Father, we just thank you and praise you for opportunity to
get together and those that are coming tonight, just help them
get here. I know it was predicted to rain
and some people have different thoughts about that, but we got
business to tend to. So we're going to, we're going
to get everything out of tonight that we can.
We thank you and praise you in advance for the outcome.
And we're just going to work together trying to get, get some
dialogue going tonight, not just to me and the monologue, but I
do have some questions and I'd like to see if everybody can
help us answer them. And I'll give you praise in
advance for it in Jesus name, Amen, Amen.
I want to, I want to let you know Saturday night I had a
dream and no big, I can't tell you where it was.
It was like, you know, I can't tell you where it was, but a
verse in the dream came to me and I've never had that happen.
I mean, an actual verse and, and, and actually it's in the
Bible. All right.
It was Deuteronomy chapter 22, verse nine.
I've never been in a dream where I heard someone say, and this is
what the deal was. I heard someone say you need to
know Deuteronomy 22 verse 9. And so I set up, I woke up just
right after that happened. I woke up and I said, Lord,
what's going on? And this is probably about 3 or
4 in the morning. And and I go, what's what's,
what's going on? And I grabbed, you know, I
grabbed my phone and I looked it up and I said, that is an
interesting verse. I said, so is there something I
need to know about it? What's happening?
Where am I going? You know that I'm going to need
that. Obviously it's Kingdom first
Business alliance on Tuesday night.
So we're going to start here, right with this verse.
I want you to listen to this though, because I, I started
asking the Lord some questions and we're going to start asking
questions tonight. And, and you guys are going to
help me get the answers. Melanie is not in yet.
So do you have the capability to write down some scriptures?
OK. And then you can send them to me
after we're done because I'm. I'm going to open it up.
Hey, bro, how are you? Are you good?
All right, You got a phone on ya.
Open. You don't have your phone.
OK, well, we're going to we're going to we're going to record
this. We'll record it.
OK, so we're good. All right, listen to this verse.
Listen, listen. Deuteronomy chapter 2, verse 9,
it said you shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seeds,
lest the fruit of thy seed which you have sown and the fruit of
the vineyard be defiled. And I thought that was kind of
weird, you know, that and, and, and as I was sharing, I had a
dream Saturday night. I'd never heard, you know, the
Lord ever give me a scripture and a dream.
It's usually something weird that, you know, pizza or
something. And, and, and as clear as I've
ever heard anything in this dream, it was this Scripture,
Deuteronomy 22, verse 9. And so I looked it up, woke up,
looked it up. And then I went ahead and I
start asking the Lord. I said, what are we talking
about? And he goes, OK, let me ask you
a question. The Lord says who's who is
divine? And I said, well, the word says
you are and that we are your branches.
And he said, and so, and what is the seed?
And I said, well, you said that the seed was your words.
And so he's he when he said that, he said, you know, when
you and it's interesting. I mean, this is like out of the
blue. If you look at it, you know, you
look at it, you the thing before it talks about, you know, you,
you in verse 8, you know, you build a new house.
You're not making the battlement for that roof and bring not
blood upon thine house. If any man fall from there, you
know, and he talks about then out of the blue, he said, now if
you're going to sow seed in a vineyard, he said with divers
seeds, he said don't do it. He said, lest the fruit of the
seed which you have sown and the fruit of the vineyard be
defiled. And I and, and the Lord told me
as I was sitting there, and I think, OK, you're the vine,
we're the branches, your word is seed.
So what's this other seed? And he said it's the word of
everybody else that if you mix the thoughts and the words of
other people and you listen to them and you begin to mix them
with what you know the word says about any situation, your
business, your health, your family, your kids, your
grandkids. If you begin to mix in there, he
said it will defile the good seed.
He said, and here's the deal, you won't see the harvest you're
expecting. Now, this is just one.
This is Sunday morning at about four that the Lord and I are
visiting about this. And so, you know, I begin to I
begin to remind myself of what he said about His word being
seed. Now jot this one down.
Mark 4. We have the parable of the
sower, all right. And if you remember there were
four types of soil and it said, you know, and he tells it in a
parable form and the disciples are always wanting to know how
come you always talk in parables?
And he lets him know, He says, because the things of the
Kingdom and the secrets of the Kingdom I have given to you, You
have them. But he said by everybody else,
they don't know. So that's why I tell them
parables. Really what parables were for, I
believe, is to build a curiosity that you would hang with the one
that spoke the words to see what it really, really meant.
Because think about this, you know, the disciples, he gave
them a call, all right. And a few others he gave calls,
but he didn't he, he said, come follow me.
And they dropped everything and they followed him.
OK, So when when we see that Jesus saying, listen, the words
that I'm going to tell you and the words that I'm going to give
you, all right, are going to be what you need to plant a good
life makes sense. Those words that we plant from
him. So he's telling us that if we'll
plant his words, he said, it's really never the seed that's the
problem. It's your heart that's the
problem, he said. The the the heart that was hard,
he said. The the seeds scattered on it
and the birds came and picked it up.
Then he said the next one, he said, was the ones that were
sown on Stony ground. They didn't have much earth in
them. They sprung up, but because
there was not a lot of earth that it could get to, it
basically withered away. And then he told them, then
there's a Stony ground and they this, I mean the thorny ground.
And they choked the word out and they could not, they could not
produce anything. But he said there's the last one
he said is good ground. And when they planted it in that
good ground, they produced. All right.
