Tapping Into God's Success - Part Two | Pastor Nancy Dufresne

[Music] hallelujah turn with me if you would the Joshua chapter 1 we started there last night because God's telling us how to have success in life and Joshua chapter 1 God was telling Joshua what him and the people were going to have to do to arrive at where God had planned for their lives to be and God has a plan for every one of us and if we're going to arrive at the fullness of that plan if we'll take the path they took we'll get we'll get to the end of what were born for amen and so we talked about last night this scripture and it was talking about really at the onset of Joshua's ministry as leader he had a ministry as a servant to the man of God but now his position was was changing and at the beginning God was giving him the formula for success and in Joshua chapter 1 verse 8 it says this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night so thou mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein for then then after all this for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success so we can't arrive at prosperity or success in God's definition without having done everything that is is named in this verse and if it will get a nation into the fullness of what God has form what do you think it'll do for an individual if this prescription will work for a whole nation how about a whole family amen how much more so and so God was telling Joshua you're going to have to get this in the people get it in you get it in the people and notice this that this was one of the most critical seasons of Joshua's life how he started would determine the the process he took he had to start out right and you may be facing a very critical season in different times of your life you will face critical seasons and I want you to know when Joshua Joshua didn't know what to do to get him in why because he already told him God's Word and it just didn't they didn't they didn't choose it and so that first generation didn't arrive well how do you get it I mean we offered it to that generation they wouldn't take it and so God is telling them here are the prescribed steps to get them in faith so that they will move with my word for their life so if this is the prescription for a very critical time of life even when he could say father I don't know how to get him in Moses couldn't get him in I don't know how to get them in from here there are going to be times in your life that you're gonna say naturally I don't know how I don't know how this vs. how when you say I don't know how to receive my healing this vs. how when you say I don't know how to get out of my financial problem this verse is how can I tell you what this is what Jesus preached in mark 11 it's the exact same prescription Jesus lived this way the Word was in his mouth he was the word but he spoke the word to every situation how was he so affected with speaking the word because it was the way he thought amen and then he acted in line with the word so last night we began talking about the first step that God prescribed for them if they were going to have success if they were going to enter into what he had authored for them he said the first step this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth proverbs said this he said the writer of Proverbs in the amplified it said this that if you think sin or if you think wrong put your hand over you now it's one thing for it to be in the mind it takes it to a whole nother level for it to be in the mouth and you better deal with something that's not right thinking while it's in death thinking realm before it reaches the verbal arena amen and so what people are saying is really what they're thinking and we don't want to be guilty of just knowing the lingo of faith and saying the words but there's no guts behind it listen as a pastor I have trained our congregation and the other congregations how to talk what to say and I know through 25 years of pastoring some people learned what was the appropriate speech and they would come up to me and they would tell me something they were facing and they would say but I know what the word says the word says that by His stripes I'm healed but there was a panic in the voice there was a tear in the voice there was the fear the sound of fear there were the right words but it had the wrong spirit behind it it had a spirit of fear that was governing it and or they would say it and it sounded hollow it sounded empty and I want you to know it's not enough to say the right words there has to be the spirit of faith behind those words not the fear not the mental harassment not the torment Amen there has to be the sound of faith with the words that are coming out a man there's no tear in the voice amen because faith doesn't have a tear in its voice now don't misunderstand me there are times the Spirit of God will come on you and you might weep in the presence of God but that's not a fearful weep right so God's first prescription for changing a failing nation to a succeeding nation was this this book the law shall not out of your mouth it's got to become a lifestyle this isn't something we just try on Sundays if it's only something we're mindful of on Sundays we'll fail throughout the rest of the week this has to be made our lifestyle it doesn't matter that we know it we have to do it amen this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth now the second step in the prescription of success but thou shalt meditate therein day and night meditation is dealing with your thought life meditation is dealing with where what you hold your attention on if you have an undisciplined attention you will have a weakened faith that Hagan used to say this to us he would say if someone dies prematurely a believer don't touch it in your thought life how come why because he said if you touch the wrong thing or put your attention on the wrong thing it will weaken your faith because you'll begin to reason the devil will give you thoughts and the mind will begin to reason well they've been saved longer than me my gosh they serve close to the pastor my goodness they've been used by God to prophesy I've never been used by God to prophesy and so they start doubting and losing confidence in their ability to believe God just because someone else didn't receive those are wrong that's wrong thoughts that is an attention that has been left to run wild and if you're going to have strong faith if you're going to arrive at the fulfillment of God's plan if you're going to succeed at what God authored for your life you have to hold a tight rein on your attention because when you're faced with the test the devil will parade about twenty testimonies of people who failed who were faced with the same test you'll remember from childhood the neighbor you only spoke to once I mean the devil will energize the memory to help you recall so that you start thinking wrong and doubting that you too can receive what you need and he'll parade all the failures of people in front of you to make you to cause your faith to be weakened and to hopefully get you to doubt but what you have to do when he starts parading failures you have to start parading successes parade the word parade and rehearse the times no devil I remember you you remember when someone died prematurely I remember when someone was healed I remember how God blessed me years ago I remember how he moved in my family I remember and this is what your discipline detention does it dictates what you're going to allow your mind to meditate on and this is what God said to Joshua you're gonna