God Wants To Develop You | Paula White-Cain

here we go genesis 22 verse 1 through 14 i'm reading the NIV and by the way Facebook all that Instagram is all down the computer went down about everything that could go down went down today but that's okay because gob didn't he's still on the throne so here we go sometime later God tested Abraham and he said to him Abraham so God tested him and Abraham says Here I am that's first part you've got to show up and he replied then God said take your son no I know and at the time he had Ishmael and Isaac and he says take your son your only son he doesn't even recognize this smell as being his son your only son Isaac whom you love and go to the region of Moriah somebody shout Moriah sacrifice them there wait a minute God come on I've waited all this time for promise now you're telling me to take the promise that I've waited for go to the Mount of Moriah and sacrifice the thing that I have waited 99 years for the thing that you promised would establish covenant and there would be a blessing to all nations and you're telling me sacrifice it God's not saying I'm gonna raise it up I'm gonna bring it back it's so easy for us knowing the end of the story to think we have God all figured out but God's saying to him sacrifice and then he keeps on him he says sacrifice him as a burnt offering on the one-one-one where does he tell him to go to Moriah and he says sacrifice this is a very strong prophetic word and pastor Brad you've got to hear this because the Lord really gave me a word that has some prophetic meaning to story life he says sacrifice on one of the mountains now when you begin to study there three mountains in the range of Moriah and he says go to Moriah but he doesn't tell him specifically which mountain to go to he said go make a sacrifice on one of the mountains and some of you've got a picture of your promise but your your process or how you get there is so fuzzy it's like how does this come to pass and some of you are getting frustrated and even like alright Godwin go he says go and I want you to make this sacrifice and go to one of the mountains and early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey to took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac when he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering he set out for the place God had told him about on the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance and he said to his servants stay right here with the donkey you see there's some places God is taking you that you don't get to take your boo with you don't get to take everybody with you there's some places that God's gonna take you that there's some people that have to stay back they cannot go to where God is getting ready to take you I'm trying to I've got a word right now stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over here and we will worship and then we'll come back to you now God's telling him sacrifice and he's saying but I'm going to worship and then I'll be back to you you talk about faith that's some serious faith right there neighbor ham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on one son Isaac and he himself carried the fire and the knife as the two of them went on together Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham he said father yes my son Abraham replied he said okay I see the fire and the wood are here Isaac said but where's the lamb for the burnt offering can you imagine Abraham answered and said God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering my son and the two of them went on together I might have stopped the journey right there but Isaac had just as much faith but it wasn't the faith maybe that his dad had in God as much as the faith that he knew his father had a covenant when they reached the place God told him about Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on and he bound his son Isaac laid him on the altar on top of the wood then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son but the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven and said Abraham Abraham and when God speaks you 2 times it's how two coven it he said do not lay a hand on the boy do not do anything to him now I know that you fear God because you have not withheld from me your son your only Son and Abraham looked up there in a thicket and he saw a ram caught by its horns and he went over and took the RAM and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son so Abraham called the place the Lord will provide and to this day that said on the mountain of the Lord it will be provided and the angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said I swear by myself declares the Lord that because you have done this and have not withheld your son your only son I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore your descendants will take possession of the cities and their enemies and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me turn to somebody say I'll say where's the land say where's the lamb you can be seated when we talk about supernatural and I'm leaving my glasses on because I've been doing a lot of reading today alright guys and I just want to make sure I get all the scripture text right for you but when we talk about the supernatural we as I said it's relating to an order an existence that is