Sacrifice | DeVon Franklin

let us pray to Heavenly Father we thank you for taking your stand behind this desk we thank you for your power your mercy your briefs thank you dear Lord for just aligning us in this moment so that we may hear from you and not only here but also do and then images as we pray and all God's children say good morning how y'all doing it is always a blessing to be back in miracle city you all are my family amen it is just truly a blessing give it up for your pastor come on give it up for your first lady give it up for the first family amen I don't know who that little boy was in that picture that they show I don't know who that was but when y'all find out let me know um as God had me come this weekend the word that he put on my heart especially after talking you know with with your pastor my brother about where are we right now where are we were almost entering into the fourth quarter of this year hmm I got a commercial break before the message even starts we're about to get into the fourth quarter of this year and some of you have already written this year off because what you thought was gonna happen in the first second and third quarter has not happened so you've already said well I guess it's not meant to be may I submit for your consideration we serve a God who actually specializes in the fourth quarter the enemy may think he has got you for three quarters but let God get in there and do what he is called to do I want you to know that I declare that the fourth quarter of this year will be better than the three quarters that preceded it that was a word for somebody because somebody needs to know that what is ahead of you is greater than what's behind you but the key to unlock the power of the fourth quarter of this year relies and resides in one word called sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice turn to your neighbor and say sacrifice mmm turns the other neighbor say it's gonna cost you something hmm y'all don't like that here is the definition of sacrifice sacrifice is an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy sacrifice I repeat is the act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy when I have looked at the sum total of the successes in my life they directly relate to the sacrifices of my life hmm so if you are if you are waiting and praying for God to deliver a certain level of success I ask you are your level of sacrifices at the level of success you are praying for no matter what God calls us to do and no matter what he has planned for us it's gonna cost us something but as if we're being honest we don't like to pay the price I'm talking to somebody see some of us have had gym memberships at the beginning of January now now just because you had a membership do me the membership have you a man right right right right but but but we want to still get to a certain place in life but we aren't willing to pay the price this message is about here's how we pay the price and here's why sacrifice is worth it I want to draw your attention to first Kings chapter 17 I'm gonna work from verse 7 one of the quotes that that really came to me as we dive into this word is anybody familiar with the the greatest champion of all time Muhammad Ali Mohammed Ali anybody familiar with Muhammad Ali here was a quote that he had that blew me away he said I hated every minute of training but I said don't quit suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion hmm how do you want to live the rest of your life and are you willing to pay the cost in the present so that your future self will thank you for what you did now for your future selfs benefit mmm some of y'all missed it what we do in the present has a future ramification what are the things right now that God is calling you to do now that your future self will say thank you so much what's the sacrifice where's the discipline what are the things he's asking you to do in the moment that will prepare you for the future he has created for you and for me so as we go to the word I want to draw your attention to first Kings chapter 7 and I'm gonna work through first King excuse me chapter 17 seven and I'm gonna work through verse 24 I will read in your hearing sometime later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land verse 8 then the word of the Lord came to him him being Elijah the prophet go at once God said to Elijah to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food now here's what I love about the text God is giving Elijah a command here's where you need to go and when you get there here's what I need you to look for and I don't want you to worry about what you're going to eat because your provision is already in the place of your purpose but in order to receive it you're gonna have to get uncomfortable and go and fail God did not tell Elijah the name of the widow that was gonna be waiting for him I am talking to somebody today let me tell you we go we gonna knock the cobwebs out of your spirit this morning a man I flew all the way from Los Angeles on a red-eye and I'm gonna give you everything God told me to give you amen because I know it's time to get ready for what he's getting ready to do in your life and in this church so so God gives Elijah a command here's where I want you to go and here's who's gonna be in place to bless you now I want to go back to this text here's what it says verse 8 then the word of the Lord came to him and he said I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food I have commanded somebody you do not know to bless you if you only understood that God has already set up people in your future who may not even acknowledge him but there are still gonna be there to bless you according to his plan for your life you don't even realize how blessed you are you don't even realize God already has people in place over the things you're worried about God is already putting you on the mind of somebody who is in position to help you in a way you don't think you can be helped I don't know who I'm talking to right now we serve a God who not only specialized in the present but