have to deal with these people's thought lives because they kept thinking I want to go back to Egypt the second generation heard the first generation parents talk about I want to go back I want to go back oh it was so good in Egypt we had fleshpots there yeah but they didn't talk about the master with the whip that stood behind the fleshpot they forgot that part you see they are the devil will cause you to just remember portions not the whole thing and this second generation heard their parents constantly want to go back want to go back want to go back over in Hebrews it says talking about these our heroes of faith it said if they would have been mindful the country they came out of they would have an opportunity to go back I remember years ago there was somebody that came and they worked with our ministry this was years ago before they came and work for us they work for a very well-known ministry and this was a ministry that had lots of money and had lots of you know a loud voice in the body of Christ which was great and because he started as a young man with a very hefty salary from this ministry well that's great they gave you a car they gave you a hefty salary but that's not always how ministries start he came in when the ministry was up and thriving and mature and so he had the idea that everything had to have this healthy of a salary and the benefits but we didn't have the the years of maturity and growth and development behind us that this other ministry had so God sent him to help us and he was a blessing to us but every six months he would come in you know and he'd talk about I just don't make what I make over there I shouldn't you know it was so good I mean I had a car I had just talking about what he used to have but do you also remember that God told you to leave there because you weren't getting fed right there was some things your life was missing that no salary will make up for that no car furnished you would make up for and what he would do the devil would parade this salary and this car that was a company car given him and every time he would get under financial pressure he would go back to thinking about this and the word of the Lord came to me one day and said you tell him that if he keeps talking about what he was brought out of he will have opportunity to go back in other words if you talk about the wrong thing you're going back to the wrong thing why would people talk about the wrong thing they meditate on the wrong thing they think about and they don't have a disciplined attention and they don't remember right there's this one friend of mine and she talks about that her dad and mom you know they her dad had lived out his life and well actually I say that wrong he did not live out his life because he was called to preach and and it was in the ministry for a time then turned around and walked out of it and ended up dying prematurely and because he was not fulfilling what he was born for he was hard to live with you know when you're dissatisfied you start taking it out on people around you and you think if I can just get a new wife or a new car or new house yeah but we'll get it get a new car get a new house keep your old wife in the only thing is you take you you go to get a new car new house new wife you just took you with it though and there's the problem and so she said her dad was not easy to live with and the mother had a very difficult life trying to keep him pleased and it made life hard for her and so she said the only thing is when he died she said really my mom's life became easier because she had financial help you know and she did not have to try to please a man that was so dissatisfied inside that no one could please because his insides were undone settled and said if you listen to my mother talk now that man was the greatest sink that ever walked on the earth and she said I have to constantly remind her oh I just miss him so much its mother do you not remember the hell we lived in at home because of the way he treated people and talked mother you need to remember correctly so that you think right and don't get in troubled by what is not presently around your life so many people do not see the blessing of God that he is moving in their life because they remember the past wrongly the Egyptian the Israelites remembered Egypt wrong and they kept talking about I want to go back I want to go back why they romanticized at a time of difficulty they pulled out anything good of their past memories and tried to define their whole past with that good when there was far less good then then should have been written then should have been desired amen if you have an undisciplined thought life you'll think wrong about things yeah it's always been a head-scratcher to me and every pastor will face it in some measure people that have come and I'm thinking of just one couple in particular God brought them moved them from another state to be a part of our congregation and God gave this man a thriving job I mean he was making like four times what he was making at his previous location their child had a incurable condition and within a few months their child is healed why because they got in the place and God told them they began to grow and spiritually develop but all of a sudden one time they didn't like one thing I said in a sermon and picked up and left over one thing because they forgot all the right things had just held onto one thing they didn't agree with I can't tell you the number of times I mean I got an email some time back from a family that they were part of our church and they were a sweet family but financial pressure came to them and they picked up and left the church and went and lived with family to save money but in saving money they lost their spiritual life their faith weakened and weakened and weakened and after about eight years he sent me a cent me an email and he said I want you to know since I lost since I left the church he said I have had nothing but heart problems and he says I am basically on the on my deathbed and he says I recognize that I left the church to save money what is this wrong thinking the devil wants to get you thinking wrong you will not arrive at the fullness of what God has by having an unguarded thought life if you're going to walk in the fullness of God's plan you have to guard your thought like well I don't like what the preacher the pastor did I don't like what the pastor said you remember your child that was healed here you remember your mare that was restored you remember how God fed your life with the word here you better remember the right thing when the wrong thing is offered you I'm just can't tell you the number of times that people have left the blessing of God just because they failed to remember the right thing amen and this is what God is teaching him since you've got to teach these people to think on the right things they keep remembering the wrong thing wrongly romanticizing Egypt talking good about it did they not remember that when they left it was in a state of ruin you go back it's not gonna be as it used to be you try to recapture something of the past it's never gonna look like it used to they've seen too many clouds by day in pillars by not to go back and live like you hadn't seen that after we've been under sitting under the word we can't go stepping back spiritually we're going to have to remember too much light has come to our life to go back and live satisfied to the in the place God delivered us out of amen so he said this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth but you shall meditate therein