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Lot of water in this and one 
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and this just came to me before.
That little thing is often this 

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little thing and God wants to do
something amazing, but because 

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of our stinking, thinking, wrong
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blocking the flow of God. 
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hope You've seen the theme with 
what passes Rages did with our 

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tithes and offerings. 
We're going to break this open. 

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We're going to reform, get some 
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this starts to move. 
You know what's about to happen 

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as we shift. 
It starts with the drop, then 

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financial blessing, and then the
sound guy just gets a bit upset.

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It's OK, we'll pass the right 
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Church is I just use it. 
You know, water we often refer 

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to as Holy Spirit. 
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money. 
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See, because God wants to do 
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Spirit moves in all power and 
authority. 

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But that comes through you and 
I, and I'll prove this in a 

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moment through the Scriptures. 
It's found in the very first 

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book, first chapter of our 
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And so God created man and women
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everything. 
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that's not talking about money. 
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started with animals, trade 
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And so he said we as the church 
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dominion over all things of the 
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Why? 
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get here, this when we have 
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outworked through his creation, 
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And so although the the bottle 
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Holy Spirit, I'm not saying we 
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But what I'm saying is God's 
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I, and you've heard this saying 
before, if he can get it through

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you, he will get it to you. 
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and scarcity because God can't 
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of the lid on the bottle. 
And today, in this month, we are

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going to change the way we look 
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these messages once a year when 
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home. 
But this is going to be the best

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season of the church every year 
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these things. 
We learn the power to use these 

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things to see God's will 
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Let me tell you, it starts with 
a miracle service flyer that we 

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have to pay for the ink in our 
printer because I don't get them

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professionally printed. 
I do it myself. 

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It's to save money. 
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where it's not just paying the 
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whole mission of what we do in 
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She rescue home doesn't pay for 
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project doesn't pay for itself. 
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Everything we do, We got 
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Friday night. 
It's it doesn't pay for itself. 

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But we are transforming the 
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And we're at a point at the as a
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longer with the limited finances
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We have to get into alignment 
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the shirts should be tithing and
when we all tithe 10%, if you 

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work, you should be tithing 
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It's not even about obedience. 
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law, Old Testament, New 
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worship. 
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when we realise, like we saw in 
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giving back to God. 
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Because if he can get it through
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Does this that make sense? 
And listen, if he can get it 

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through you, then you get to 
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That's called overflow, Amen. 
And so if you can get it through

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my life, I get to live in that 
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Isn't that amazing? 
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is about S church. 
Can we declare out loud today? 

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My heart is open, my ears are 
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I'm going to change and grow and
never be the same in Jesus 

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mighty name, Amen. 
Please be seated. 

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I had to keep some in there. 
Today's message I want to talk 

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about the spirit of scarcity and
we're going to look at breaking 

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the scarcity spirit now it's 
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Often when we think of this, we 
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when we think, you know, 
breaking this spirit over the 

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community. 
But the reality is, is I want to

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break it over my own life. 
And so because I realise that as

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it is broken as scarcity and 
poverty and and this whole 

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mindset and spiritual thing that
allow around my world, as I 

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stand in faith and break it, I 
show other people how to break 

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it for their own lives. 
And as the blessing comes 

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through my life, my prayer is, 
is that people would pick that 

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up and see the same breakthrough
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But if we do this collectively 
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effective it has on the 
community and imagine if every 

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church is walking in this, which
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we're all just breaking the 
spiritual, like, like hovering 

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thing over our lives and over 
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The church will just come out 
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know, thing within us to see 
change and transformation, to be

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an answer to our world, not just
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The Bible says be in the world, 
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And so we need to lead society, 
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Does that make sense? 
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we can change the way Caboolture
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way from Bribie all and listen 
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You just heard me right now. 
Just expanded the tent. 

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So there's a, there's a book 
that we, as you know, the 

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platform team are going through 
and all the leadership will 

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start to go through shortly 
called God, Money and Me and 

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it's Paul by Paul Dejong. 
And can I encourage you, if 

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you're a note taker today or 
just grab your phone out, just 

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quickly write that down. 
You can listen to this book on 

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Audible. 
God Money and me, God, Money and

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Me by Paul Dejong. 
And this is a transformational 

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book, audio audio book. 
Or you can order it. 