So when he's talking about what he's talking about, then they
begin to ask him, you know, OK, why are you telling?
Can you explain this parable to us?
That's what they got because they sat around the one that was
given the words and had the desire to hang with him.
He was able to expound, all right.
Everybody else went home and thought, well, that was a nice
story, but they didn't get the meaning of what he was talking
about. So what does he say?
He tells him, he lets him know, and he even asked him a
question. He said, how do you not know
what this is? If you don't know this parable,
you won't know any other parables because what?
It's about sowing seed. Everything in our lives is about
sowing seeds in the business realm.
It's about sowing seeds, OK, in, in, in, in our health.
It's it's sowing the right seeds.
You can't sow cigarettes and reap clean lungs.
OK, So in this verse, jot this down being as you came in.
It is I I talked about on Sunday morning early about 3:00 or 4:00
in the morning in a dream. I was, I was dreaming.
I know that because my wife says I'm always snoring.
So I know I'm dreaming while I'm snoring.
And, and you know, one time I was snoring and the kids had
never heard anybody snore. And, and Charlie just got so
upset. He's growling at me.
And I said, and she goes, no,
honey, it's not, it's called snoring.
It said, you know, I'm really surprised your daddy ain't
snoring. OK.
And so, so anyway, you know, when we, we, we when I was
dreaming, I, I heard the Lord tell me a verse.
I don't know where it was. There was no location.
I just heard these words and it says you need to understand
Deuteronomy 22 nine. I never had a dream where
somebody quoted me a scripture ever.
Never 60 how old am I634, something like that.
Never had a dream where somebody quoted me scripture.
I woke up, I immediately went got on, you know, my phone to
find that scripture. And then I had a discussion that
morning with the with the Lord about it.
And so that's what we're getting denied a little bit about
understanding the seed time. And he says in here, he said
don't mingle your seed. In other words, as he told us,
his word is our seed. So don't mingle it with the
words of the world. You can get caught up in like,
you know, you know, some of the things that the news and, and,
and people's opinions and, and all of those different things
you can get in the, you can get those types of opinion and they
can affect you and sometimes hinder your harvest.
So you want to make sure, you want to make sure that you know,
you're not doing what Deuteronomy 22 nine says, he
said in there. He told us again, he said do
not, he said do not sow your vineyard with diver seeds, at
least unless the fruit of thy seeds which you have sown and
the fruit of the vineyard be defiled.
He said don't, don't be taking words from the world and trying
to mix them and make it fit with the things of God.
For instance, OK, there's a lot of time.
I've been there. You've been to different
seminars. All right, The guys that are
doing the seminars, we don't know nothing about them.
We don't know if they're born again.
We don't know. We don't know anything about
them, all right? And so we listen to their words
and we try to apply them. But you know what, we might be
trying to apply something that is adverse to way the Kingdom
thinks. So we have to be cautious.
You know, I had somebody one time and they came up to me and
said, yeah, my business coach and and he's a member of the
church and he said, he said, yeah, my business coach is
telling me to do this, this, this and this and this.
And really first question out of my mouth is, is he born again?
He goes, no, no, I can kind of tell he's not born again.
And I said, well, then why are you taking his advice?
Because Psalms 1 is very clear. You know, blessed is the man
that does not take the, the, the counsel of the ungodly.
And he said, so be very, very careful that you don't hear
those words and you don't apply them.
Try to apply them. You got to be very cautious with
sticking with Jesus now. So when we talk about how
important the word is, it reminded me of when we had
everybody that was most everybody here when we had
Bishop Garraway for three days, OK.
And, and, and he said something that I mentioned when I was
preaching on healing one night. He said in there, he, he made a
comment, even though he was here totally for finance and
understanding money and different things like that, but
he made a comment that said most believers cannot give me 10
scriptures on why they should be healed or they can be healed.
He said most believers cannot give me 10 scriptures.
I said, that's pitiful, right? I mean, especially if you're
seeking healing, you'd think you'd want to know what the Lord
had to say about that. Well, tonight I'm going to ask
you for 10 scriptures that talk to us about our businesses.
And in the line, most of them tell us that God wants us
successful in the business. He is a God of increase.
He's showed us that with the parable of the talents.
I'm going to give you one right there in the 25th chapter of
Matthew, we have the parable of the talents.
All right, the master came back, expect an increase to the extent
that the guy that didn't give him the increase, he called him
wicked and lazy. All right, so there's none of us
in here that want that title. Wicked and lazy is not part of
what you know we are looking for.
But think about it for a minute, because I got 1 chapter that I
could get most of 10 of them out of.
But let's let's expand our minds a little bit.
I've got Melanie in the back writing down.
I'll tell her whatever you say and then you're going to help me
also. So I have mouth of two or three
witnesses on all the scriptures. All right, But somebody give me
a scripture that tells us that it's God's will for us to be
successful in our businesses. Now, not everybody at once.
Now Matthew 18, 19. What is Matthew 1819 an
agreement? OK, all right, Matthew 1819, jot
that one down. What does it say?
Somebody know it by heart, yet said if any two or two or more
agree concerning anything that they ask, it will be given to
them. And my father, does anybody know
that scripture? So that tells you right there.
For that scripture to work, you've got to at least have
somebody with you, right? All right, so most of us have
our, you know, mates involved in some fashion or another with
what we're doing. So there's two of you.