beyond the visible that is beyond the observable universe departing from what is usual departing from what is normal and you've heard pastor Brad talk about God calling us out of our comfort zone God calling us out of a place that is that is convenient it means to transcend the laws of nature than miraculous CS Lewis defines a miracle as an interference with nature by supernatural power and God has supernatural power supernatural provision for your life you see you might have been wounded for 30 years but in 30 years one hour and two seconds God can bring healing what I'm saying is you might have been in LAC for for for 59 years but in one God moment he can change everything around you might have suffered or been bound but right now tonight here and new destiny Christensen or the city of destiny God can set you free and whom the son sets free is free indeed he whatever it is you've been facing for a long time tomorrow by this time you see this is done as God's superimposes his high invisible wall which governs the heavenlies over the visible walls of nature remember that the purpose of miracles is always to glorify God so God says that we're made overcomers by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony and the word means evidence God wants to show evidence in your life you see evidence was I was a broken girl I did not come from a lineage of super Saints or people that serve God in church I came from a whole bunch of heathens and and I was my father committed suicide when I was five years old and sexually and physically abused so I came from a well-to-do family and though there was a lot of education and everything else there was brokenness and dysfunction and no boundaries and all kinds of mess and and God said I'm gonna bring forth evidence of what I can do in one formal messed-up Mississippi girl's life and I'm gonna use her and even though my parents cut me off when I was going to college because some decisions I made I was living in a trailer on Bill Moxley Road and you hear me say it often people called me trailer trash God says I'm in the recycling business because I can recycle what other people call trash and bring for treasure so people say how did you get there whatever there is whether it's they for their perception of successful ministry or maybe some of the things that I've done in the White House or in this nation or maybe with some of the celebrities or whatever their definition of they think that I'm done that's been successful in this life I've gone there by one way because the God that I serve is a God of the supernatural when he opens a door then no man can shut it no witch doctor can shut it no hex can shut it you aren't hearing what I'm saying when God raises you up no man can pull you down when God heals you it can defy every single thing that a doctor said when God sets you free you are free indeed so God wants to bring a miracle not so that you can walk around selfishly like look at me so that you can testify but you can't help but to say this is not my my might this is not by my strength I didn't get out of prison because I just was on good work-release I got out because God had an assignment and God had a ministry for me and also show his glory through my life so God wants to use you to display his greatness your living epistle that he wants to write on your life you are his sermon of grace you're his sermon of power you're his sermon a provision think about it all it takes is as somebody who is willing to say I will take a step and the impossible oh you aren't hearing me right there now now stake take a step in and everything that's mapped out I will take a step in the impossible and if you'll take what little you have and offer it up to God God is a multiplier God will take the little that you have it's a basic spiritual principle he's done in numerous time he says okay there's five thousand people that are hungry here Matthew chapter 14 verse 15 give me the two fish and five loaves and then not only does he feed the 5,000 plus their wives and their children but there are twelve baskets that are left over oh don't make me start talking about governance of God's supernatural look at look at the last meal of the widow of Zarephath when elijah comes in first Kings chapter 17 and here God has him in hiding because he said there's not gonna be any rain until I say so and you think that I've had it tough think about Elijah then he says there they're dying now because of famine II says it's not gonna rain till I say so and God sends him down to a brook in the brook strong up and God says I'll use a raven to feed you do you think God has any kind of problem with whatever seems so big do you think God was caught off surprised by you're $1,400 water bill or you're leak or anything else God says just give me an opportunity because I'm trying to push you into a greater realm of faith and an understanding that there is nothing too difficult for me I'm looking for somebody who wants to walk in miracles right now and so he goes to the widow woman and he does something crazy I can see the Jerusalem Post right now prophet takes widows last meal and so he goes and he says feed me first well first off she's down there with her pitiful attitude saying me and my son junior are getting ready to die we're gonna eat our last meal and we got a you know