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And it just completely unpacks 
the Bible and all of its stories

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and its financial verses and 
just breeds light on it so that 

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we can understand, get our heads
around it a little bit, but also

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bring ourselves back into 
alignment. 

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Because the reality is as life 
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the the church evolves through 
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the the reality is we always got
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alignment with the word of God 
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Does that make sense? 
And so this book will really 

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help you do that. 
It's a great tool for this. 

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I've got 2 scriptures that I 
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Psalms 23 verse one, just one 
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The Lord is my shepherd. 
I shall not once when we follow 

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the shepherd, we no longer have 
wants in our lives. 

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Philippians 419 And my God shall
supply all my needs, all your 

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needs according to his riches 
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God doesn't supply all your 
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Thank you Jesus, thank you God. 
Listen, but you got to listen. 

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You got to hear that God doesn't
supply the needs you have in 

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your life according to the 
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That's not what the Scripture is
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And so today we're going to 
learn how to break this open by 

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5 points. 
I'll have coming up in a moment.

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Today I want to talk about 
something that quietly effects 

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many, many believers. 
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Not just lack of money, but a 
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striving and never feeling 
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Scarcity is often spiritual 
Before it's practical, it's 

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spiritual. 
And then we listen to it, then 

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we Stew on it. 
So now it's wobbling around in 

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our brains. 
And as you Stew on these things,

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lack of money coming in this 
week, too many bills, look at 

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society, look at what the 
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We're giving away all of our car
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What's going on in Australia? 
Where's our oil, you know, 

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factories. 
And we, we Stew on these things.

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And what happens is as you Stew,
you start to see all the 

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problems and you start to blame.
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becomes a heart issue. 
And So what happens spiritually 

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in the world around culture? 
OK, we as the church listen to 

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Channel 9 every night and we 
Stew on it, and then it comes 

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down and starts to dictate and 
influence our doctrine and our 

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core belief system. 
There are many people who earn 

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enough but still feel trapped. 
They constantly worry, 

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constantly compare, and 
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They may have provision in their
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hearts. 
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that money is never just about 
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And this is what we are getting 
to the bottom of over this, this

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month and next month. 
It exposes trust. 

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It reveals belief systems and it
uncovers where our security 

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truly sits. 
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how does that re reveal my 
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Well, when the bill comes in, do
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the money for that just revealed
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So if I go back to the other 
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we aren't dictated to by the the
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riches and his glory. 
And so we know what's dictating 

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to us by our response to the 
situations around us and the 

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things that come into our world.
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Our response to that shows who 
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our life. 
The issue is not always what is 

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your bank account? 
The deeper issue is often, what 

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thoughts have I believed about 
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I'm not a prosperity preacher, 
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be walking in prosperity. 
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Lack thinking sounds like 
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I'm always behind. 
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not me. 
I'll never get ahead. 

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I have to protect myself because
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That's not the language of 
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It's the language of slavery. 
I'm getting like today, any sons

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in the house, women you can put 
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That means you. 
We are sons and daughters of the

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supplier of all our needs 
according to His riches and 

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glory. 
That's who my Father is. 

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Amen. 
Let's look at five thoughts from

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Scripture and reframe our 
thinking and our belief systems 

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today about how God wants us to 
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When we talk in the church about
money, about finances and about 

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tithing, your spirit needs to 
leap with joy because what we 

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are saying is, hey, church, 
we're going to craft how we're 

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going to use these things in our
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to obtain bigger houses and more
riches and and best cars and all

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of this. 
It's not to line our pockets, 

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but it's to see more of earth go
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It's to influence our world for 
good and for God #1 The shepherd

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breaks scarcity, David says in 
Psalms 23. 

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One, the Lord is my shepherd, 
and I shall not once notice 

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David connects provision to 
relationship. 

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The Lord is my shepherd. 
Before David mentions provision,

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peace or protection, he 
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Who is leading him. 
He always runs back to the the 

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Lord is my provider. 
The Lord is my protector. 

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The Lord is my shield. 
I shall not once. 

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When God is your shepherd, fear 
loses its authority and lack 

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loses its authority over your 
life. 

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Scarcity thrives wherever trust 
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God never intended money to 
become a master or our source of

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identity. 
Money is a tool, but God is the 

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source. 
That's good, isn't it? 

