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Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.
Now enjoy this message. We once again want to thank
Pastor on Marcy pessimist part Marcy for inviting us down and
being apart. It's been great to be with you.
Hallelujah. And we're excited about what God
is doing here at anchor Faith Church.
Amen, guys. Doing great.
Mighty things, and we are appreciative to be a part of
these things. How they lujah?
Amen. I do have a few books out there
that that you can look at, you know, when you, when you leave
just pick you up one, make sure you pay for it.
Hate to have to arrest you for stealing.
But anyway, know they lie. No, we give away as much as we
do anything else. In fact, if you, if you didn't
have the money, we'd give you something, amen.
Because we're out to get the word of God in your hearts and
lives how they lujah, but Bonnie and I love you, we appreciate
you. And we thank God for you, and we
just believe great things are on their way.
Amen. Hallelujah, let's pray.
We'll get into work. Father, we thank you and praise
you for the privilege. It is to open up the word of
God. We Trust You, Lord, to speak to
us and through us an order. We Ourselves to hear this word,
receive it and act upon and be doers of it.
And we thank you, Lord, for working in our lives, and
bringing forth the fruit of your word, and we give you praise for
it. Now, in Jesus name, amen.
Amen. I want you to look in your
Bibles to Glaciers chapter 3. In this third chapter, the
Apostle Paul's especially beginning to make a great
distinguish between, you know, a difference between the works of
the law and faith and he's drawing the people out of trying
to just do things because they're following the law but
he's wanting them to get over and understand that God, blesses
us through faith and all that he's done is already available
to us. Amen.
And he's trying to give them to look to God and trust God and
follow the example of Abraham. But I want you to look down
here, will look in verse 13 first and I'll bounce around a
little bit and they'll follow me, praise God.
But in verse 13, Paul says, Christ has no set past tense.
Already done it Christ. Has redeemed us from the curse
of the law, having become a curse for us for it is written.
Cursed, is everyone who hangs on a tree?
Why did he do it? That?
The Blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ
Jesus that we might receive the promise of the spirit through
faith. Notice here that he says Christ
is already redeemed us from the curse of the law that The
Blessing of Abraham could now come upon the Gentiles through
faith in Christ Jesus. In other words, when you get
into Christ Jesus, you are qualified for the blessing of
Abraham. Amen.
And then you get jump down to verse 29 and he says, and if you
are Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs.
According to the promise. In other words, if Jesus is my
Christ, my Lord and my king, then I become an heir to the
promise that God made to Abraham.
That means I'm an heir to All The Blessing of Abraham and it
also means that I'm not going to get redeemed from the curse.
I'm already redeemed from the curse.
Amen. Now he has some people wanted to
mean by saying redeemed from the curse of the law and I said,
well redeem from sin. Well, yes, that's that's true,
but that's only part of it. You got to understand, he didn't
just say that he redeemed you from sin.
He said, he redeemed you from the curse of the law.
So that means it's from all the curse, not just part of in the
curse, was a three-fold curse. It was first of all, spiritual
death. Remember over in Genesis 2, when
God spoke to Adam and he said, don't eat of this tree because
in the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die dying.
Spiritually eventually, you'll die physically.
It means you'll be separated from God.
So we know that Jesus redeemed us from the curse of sin because
Second Corinthians 5:21 says for.
He was made to be sin who knew no sin that we could be made the
righteousness of God in him. Men.
So, Jesus took our sin redeemed us from the curse of sin.
Hallelujah and therefore when we call upon his name there's no
sin look. Big enough or strong enough to
keep us from being saved because we've already been purchased,
our Salvation has been perjury. D means to purchase.
Amen. So the Lord is already purchased
our deliverance from sin and Satan in the power of darkness.
And now we can receive the blessing of Abraham, which means
righteousness and a righteous walk with God.
Amen. Hallelujah.
But it was also the part of the curse of law was physical.
It was, you know, sickness and disease.
You can read that in Deuteronomy 2015 through 60.
And and we also know this, according Isaiah 53 and 15 in
the great. Redemptive chapter of the Bible
that Jesus was made to be sickness for us, he was made to
be disease. He carried all those things for
us and they goes on and says, and by whose stripes we are
healed. Amen.
So Jesus redeemed me from sickness and disease and with
the stripes of wounded him on calvary's Cross.
I am now a partaker of the blessing of healing.
Hallelujah. So that means that my healing
has already been provided for me.
Amen. It's in Christ and if I'm in
Christ, that means I have access to being healed in my body at,
praise God. But the curse was also a
three-fold curse. It was also whenever Adam, you
know, was was created put in the garden, God gave him dominion
over the works of his hands, and he told him every tree, and
every fruit and everything's for you, and all this prosperity and
all this blessings for you. But when he sinned, God, came
and said now you're the grounds cursed for your sake.
And now you'll work by the sweat of Brow, you'll plant little a
lot and reap little. Amen.
So what was that? Curse of poverty Came Upon the
human race but thank God. Jesus Christ, became poor on the
cross that in his poverty, we could be made Rich.
Hallelujah. Jesus Paid the price so that I
can have my needs met and walk in prosperity in this life.
Amen. Now, how am I going to get all
this to working? I have to get the spirit of God
working in me and bring these things to pass because he said
we receive this through faith in Christ Jesus.
Now, go back to Galatians here, chapter three and jump up, jump
up here, and look in verse 6. He says this just as Abraham
believed God and it was accounted to him for
righteousness. Therefore know that only those
who are Faith are the sons of Abraham notice this he's talking
about me being in a Seed of Abraham and are of Abraham and
heir to the promises. And he says this, Abraham walked
by faith. And he says, if you want to
become a son of Abraham or a Seed of Abraham, then you've got
to get over in the same kind of Faith, he operated in, Amen.
Then he jumps down to verse 9. It says.
So then those who are of Faith are blessed with believing
Abraham. Those who are of Faith are
blessed with believing Abraham. You know, this is the thing
about Abraham, Abraham had a believing faith.
