great provisional kind of revelation come when Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac and we see this in Genesis 22 11 to 14 and he was about to sacrifice his son and it was such a unique and kind of weird mysterious confusing moment because this was his son who he had dreamed of who had believed who his promise would come to him and then God said I want you to satlak kill him kill your son which is such an Old Testament we can't relate to her today there's never a precedents for this again where he says kill your son and so Isaac Abraham and Isaac go up to the place where he's gonna sacrifice him and at the last moment God provides a ram of sacrifices I just wanted to see if you would do it basically would you be obedient to me and taking the most precious things your life you love me more than everything I've given you do you trust me more than everything you can control and in that moment the father was asking Abraham to do something but took away that that question but was revealing in hindsight now that we can look at it what he would do for Humanity he wasn't not gonna spare his own son but provide his own son for us and this is huge in the theme of the Bible when you understand who God is you have to access him as a provider and I think of you know my daughters who have been calling me a butler as a joke five and seven years old yes they have and how there's moments where you know the other day I think we were swimming outside it was about 5:30 usually between 4:30 and 5:30 but this was pretty late and hardly my little fiber looks at me and says dad I can't believe you haven't fed us yet like this was a mystery to her because she's always eating for five years never been late on her meal once in five years and she was so hungry and she was mad at me all of a said she was angry she's like why aren't you feeding me and I said because you're having so much fun I didn't want to pull you out of the fun and she goes I just can't believe you wouldn't feed me I just feel I can't believe it yeah I do you promised that you would feed me and you haven't fed me I've never made the promise with words but I've lived the life where I've shown her everything I'm gonna provide for and so she felt betrayed the moment where she needed to eat and there's this place inside of us learn how to depend on my father's nature that's learn how to depend on who I am as as her dad and we have to learn that with our Father in heaven and anticipate the areas that he wants to provide for us now of course he doesn't want to do things for us that we can do for ourselves he's he's made us to be adequate and wonderful human beings that can produce a lot of fruit and can do a lot of things the skills the talents and the gifts he's put inside of us but with those things we're not self-made people he's always revealed himself in the Bible as a father because he wants us to know that our life plus his supernatural love for us equals a different result than we would get by being independent and so God came and one of the first ways we could really understand how to lean into him is out of our need needing a God result in a life that has human problems I know many of you were watching right now might have very human problems I know that Sheree and I have been had some struggles and challenges through kovat 19 and through this whole process and we've lost a lot of our friends suffering great waves and there's no better time to know in the midst of our need to know our God the way he is in his nature than by crying out to him understanding that nature and saying God I'm depending on that nature to be revealed just as Hartley did in a really cute way we might do out of a place of desperation now Matthew 5 when Jesus opens up this incredible you know ministry of his he does the Sermon on the mountain in Matthew five and six he talks about who God is and he says things like blessed are the hungry for they will be filled there's something about recognizing your need not being self-sufficient not saying no no I can feed myself on fine now I'm not that hungry not minimizing the pain of hunger not minimizing the pain of what you don't have and saying god this is what I need this is what I have not exaggerating but not minimizing it and blessed are those who are hungry for they will be filled we need to understand that because even in the midst of all the things you shared in Matthew five and six he says things like consider the lilies of the field nothing's as beautiful as them but they don't even labor or toil and yet God blessed them and clothed them with splendor they don't need to be clothed or the birds of the air you know this this whole theme of how Jesus expressed who the father is and how he'll always come through now this is huge for us as a community those of you who are part of expression 58 not just watching maybe for your first time or your third time those who are part of the community you know some of our history probably and if you don't we moved here Honan Jen and I and several others moved here during a recession back in two thousand six and seven and it was such a hard time for us and I remember just going god I can't believe I'm moving to LA the most expensive city in America to live in - New York City may be the most expensive place to plant a church most church plants go through financial failure in their first two years here and dissolve into nothingness and we weren't being sent directly by anybody we have all kinds of wonderful ministry friends but we weren't being sent we just had a vision from God that we're supposed to give Jesus a home and where there's homelessness in Hollywood and Los Angeles that we would give Jesus a home here and I remember just being you know his son just saying god father like you're bringing us to LA what kind of resources are in LA for us and there was something inside of me that had to see that the father had believed in me and had planned me in as an imagination before time began that means that he pre-planned everything that I would need to do