The Kingdom Power and Principle of Management | Dr. Myles Munroe

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anticipate that people who were living on one dollar a day will now jump from two million to seven million people living on $2 a day will jump from 3 million to 9 million which means that poverty is expanding I was also intrigued and find out that they still don't know whether the banks are going to be solvent the experimentation that they're going through with how do you save the capitalistic institutions they're still not sure what's gonna happen when leaders are guessing the followers are in trouble I understand that our Prime Minister is gonna be making national statement this week which i think is very appropriate to appraise the country of what is the status and what we can anticipate everything seems so gloomy everything is predicting crisis but let me just say a couple things about a crisis a crisis is an event over which you have no control right there down what is the crisis a crisis is an event over which you have no control that's why it's a crisis so the way you get rid of a crisis is you get the event under your control that's why usually crisis experiences that you didn't prepare for did not anticipate and that's why they call crises so the way you minimize crisis is to always be preparing for the unsuspected and expected write this down please Kingdom citizens are not immune to crisis I think that's important to remember because you are living in God's kingdom doesn't isolate you from unexpected uncontrollable events so settle that in your mind number two remember that the storm will hit everyone when it hits you know hurricanes don't go around believers houses and hit other people houses Jesus made it very clear when he talks about those who build their house on his word he says the storms rose and the winds blew and they hit both houses and so crises affect everybody but he did talk about the response of the two houses to the crisis one of them crashed and the other one stood firm because of the foundation therefore the point number three is important survival will depend on your foundation knowledge remember he said anyone who hears my words and puts them into practice will be like a man who built his house on a rock and when the storms blow and the waves come and the water rise that house stands firm so it was not the storm that was the problem it was the foundation that was the problem if it wasn't the right foundation then you have a problem so crises are not problems they're going to come problem is what do you have to handle the crisis that leads me to point number four the key to that knowledge is management last week I introduced this important point to you that God gave man management management is the key to prosperity in the middle of poverty I want you to stop thinking like religious people and start thinking like Kingdom people religious people look for miracles they want God to take care of them without their effort they are lazy they want magic supply they want immediate response from God and if God delays then they stop believing in him this religious spirit is a dangerous spirit and it's very pervasive we treat God not even like Santa Claus because even Santa Claus say you gotta be good we treat God like the genie in the bottle where we rub him three times he comes out and he says make three wishes no I put it to you friends that management is the key to prosperity in the middle of poverty believe me the point number six management is the key to promotion in crisis do you know that people are gonna get promoted during the next few months some folks getting laid off others gonna be promoted watch matter of fact some folks will get more money now because they can take the jobs of half-hearted half lazy people who won't get fired and they can take their responsibility and add some of their paycheck to the old paycheck they can get more money because those who are good man juice will be promoted God doesn't promote you because you pray fasting doesn't bring promotion reading the word doesn't bring your promotion promotion is the result of management therefore point number seven is critical management is the key to power in crisis if you want to be the person with the controlling position in the midst of chaos you must be the one who haven't been a good manager you never want to lose a good manager so if you've not been a good worker all these years you must be nervous right now if you've been coming late and they've been complaining about you and your file get some letters on it you know you're nervous now because when they start cutting back they're gonna go for the ones who are the least valuable and the most problem my job as city pastor is to prepare you even for getting fired because your pass is about to catch up with you now we will pray for you and ask God to help you and everything and maybe even give some stars food but we can stop what's coming down if you planted some bad seeds that boy said management say it loud one more time you know I thought I would read this for you God promised crisis you know we've been taught this funny idea that you know God is a good goal would he only does things good good god is good and so god only does good things I remember I'll now forget as a teenager I was reading the Bible one day and I saw this young wealthy guy walked up to Jesus and he said to Jesus good master I know you our man sent from God and before he can make the other statement Jesus stopped him Jesus excuse me why do you call me good now wait a minute if someone called you good you should be nice and happy cry stopped it why do you call me good before he can answer Christ answered Christ says no man knows what good is only God I