Amen. Not a try.
It Faith. Well, I'm gonna go check it out
and see if it works. No, that's not Faith.
That's not the kind of Faith going to get you.
The victory. Well, you know what?
I'm gonna go up there and if it's God, he'll do.
He'll just give it to me. No, he didn't have that kind of
Faith either and he didn't have a Thomas Faith.
Remember the Thomas said, unless I see him and touch him, I am
not going to believe. Amen.
The Lord rebuke Thomas, but he commanded Abraham.
Hallelujah. So it's not a faith that you
have to see it before. He can believe it.
Abraham had a believing Faith, a faith that reached out and
believed what God would do for him.
Amen. And he says, only those who have
a believing Faith, like Abraham head will be able to operate in
the blessings of God. Now, what did Abraham build his
faith on? What, how could Abraham believed
that God would do what he said? Well, look back over in, Romans
the fourth chapter, Romans chapter 4 and will read two
verses here, verses 17 and 18. Here Paul is giving us the
account of Abraham's faith and how he got blessed.
And he says, as it is written, I have made you a father of many
nations in the presence of him, whom he believed even God, who
gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist
as though, they did, who contrary to Hope in Hope
believed. So that he became the father of
many nations. Now, listen, according to that,
which was spoken. So shall your descendants be
Abraham built his faith and believed On what God Said.
God's word, amen. Notice in verse 17.
He says as it is written. But in verse 18, he says he
believed in that, which was spoken, you know, he had believe
in faith. You have to take the Bible from
a written word to a spoken word. Did you hear me?
This Bible needs to speak to me. How there needs to be a word of
God. Speaking to me, it's not going
to be believing Faith, just because it's written.
I Gary, this Bible round all day long, and it's not going to help
my faith. I can read this Bible and it's
not going to do anything. Faith.
But when this Bible stops being just the written word and starts
becoming the spoken word into my heart, Then it puts me in a
position to begin to walk in the blessings that God has for me,
men. And so therefore I need to let
this word every time open the Bible up, I need say Lord, I
Thank you that you speak to me through your word and I receive
your word speaking to me. Now what is your will?
And I thank you. Lord God because Romans 10:17
says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God with
the word just stays written, you're not hearing it.
Buzz. The word becomes spoken to you.
Then you're hearing it. Amen.
I hear it. Talking to me.
Praise God. There are times, I doubt, I'll
be real honest with the enemy's attacking and things are going
on. And you know what happens, I can
hear the word of God speaking to me.
Because you see, I took it from these pages and put it in my
heart, and now it's living in my heart and it's a living
breathing life of God. And whenever I need God, to
speak to me, you know. God always speaks through his
word. Amen.
Somebody says, I don't know if that's God or not.
What does it line up with the word because God will never say
anything contrary to the world? Oh no, I disagree with you
passed up in the Lord. Spoke me says now he's will to
heal. Me wasn't the Lord, that's the
devil. Will sound like the Lord?
Yeah. Well, the devil also dress up
like an angel light, but he's not one.
Somebody says, how can you say it's not God because it's not in
the Bible is not written, nowhere in the Bible, will God,
tell you is not his will to heal.
You is not his will to bless you.
Is not his will to save. You is not his will to fear with
the Holy Ghost is not his will to get you through that
situation. Amen.
And this is the thing you got to understand.
Once again, all the promises of God are in him.
Yes. And in him, Amen, to us who
believe him, amen. So so God is not saying yes, and
no, he's saying always. Yes.
Yes, Hallelujah. Booyah, so when I read this word
it's always a yes that's God talking to me that's God's will
for me. Hallelujah.
And so we're going to walk in the blessings of the lord.
We have to get in the word and begin, let it change the way we
think. The way we see, in fact, in
Romans chapter 12, we've looked at before, but we're real close
to a, let's look over here and in Romans, chapter 12 and verse
to listen to what he says. He says, And do not be conformed
to This World by the but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind that you may prove what is the good acceptable and
perfect will of God, what's he saying?
God is speaking to us here, and he's saying this, you need to
get to the place where that word goes from a written word to a
spoken word and it's actually talking to you.
And your mind thinks it See what the enemy attacks you instead of
the first thought was oh my God, I'm going to die.
Your first thought should be greater, is he that's in me than
he that's in the world? First John 4:4, when the enemy
says you're not going to make it through this time, you need to
have Roma. See Rise, right up and say but
in all these things, I'm more than a conqueror through him.
Who loves me and all of a sudden that worst are speaking to you,
praise God, see Abraham whenever he would look at his body and
look at his wife and they were old and they were, they were
Beyond childbearing age, instead of letting her all the symptoms
and all the circumstances. Speak to him, he allowed God's
word to speak to him and he just stirred himself up.
Hallelujah. And when he needed the word to
speak to him, he just went right back to what God Said.
Do you know that you don't have to just read the Bible once the
read a scripture? Once you should read it
everyday? Amen.
Hallelujah, you're believing God for healing.
Just don't read a healing scripture, one time and leave it
alone and it's all I got it. No, you need to stay with and
let it talk to you all the time. Praise God.
And so that way we begin to get blessed because those who are of
the faith of with the believing Abraham get blessed with the
blessings of Abraham. So I got to get over in the
face. Got to believe God.
That means I've got to change the way I think.
I gotta change the way. I see things, I've got to get to
the place, where my mind isn't telling me.
I'm going to lose. My mind is speaking to me, the
word of God and it's telling me I'm going to win.
Hallelujah. Amen.
Because the word will always speak Faith to you.
Amen. And the word will always speak.
God's will to you. Amen, somebody says, well, I
just don't know where to go. To get what God wants me to do.
I tell you what? You do, get your Bible, get your
app, whatever you're going to do and get in the presence of God,
say, holy ghost, you are the spirit of Truth and you're the
one that guy's been truth. In fact, Holy Spirit.
Everything was written by inspiration from you.