he also sets us up for our future but what does it cost Elijah in the moment he has to sacrifice his comfort of his current environment in order to receive what God has planned for him mmm I love to being being comfortable - I do but I would rather be purposeful than comfortable can I say I'd rather be purposeful than comfortable I don't know who I'm talking to right now it is let me tell you that the moments of the greatest growth in our life will be when we are the most uncomfortable so if you are uncomfortable right now you are growing and you are going anybody uncomfortable right now just clap your hands if you this uncomfortable come on you just it's just you've been in a season of discomfort and god you're saying where are you God is saying I am in your discomfort right now but the key is in the discomfort to not obsess over the comfortable but to say God if you're allowing me to be uncomfortable what are you calling me to do aha last week your pastor preached on not only being a hearer of the word but doing so even in the midst of our discomfort God is trying to speak to us to get us to where he would have us to be and we have to have faith along the way Elijah not only had to hear what God said he had to trust that a woman he did not know was gonna be in position to bless him with his very need now watch this it says this so he went to Zarephath when he came to the town gate a widow was there gathering sticks yo this is amazing we don't know how many widows were in the town do we he didn't even know what she looked like but as he got to the gate the blessing was already in position it amazes me how much in my own life I've been worried about things God has already taken care of I'm trying to solve problems I gotta say that thing is already solved but do you have enough faith to be obedient to what I'm calling you to do now now you got to understand something that part of faith requires the sacrifice of our own opinion about what should be done and I say that again you and I got a lot of opinions don't we come on we got an opinion about everything we got opinions about things we shouldn't have opinions about why are we worried about what somebody else's worth wearing right as long as you worry about what's in your closet that's what's in your control we over here worry about what they shouldn't be wearing that well why do we care if you want to look crazy that's your business I'll pray for you but I'm gonna look straight Amen right I'm gonna look the way I need to look right I'm gonna look put together we get so obsessed over opinions about things that do not matter and as a result we try to serve God our opinion and we get mad when he does not submit to it who are we talking to today the God is God he's saying my thoughts are not your thoughts my ways are not your ways what I'm doing is not how you're doing it so you may have an opinion but I have given you a directive so are you gonna let your opinion override my directive and then you want to get mad because you're not where you want to be but I've already directed you where to go put your opinion to the side sacrifice it on the altar and put obedience in its place I don't know who I'm talking to right now but I'll choose obedience over opinion every single day of the week because a lot of times when I've had an opinion about what I wanted God to do it was based on limited information on who I was and what he was doing I said years ago I wanted to be promoted to vice president of production at Sony Pictures where I was working and I said God I want to be promoted by the time I'm 30 years old thirty came and went and I was not promoted my opinion said God what's wrong with you did you not get my request come on am I the only one who's never done this come on y'all don't leave me hangin miracle City because I wanted to be vice president by the time I was thirty it did not happen and and here's what was so interesting the longer it didn't happen I wasn't in faith about her I was upset why haven't you done it according to my timetable according to my opinion on when this should be done and you know about six months into my 30th birthday I got the promotion watch this nothing in my life changed so I was I was asking God to do something I was coveting it thinking that becoming a vice president would change my life and God said oh you wanted so badly I'm gonna give it to you and it's gonna feel empty because I've called you bigger than a position and all you're focused on as a title I'm trying to get you into your purpose I don't know who I'm talking to this morning but somebody is gonna catch this we're talking about opinion over obedience when we put our opinion over obedience we will consistently find ourselves unhappy stressed out overwhelmed and frustrated but when we put obedience over opinion we will find ourselves more peaceful more purposeful and we will find ourselves living the adventure of life when God calls us to do something a lot of times it makes no sense seriously when I look at my life what God has called me to do sometimes like god this is crazy he said I know welcome to what it looks like to follow me come on now too often we base what he wants us to do based upon our resources Elijah didn't have the food because where he was had dried up the resources were dried up so he had to trust that God was going to put someone in position and honor his word I have never seen God's Word returned to him but I've never seen it not in my life but in order to experience it we can't be afraid to be obedient turn to your neighbor say it's okay to be obedient okay watch this cuz we got a lot to cover in about 25 minutes watch this he called to her and what what's so interesting to me is that the worse says that that he has commanded a widow to supply the food now what we're gonna see is the widow wasn't even aware that she was commanded of God oh man watch this watch this so he sees the widow and and in this time usually widows were wearing a garment so you would know that they were in mourning sometimes they would tear their clothes sometimes they would be in a