Supply and Demand

coming up on the Potters touch life I refuse existence I refuse existence I will not just exist I will live [Applause] [Applause] [Music] greetings I want to welcome you into what I believe is going to be a life-changing opportunity to experience God's Word as we do right here at the potter's house I want to welcome you into this message and into this moment because I'm excited about this word that God has given me it's called supply and demand you often hear that term and business but it is not limited to business along all of life whether it's raising children whether it's marriage whether it's life in general bills budgets everything supply and demand is the substratum of everything you and I deal with every day I got a question for you are you putting a demand on life or is life putting a demand on you take a look at this this morning I'm gonna talk to you about supply and demand supply and demand is not something that you hear preachers use in our jargon as a rule it is not one of the phrases or colloquialisms that are indicative of theology and it's generally more common amongst business because if you don't want to supply demand it's business you won't be in business very long I can't tell you the amount of people who go into business in this country and and supply some good products but go out of business they're good at what they do and yet what they do doesn't work and they they can't always figure out why I knew I don't want to over simplify business because there a lot of reasons why you go out of business but one of the reasons if you supply something no matter how good it is for which there is no demand you buy the business if you are good at doing something that I don't have a need for you go out of business yeah blockbusters does its good a DVD if I ever did but but they're going out of business because the demand isn't there I went and found one of my old VCRs the player you know plays real good I think I paid about three four hundred dollars forward have bought one for about 12 years now cuz there's no demand for it I didn't I did not buy one because I couldn't afford it I could afford to buy a new player a VCR a Trank forever so it wasn't like a resources there's no demand for it in order for something to be successful the supplier is at the mercy of the demander now that's funny because you've got these big conglomerate corporations like IBM and Xerox and McDonald's and Walmart and all these kind of places got billions and billions of dollars you wouldn't think they'd be at the mercy of somebody who makes $9.99 an hour but they are because no matter how good you are at supplying something if there is no demand for it you're vulnerable so what they do they spend millions of dollars to assess your demand because you control the market by your hunger if there is no hunger there is no dinner the appetite controls the ability to supply you can't teach somebody who's not looking you can't draw an illustration for somebody who won't watch you can't sing a song for somebody who won't hear you can you are at the mercy of the appetites of the people and so is God as great as he is as strong as it is as mighty as he is as powerful as he is he is at the mercy of God who can do anything but fail couldn't perform where there was no hunger you know this is one of that dude how the concert goes how the certain girls have less to do with us on the stage and more to do with those in the piece it is their hunger that drawl see anointing out of you you put me in front of a hundred church we all pull stuff out of me I didn't even know I had because their hunger controls the flow the rate to which it flows depends upon you not me you not the praise team you not even God will force-feed a person who has no appetite [Applause] if it is true about business and it's true about food then it's true about faith so if I was the devil and I couldn't stop God from being God and I couldn't stop you from coming to church I'd let you come sit down at the table but I'd take your appetite and the truth of the matter is we're surrounded by people who have lost their appetite what takes appetite for some people pain will take away your appetite the pain takes so much attention and so much focus that all sensation of pleasure and fulfillment is sacrifice on the altar of pain and when people hurt real bad they stop eating and I just wondered has something taken away your appetite I don't I don't I'm not a big fan of angel hair pasta and just a month it's not the way it tastes is not even the way it looks I had a bad experience one time I complained about some room service something one time and somebody put something in the angel hair pasta the way a retaliation that made me desperately sick and now I associate angel hair pasta with nausea so no matter how good you fix it I just would rather any other kind of pasta because my mind associates angel hair pasta with what happened to me and I have lost my desire for it because of the image that comes up in my head when I see it what images come up in your head about certain things that don't give you permission to enjoy what other people enjoys because of the images that come up in your head with you could could it could it be I can't really say I shouldn't really say I don't like angel hair pasta I'm stopped from liking it because of what happened to me so are you asking God to bless with your mouth something that you have canceled out in your head can we talk about this because the truth of the matter is let me tell you there is no motivation to supply like it is when you find somebody who's got the capacity to demand and I'm trying to say to you a nice simple method I'm halfway through are you putting a demand on life or is life putting a demand on you because most of the people that I encounter today there they respond to whatever light aware child what did they gonna bring Lord you don't know when you wake up in the morning you don't know what the day gonna bring I do cuz I'm gonna bring it with me I'm gonna bring it with me I might not know what I'm gonna have to fight but I know what the day's gonna bring cuz imma bring it with me when I got out of the bed this morning I didn't have no doubt how this day was gonna go I knew that I was going to be standing right here preaching this message to this crowd this Sunday morning cuz I did not wake up without an agenda I woke up this