So you know it backwards and forwards and inside now, so take
me to the word and make that word a Living Word and me, take
it from a written word to a spoken word.
So, this not somebody else's word is my word.
Hallelujah. And talk to me.
Hallelujah and help me to have faith.
And, and to trust God, so that when of the enemies coming in
saying, it's not going to work. The thoughts in my head, ours,
God's already. Give me this blessing.
I'm already redeemed from the curse.
Jesus is already my Christ. And therefore, if he is my
Christ in him, I'm already blessed.
Hallelujah. And I have access to this.
Praise God. See this is the Life that God is
calling us to walk in. Now, look in third, John and
verse two, third John, there's only one chapter.
So we'll just look in the second verse.
And third, John averse to John's writing to the church and he
says beloved. Now how do you know what?
Ephesians 16 says? We've been accepted in the
bluff. So he's talking to you and me as
the amen. Look what he says, beloved.
I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health.
Just as her even as your soul prospers.
Notice that there's three areas here, that John is wanting these
people to prosper. He's wanting them to prosper in
the financial realm, in the material realm.
He's wanting them to to prosper in the Physical Realm and he's
wanting them to prosper in the spiritual realm Blessing of
Abraham spirit. Physical and financial, amen.
But notice something that he says this, I want you to prosper
and be in health even as your soul prospers.
You know that your, your material prosperity and your
physical natural Prosperity is dependent on your spiritual
prosperity. I will never Prosper naturally
more than I'm prospering spiritually.
Come on now because you're going to prosper.
And one translation says prosper and have a prosperous journey
and be healthy and whole while you're walking it.
Hallelujah. That's pretty good prayer in
that. Amen.
But he says, in this will happen even as, or just as you prosper
in your soul, he is saying this. If you want to prosper in
prosperity, you want to be victorious.
You want to be an overcomer, you have to first prosper in your
spiritual walk with God, you have to prosper in the word.
Yesterday, full of the Holy Ghost, and you let God change
the way you think, where you walk way?
You talk everything about you. Praise God.
Amen. I was born again.
I got filled with the Holy Ghost and I was I love God.
And I was witnessing to people Bonnie and I we were going to a
Baptist Church in. This was in the summer between
my senior year in college and my fall going to Rhema and we were
going to a church there in Virginia.
And we started having Bible studies over at the And we have
six couples or so every Saturday evening and we have a little
fellowship and some food. And and I just bring them in
because these were hungry folks in our church and I say I just
discovered something is really great.
I started this towards the middle of June because in the
first of June, June 27, I got in filled the Holy Ghost and so I'd
say let me share some things with you and I'd take them in as
really just sharing, what I read, what brother Hagin said,
and I was teaching some of his stuff and I was I was reading it
out of the word and giving it to him and you know, we Do we get
done? When we get done, we pray and I
lay hands on them and I got, I got a bunch of folks in that
Baptist Church. Feel the Holy Ghost on Saturday
night. We almost became a charismatic
Baptist Church. Praise God.
But you know how, you know, how they got the the prosperity
going there less, they accepted the word and it changed their
mind. They couldn't get feel the Holy
Ghost till they heard the word because you can have faith for
something you don't know about. Amen.
Then one of the ladies in the church, she did something and
strained her back and she could hardly get out of bed and so
they called us. And they told us to come over
now I was just just really fanatical and some people say I
still am but you know, we were working a job and we're praying
in the spirit. We've got hold of that.
And we've got a whole, a few brother Hagin stuff.
And I was reading and I was just thrilled.
I mean I was just so excited for God that week before, she'd
called I came home, we lived out in the country down on the farm.
There was no air conditioning back in those days in 1977 and
we had the screen doors open and it's big nice Farmhouse and they
had the acre dairy farm that we're living on there and stuff
and Bonnie's sister. And her husband were there and
he had just gotten saved and he was kind of new at this.
And and so I came home from work and he was already there and we
had a fan setting up in the living room and I walked over to
turn on. He said it's not working.
This broke apparently, And I said, oh, and he's reading his
newspaper and so I walked over there and I started fooling with
it and he said it won't run. I said, well, okay and so I sit
there and I flipped the front and I just, you know, I just
guess I was just crazy enough wild up believing God enough to
do it. I just laid my hands on that
fan. I said it's hot in here in Jesus
name, I command you to run and when I did he pull the paper
down? Like what are you doing when I
turn around and raise it back up real quick?
And I know in his mind he was gone.
He's a nut But I turn that thing on.
I took my hand stuck in the wood side Now.
Flip the fan little bit and start it up a little bit and he
quit. I said no.
I said I told you to run. Don't start and quit run and I
flipped it again and started running.
He probably thing down. I took the fan off of him and
turned around and put it on me. Hallelujah.
Amen. Well, a couple days later, we
get the call from this couple and their there.
She's want us to come over and pray for.
So I still didn't know how he was dealing with me, you know,
be a little fanatical like that, but we got over there, and we're
sitting around table. She got up and she came out the
table and sit down. The kitchen could barely sit
there. And so I said, well, I'm going
to share some healing scriptures with you and I'm going to
minister to you through healing and then I'm going to pray for
you, lay hands on you and I believe God will heal Liam
before I could say anything else.
My brother-in-law piped up and said, God will heal you to.
I washed him. A calf and work the other day.
Hallelujah, tie up the shorts, make the story, a little short,
I laid hands on her. We pray for her when I got down,
stood behind her, leave my hands on her back kosher neck and
stiff. And when I laid hands on her and
said, be healed in Jesus day when I got done.
I said, okay, how you doing? Cheering Bank says, I'm Healed
got up and served as Hallelujah. Somebody says, I wish I worked
for me, it don't work, but wishing it works, because I'd
begin to feed and change my thinking and believe that God
could do anything based on what he said, and he's worthy men.
See, you're going to prosper. I started prospering.
Once I got a hold of the fact that God didn't want me to be
poor anymore. Now, I'd like to get off in law.