different color clothing so we we believe that he was able to identify the widow based upon how what she was wearing and there she was in position watch this he calls to her and ask would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have it to drink now what's interesting is God said I will command the widow to supply you with food hmm but he's saying hey would you give me something to drink why do we ask for less than what God has called us to ask for why do we accept in life less than what we're called to accept I got to give somebody a commercial break you know so often this shows up in our dating life do you know who you are do you know what you are worth let me tell you something if they can't get all of you don't give them none of you a man somebody come on stop dating down stop dating down stop dating down you know who you are do you know how valuable you are it's not worth being with somebody who cannot handle you it's not worth being just yet great you got taken to the movies that's cool but I'd rather you be at home alone watching the movie of your life didn't be with somebody who's not taking you to him they're trying to take you from him [Applause] I'm missing some of y'all up cause you sitting in the pew and you know you dating down into persons right next I'm sorry you know I came all the way from LA I got to tell you the truth you will know the truth or the truth I set you free I want you here's the thing so often in love we think we have to compromise what we believe were worth in order to have it know you can be all God called you to be and be loved at the same time you can have both Amen all right okay all right back back to our message I got to get back to my notes here I didn't that's breaking people up help us Lord right would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink and she was going to get it and he called oh and bring me a piece of bread please so he softened her up with the water and then he said oh by the way I need some food and here's what she says she says two negative things in a room 1 verse 12 as surely as the Lord your God lives she replied I don't have any bread now what's amazing is she saying I don't have any bread I don't have the finished product but then she goes on to say I only have a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil and a jug but I ain't got no bread I got all the ingredients but I don't have the finished product you got to realize that everything you need to be successful is already in you why are you speaking against what God is trying to do are you speaking against the command that God has already spoken over you see too often we're waiting for the finished product instead of identifying what do I have within me that God can use to create the very product I'm trying to to have my life look like I don't know who I'm talking to right now but you keep saying it's not gonna happen you keep saying I don't have what it takes may I submit with your consideration you got everything it takes this is why you're going through hell right now this is why the enemy is fighting you so bad because there is purpose and greatness on the inside of you you have the ingredients you just got to put it together I'm saying you don't have the money the money is on its way to you right now come on now I don't have the money to do it knows don't say that say you know what it's gonna be done I'm just waiting for the money to get to me where it supposed to be a man come on anybody needs some money right now come on y'all who really needs some money say lord thank you for the money that's on his way to me right now in the name of Jesus come on y'all because see so often we speak against what God is speaking for us the widow was saying I ain't got no bread I have the ingredients but I don't have it makes no sense right here's the second negative thing that she said I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son that we may eat it and die because she was a widow that implies that her husband had died that the child's father had died and they were left with no reason and potentially no resources so as a result she thought life was over but she doesn't even know what's getting ready to happen in the next scene of her life are you speaking against something that God has already done if you would just fast-forward a couple scenes why do we allow negativity to consume us so much why are we so comfortable with negative thoughts for some of us it's hard to believe good it's much easier to believe bad right why do we get so much comfort and say no it's never gonna happen I'll just be content with where I am I'll talk myself into happiness even though I know deep down I know there's more for me why do we get so comfortable living beneath our calling beneath our potential we got to stop talking negative to ourselves we got to stop speaking down when God is trying to speak I know what I want you to do do you realize you already have everything you need to be successful but I need you to sacrifice your opinion and get into obedience so what I love about this text this is a cold text watch this verse 13 Elijah said to her don't be afraid go home and do as you have said hey this is y'all last meal that ain't got nothin to do with me it cuz he says but first make me a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me and then make something for yourself and your son he said I understand what you're saying but I'm on assignment to do what God has called me to do it's not that I'm insensitive but I'm so committed to being obedient I can't allow your disobedience to derail my obedience I don't know who I'm talking to right now but sometimes we have to mind our business because sometimes when we become obedient the power of our obedience compels others to be obedient sometimes you heard the saying misery loves company isn't that amazing you ever been in a situation where you started talking positive around somebody and they ain't got nothing to say but then all of a sudden you start saying well this ain't going right and that ain't going right and they got everything to say