And then every now and then you might need to go get that third
person. But look at that scripture and
everybody jot it down because I'm going to make a list.
I'm going to be one way or another getting it out.
What was it? It said that if 2 of you shall
agree on any as touching anything that they shall ask, it
will be done for them by my Father, which is in heaven, OK.
And then he said for two or three gathered together in my
name, there I am in the midst. All right.
So if you want Jesus in your business meeting, you want Jesus
in your board meeting, all right, you need to have at least
two or three believers with you in this meeting, OK?
Because he said, I'm with you all right.
Now one of the things in here, and I want to I want to point
this out because when it says as touching anything, a lot of
people take that literal, all right, that we need to touch and
agree that word touching does not necessarily mean touching.
The word touching means concerning, all right?
So if you replace it, he said that if 2 of you shall agree on
earth as concerning anything, right, it isn't an act of
touching. It's the act of concerning.
And you know what's interesting? If you bear the Greek out,
you'll find out this is about financial contracts and and
financial things. That particular passage in a
when you look at those words in the original Greek, it's a it's
a financial transaction more than anything else.
But we use it all the time. Oh, Lord, you wouldn't believe
what the, you know, devil's trying to do to my body.
I need somebody to agree with me, all right.
But in context, if you if you do the study, you'll find out it's
a it's a financial transaction that he's he's telling you to
get with you get with somebody about it.
OK. So I've been the third person in
many, you know, when people have come and said, hey, you need to
pray with us, this is going down, this is going down.
We have this and this, you know, you may need that third person,
all right, to go with you. So that was a good one.
That was a good one. You got it.
Everybody got it. All right.
Yeah. Give me another one.
What? Deuteronomy 818.
OK, Deuteronomy 18818 Deuteronomy 818.
You know what that says? He has given us the power.
All right, 818 But you will remember the Lord your God.
And he said, and it is he that has given you the power to get
wealth, that he may establish his covenant, which he swear
unto thy fathers as it is this day.
All right, I love that verse because basically when it says
in there, he said, you shall remember the Lord your God, for
it is he that has given you the power.
The word power there in the Hebrew is the word ability.
OK, He has given you an ability and not only an ability, but it
bears out in there. It's a creative ability.
I had a friend in Oklahoma and he was a a financial guy and a
new new personally knew a Miles Monroe and I met him at a
seminar that I was conducting for a magazine that I was
writing for Business magazine. And it was, it was interesting
story because when I, what happened was we were taking
registrations for this, this seminar and we had an early bird
special. If you've ever been to a sermon,
are, you know, to get you to sign up early, you get a
discount off the price. Well, we had already gone
through that period of time and we hadn't taken any in our
office. We opened our office up to take
them to help the magazine so that they weren't overwhelmed.
We just gave both phone numbers and people call.
Well, I got a phone call and one of my secretaries went ahead and
took the call. She goes, we just got our first,
you know, person to sign up for the, the seminar and, and, and I
forgot that at the bottom of the form you're filling out over the
phone, it said bring a person for free early bird special.
Well, we were past the early bird special and she didn't know
that she wasn't supposed to ask to bring a person for free.
And so I thought, OK, it's all right, just tell him to look for
me, ask for me, and I'll get that guy in, all right, And, and
we won't have any problem. I'll just get him.
I'll walk in with him. All right, So one of the things
in the seminar that I didn't think about was doing comment
cards. You know, this is my first
seminar, All right, comment cards on how did you like it?
You get anything from it, Whatever.
So I made a decision. I'm calling everybody that came.
And it was amazing because it was in November, right after
Thanksgiving. We had a snowstorm, all right?
And it was a real light one. And Caleb came in, my second
born came in, said daddy. He said it's not sticking to the
streets. And I said, well then maybe
we'll have somebody show up. And we did.
We had the whole banquet room that we had rented was
completely fool. And I said give me the names of
everybody. I'm going to call them.
Well, I called the guy, his name was Toby.
And Toby said, he said, man, I loved it.
He said, you know, the other guest speaker that you had come
in, he was great. You guys did a really good job.
You know, I love the basketball story that your friend told and
and the whole bit he said, but the person you really need to
talk to is my friend Tim that you got in for free.
He said his father-in-law does seminars.
And I said, OK, I said, I'll give him a call.
Gave him a call. And I asked him.
I said, hey, Tim, this is Randy Clay, did you enjoy?
He said, I could have used a whole lot more of you and not of
the other guy, you know. And I said, well, thank you for
that. He said, but he said, man, Randy
is really good. The only thing you need to
develop is something we can take home with us.
And I said, well, I was told that your grant, your dad in law
was a seminar guy. And I said, what was his name?
And he said, Bob Harrison. And I go, I know Bob Harrison.
I've been to many of his seminars and he was a Christian
car dealership guy and, you know, made millions of dollars
and but it was all in through the processes of the Kingdom of
God. And in fact, he did a lot of his
seminars with Norville Hayes. If you've ever heard of him and
Norville is your business guy, you know, that is also a
fivefold minister. And, and I loved Norville's
teachings on finance and different things like that.
But he, he had several seminars. Well, you know, Tim basically
was in the midst of learning seminars and doing seminars and
he came up with a curriculum and we did it here.
It was called the Power to create.
And I and, and he signed everybody that it was in
attendance, signed everybody a hardback copy of his book.
But he also had videos of stuff. I invested several thousands of
dollars. Help him get off that off the
ground with it, right? One of the thing he bears out
about this scripture, he said it's not only the ability, but
he said it's the power to create.