Thanks, but can I just see her in for a few moments on
Prosperity? Maybe if Pastor invites me back,
we can teach a little bit more on healing to.
But anyway, let's just look at the prosperity party.
Amen. Praise God.
How did you get to started praying being prosperous?
Well, the prosperity comes just like everything else comes you
are you can be redeemed from the curse of poverty and be so poor
you Pay attention, we have nothing.
Love God, and God love you. And you can be so poor that you
just barely getting along. Amen.
And then we come along say that's just your lot in life,
just settled in do without and, you know, a lot of churches
preach at, you know, a lot of places do lesser darling hearts
and stupid heads. But anyway, It's just not right
a van no you're going to you're not going to prosper until you
change your thinking about Prosperity.
No she said beloved, I pray that above all things, you may
prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers for me to
prosper, have to change what I see Prosperity have to stop
seeing it Through The Eyes Of The World, start seeing it
Through The Eyes of the word. And I have to quit thinking like
the world thinks and start thinking like God thinks and I
can't think like God he thinks if I don't renew my mind with
the word of God, So, what I've got to do is get into the word
and transformed the way, I see things and begin to see myself,
prospering the way God says that, I'm the prospering to do
that. The first thing I got to do is I
got to get in the word, amen! And let it become a spoken word
to me. And in second Corinthians, 13:1
that the Apostle Paul said in the mouth of two or three
Witnesses, let every word be established.
So, if you're going to establish something in your life, you know
what you need to do? You need to make sure you have
three scriptures from the Bible that agree with each.
And stand on him, hallelujah. Amen.
Believe God. Don't ever.
Just pull some isolated scripture out of the Bible and
try to make a Doctrine out of it.
If it's not consistently in the word, then you don't want to try
to make something out of it. That is not amen.
But here in second Corinthians the eighth chapter.
Let's jump over here real quick. Second Corinthians chapter.
I let me give you three good scriptures.
You can stand on To change your thinking, that God really does
want you to prosper in 2nd Corinthians, chapter 8 and verse
9. The Bible says, for, you know,
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And if you don't, you need to get to He-Man, we need to know
the grace of our Lord. Jesus Christ knows this.
Is his grace. That means it's unmerited favor.
Something he chose for us is not something that we talked him
into. Amen.
For you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he
was rich yet for your sakes, he became poor that you through his
poverty, might become rich, have a full abundant supply of one
translation says amen. Now, when did Jesus become poor?
He became poor physically or financially and materially on
the cross. Amen?
When they stripped him and hang him on the cross, Jesus, gave up
everything on the cross and on the cross, he A remember,
glaciers 3 says, that Christ redeemed us from the curse being
made a curse for us for curse everyone who hangs on a tree or
on a cross. Amen.
So if Jesus became poor for us, he became poor on the cross and
on the cross. Jesus was taking our poverty and
shame upon himself, so that we could have the abundance of God
come back in our lives. Amen.
So for every need of your life that you have right now.
Christ, Jesus went on The cross so that you can have that need
met. And you need to stop seeing
yourself, poor and defeated and and not going to have anything
and start seeing yourself the way.
God says you are that he is get his made, you rich that you can
have a full abundant Supply bills paid.
Hallelujah, good things going on a money left over.
Then the month, praise God. Not living on barely get along
Street. Amen.
Brother. Hagin you say living on barely
get along Street down by grumbles loudly.
Amen, that's about the truth of it to know.
Look in 2nd Corinthians chapter 9, that's chapter 8.
Now jump one chapter over second Corinthians 9 verse 8.
Look what he says here. Here's the second verse of stand
on and God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you
always having all sufficiency. In all things may have an
abundance. That's very good.
Work, glory to God. One translation says in, God, is
able to make all Grace every favor and Earthly blessing of
bound towards you. Why is he wanting all these
Earthly Faith? These favors an Earthly
blessings of bounding to me so that I may always have all
sufficiency in all things and have an abundance for every good
work. Glory to God.
God Wants You prospering, amen. Beloved, I pray above all
things. You may Prosper have a
prosperous life. You got to get that in your
spirit. You got to renew your mind to
that. Praise God.
You got to begin to, see God, taking care of you and meeting
your knees and blessing. You a third scripture to stand
on the courses Philippians 4:19. Hallelujah, Philippians 4:19.
Listen. What he says, again, praise God.
And my God shall supply. All everybody say all, oh my
God, shall supply, all your need, according to his riches in
Glory by Christ, Jesus. Whoo.
Glory to God. You don't know what my need is
fast up, and I don't have to I'm not going to supply.
But God knows your need and God says here.
He says, you need to know my grace because my grace, through
my grace, I want on the crossing border your poverty so that you
could be supplied with a full Rich Supply and now that I'm
your God, I desire to meet every need of your life and supplied
fully through Christ. Jesus, your Lord, because you're
in Christ, which makes you an heir to the promise.
Therefore, God says, I want to make my promise come alive in
your life. Glory to God.
Hallelujah. See these are things.
We learn Christianity does a progressive.
Walk with God, you understand that you get born again, praise
God. And then you get in the word and
you find out what you got born again into Hallelujah.
And then as you hear the word, the word, opens up your eyes,
and your heart to know what Christ did for you and all the
blessings that are available to you, praise God.
And then God begins to teach you how to live and walk in and make
it work in your life trouble with a lot of As we only used
our faith to get saved, said down and waiting on God to come
back. God Gave You faith for more than
just getting saved with amen. Hallelujah, has now started
developing your faith and get filled the Holy Ghost, then once
you get filled the Holy Ghost, develop your faith, get filled
with healing and health in your body.
Praise God. And then get in the word of God
and get your faith working and get full of peace.
That passes all understanding, and then go ahead and get your
faith out there. Praise God, and believe that you
bless coming in and bless going out.
And God will prosper you and bless the work of your hands,
and cause you never good life and bring you up to another
level. Oh, that.