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Money, Church is our tool. 
It's what we use to do things, 

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to work on planet earth, to feed
our our families, yes, but also 

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to outwork the mission. 
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businesses, just because you 
have money coming through, you 

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aren't the source. 
God is the source of the 

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blessing. 
The money coming through is the 

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tools to outwork the mission of 
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If you're in this place and 
you've got above the average 

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income in your world, don't 
think that your own hands are 

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making your wealth. 
You've got to remember who the 

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source always is. 
And when we forget the source, 

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the things our hands are making 
will start to weary and go dim 

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in our lives. 
This is true in your life and in

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the church as well. 
Many believers say God is my 

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provider, but emotionally they 
live as though everything 

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depends entirely on themselves 
and on the bank balance. 

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We do this, don't we? 
Like like we don't want to talk 

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about money, but we leave every 
single day getting our phone 

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out, checking the Commonwealth 
app or the the the NAB app Don't

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we do this at least once to 
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You go to get a coffee. 
What comes out first, making 

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sure money is in the right 
account. 

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Everything we do on planet 
Earth, your rent, your fuel, 

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which you need a lot of money in
that account at the moment, your

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diesel, what everything you do, 
if you're having a birthday, 

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someone's paying for that cake 
and you want extra money for the

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candles, right? 
It's a literally everything we 

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do. 
We look so good here today 

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because we all have haircuts, 
right? 

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It costs money. 
Just everything we brushed our 

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teeth. 
I've smelt your breath this 

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morning. 
I said hi there, so many people,

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we all brushed our teeth. 
Toothpaste, money. 

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Money is everything all the time
in our world. 

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We need to switch the tables and
start to have dominion over it 

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rather than it having dominion 
over us. 

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It's telling us what our 
shopping is like too much. 

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We need to start to tell it what
we are going to shop like. 

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Does that make sense it we need 
to tell it with the church 

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should not struggle for miracle 
Flyers, but we should be going. 

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We are getting professionally 
done miracle Flyers so that we 

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can use our printer for the 
other things for youth on Friday

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night because they needed it as 
well. 

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Our resources. 
We should never have a lack. 

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Did you know I don't know if 
you've ever done that. 

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I would love you to do this if 
you would do this. 

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Go home and just say in this 
auditorium today there's 

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probably, I don't know, 220 
people and there's about 55 

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kids. 
So if there's 220 people, you've

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got to think there's about 180 
people in this auditorium right 

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now who actually work, get the 
award wage on 180 people and do 

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what the tithe is, right? 
And then if you look at that and

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then you get a small Church of 
50 people, OK, And then you work

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out, probably 40 of those people
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So they would be tithing if 
we're following the principles 

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of the scriptures. 
And then if you get a mega 

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Church of 3000 people, OK, and 
maybe 2200 something like that 

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are working, and then you work 
out their tithe according to the

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minimum wage. 
What you will realise is God's 

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plan of the tithe works whether 
you're a fifty person church or 

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whether you're a 10,000 person 
church with all their expenses 

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and bills and everything in the 
mission that they're trying to 

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do. 
Because 10,000 people churches 

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do crazy things like build homes
and schools in Cambodia, right? 

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Well, 50 people churches do 
crazy things for their church 

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like print out flies and get 
signs for services coming up and

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things like that to impact their
community and do breakfasts and 

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all that sort of stuff. 
The reality is, is the church 

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tithed because only about 2.5% 
of the average church does 

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tithe. 
If the church typed, which 

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should be around 80% for 
workers, the church would have 

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so much money right That no 
matter the size church bills 

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would never be an issue. 
Staffing in proportion to sizing

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would never be an issue and we 
would be doing the the missional

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things that God places on the 
heart of the pastor because that

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works within the size and the 
next era of where the church 

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which is currently at. 
That's just if the church tide 

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that's not with offerings on top
offerings is like faith, love, 

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hope that we're coming around 
right now it's an offering 

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season where we go. 
You know what God on all of our 

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increase. 
We're going to give you more on 

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an increase. 
Why Because my hands didn't 

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bring the increase your blessing
and favour brought my increase. 

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Does this make sense? 
I would love you just around the

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table. 
Get your kids and get the 

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calculators out and do these 
sumps and you will see where the

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church worldwide currently is AT
and why the church should be 

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having dominion over the earth. 
But right now, governments have 

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dominion over the earth. 
But the church is where the 

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money should be flowing out of 
where schools should be flowing 

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out of where universities should
be flowing. 