gonna prepared healing we're just gonna die like everyone else and he said feed me first what what a bold man what a crazy thing but he knew that in her obedience was locked up a miracle for her so she does it which takes in a supernatural step of faith and when she does and she sustains the man of God waiting him first then the Bible says that her barrel and her cruse never failed and her cruse of oil never failed not only did she have natural provision to eat but she had the crucible she had an anointing that does not fail during the entire time of famine see God has a miracle with your name I'm just trying to work with somebody's fake tonight your marriage might be an absolute the pit right now but God can turn everything around you might have been single for 14 years five months six days 13 hours but who's counting come on and God's about to cause you to meet your husband come on your wife tonight I don't know at Denny's wherever you're gonna go after church I think you think God is a faithful God say I think you've heard it so much you're just sitting there like alright give me more I'm gonna give you more tonight all right the vessels of all multiplied for the widow in 2nd Kings chapter 4 tax money in the month fish like I said to Matthew chapter 17 the real impact is not in the mechanics of all these miracles but in what caused them to take place in the first place what caused them to start so what caused these miracles is not in the mechanics in other words it's not in the fact that God can put tax money in a fish's mouth that God can raise a person from the dead that God can bring supernatural provision and put a ram which by the way does not go up in high places in a thicket up in a mountain called Moriah it's not in the mechanics of the miracle that's not what it's about because if you don't understand then you're gonna miss his whole message because right now I'm spiritually searching right now because what happened and what caused these miracles to start place was a heart that was turned to God that acted in obedience and what God is saying as you might have your Harvard degree and you might be real street smart and think you're slick and know how to do it whichever side of the fence are you might know how to walk on both of those sides with your academic and your street self but God says none of that not your good looks not your education not your academia not your net worth not your network not any of that is about to turn this what is turning everything is a heart for me that walks out in obedience and God says when I find that I'm able to do something so supernatural if the whole world will take notice there's often too much manipulation to get from God instead of giving to God see God wants to develop you more than delight in you I just said something deep right there God's more interested in developing me than just simply delighting in me in other words God's and in Pastor Brian said this it's not about God always making you feel good in fact the Bible says that if you're truly a son and a daughter he chastises those that he loves you know God loves me enough to course-correct me God loves me enough to say Paula I'm not gonna leave you out there in this humdrum ordinary life it's like the rest of the world when I have one that is abundant for you though you might not always like the process of getting there because faith feels funny to your flesh so now that means that God's got to develop me and development takes time and it takes testing and that's what so many people don't like to go through time and testing development when God makes your promises far beyond the place of maturity where you've been so something like God goes and he says alright there's this little ruddy guy and his name is David and he's out in the field and he's got it he's a slinger he's a professional slinger it's not just like he gets you know oh let me play with the boomerang for the first time he's a professional slinger it's like he knows how to shoot and he's a professional slinger and God uses his skill and his ability but it's God who gets behind that rock when he gets in front of Goliath and causes it to go and knock him down for David to be able to cut off his head because who is this uncircumcised giant who's been defying the army of Israel and so God Goes Down in this field and when the rest of his brothers don't see him as much his father doesn't believe in him you know the story because when the prophet Samuel comes down and says hey Jesse God has chosen one of your boys to be king he's man this is awesome do you know the privileges of being King I mean there's some privileges you gonna get the girl you're gonna get the money you gonna get the whole package and Jesse's like man I'm said I knew my seed was special all right he's like I got it and he puts all of them in the lineup it's up to David and often in life some of you are sitting here and you feel like you've been bypass feel like you've been overlooked why can't I break this cycle why why can't I get out of this demonic trap why do I seem to stay broke why why do I struggle in the same area what's his addiction in my life why is it like I step forward two feet and I get knocked back five feet and see it's important because God speaks to you from a place of maturity not from your actual place because God says