<i>♪ MUSIC ♪</i> >> WELCOME TO<i> GOSPEL TRUTH</i> WITH ANDREW WOMMACK, A TEACHING MINISTRY
THAT FOCUSES ON GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL >> LOVE AND GRACE. >> SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HE WAS EXPLAINING WAS JUST SO SIMPLE, BUT IT WAS TRUTH >> THAT JUST HIT RIGHT HOME. >> HE'S CHANGED MY LIFE; HE'S CHANGED MY WALK. I HAVE A HUNGER FOR GOD NOW THAT I'VE NEVER HAD BEFORE, AND THIS IS JUST >> THE BEGINNING. >> AND NOW, HERE'S ANDREW. WELCOME TO ANOTHER SPECIAL EDITION OF THE <i>GOSPEL TRUTH </i>BROADCAST. YOU KNOW, THIS WEEK I'VE BEEN SHARING SOME
THINGS THAT GOD HAS SPOKEN DIRECTLY TO ME. AND MAN, I HAVE BEEN MEDITATING ON 2 KINGS, CHAPTER 4, VERSES 1 THROUGH 7, FOR MONTHS, AND IT HAS BEEN PRODUCING BIG TIME IN MY LIFE. AND THE LORD JUST SPOKE TO ME A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, THAT YOU KNOW WHAT? THE SAME THINGS
THAT ARE WORKING FOR ME, IT'LL WORK FOR YOU. IT'LL WORK FOR ANYBODY. SO I REALLY FELT IMPRESSED TO COME ON AND JUST MAKE SOME SPECIAL PROGRAMS HOT OFF THE PRESS, THINGS THAT GOD HAS BEEN SPEAKING TO ME, AND THAT IT'LL WORK FOR YOU. SO THIS STORY IN 2 KINGS, CHAPTER 4, IS ABOUT A WIDOW WOMAN WHO COULDN'T PAY HER DEBTS AND THE CREDITORS WERE GOING TO COME AND TAKE HER TWO SONS TO BE SLAVES. SO SHE CAME TO ELISHA WHO HAD BEEN THE MENTOR
FOR HER HUSBAND AND SHE CAME AND BASICALLY ASKED HIM FOR HELP AND ELISHA REFUSED TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY AND MEET THE NEED HIMSELF. INSTEAD, HE POINTED HER BACK TO GOD, GAVE HER A WORD ABOUT WHAT TO DO, HOW TO OPERATE IN FAITH, AND AS SHE OBEYED GOD, GOD MET HER NEED NOT ONLY TEMPORARILY TO DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM THAT SHE HAD OF THE DEBT, BUT GAVE HER SUCH AN ABUNDANCE THAT SHE WAS ABLE TO LIVE OFF OF IT THE REST OF HER LIFE. SO ONE OF THE MAIN POINTS THAT I MADE THE VERY FIRST DAY I TALKED ABOUT THIS IS THAT MANY PEOPLE LOOK TO A JOB, TO THE GOVERNMENT, TO THE LOTTERY, TO FAMILY, FRIENDS OR WHOEVER AS THEIR SOURCE INSTEAD OF LOOKING TO GOD. THIS WOMAN CAME AND WAS SEEING ELISHA AS HER SOURCE AND HE REDIRECTED THAT AWAY FROM HIMSELF AND TAUGHT HER HOW TO BELIEVE GOD. AND BOY, THAT IS IMPORTANT. YOU LIMIT GOD IF YOU LOOK TO JUST YOUR JOB OR TO A LOAN OR TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT AS BEING YOUR SOURCE. MAN, GOD CAN BLESS YOU, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO APPROACH THINGS DIFFERENTLY AND QUIT DEPENDING UPON THE ARM OF FLESH AND INSTEAD GO TO BELIEVING GOD FOR YOUR NEEDS TO BE MET. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT, AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS THAT ELISHA SAID, WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR HAND? AND THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT YESTERDAY, THAT EVERY ONE OF US HAVE THINGS. GOD HAS GIVEN YOU WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MEET THE NEEDS IN YOUR LIFE. AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD... WE HAVE 3.2 BILLION PEOPLE THAT WATCH THIS OR HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF WATCHING THIS PROGRAM, AND MANY OF YOU ARE THINKING, OH NO, I'M POOR, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? EVERY ONE OF US
HAS OPPORTUNITY, WE JUST...WE HAVE