what I'm called - that means for every destiny there's a full provision for every calling or appointment there's the connections the finances the places the spaces that we need the technology anything you need to do what God's called you - God is a provider as a father in heaven already has pre-planned and a designated resources for you but this is huge because we never necessarily needed God on this level as a provider as a team or as a family before of course we always had provisional needs but we weren't in complete survival mode going into a place where they were in survival mode as a matter of fact there was a writer strike and several other things were happening in the city so by the time we got here we were pretty needy we're like oh god I mean like huh what are we gonna do like how we're gonna pay the church rent on the weekly meeting let alone our own rent and our own bills and I had lost a lot during that Great Recession so I had several team members and we some people just weren't coming with a lot we said God we believe you want this more than we do and you put us there were coming out of obedience how can a father resist their children especially with an obedient heart you know there's just times with Harper and Hartley that they're just been crazy for the day they're just not making great choices in their heart they're great children but great children can make bad choices consistently and I've seen those days where I've bought stuff off Amazon and I have it in our closet wanting to give it to them and we have a couple days in a row that I just I can't reward the bad behavior I can't reward bad choices and it's so hard for me as a father because I just want to I'm gonna open the closet and say look what I have for you if you would just straight up have used it but I don't want them to do things just to straighten up and so they can get an incentive our price I want them to want connection to be good people to have good decisions to make good choices and there's so much that God has in store for us that is laid out both in heaven for us but also here provisionally on earth so we can ultimately bring Jesus's reward but there's so many blocks in our hearts when we think about you know how we want to serve God and we think about what we want to do for God there's so many basic requirements fundamentals of God saying I want to give you this but I have to be able to trust you with people or I'm gonna give you this I have to be able to trust your heart with yourself I'm gonna give you this I'm gonna give you this favor this finances but I need you to get out of debt so you get Stuart finances well or I want to give you you know this kind of relationship but I need you to not gossip or slander or that you would hold relationships well because I'm gonna give you someone who has influence who you need to be very protective over or whatever it is and there's so many things responsibilities that we have in the midst of this to become the version of God that the Bible lays out clearly so he can rest his kingdom on us and there's a character-building process to know God as a provider because and historian heaven it's all there he's ready to give it to us today but he's waiting for our maturity and that's so good for us to understand because the more we apprehend character you know the hard growth of character the hard growth of just living a godly life living a life of love like Jesus the more we apprehend that it's amazing what happens because Galatians 5 talks about the fruitfulness that comes into our life and part of the spiritual fruitfulness we saw in Jesus's life is every time there was a need we would see the father give him revelation on how it was going to be fulfilled whether was the donkey is gonna ride you know or whether it's the you know the taxes I think I wrote a few of them here that might be on the slides we have let me get all the way down here and I think I went way ahead of my note sorry guys Matthew 1727 he says but we don't want to cause offence go taking throw your line take the first fish you catch open its mouth and you're gonna find a jacket forward rack of a coin take it and give it to the them for my tax and for yours so there's these moments where any provision he needed was provided for even supernaturally at times like we see the supernatural where it wasn't just Lazarus and Mary Martha giving them or providing for the disciples but we see these supernatural moments because that's a kind of God we serve now realize when we look at the Bible and we look at you know when Abraham looks at God it says wow you are a provider you're the one who provides for us you're not just a god who's out there who wants us to serve you you're a god who's a father and you are Jehovah Jireh the greatest provider that ever was now Jehovah Jireh is not just some slang Christian weird word that's a buzzword and a certain sector of Christianity this is one of the biblical names of God now you understand that because I remember hearing Jehovah Jireh back in the 80s and the 90s and it was always linked to a hyper wealth or hyper prosperity movement around where I was at and so I almost had deaf ears towards it because I only heard everyone's gonna get rich and you're gonna get a car you're gonna couldn't hear it for what it was that God has provider sees us and as soon as we're saved he gives us an in title right as sons and daughters to be taken care of and also to build the skill and the blessing and the life within our circumstance to be blessed and not cursed to live above our means or it not to live above are we sorry about that to live above where we could in our own strength that's what I was trying to say so when we see that it's so important to look at Deuteronomy 18 when he promises the Israelites that they're gonna have the ability to produce resource and wells that they come from him and to not to take personal credit for it but to say this is the kind of God we serve as a provider like he wanted to be known even when he gives them that promise don't take