well yeah you know I know that's not going right because this person ain't doing this and that person ain't doing that why is the conversation about the negative more inviting and more dynamic than the conversation about the positive and here's what I have learned God has called each one of us to live the life that we've been called to live at the end of our life when we stand before him he's not gonna say why didn't you live your brother's life better he's not gonna say why didn't you live your wife's life better he's gonna say what'd you do with the life I gave you got listen I learned a long time ago I'm sensitive to people's problems but just because it's their problem doesn't mean it's my problem and I say that in love and just because it's their problem doesn't mean God has called me to help them solve their problem I am NOT God God is God God will convict me on who I'm supposed to help everyone that comes before me doesn't mean that I'm ordained to help them everyone that comes before you doesn't mean that you're ordained to help them so often we outsource what God wants us to do in the moment because we think it's just good to help everybody that comes our way God is saying I want you to help but don't get in the position of being God I'm God gotta use wisdom and discernment about what he's calling you to do amen so watch this align does it listen do what you got to do but I need you to do what God called me to tell you to do for this is what the Lord the God of Israel says the jar of flour will not be used up the jug of oil will not run John dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land how many people got shoes on their feet right now got clothes on your back come on seriously yeah so you're doing all right ain't you how many people thought that you financially we're not gonna make it years before today how many people had some financial troubles are you here did you make it come on now did it dry up come on somebody I know who I'm talking to your bank account may not have reflected what it was in Heaven's account but God did not allow that to be the final thing in your life we serve a God who has an unlimited power of resources I look towards the hills from which come with my help my help comes from the Lord I don't know who I'm talking to right now but when we are obedient to him we have unlimited resources unlimited resources but we got to start looking at it that way amen so watch this watch what happens in verse 15 she went away and did as Elijah had told her so there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family for the jug of flour was not used up in the jug of oil did not run dry with the word of the Lord now we would think this is the end of the text it's over she did it but does she really believe do you really believe here's what happens so often we allow what we see with our natural eyes to impact what we believe with our spiritual eyes here's why they call it faith because we don't have it yet all right if you can if you have it you have a shirt on your back you mean have I don't need to have faith for a shirt right cause I already got it but there are some things that I'm in faith for that are so when God gives me the vision for what he's gonna do it's so big I truly get a headache and I come out of it and I say God how and he says Devon see this is why you keep going through the same thing over and over again because I have blessed you there have been times in your life when you didn't know how I was gonna do it and I did it and you still don't be believe me at the level in which I've delivered in your life can anybody testify in your life you have evidence that God has done exceedingly and abundantly above all you can ask or think come on Who am I talking to let's do sue the abundant wave this is compromise who can admit yes God you have done it so if he's done it before why are we doubting for him to do it again the reason why it's not the end of the text is because the widow still doesn't believe has anyone been challenging your belief system lately see they yes yes just I'm gonna talk to you about faith just which is real quick so what's interesting is that I'm in the process of selling my next book um you know God has already given me another idea for my fifth book and I'm really really excited about and so I went to New York and and met with publishers and all the meetings went incredibly well and everybody said okay you know we're in we want we want to publish your next book and my agent said great we have all these publishers interested and we're gonna you know set it up so people start bidding on your book it's gonna be great I said okay wonderful when the bidding came in it was a third of what we thought it was going to be now I wish that I could tell you that I was in faith I wasn't I was upset Lord what you doing Lord you said you do exceedingly and abundantly above all I could ask for thing Lord my expectation was we were going to come in at this level I don't understand and then I be gotten sorry started to get mad why because I began to attach my value how often do we attach how we feel to what's going on in our professional life or our personal life and if things are going great we feel great if things are going bad we feel down and then we wonder why we can never find peace because we're allowing what's external to control what's internal either I feel that I am or I don't and no matter who I am I can't allow what happens outside of me to dictate what happens inside of me so I I had to I had to step back and I said why am i attaching so much to this deal because I was putting my value on what was happening and then I said well God maybe you don't want me to write a book right now I said so maybe I have to be in being faith that I am who you called me to be I will be obedient to what you called me to do but I no longer will find my value in this deal I had to sacrifice my own opinion about what I thought should happen in order for the reality of what he wanted to happen may I submit for your consideration do you know that the moment that I sacrifice and said