WRONG THINKING AND THINGS THAT HINDER US. FOR INSTANCE, YOU KNOW, ONE TIME I WAS IN INDIA, AND OF COURSE, IN INDIA THERE WAS A LOT OF POVERTY THERE. I THINK IT'S A LOT BETTER NOW THAN IT WAS BACK WHEN I WAS THERE. BUT WHEN I WAS THERE, THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WERE DEALING WITH EXTREME POVERTY AND TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THESE THINGS, AND YET, WHEN I WAS THERE, INDIA IS A RICH COUNTRY. IT HAS ALL THESE NATURAL RESOURCES. THERE'S ALL OF THIS MEAT ON THE HOOF WALKING RIGHT
DOWN THE STREETS. I WAS ACTUALLY IN A PLACE HOLDING A BIBLE STUDY WHERE A BRAHMA BULL WALKED IN TO THE HOUSE. THEY HAD THE DOORS OPEN, IT WAS HOT, AND THIS BRAHMA BULL WALKED INTO THE HOUSE AND EVERYBODY JUST GOT TO THE SIDE AND LET IT DO WHATEVER, BECAUSE THE HINDUS OVER THERE, OF COURSE, BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION AND THAT THIS COULD BE AUNT SUZY, UNCLE SAM OR WHATEVER, AND THEY WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING. BUT IT WAS THAT DOCTRINE THAT HELD THEM IN BONDAGE. THEY HAD PLENTY TO EAT AND YET SOME PEOPLE WERE STARVING BECAUSE OF A MINDSET THAT KEPT THEM FROM TAKING ADVANTAGE OF WHAT THEY HAVE. NOW THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE AND SOME PEOPLE MAY DISAGREE WITH THAT, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS WHAT THE LORD IS SAYING. ELISHA SAID, WHAT DO YOU HAVE? THIS WOMAN SAID, WELL, I'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF OIL, BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH. AND SEE, THIS IS JUST THE TENDENCY THAT WE HAVE. WE CURSE WHAT WE HAVE INSTEAD OF BLESSING IT. I TALKED ABOUT THAT YESTERDAY OUT OF MAT...MARK, CHAPTER 6, THAT JESUS TOOK WHAT THE DISCIPLES HAD CURSED, THE FIVE LOAVES AND THE TWO FISH, AND INSTEAD OF CURSING IT, HE BLESSED IT AND BEGAN TO BREAK IT, AND IT MULTIPLIED AND IT FED THE MULTITUDE AND
THEY HAD MORE LEFT OVER THAN WHEN THEY STARTED. WE NEED TO QUIT CURSING WHAT WE HAVE AND SAYING, IT'S NOT ENOUGH, AND START OPERATING IN FAITH AND SAYING, GOD, I KNOW YOU'VE GIVEN ME WHATEVER IT TAKES TO FULFILL THE PURPOSE THAT YOU HAVE FOR MY LIFE. I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE TIME RIGHT NOW TO TURN OVER THERE, BUT IF YOU WOULD TURN OVER TO GENESIS, CHAPTER 1, YOU'LL FIND OUT... I THINK IT'S IN VERSE 29, THAT THE LORD TOLD ADAM AND EVE, SAYS, I HAVE BLESSED YOU, I HAVE SUPPLIED ALL OF THESE THINGS AND YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE TREES TO EAT OF. MY POINT IS THAT GOD DIDN'T CREATE ADAM AND EVE AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN ADAM AND EVE SAID, GOD, I'M HUNGRY. AND GOD DIDN'T SAY, OH, I FORGOT ABOUT FEEDING YOU. HERE, LET ME CREATE FRUIT, LET ME CREATE ALL OF THIS FOOD. NO, GOD ANTICIPATED THEIR NEEDS AND HE CREATED THE SUPPLY BEFORE THE NEED EXISTED. HE DIDN'T WAIT UNTIL ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY NEEDED TO BREATHE AIR AND HE SAYS, WELL, I BETTER GIVE THEM SOME AIR. AND THEN HE CREATED AIR AND OXYGEN. NO, HE ANTICIPATED EVERY NEED AND ADAM AND EVE