God has given us the power to get wealth or to create wealth.
And he, it goes along the lines that I've taught for years
before I ever heard him teach on it was the fact we were made in
the image of God. How many of us heard it?
Genesis 126. Made in the image and the
likeness of God. Is it open?
Yeah. Is it running down?
OK. Looks like they're paint or
something. All right.
Keep coming. Keep coming on the rain.
All right. And he he taught that in the 1st
chapter of Genesis before we get to let us make man in our own
image everyday. God I got up and the first thing
that happened he said, and God said, let there be light.
And he said, and there was light.
He saw that was good. The evening and the morning were
the first day. That's what it says.
All right, so you see say the first introduction that we have
to God is and God said, but every every time you see evening
and the morning was the first day, the second day, the third
day, the next three words after those scriptures is and God said
every single day, couple of days he was busy and he said and God
said two or three times in that day.
But The thing is, is that when God speaks, things are created.
We were made in His image and His likeness.
The question that I've asked many times is, what are you
saying when you get up about you and your business and what you
want to see come to pass? Are you speaking to your morning
or are you just letting whatever comes come?
See, I think Lord needs us to be a little more deliberate than
that. OK, so we have it at
Deuteronomy. 818 is a great one. Give me another one.
Somebody else, Michael. Yeah.
Joshua 178 and 9. We should all have that
memorized. That's going to be your signing,
you know. So you go ahead and jot them
down because you're going to need to know these.
All right, So he tells him, What does God tell Joshua?
He meets with Joshua and he tells him.
He said be strong and of good courage.
All right, turn over there. Look at it, Joshua one.
Yeah, 7-8 and nine. Usually we all look at 8:00, we
memorize 8. But it's interesting because I'm
going to give you, I'm going to give you a little nugget on this
one. All right, Verse 7 only be
strong and very courageous, that you may, you may observe to do
according to all the law which Moses my servant gave is
commanding you. Turn not from it to the left,
right, to the right hand, or to the left, that you may prosper
whithersoever thou goest. OK, you need to underline that
word prosper. OK, that and, and it says, and
this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but
you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe
to do according to all that is written therein, for then you
will make your way prosperous. Underline that word prosperous.
It is a totally different word in the Hebrew.
OK then the first word prosper we saw and he said and you will
have good success. All right, so when he tells on
and he go back to six, I did. Did you say 678 and nine?
OK, you know 6 was be strong and good courage and and he's, you
know, encouraging. I mean he said you're going to
give an inheritance to the people 9 He said, have I not
commanded you be strong and a good courage, be not afraid
neither be dismayed for the Lord that God is with you
whitherever. So you go, all right.
So whithersoever you goest means anywhere you goest all right.
But notice this. He said in here, this is a, this
is a promise that he tells him, he said that you may prosper
whithersoever you go in verse 7. That word prosper is the Hebrew
word sakal. And it's interesting because it
doesn't have anything to do with money.
It doesn't have anything to do with finance.
It has nothing to do with accumulation.
It is the word circumspect. And the word circumspect means
to be cautious or look and see intelligently.
That is the definition of that. So he's letting them know
advance. He said, you're going to be
courageous. He said in there, you know, and
he said, do not turn away from my commandments.
What are the commandments? They're seeds.
It's the word of God. It is you must do this if you
want to prosper, if you want to be able to see intelligently or
be cautious, you've got to be somebody that is sowing his word
continuously. Verse 8, when you go down to the
bottom and notice this, he said, listen, he said the word of this
law, it'll not depart out of your mouth, but you'll meditate
there in day and night that you may.
And here's the two reasons why. 1, you want to observe it when
you observe. And this isn't a casual glance.
This isn't just Oh yeah, I noticed you're over there.
OK, This is a you stare it down and you look at every possible
facet of it and he goes in there because there's one thing that
you have to do, he said. You observe the word of God only
for one reason to do it. If it's a commandment, that's
all you're looking for is you got to do it.
All right. So he goes in here, He says that
you may do according to all that is written there and then notice
this, for then you will make your way prosperous and you
shall have good success. So when he says you will make
your way, He didn't say I will make your way prosperous.
He said you will make your way prosperous because I don't know
if you noticed, but it is US walking, OK?
It ain't Jesus. We ain't on him piggyback.
And he's walking around wherever he wants us to go, we're
walking. And he said if you want to make
your way in there, He said your way.
The word way in the Hebrew is the word Derek.
It means a road, OK? So he said he'll make your Rd.
prosperous. This is a different word in the
Hebrew. It is the word to salak, OK.
And to Salak means to move forward, to be profitable and to
succeed. It doesn't mean accumulate
goods. It doesn't mean, you know, get
you a storehouse. We'll talk about that.
Somebody's bound to hit it tonight, OK.
But when he talked about in there, he said, listen, you're
going to make your way prosperous.
Because if you go back to the first time the word prosper is
mentioned in the Old Testament, I believe it is the 4th, the
24th chapter of Genesis, where the servant of Abraham went to
go find Isaac a wife. And he saw the young maiden
coming to the well. And he asked the Lord a question
and was wondering if the Lord had prospered his journey or
not. The word prosper in the Old
Testament and in the New Testament have to do with
journey and purpose. OK, we've, we've gone over that
before and and those of you that graduated from school when I
teach on economics, all right, that he said, listen, he said it
is, it is the journey that you're looking to what to push
forward. Whatever your purpose is,
whatever you're trying to accomplish, you want it to
succeed. You want it to be profitable.