was a teenager when I got that key therefore from that day forward my definition of good was cancelled cuz I don't know what good is only God knows what's good because think what you think is good may not be good and what you think is bad may be good in God's plan so we find for example here's God prophesying crisis God is making a promise to a whole country crisis is coming and he tells the leader before it happens let's read Genesis 41 you might want to turn in here this is an important voice to underline and remember this in your Bible turn to Bible Genesis chapter 41 it's a story about a young man named Joe y'all know Joe Joe was 17 years old when he began to make an impact not Joe the Plumber is that what you're laughing at I don't believe this [Applause] this is Joe the Prince of Egypt by the way Joe wasn't even licensed plumber said I talked with that you were reading as a plumber Genesis 41 verse 42 says then Joseph said to Pharaoh watch carefully now the dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do the seven good cars are seven years and the Seven good heads of grain are seven years it is one and the same in the dream the seven lean ugly cars that came up afterwards are seven years and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind they are seven years of farming the word farming here means crisis write it down in your notes famine every time see the word famine is talking about economic crisis in those days that economy was built on agriculture so the worst thing for those countries was farming our country in the Bahamas is built on tourism so the worst thing we could ever have is what affects travel so we are in crisis because consumer confidence of fallen 0.3% again in the last seven days which means people are not spending money not good for us so here God is prophesying there's gonna be farming now I have a question here who allows crisis I want you to read this verse because God says he allows crisis to touch it to test your management look at verse 32 Joseph says the reason the dream was given to Pharaoh Pharaoh is the the leader the president of the country the king the reason the dream was given to pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God and thought will do its own underline that verse look there's gonna be crisis don't pray for it to go away I ain't taking it away I'm decided God decides crisis well let's fast and pray that it'll go over because everything going over y'all let's go hit and hit everybody God is quite aware of the global economic confusion he probably orchestrated it just to remind the capitalists that they are not capitalizing on anything our faith has been in our money and God has made our money lose value when your God is money and he devalues your money he just devalued your God look at that verse again he says the Lord not only showed it to you once he showed it to you twice in case you try to change his mind I'm not changing my mind there will be crisis that will be farming I've decided God says we always blamed the devil now I want you to think about this a God has a young guy named Joe and Joe is fairly unknown so dars about to create opportunity for him to get promoted but he needs a crisis so the guy could show his managed mobility we don't believe me read the next verse this is very interesting in the book of Genesis chapter 41 verse 33 it says and now Joseph talking left Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt left Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance they should collect all the food of these years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh to be kept in the cities for food this food should be held and reserved for the country to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt so that the country may not be ruined by the crisis you know last week someone had been him they've been insulted by what I said when I mentioned that there was a time not too long when the Bahamas is doing well we had good money and the question of what did the leaders do with the money chosen says look take the good years and invest them and store them up because everything goes in cycles nothing is permanent to everything there is a season that means you got a good tourist season I'd guarantee right behind that is a tough one so you gotta use the resources in the good season to back up yourself against the bad season he says that you can work will be not be ruined by the crisis very important now what watch the response to Joseph's chapter 20 41 rather verse 39 then Pharaoh said to Joseph since God has made all of this known to you there is no one as discerning and as wise as you you shall be in charge promotion now of my palace and all my people are to submit to you and to your orders only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you is that a promotion is that a promotion by the way Joe is only 30 years old at this time 30 he's getting promoted in the midst of crisis is about to hit the country because he came up with a management plan look at the next verse so Pharaoh said to Joseph I hereby you in charge of the whole land of Egypt then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his own finger and put it on Joseph's finger he transferred all the authority of the country this young man he dressed him in a robe of fine linen put a gold chain around his neck he had him ride in a chariot has his second-in-command and men shouted before him make way make way thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt first of all remember that Joseph is not even an Egyptian he's a foreigner let me tell you something it's a good manager it doesn't matter where you came from and that's a poor hand cuz some of y'all got some problems let me tell you something is that