God this is your deal I'm gonna instill know who I am I know who Devon Franklin is right do you know within 24 hours one of the published characters came back and they increased their bid 100 percent 100 percent I need and God is saying Devon how many more times do I have to keep showing up and showing out in your life for you to believe me at the level at which I've already delivered I don't know who I'm talking to right now but God is trying to get our faith to a level of the life he has called us to live but we are the ones that keep doubting him ask your neighbor why do you doubt him so much turn to your other neighbors say hasn't he already done it come on hasn't he already done it so in the next 10 minutes watch what's gonna happen in your life watch this so here's what happens the reason why it's not over because she is still not really believing God so some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill he grew worse and worse and finally he stopped breathing he died she said to Elijah what do you have against me man of God do you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son Elijah said give me your son he took him from her arms carried him to the Upper Room where he was staying and laid him on his bed then he cried out to God o Lord my God have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with by causing her son to die then he stretched himself over the body of the boy three times and cried to the Lord O Lord my God let this boy's life return to Him then the Lord heard Elijah's cry and the boy's life returned watch this the widow who Elijah did not know God even though she was resistant she still was obedient to the commands she felt God telling her which was to help this man that she did not know she was going to plan her funeral this was the last meal but God put on her heart I need you to be obedient and sacrifice your opinion about where you think things are and be obedient in the moment so because of her obedience she used what she had the oil and the flour to make something for somebody that she did not know and as a result when she was in need there was enough equity in her account to make a withdrawal I don't know who I'm talking to right now but sometimes sacrifice creates a deposit from an account we don't even know we're gonna need a withdrawal from I don't know who I'm talking to right now but the widow had to sacrifice what she had for the greater good of a man she didn't know because she was being obedient to God having no idea that the relationship with this prophet was ultimately gonna help save the life of her son too often we think of sacrifice out of what we're gonna get out of it but may I submit for your consideration that if God is calling you to sacrifice there are people attached to your sacrifice that may not know him unless you do what God has called you to do I don't know who I'm talking to you right now but sacrifice isn't selfish it is self less I'm talking to somebody right now ah I wish I could tell you that everything God is calling you to do or he wants to do in our life could come without sacrifice but that is just not true anything worthwhile requires sacrifice to do it and the greater you operate in your purpose the more sacrifice is gonna be required sacrifice of time sacrifice of resources sacrifice of thought sacrifice of sometimes personal space why because the greater you become and what God has called you to do the higher the price we have to pay to do it sacrifice is difficult but it's good and it's so interesting because so often we think of I want to sacrifice in order to get somewhere and then once I'm there I'm good it don't work that way I'm learning that the more that I sacrifice the more that I give up my comfort now the more purposeful I feel yesterday I got off the airplane I was I was on a trip with the missus and and her sister and for her birth before the my sister-in-law's birthday and I flew back from LA I had a few meetings in LA and then I had to get here so as I'm leaving the the airport I stopped to get something to eat I'm in a rush because I've got to get on a conference call and this young brother who I do not know runs up to me and says a brother Devon you don't know me but I'm having some trouble in my relay do you have a minute come on somebody and in in my mind I'm like well I don't let's see I've been praying God open up new doors increase my territory expand my ability to reach more people and God saying okay I'm gonna do it what are you always gonna put what you want in the moment over the sacrifice of serving somebody who you don't even know God said who cares about the conference call this is a soul your deal will make who whatever that conference calls about even if you're late it's not worth being on time and missing this moment to pour into this young man I don't know who I'm talking about too often we're focused on where we want to go what's inconvenient for us but sacrifice is gonna be inconvenient but let me tell you the dividends you won't even know how much your sacrifice matter until you get to heaven and you see wow that one time when I stopped I didn't know that that was the thing that turned that person's life around I don't know who I'm talking to right now but your sacrifice of your time your resources your talent will help prepare you for what God has called you to do so I stopped in that moment and I said my brother tell me what's going on and he confided in me in that moment some really deep things and I said okay here's the strategy here's what you should look at and I said here give me your number I'm gonna send you a book and I pray with him right there and do you realize when I looked at it I still had enough time to get on the conference call I said enough time to get home and pack and I said Wow God does work all things together for those for the good of those that love him and are called according to his purpose too often were so focused on what makes me comfortable what's convenient for me that we choose convenience over his command I don't know who I'm talking to right now I don't know who I'm