the glory or the credit because I want you to show people part of my nature to you because a father like we're honoring mothers for Mother's Day can you imagine if somebody came up to your child right now maybe there they're ten or if you don't have children just imagine or they're fourteen and they go to a 14 year old hey tell me about your mother and like ah she's cool anyways there's just one woman I like to watch on TV I mean how would I just how do the mother make the mother go what or if somebody came up to you you're 14 girl and said hey that's amazing that new bike you know that's awesome and she says yeah I bought it even the mother paid there the mother and father paid the price for it but they made it sound like they get the Gloria it was their accomplishment and there's this place where you disconnect and dishonor family when you don't allow them to inherit the right purpose and glory in the midst of what's going on and so God was even establishing the is right it's like hey tell people where this came from because they'll prove that I love that much to tell people about me as a provider because when in a world where there's so much poverty in a world where there's so much brokenness in a world even in America right now where we have I mean how many twenty plus million people unemployed people need to hear the good news that there's a father who cares about employment there's a father who cares about the bottom lines there's a father that when you get involved with him the metrics change and this is huge then we see again an extra thirty one that one of the ways that God provided was he breathed his Holy Spirit on basil and I talked about this guy a lot when he breathed his spirit on them and he provides everything that skill talent technique artistry that he would need to build his calling in his mandate for the people of Israel in other words he was called to build a temple or the Israelites were and he raises up people in that generation who are filled with the skill and the building the talent to do it God is so creative as a provider it's not just money it's the ability to do things in a generation that cannot be done if God doesn't touch it that's what God's doing for us right now he's touching us in this generation with an anointing that's beyond just getting finances and resources you can have all the food in the world to heal the food crisis but if you don't change the corruption of Judge of governments there are certain areas that will not have food and so we could have all the resource but if we don't have the ability to walk in love as Christians and have favour and influence over corrupt systems we won't be able to heal extreme poverty in our generation and this is God as a provider he's raising people up who have the ability the resource even maybe the political gift or maybe it's a business gift or maybe it's the artistry like basil ill but he's raising people up who are demonstrating his nature of who he is right now and it's one of the ways that he provides for Humanity we need to see him this way because some of you right now might be sitting in the wrong story you might be sitting in the natural story which is we don't have a job or we don't have money we don't have resources we don't have a plan for the future right now when it's so unstable we don't have a legacy plan we don't have any of this and even without all of that there's a God in heaven who wants to touch you who wants to give you hope who is dreaming dreams that you can't even dream right now especially if your hopes to further if you're in fear or you're frustrated God Ephesians 3:20 says he's dreaming dreams that you can't even understand in other words you know God is dreaming a dream that's bigger than your dream he's imagining in his mind what he has to provide for you a life and a hope and a plan that you could never get to without him even the midst of what you're going through right now and I remember when we were first expression 58 starting this church I remember just you know we're need met in a park for a long time and sometimes were inside the building in the park oh no you remember this and sometimes we were outside the building and there was days I remember there was an April of May I believe it was where it was abnormally hot and we got kicked out of the building for whatever reason so we were outside in the public park and the neighbors weren't super happy with us during worship times at meetings at public park and there's 60 to 100 of us depending on the week and we're out there and we're going I'm going God you are our Father I mean like these are your kids I know you want to give him more than this and he said just don't despise these days of smallness because in these days you're making choices that aren't based on the resources I can provide or the building that you have to steward you're making choices based on the relationships you have and some deep relationships came out of that season some deep purpose some deep some deep cries of our heart of what we would want to see God do in our church and our midst and our family in our city and those things may not have happened the same way if he didn't allow us to be in a place of dependence on him now he doesn't always want to keep you in a codependent stage he always wants us to be interdependent but in that stage we're so interdependent that if we stayed there it would become codependence but God gave us an ability to produce a community that together with many of you who are watching and who are here in the room he gave us an ability to produce a community that is self-sustaining meaning like we can go for the vision because of what God's given us to do and then he can build on it and give us installments of his provision so we can take on greater purposes and projects as we go and that's the beautiful nature of the provider God and I just think of those days when we were in the park and I'm standing there going wow god I have to just I have to thank you for even this after thank you for being in a park when most