day and night meditation drives the Word of God into your spirit if the word just stops with your mind it's got this in your mind is the gateway to your spirit it's got to reach beyond your mind and get down into your spirit it gets down into your spirit through meditating on it talking about it rehearsing it to yourself thinking about it worry is meditation in the negative direction have you ever have you ever had a maybe a situation with somebody that you were going to have to handle whether it's somebody on the job or a relative or something and you're driving to go have a meeting or some kind of encounter with them and on the way over there you're thinking okay they said this I said that now where right now if they see this I'm going to say that and but if they go this direction I'm going to say this but if they go back and pull up the pass I'm going to pull this you know what is it that's meditation you're playing out something and if you meditate the wrong direction you get out of the car and you're all worked up and you haven't had a conversation because you have already accused them of conversations of your imaginations and you get up and I mean you're breathing hard and you go how did I start breathing this hard you were worked up you meditated on something and it stirred it started stirring your passions your anger your whatever and then all of a sudden your tone is completely different from the time you got out of the car from the time you first got in the car all because of meditations well if that will do that to your passions just naturally think how spiritually how it will stir your faith to meditate on the right thing how it will stir your joy or your peace to meditate on the right thing so you have to make the word yours it's not enough that God has it in him we have to have his word in us meditation is how we drive it down into our own spirits this is have you ever needed to believe God for something let's say there was an unexpected bill and it was a large number and you go you know you feel overwhelmed at trying to believe for that you want to know why you feel overwhelmed you're trying to believe with your mind anytime you have a sense of overwhelming I'm overwhelmed at trying to believe it's because you're trying to do it with your mind when you're believing with your with your heart there's a rest there's not an overwhelming sense about you you don't feel overwhelmed and so this is why it's so important we've got to get that mind that the word beyond the mind and down into the spirit because it's when the word is abiding in the heart of man in the spirit of man that it becomes a living thing and starts producing for you so one of the major things about meditation is it drives the word into your spirit and it seems like it's yours people say well I tried that face stuff and it doesn't work no you have to take time to make the word yours and meditation is what makes the word seem real to you it's not just words on a page but that's my word from God amen and you can't spend what isn't yours and people will try to spend a verse that they haven't taken time to make there's meditation makes it yours to where it's real to you it's a living thing to you so meditation drives the word into your spirit meditation also it helps you control as I said what you're thinking on can I tell you this when he says this this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth but you shall meditate on it the number one way to keep the word in your mouth is through meditation because you're laying in bed muttering it to yourself driving down the road speaking it to yourself it's not just a confession you're making to someone it's what you're saying to yourself when no one else is around listen the Holy Spirit is a performer he's a performer that's what he's sent here to do is perform to perform what God's words he's not sent here to perform the words that originate with us he's here to perform God's Word and when our when we have taken time to make God's Word our word and we speak God's Word now he can perform those words even though they're coming out of our mouth because he's here as a performer whenever in creation in Genesis it says the amplified translation says that when the earth was without form and void it says that the Holy Spirit was hovering over the face of the deep hovering see he's just present what's he doing he's waiting for something what's he waiting for for words and when God said let there be light or his original says light be when God said that then he performed that that's why this book of law shall not depart out of your mouth because if it stays in your mouth and you're speaking it all the time you're giving the Holy Spirit something to perform all the time when we take a day off from speaking he takes a day off from performing the day we speak the word is the day he can perform the word amen he's here to work with us as the word is in our mouth amen and so whenever you speak the word from your spirit then he can perform that the word that spoken from your mind has no faith attached to it now don't misunderstand me your spirit needs the word but your mind needs the word but that's called the renewing of them I not believing with the mind the mind cannot be believed with the mind can only be renewed what's what's that mean to have the mind renewed it means that the mind comes into agreement with your spirit instead of arguing with what's in your spirit it comes into agreement with your spirit dad Hagin made this statement he said a spiritual giant is simply one whose heart and mind are in agreement haven't you had one it haven't you in your heart you knew something but your mind was giving you fits in your heart let's say you knew God told you to give that person hundred dollars but your mind is saying I couldn't give a hundred dollars I need it see that's because there's something lacking your mind is arguing with your spirit and if don't get that mind renewed the renewed mind comes into agreement and quits arguing with your spirit and as long as you your mind argues with your spirit it's going to hinder what's going to come out of your spirit amen praise the Lord so meditation on the word it will drive that word down into your spirit and I want you to know you have to meditate on the word not just when the sun is shining because it's easy to meditate on the word when we're all sitting in church or we you know everything is good in life all the bills are paid but meditation is going to be tested at a time of opposition and we have to learn it says this this book the law shall not depart out of your mouth but you shall meditate day and night when everything is in place and the sun is shining in the daytime it's easy to meditate the right thing but when there's something bombarding your mind you're still going to have to have the discipline to meditate and only have the thoughts of the word dominating you amen so we have to meditate all the time during a test during a test you have to what you thought like more than you have to watch that fault life because it can derail you I said it can totally derail you another thing about one of the benefits of meditation is this it takes the limits of small thinking this is huge it takes the limits of small thinking as a man thinks it is heart so is he God can only take you as far as your thought life will give him permission if you think that you can't ever have a house like that you're right you can't you're right you can't and this is what doubt and unbelief will say it'll say no person should have a house that nice and faith