talking to right but if the woman if the widow and said I'm gonna choose comfort and convenience over the command he would have missed the opportunity not only for her son to be safe but watch what happens he gave the mother back his son and he said look your son is alive then the woman said to Elijah now I know now I know now I know before when I had the oil in the flour and it didn't run out I didn't know before when we did not have bread and we kept having bread with the same amount of resources I didn't know mmm before when I was gonna literally me and my son were on the way out but because Elijah showed up we now got a new lease on life I didn't know but until I lost the very thing closest to me then I came into a revelation that you are who you say you are and you will do what you say you would do now I know why are we going through similar problems because God is trying to say I need you to get your faith at the level of where I'm trying to take you I need to get your sacrifice at the level of your success and too often we think we know but we don't really know until we go through it this is a season this fourth quarter is a season where God wants you to know he is who he says he is he is doing what he said he would do but the key is we have to sacrifice our opinion we have to sometimes sacrifice our time we have to sometimes sacrifice our resources let me tell you something it's one thing when God says okay give up your time but what about when he says give up your money oh lord help me Jesus that'll listen God is is working out some some some new things in my life you know what's so amazing is that so often we're focused on the door that's closed versus the door that's opening I'm gonna give you a quick testimony because y'all are my family so I tell y'all everything I tell you all my business you know what I mean and it's okay if I if I could tell you my business is gonna help you that's what I do so so many of you I've can't we did that you all did a screening a breakthrough thank you so much for those either support a breakthrough give it up for breakthrough so breakthrough long story short is that my production deal was with 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox got acquired by the Walt Disney Company for 71 billion dollars say billion billion cuz they knew that they had breakthrough a man somebody watch this watch this watch this we're talking about sacrifice we're talking about being obedient making breakthrough was a sacrifice I had to sacrifice my time I had to sacrifice others opinions of what they thought I should do so often we give more people's opinions about what we should do instead of allowing God to tell us what we should do do you do you realize that sometimes when you do what God has called you to do it's gonna make you unpopular with the very people that seem to care about you the most oh my if I was living for popularity I wouldn't be standing before you right now you can be popular but not on purpose a man I'd rather you be on purpose and not popular other people's opinions cannot make you or break you unless you are I allow them so long story short I'm a breakthrough just before the movie came out the merger or the acquisition with Disney took place and so Disney ultimately released breakthrough the movie did about 50 million worldwide on a fourteen million dollar budget amen amen it's a profitable film and so watch this so watch this so here's what happened of all the films that Disney acquired from Fox this year to date of all the films that have been released that Fox did underneath that Disney acquired as releasing break through is the only one that's been profitable the only one you only want the only one so my thinking was my deal with Disney Fox is up this year and about six weeks and so when all one breakthrough was performing the box office my thought was oh god you're opening the door at Disney for me to get a bigger deal and renewed so when I asked the powers that be at Disney is there an opportunity for me to further my business there they said No ah Wow isn't it so interesting that sometimes we think the guy's going to answer the way we have answered but God said divine I have called you to this industry just because Disney doesn't get you doesn't mean I don't get you I'm talking to some we serve a god that's bigger than the person that signs your check who am I talking to right now why do we get so worried about people when we aren't as concerned about God if God has said he's gonna do it no matter how it's gonna happen it will happen in your life so here I was though in my flesh I was worried I said God what do you mean so am I gonna have to close up my company was this the real breakthrough for me that was gonna go bankrupt he said do you trust me Wow breakthrough was in theaters I got a call from another studio I can't even tell you who it is and they said we want to meet with you so I went in and met with them and and my thought was based upon the performance of breakthrough they will determine if they want me you see how we do that breakthrough was still in theaters after we had that meeting they said we're not that concerned about what the movie does we already know what you can do I gotta talk to the inside over here you're over here worried about oh if this deal happens no no God already knows what you can do cuz he knows what he put within you I don't know who I'm talking to right now but they said don't worry about that we still want you do you realize that in about six weeks I'll be starting a new deal just follow me on social media you'll see but here's what was so amazing God said the provision where you are has dried up don't be afraid to move to a new environment where the promise is still good I don't know who I'm talking to right now I don't know who I'm talking to right now you gotta know the favor over your life is still good the purpose over your life is still good just because you're in a place where the resources have dried up does not mean that God is saying no over your life you may have to make a move you may have to put in a new application