when he goes down he said go down and anoint him he said bring him up to here and you know the story that the oil went flow from the horn which means the place of authority and when God finds David in a field he calls him a king but he's only a kid because when God talks to you he's not talking to you out of your current condition but out of your destined state and God says I found me a king among the kids so here he is just a kid but God sees him as a king Isaiah chapter 46 verse 10 he makes known the end from the beginning now it gets really fun and exciting because God shows you the end he just doesn't show you all the mess in the middle the promise is in God's hand but the process is in yours and so that means if the promises in God's hand but the sistah getting there is in mind and whether I'm going to be obedient or not so in our text maybe would take quite some time for playing Abram of ur to be transformed into Abraham that the Bible ultimately calls God's friend and the father of many nations when Abraham gets to the promise we see we then see many chapters a process layered with these tests think about what all he had to be tested with test with his family tests with this fortune test with this fatherhood test with this farewell and it's interesting because he shows us that promotion is based on progress not perfection the promotion is based on his progress promotion is based on the fact that every time God gives him an instruction he ultimen gets up and walks it out not on his perfection because he's walking out when he gets up and leaves his country and gets away from his crazy kinfolk he's still throwing Sarah under the bus for 25 years so so Pastor Brian if God was waiting for you to be the perfect husband I don't think you're gonna start story life to you about ninety nine all right if he's waiting for you to be the perfect man the perfect package to come forth to the nation to deliver everything then then I hate to tell you but you're probably gonna be in the grave before you ever get there because God is not waiting for your perfection God is waiting for your progress to say I say yes even though I know probably more than any of you and I'm embarrassed by my own and you know my own incompetencies in my own inadequacies and my own vulnerabilities and my own flaws and my own mess ups and everything and God said you're just the one I want because you're not so full of yourself oh man I don't know maybe I'm just preaching to myself but God said I have a miracle for you and so I'm grateful for that because Abraham teaches us don't quit in spite of your mistakes in spite of your message you know how many times it'd be so easy if I would have just gone oh I'm done I'm done now that one's gonna be the one that takes me out but I found the most successful people in life are people who don't quit that every person that God mentions in the Bible you will not find a person maybe milchester dick all right which one I'm sure but you know how to find a person in the Bible that God does not show us the characteristics of their flaws and their failures not everything that was right about them but everything that they messed up on and how they were used in spite of themself because God said I want the world to see that through an intimate relationship that you and I have I can do great things I can do mighty things I can do supernatural things I can do miracles so Abraham fails and keeps on going well now I've just everybody who's all puffed up with himself or like I'm done but for everybody who has ever fallen for everyone who's sitting here with some some aspects that you don't want your neighbor to know except for elder Marguerite who's perfect the rest of us with all of our failures come on the rest of us with all of our Muskaan said for everyone who fails just keep going for everyone who's falling down keep getting back up I want to encourage somebody tonight then your past does not scare God it doesn't stop God it doesn't say oh now they're not ministry material now he comes to his final test and this is really where I wanted to get you and God tells him good to go to region of Moriah to a mountain that I will show you up and it really translates this the literal translation I will show you of so place matters God says go to a place that I'm going to show you a place matters to God geography matters to God there's an assignment on every believer that is always tied to the right place and often to the right person and there were people I have a reason I have a suspicion why he left everybody else behind because they'd be like where you taking us because here he goes go to this place and God says the direction now here this is Mariah but until you get up and move I'm not going to tell you the final destination he said go to Mariah God's looking to see if you'll trust him in ambiguity God's looking and listen I keep saying to pastor Brad tell me the details and he comes to the meetings and I go okay Brad tell me what what you know it's in fact today I went did an angel show up he goes no I said did God come down and speak went no I said do you know if it's Saturday night or Sunday morning no thank you tell me the details are y'all looking at me like God is always holding you he just said there he goes mom I have nothing to say to you until God speaks to me and it hit me