people who planted church wouldn't even stay in this mode they'd say this isn't a church this is just a home group we glorify the home group of people but we had a culture we had a battery system way to love for each other and we knew that God was saying this as a family and because we knew that we knew he'd provide for it and he's continued to do that over and over one of the greatest ways is provided for us as a community it's prophetic direction like understanding we've heard his voice on projects to take on and and some of them have been extremely extravagant some of the times we've been frustrated the most financially we've given the most as a church or individually as leaders and it's so wild how you can't out give God the Father have you have you ever seen a kid give their parent a present like my daughter's the other day they were trying to out give each other to give me something and they had no idea that what I had for them I had again a present I'm a gift giver so I had a present at the end for them so they were giving me something they kept they kept coming to my room after about seven presidency - most of it was real if to the stuff that I'd given them like little toys but after they you know they're both showing me like this is the best one this is the best one I said why don't you honor each other's gifts - like this is good the fact that you have this to give I gave you this ability to be able to give me this stuff just honor each other it's there they're all beautiful I'm gonna keep in my office they're gonna line my shelves it looks like a kid's toy room for little girls that's great and then at the very end of that day I said I have something for you now and I give them something and they were screaming and squealing they had no idea I had something for him then got anything in a few weeks they were like as far as like a little toy and they were like they couldn't believe it they were just like shocked that I had had a real present they were regifter had in the room but they didn't really like anymore like a little Peppa Pig you know stuffed animal or like little toys that they don't play with anymore and they thought that was a great gift and then I came something he really wanted and when I gave it to him they were just like oh my gosh and there was that moment where they're like we did give out of the generosity of our heart we were in a little competition but they were loving me they were lavishing me with love and then I gave them something I don't love like I have a dream I'm gonna give them this but I also have because we had to cancel course like many of you Spring Break trip and we haven't got to see a lot of our family for a long time and the whole thing we are we're already planning trips for them to see family and ago you know after this is all over and so I want to be able to tell him about that but again as a provider I know also to not put their hope in something they can't have today and so they have to trust me there's a mystery when you know God as a father that you don't know when it's gonna happen or what he's planning but you know there's a plan in the father's heart for you and this is key for us to understand if God has a storehouse in heaven with my name on it and he's gonna provide for everything that I need I need to be able to trust him in the days I don't see it I need to trust in the days where I'm frustrated I need to trust in the days where I'm discouraged I need to trust in the days that are very real that look the opposite and I've seen many biblical stories and natural stories I respect people were at the opposite of what looks like breakthrough or God as a provider as a matter of fact sometimes we run out of every resource we could produce so that God could get a god-sized glory miracle out of it and that's one of the hardest things is that we're going God are you gonna take me to the end of myself and you know what God says yes because I want you to have my result in your life even the good side of yourself he sometimes takes you past that so you can see what he can do through your life he loves you enough to give you his measure in your life not just the measure you can produce and this is huge an important now I want to say this let me just move forward a little bit one of the things that happens when you see God as a provider and when you start to know him this way you begin to take on the mentality of a provider and this is huge I remember during that time in the recession when we were going through the hardest time financially I think was the hardest time I've ever been through financially I was just it was hard I just remember like wow there's days that food is an issue and some of you might be here today there's days that just normal like I don't know how long were we live in the house were at I think we might have to get rid of the house every month we were like wow this is the month it's an you know it's not going to come and we solved some miraculous provision which was beautiful and that but in the midst of that I remember God saying don't just become so dependent and relying on me that you don't see yourself as a solution to other people's problems I want you to be extravagant you're giving during this time I remember I was like how can I do that I've been giving extravagantly through the years but I was like one of the greatest places of need so I remember just thinking how can I do that and there was one woman from another church not from our church who was a single mom and I heard that she was struggling to that time too and so I just you know went to Trader Joe's and got a bunch of groceries and left it at her doorstep I found out where she lived and then you know didn't think of it again and I heard it blessed her it was all the stuff she would buy for you know her family or whatever and then I felt like God so how much did out the honey I want you to do more for her and I'm like God it's ridiculous and stupid to give her this particular week because I don't know if were gonna have money for us if we're