will say everyone should have a house right I do you meditating in the word takes the limits of small thinking and I don't care how you were raised no doubt you had wonderful parents or parent they mean it and you say well I didn't have wonderful parents let me just say this your parents did the best they could amen they did the best they could with where they were at and you might have had a wonderful childhood but I guarantee you God's got more for you and no matter how wonderful your childhood was God doesn't want anything of your childhood to limit where he has for you to go now think about this these people that God delivered out of Egypt had a slavery mentality I guarantee you they had a struggle with thinking of ownership but if you will meditate God will turn you from renter to owner if you'll see yourself if you'll see yourself meditating people will talk it and it's fine to say God's gonna give me this house God's gonna give me this house but if in your thought life you think I can't ever I don't know where I'm gonna get the link then you can't have it your meditation is what's going to turn you from renter to owner and then those meditations when you're meditating right it will find its way into your mouth there were meditations are so important dad Hagen talked about when he was on his deathbed God began dealing with him about he had to see himself healed he had to see himself up and preaching that after he got saved he knew that he was called to preach he even talked about that at some part when he was when he was a bedridden that he wrote out several sermons he was able to put together several sermons and he said I had to see myself up and preaching because he said what I used to do was lay in bed and imagine my death he said I imagined my funeral he said my grandmother would come in and say honey you know who do you want to be your pallbearers well why because the doctor said that he could die any minute there's no cure well and they said she said what songs would you like some and he said well doesn't seem to me that it matters to me what songs you're gonna sing he said I'm not gonna hear him sing something you like that group were really seeing something you like you're the only one hearing it he's saying I'm not gonna hear it in the grave and so he said I used to lay in bed and imagine my heart stopping beating I used to imagine them sitting in the church having my funeral ceremony I used to imagine sitting there watching my mother cry because I had died he said I imagine them carrying the casket out I imagine them carrying it out to the place of burial lowering it into the ground I met the sound of dirt hitting the top of that casket what was that meditations he imagined that but when he when he started seeing the light of healing he said I had to quit I had to I could allow my mind to go that way he said I started imagining myself up and healed and preaching Edie and I were in one particular years ago we were in a church and they brought a young man in who was 19 years old and he was a professional tennis player and he was getting ready to go on a circuit of just you know tournaments that they would play and something that they had put in place was that before every season of tournaments all the players had to have a physical exam because it's strenuous on the body and they wanted to make sure that they were in good physical condition to even start the circuit of tournaments so he just went to the doctors as his standard physical exam that had to be done before the circuit of tournaments began and he got there and they found out he had incurable cancer he had no symptoms until they started running tests they started finding things and so before long he you know it started escalating and when they brought him in to our meetings he was on his but he was on a bed he was emaciated and unable to even walk so my husband went in and laid hands on him and his family was in that church I tell you it matters where you attend church at a time like that matters matters it matters what you remembered and so he told his parents get up because I mean in his tennis world he was a star he was a young man he was a star in that circle and he said bring in one of the posters because they had posters of him playing tennis he said bring him one of the posters and put it on the wall at the foot of my bed and he laid in that bed and imagined himself and saw himself up again playing tennis could see if he looked down at his body he sees an emaciated body but if he looks at the right thing he sees a young man healthy up playing tennis they sent him through all different kinds of medical treatments but the parents and him kept at it they kept just kept the word in the mouth he kept his meditations right and he put a picture of himself at the foot of his bed to make sure that he had the right thing to look at yes we went back the next year my husband asked about him and said well let me tell you about him the nurse that tended to him is in our church they had a large church and after they said he's not here right now said he's on the tennis circuit and said the nurse said to him when he got up and gave his testimony she said it in the back room said I just want to tell you this she said because not because I'm trying to make the medical field look bad but because I want you to know what God did for you she said they used experimental drugs on you they said they knew that these drugs just the drugs themself should have killed you but they knew you were going to die and they wanted to see the effects of these things and said they used you know yeah I'm not trying to make them look bad I'm just saying that they're in hopes of helping someone else they've got to find out the scope and the range of certain treatments and she said they use they use drugs on you that were proven that it would shorten your life God didn't just deliver you from cancer he delivered you from that too that's what that's how great faith is that's how great faith is I said that's how meditation meditating meditating not only put his body backwards should be it overcame anything that was being done against his bodies amen meditation what if he would have just said things but not fought right what if he would have just said by His stripes I'm healed but he just said and looked at his body that was emaciated see yeah small thinking is done away with through proper meditation if you think that you can never have something you can never have it you have to see yourself with something can I tell you the one of the best things you can do I my husband if you ever heard him say this he'd say go and lay it he'd tell our congregation go to Nordstrom's and lay down on the marble in other words he's saying get around something that's more than what you have because if all you ever stay around is what you have you'll only ever have what you have and he was saying get around these up these you know these higher end stores and stuff even if you can't afford to buy it go look at it go desire it stir up something in you for it well nobody should spend that much money on stuff that's good limited thinking right there that's a good example of limited thinking well you know you just there's just certain things you shouldn't pay so much for keep going with those limits just keep going all that's limits well they shouldn't they shouldn't spend that much on a car unless you paid for it don't worry about it if you didn't fund it don't worry about it but don't put your limits on somebody else's lack of limits and call them wrong because they're not what