you may have to switch how you're doing things but let me tell you if you can understand the words that are coming out of my mouth that means God is blessing your life right now you are blessed and highly favored but you can't allow your opinion and your comfort to get you out of what he's getting ready to do so here's what we're gonna do if you have been struggling with your opinion with your sacrifice with being obedient and with your faith I need you to stand right now right now right now right now right now right now right now here's why I do what I do because I know what I know I don't I don't come to you and preach because it sounds theologically great I come to you and preach because it's what I'm living I would not be here without faith and sacrifice and even to meet with me going into this new deal it requires more sacrifice sacrifice of my money sacrifice of more time and guess what I got to walk by faith because it's one thing to have a deal but you got to still make movies that make money he'll be still in a business and they've given me a lot of money and I ain't produced one movie yet come on somebody so I got to have faith the faith ain't just getting the deal and so it's believing that God has me there and he will not let me fail so if you have been struggling in this area the first thing I need you to do wave raise both hands in surrender surrender this is the international sign of surrender what are you surrendering say Lord I surrender my opinions my disobedience my procrastination my doubt my fear my worry and my anxiety to you I believe that you have spared my life because the promise on my life is still good today I commit to be more obedient more obedient more obedient I will sacrifice my time I will sacrifice my talent I will sacrifice my money hold on y'all got to say that again I will sacrifice my money because I know that anything I do on behalf of you will not return to me void thank you for what you've already done thank you for what you're currently doing and I'm excited about what you're getting ready to do I believe the fourth quarter of this year will be better will be greater will be more amazing in the first three quarters of this year and I sign this affirmation with a praise to you come on praise them come on miracle city you can praise them come on thank you Thank You minivans praise him Thank You minivans come on come on by show of hands anybody feel better now than when you came in the place come on anybody feel more hopeful now than when you came into place I want you to know that God honors the sacrifice of his people is there anybody here before we close this service transition into the offering and the benediction is anybody here today that is not accepted Jesus as your personal Savior and has not accepted the ultimate sacrifice that God gave us he he gave us his son that we may have life and have it more abundantly is there anybody here today that say hey you know I really want to accept Jesus as my personal Savior if that's you I'm asking that you would come up right now right now is there anybody here that says I got to go all the way with Jesus today today today you've been waiting all year you heard the appeal but now is the time when you say I'm gonna actually do it is there anybody here right now that wants to go all the way and say you know what lord I know you sacrificed your son for my sins and I'm willing to sacrifice now and accept him as my savior is there anybody here on the right in the middle on the left why is this important because I can tell you that living a life of Christ and for Christ it's the greatest peace you can get amen is there anybody here today that says I got to do it he's already called you and you're trying to get it right you want to get perfect before you submit God says don't worry about being perfect he said I need you to come as you are I know you've messed up he said don't worry I specialize in messed up people I specialize in people who have problems is there anybody else that wants to go all the way with him right now if that is you I want you to come down right now we don't have much time or actually over our time but if there is one it is more than worth it is there anybody here that says I got to surrender all today all to thee my my blessed Savior I surrender all do me a favor grab your neighbors hand right now grab your neighbors hand right now you can go across the aisle you will not get shocked a man I can tell you that you can cross the aisle there's no imaginary barriers dear Heavenly Father I pray right now over your children right now I praise their God for for a spirit of sacrifice to overtake miracle City for a spirit of obedience to overtake miracle City and I'm praying dear Lord that in this fourth quarter that we're transitioning into that it truly would be the best quarter of the year a quarter of more power more peace and more purpose I am declaring dear Lord right now that some that are listening to this prayer they're gonna go into work on Monday with a different attitude they're gonna go into work with an attitude of obedience and attitude of persistence and they're gonna see things shift right before their very eyes some are gonna go back to campus in school on Monday and they're gonna see that things are totally different why because you are the God who honors your word and you do what you said you would do so in the name of Jesus I declare and decree right now power over all those that are listening I declare peace and I declare purpose in the mighty name of Jesus and I pray dear Lord that their sacrifices would not return to them void and the mighty holy matchless name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior that all God's children say a man a man hey thanks so much for watching I pray that you were blessed by this message we'd love to connect with you beyond this moment so I want to invite you to subscribe to our You Tube channel you'll get updates on when a new sermon is posted as well as when we go live during our 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Published: Thu Oct 03 2019