I want to talk to you about Kingdom expansion keys to
increase tonight. So I want you to.
We're going to. We got 4 openings, so stay with
me. We got First Chronicles chapter
29. I'm gonna read 24 verses from
that. And then we're gonna go to 1st
Corinthians chapter 3 verse #16 Then we're gonna go to 1st
Corinthians chapter 6, verses 19 through 20.
And then we're gonna finish with our key text in First Peter
chapter 2, verse #5 So it's important that you, as I read
it, that you fall along with me with your eyeballs.
Alright? So find First Chronicles chapter
29. And we're going to start in
verse #1 this is the life of David.
As I'm bringing up these verses, I just want you to keep in mind
the temple, the people, and the resources to build it.
OK? So keep in mind the temple, the
people and the resources to build it.
So starting to verse number one of First Chronicles chapter 29
and I'll repeat the other Scriptures as we get to these
next three after this one, it says, furthermore, King David
said to all the assembly, my son Solomon, whom alone God has
chosen is young and inexperienced and the work is
great because the temple is not for man, but for the Lord God.
Now for the House of my God, I have prepared with all of my
might gold for things to be made of gold, silver for things of
silver, bronze for things of bronze, iron for things of
ironwood for things of wood, Onyx stones, stones to be set,
glistening stones of various colors, all kinds of precious
stones and marble slabs in abundance.
Moreover, because I have set my affection on the House of my
God, I have given, I have given to the House of my God.
Over and above all that I have prepared for the Holy House my
own special treasure of gold and silver. 3000 talents of gold of
the gold of Fr, and 7000 talents of refined silver to overlay the
walls of the houses, the gold for things of gold, the silver
for things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be done for
the hands of Craftsman. Who then is willing?
Who then is willing to consecrate himself this day to
the Lord? Then the leaders of the Father's
house, as leaders of the tribes of Israel, the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, with the officer over the King's
work, offered willingly. They gave for the work of the
House of God 5000 talents and 10,000 derricks of gold, 10,000
talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and one
100,000 towns of iron went, and whoever had precious stones gave
them to the treasury of the House of the Lord, into the hand
of jail. The Jesuit.
Then the people rejoiced, for they had offered willingly,
because with a loyal heart they all had offered willingly to the
to the Lord. And King David also rejoiced
greatly. Verse #10 Therefore David bless
the Lord before all the assembly.
And David said, Be blessed. Are you Lord God of Israel, our
Father, forever and ever? Yours, O Lord, is the greatness,
the power and the glory, the victory and the majesty for all
that is in heaven and all in earth.
Is yours. Yours is the Kingdom, O Lord,
and you are exalted as head over all.
Both riches and honor come from you.
You reign over all. In your hand is power and might.
In Your hand it is make, it is made great, and to give strength
to all. Now therefore, our God, we thank
you, and we praise you, and we glorify your name.
Who am I and who are my people, that we should be able to offer
so willingly as this. For all things come from You,
and of your own we have given you.
For we are aliens and pilgrims before you, as we are, as as
were all of our fathers. Our days on earth are a shadow
and without hope. Oh Lord our God, all this
abundance that we have prepared to build you a house.
For your holy name is from your hand, and it's all your own.
I know also, my God, that You test the heart and have have
pleasure and uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of
my heart, I have willingly offered all these things, and
now with joy I have seen your people who are present here to
offer willingly to you. Oh Lord God of Abraham, Isaac
and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intent of
the thoughts of the heart of your people and fix their heart.
Fix their heart toward You, and give my son Solomon a loyal
heart to keep your commandments and your testimony and your
statues, to do all these things and to build the temple for
which I have made provision. Then David said to all the
assembly, now bless the Lord your God.
So all the assembly bless the Lord, the God of their fathers,
bow their heads and prostrated themselves before the Lord and
the King. And they made sacrifices to the
Lord and offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the next day.
1000 bulls, 1000 Rams, 1000 lambs and their drink offerings
and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
They so they ate and drank before the Lord with great
gladness on that day. And they made Solomon the son of
David king the second time, anointed him before the the Lord
to be the leader and Zadok. To be the priest.
Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of
David his father, and prospered, and all Israel obeyed him, and
all the leaders and the mighty men, and also the sons of King
David submitting themselves to King Solomon.