they don't have your limits amen praise the Lord listen we don't arrive at what guards off from authored for us with limits we have to break limits off meditation breaks the limits off as you're meditating my God shall supply it will get larger and larger in you and he will author things in you that you would have never dreamed up for yourself amen can I can I read you something I just want to read you something just to make Twitter just to make poverty twist amen poverty is from hell Jesus redeemed us from it poverty thinking did not come from God poverty thinking came from people who have no experience with with abundance first Kings chapter 4 verse 29 I want to read it this is this is the amplified first Kings chapter 4 verse 29 the amplified says this I love this and godness referring to Solomon and God gave Solomon exceptionally much wisdom and understanding listen to this next phrase and gave him breadth of mind like the sand of the seashore if he was going to have the wisdom that no other man had had he had to have a different mind than other men and God gave him a mind that was unlike other men breadth of mind what's breadth mean it means there's nothing there's no limits it something is broad and it's broad and its broad its broad that means the limits are are not confining right his limits got office thinking limits off of his thinking I like what the king the King James says this and God gave Solomon largeness of heart ah so the heart has to be enlarged meditation enlarges the heart it enlarges your spirit to lay hold of more but it also it gives you breath to mind it takes the limits off of thinking okay now I want to read to you out of second chronicles chapter 9 go with me this is in your Bible I didn't make this up second chronicles chapter 9 second chronicles chapter 9 and look at verse 13 I'm going to read out of the good news translation it's worded just because it's it's easier English to follow second chronicles chapter 9 I firmly believe it's going to list here the wealth of Solomon I there's a purpose God put it in here you know what it is to make poverty twist limited thinking twist it says here in verse 13 King Solomon's wealth every year King Solomon received over 25 tons of gold think of every year that he's King he received 25 tons of gold well there's two thousand pounds in one ton one ton is 2,000 pounds that's 5050 but it's 50 thousand pounds of gold old every year 25 tons it's fifty thousand two thousand times 25 is 50 thousand 50 thousand pounds of gold a year now King Solomon of this nut this isn't the verse this I'm doing I'm gonna explain this verse 13 King Solomon ruled from 970 BC to 931 BC 39 years he was on the throne so for thirty-nine years he received fifty thousand tonnes of gold can I tell you I mean fifty thousand pounds of gold can I tell you how much that is in pounds not tonnes 1 million nine hundred by nine one it's a it's a no no that's not the number I got current market rates he said he's on current market ok current market 1.2 billion a year in current current current times and his time in history no a hundred and one million nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds in in in 39 years 1 million nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds of gold one arm of wealth this one arm that's not the totality that's one arm [Applause] say it again in today's terms 46 46 trillion eight hundred million dollars in today's terms one man and when you're talking about I I can't pay that much for that dress what how did he have these limits office thinking breath of mine breath of mine the limits broken off the thought life the limits of how you were raised the limits of where you were raised the limits of your country the limits of your culture the limits of your lack of education the limits the limits are so many limits everything around you trying to limit meditation busts off limits if you don't meditate you will always struggle financially your church will do without things your church should have the pastor's vision needs breadth of mind that when whatever whatever God has for this few and for the future of this place another building or whatever if your pastors want marble on the floor bless God I know where we can get some linoleum well that's fine go I'm not against linoleum but if that don't don't put your limits on where your pastor's vision that came from God can go and people will get offended and leave churches I've seen it so many times they're just being excessive God listed this and he wasn't he was not offended at Solomon's wealth you know what Jesus said about Solomon he said that the lilies of the field and all this stuff that that they're here today and gone tomorrow that Solomon was not arrayed like one of these with all that he had he was not arrayed like one of these what's that mean then the lilies of the field got everything God had for him Solomon didn't [Music] with all he had he still never got all God had for him listen No Limits is not going to fin God it's where he lives he's limitless God likes abundance look at stars how many of them are there now God listen the word said about Kings sullen breath of mine like the sand of the seashore go ahead and calculate the sand of the seashore go ahead you know what that means you could not Solomon's mind though as far as he could think could not be calculated there's other scriptures that talk about that he had a love and I don't I don't know the exact wording but basically his interest went to animals to plants to everything around him in this world he had an interest in what was that breath of mine he wasn't limited and didn't think something was unimportant praise Bible Bible so we said 1 million nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds of gold in 39 years which is 46 billion trillion excuse me 46 trillion 800 million won't you put that number on your refrigerator look at that every day God did not list this to say well everybody's not going to arrive at this but what he's saying is this is what No Limits will do for you verse 14 you're ready for the next verses in addition to the taxes paid by the traders and merchants he got taxes on every trader and merchants that came in he got it the kings of Arabia and the governors of the Israelite districts also brought him silver and gold they brought him more of whatever he had Solomon made 200 large shields each of them was covered with about 15 pounds of beaten gold just the shield's 15 pounds of beaten gold if I was a soldier I'd say I'll just take my shield to my bedroom tonight start whittling off a little bit so how heavy was the shield just the gold on it weighed 15 pounds not to mention the material under it that was it was covering verse 16 and 300 smaller shields each cover with eight pounds of beaten Gold's so he wanted to send his soldiers out look at wealth baby this is what you're going to fight against this what you're gonna lose against can you imagine the scene that that caused when you went out to face them and faced a an army you know what God said to Solomon he said your it'll be years of years of peace why enemies are gonna see your wealth and say I'm not touching him I don't have enough to come against him verse 17 the King also had a large throne made part of it was covered with ivory whereas ivory come from elephant tusks you think those were around the block they're not tied up down the street somewhere where are they different countries yeah you think they just these were months of trips to go get these kinds of things part of it was covered with ivory the rest of it was