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Does this make sense? 
This is God's plan. 

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And so in the book of Genesis, 
when he he said a man have 

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dominion over the earth, this is
what he was talking about. 

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But it requires our partnership 
with his plan and his model. 

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Does this make sense? 
And so This is why this should 

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be an exciting time of year for 
you and I. 

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So how do we change? 
We change by changing who we 

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trust. 
You overcome scarcity when you 

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stop looking first to the 
economy. 

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And I'm blown away. 
I'm blown away. 

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We all know that Mel and I just 
sold their house. 

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The market has shifted in the 
last probably 3 months according

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to fuel prices, what fuel has 
dictated to the market. 

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But when you stop looking at the
economy and keep looking at his 

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economy. 
Now when I read his streets are 

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made of gold, the Bible says he 
prepares a mansion for you and I

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all of us, we have a mansion. 
I can't wait to see what this 

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all looks like in the end. 
But if he's got that level of, 

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you know, he just walks on gold,
you know, it's see through gold,

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by the way, if you read the Book
of Revelation. 

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So it's the purest of pure and 
there's gems that this is the 

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world we're going to live in or 
the heavenly world in which 

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Father God lives in. 
When we realise that why would 

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we ever bring our economy level 
down to earths when we can walk 

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in that? 
Does this make sense? 

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But we've got to work finance 
out. 

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We've got to work budgeting out 
for this to to happen. 

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We overcome scarcity when we 
stop looking first at culture 

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and we stop looking first to 
your fears, to your fears and 

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start anchoring your confidence 
in the shepherd. 

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You know the the great thing 
about a shepherd is a shepherd 

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leads the sheep. 
A shepherd doesn't just sit 

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there and have a pity party with
the sheep. 

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Shepherds understand what the 
sheep is going through but 

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doesn't grovel in the mess. 
Shepherds have a greater vision 

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of the future. 
Shepherds know where you're 

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going even when we don't know 
when where we're going. 

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See, Jesus is our shepherd. 
And when it comes to to money 

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and to finance and to budgeting 
and all all of this, he is our 

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shepherd on which we lean even 
in this area of our life, not 

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just for salvation, but for all 
areas of our life. 

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Why would we lean on him? 
Because he knows what he has in 

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our future. 
We've just got to learn to 

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follow or in other words, walk 
in that future that God has 

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prepared for us. 
He's a practical change. 

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Replace fear language with faith
language rather than allowing 

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yourself say, I'll never get 
ahead. 

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Nothing ever changes for me or 
I'm stuck. 

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I'm just stuck in this. 
Well, I'm stuck in this job. 

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And while I'm stuck in the job, 
we're just stuck in this 

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financial realm. 
My kids are stuck in that 

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school. 
You know, I'm just stuck. 

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Or you might say my future is 
not controlled by fear or 

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uncertainty any longer. 
Let's start declaring God is 

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leading me. 
God is faithful. 

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He is always faithful. 
He's forever faithful. 

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God is my source. 
When you get your next rates 

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bill, come on, you know what I'm
talking about. 

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Don't get the rates bill and go,
oh, I'll never get ahead like 

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this. 
Get the rights bill and go, God,

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I thank you that you are my 
source and this big figure there

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does not dictate to me. 
I will steward it well and I'll 

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do what I have to do to see this
paid out. 

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But as I take righteous steps to
to do this, as I tithe and I'm 

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faithful in that area, as I'm 
generous over in this area, when

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you prompt me, I will begin to 
walk in your overflow in these 

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bills will lose their power over
my life. 

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That's how we approach these 
situations. 

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What you repeatedly confess 
shapes what you eventually 

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believe. 
I'm going to say that 111 more 

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time. 
I do this all the time. 

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I don't know about you, but I'll
do this. 

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What you repeatedly confess if 
you got self-image things going 

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on in your world. 
I'm just not beautiful. 

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I just hate my hair, just hate 
the way I look. 

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I don't like my freckles. 
What you can repeatedly confess.

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You will start to believe in 
your heart, but it's not, it's 

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not the truth. 
You are beautiful. 