HAD EVERYTHING CREATED FOR THEM BEFORE THEY EXISTED AND BEFORE THEIR NEED EXISTED. AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IT'S THE SAME THING WITH YOU AND ME. GOD HAS GIVEN US EVERYTHING THAT IT TAKES FOR US TO PROSPER, AND SOMEBODY SAYS, WELL NO, I DON'T HAVE IT. YES, YOU DO. YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING, AND YOU KNOW, I COULD... I COULD SPEND LITERALLY WEEKS OR MONTHS TRYING TO TEACH ON ALL OF THIS. BUT OUR TALENTS, OUR GIFTS, OUR ABILITIES, THERE ARE SOME OF YOU THAT JUST HAVE A WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE DON'T. YOU KNOW, WE SEE THIS A LOT IN THE ARTISTIC TYPES THAT THEY JUST SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY THAN
OTHER PEOPLE DO AND I BELIEVE IT'S A GOD GIVEN TALENT. I BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATES US WITH THESE CERTAIN BENTS TOWARDS THINGS, THESE CERTAIN TALENTS, AND YOU HAVE SOMETHING. YOU HAVE AN ABILITY. YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT OTHER PEOPLE DON'T HAVE, THAT IF YOU WOULD QUIT CURSING YOURSELF
AND INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE, LOOK AT WHAT YOU DO HAVE AND DISCOVER IT, GOD COULD MULTIPLY IT SUPERNATURALLY. YOU KNOW, I'M THINKING ABOUT PETER DANIELS, A MAN FROM AUSTRALIA, WHO...I DON'T REMEMBER ALL THE DETAILS, BUT IN HIS EARLY 20s, HE WAS BASICALLY A BUM LIVING ON THE STREETS, HAD NOTHING. I MEAN, LITERALLY LIVING ON THE STREET AND HE JUST DECIDED THAT HE WAS GOING TO CHANGE, AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID? HE STARTED STUDYING THE LIVES OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE AND HE STARTED READING BOOKS AND THROUGH THAT HE LEARNED HABITS AND HE BROUGHT HIMSELF OUT OF POVERTY AND HE BEGAN TO START TO PROSPER. AND NOW THE MAN TRAVELS AND HE MAKES HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR ONE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT, AND THE MAN IS VERY WEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS AND HE HAD SOMETHING. HE HAD A MIND, HE HAD A...A WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE DIDN'T, AND HE TOOK THAT AND PARLAYED IT TO WHERE NOW HE'S A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE. AND DID YOU KNOW, EVERY PERSON WATCHING THIS PROGRAM, I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE, I DON'T CARE WHAT COUNTRY YOU LIVE IN. SOME PEOPLE THINK, OH, THIS WILL ONLY WORK IN AMERICA. IT'LL WORK ANYWHERE. I JUST HEARD A STORY ABOUT SOMEONE IN, I THINK IT WAS NIGERIA, THAT HAS BUILT A 50,000-SEAT AUDITORIUM WITHOUT AMERICAN MONEY. IT'S HIS PEOPLE. HE'S TAUGHT THEM
HOW TO PROSPER, THEY'VE PAID FOR IT, AND THEY'RE NOW IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING, I THINK IT'S A HUNDRED THOUSAND SEAT AUDITORIUM AND THEY'RE DOING IT ALL WITH THAT LOCAL ECONOMY. THIS WILL WORK IN ANY COUNTRY. IT'LL WORK ANYWHERE IF YOU QUIT CURSING YOURSELF AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE. BUT SEE, IT'S JUST HUMAN NATURE TO LOOK AT WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE. IT'S HUMAN NATURE TO...TO BE DISCOURAGED,
TO BE DEPRESSED. IT TAKES FAITH TO SAY, I'VE GOT SOMETHING. I'VE GOT SOMETHING THAT I CAN USE. I'VE GOT SOMETHING THAT'LL MEET THIS NEED. THERE'S SOMETHING GOD HAS GIVEN ME. THERE'S A TALENT, THERE'S AN ABILITY. YOU KNOW, SOME OF YOU ARE JUST STRUGGLING. YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU'VE GOT THE ABILITY TO BE FRIENDLY TO PEOPLE. IF YOU WOULD QUIT THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF AND INSTEAD SAY, I'M GOING TO GO OUT AND HELP SOMEBODY ELSE WHO NEEDS A FRIEND. AND IF YOU WOULD GO OUT AND START SOWING AND BLESSING OTHER PEOPLE, YOU WOULD REAP WHAT YOU SOW. THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, TO HAVE FRIENDS,