covered with pure gold six steps led up to the throne and there was a footstool attached to the throne covered with gold sure it was there were arms on each side of the throne and the figure of a lion stood at each side of the throne twelve figures of lions were on the steps one at either end of each step no throne like this had ever existed in any other Kingdom all of King Solomon's drinking cups were made of gold all the utensils were a pure gold silver was not considered valuable in Solomon's day why is something not valuable there's so much of it it had no it had no value it was everywhere verse 21 he had a fleet of ocean-going ships sure he did every three years his fleet would return for 39 years he had ships circling the earth you get back here in three years and unload it three years in gathering from other places other locations all the wealth every three years you come back and load it on for 39 years this happened every three years his fleet would return bringing gold sure silver ivory Apes and monkeys you know what that it shows his interest was in every arena his interest was in every arena you have a monkey right it'll have no monkeys in Egypt don't have my monkeys there you know they came from I went to somewhere good to get this I go where you don't that's what that monkey showed I go where you don't that's a status symbol you think it's an animal this is like let me show you what's on the other side of the world that you'll never see that's exactly he would display praise the Lord I'd like yeah I'm looking at him me all right had somebody to clean the cage verse 22 King Solomon who was richer and wiser than any other King in the world in in the world they all consulted him to hear the wisdom that God had given him what was the how could he have the wisdom of God that everyone was after no limits verse 24 each of them brought Solomon gifts articles of silver gold robes weapons spices horses and mules this continued year after year King Solomon also had four thousand stalls think of 4004 you know how much landmass that takes up four thousand stalls for his chariots and horses and had 12,000 cavalry horses he was supreme ruler of all the kings in the territories verse 27 during his reign silver was in was as common in Jerusalem as stone and cedar was as plentiful as ordinary sycamore meditate on that a little bit when you go to start a business that's in the word part of the word met God put it in there for a purpose why have to help break limits off of thinking now let me say this all this is natural you know what it is it's fleeting it'll end up in a heap of ashes and it still didn't offend God that he had a big heap if God will do this for that which is fleeting how much more for something connected to his purpose and his plan for your life's with spiritual things how much how much how much more healings how much more miracles how much more supply to fund what he's doing let me tell you what limited thinking my husband and I we've owned lovely homes throughout our lives and right before Edie died a couple years before he died God told me to sell the home we were in it was a lovely home it was eight thousand square feet and built on another eight thousand is on five acres was up in the mountains it was lovely and he had a 12 car garage he had all kinds of stuff because he liked cars he liked things and he would bring up the pastures and he would say I bring you here not to show off but to be an example of what your future can look like if you'll be faithful to the word that's what he would do right because God needs examples can I tell you God needs examples of prosperity you want to know why there's enough Sam examples of poverty God needs examples of prosperity not for show-off but to say listen there's no limits in God he's not going to tell you you can't have that you can't have that but what he will do he'll grow you develop you help you mature so that you can handle these things without them distorting you so God told us a couple years before he'd went home to be with the Lord sailed this home and it was that large home and so he gave us another home and the home was lovely it was a smaller home but I learned this really that home when we when we bought it was appraised more than the other one because down great down downsize doesn't mean downgrade but God did not God knew what was coming and he didn't want me left with this large property so I mean I was in the home and then God and then Ed went home to be with the Lord and then God told me I have another home for you and so that's when he started eating with me about Amy sub Macpherson's home and of course that one needs a renovation so my plan was this I've got a certain amount of money what I'm going to do is I'm going to get a loan buy the home and then I'm going to take the cash I haven't renovated there it's completely ready to be lived in because I've renovated before I move in so that's what I'm thinking and there was a delay in the pastor getting back to me there was a delay in the house going into escrow it just kept going on month after month after month finally I went out for a walk I went on a walk with God and I started talking to him I said God it seems like it's being wrongfully delayed it's not like it's it's on your time schedule it seems like I'm getting behind in your time schedule and he said I don't want you to finance the home I want you to pay cash for the home see what was that I was bringing my mint of how we did Helms of the past into this season and God was wanting me in a paid-for mentality but I was thinking of a financing mentality and I can't tell you all that went with that there were reasons and lots of other things so for the first time in my life I paid cash for a home and I already own we have a 40 acre ranch in Colorado that's wonderful that house is paid for there's a little bit out on the land still but the home itself is paid for and then I had this other home that I purchased before I was in before I got sister Amy's home so now I've got three homes so then I think okay then I will sell the home that I was in before the one I bought sister Amy's I'll sell that I'll renovate that I'll sell it and then there's my renovation money but I remember when I was in Russia and your pastures were there God and in a dream one night God spoke to me and he said the renovation for your home is going to take all your all your faith and all your money and I thought why are my money why all my faith because if I sell this house it will I have enough equity it's enough to fully renovate that home but shouldn't take all my faith or all my money just takes one sale well so there I'm sitting and I'm going here it's been I've owned the home since 2015 I didn't move into it to 2016 and I didn't have the go-ahead in the Holy Ghost to go ahead with the renovation and so then it dawned on me this home that is so lovely that I'm trying to sell it's like one of the best homes it's a gated community it's one of the best homes fabulous homes I mean when we went to buy it there in 30 days they had ten offers on it that's how desirable it was and I had it on the market two years and couldn't get it couldn't get a bite on the thing so finally I go maybe it's not the devil holding up maybe it's God reserving yeah and it dawned on me and it came up in my spirit I said to my family I said I'm not done with that home so I took it off the market and I decided I'm keeping the home I'm keeping the home I don't have to live in it to keep it where did we get to thinking that you can only own a home you live in the home