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You are handsome. 
The freckles is what makes you 

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the perfect you. 
My wife had freckles our whole 

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life. 
Like, freckles are awesome. 

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All right? 
Yeah. 

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You can have long hair. 
You can have WAVY. 

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We just had a hair discussion 
the other day and Ilia wants my 

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hair. 
I have no hair, so I said just 

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go to Mum's hair. 
But Mum wants an Ilia's hair 

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because it's long and curly 
like, and when we start to see 

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that God perfectly made us like 
I'm, I'm not the most beautiful 

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or handsome man. 
OK, well, I'm pretty close. 

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But but I remember, I remember 
growing up, OK, I'm just can I 

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be honest for a SEC? 
Like I when I grew up, I had big

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ears. 
Stop looking. 

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OK, I had big ears. 
They're OK Now I, I think 

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they're OK, right? 
I kind of my head grew and I 

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grew into my ears. 
My head grew because my brain 

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grew and, and I sort of, but you
know what I even remember as a, 

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as a little fella, I, I did used
to look in the mirror and go, 

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what the where'd those two 
things come from? 

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But I loved my hair. 
I had hair back then, I don't 

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know, Lib talking 80s, early 
90s. 

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So I had a hair with fringe. 
Do you remember the fringe that 

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went straight out? 
Yeah. 

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So Hairspray was like underneath
and on top. 

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Does anyone remember? 
There was, is this a Townsville 

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thing? 
We're a bit different up there. 

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So I used to see how far I could
get my fringe to come straight 

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out. 
Yeah, that's what fringes were 

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back then. 
But the the reality is, is what 

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we confess in our lives, if we 
never have enough, you never 

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have enough. 
You know what? 

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You know, ask my kids if they 
go. 

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Dad, do I have money? 
I say, yeah, I haven't even 

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checked my account yet. 
Yep. 

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Let me just check my account. 
Oh, it's not in there today. 

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It'll be in there tomorrow, 
though. 

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But yes, I got money. 
You know, I remember when when 

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my kids were young because I 
wear Nike shoes, right. 

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So every birthday or Christmas, 
I get a pair of Nike shoes and I

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did that to make me look rich. 
So if you got a pair of Nike 

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shoes and if you can get one 
night jumper, you look rich 

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Anyway, So my kids, when 
they're, you know, I think of 

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any might have been about eights
and the the boys were younger. 

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One day they I picked them up 
from school and they said, Dad, 

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are we millionaires? 
And I said, yeah, I said, why, 

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Why do you ask that? 
And I said, oh, just all my 

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friends, they just noticed 
whenever you or mum come, you're

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wearing like Nikes all the time.
And they thought maybe we're 

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millionaires. 
And I said, well, we are. 

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I said, but I've just got a 
normal wage. 

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What you speak comes in here and
you start to present yourself 

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and live in accordance to what 
you believe so we can shift 

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reality. 
Did you know that you can shift 

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your reality? 
It starts small, but it starts 

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to snowball until reality 
actually shifts. 

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You form your world. 
Did you know he's a he's a 

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little key for everyone here 
today? 

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Did you know that you're living 
in the world that you confessed 

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yesterday? 
You're living in the world today

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of your confession over your 
past. 

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And if we want to shift the 
spirit of poverty and lack, we 

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need to start to present 
ourselves like we're sons and 

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daughters of the High King. 
Does this make sense? 

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Because Church, it's not just 
about you and I. 

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My whole heart in all of this is
because I want to see the spirit

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of lack and scarcity and poverty
broken from Bribie to Tegulawa. 

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And S will get a bit of the 
overflow, right? 

449
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:34,600
But the reality is we 
breakthrough for our community. 

450
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,800
As go the head, so goes the 
tail. 

451
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,680
Does that make sense? 
So as we lead the church 

452
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:46,080
spiritually, so right now we are
we are changing our confession. 

453
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,200
We're all standing and praying 
for our tithes and offerings 

454
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,120
moments. 
Why? 

455
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,400
Because we're declaring you 
might not be there yet, but 

456
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,280
you're getting there, right? 
We're declaring that as a 

457
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,080
church, we have said enough is 
now enough. 