Now we're going to flip over to the New Testament First
Corinthians chapter 3 verse #16 it says, do you not know that
you are the temple of God and the the Spirit of God dwells in
you? Now a couple chapters after this
in in chapter 6, Paul says this First Corinthians chapter 6
verses 19 through 20 says, or do you not know that your body is
the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have
from God, and you are not your own, For you were bought at a
price. Therefore glorify God in your
body and in your spirit, which are gods.
And then first Peter chapter 2 verse #5 says, and now you have
become a living building stones for God's use in building his
house. What's more, you are his holy
priest. So come to him.
You are acceptable to him because of Jesus Christ and
offer to God those things that please Him, the temple, the
people, and the resources God used to build it.
God cares about you. God cares about His church, His
temple, and God desires to build both.
As we grow, so does His Church grow.
As we expand, so does His church expand.
David didn't start with everything in the bank.
The reason I brought up First Chronicles 29 'cause you got to
trace back how David started and then you need to reminisce of
where you started and where God wants to bring you.
But as you grow, guess what? The church will.
Grow. 'Cause you are the temple, but
God's also building a temple, his church.
Jesus said, I will build my church in the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it, right in First Samuel chapter 16
verse #13 we see that King David is anointed at that time by
Samuel in First Samuel chapter 17.
Just giving you a quick overview of the life of.
David And listen, he was just a teenager.
You could say he didn't have a dime to his name, so to speak,
right? And but he was anointed.
He had a call on his life just like God.
When you make Jesus Lord, guess what?
He has a call on your life. He has a purpose for your life
and it's up to you to cooperate and participate with him.
If you're going to, if the church is going to grow, you're
going to have to grow. Turn your neighbor and say grow
up. Turn the other one on the other
side and say grow up. Now look straight ahead and say
grow up. So in First Samuel chapter 18
through 21, we see just a a conflict with leadership, a
relationship with Jonathan. As David goes through First
Samuel 17, let me back up. There's a community problem.
Called Goliath and guess what? God's called us to solve
community problems, but you can only perform in public to the
degree you're willing to practice in private.
And we see that David, we practice in private and he kept
the predators away from the sheep that he was responsible
for. His brothers despised the day of
small beginnings. When he came in, First Samuel 17
said. Why don't you take care of those
few little sheep, that Dad? Left for you.
Well, he that is faithful and a little be faithful with much.
And David learned in private how to take on the lion, right?
And so when the community problem come, it was time for
public performance. Guess what?
King David was anointed. And guess what?
He didn't try what other people tried.
He tried what he knew worked because he practiced in private
and therefore he could perform in public.
That's why he took the slingshot and the stone, because he knew
by the grace of God that would work.
And he took care of the community problem.
Goliath. And then in First Samuel chapter
18, we see him still called. But there's a process that you
go through to grow. Say there's a process.
To grow. And so we see he develops his
relationship with Jonathan. But Saul becomes increasingly
jealous towards David. David goes on the run and seems
like all hell is breaking out. But but listen, your life is
composed of your choices, constructed by your words and
revealed by your character. And David made the right
choices, said the right words, and had the right character to
grow. And if you want to be a real man
or woman of God, you need to have the right words, you need
to make the right choices, and you got to develop the right
character if you want to do all that God's called you to do in
this life. Could it be decades down the
road that God has grown you so much that we, we are like King
David and his leaders where we can give abundantly to the work
of the Lord 'cause you know, it takes resources.
The gospel is free, but it takes resources to get that word out.
Pastor Earl's books cost money to produce, right?
Curriculum is on paper. We have print machines.
We have 3 printer machines. Praise the Lord, we have
expanded as a ministry. There's a time when we had one
printer machine. Let me even expand on that
expansion. We have two printer machines and
one production machine. It's really long and not many
people see it except for Todd Fouchet.
And my wife always knows when it's production day 'cause it
gets really cold in those back offices because he doesn't want
the machine to get too hot. And then I I'm jumping ahead of
my sermon on the management side.
I'm like, why are the little heaters running for Miss Jan and
my wife and the ACS We're, we're like contradiction our, our
energy budget going on right now.
So I had this brilliant idea. I've seen Reverend Randy with a
coat that he can turn on the heater.
And I thought we could save the ministry some money if I just
bought these electric coats and gave them to Jan and my wife.
And Hallelujah, you could say Amen or me.
We'll get to finances more in just a second.
But yeah, we've expanded and it takes, guess what?
It takes money to pay for those printers.
But guess what's being produced? Do you know we've went from
ordering in him the new birth and wide tongues to produce in
our own material that we print in house now.
I'm just giving you a little taste of it.