I moved that home that I had on the market it's three minutes from the church it's in a gated community it's perfect for guest ministers if brother Copeland comes he has to have security teams it's perfect it's got two separate casitas you know what casitas are out here cuz cedars are like separate guest homes it has it has this huge courtyard and there's two guest homes that are off that and then a then then the rest of the home so they they don't even have to come into your home they can have their own living quarters this is a great setup and it dawned on me I'm not gonna sell the home I'm gonna save it for ministers and then I'll renovate just now know why God said it'll take all your faith and all your money to renovate because now I don't have that resource and it dawned on me that the resource of selling that home the previous home it dawned on me I've got to get rid of the thinking that something I gotta sell something because we get the mentality that if I'd get something new I got to get rid of something mold so I decided you know what I think God's dealing with me about keeping that home not getting rid of it I had a minister come up to me at one of my conferences and squatted down beside me at a dinner table and he said pastor Nancy have you ever thought of not selling that home that you're trying to sell I said I shall not have and he said I believe God's dealing with you about not selling it and I said he did not dealing longer I'm just I'll keep it after I decided I'm not going to sell the previous home to have the current castle renovated just within weeks I step on the front patio of the castle coming home from a trip about 10:30 at night and the anointing drops on me and I said god what is that anointing for he said that's the grace to renovate notice when I took off my limited thinking now the grace to renovate comes when my when my thinking was I've got to sell this to have this the grace didn't come the Norden didn't come on me why because God wasn't less than that thinking God wanted me to change my thinking and he wouldn't allow me to renovate until I changed my thinking because he didn't want me to get rid of something he had in mind for me to keep why because he's wants examples of people taking the limits off not only that personally financially I was at the lowest point personally of just ready available cash I go now then he says now it's time to renovate when you're at your lowest point financially now it's time to renovate why because now we know it's not me it's him too many times people won't start something till they get cash is if you've got enough cash something's off something's off your plant your visions not big enough something's not large enough if you can fund it God's got something bigger amen well praise the Lord I said praise the Lord well let's move along you want to move along I wanted to read that passage because we have to quit thinking the way we were raised and think the way God authors Amen hallelujah this book of the law shall not depart out of our mouth but thou shalt meditate so what does meditating do it drives the word down into your spirit it does it takes the limits off small thinking amen this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night now here we go so the family has made us observe to do according to all that's written therein God's not just trying to rob you at right talking he's not just trying to rob you at right thinking he's trying to rob you it right doing right actions amen speaking right is a right action but that's not the totality of right actions he wants our lives filled with faith acts and things that we are doing amen so the divine order of the prescription of successes the word has to be in your mouth has to be in your thought life and now your actions of faith will work this is where some people say I don't understand that faith message that faith message doesn't work for me because they go out and try to take faith actions without the word having been in their mouth and in their meditations there was a minister that came to Rhema years ago and he was telling the students early on in his ministry he was telling the students how he had been feeding I mean just God was giving him such revelation of faith and I mean he was just his life in his ministry was showing the fruit of that and he had come out of a lot of debt he'd come out of a lot of poverty and he had an old car that was not sent in such a great condition and God told him one day to sew that car to someone and so he did within a day or two somebody gave him a brand-new car the students that Rhema that he was preaching heard the phrase brand-new car so they thought I'm going to give away my car and I'll get a brand new car because that's how you get a new car you give away your old one that's what they heard what they didn't pay attention to was how he was feeding on the word how he was meditating on the word and then the spirit said to him when it says that thou mayst observe to do let your doing be led by the spirit its spirit lead actions it's not you thinking up something to try to get faith or to try to prove you have faith faith does not come by acting there's a lot of people who need a healing they need a miracle and they will go and throw out their medicine to try to if I could say this force healing to happen and then they got to go rebuy it or some just run into all kinds of difficulties because they got off something why because they took it was an act yes but it wasn't a spirit-led act it was a calculated at it the Holy Ghost will lead you in the acts to take those are the acts that are going to work the actions of faith be the Holy Spirit will lead you in line with your measure of faith in your measure of faith comes about how much you're saying it and how much you're meditating on it amen and so dad Hagin had to get up and tell these students quit giving away your cars he said they would go for a year and a half they were in their two years of school he said most of them that gave away their car for a year and a half they're walking why because they acted without the leading of the Spirit they acted without their mouth full of the word they acted without meditations of the word and therefore their actions didn't work and then they say the faith stuff doesn't work no you didn't work the faith stuff you weren't something you figured out and you cannot force the hand of God to do something by an act can I tell you actions flow out of fullness when will the Holy Ghost tell you to act when your mouth is full and when your meditations are full of what God is saying to you amen then the Holy Ghost will lead you to act God told me in February of 2014 God told me I'm going to give you sister Amy's house 2014 February so what I did is I spent every day that I was home I would go sit in front of the house and look at it and talk to it and I would say God's gonna give me the money for that home the angels are working to bring that into my hands God's I'm gonna live in that home the plan of God is at home I had to see myself in that I had it had to become real in here not just something God said it had to be something living and alive in me how did I do it I went and looked at it I talked to it I got it in me amen it's not something you just think of one day and all of a sudden you're in it you have to you have to meditate to get that thing alive in you and so then toward the end of 2014 God setting you worry make an offer he didn't tell me that in February 20 2014 he didn't say when he said I'm going to give you that house I didn't go and try