why they bring them in well it depends on how well you've been doing do you know listen I went to do a seminar at Atlantis some time ago a hold a session some of y'all here might have been in that seminar and do you know before I went down to do the seminar in the big meeting room there I met with the general manager in a private meeting and two other people people in Atlantis and he said we invited you to talk to the people because we having some problems the main problem he talked about was Stephen teefin i.e f ing he said we are losing some a'chicken oh you think it's funny he says pilfering pilfering is such a major issue here users we know we bought in 3000 chicken we can only find two thousand well check anything on the wings they did they can't fly and these people that's people's monies and then we get mad when someone comes from outside say you know let me let us join us watch my chicken Joseph was a foreigner it was management that promoted him if you steal a paperclip chicken any far away you think I'm kidding once your conscience don't bother you get a paperclip there are some companies right now in our country who are celebrating the crisis they finally got an excuse you fill in the blank he said Joseph I'm gonna put you in charge of my whole country because you have a management plan I look at the next verse this is good stuff a Genesis 41 verse 46 Joseph was what 30 years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh the king of Egypt and Joseph went out from pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout the Egyptian land during the seven years of abundance the land produced plentiful tourism Joseph collected all the food producing those seven years of abundance in Egypt and he stored it up in cities in which each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain like the sand of the sea it was so much that he stopped keeping records you should keep her act as you see recording every power it was beyond measure what a manager and that may sound simple you know but he had to convince people not to teach the green nothing's going on there who did it stranger come on tell us what to do with our brain Hey you see that's why Pharaoh gave him the ring cause he knew his own people they were from the Bahamas hey hi how come you tell me what to do I'm not you ain't from here you sure ring we gonna store the grain over there and take the stuff with your pocket to start with your pocket okay over there see ya what's the batter it's put the chicken back yeah okay sometimes we hate and people come who are new they break up our racket look straight look straight will nobody look at you look at straight yeah that's why we like to help people who we know around us because they buddy in on the tank see that's why God brings new people in like Joseph to get management done you need to have authority that's respected one of our problems in the Bahamas and then the Caribbean alone is the spirit of entitlement but I entitled to this i-beam in slave you know oh shut up and manage well you know I know I was oppressed enough in my time oh yeah you get the spirit frog we got this strange idea that life over something and what they pay me enough so I Karen somebody's chicken they justify it you work in the food store stocking the shelves but they ain't paying me enough so I can't some of this cuz just make it for what they should have been paying me and you take them and stuff on the warehouse justify an evil and God taking notes Joseph said we are gonna save this we gonna store it up by the way you know what's important in this verse to have it underlined there he stored up hey boys they store it up I mean we take what's important to learn from that God wants you to save write that down please you know my god is abundant abundant you better save people who've been disciplined and who have been careful with their resources and they have disciplined themselves to save it over a long period of time those are the ones God give more to you know God used to bless you you remember that and you say it slow God used to bless you you wonder what you don't know why it stopped he can't figure out what you did with the blessing hmm may God have mercy on our souls so yes I want to remember the principal key that God gave man was management you manage God promotes you manage God will protect you you manage God prosper you the foundation of Kingdom life is management the reason why God put you on earth was management that's why God put you on earth you know I showed you this last time that the word manage begins with man it's the age where man is responsible for God's resources manage simply means you are in charge of another person's resources God gave man you'd dominion over the earth which is management and all humans are managers over God's property God gave us rulership not ownership so we are always managers and that means that in the kingdom of God no one owns anything even those who claim to own they don't own anything on the earth the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and the world and they that dwell therein and so no matter who claimed to have what God says you are only a manager in my eyes and I'm watching how you handle my resources our countability is the natural result of management God will check to see if you can give an account of what he gave you and that includes everything like time relationships money investment people opportunities how you manage everything God's watching you can miss manage friendships you can miss manage your marriage effective management determines the amount of your resources you can always tell who's a good manager they keep attracting more a good manager will attract more a good manager will attract more and so here is my my