A MAN MUST SHOW HIMSELF FRIENDLY. ONE OF THE REASONS SOME OF YOU ARE LACKING IN THE AREA OF FRIENDS IS BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF. YOU'RE LIKE A VACUUM CLEANER THAT JUST SUCKS EVERYTHING TOWARDS YOURSELF. YOU AREN'T GIVING ANYTHING OUT. IF YOU NEED FRIENDS, GO BE A FRIEND. IF YOU NEED HEALING, GO BE HEALING. GO OUT AND PRAY FOR SOMEBODY. FIND SOMEBODY THAT HAS THE EXACT SAME THING THAT YOU NEED TO BE HEALED OF AND GO TO PRAYING FOR THEM. AND THERE'S A LOT OF YOU THAT THINK, WELL, WHY WOULD I DO THAT? IT'S NOT EVEN WORKING FOR ME. HOW CAN I GIVE IT AWAY? YOU KNOW WHAT, IF YOU WOULD GIVE WHAT YOU HAVE AND START PRAYING FOR OTHERS, IT MULTIPLIES. THE BIBLE SAYS, LUKE 6:38, GIVE, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU. GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN TOGETHER, AND RUNNING OVER, SHALL MEN GIVE INTO YOUR BOSOM. FOR WITH THE SAME MEASURE THAT...YOU METE WITHAL IT SHALL BE MEASURED TO YOU AGAIN. AND SO IF YOU NEED HEALING, YOU CAN ACTUALLY MULTIPLY YOUR OWN FAITH FOR YOUR OWN HEALING BY GIVING IT TO OTHER PEOPLE AND THEN IT'LL COME BACK TO YOU ON EVERY WAVE. YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH SOME THINGS ABOUT MY EYESIGHT AND... AND PRAY, AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS... THIS BIBLE'S GOT SMALL PRINT AND PRAISE GOD, I CAN READ IT, BUT I'M SAYING IT'S NOT AS CLEAR AS IT NEEDS TO BE. SO ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE DOING IS FIND SOMEBODY ELSE
WHO NEEDS PRAYER FOR THEIR EYES. AND MAN, I'LL GO TO POURING MY FAITH INTO THEM AND PRAYING FOR THEIR EYESIGHT TO BE GOOD. BELIEVING THAT AS I GIVE, IT'S COMING BACK UNTO ME. SEE, THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. HE TOLD THIS WOMAN, WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR HANDS? WHAT DO YOU HAVE? AND SHE HAD JUST A LITTLE BIT IN COMPARISON TO WHAT THE NEED WAS, BUT DID YOU KNOW, LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT. GOD CAN MULTIPLY SOMETHING. YOU MAY NOT FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE GREAT TALENTS OR ABILITIES, BUT I'M TELLING YOU THAT GOD NEVER CREATED A DUD. THERE'S NOT A PERSON WATCHING THIS PROGRAM... I DON'T CARE WHAT COUNTRY YOU'RE LIVING IN. I DON'T CARE HOW POOR YOU ARE. I DON'T CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID AND HOW THEY'VE DISCOUNTED YOU, AND MARGINALIZED YOU, GOD HAS PUT SOMETHING IN YOUR HAND THAT YOU CAN USE TO MULTIPLY. NOW ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HINDERS PEOPLE IS BECAUSE SOMETIMES, LIKE THIS WOMAN, SHE SAYS, OH, I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF OIL. BUT IT WAS ONLY GOING TO LAST FOR A FEW DAYS AND SHE...YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T GOING TO MEET THE NEED AND SHE WAS JUST SAYING, I HAVE A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT'S NOT MUCH. YOU NEED TO QUIT DISCOUNTING WHAT GOD HAS DONE IN YOUR LIFE. MAN, I COULD PREACH ANOTHER SERIES RIGHT HERE. I'VE GOT THIS TEACHING ENTITLED, TAKING THE LIMITS OFF OF GOD, AND THE LORD SPOKE TO ME IN... JANUARY THE 31ST OF 2002, AND TOLD ME I WAS LIMITING HIM BY MY SMALL THINKING. I WASN'T LETTING GOD BE MAGNIFIED IN MY LIFE. I WAS OPERATING IN FEAR OF PEOPLE. I WAS LETTING PAST