OK, so he said that that is the word.
It's the same thing in the 1st chapter of Romans verse 10.
In there Paul says I hope to have a prosperous journey coming
to you and that was the Greek word version of the word
prosperous and it had nothing to do with finance.
The word prosperous only mentioned three times in the New
Testament, but boy do we have a doctrine three times and two of
those times is in one verse. So now I have two verses that
have the word prosperous or prosper in it and it has to do
with the journey because the Greek word is the Greek word you
adao coming from 2 words good and adao comes from hadas
meaning a road. So the thing about that
definition in prosperity is it having a good road or a good
journey. That's the definition.
And so those are that God has guaranteed us in there.
He said you'll be prosperous and you'll have good success.
So he's letting us know, yes, that's my will for you on your
journey, whether you're in business, whatever you know the
thing you're creating or the service you're rendering or
whatever the thing. He wants you to be prosperous.
He wants you to continue to push forward.
He wants you to continue to be profitable.
He wants you to, you know, have an influence in the earth in
whatever trade the Lord has given you to be an influence for
him. OK, give me another scripture.
How many? We got?
Three that way. I'm going to count those three
as one. OK, All right, give me another
one. Somebody give me one. 2nd
Corinthians 9. OK, verse 6.
Is that the one? Yes, yeah, He that sows
sparingly will reap also sparingly.
He that sows bountifully will reap also bountifully.
OK, I'm going to give it to you one more time, and I hope
somebody in here gets it OK 'cause it's like water off the
duck's back out there. Listen carefully, OK?
The revelation of the Lord let me have on this one blew me
away. And I've read this scripture
dozens of times. I used them when I was in
Oklahoma. I was the offering taker upper
guy. OK, so for 20 years, taking up
offering, I can't tell you how many 20 years.
I can't tell you how many times I used that verse and didn't
even know what it was saying. All right, It says he that sows
sparingly will reap also sparingly.
He that sows bountifully will reap also bountifully.
Sparingly means stingy. OK, when you see the word
bountifully, everybody thinks abundance having what you need,
it'll be it. The Greek word for that word is
the word you. Just like I said, you hadas.
OK, you meaning good or well, but then it's logia, LOGIA you
Logia is the word there and it means to speak beautiful words.
So the action from us is when we come and we sow, it's not how
much we sow, it's not what we're sowing for.
It's what are you saying when you sow it now you can go.
The exact same word is used. When Jesus fed the 5000, he said
bring me the loaves and fishes, said he held them up and blessed
them and then gave to his disciple the word blessed.
There is the same Greek word eulogia.
So for us to come and get ready for offering and Pastor has to
say, if you need an offering envelope, raise your hand.
You're late. You're too late 'cause you don't
have enough time to speak over what it is the Lord's blessed
you with. You're trying to hurry and write
it all down before the bucket gets there.
So you're eliminating one part of God's blessing when he tells
us, listen, when you bring that offering bountifully, what
bountifully he wants to see in your offering is your words to
him. Now, let me give you a, a, a
scripture that you know, whether you were going to get it
tonight, OK? You didn't know you were
supposed to have any. I'm just going for, you know,
10. Boy, it'd be exciting to get 12.
OK, Jot down Deuteronomy 26. Deuteronomy 26 has to do with
the first fruit offering, and it says that you will bring an
offering of your first fruits to the priest in that day and said
it before that priest and tell him something.
Then it says the priest will take it to the altar and come
back to you and you will begin to say to him, and you give a
little miniature history lesson on how good God is to bring you
out of poverty. That's what it was about.
He said we were slaves, we were Syrian.
Our father was in bondage in the country.
And he said, and God by a mighty arm got us out of that country
and has brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey and
just goes on, on how thrilled they are about what God has
done. OK, that is beautiful words at
the time of offering. That's the example that is set
in there. Everybody got that.
That's that's a passage. A lot of people.
And I taught that for years. He was talking about the tide,
but he was not because there is the feast of first fruits that
talks about, you know, giving first fruit offerings and he's
letting them know when you give your first fruit offering.
So here's my suggestion. I don't wait until it's time to
give the offering. I don't wait until the offering
bucket is coming with the envelopes in it.
I take envelopes home now every one of them dudes has got dudes
and a dudette. We got a couple of dudettes.
OK, Anyway, we got a, we got a bucket and they have ton of
envelopes in there. I just reach down in there and
take out 1/2 inch and I take them to my office.
And when I'm writing all the tide checks and the different
things from the different companies that we have, I, I, we
spend time praying overdose, you know, and we want to make sure,
we want to make sure that, you know, we're speaking those
beautiful words and we've done it in advance.
We just don't wait to try to get it in there.
OK, You can, you can always tell, you know, people are
scribbling and they're handing ushers their envelope and ushers
trying to run down the bucket and, and you know, they'll be
calm down. Just take some time, you know,
and thank the Lord if you had a great week, thank him.
If it was a rough week, thank him for the next week is going
to be better. But you're going to sew.
You're you're going to sew and give to him.
All right in there. So somebody give me another
scripture. How many we got now?
4 Luke 638. That ought to be on your memory
list. Dear Lord, if you don't know
that one by now, oh, boy. OK.
But remember what what Bishop Garraway said.