You never thought you could ever be.
Hallelujah. Amen.
And you see, I'm not just preaching a message you out of
the Bible. I'm preaching lifestyle messages
to you. I live this stuff.
Praise God. Listen Bonnie, and I, we came
out of abject poverty. I'm bibley God.
I thought I was bad until I met her and she was almost worse off
of me. Hallelujah.
I used to tease him all the time, I'd preach.
Sometimes it Raymond, I'd say, you know, It, we were so poor
that if you've got an old Webster's Dictionary looked up,
poverty had picture my family on it.
Because using those days example, Hallelujah, I was
raised in church where we were taught.
That, you know, being poor is a blessing and I used to pray for
everybody else to get that blessing and not me, it's such a
blessing. Why don't you just keep it then?
I don't want that blessing. Amen.
I was taught that. If you're sick, you're suffering
for the Lord. I got sick.
One time, I was playing football and in college and between my
Junior and Senior year, we, I was going to work in the church.
At the Baptist Church and help was with my vacation bible
school and I got sick. And that was in bed for a week
and I finally got a little bit better and I got up and was
feeling better and don't step in.
It, got a relapse, came back on me and about about 10 days into
that sickness. I was laying there.
And I finally said, Lord, I don't know what you're teaching
me, but if you don't get the message to me quick, you're
about to kill me. Because they taught me that, you
know, God, would you sickness the teaching?
And if God was using poverty to teach me, I never did get that
lesson. Hey man, no God doesn't teach
you through sickness, he doesn't teach you through bad accidents.
He doesn't teach you the fox God, teach it to you through the
word of God. He teaches you through the power
of the Holy Spirit and he teaches you through Apostles,
prophets evangelists pastors and teachers that have been said in
the church to equip you and train you and perfect you, so
you can walk in the power of God.
Amen. Does say faith comes by being
sick or faith. Comes by not having enough money
to pay your bills, says faith comes by hearing the word.
Glory to God. Amen.
And so we need to understand God has spoken to us here and he
said he wants to meet her needs. I remember whenever I was going
to Raymond when I got a hold of this you know brother Bobby and
he was teaching a class and he was teaching and he brought out
and he said you know, Isaiah 1:19 which is a verse brother.
Hagin use lat. If you be willing and obedient
you eat the good of the land. Well bond.
And I weren't eating the Google and some days we weren't eating
at all. Amen.
Men. Because we were just believing
God's just everyday to make it because we went straight out
there. We got to fill the Holy Ghost
and you got to understand something.
My background in the Bible is 0, I didn't own a Bible until after
we got married. I never had a communion service
until after we were married. I didn't know what they were
doing. We went to the Baptist Church
about three weeks that fall life, we got married and and was
in service. They had a, he had a communion
service and ask Bonnie what they were doing.
She said they're having communion, I said okay what's
that? She know, you know the the wine
and the and the and the bread I said they serve wine in the
Baptist Church. She goes knowledge Jews.
I said, well, they call it juice in the bridge, you can see Just
listen, and he'll tell you how they live.
But that was my foundation of the Bible.
I didn't do anything. Amen.
Somebody said, how did you get it?
How'd you get about. Well, you know, we we didn't
know where to go to, get a Bible didn't know anything.
My uncle said, you know, there's a Christian station on.
You have to listen to it. I thought a Christian radio
station while they play on a Christian radio station.
I didn't like the music, they sang in the church.
I thought I was sure. I wouldn't like the stuff they
put on a Christmas Day. But we was, you know, back in
those days, you could, you could get S&H, Green Stamps, and all
this stuff. So some of y'all wouldn't know
it. But some of you would how they
Lea and you could take a book once you got to fill it up and
watch so many books, you could take to a Redemption story and
you could cash it in and get what they had in there.
And so we went to this store one time and it was a Bible over
there and it was for book and we had a book.
So we got us a bob with the Redemption short this nation
Green Stamps. They then took it home and share
it with each other. Hallelujah, and took turns
reading it, praise God. And that's where we started
with. And so I'm sitting there and
brother, Yang is teaching, if you be willing in beating you
eat the good of the land and I said there, and I thought,
praise God. That's good.
Hallelujah. And then he said this, he said
now if you're here in the school and you're willing and obedient
be where God wants you to be, then you don't have to wait till
you get out of the ministry to get prosperous.
God will meet your needs right here.
And I went Glory to God. I thought I had to go do
something before he'd meet my needs, but I found out if I'd
get in faith, he'd meet my needs right there.
Whatever, he asked me to do, he would take care of me while I
was doing it just ain't God would never ask you to do
something and then not Finance it for you but he does expect
you to believe him. Remember to get blessed to have
blessed Faith like the Abraham and Abraham believed god with
believing Faith. Amen.
So how am I going to walk in this faith and prosper and do
things of God? First of all mo renew my mind to
the word of God then look back over here, in second Corinthians
real quick, the 9th chapter. And and then I'm going to have
to do some things with it. Because see James 2:19 and 20
says that faith without works is dead.
How many of you know, just because you know something is
not going to work for you? How many of, you know, you came
to church, you heard the word of God, the gospel, and you knew
that Jesus was Lord. You knew you need to repent, you
need your new. You need to come to the Altar
and you knew, you need to give your heart to Christ, but you
didn't do it. And even though you knew it, you
still didn't get saved. You didn't get safe to you acted
upon what you do. Amen.
It took Faith to get you say, because you're saved by grace
through what through faith. Amen.
So you had to act on that knowledge for it to work for
you. Amen.
I'm never gotten anything just because I knew it.
If I'm going to operate in the things of the kingdom of God, I
just can't know it. I've got to act upon what I
know. Amen.
I've got split some action with my faith.
Praise God and believe it, and act upon it.
Now, here in second Corinthians chapter 9 beginning of verse 6.
He says this, but this I say he who sow sparingly shall reap
also sparingly and he who sows bountifully?