I whipped my gosh he's showing me up in faith this is not cool the youngster showed me up in faith but hold up wait a minute he can't show me up in face so I've got to start signing some stuff and stepping out more and believing God for greater nations I'm like whoa hold up I keep on give me a plan huh it's not that I'd listen the kids smart excuse me for calling him a kid the boy excuse me for calling boy the young man smart the dude is smart guys I know I've been around in 33 years I've known him since the first breath the dude figured out his crib when he was like seven months old and kept falling out I'm like for real he understood all the latches could sneak out of the house by one and a half I'm like good gosh God said I told you I'm gonna give him a mind to use him and like Lord can you just wait to develop it a little bit striving me crazies mother why are y'all look gonna be funny like some of your kids having ever all right any and he keeps saying and it reminded me of Abraham because the question is are the answer there's got to go to Moriah but he didn't tell him where to go in Moriah and can we move and in big you it to it can you move when you don't have all the answers because we want to sign and God says when you move I'll show you will you follow me without clear instruction it tells me that I can be in the will of God and not know what's next in fact it tells me usually if I am in the will of God I don't know what's next I only know the end from the beginning and God will hold some things back because he's not interested in an event but he's interested in an experience with you he wants an intimate relationship so if Abram if Abraham now doesn't stay in touch with God there are three mountains in Moriah he runs the risk of missing it so he must be at the right mountain now mariah has meaning because Mariah's literal meaning means God is my teacher so God will take you to a new plane God will take you to a region where he wants to teach you some things you see if you're not learning something today if you're not learning something next month if you're still stuck and your faith is the same place it was five years ago if it's the same place it was five months ago if it's the same place it was a year ago you need to ask yourself what's going on because God is trying to stretch me and I'm not having to use any more faith than I had to use twenty years ago or 20 months ago and God's saying get up and go to Moriah and meet me up there because I want your son not only son the one that you love the thing you love not the thing that you hate the thing that you love give it to me I'll praise God I don't have a church with me tonight and the Bible declares that God God did Abraham now temp means to test to try to prove seek God was not trying to see what Abraham was already was made of because God already knew what Abraham was made of he wanted Abraham to test and prove the word in his own life because he knew there would be a time that Abraham would need to know that the word on the inside of him would not fail so God had to put Abraham in a position to activate his faith and he was giving him an opportunity and may I say that thing that you've been cursing that thing you've been crying over that thing you've been frustrated about that thing that seems like why hasn't it worked with the therapist why hasn't it worked in the situation why couldn't mom get me out of this situation why couldn't dad just bail me out why couldn't I just self help myself out of this because God wants you to know he's put you in a position to give you an opportunity and God's giving you an opportunity that the doctors not going to solve it for you the moms not going to solve it for you the pastor's not going to solve it for you your best friend's not going to solve it for you but only God is going to be able to do this one for you i i'm preaching way too hard for wednesday night crowd that doesn't i want to go with me and believe that God can do something supernatural and God has a miracle waiting for you and I don't care if 99 people tell you no God has a yes for you Abraham said he in the lad Isaac were going to worship and here's the crucial key for Supernatural provision they were going to worship in order to worship he carries some stuff up that he had potential to kill him and what he loved when Isaac gets to the mountain with his father here's what he sees verse 7 he says well the fire and the water here I see the fire I see the wood nice it's looking and said okay I see the knife and then those are common instruments for sacrifice and there's nothing that he sees that would seemingly cause concern but then suddenly dawns on him and he realizes we're going to sacrifice a burnt offering to God now he's been around long enough to know what that means Isaac's not like Nick or Asher saij he's probably the most Bible scholars and scholastics thinks he's a young lad a teenage boy and so he knows what a burnt offering is it's an offering that was wholly consumed in fire and had been everything but the ashes ascended to God as incense burnt means the whole thing in other words it wasn't like give me a leg it's a whole thing it's called an ascension offer it was an act of submitting your will to the will of God it was the first of five offerings it's listed in the Book of Leviticus so it