He said, you know, some people, they can't, they can't, they
can't think of them when they need them.
And usually when you're in a tight and you've got, you know,
business that's not going the way you want.
You know, we just said, well, if we hang on, well, why don't we
apply little of the word? All right, Luke 638 giving and
shall be given unto you good measure, press down, shaken
together and running over shall men give into your bosom.
And he tells you with what measure you give with all it
will be measured to you again, verse nine OK, all right, so he
tells us Jesus, these are red. These are red letters.
Jesus said this, OK, Jesus is the one he said, listen, if
you'll give, it'll be given back to you.
I can't tell you how many times I've had people give to me.
There's some people that say I've never had, I've never had,
you know, I've never had anybody give anything to me.
Well, I don't just limit my giving to the church.
I bring the tithe. And when we have a project or
the Lord impresses on me because going who had who had Second
Corinthians 9? You had second Corinthians 9.
It goes on to say all right after it gets done with the
sewing bountifully. Then he goes on, For God is able
to make all grace abound to you, that you having all sufficiency
in all things may abound to every good work.
But he. But in between that verse and
the next verse, he said in there as a man gives, let him give not
of necessity, or he said, give out of your heart whatever you
said in your heart. Let him give not grudgingly or
necessity for God loves a cheerful or Greek hilarious
giver. And then he said then God is
able to make all grace abound towards you and and anything
that you have need of, he can get it to you, but he wants you.
If you read the passage in context, it said he wants you
not ready to pay all your bills. I didn't say that it said ready
to all good work. So here's your question.
What am I focused on? And so most of the thing, and
I've told people before. I said, if you saw me in the
spirit, I'd look like Dumbo the elephant.
I'm walking around the halls out there and I'm listening.
And every now and then the Lord will put me in a position and
I'll hear somebody that's going through something and
financially they need this or they, you know, they don't know
how I'm going to get gas to get home.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard that one.
All right. And then, and you know what I'm
saying, Lord, you're going to allow me to hear things.
And I'm sure that, you know, you let me know and I'll take care
of it. Well, you know, because it isn't
associated with the church, because there's another thing in
Scripture called almsgiving, OK? You're not supposed to let your
right hand know what your left hand is doing.
In other words, don't put it on an envelope, OK?
You know, you just bless them. I it's it, it's the, it's the I
love your brother handshake. Give him a lot of those.
You know, I've, I've given them to waitresses before.
Just recently I had one, we, I didn't realize it, but we had
sat in this gal's booth for three hours.
I felt bad. So I just pulled out a bill, put
it in my hand and she, I said, I really want to appreciate and
tell you how much I appreciate your service today.
And he'll be, I know we took a little longer than you probably
do because I know you rotate these tables about every 45
minutes. And we took a long time.
We had a lot of catching up to do.
And I just, you know, I just didn't want you not making that
money. And I handed her that, Oh, thank
you. You know, so you got to be
sensitive. But the fact is, is if you get
out, give outside the church when the Lord tells you to that
it makes you a candidate as you give to men.
It didn't say give to your church.
Good measure pressed down, shaken together.
He said you give you when you give it, it said that men will
be able to give back into your bosom.
So the question you also have to ask is how many bosoms have I
given into? Right.
OK, so that's a good, great scripture.
All right. Somebody give me another one.
What? Yeah.
Where is that 2911? Is that right?
Are you sure? I could have just thrown
something out there and y'all are just so confident.
Somebody tell me if I'm right. OK, so he said, and and there's
so many good, good translations of that, but anybody been doing
the Bible reading plan? We just finished him yesterday.
We finished Jeremiah yesterday. And I can't say that I'm going
to miss him. OK, You know, I mean, I'm
thinking, you know, between him and Job and and the major
prophets, man, I'm, I'm just thinking, OK, give me a break.
I mean, every time you read it, it never changes.
You're hoping for a happier ending, you know?
All right, 2911 here we go. Start off at 10.
All right, I'll start off at 10. Then I'll take that
recommendation that after 70 years to be accomplished at
Babylon. Am I in there?
He said I will visit you. I perform my good word towards
you and causing you to return to this place.
All right, now, how many times has pastor said that God always
keeps his word. OK, now this is interesting.
You let him know. Judgments coming.
Y'all been 2 step, not stiff neck for too long.
OK, so babylon's coming. But if you'll submit yourself to
them, OK, I can bring you back. We know that a lot didn't, OK?
A whole whole lot said no. You're lying, Jeremiah.
You're a liar but notice in in in 11 he said for I know the
thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of peace,
not of evil to give you an expected end.
You know, other translations said to give you a hope and a
future. Here's here's the thing that we
really have to come to grip God's force and the word tells
us if God's for us, then who can be against you?
You know, I had somebody who was it the other day.
Was it you, Seth, The only thing that you got out of anything
that I ever said was they can't eat you.
Where were you the 1? You know, because we were going
through some financial stuff and and I had AI had a good friend
that was a multi millionaire in Australia and we were doing some
back and forth. This is during the Gabriel call
and and the whole bit. And so I was communicating with
him and and I was talking about, you know, we were having some
challenges with some debt and some different stuff like that.
Business wasn't, you know, exactly where I wanted business
to be, you know, to be able to get that under control and the
whole bit and then and he goes, one thing you need to remember,
man, they can't eat you. You got to think, no, they
can't. I guess if you're weighing
things out, you know, probably the worst thing in the whole
world to happen is get eaten. But if they can't eat you, you
know, So I thought that's good. Now it's funny to me that that's
the only thing you remember I said, but OK, OK, I got it.