Shall reap bountifully. So let each one that hears, what
you got to get so they each one give as he purposes in his
heart, not grudgingly. Necessity for God, loves a
cheerful giver and God is able to make all grace abound toward
you that you always having all sufficiency.
In all things may have an abundance for every good work.
What is God saying to us? You need to understand some of
the church. There is a law that God said in
motion right after the flood and you've got to know it's in
operation day and the Lord Jesus brought that law out in the
Kingdom of God. In Genesis 822 God spoke.
And he said as long as the Earth remains seedtime and harvest
cold and heat day. A knight and winter summer,
shall not cease. How many of you know they're
still cold and heat? They're still day and night,
they're still summer and winter and they're still seedtime and
harvest. You can take C go out here and
playing the ground and it will come up.
Then in Mark, Chapter 4, verses 26 through 29.
Jesus comes along and says the kingdom of God, as if a man
should sow his seed in the ground and go to sleep by Night,
get up by the day and he said the sea will spring up.
He doesn't know how but the Earth yields first Horses, fruit
first, the blade, then the full of stock, then the coin, he
says, and when the Harvest comes in, he pulls out the sickle and
reap. So, what's he saying?
Seedtime and harvest is a kingdom law that if you want God
to do something for you, you have to listen to him.
Do what he says, I kept on what he says and use that as your
seat. Your seat is not money, folks.
Your seed, is you in your heart, choosing to do what?
God told you to do. If money or or finances or
things was the seed, then the woman that put in the two mites
over there and Jesus said she put in more than all the rich
people. Well how could she do that?
Is she didn't put in as much money as they did because you
see you got to understand something.
The Lord doesn't look at the material thing as the seed.
God looks at you, purposing in your heart.
To do what he said to do is the seed.
It's not the natural thing that's getting God's attention.
It's faith that pleases God and God says, as you purpose in your
heart. So let him give.
What's he saying? Be led by the spirit of God and
do what God says and that is your seed.
Amen. See we put all this stuff in the
natural but it's not a natural thing.
The kingdom of God is a spiritual Kingdom that produces
natural results. Amen.
And so, What I do whenever I'm trusting God for something, God
will give me a seed and show me what to do with it.
And my seed is obeying God and doing what he told me to do.
And it works in every year and I just finances talked to work.
Today, we're over in Proverbs 18.
He says, if you want to have friends, you have to sow a seed
and be friendly. Amen, for men have friends.
You must first, show himself friendly.
That's what Proverbs what 1824 somewhere in that area says.
And so what's he saying there? He's saying somebody comes at
me. Suspiciously pretty from have
any friends. I thought, well, he isn't we
know you're telling yourself, aren't you?
Because if you was being friendly, you'd have a whole
Harvest of friends coming around.
Amen. God will begin to bless you with
friends. Well, I'm afraid.
Oh, I might get rejected. Oh, wait a minute.
Those who are Faith with believing Abraham get bless.
You can't let fear stop you from obeying God and expect a harvest
of blessing. Come on.
I'm preaching about in your shouting now.
Hallelujah. Are you listening?
See it? Whatever Harvest I'm believing
God for I need to hear from the Lord and see what kind of seed I
need to. So to get it.
Hey, man. And then I need to step out in
faith and sew that seed. Whether it's a giving of
something or whether it's a giving of myself, or whether
it's a kind word, or whether it's is being a friend of
somebody, I am sowing a seed to honor, God and worship him,
because I'm releasing the very law, the kingdom of seedtime and
harvest, and I'm going to get back in my life.
What I saw out to you. And you know, the great thing
about it is going to come back to me.
Good measure pressed down shaken together and running over
because God is going to always outdo me.
Oh, my in. It was a seed on God's end.
It was a harvest. Hallelujah, are you hearing me?
And how am I going to do it? I have to get in the word
change, the way. I see things because God is, if
he's asking you to do something, there's a great blessing
attached to that action that he's asking you to do because
the action. He's asking you to do is your
seed of faith that he is looking for you to release to him.
So he can take your seat of faith and multiply it and bring
it back to you as a harvest. Tell the kingdom works, you
don't get blessed and then you go be a friend.
Well, if I get turned down. So what if you do?
Pray for them, love them and go on.
They turn you down. Who wants him as a friend.
Anyway. God's got some else.
Be a better friend than them. Hallelujah.
And besides this I found out a lot of times whenever I'm sewing
and doing some stuff, I don't get my reward from where I
sewed. Anyway, God brings it in all
kinds of places because she I do not limit my God in meeting my
needs. Amen.
Because I'm going to sow my seed and I put the Harvesters in his
hands. See Paul said I planted Apollo's
watered but God gave the increase.
Are you hearing me now? This this comes right around in
finances. It comes right around with with
the physical blessings, whatever you're believing God, for
tonight, it all we'll start with a seed.
God has spoken to bond and I and he said he's told us many times.
Now, we're not when I'm talking about see here, I'm not talking
about your ties. I'm talking about, the tithe is
the Lord's and is Holy unto the Lord and we bring that into the
house of God. So the house is full and the
gospel is preached in the lives of people are changed.
Amen. And the work of the, the
ministry goes forward. I'm talking about me, I've
already tied of already given. I've already placed my hands on
you. Got to make God my source and
now Lord. I need the situation to be
changed over here. What seed should I?
So what would you have me to do that?
I can do as unto you with a heart.
That's pure and loving. And and to be a blessing,
Because I want to do this to honor you.
First of all, Amen. Listen, I've had people do all
kinds of things. I was sharing a testimony with
Pastor there and we were talking whenever back, my goodness.
This is been one 1982. Praise God.
How they lose been a few years ago and amen, 82 with you think
a few years ago. Anyway, we were out in Arkansas
and it was Christmas time. And it was a couple weeks about
three weeks before, crib out this time of the year and and we
had no money. We just had nothing.
We take a little church, was rebuilding it and trying to get
things going and we were we've pray.
God we need some, your kids were small.