was a it was something that was extremely sacrificial in Hebrew it means going up it was an act of going to the next level and you see many of us stay at the same place because we're not willing we don't like this word sacrifice to give God something to allow us to go to that next level and I'm not just talking about your money it could be something else it could be a phone call of somebody that you wanted to ignore the last 20 years and God's men saying call them up and I want you to pay off their mortgage you'd be like whoa hold up it might be that God's saying I want you to do this I want you to serve Him this way I want you whatever it is that God's asking or requiring of you so to Isaac this was an experience that rarely was realized with my such young men even though he'd under had a understanding it was not his place to be involved so at this point he doesn't see the lamb and I'm sure that he most likely concludes my father would not be here if he didn't handling so let's dissect this a little bit farther because the question gets asked where's the lamb so Isaac goes I see the wood I see the fire I see the knife but where's the lamb have you ever been in the will of God have you ever been worshiping God have you ever left some things behind and had no provision I'm gonna stop because you guys don't want a miracle tonight have you ever been in the will of God come on it's been too easy for some people have you ever been in the will of God have you ever been worshiping God come on have you ever been there but yet you didn't have provision for what God was asking of you you better slap somebody a high five say where's the lamb right now you looked at so I say I'm serving you God I've stepped out I'm believing you God and so he says where's the lamb it's not what I see that it's bothering me it's what I don't see that is so difficult I can handle the journey I can carry the wood I can hold the knife I can walk up Mount Moriah I can handle that there's no sacrifice I can understand the depth of the atonement I can even deal with the fact that I don't understand it all but where is the lamb there's no burnt offering without a land so where is what is necessary for it to be complete and the most important ingredient is missing Isaac has to be feeling extremely nervous there's no provision Abraham watch this Abraham was Isaac's insurance you say how do you say that because insurance means a coverage by contract whereby one party understands - guaranteed another against lost by a specific or specified peril so Abraham was the best insurance provider that Isaac could ever have why do you say that because the contract was not between Isaac and God the contract was between Abraham and God and Isaac knew that his daddy had a contract this is why Abram could say we are going up to worship and we will return so Isaac's looking around saying I see the knife I see the fire I see the wood but where's the lamb and Isaac knew his greatest insurance was his dad's relationship because he knew that his dad had a covenant that his dad had a contract and he knew that even if his life would be to be sacrificed that God could not fail his father he had watched a year after year after year in Genesis chapter 22 verse 8 declares God Himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering you see man's extremity is God's opportunity because I came to let you know God will not fail you you're getting ready to have a miracle tonight 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse the Lord is not slack concerning his promises if God spoken and God promises God will bring it to pass so then there's this timing of God's provision Galatians 4:4 but when the fullness of time was come God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law fullness and the Greek means a period that is filled up the completion of the repletion the fulfillment of a need or desire the fullness of time time is Chronos time is that clock that is ticking it is not Kairos its Chronos it is what you are inserted into it is a set time the fixed time for a special occasion and he says where is the Lanta where is what I have need of for this assignment let me bring it down to Paul the white ministry God you just said sign the contract you told me to go back on television like I've never been on before but I need a studio I need cameras I need a console I need things signed the contract but God where's the lamb don't worry about it you need $186,000 don't worry sign the contract Paul oh this is not your first rodeo sign the contract you aren't hearing what I'm saying I signed the contract and suddenly it starts coming in come on I mean every single time it starts coming in in the services it starts coming in from online it starts coming in when people said God spoke to me it starts coming in there's increased revenue like we haven't had for over five years why because I signed the contract oh you're in here it's being manufactured and it'll be installed the week before Good Friday and Easter why because I signed the contract do you have 186,000 the bank no but I've got the contract and I know that God said come up here to Mount Moriah come up here Paula because I've said the nations will be shaken through your voice I've told you what to do aren't y'all looking at me funny so so I don't know what your provision is