morning I got out of the bed this morning with an agenda and an expectation and a strategy and a plan I put a demand on my car you will take me to church I put a demand on my body you will preach this morning I put a demand on my mind you will think clear I put in a man all my Holy Ghost you will anoint me I got a job to do I got certainly do I got somebody to go see creates a supply [Applause] demand more do you know how precious your life is every second of it every minute of it every day of it every I do you know you you know you're never gonna get this thing again you're never gonna get this there ever again this is spit you'll never see it again you can cry for it you can gasp for it you pray for it you'll never get today back and you won't waste it somebody died last night gasping in a hospital room trying to make it to morning and you here and you're not gonna do nothing you made it through the night you woke up this morning and all you gonna do is grub a little my back my toes lord have mercy all great men ain't what she used to be that's all you got that's all you won't do it today he's talking about what happened 10 years ago baby how do you like to just like your daddy your daddy what no good daddy been gone 20 years mama you still talking about daddy you might have died with him if you one zone at a man life at the man life I refuse existence I refuse existence I will not just exist I will live Jesus that's what I came for still to come on the forest our appetite to believe God's will or because we don't want the process that goes along with the provision and because the process of living stopped because the process is so difficult you have given up on the provision but I came to church this morning to tell you that if you can survive the process that God has provisions Christ came so that you may have life and have it more abundantly the mystery have to work for this God's provision is well know you can receive all that God has in store for you for your gift of any size you will receive feed which feeds you on CD when you visit our website or call one eight hundred Bishop to this country for what and for your gift of $70 or more you'll receive abundant supply on DVD however when your gift is 125 dollars or more you will receive abundance supply on DVD a blessed mug and no card set I refuse existence I will not just exist I will live 24 blessings await you today and God will provide in abundance apply the children of Israel in the wilderness they have left Egypt they left the confines of Egypt they've left the Pharaoh they were working for food that's what slavery will work for food they were working for food without Commerce or money they were working for food and favor was supplying everything that they needed then they got out in the wilderness and God destroyed Pharaoh in the Red Sea and even though he was a bad provider he was still a provider and now they lost their sense of provision in the absence of Pharaoh now God must show them that I will not take out of your life anything that I will not replace and if I'm going to replace it I will either reach this I will either replace it or me come in so so he says when I took your Pharaoh when I took your favor out of your life I took over the responsibilities of making sure that you didn't suffer like in his absence and I will supply all of your needs according to my riches in glory by Christ Jesus so God said don't worry about favor rode on don't mourn about that don't worry about it I got you covered I will supply all of your needs of God start sending manna down from heaven to feed them because they hadn't even learned how to handle Commerce or money 400 years of being a slave will destroy your economic intelligence so they don't know anything about money they don't know anything about investments they don't know anything about Commerce they don't know anything about the future they were working for food so God says that tell you what you walk our food so they started walking and if they were walking that God started feeding and and and the manna started coming down from heaven to supply their needs here's the other thing I want you to know when God said the answer it didn't look like food so many times when God answers your prayers they don't look like answers because the answer comes in a shape that is contrary to what you imagined so you think that God hasn't answered you but he has answered you but he didn't answer you in the shape that you had imagined it oh I wish I had time throughout the Bible whenever God said an answer it was always unrecognizable they didn't understand what it was they didn't understand who Joseph was because it wasn't what they had in mind they didn't understand who Jesus was because he wasn't what they had in mind they didn't understand who the manna was because it wasn't what they had in mind the disciples were waiting for Jesus on the boat but when he came walking on the water they were scared of him because he wasn't what they had in mind when you got down on your knees and start praying for answers and God said the answer many times you will walk over it because it is not what you had in mind but it is not about what you had in mind it is about what God had in mind for you and y'all don't hear what I'm saying so God says I will supply what you need [Applause] [Music] but I won't supply it because you need it I will supply it because you're hungry for because if God supplied on the basis of need he would have given everybody the same amount of bread in the wilderness because everybody's body needs about the same thing to survive but everybody doesn't have the same hunger so I'm trying to make you understand the difference between appetite and sustenance you need a certain amount of nutritious to survive that has been to do with your appetite appetite has to do with what it takes to make you have a feeling of satiety what at what point are you satisfied when thou art eaten and are full at what point are you fool you went back for seconds he didn't at what point are you for God said I will legislate my demand my supply according to your demand if you put more on me I'll give more to you so the Bible said to the man who ate more God gave more and to the man who ate less God gave less and God said I will regulate what I give to you according to the demand you put on me and if you put a demand on me God says now you know I'm in LaSalle