reminders what is management write this down those of you who are in business you wanna write this down twice management is the effective efficient correct and timely use of another person's resources and you do it for the purpose for which they were delegated with a view to producing the expected added value management therefore is the correct efficient and timely use of another person's resources with a view to giving them a report in keeping with what they expected you to gain from the investment can I put it another way a good manager always adds value to what was given to him or her a good manager always adds value to what was given to her or him a good manager always adds what value to what was delegated to them that's management management is proven by value you know we began this ministry with nothing seven people today we were over ten million dollars I think God might kind of think I did okay now if God give you ten dollars I wonder what he wants remember the guys who had the talents three guys with the talents remember the one who had the one he had it won yeah he was from being down he took that one and he buried it in the ground the Bible says and he said to himself I gotta keep this so I can give it back to the boss because I know the boss is a stingy fella that what'd he say he says a random master came back the one who had the five made a ten the one who had the the the four made it eight he said but this guy who had the one he still had the one now listen to his response firstly call them lazy and then wicked wickedness is not juju and bubu wickedness is when you mismanage any of God's resources that's a wickedness wickedness to God is when you take something that he gave you and it loses value now jesus said and the master said unto the servant at least you could have put it in the bank and got interests in other words management has to do with at least interview and work in it at least let it work for itself let me draw that home to you I don't know who gonna lose their job in this church but a whole lot of jobs don't get lost we could pray and fast and believe God speaking towns and carry Bibles in our pockets but let me tell you something that Christ got storm gonna hit everybody how valuable have you made yourself on your job what kind of value do you bring to that department how have you made yourself so valuable that you the last person they think about getting rid of God gave you the job he gave you an opportunity have you added value to it and I didn't value it doesn't mean you're showing up for work you know it means being creative on the job come with ideas to make the business grow because you are there conquer ideas to make the department expand find some new ideas to bring more business that's management in your area you're the kind of person they don't want to get rid of some folks just come to collect a paycheck do you add value I put it this way cities are loud with me please go God will not give you what you pray for but what you can manage can't say it again everybody God will not give you what you pray for he will give you what you can manage number two economize means to maximize the minimum he's supposed to get the most out of the least that's being economic we got a bunch of land in Andrus ever since I was a little boy I kept wondering why they got no big farms some of the best soil I ever saw is in Andros and we still an important 90 percent will be eaten I'm sitting thinking what's going on here there's no dedication to maximizing the minimum we have I want to encourage some of our young people here ask God to not let go and be no lawyer and no doctor be any kind of meaning the more them we need some farmers it's a horticulturist some people who can produce food let me tell you something those who produce food will become the most valuable people in the world the next ten years because you cannot eat a computer I guarantee you you gonna go to college study agriculture agricultural science you got a choice between gasoline and milk I think you're going for the milk you no choice between a palm violet and some food you're going for the food and that's why we coming down to we coming down to that we we're coming down to whether being of oil or we have food let's think write this down please to get the most out of the least is economizing when you add value to your gift then God treats you as an attraction for resources I made this statement years ago as to make it again answered prayer is regulated by your capacity to manage no matter what you pray for guardian listen to your prayer he watching whether you can manage it he doesn't look at what she was asking for he looks at what you're doing it what you have and then that determines where you should answer your prayer because your prayer is regulated by your capacity to manage what you ask it for and most of us if we got our prayers answered it would kill us could you imagine asking God or Lord in a million dollars a million dollars were killed 90% of you in this room if you dropped on your lap right now I'm dead will last for 90 days straight in Miami bomb Flagler Street pure now some of you are skating on New York right going to your family it's just out of control no management I remember years ago you know when a Bahamian group became famous and they hit one day records hit bomb boy next thing we saw he so I kind of call that cheer yeah now all them broke they didn't understand management determines how God answers your prayer God does not encourage waste I'm coming down to the final point here tonight I mean this morning because I want you to leave this place in the next three or four weeks you know we don't know what happened but based on all the predictions is not going to be encouraging but I