gonna be able to do what we need to do and I don't want to go in default in my rental situation I was in a rental situation of the time when my rents due in a week and give money that could go towards I don't have enough for rent I'm gonna get money that could go towards the rent too you know another person that's not right to the landlord but I also had this place of obedience I'm not telling you to do this by this place of obedience so I was like but you're asking me to do something and you're a good father and so I went back and this time I met her and I said hey I want to I want to pay for some groceries can I give you some money she just someone else brought me Trader Joe's last week this is amazing so I gave her I think it was around $175 for groceries which doesn't sound like a lot to some of you it sounds like a lot to others of you but it was a lot for me at that moment that was that I was already behind so that was a lot for me yes God did a miracle and that Mitz and I was able to pay rent for one month again it wasn't long term miracle it wasn't like the big one where all of a sudden you know everything I won the spiritual lottery and God's given me billions of dollars now it was a moment in time where I was still in dependency on God in that moment especially the recession and I remember just going okay I did it I passed I got money to pay the rent this is great not thinking like no keep going keep giving give your way out of this yeah and part of it's because during the time I had a lot of friends who planted churches you know when you do something maybe you're a business owner you have a lot of friends you planted businesses or you're measuring against them maybe your mom and you're measuring it to their moms well I had friends who were planting churches and they were telling me like oh my gosh with this guy on our board who is paying all of our bills for year or we have the sky who and his wife who they've forgiven a down payment for building all that and we had none of that like we have hona and Jen and I we had zero business people walking alongside of us in that season and we had no movements we had nothing we had so so during that time I remember just going god we need a sugar daddy now we've worked with prostitutes so I knew what that meant I knew it was kind of a cheeky way to say it but I was like we need a sugar daddy we need somebody to come provide for us we need somebody who will just take care of us you know we need somebody to give us like the bottom line if we add that God then we'd be okay right now and I remember God rebuked me so strongly after I kept this this theme stayed in my heart for months we need to sugar it up so there's not a one time thing I'm like we just need somebody and it was this weird way of relating to a father in heaven now if you think of what a sugar daddy is it's somebody who uses controls and manipulates you and they get what they want out of you but they do provide for you we don't want to sugar daddy but I was using that language like a benefactor we want somebody to come and provide for us but I wasn't looking at the father we already have and I'm sure that hurt is hard I did some repentance over that I remember just going wow God you want to be our Father and remember at one point he said Shawn stop trying to get somebody to come and be your benefactor and continue to be a benefactor in the little ways you can so that I can raise you up as a father and I am your father and I want you to be a father and I was just thinking wow this is this is so hard I went to the church and I told the church this one night yeah and I said let's anybody who can relate to this let's repent it was the majority the church I said if you feel like you need someone to rescue financially or you need someone to come and just give you all their money or give you out of this situation and that would solve everything it's not wrong to think that way it's wrong to depend on it or not depend on God in it to have a fantasy it's above your reality so let's ask God to be our Father and that's and be our provider and stop looking for somebody else to rescue us but look for God to bless us with the ability to produce resources and bless us with the ability to get out of this situation and maybe he'll give us benefactors but they will not use us control us or manipulate us and so I'm gonna just pray this book together so we've repented and even my wife we weren't married yet any of my wife was like she totally was in the same place she's like repented we all said let's you know like the let's look at God as a father and shortly after that someone came and said Shawn have you ever read the parables that Jesus told from the point of view that were spoke to identify with the father not just like if it's a parable the prodigal don't just look at yourself as the the son who ran away or the son who stayed behind but if you ever thought of yourself as the father on this earth where you're actually gonna help negotiate relationship you're gonna help give someone back their inheritance you're gonna help someone when someone's hard over to who's a big brother who can't receive his brother back because he's selfish and and sad because of his contribution have you ever I never thought he's I think about the parable of the talents have you ever thought of yourself as one who maybe is investing in little ways in people's lives and it's actually the one who's helping people through issues I never saw myself this way and this person was saying what if we're supposed to be more like the father and we're supposed to identify with the father and these stories more than the people who are the stories who are wrestling and when you think of yourself as a benefactor or I'm a provider like gone even if it means you might you know you might be able to buy someone's groceries or coffee but that may be it or you might be able to help just a little bit with the poor of what we're doing in Ecuador or Congo or Uganda or whatever you might just be able to do a little bit but even