I got it that I, I got it, I got it.
All right. So he said in there, he said, I
know the thoughts that I have thoughts of peace and not of
evil. I mean, we, we got to take that.
We got to know that, all right. And to give you an expected in
or a hope in the future. That's what God's about.
All right. I mean it, it didn't like we all
showed up and surprised him. Oh, no, where did they come
from? I mean, he had it laid out what
you're supposed to be doing the the purpose that you have in
life. So that is a fabulous scripture.
That's a good one. All right, give me another one.
Come on, let's get with the Hicks. 10/22 What I was going to
do that one. That was one I was going to give
you. Anybody who know it.
A blessing of the Lord makes the person rich.
And he adds no sorrow with David.
OK, you want to break it down, you enrichment?
That's good. You write that down or what'd
you do? Where'd you come up with that?
Is that your commentary in your Bible?
Oh, the different translations. OK, I got it.
I got it. All right.
So in there he says what he said, that the blessing of the
Lord maketh rich and adds no sorrow with it.
OK, Now, when he said he said the blessing of the Lord makes
rich. That's what we want more than
anything. We want the blessing of the
Lord. All right.
God blessed Abraham. It says, it didn't say he was
rich. It said he was very rich.
To me, there's a difference. OK, so he was very rich because
he had the blessing of the Lord. It was upon him.
All right. If you want to know the blessing
of the Lord and it and, and I was wanting, nobody's gone there
yet, but go ahead and jot it down.
It's Deuteronomy chapter 28, verses one through 14.
That'll cover all 12 of your Scriptures.
All right. But notice he said, He said if
you'll hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord your God and
do what he has commanded to do, He said, I will command this
blessing to come on you and overtake you.
So he says it's the blessing of the Lord that we won't now when
that one scripture, you know in in Proverbs 10, he said and adds
no sorrow with it. The word sorrow, it comes back
from one of the words in in the the Old Testament chapter 3.
All right, Genesis chapter 3 where the curses came on them
because of disobedience. OK, he told man think about
this. What did the devil tempt them
with? Their provision?
It was a tree that provided for them.
It was all around the provision and he was trying to get him off
of God. Will God really provide for you?
You know, and what God say? He said every tree in the garden
you can freely eat, but the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil in the middle of the garden, you're not going to eat
it because the day you do, you'll surely die.
So when you take a look at when you take a look at at the curses
that when he cursed the devil, you're going to crawl on your
belly. There's going to be an enmity
between her seed and your seed. All right, you're going to you
know, you're going to bruise his heel.
He's going to crush your head. Then he goes steps over to Eve
and said, because of what you've done, you're going to have
trouble and and and pain in childbearing.
All right. Then he walks, stands over and
he said, because you've done this cursed is the ground
because of you. What was that?
I'm not going to be able to help you with your provision.
You're going to go out there by the sweat of your brow and
you're going to go to work now because of the curse you
brought. I always wonder, you did this
all right? God let him.
You did this. And he said in sorrow you will
toil the ground until you return back.
The word sorrow there in the Hebrew is the word
worrisomeness. Now they're going to have to
worry. They've never had to worry
before because everything was provided.
But he said because of the curse, now you're going to have
to worry about where your provision is going to come from
because it's going to be it's going to be on you.
OK, So when he says this in there, he said there in in the
10th chapter of Proverbs, you know, he said the blessing of
the Lord make his risk and adds no sorrow with it.
In other words, when the blessings of the Lord come, it
adds no worry. Worry is eliminated.
Anybody ever worry? Come on, raise your hand.
Jesus comes tonight. Who's going?
You honest. Be honest with me.
Come on now. All right.
That's the thing that we have to worry about is worrying.
He don't want us worrying. OK?
He gave us a whole chapter about it.
If anybody finds that OK. But I encourage the Deuteronomy
28 verses one through 14, right? That one there gives you all the
promises of the blessing. OK, when the blessing comes on
you, you're going to have plenty in your storehouse.
You're going to have plenty of things to eat.
You're going to have rain in this due season.
You're going to have everything that God intended for you to
have. But the qualifier is verse one,
if you will hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God and
do according to what He has told you to do.
And it's interesting in the Hebrew, the word hearken is the
same word as obey. So God just don't want you to
hear it. He wants you to do it.
All right, So that's where we've got to.
We've got to get an understanding when we hear
something from the word, He's not just saying that because
it's something cool to say. He's saying he expects
obedience. If we want to see the things
he's promised, we have to use that on a daily basis.
All right, what else we how many do we have?
310 and I've only got 10 minutes.
OK, is that 10? Oh, here's a bonus, Malachi 310.
I know you have never heard me teach on it.
OK, everybody else better be able to figure out, huh?
OK, tell you again. All right, Malachi 310, bring
you all the tithe into the storehouse that there may be
meat in my house proving out here with, says the Lord of
hosts. If I'm not open the window to
heaven and pour you out a blessing that you shall not have
room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer
for your sake and your he will not have cast your fruit before
the time or your fields will not be empty.
OK. Is my translation all right?
When you talk about that scripture, there's 2 words in
there that a lot of people get hung up on, and it's the windows
of heaven. All right.
Now, first thing you got to know is who he's writing to.
He's writing to an aggregate society.