want to encourage you today what to do like Joseph you prepare for the crisis first thing you must understand is that God hates waste so start going through your house right now and check all your waste I remember this story here when Jesus fed the people bread and fish we find this that says so they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties and taking the five loaves and two fishes and looking up to him and he gave thanks and broke the loaves and then he gave them to disciples to sit before the people he also divided the two fish among them all and they all ate and was satisfied but here's the part that was interesting it says and the disciples picked up twelve baskets of broken pieces he said pick up every crumb I don't know what you're gonna do today when you go to lunch but be careful what you leave in the plate he hates waste you and a filled with 5,000 he said pick up every crumb he was trying to teach them a lesson about management do you know where everything is in your finances well where'd went last month can you a comfort every penny and if you come forward did it make sense management pick up every crumb it's a good time to have a rummage sale a garage sale you got a bunch of stuff you sell them cheap collect some money and clean your house the same time that's management it's good management management is defined as diligence with resources he has two verses of Scripture I want you to remember proverbs 13:20 says a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children but the sinners wealth is thought of for the righteous we done with that last week the fact that God knows who has your wealth who has it the sinner who gave it to him God why because the sinner can manage it that's a very very terrible indictment on the believer proverbs 10:4 says lazy hands make a man poor but diligent hands bring well the word diligent ear means management lazy hands make a man poor diligent hand brings a man wealth ain't no mystery about wealth it's a product of management management means you keep that car for the next three years because you're trying to manage enough to get property because property and car are two different investments yeah but just just a guy on your car forget sister just like a car but no house you trying to get house that takes discipline diligent hands sometimes even when even where you rent and get check where you rent it you might be reading out of your league let me say it slow you might be renting out of your capacity because you try to impress some people if you gotta borrow to pay rent you need a lot of help and I don't take it personally please I want you to understand that may simply means you got to sit down with someone and let them go through I don't get mad at me no think it might be were you able to do see that's why you miss them now you wouldn't listen to advice the only time that because you ain't got no problem listen to me see you don't tell me my story I feel like tellin a piece of my story right now I came from school and live with my mother-in-law for four years in the same house with a wife and a child because we couldn't afford the pay no rent we were trying to buy property we kept the red car so long the car helped me see on us I remember going off my wife laughing go with I took that silver tape and tape up the bumper I tell her we ain't changing this car why we got to get that property down there in Western villas we gonna get our own house we gonna sleep at your mama I got to a pride you better go back home now I got my house is paid for I got my car got three of them don't get but you don't know what I went through to get what I got it's management listen don't try to be like me it took me 30 years to beat me let me get all uptight you know what you don't understand thank God for good medicine laws boy she was a good mother I love my mother-in-law she in heaven now bless your mama good boy you know I put my pride between my legs [Applause] now I got my house paid for and you see right mad at me trying to impress everybody else and can't pay the rent hey boys in management you got a management don't live above your means you ain't got no one to impress you try to impress people you can depress yourself great cop race come on you you get a brush and a thing it is harmony folks you trying to impress they depressed they can't pay there's either and by the way and I told you last week you know the best company to keep it's not bad poor people if you pull on your friends poor boy you big trouble it says a lazy man does not roast this game but the diligent man prizes his possession that means I prize that red Dadson didn't is a laugh at me smoke I go into my education but they didn't know what I was paying for property in West Village but as many money fourteen thousand dollars for one piece of property today it's wait a hundred and sixty thousand dollars just for the property but I had to manage hold back discipline swallow my pride management some of you got to make some changes in the next few weeks that's why God let's send your pastor to talk to you Street see someone got to tell you what you're doing you can't afford right now step back make some new decisions get yourself back on level ground and manage what you can manage cuz you can't pray your way out of this stuff you gotta manage your way out of this stuff proverbs 13 4 says the sluggard craves and gets what nothing great let me the slack of the lazy fellow I was growing boy I hit it big you know you're the big I gotta think big you broke and they almost got when plying and always the sluggard always got a plan sluggard they always got one idea and they always broke I avoid them I can smell them a mile away see the Bible the Bible so good the Bible says what the