HARDSHIPS AND FAILURES LIMIT MY FUTURE AND WHAT I COULD DO, AND I MEAN, IT WAS A BIG DEAL. IT'S PROBABLY THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT ENCOUNTER THAT I'VE EVER HAD WITH THE LORD. AND AS I BEGAN TO START TAKING THE LIMITS OFF GOD, AND INSTEAD OF CURSING WHAT I AM AND WHAT I HAVE, I BEGAN TO START SAYING, FATHER, I... YOU KNOW, IF I WAS GOD, I WOULDN'T HAVE CHOSEN ME. I'M NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER. I DON'T HAVE ANY DELUSIONS ABOUT ME BEING THE GREATEST COMMUNICATOR OR ANYTHING, BUT I AM CALLED OF GOD. I'VE HAD AN EXPERIENCE WITH GOD. GOD HAS TOLD ME THINGS, AND I KNEW THINGS THAT I JUST WOULDN'T ALLOW MYSELF TO SEE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, CIRCUMSTANCES, PEOPLE AND THINGS HAD JUST KIND OF BEAT ME DOWN, AND I MADE A DECISION I WAS GOING TO TAKE THE LIMITS OFF GOD. AND WHAT I STARTED DOING WAS RECOGNIZING THAT, GOD, I MAY NOT BE THE MOST TALENTED OR THE BEST LOOKING PERSON OR WHATEVER. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M A PERSON THAT YOU'VE CALLED. I'VE GOT YOU WITH ME. I'VE GOT YOUR ANOINTING. YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO ME, AND BECAUSE OF THAT THAT'S MORE THAN ENOUGH TO GET DONE WHAT I NEED TO DO. AND SINCE THAT TIME MY MINISTRY HAS JUST EXPLODED. THE INCOME HAS EXPLODED. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WE ARE IMPACTING HAS EXPLODED. I MEAN, WE HAVE GROWN A MINIMUM OF 15, 20, 30%... 30 TIMES OVER WHAT WE WERE BEFORE AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE I QUIT CURSING WHAT I HAD AND LOOKING AT WHAT I DIDN'T HAVE, AND I STARTED BLESSING WHAT I HAD. I'M TELLING YOU THAT BEFORE YOU EVER HAD THE NEED, GOD HAS ANTICIPATED IT AND INSIDE OF EVERY ONE OF YOU...I WISH SOMEHOW I COULD TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND CONVINCE YOU, TRY AND GET PAST YOUR CULTURE THAT SAYS, OH NO, WE CAN'T PROSPER. WE LIVE IN A GRASS HUT, WE LIVE IN THIS CULTURE WHERE IT'S NOT A DEMOCRACY, IT'S NOT FREEDOM. THOSE THINGS DO NOT LIMIT GOD. YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN LIMIT GOD. AND IF YOU BUY INTO THE LIE THAT SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIVE IN ONE OF THE MAJOR COUNTRIES, BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN OPPRESSIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT OR SOMETHING THAT THAT IS GOING TO STOP YOU. YOU'RE THE ONE WHO STOPS THE POWER OF GOD, BUT THOSE THINGS CAN'T STOP GOD. GOD HAS ANTICIPATED WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS WILL BE. HE HAS A PURPOSE FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON WATCHING THIS. AND WHATEVER IT TAKES TO ACCOMPLISH GOD'S PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE HAS ALREADY BEEN CREATED. IT'S ALREADY SUPPLIED. IT MAY BE IN SEED FORM, BUT IT'S ALL THERE, AND IF YOU WOULD QUIT CURSING YOURSELF