458
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,520
Spiritually, we're doing that. 
But as a church, we're going to 

459
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,480
follow our prayer confessions. 
And so we'll start to change 

460
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,120
this. 
You know, when your kids ask 

461
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,680
you, are you if you're rich, 
we're not rich, we're 

462
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,000
millionaires. 
Like, do you not know our God? 

463
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,160
Let me let me tell you a little 
bit about God. 

464
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:23,040
Sit around the table. 
So that's my father right there.

465
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,920
And start to change our 
thinking, start to retrain our 

466
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,680
children, start to retrain our 
own. 

467
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,640
It's called transformation. 
And we invite the Holy Spirit 

468
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,160
into this as well. 
Point number two men, I've got 

469
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,720
5. 
I'm going to read real fast. 

470
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:43,600
Scarcity is learned, but so is 
trust. 

471
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,600
Israel spent generations in 
slavery, so even after 

472
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,520
deliverance they still fought 
like slaves. 

473
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,560
If you've ever read read that 
story. 

474
00:33:55,160 --> 00:34:01,640
They had Memon in from heaven. 
Miraculous protection. 

475
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,600
Supernatural provision. 
Yet they still feared lack. 

476
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,360
Why? 
Because freedom externally 

477
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,679
doesn't automatically create 
freedom internally. 

478
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,199
Many people today have inherited
generational poverty. 

479
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:28,239
Thinking mums and dads, it's 
time to say and it stops with me

480
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:35,080
and it stops right now. 
Even my family will no longer 

481
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:41,360
live in generational poverty. 
Thinking because your tomorrow 

482
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,560
can be changed by your decisions
today. 

483
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,760
Does that make sense? 
Maybe you grew up hearing we 

484
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,840
never have enough. 
Rich people are greedy people. 

485
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,880
People like us, we always 
struggle. 

486
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,160
You can't really trust God when 
it comes to finances. 

487
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:09,040
Those words create internal 
strongholds and listen, we need 

488
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,840
to let go of them. 
Let go of this thinking. 

489
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,800
Let go of this confession that 
we have. 

490
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:22,040
The wilderness mindset teaches 
people to survive and not trust.

491
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,880
Listen, if you grew up in 
Caboolture, we no longer just 

492
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:31,600
survive to live. 
We no longer just survive to 

493
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,040
live. 
We are blessed beyond 

494
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,240
understanding. 
We are favoured by the Almighty 

495
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:40,760
God. 
We walk in riches that are like 

496
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,520
a tap to us and we give it out 
as much as it comes into us. 

497
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,200
We are the blessing to our 
community. 

498
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,800
We are the favour that God has 
brought them, the answer to our 

499
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,640
community. 
We are children of God. 

500
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,880
We are not just living to 
survive any longer, but we are 

501
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:04,120
living Lord, to bring other 
people out of the miry clay also

502
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,920
for themselves. 
God never called these people 

503
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,280
merely to survive. 
He called us to live by faith 

504
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,400
and to live in a realm of 
stepping out and seeing our God 

505
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:21,360
who supplies, actually supply. 
We have to step into this realm.

506
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,040
We have to step into this 
understanding. 

507
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:29,400
Listen, we have to step into 
these new behaviours that our 

508
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,840
God who supplies all of our 
needs, actually does supply. 

509
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,360
And you go, yeah, but he only 
supplies needs. 

510
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,120
No, no, no, you got the wrong 
understanding of the Scripture. 

511
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:47,000
He says he supplies all of our 
needs because our needs are and 

512
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,600
wants are actually his needs and
wants. 

513
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,040
If he can get it through you, he
will get it to you. 

514
00:36:54,880 --> 00:37:00,000
And so when your need is the 
need to see people come to God 

515
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:05,120
to see the gospel go out to see 
crusades happening all across 

516
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:09,440
Australia to to be able to fund 
the church in blessing to to 

517
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,640
grow as a church and to get more
locations and and our need is 

518
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,600
people out there. 
God goes I can bless that with 

519
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,720
all my riches in heaven. 
And when he's blessing that 

520
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:23,720
need, he's blessing you. 
Why because that need became 

521
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:25,640
yours. 
Does this make sense? 

522
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,600
So this is all about alignment 
Church Romans 12 to be 

523
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,520
transformed by the renewing of 
your mind. 

524
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:39,840
Transformation begins when truth
replaces fear, No longer fear to

525
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:44,120
finances in your world. 
But we live in the truth #3 

526
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,520
God's economy operates 
differently. 