sluggard crave want plenty gets nothing but it says what the desires of the diligent that means little by little fully satisfied probably 21 says the plans of the diligent need to profit as surely as haste leads to what poverty mister boy you know I hit it big if anyone tells you it's that easy it ain't true I've never seen fast money in my life yet there's no fast money in the world now some of y'all playin numbers and all that good stuff I rebuke that spirit of this church in the name adjust if I I tell y'all right now now if I ever find out make sure I don't need to do it make sure I don't find that if I ever find out you play in numbers I come into you I can rebuke you in Jesus name and I expose you publicly look at that verse you're supposed to plan your way to success no quick money I hear this guy on TV the other day talking but you know legalizing gambling for the Bohemians I said myself you know he don't understand the whole principle that we're after the president is not the gambling is the weak fella sitting next to you who can handle it take his whole mortgage payment mess his family up we got to protect that guy against himself I'm Bahamian would any plenty protection or they come to the church to fix it yeah yeah blues I was wonderful yeah the church bail em out see no quick money in life ya know manage your life let me just close it's a couple of thoughts here write this down look Jesus said there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his goods and he called him and asked him what is this I hear about you give me an account of your management because you cannot manage me any longer he got fired Jesus is speaking well I guess look at the next verse verse 8 the master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted wisely and he said the people of this world seem to be more shrewd and wiser in dealing with their own resources than the people of light I tell you make friends with the world use worldly wealth to make friends he says make friends with wealthy people so that you will know how they do it now notice what he says here he says the people are wise in the world and the people of light that's why they got the money God don't give me money because you saved again money because you can manage it my god have mercy on us I like the way Jesus ends this story he says whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with what much and whoever can be dishonest with little it will be dishonest with what much see that paperclip and the chicken that one envelope from the company will lead to a typewriter later you can carry home in your car he says you can be honest with the little poor chicken people let me tell you something the reason why your parents would whip you for stealing a truck lens it's because they know one day you're gonna be a teller in the bank and if you get away with it thruppence started taking the people's money from there the teller if you are dishonest with literally says you be dishonest as much if you mismanage little you listen you miss man as much and then he says if you are not worthy to handle worldly wealth who will give you true riches oh by the way let me explain it to you because I when I did the researcher of this particular statement in college I was in dr. Honda's class the Greek day is very interesting it actually means that if you are able to handle people's resources in the company gotta give you true riches churches means people in other words if you handle other people's departments will he'll give you your own employees you know we always have people say well I leave in my job and I stop maybe I'm gonna leave my job and I start my business my first question is how well did you do on your job who tell you somebody want to work for you you couldn't even go to work on time when the other man's job how about your people skilled you did you learn them on the other man's job the last part is one that always gets me if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property who will give you property of your own write this down God will never you never begin with your own property God will never begin with your own property you have to earn the right to own property that's why when you got married you had to start renting when you start your business you have to start ready let me start this ministry we had to start renting God oh let's see how you're having other people property first some of y'all are renting right now and don't know that that's the will of God for you right now God's got a plan for your own house but read that verse carefully he's I'm watching how you handle the other man's properly if you treat the other man's probably as if it's your orders then I'll give you your own how often of this and by the way those of you who who rent things to people I know you know what I'm talking about if you own apartments and you rent to people Jesus Lord you feel like you're selling it yeah some up here I mean it's just crazy people think it's you know and that's why they're still renting and they'll always be renting it's a law that a my tile I fix in that tile in the bathroom wait a minute you live in there your children in the using the bathroom well I know in the landlord here where he come back next week and he come back for a change it's like both what's wrong with you God said if you can't be trusted with other people's lightbulbs so give me your open light books you know it's dangerous alone someone your car for two weeks while you're on vacation boy that's a test in the mud this ain't my car I remember that here you guys watching that's why you catching the jitney you cannot be trusted with other people's car got to make sure you always catch a jitney go to work tomorrow clean up around your desk or