AND YOUR LACK, AND INSTEAD GO TO BLESSING WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR HAND AND USE IT, GOD WOULD MULTIPLY IT AND WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS ARE WOULD BE SUPPLIED. SO THIS WOMAN, WHEN SHE RESPONDED, ELISHA SAID, TELL ME, WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR HOUSE? SAYS, THY HANDMAID HATH NOT ANY THING IN THE HOUSE, SAVE A POT OF OIL. AND HE SAID, GO, BORROW THEE VESSELS ABROAD OF ALL THY NEIGHBOURS, EVEN EMPTY VESSELS. BORROW NOT A FEW. AND WHEN THOU ART COME IN, THOU SHALT SHUT THE DOOR UPON THEE AND UPON THY SONS, AND SHALT POUR OUT INTO ALL THOSE VESSELS, AND THOU SHALT SET ASIDE THAT WHICH IS FULL. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE MEANING HERE WAS OBVIOUS. THIS WOMAN SAID, ALL I'VE GOT IS A TINY BIT OF OIL. AND WHAT SHE HAD WOULDN'T EVEN FILL UP ONE POT. FOR HER TO GO BORROW MULTIPLE POTS, MANY POTS, IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THIS OIL WAS GOING TO MULTIPLY. THAT'S WHAT ELIJAH WAS PROPHESYING. AND DID YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS COMPLETELY UNNATURAL. IT WOULD TAKE A MIRACLE OF GOD. IN THE NATURAL, WITHOUT GOD'S INTERVENTION, HER LITTLE BIT OF OIL DIDN'T EVEN FILL ONE POT. IT CERTAINLY WOULDN'T FILL 50 POTS OR HOWEVER MANY THAT SHE BORROWED. SO IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT ELISHA WAS PROPHESYING THAT GOD WAS GOING TO MULTIPLY THIS OIL. AS SHE TOOK WHAT SHE HAD AND BEGAN TO POUR IT OUT, IT WAS GOING TO BE MULTIPLIED, AND YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS WOMAN, SHE HAD THE OPTION OF JUST BLOWING OFF WHAT ELISHA SAID. SHE FIRST OF ALL CAME WANTING ELISHA TO MEET HER NEED, BUT WHEN HE DIDN'T PULL HIS WALLET OUT, AND INSTEAD HE PROPHESIED TO HER AND GAVE HER SOMETHING TO DO THAT WOULD MAKE GOD SUPERNATURALLY HER SUPPLY AND GOD WOULD FLOW THROUGH HER, SHE COULD HAVE JUST SAID, THIS IS CRAZY. THERE IS NO WAY THAT THIS OIL IS GOING TO MULTIPLY. AND SHE COULD
HAVE FORGOTTEN IT AND SHE COULD HAVE WALKED OFF. AND LET ME SAY THIS DIRECTLY TO YOU, BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WATCHING THIS
PROGRAM RIGHT NOW THAT YOU COULD TOTALLY DISMISS WHAT I'M SAYING AND YOU COULD SAY, OH THIS GUY ON TELEVISION, WHAT DOES HE KNOW? HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHERE I LIVE. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND MY SITUATION. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND...AND YOU COULD JUST BLOW THIS OFF. YOU COULD DISCOUNT IT AND YOU COULD WALK AWAY AND CONTINUE TO HAVE YOUR PROBLEMS, BUT I'M SPEAKING TO YOU. I BELIEVE THAT GOD IMPRESSED THIS ON MY HEART. I'M SPEAKING TO YOU IN THE WORD OF THE LORD, JUST AS SURELY AS ELISHA SPOKE TO THIS WIDOW. AND I'M TELLING YOU, THAT IF YOU WOULD TAKE A PORTION OF WHAT YOU'VE GOT AND INSTEAD OF USING IT ALL FOR YOURSELF, BEGIN TO START POURING IT OUT. AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST A ONETIME THING. THIS HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT IS DONE DELIBERATELY AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER. PERSONALLY, I BELIEVE THAT YOU REALLY START SEEING YOUR MIRACULOUS MULTIPLICATION WHEN YOU START GIVING ON A...ON A DELIBERATE, CONSISTENT BASIS. IN 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 16, PAUL SAID FOR EVERYONE TO SET ASIDE ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AS GOD HAS PROSPERED THEM. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT MONEY, AND HE SAYS IT NEEDS TO BE DONE ON A CONSISTENT, FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, ON A DELIBERATE, REGULAR BASIS. THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WILL GIVE A LITTLE SOMETHING. WHAT I CALL EMOTIONAL GIVING. BUT THAT'S NOT GOING TO PRODUCE THE SAME RESULTS AS PEOPLE WHO JUST MAKE A COMMITMENT AND EVERY TIME THEY GET MONEY, THEY'RE GOING TO SET ASIDE A PORTION. AND THEY'RE GOING TO SOW IT AND THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE SOMETHING. YOU KNOW, TO ME, IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUST TAKING SEED AND THROWING IT AND YOU THROW IT EVERYWHERE AND IT LANDS ON HARD GROUND AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR COME AND EAT IT UP. AND THEN THERE'S THORNS AND THINGS. YOU AREN'T GOING TO HAVE THE SAME RETURN