527
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:51,760
Paul writes in Philippians 419. 
My God shall supply all your 

528
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:56,160
needs according to his riches in
glory by Christ Jesus. 

529
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,160
Did you notice? 
Not according to your 

530
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,880
limitations. 
See, God doesn't go. 

531
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:09,120
Oh, Graham's too limited. 
I can't do my mission through 

532
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,520
him. 
I'm going to look for a rich 

533
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,040
person. 
That's not how God operates. 

534
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,920
In fact, God's so gracious, he 
goes well until Graham changes 

535
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,840
his stinking thinking. 
We just got to hold off a little

536
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,400
bit and wait. 
And the Holy Spirit just keep 

537
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:32,080
working on him. 
See God, God doesn't say he 

538
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:36,000
supplies our needs according to 
my limitations. 

539
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:41,200
He says he supplies our needs 
according to his riches and 

540
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:46,480
overflow. 
Scarcity says there's not 

541
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,480
enough. 
But the Kingdom of God says 

542
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,680
there is more than enough in 
God. 

543
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,960
This does not mean 
irresponsibility. 

544
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,240
It does not mean ignoring wisdom
or stewardship. 

545
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:03,040
Financial freedom flows from 
both trust and wisdom. 

546
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:08,920
So let's remember, faith is not 
passive, faith is obedience. 

547
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:14,080
So how do we change in this move
from fear driven living to 

548
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:21,280
stewardship driven living? 
This means honouring God first 

549
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,320
with your first fruits, which is
plain language, your tithe, 

550
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:33,760
budgeting wisely, removing 
unnecessary debt where possible 

551
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:40,400
in your life, practicing 
generosity, refusing emotional 

552
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:47,760
spending. 
Scarcity spends emotionally 

553
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:54,640
because fear seeks comfort. 
Wisdom spends intentionally 

554
00:39:54,920 --> 00:40:00,840
because trust creates peace. 
Some people ask God for 

555
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,600
breakthrough while refusing 
discipline but stewardship. 

556
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:10,240
Is a spiritual thing #4 
generosity breaks the power of 

557
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:14,560
scarce scarcity. 
One of the greatest antidotes to

558
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,120
scarcity is generosity. 
Why? 

559
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,680
Because generosity confronts 
fear directly. 

560
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,040
Whereas you're giving away, 
you're going, God, you supply 

561
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:30,520
all my needs, You aren't going. 
Oh man, now I'm left with 

562
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,040
nothing. 
What do I do? 

563
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,520
Does that make sense? 
We go God, you supply all my 

564
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:41,120
needs and because I believe that
I'm giving to this need, if he 

565
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:42,920
can get it through you, he will 
get it to you. 

566
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:48,880
Fear says hold tight. 
Faith says God can replenish 

567
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:53,160
what I release. 
The Kingdom principle is this. 

568
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:57,800
Whatever you grip tightly will 
begin to grip you tightly back. 

569
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:04,520
When we live open handed before 
God, we declare, my trust is not

570
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:09,000
in possessions, but my trust is 
in the provider. 

571
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:20,400
Generosity is not the overflow 
of abundance, it is the evidence

572
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,680
of trust in God. 
Let me say that again. 

573
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:28,840
Generosity is not the overflow 
of abundance. 

574
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:33,440
You don't begin to be generous 
when you get more in your pay. 

575
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,400
You're not getting more in your 
pay, right? 

576
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:41,160
It's set, you contracted that. 
Generosity is a hard attitude. 

577
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:46,800
Generosity doesn't move to your 
employer, generosity moves to 

578
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,440
the provider. 
So we are generous because our 

579
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:55,240
provider provides all my needs, 
not because my employer provides

580
00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:56,560
my needs. 
Does this make sense? 

581
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,800
Your employer gives you a 
benchmark of living. 

582
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:03,040
Your provider lets you live in 
abundance and overflow. 

583
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,760
Does this make sense? 
And so we look to God for all 

584
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:12,160
things #5 peace is the goal, not
just prosperity. 

585
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,480
Some people think financial 
breakthrough alignment. 

586
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,200
I've got a lot of information 
today. 

587
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,280
This is good as helping someone 
this morning. 