clean up around the place where you work treat as if it's yours already if you are a contractor treat the place in house as if you're building for yourself and your wife give them the nice beautiful cut kind of wood right right doc take your time if you treat it like it's yours he says I'll give you your own management the name of Jesus help us Lord right is down tithing is God's management training program God will watch how you manage resources by how you manage his tithe God don't need no money you don't need nothing from you so there's another reason why he asked you for 10% 10% God can use 10% he owned the whole thing but he's trying to check if you can manage putting aside something that ain't yours now remember if you've been faithful over another man's property he'll give you more property of your own tide for example it's not your property the Bible says the tithe is the Lord's so I want to say I don't think but money only okay it could be you got 10 pairs of shoes only one of them one day I'm gonna belong to you he could tell you give that repair shoe away tithing is God's management training if you cannot stay consistent in disciplining yourself to always be faithful in paying what God says his God says I can't trust you with more tithing requires accountability it requires discipline it requires honesty it requires diligence faithfulness trustworthiness all of these make up management I remember God telling the train of Israel and Malachi he says look you guys are teefin from me they said how are we teeth in from you he says untie than an offering he said you are eating my tithe and then he says if you would be faithful and start paying your tithes again I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you cannot contain then he says and if you do that the Devourer will not come and take what you have and eat up your crops and destroy your vineyards in other words if you don't learn to manage even by just tithing I'm gonna let the Devourer overtake everything you'll always have nothing God doesn't want your money you know the hardest part of our ministry as a pastor I tell you now is offering time boy I tell you it's a struggle because people think you really want their money God's trying to do something deep do you know why we can't really give and pay tax because we haven't managed our own resources so we are so mismanaged we can't afford to give God his own property all right we got four toothpastes and for tomato paste you know god I can catch you next week I gotta take care of the toothpaste for the kids I can buy something let's see because Polly so mismanaged we can't even give God what's his property and then he says if you miss manage my property I'll make sure you never any of your own so you always got like now not having any of your own means whenever you get something you borrowed it so you're constantly going deeper and deeper in debt all the time you got to borrow money just to live so tithing protects you against the future crisis I have a seven ways for you to manage crisis write this down please are we gonna pray number one determine what your needs are first I'm giving you advice to go through the next 12 months first if you're going to manage yourself you have to decide what are your needs hey boy say needs say it loud please a closing - a loud needs means these ain't things you want when you're in crisis you got to know the distinction very quickly between what you want and what you need your wants will destroy you in crisis I want to eat out for last year but now it's crisis time you need to carry lunch from home I want to still go for lunch with my friends everybody here but it's crisis time you need to stay woman cook what's the difference a you want that dress in the window yeah I know but you don't need that dress in the window you better know what to do right now it's a difference number two and this one is important only acquire what you need say loud only acquire what you need I'm talking to all my family here please I'm begging you to take these seven points home with you only a quiet what you need you don't need new piece of property right now you can acquire them later and you know now you know if you're a good manager you're probably in a good position to buy property but if you've been a bad manager you can have no property right now so don't walk around trying to impress nobody I read the ad idea you broke and if you have money saved keep it hold on to it my Joseph until the crisis we taste something in crisis you need liquid that's for the bankers okay we say it again in crisis you need liquid hard assets don't make no sense in crisis you need liquid liquid means you need cash in the bank that means don't spend your cash everybody say it say it loud one more time I'm talking as a prophet say it again don't spend your cash no matter what they tempt you with no Miami trip no Christmas shopping with the cash and don't borrow money to go over no Christmas tonight I want you to ask God to give you a vision of what the gift for gifts get some coconuts and Peter what do you think I'm kidding let me tell you something when you see February and March hit in the first quarter there gonna be a whole lot of folks in this church screaming for help don't be foolish only acquire what you need listen I got a big family most of them in here right now I'm telling them right now to expect much from Papa what anybody got to manage do i impress nobody with no Christmas baked cakes put their name on it in town this was tough he's the given plastic bag these tough min your poor can app and juju and poke a plum in a bag with a bowl right on and you take your time and eat each one slow enjoy that Christmas I remember one time man my daddy ain't yet it's one of