Josh was getting ready to go in the first grade or kindergarten
I guess somewhere in that area and Anna was just a
three-year-old or something like that.
And so, you know, we want to get him a little bicycle and we want
to get her a little trach and few little things we have money,
we were We were there to rebuild the church.
We went there by faith, where we're just, we're sewing into
these people. And a friend of mine came by and
he said, hey, would you like to go with me over here to
so-and-so in Oklahoma? I want to go over a minister
friend of mine, so I said sure. So I got up that morning.
I had three one dollar bills in my pocket and I thought, well,
at least I can buy me a hamburger if we stop someplace,
amen. Because I can still get that and
71 to 80 something, you could still do that.
And so I thought it's cheaper hamburger, but it would Hamburg.
Praise God. But anyway, I thought, yeah,
I'll go with you. I did always gone and so we get
over there. And I knew this guy, he, I
actually knew him. He was, you know, businessman.
He had hit a lot of things going on.
He was part of the ministry there at Rhema and he was one of
the actually board member there and so we got to talking and
ever sees two other guys International Full Gospel
businessmen. And so we're sitting there at
the table, back in his office and friend that took me over, he
looks at him and says well, The reason I came over here was this
God spoke to my heart and said, I want you to sow a seed because
I know you was kind of running a little short on cash flow.
And so I'm just going to bless you through the holidays and he
pulls out a check for 5,000 dollars and lays it on the
table. Glory to God?
Why didn't give me five thousand dollars?
I mean, you know, I don't have any Maga three dollars.
And so the other guy stand there and he pulls out a cashier
check, I want to get in, he pulls out, twenty-five hundred
dollar, check and puts it on the table.
Man, this is getting serious now.
Now this is why I don't want to miss out on the blessing.
He pulls out twenty-five hundred leads it on the table.
Now there's ten thousand dollars on that table.
I'm sitting there going man, that's great.
And by the time, the spirit of God said, so your three dollars
I said, I ain't going to do it. Yeah, ain't gonna happen.
Mmm, no. It's pretty God said, give your
money, so your seat, I said, Darkness $3, I'm going to do it
now. We can't do it now weekend.
Yeah, And the Lord spoke to me and said, Are you ashamed of me?
I said, no, I'm not ashamed. He said then so your seat.
I said Lord he's got ten thousand dollars it'll be ten
thousand and three dollars. And if we go out to lunch after
this, nobody buys I'm going even have money to buy a long time.
So I'm sitting there, I'm debating with you.
Anybody ever been a situation where God's warning you to sow a
seed and you're fighting him over your seed?
So finally I just said, we're here.
Okay. Lord, I'm going to show this
because the Lord finally said, Are you ashamed of me?
I said no sir. He says, then sow your seed, be
a blessing to him. I said, yes, sir, Cyrus them,
pull my bill fold up, pull my three one dollar bills out and I
said, well, I want to get in on to is all I got.
But also my see, praise God. And I put it on the table, and
they always looked at me like Did he just put three dollar
bills on her? I said, praise the Lord.
And brother time, when I'm broke the ice, he said, well let's go
eat and he's no one said I'm buying I would thank God.
Hallelujah, I'm already getting a reward even, I'm getting a
lunch out of this anyway. Praise God.
So anyway, we go out and and they go out and we walk out on
the front area there. And one of the businessmen comes
over to me and he says, you know, I really blessed, it took
really a commitment to God. For what you just did?
He said I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
You did what you could do, and he shook my hand, ever something
in it. So I just stuck in my pocket.
Praise God. So, walk down a little ways.
The other guy came walking and he says, you know, really
blessed me and Lord just told me to do this.
So he shook, my hand gave me something put in my pocket.
Well, we went out and eat. So we're in the car driving back
over to Arkansas and friend, mine.
He was just this guy says, hey, I saw him Shake hand, they give
you something, I said Yeah, he said well what is it?
I said, I don't know head and looked ready because we'll pull
it out of this. Find out what they gave you,
man. Come on.
Okay, so I reached in my pocket and I pulled out three one
hundred dollar bills and because I had obeyed God and purposed in
my heart to please him. And don't let my flesh or
things. Talk me out of it, it wasn't the
amount that he was looking for. It was The Obedience of the seed
from the heart and God turned that around.
I was able, we were of get the kids presents.
We will take care of a few things and God got us through
because seedtime and harvest is how we operate in the Kingdom to
operate in his prosperity, in our lives.
And like I said, a lot of times, we don't do what he's telling us
to do because we look at the amount of what we have and stood
looking at The Obedience of what God is wanting us to do.
Remember the seed isn't the amount that you're giving the
seed is The Obedience of the heart as he purposes in his
heart. So let him give God looks on the
heart. Remember what the the prophet
told whenever, you know, he went down to Jesse's house to anoint
a new king and he's looking at first one comes to oh this got
to be king. He's this big tall handsome,
strapping guy Lord, say, that's not it.
He said I look at the heart, not that word.
Cigars against your heart. And whenever he's leading you to
do something, you got to understand something, he's
wanting you to obey him as a seed in the kingdom of God.
So that he can breathe on increase and bring blessing back
in your life and the more he can trust you with the more he can
bring into your life. Amen.
Now this is the thing. If you do so your seed and it's
a financial gift and you believe in God, how many have you
believing some for stuff right now?
Amen. Well first of all you have to
believe God and do what he's telling you to do.
But second of all, how many of, you know, once Jesus said, their
Mark chapter 4 verse 20 and a said, when the Harvest comes in
immediately puts in the sickle. In other words, God wants you to
reap. After you've done, what?
He's told you do amen. Now, you don't give just to get
but whenever it comes it would be foolish to have a great field
of harvest out here and just let it rot in the field.
So if God says he'll bring you a harvest, then go ahead and pull
out your sickle and reap what he wants you to have.
Amen. How am I going to reap?
What I have. Well, there's just four quick
things I want to share with you, right?