that little bit coming into a mentality with what little you can do maybe it's one child Uganda yours you're helping every month during this recession then we're going through and just that a little bit standing in the midst of your need and saying God even though I have a need thank you for letting me be a provider for this one and I recognize as it's my joy to be a provider for them it's your joy to provide everything I need and then you're gonna give me unlikely and unusual opportunities I love this one and in number six 24 through 26 which says prayed every Friday night and Shabbat for all the Jewish people who practice you know the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you the Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace and when you think of God this way what do you think he's the God who wants to shine his face on you he wants to give you he wants to give you his favor which is a provider that's God the Father saying you're my people so let me shine with my resource provision nature on you even some of you heard me teach about Solomon where the Queen of Sheba comes up to him and says surely your God loves us people because he raised up a man like you that's the mentality ultimate as a provider we're not just supposed to come to this thing like I'm gonna get rich I'm gonna have God provide all my knees we're supposed to come into you're going alright Lord I'm hungry and bless one hungry for they will be filled I have dreams are your dreams I know you'll provide for them and you could weigh it against like a hyper wealth mentality by this is what I'm wanting you to give Jesus his reward or not and it's not gonna give him his reward it's just gonna give me a reward it's probably not God it can still happen you can still get in your own strength but it's probably not God ordained wear it so it's essential to your calling but there are certain things that God calls us to all the time which gives Jesus part of his reward and it protects us from a hyper wealth mentality of like I'm just gonna buy this I'm gonna do this on you know peace out I can do whatever I want it protects us and accountability to the Jesus getting the fullness of his reward because when God the Father sent him to the cross to die for us he promised him an inheritance which would be us and he's given us the resources to bring Jesus everything that's his so he gives us favor he gives us blessing he gives us honor he gives us authority there's impossible circumstances some of you were facing but because you have an impossible God living inside of you it doesn't matter he's gonna break through for you and then on the other end of it he's gonna say now you show love through being a provider you be favor to the world you extend your favor in your social capital you extend your resources you extend your gifts and your talents in ways that you can't be paid for and monetary blessings are on earth but you lend yourself to the poor you lend yourself to others and as you do that it creates a currency and a current from heaven to earth that people just on earth don't have access to unless they live this kind of lifestyle because it's a currency from a heart of a father not just a currency of a wealth system behind a government and if we understand that then we start to live in this unusual blessing of the Jewish people that is laid out in number six 24 through 26 which I read about four months ago here an expression for the Jewish post from last year where they were talking about just celebrating among amongst Jewish people how this group that had almost been genocided so many times is one of the most honored groups of people in like 20 of the top industries there's 3 to 100 in the top 20 industries Jewish people and there's no other people group that's so fully in banking and entertainment and media all these different areas and it's because this there's a covenant of God as a father on the people group and you know we have a covenant from God as Christians as well and we can pray these prayers and we can come into a mentality that we're not just here to be like oh I hope I get enough for just my destiny we're supposed to say my destiny is to love those who are called to love Jesus and then any expensive father you know needs to give for that to happen it's his joy to not spare any expense when we understand that we can begin to become providers we start to expect the blessing of God we start to expect the hand of God we start to expect a radical miraculous deliverance and I just think about you know God is a provider so many of us have only turned to him as a provider and our greatest place of need no not all of your this way but some of us have only turned to him because it takes vulnerability to say I don't have enough of me to produce the results that you're requiring God and that's a very humbling thing and even so much humiliating thing to say especially in the Western world especially in California where it's like you're a lot of times you're all things you need to be you know you might be an actor and an entrepreneur and a model and all these things you might be whatever and you're very good at telling what you can do and what you are but if you actually reduce some of that and let God say who you are and let God show what he can do through your life not just what you can do but all of your talents and all of your skills all your gifts but you say I'm gonna become needy on his nature manifesting as a father and blessed are the poor in spirit for they would be feel blessed are the hungry for they will eat if I'm gonna become blessed because I'm gonna become poor and spirit God I can only do this much with my life but as a provider of the dreams you plan before time began for my life I asked for your father to give me everything I need to produce what you need for your result in my life not my result of my life that's who the father is and I just think of my daughters and how Sheree and I have planned so many things from ahead in their in their days you know like we every every