needed for your assignment but is it too difficult for God is it too hard for God all right so let's keep going you ready so you guys where's the lamb so verse 9 through 13 the Texans and I'm done with this the text ends with the thicket of God's provision and they came to the place which God told him an aged woman building an altar laid the wood bound Isaac Abraham church for its sin took the knife to slam and the angels Lord cold outside Abraham Abraham he said Here I am he said lay not your hand upon the lad neither do anything unto him for now I know that thou fearest God seeing now is not withheld thy son thine only son and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold him a ram caught and let me look at that word that word caught means seized the portion has taken possession of a ram that is seized in the thicket it means to entwine don't miss this to wrap up because sometimes the provision seems like it's hiding but really it's being tied up you aren't hearing what I'm saying he see if Abraham was binding Isaac to the altar God was binding the lamb to the thicket and all the tossing and all the twisting and all the turning that's going on in your life is securing your provision it produces a thicket that binds to the promise of God and here's the thing that you need to know thickets don't grow on mountaintops but they grow in the valley you know you need nobody's hearing what I'm saying or you'd be running around this building right now Rams don't run on mountaintops Rams don't go up on mountaintops and thickets don't grow on mountaintops but God said am I not the god of the supernatural God wanted to reveal himself as Jehovah Jireh remember miracles reveal the nature of God and so he says I am Jehovah Jireh and Jehovah is derived from the Hebrew word of kaya which means to live the name Jehovah literally means full of life and it's written in the King James as Lord and means to be come into being Jehovah is the revealing one and he reveals himself as your intimate God he walks with you he talks with you he'll never leave you he'll never forsake you and the more that you grow in relationship with him the more he reveals himself Jehovah also notes the changeability of God James 1:17 to whom there is no variableness neither shadow of turning he was chapter 13 verse 8 he's the same teto today yesterday and forever warned he's the revealing one revealing his ways to you he's eternal he's changeless ready Jehovah Jireh it's the first compound name of Jehovah to ever appear in the Old Testament and it beautifully expounds the name that is the nature of Jehovah of God he's going to get more specific with you as the revealing one and now he begins to reveal himself and more death his character his attributes who he is what he does it like if duck was here or somebody right now it's one thing to Wanda if a doctor comes in they go hi I'm doctor so-and-so her doctor okay your doctor was somebody's coming in the church I'm doctor so-and-so I'm pastor so-and-so I'm attorney so-and-so I'm the mom of what whatever but it's a completely different thing if someone says I'm a doctor or hi I'm dr. Smith chief of ophthalmology at USF specializing in performing laser cataract surgery now it's a revelation you're not just a doctor but you're dr. Smith that is chief of ophthalmology at USF and you perform specialty in cataract laser surgery now I know because I mean there's a whole bunch of Smith's and there's a whole bunch of doctors but now I begin to see a revelation of really who you are and what you're gifted so now he begins to reveal himself specifically who he is and what he does and that's what God's doing today in Genesis chapter 22 it's the first place in the Bible where the name Jehovah Jireh appears and it's after the Lord showed himself to Abraham on the basis of meeting his needs and that's what God wanted me to send it to you tonight I don't know what your need is but God does and sitting next to you is a different need that every single person there's emotional needs there's physical needs there's relational needs there's financial needs there's spiritual needs and this is what God wants to reveal to you I am Jehovah Jireh I will meet every need in your life and I am unchangeable and I am no respecter persons if I did it for Abraham I will do it for you and Jehovah Jireh means the Lord will see to it and the Lord will provide you are in that situation for God to show off for God to set it up you don't need God for what a man can do you need God for what only God can do and God reveals himself to Abraham is Jehovah Jireh during abraham's most difficult tests during his most difficult trial and when God reveals himself as Jehovah Jireh Abraham wasn't looking at what he could see with his natural vision rather he was looking at entering into a visionary into a faith room and while Abraham was journeying toward Mount Moriah which is in a mountain range he did something that's very significant with faith then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and he saw the place afar off according to Genesis 22 verse 4 and he did this on three different occasions he lifted up his eyes God is saying to you right now I want you to lift up your eyes I want you to see not with natural vision but with spiritual eyes right now and Abraham wasn't just looking around and