Now, number one it wants. You sold your seed and your
believe of God then do this claim your Harvest.
Claim your Harvest lay hold of it, praise God, mark 11:24 in
the King James says, whatever things you desire.
When you pray believe that you receive them and you'll have
them. Your desire.
Is that what you're claiming is what?
You're believing? God God, you said I'd receive a
harvest of right now. I lay hold of my harvest in
Jesus name. Maybe you're believing God for
something. Call it out.
Maybe there's finance a certain amount of finances, your need
right now, call it out and say, Lord, I believe I receive it
right now. In Jesus name, go see when you
pray. I believe you receive and you
shall have amen. So I've got to lay hold of it by
faith and believe I received my Harvest.
Number two, you got to use the Keys of the Kingdom, Matthew
16:19, and you got to bind the devil and tell him.
Take his hand off of your Harvest.
Amen. Because you see the devil's the
thief that comes to steal kill and destroy again.
Psalm 84 11, it says God is Not withholding.
Any good thing from them that walk uprightly before him.
So it's not God, this holding it back.
Amen. So you know what you got to do?
You got to use your Authority. Say now devil, take your hands
off of my Harvest. Lucid and Let It Go.
Amen. Third thing you need to do and
this is something I do all the time.
Third thing, you do Hebrews. 1:14 says, are they not all
ministering Spirits. Verse 13 says, he's talking to
Angels. So angels are ministering
spirits and Hebrews 1:14 says, are they not all ministering
Spirits sent forth to minister for those who are Heirs of the
Salvation? What am I saying?
Say, in the name of Jesus angels, go and help calls this
Harvest to come in? Alice you to work for me and
Minister for me. Now, in Jesus name now go and
calls it come in. It was someone who 3:20 says
that Angels, hearken unto the voice of God's word?
You know what? Your angels are sitting around,
not doing anything, you haven't given anything to do.
Come on. Jesus, whenever he was talking
to him, he said, he said, haven't you heard that their
angels are always behold the face of the father.
He was telling my children. I'm going to tell you something,
folks, just because you get older, doesn't mean you angel
stop being around you. They're ministering Spirits,
waiting on you to speak the word so they can go to work for you.
Hallelujah. Amen.
And what's the fourth and final thing, Hebrews 4:14 says, hold
fast your confession of Faith. Just hold fast that saying,
father, I thank you that is done.
I claim it is done in Jesus name.
I hold fast My Confession that my Harvest is coming in.
If it's a harvest of finances, if it's a harvest of things, if
it's a harvest of blessing, whatever it is, you're believing
God for. See, that's your Harvest.
And you're going to Your faith and your going to believe, God,
what are you going to do? You're going to, you're going to
lay hold of it by faith and claim it.
Amen. Number two, you're going to bind
the devil and tell him to take his hands off of it and loose
it. In Jesus name, then you're going
to say, ministering Spirits, I loose you, in Jesus name to
hearken to the voice of God's word and go help me to get this
in Minister for me. Right now.
Then you're going to say, father, I thank you that it's
done. I hope fast My Confession on.
I'm not pray about it again, I'll not ask for it again.
I believe it's mine. I confess his mind.
I thank you for it right now. Jesus name.
You just begin to praise him every time the enemy hit you
with something. You say?
No, no, it's coming in. Jesus said, my Harvest is coming
in how they lie. I have it in Jesus name, you
just praise him. You know what happens?
The Harvester come in. The Bible says, if your heart
and under God's voice and do what he says to do, all these
blessings will come on you and overtake you Deuteronomy, 28.
Amen. You know, that means your
Harvest right now is waiting on you to act in faith, so he can
come find you. And God's blessing can.
I'm down on you. Amen.
You ready to reap your Harvest staying with me?
Hallelujah. Thank you.
Lord Jesus. Thank you.
Lord, Jesus. Praise God, praise God.
Now remember you got to get your seed in the ground before it can
grow. In 2nd Corinthians 9 over there,
he said and God will give seed to the sower.
Amen. In other words, he'll give you
something to give something to do.
And then he says, He blesses the seed that's own multiplies.
It notice God doesn't bless seed in your pocket.
You got to release it out, you got to release what God has told
you to do out from you. A man.
You can't carry around your heart.
You can't get around you pocket. You can't carry around in your
thought life. You've got to come to a place
where you say. Lord, I Thank you that you've
told me to do this now by faith, I'm going to sew it and put it
in the kingdom of God and put it in your hands.
I think you Lord I don't tell you something else.
You're speaking to God in all this your confession to the
Lord. Not people.
I never put pressure on people. Always put faith in God.
If you ever get around me and Bonnie, you'll never know if we
have a neater if we have full because we'll never talk about
need, we'll never talk about finances.
We do if pastors that's come in, say how much do you need?
I said, I don't ever talk about need I just God will take care
of us. Maybe God will meet our need.
Hallelujah. I had a friend - a pasture.
What's the conditions for you? To come to our church and
Minister? The word I said, you have to
have a vision for God. If be passion for God has to be
doing something for God, and I don't care of his 15 of you, but
I ain't going to come in just to preach some place.
Well, what if we can't give you a whole lot of money?
I said, I didn't said, come in for money.
I said, I'd come in help you with your vision and build the
kingdom of God. That's the condition.
And I would, I be honest with you.
I've gone before the Lord and I said, Lord right now we need
this. I'm sowing a seed for this.
And I claim this in Jesus name. I think for this amount we
preached and we've gone to a little small place and help them
out and and basically, pretty much had to pay for our way to
get there and back. If was doing on finances, we
sure wouldn't hold on that one. But you know what happened the
next week? Somebody was so something
through the mail or whatever that we didn't even know was
coming and there would be more than what I'd even ask for.
Because my faith was in God. Folks, this is a great way to
live. It is an absolute wonderful way
to live, amen. You living in a place of faith
and expectations of God, you and God are partnering in your life
now and you're having a prosperous Journey because the
Lord's blessings upon your life. Amen.
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