to buy it that day why because I know although he sent it I don't have a handle on it in here he's giving me time to fill up through speaking it through meditating on it and then when I got full then the spirit said in January go make an offer on the house you see he's directing my actions when is he going to tell me to act when I'm forward how well you know I'm just believing God for this and believing God for that and the Holy Ghost hadn't told me when to do it it's because he's waiting for you to get full get full through speaking it and through meditating on it people will say this I well we had a one-man years ago that was in our church and somebody came in and they a guest minister and prophesied to him and he says I got a drawer full of those prophecies that don't come to pass let's see prophecies equal work what is the work you have to do Joshua 1:8 you have to speak it you have to meditate on it you have to get full of what God is saying to you when you get full of it then the Holy Ghost will tell you when to act and if your prophecies have not come to pass that's because not full of what he said to you you've got to get it full in you God said to me in 2016 February 2016 I had I was getting ready to move into the castle and God said I'm gonna make you rich as an example well I think I'm pretty rich but I guarantee you there's a lot further richer I want to go why so I'm feel good about myself no as an example the body of Christ needs to know what God will do for them amen God God needs examples you know what I say to my I say all the time and God's gonna make me rich as an example God's gonna make me rich this example why I gotta get full of that why hasn't he done it yet I'm not full yet amen if you want something get full of it how do you fill up with it in your mouth in your meditations hallelujah and the example I use of it is this have you ever seen an old-time rifle or a movie where they show the old-time rifles or the muskets and what do they do with a musket first of all they have to load it the way they would load those is they would pour gunpowder down then they would put a bullet in then they would take a paper wad and tie and put it on top of all that that step is called the word in your mouth you're loading your gun your tongue you're loading it speaking the word you're loading it after they pour in the Gunpowder the bullet in the paper while they take a long iron rod and they what do they do what are they doing they're packing it down they're compressing it why because if you don't pack it down it's not going to be accurate they can fire it and they will not hit the target it doesn't matter that you loaded if you miss that's what meditation is it's packing the word down the word that you've loaded in your mouth you're packing it down into your spirit through meditating and then the Holy Ghost will tell you now pull the trigger when did they ever pull the trigger not till after they had loaded it impacted this is it's not just going out and making random faith acts trying to force something to happen you have to make sure that the gun of your Spirit is loaded the gun of your tongue is loaded and pack it down into your heart and then when the Holy Ghost says now do it you'll hit the target every time it will say it will work every single time now let's bring this back around to what God said to us about this season it's time for miracle it won't happen because God said it we have to get full of it yes how do we get full of it we have to speak it we have to meditate on it because you can go out and try to act and try to force miracles but if you don't have it in your mouth and in your heart amen why don't you why don't you speak when I lay hands on the sick they recover because in case you don't know it every believer is authorized lay hands on the sick and they shall recover well nobody ever gets healed when I lay hands on that's because your weapons not sharp sharpen up the sword of the Spirit sharpen it up amen get full load your gun pack it down amen so you need you need to speak when I lay hands on people God heals them he authorised me I'm a blessing to be able to go and lay hands on people I'm not afraid to do it I'm blessed to be able to do it he said lay hands on the sick and they shall recover I lay hands on people and they recover according to the Word of God then see yourself lay in bed and see yourself you don't have to see certain people but you can see people that are hurting people that humanity and see yourself laying hands on people Amen see yourself doing that amen being a blessing because miracles are not just for prayer not just for pastors they're for congregations they're for all of us you know you need to talk about the next the next building God has for this church even talk about it God has a pastor God has another another place for us and it's gonna meet all of our needs and all the money's going to be there and then you meditate on these things amen don't just wait until the time the building is needed because if you do you're gonna be behind God God talks to your pastor now so it gives us time to get full not just because we're clocking time waiting for God to give it God is giving time for us to get full amen it's time for miracles we have to talk about it pastor we're gonna have miracles in our church aren't we past her yeah we're gonna have miracles amen this is why you need to you need to watch on YouTube some of these old 50's he healing evangelists that they laid hands and you watch different crippled people walk off and and all these things that can be really sick get full of it fill up with it all these things that God's going to do in your congregation get full of it amen everything God wants to do for your life get full of it how do you get full of it the word in your mouth meditating on it and then following the spirit and acting when he tells you to act Amen stay with me to your feet are you help tonight hallelujah this is how we arrive at success we load our tongues we load our spirits and then the Holy Ghost will direct us in our acting father we thank you for your word if it weren't for your word we wouldn't know these things but we are so grateful to know these things that success is not automatic and random it's very much on purpose just as a farmer he sews a seed it's not a surprise that he gets a harvest it's very much a certain procedure to take father your word shows us certain steps to be taken we believe what you say we agree with your word that it's time for miracles we believe in the power of God that will work those miracles the father we also release our faith we fill ourselves up we fill our mouths up with your word we fill our spirits up we pack your word down into our spirits we drive it in it is our life we thank you for your word follow father everything that you have for this church we receive it we receive it we don't have to know all that's contained to receive it we receive the fullness of the plan that you have for this place and father we join our pastor and speaking it we join our pastor in meditating on the things that you have for this place and then when it's time to move ahead and step up into different levels then we're ready to move with you we thank you for we so thank you Father healing miracles are part of this era they're the flow of this era and father we choose to be used by you we yield to you we are authorized to be a blessing to people we're going to act on what we're authorized to do we thank you for it father

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Published: Thu Nov 28 2019