OFF OF THAT SEED AS IF YOU WERE TO PLOW AND MAKE A FURROW, AND THEN SPACE YOUR SEEDS AND DO IT ON A... A DELIBERATE BASIS AND SPACE IT OUT. YOU WILL GET A HUNDRED TIMES MORE RE...RETURN OFF OF YOUR SOWING SEED THAN IF YOU JUST THROW IT OUT THERE. PEOPLE WHO JUST GIVE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE ARE KIND OF LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT JUST THROW SEEDS. YOU MAY HAVE SOMETHING COME BACK, BUT YOU AREN'T GOING TO SEE THE FULL MANIFESTATION. IF YOU WANT TO SEE A MIRACULOUS MULTIPLICATION OF THE SEED THAT YOU SOW, YOU NEED TO GIVE ON A REGULAR, DELIBERATE BASIS. I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. SO, THIS WOMAN, INSTEAD OF JUST DISCOUNTING WHAT ELISHA SAID, SHE WENT AND DID WHAT HE SAID TO DO. I'M SAYING TO YOU, I'M...I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS PUT THIS ON MY HEART AND I'M SAYING TO YOU IN THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT EVERY ONE OF YOU HAVE SOMETHING. YOU MAY THINK, WELL, IT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR MY NEED. TAKE YOUR ATTENTION OFF OF YOUR NEED RIGHT NOW AND LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL THAT'S IN YOUR HAND! GOD HAS PROMISED THAT IF YOU WILL TAKE MONEY AND SOW IT, YOU WILL RECEIVE
A HUNDRED TIMES AS MUCH IN THIS LIFE. NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT IN THE FUTURE, BUT IN THIS LIFE. LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL! YOU KNOW, SOME OF YOU, WELL, I DON'T HAVE MUCH. OH, I MEAN, IF I WAS TO GIVE $5 A MONTH, THAT WOULD BE A HUGE AMOUNT. WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I BELIEVE YOU PROBABLY HAVE MORE THAN THAT. DID YOU KNOW THAT THAT'S ONLY... I DON'T KNOW, THAT'S LESS THAN TEN CENTS A DAY. OR EXCUSE ME, A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN TEN CENTS A DAY. I GUESS TEN CENTS A DAY WOULD BE SOMEWHERE AROUND
THREE DOLLARS. SO IT MIGHT BE FIFTEEN CENTS A DAY. DON'T YOU HAVE FIFTEEN CENTS A DAY FAITH? IF YOU WERE TO TAKE EVEN THAT AND GIVE, LET'S SAY FIVE OR TEN DOLLARS A MONTH, WHICH MANY OF YOU SPEND MORE THAN THAT ON STARBUCKS. TO SAY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE IT IS INCORRECT. YOU DO HAVE IT, IT'S JUST THE WAY THAT WE CHOOSE TO USE IT. BUT IF YOU WOULD QUIT LOOKING AT WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE AND THE NEED AND YOU WOULD SAY, FATHER, I'VE GOT SOMETHING. AND IF YOU WOULD GO TO PLANTING IT, AND AGAIN, I BELIEVE DOING IT ON A MONTHLY, CONSISTENT BASIS. IF YOU WERE TO