the venue's hey daddy hey son we can take Paul bike we can rewrap it for you Paul is my brother rewrap my brother bike for me that's Christmas I was so glad I finally get you back yeah that has arrived again not a words don't stress yourself and cause yourself to lose management Joseph had to stop eating grain during the good time number three decide not to live beyond your ability hey boy say decide say that loud then louder shake the roof come on in louder that has to be a decision that ain't gonna happen by itself you got to decide beginning this month I will not extend myself beyond my ability if I can't do it I can't do it this is crisis management and before we draw the unnecessary okay you part of a club and you pay in fees tell them make a big draw for now you in this group and they want you to get at it to get rid draw for that for now see yeah you know you you you use plan to go to the girl with the girls go in the Orlando sharpen your dues every year I've been drawing for now you know a little soon and I've been drawing for now you gotta withdraw in crisis you got to like Joseph you got to get a fine a hole and put the wheat in the hole it's okay to withdraw in crisis on the five delay major projects you know governments are doing it companies are doing it you have to do it you know these major companies are amazing they ain't got no feelings they say things like this cut staff 35% and then they walk at the boardroom that's how you got to be in your personal life right now they don't care who goes they don't care how you did it just cut it 25 percent they say cuz when you in crisis you can't have feelings that's why I Pharaoh gave Joseph that ring he couldn't work on feelings he had to work on Authority you have to delay major projects I know you've been planning to build this house or building a condominium or trying to stuff back off for a minute and make sure you recount what your preservations are your reservations are because the market is doing crazy things and you want to be in a position of strength you want have liquid number six value your possessions I wish I had time to even talk about this one you know there's stuff you get that are very valuable but you don't know they're valuable until you really think about it some of you got for example two cars you only drive one well that's a good time now you know that old car you can see could sell it now and get some liquid put it in the bank you got five piece of property all right you can get one of them you know sell what looks like you got possessions you want to get some liquid sell one of them put in the cash in the bank you want to have access to liquid value your possessions you got a house with five rooms only you want to live in there maybe you could extend for someone to come and move in and pay rent but they can't afford a rent somewhere else and I'm come living rooms and they pay you that room was dead you sleep in a house with three bedrooms then giving you nothing now you can make them produce something that's valuing your possessions you got his truck no problem I notice a nice truck you got your big wheels on it and everything but you broke so turn this truck now into something to carry some thing move a moving company value it turn it into money yeah I almost crashed my dress scratch you can lose the scratch and the truck if you don't pay that note of the bank you better turn that truck into asset that is liquid cut of all your possessions is this making sense you the last one and this one is a tough one for Bohemians save conserve and protect save is so tough people come to me all the time as I cannot save and then they sit with me after but you know an hour and they realize they could save you could save some of you think you need money you don't need money you need management people come to me for help and I tell them okay go and see this person why I want that person not to give them money I want to give them some sense they need some wisdom some structure they need management skills safe conserve means turn the lights off only drive if you need to drive if someone pick you up tell them come right along pick me up save my gas hey conserve you used to buy for a dollar bread you can't afford four dollar bread no more go back to you know how much it is that their breath what's your lease price bread we can call it the Saints bread okay here you better on huh - da da nine cent but I still up there know Jesus then but that's the lowest one if what are you talking about yeah that's the lowest one you do you know why because the price of flour it's so high for them see so they need to to get that money back so you see everything someone say bake your own bread baking bread yeah you might only heavy brands coming to chew these heavy breads like me everybody say conserve yes only use that condition the way you need it turn the rest off with all this cool air open the windows shut it off you buy farm that's conserving when you are in management mode and crisis mode you have to conserve the government's that have to do it and then protect you have to protect what you have the most important thing you have is your name so you don't want to go running around borrow money from everybody else that putting your name in danger because when it's all over all you got is still your name may the Lord give us wisdom in Jesus name thank you thank you once again for listening to this message as we hope that it has been a blessing to you our goal is to show you new paths and opportunities so that you can discover your purpose it is your love support and partnership that makes Munroe Global 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Length: 71min 41sec (4301 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 15 2019