A lot of people have this picture of God.
He's sitting up there. U tithe.
He opens the window and starts throwing out United States
American cash. That's the picture.
That's not the picture. OK.
I don't even remember seeing anything about windows in
heaven. Heaven.
The 3rd Heaven. OK, All right.
Anybody remember the Hebrew word for Windows?
Anybody. That might be worth 20 bucks if
I had it on me. Huh.
Wait a minute. That's a damn and is breaking
through. Oh, that's pretty doggone close.
It is the word Aruba. It is a water sluice.
A water sluice is a lock at the head of a large body of water,
like a lake. It opens up and it starts a
river. OK, That is the word windows.
The word heaven is the word shamayam in the Hebrew, and it
means what the sky and it says the visible arch where the
clouds dwell. So when he's talking to this
aggregate society and he said the windows of heaven will open
and he said, and you'll not have room enough to receive it.
In simplicity, all he's talking about is rain.
How do I know that? Because that's not the only
place windows of heaven is used in Scripture.
Genesis Chapter 7 it said the windows of heaven were open and
rain descended upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights during the
flood of Noah. Chapter 8 says the windows of
heavens were restrained. The window of heavens were
closed and the rain was restrained.
OK so what's he saying in the 3rd chapter there?
OK, of Malachi said, listen, he said bring the tithe into the
storehouse and I will pour you out a blessing, OK?
We all want the blessing, but the blessing to them was rain
according to Deuteronomy 28 verse 12.
He said if you obey what I'm doing, I'm going to pour, I'm
going to give you this blessing and rain and it's due season was
part of that blessing. Then he goes on and he says, he
says in there, you'll not have room enough to receive it.
See, the only reason I did a study on that is 'cause I
thought I had more room and it wasn't filled yet.
I mean, I'm looking at people and saying, you know, when you
pulled your car out of the driveway, out of the garage, did
you have to kick the money back in there so you can shut the
door? I mean, that's the picture that
some people paint. And I said, and so when I
understood it was about the rain, because there's no
container on earth that can hold all the rain, No container.
But it's interesting, the next phrase in verse 10, it says in
there he said there shall not be room enough to receive it.
That phrase, only 7 words in that phrase are in the original
text. There's only three words in that
text that not enough. Instead of saying you know that
I'll pour you out a blessing. You will not have room enough to
receive it. Only three words in that whole
phrase are in existence in there.
So I said, well, they could be translated.
Then bring the tithe in the storehouse.
I'll pour you out a blessing and I'll open the windows head, pour
you out a blessing. And if that's not enough, I will
rebuke the devourer for your sake, and he shall not destroy
the fruit on the vine and your crop in the field.
So in other words, he's saying, listen, here's the test.
And he said, prove me now. It's the only place in Scripture
God says put me to the test. You know, most of the time we're
tempting God with all kind of crazy stuff.
You know, he said don't tempt the Lord your God.
But he says in there, he said, listen, he said prove me now if
I'm not open the window, heaven. So I told the Lord, I said
that's great information, but I don't know how it applies to me
because I don't like gardening. I said I can't grow nothing.
I said, in fact, if I had my way about it and the HOA was OK with
it, I just paved my yard and paint it green.
No more mowing, man. No more mowing, OK, But think
about that when he said that and I said, so Lord, what are you
trying to tell me? And he said it's simple, Randy,
listen, if you'll take care of what you can take care of by
bringing the tithe, I'll take care of the things in the
marketplace. You can't.
I mean, there's so many different things that have
happened, you know, in my life financially that I had, I had
no, no, nothing but God, but I knew I was tithing.
I call on that covenant. I said Father, I'm a tither.
I said that this situation I'm in right now, I just ask you
right now, you turn it around. You said all things work
together for good that are called according to your
purpose. I'm called here according to
your purpose. So turn this into a good
situation for us, you know. So what do we got?
That was 11/12. That was 10.
OK, all right, well, we reached the goal.
Everybody write them down. That was good, you know.
So, you know, start the day with those scriptures, speak into
existence what you want to see happen tomorrow, right?
Use the word because he loves it.
He just wants to know if you know it, But most people, they
won't take the time to memorize it.
I didn't look up, but a couple of them and I already knew what
they were because they're on the inside of me.
Just like the healing scriptures, you know, I, you got
to be able to quote those, you know, so that you can change
the, the, the financial realm, because that's what the, the
tide does for us. The tide changes the financial
realm into the Kingdom of God because we're doing what he
asked us to do. That's the only way he can get
involved in our stuff is that we are able to.
He says you bring the tithe, your money changes jurisdiction
when you give an offering. Oh, it for sure changes
jurisdiction and he has something to work with you on.
Anybody get anything from yourselves?
Way to go. You guys are awesome.
All right, so let's have a word of prayer and and we'll get out
here about four minutes early. That's good.
All right, Father, we thank you and praise you that we have the
opportunity to get together and just go over some of your word
as it concerns us that we don't want to be sewing wrong seed.
We want to sow the good seed of your word that you've promised
us in the past. We just need to rehearse it.
We need to go over it and over it and over it.
And Father, we thank you and praise you that every business
and every management position and every job that is in here
tonight is blessed of you. Just show us where we need to to
be, what we need to do, where we need to give.
Give us those opportunities to allow you to get involved with
what we're doing. We thank you and we praise you
for all your goodness and we thank you in Jesus name, Amen.
Amen. The.