what he could see in the natural realm but what he was doing was he was catching a vision of Revelation he was catching a vision of what God was doing and right now I want you to see that God is causing that cancer tumor to shrink in your body and the next time you go back to the doctor there will be no trace of cancer in your body why because God wants to show that he is Jehovah Jireh the God that will provide and I want you to know that the bank account that you think is gonna provide for it is not the one where it's gonna come from because God is gonna bring a ram that has been caught in the thicket and I want you to know that whatever your need is right now yes you went off to rehab and it didn't work but God is about to deliver you and set you free I don't know who who I'm talking to or what it is but God said tell my people I have a miracle there is a ram that is caught in the thicket and God says if you decide to stay back with the servants and stay back and just sit back there with your promise then both you and your promise are gonna die but Abraham I've got a covenant with you I've got a contract and if you'll make progress and if you'll step out I'm about to do what no man I'm not asking I didn't even ask Sara to believe because Sara is struggling with it I didn't ask everybody else to believe because they're gonna struggle with it but ultimately nations and your scene are gonna be bust I've just asked you to go to Moriah and you've got to be so in so in tune with me then when you get to the right place you know exactly where to make the sacrifice because I'm teaching you every step of the way how to hear my voice how to obey even when you don't hear it how to say yes when you feel like saying no how to go when you feel like staying comfortable I don't know who I'm here for but God said it's a season of miracles then God said I'm getting ready to do the supernatural if you'll dare get out of your comfort zone and get up to Moriah I'm getting ready to graduate you to another level I'm getting ready to show you who I am I'm getting ready to reveal myself as Jehovah Jireh the Lord who will provide the Lord who will see to it the Lord who will heal you there times God wants us to lift up our eyes and see into the spirit realm what he's giving us when Abraham were lifted up his eyes he was looking at the promises of God considering his circumstances in light of those promises and I don't care what the mountain is that stands before you whatever your situation whatever your circumstance I declare it is small in comparison to the promise that God has given you get your eyes on the promise get your eyes on the promise get your eyes on the promise and off the problem and here's what happened here's what happened you already know that Abraham goes up and he gets the RAM he says here he is and it's the first place he's known as Jehovah Jireh and by faith Abraham offered Isaac God's saying come on bring your promise I know you don't have the money I know you don't know have the network I know you don't have the ability to do it but I'm not asking you for any of that I'm simply asking you to take a step I'm not asking you for the whole journey right now I'm not asking you to lay everything I'm just simply asking you take a step for your family I'm asking you right now you ready yo y'all ready let me bring it down to where you are I'm asking you right now go ahead and open the bank account for your business that's already told you he's going to give you a business to be a kingdom builder I'm asking you right now go ahead and start writing the book I'm not asking you to get a publisher I'm asking you right now go ahead and start recording the songs I didn't say recording them in a professional studio I just said record them go ahead start story life I didn't tell you to have the building I didn't tell you have all the money I didn't tell you to have the staff I didn't tell you I just said start story life go ahead I'm just asking you to step out and trust me I am the God that is faithful who will see to it and provide and stop looking in the natural and what you think you can depend on and learn that I am the god that is about to show off and show up I don't know who needs a miracle I don't know who needs God to provide I don't know who needs Jehovah Jireh but if this message was for you get down to this altar right now come on if this message is for you and say I tried everything within my own ability I done it within my own ability and I can't even get my own self free I can't even do it but God I'm coming to you because I want to truly be free I want to truly live a life of joy I want to be free from sickness and disease I want to be free from every bondage and burden I want to be free from every spirit of poverty and so god right now whatever you ask of me whatever you require me I'm ready to step out I'm ready to go to Moriah I don't even know what Moriah looks like I'm not even sure if I can spell Moriah but God I'm willing to go I'm willing to do whatever you ask of me it's the Holy Spirit Here I am Here I am because I recognize you're not gonna give me every detail to all my destiny but Here I am

Channel: Paula White Ministries

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Length: 46min 19sec (2779 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 09 2019