Christmas time we're gonna a little vacation that's just whole fun for them every we just do a number of things that are rhythmatic in our life that we know that there learning how to count on others they're 7.5 they can't wait for those things to happen they're even asking coronavirus are we still gonna go to these places are we still gonna do these types of things and we're like yes it's our joy as long as it's legal as long as we can do it yes it's our joy to do those things and I think what have we gotten to the rhythm of expectation for what the father could do and what he wants to provide for us when you get into that rhythm when you go through a hard time like this there's something that's a hope against hope that you know that God will turn this around so I want to just pray over you I've been writing a short prayer book if you read my breakthrough book it's on prayers prophecies and declarations for breakthrough I've been doing a follow up to it called provision prostitutes prayers and declarations and this is a prophecy because I'm reading I just want you to close your eyes and just receive this from the father I am a father and it's my good pleasure to give you the kingdom my kingdom is not just principles or theory it's tangible and requires provision in the natural I thought of all the good work she would do before time began and I prepared a storehouse for you in heaven that you can access by faith every resource you need to live the complete life I've given you is already available my son gave you the keys of the kingdom the keys to unlock these resources they're already in your hands resources to do all that I've dreamed for you to do our available resources of family finances properties technologies relationships and nineteen's giftings talents they're all in my heart already for you I don't like any imagination for what is needed I know what you need it was never my intention to keep you here just to survive but to actually overcome when you allow yourself to have a overcomers mindset that my son demonstrated you will begin to access the riches of my provision so you can treasure the riches of my glory everything that I've designed for you to do is so that my son can inherit the fullness of his reward that he paid for in the cross I will spare no expense in giving him everything he died for you are a powerful part this equation listen that you are powerful your life of love will cause his great reward to be realized I have given you a people to love a tribe they may be in your family your neighbourhood your industry your city or country your church they might be a marginalized people group a race or the people behind social or environmental issues give you everything you need to make my love a complete picture through you to them now thinking that you need resources right now and God is saying and proving scripturally I will give you everything you need to show my love he that's his nature just like someone with great wealth would plan their child for their children's and grandchildren's inheritance as well as their footprint on the world beyond their family I am planning everything for you and with you if there's a revival there's a powerful resource that go into creating it Real Estate's properties finances music labor media and have already waited in full pre-planning the resources part of the purpose if there's a business that needs to be planted I've already seated your life with the connections you will need to manifest its fullness whether it's an accountant a subcontractor cry out to me and let me show you how bass my love for you and my son are if there's an Genuity or solutions needed I've already planted the answers to huge problems in your generation and it's attainable to the humble and the pure finances were never supposed to rule your life resources were never supposed to be an oppressor over you but I have given you the ability to overcome and powerfully Steuer to everything I've created you are called to be a master over the resources in your life believing me for everything I've put faith in you for if you accept my role of father in your life it comes with this kind of love I just pray over you right now as we're closing this service and if you need prayer right now up on the board we'll put a prayer line we have a prayer team here right now that will pray with you there's a connect slide that's gonna go up and I've show you ways to connect there's even a you can take a picture of the I always forget what those are called but QR code Thank You Sona here set a QR code for a virtual connection Center so we'd love to pray with you but at the same time I just want to pray over you Holy Spirit if we haven't known the father as a provider would you allow an introduction to be made in our spirit today or if we have in seasons past but fear or anything else is hindering us from knowing you father this way would you remove that from us and we repent of being self-sufficient we repent a fear of what possibly could happen or future tripping or any these things God I just pray that we ground ourselves back and be re grounded in your truth of who you are as a God who loves us and love is tangible and changes the metrics of our life and then the metrics of others through us would you allow that to be our reality today we just blessed you thank you for letting us do this church service thank you God that in the midst of this kind of epidemic there's provision like this for our spiritual growth and our spiritual needs and for community and I pray you would meet every need of those who are watching right now come father is the provider so that we can become providers with you and Jesus name everybody say Amen well thank you for joining us today at expression 58 and we hope you'll come back next week we love you so much and we pray that every need you have would be provided for right now and she just say bless you guys [Music]

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Length: 38min 35sec (2315 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020