never run out so the only not the only cue I have to stop is when you say you're fool because if I opened up and fed you according to my capacity I would blow you up so I have to feed you're important in your capacity you have to tell me when it's enough y'all don't hear what I'm saying you have to tell me when it's enough and the problem with us is many of us have decided that it is enough before life is over because we have lost our appetite to believe God for more because we don't want the process that goes along with the provision and because the process of living stopped because the cross is so difficult you have given up on the provision but I came to church this morning to tell you that if you can survive the process that God has provisions on anything you will ever imagine that the cattle on a Thousand Hills belongs to our God that whatever you need God's got it if you need healing God's patted if you need joy God's got it if you need peace God's got it if you need a family God's got it you have to tell him when it's enough I gotta quit I gotta quit but I'm on the son you remember the woman who had a pot of oil and the prophet o Lord of all vessels have ball not a few you remember as long if the vessels kept coming to all kept flowing you remember that the OL only stopped when the demand stops God said I am eternal I can flow for generations and generations and generations and generations you have to tell me when you're full and I came to tell you I think you're sending God the wrong signal I think you sent in God the wrong signal because God would have no way of knowing when it was enough because he's infinite so he sends it according to their eating and to the one who ate more he gave more and to the one who ate less he ate less because what God hates is waste and I will not give it to a waster to him that hath God says I will give more to him that hath not this is crazy to be God talking cuz it sounds so ungodly to say this to him that hath not God said I will take away that which you seemeth to have I thought Lord if you find somebody who has not you ought to give them more he said no I'm not gonna give him more I'm not giving as a result of their lead I'm giving according to their capacity their appetite their hunger and to him that have not the reason I take away what he seems to have is because you didn't maximize what I gave you so how can I take you to the next level why would you ask me to invest in something that it's already bankrupt if you don't learn how to manage where you are I can't then you can't handle where I'm taking you so all of a sudden I can't give you what I'd like to give you because you haven't mastered what you have but when I see you mastering on the level that you are then God said I will give you more press down shaken together and running over but I will only give it according to your eating one more thing I'll take you one step further not more close and that person who has lived 50 some years the church today is almost unrecognizable to the church I grew up here and there are pros and cons on both side but but one of the pros to the church I grew up in and the pros that we don't see today is there used to be a glory they came in the church that was so amazing that people would lay prostrate in the floor for hours no no not for minutes for hours for hours they've been laid out on altar just praying industry just go in the Holy Ghost for hours they'd cover people with sheets they look like corpses in the presence of the Lord people were getting healed and coming up on a wheelchair and walking and dancing and shout I've seen people dance over hot pot-bellied stove dancing in the Holy Ghost and never get burnt I've seen people do the holy dance on the back of a pew and never fall off the peel and see I'm talking about stuff you have never seen you don't see that happening anymore I've seen dead people raised I've seen liam's grown I've seen blinded eyes open I've seen people lay out in the presence of God had prophesied things that happen in the community a month later I've seen the gifts of the Spirit operate at maximum capacity and I ask myself did we compromise stained glass windows and padded pews for the presence of the Lord but the Lord said I am NOT dissuaded by opulence or I wouldn't build Solomon's Temple he said it's not the houses that you built that's not my glory it is the hunger that you lose that stops my glory he said tell my people he their hungers and thirst after righteousness shall be filled but I cannot give you a glory that you don't ask me for I cannot heal a cancer you don't ask me to heal tell my people who are called by my name that if you humble yourself and pray and seek my face and turn from your wicked way then will I hear from heaven I will forgive your sins and I will heal your land the cost this generation will only give me a two-hour window then I can only be a to our God but if I ever find anybody who wants my glory more than they want to be stuck in traffic is a ransom addict who wants my glory will enough to miss some football game I'll open up the windows of heaven and I'm out of time I've got to stop there but it's been a real joy to share the word of the Lord with you I'm excited about this message supply and demand God is commanding us to live our lives to its fullest potential incidentally I want to mention to those of you who are working in leadership in ministry and pastoral care I want you to live your life to your fullest potential cause your ministry to grow to the potential that God showed you on the inside I want you to come to the International pastors and leadership conference April 30th to lay the second you are really going to be blessed as some of God's greatest and brightest pour into you everything you need for what God is about to do in your life don't miss it to understand what it is to be a pastor they can hear their life-changing message that and the education now we're gonna grow and go to global missions no more limits no more boundaries to register for this international gathering visit pastors and leaders org or call 1-800 Bishop 2 I'm hundred and triad slash slash ain't wanted and transcend send in satisfied I tried lust lust in fiction Oh God here's my cup fill it up feed me one no more I won't waste the authority hit by church I won't waste the other thing eyes open [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 01 2015