BECOME A PARTNER, DID YOU KNOW THAT, MAN, THAT WOULD BEGIN TO GROW AND MULTIPLY AND WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME YOU WOULD HAVE MORE THAN WHAT YOU NEED? EVERY ONE OF US HAS SOMETHING IN OUR HAND. GOD HAS GIVEN US SOMETHING, AND I'M SAYING THIS IN THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND I PRAY THAT YOU DON'T DISCOUNT IT AS THIS WIDOW COULD HAVE, BUT INSTEAD SHE BELIEVED THE MAN OF GOD. SHE WENT AND DID SOMETHING THAT IN THE NATURAL WAS FOOLISH. THERE ARE MANY OF YOU THAT THINK, MAN, WHAT IS MY $5 A MONTH GOING TO MAKE? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT MY NEED IS. YOU KNOW, I TALK IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, ALL THE THINGS THAT WE NEED, BUT I'M TALKING TO YOU ABOUT WHAT YOUR NEED IS. YOU KNOW, IF YOU TAKE $5 AND MULTIPLY IT TIMES A HUNDRED TIMES, THAT'S $500 THAT YOU ARE GOING TO RECEIVE IN THIS LIFE AND THEN YOU TAKE $50 OFF OF THAT $500 AND PLANT IT. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT'S NOW $5,000. AND YOU TAKE...WHAT IS THAT? FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS OFF OF THAT AND PLANT IT, AND NOW YOU'VE GOT $50,000, AND WITHIN A FEW CYCLES OF THIS, YOU COULD BEGIN TO SEE POVERTY BROKEN. BUT YOU NEED TO TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE AND INSTEAD OF CURSING IT, YOU NEED TO START SOWING IT. YOU NEED TO START OBEYING THE WORD OF GOD. YOU NEED TO OBEY THIS WORD THAT I BELIEVE GOD HAS GIVEN ME FOR YOU AND GOD IS TELLING YOU TO START TAKING WHAT YOU'VE GOT AND INSTEAD OF EATING ALL OF YOUR SEED, PLANT SOME OF IT. MAN, THIS IS FOR YOUR BENEFIT. I KNOW THAT THERE'S PEOPLE WHO THINK, WELL, YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO GET MY MONEY. YOU KNOW WHAT, I CAN'T CONVINCE YOU OF ANYTHING. I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO TRY. I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS SPOKEN THIS TO ME. I'M PERSONALLY DOING THIS EXACT SAME THING WITH MY LIFE AND MINISTRY AND I'M SHARING THIS BECAUSE GOD TOLD ME THAT IT'LL WORK FOR YOU. SO I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO RESPOND TO THIS. NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE SOME PRODUCT TEACHING FROM 2 KINGS, CHAPTER 4, BUT I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO GIVE. YOU KNOW, IF YOU DON'T GIVE TO ME, GIVE TO YOUR CHURCH, BUT YOU NEED TO GIVE TO SOMETHING CONSISTENTLY. IT NEEDS TO BE A PARTNERSHIP, AND I TELL YOU, WE'RE REACHING A LOT OF PEOPLE. I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO'VE WATCHED THIS PROGRAM AND YET YOU'VE NEVER PARTNERED WITH US. YOU NEED TO START TAKING A PORTION WHATEVER IT IS AND START GIVING. <i>♪ MUSIC ♪</i> >> ON OCTOBER 28TH THROUGH THE 30TH MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND THE 2021 WOMEN
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STUDENT HOUSING THAT WE'VE GOT A PRELIMINARY DRAWING OF THAT IS SHOWING YOU A LITTLE IDEA OF WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE. THIS ONE WOULD HOUSE ABOUT 120 PEOPLE. OUR OTHERS ARE GOING TO BE SMALLER WITH MAYBE SOMEWHERE AROUND 40 PEOPLE PER DORM, BUT WE NEED THIS STUDENT HOUSING, AND WE NEED PEOPLE TO BECOME PARTNERS. I'M BELIEVING FOR 10,000 NEW PARTNERS. I WOULD ASK YOU TO PRAY ABOUT IT AND IF THE LORD SAYS SO, JOIN WITH US AND HELP US CHANGE PEOPLE'S LIVES THROUGH CHARIS BIBLE COLLEGE. <i>♪ MUSIC ♪</i> <i>♪ MUSIC ♪</i> >> FIND OUT HOW GOD CAN TAKE WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE IN YOUR HAND AND TURN IT INTO HIS PROVISION FOR YOUR LIFE BY GETTING ANDREW’S COMPLETE TEACHING TITLED <i>WHAT'S IN YOUR HAND?</i> IT'S AVAILABLE AS A SPECIAL RESOURCE
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