588
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,960
Some people think financial 
breakthrough alone will heal 

589
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,040
anxiety. 
Let me tell you, God heals 

590
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,840
anxiety and the Bible says to be
anxious for nothing. 

591
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,280
How do you be anxious for 
nothing? 

592
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,640
You're anxious for nothing. 
When you understand truly in 

593
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:44,000
your heart who your source is, 
your source of peace, your 

594
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,960
source of blessing, your source 
of prosperity, your source of 

595
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:52,400
love, your source of hope. 
When we understand that God is 

596
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:57,720
love, that God is hope, that God
is the fulfilling of the flesh, 

597
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:02,280
that God makes me feel good, 
that God feels the enemy, that 

598
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,960
God supplies the enemy, that guy
supplies all my needs according 

599
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,400
to his riches and glory. 
That means all you needs, not 

600
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,120
just money, but all you need. 
Your thinking, your emotions and

601
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,080
everything, then we are anxious 
for nothing. 

602
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,800
Money alone will not fix your 
anxiety. 

603
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,480
Like money, your anxiety must go
to the source of your provider. 

604
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,360
Many wealthy people still live 
terrified and anxious. 

605
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,640
Money will never, was never 
designed to carry the weight of 

606
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,680
your peace. 
Only God can do that, David said

607
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:46,720
in Psalms 23. 
One, the Lord is my shepherd, 

608
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,680
not savings accounts, restores 
my souls. 

609
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:58,720
See, God wants his people free 
from anxiety, from striving in 

610
00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:02,600
day-to-day, just surviving free 
from panic. 

611
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,640
Man, money brings panic. 
Money destroys marriages. 

612
00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:09,520
Like we should have dominion 
over this thing. 

613
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,040
Money should just bring life to 
the mission of your marriage, 

614
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,880
not come between the husband and
the wife. 

615
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:20,920
Money is is a tool that we use, 
not a thing that divides. 

616
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,760
That's the enemy's plan, but the
enemy wins when we lose 

617
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,760
dominion. 
Does this make sense? 

618
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,320
It's a church. 
We have to have dominion. 

619
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,520
The goal is not greed, the goal 
is peace. 

620
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,560
It's critical to have a settled 
confidence in God. 

621
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,080
And here's your last practical 
tip for today. 

622
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:47,920
Daily practice gratitude and 
financial surrender. 

623
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:55,040
Daily practice your gratitude 
and surrendering your finance to

624
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,320
God. 
Well, God, I don't walk 

625
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,280
according to the budgets of this
world and the economy. 

626
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:07,960
I'll walk in accordance to the 
blesser and my provider and 

627
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:12,640
change our confession and 
everything will follow in Jesus 

628
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,280
name. 
Listen, gratitude weakens fear. 

629
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,800
So Church, I just want you to 
hear this in closing today, the 

630
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:31,080
wilderness mindset of lack, 
worry, and fear will not enter 

631
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:41,200
your promised land. 
The mindset of lack God, where 

632
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:47,960
are you in my finance worry 
scarcity, poverty that that 

633
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,760
mindset won't enter into your 
promised land. 

634
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:57,200
See the Egyptians had to change.
Sorry the the Israelites had to 

635
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:01,480
change everything about their 
thinking when they left Egypt 

636
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,720
because they were still thinking
like slaves. 

637
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,000
But God says you're not a slave,
you're my child. 

638
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,480
He has set us free to walk in 
freedom free indeed. 

639
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,240
And money is the greatest 
economy on planet earth that 

640
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:20,720
tries to enslave that. 
God is here to set us free today

641
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:24,480
in Jesus name. 
God wants to renew our thinking,

642
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,480
our language, our trust, our 
stewardship, and give us the 

643
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:33,840
peace. 
So if you receive this message 

644
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,160
today, I would love you to 
declare something. 

645
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,080
I'd love you to declare it loud 
enough for your own ears to 

646
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,160
hear. 
If you could say this after me, 

647
00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:46,800
scarcity will no longer shape my
thinking. 

648
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:59,880
I great break agreement with 
generational poverty, thinking I

649
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:07,840
will not carry a wilderness 
mindset into my promise to land.

650
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:19,000
I choose trust over fear, 
stewardship over chaos, and 

651
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:27,800
generosity over scarcity. 
In Jesus mighty name, Amen. 

652
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:29,080
Amen.