It does take money to get the gospel out, even though the
gospel's free, right? Guess who we support every month
in missions? We got about 28, I think,
different missionaries. And listen, I this is say this
is not to make me feel bad. Everybody say this is not to
make me feel bad. We give more than comes in out
of our general operating budget. And that's not to put pressure
on you, 'cause God's faithful. But I'm saying, you know, we
give out more than comes in, but that's an investment and God
sees that. And we've been able to sustain
that. Hallelujah.
And God's been able to increase this 'cause we got one.
Two printers and a production machine now.
Hallelujah. Just one example.
Of that so but in first Samuel chapter 22 if your life's only
about you it's too small and so in first Samuel 22 is David's
called and God wants to grow him build his temple.
He's going to use David Guess what guess what God assigns to
David in The Cave of Adulum men, disciples, people.
Now these were not perfect people when they started out.
First Samuel chapter 22, if you read the account, when these men
came to him in The Cave of Adulum, it says these men had
three qualities and what a way to start a church.
They were distressed, they were in debt and they were
discontent. Lord, I want to start a church.
Please send me the distress to the people that are in debt and
discontent. Hallelujah.
That means they they were in anguish, they were bitter of
soul, they had no money. But guess what?
They didn't stay that way because they got into a cave
with a giant killer and they became giant killers.
If you could track the story from the time this First Samuel
22 happens of Second Samuel chapter 23 verses 8 through 39,
you'll see that these men went from distressed and debt and
discontent to be labeled. They were labeled mighty men.
And in Second Samuel 23, not only, you know, the works of
King David, you get to see the lives of these men and the
exploits that they did, but you're on display right now in
2025. What does God want to do through
you and what exploits does he want to get glory to his name
through you? So they those that were
distressed and debt and discontent, guess guess what,
They became mighty men that that means they became strong, brave,
courageous and champions. But that was a process.
You realize they had to learn how to fight, how to lean in on
God, understand his grace and his goodness.
And they went through some battles, but they got better.
And the Bible tells us to fight the good fight of faith.
Listen, we need a, you need a, a crowbar for your backbone, not a
spaghetti noodle. To be a real man or woman of God
and be a champion, it takes conviction, it takes commitment.
And I like First First Chronicles 29 because guess
what? It wasn't just David that gave.
It's these men that came alongside that grew with him as
he grew. And the Bible says they had so
much resource, they all willingly gave.
Why? Because of the temple.
God wanted to see his word complete.
God wants to see His Word complete and you as the temple,
so He wants to bless your household.
But as your household is blessed, guess what?
The church should be blessed. So these men gave willingly in
First Corinthians 21st Chronicles 29.
Let's look at 2nd Corinthians Chapter 9, verses 6 through 8.
In the Amplified Bible it says, Now remember this, He who sows
sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sews
generously that blessings may come to others will also reap
generously and be blessed. Let each one give thoughtfully
and with purpose, just as he has decided in his heart, not
grudgingly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver,
and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift.
And God is able to make all grace, every favor and earthly
blessing come in abundance to you, that you may always, under
all circumstances, regardless of the need, have complete
sufficiency, and everything, being completely self-sufficient
in Him, and have an abundance for every good work and act of
charity. Sounds like First Chronicles 29
to me. These men and I'll say women
knew how to go into the equivalent, the we call, I'll
call it the marketplace in the new covenant.
They knew how to go into the war in the old covenant and get the
spoils and bring it back so the temple could be built.
John 1412 says this most assuredly.
I say to you who who believes in me?
The works that I do, He will do also in greater works than these
He will do because I go to my Father.
God has called His church to do greater works.
King David and his mighty men did some great works, but He's
called us to do great works. Say I'm built to do great works.
Say God built me to do great things.
I want to give you 4 ES, the Golden Corral.
Then we're going to jump into the message.
Just a thought and they'll have this up.
Engaged, employed, enlarged, and evangelize.
It's a process. What is engagement?
That means you're greatly interested.
That means you're actively involved.
That means you're participating. Guess what?
When you meet that someone and you start going on dates and
then all of a sudden you're really actively participating
and you decide she's the one, what do you do?
You get engaged, right? But then you get after that, you
get married. So after you're after
exploration and engagement, now you're employed.
That means you have purpose, that means you're useful, that
means you're occupied with what God has called you to do your
assignments in life. I went from engaged through
exploration to man I employed. I'm all in and I am they.
God has put me to work. And you know the first thing
that God put me to work as is a man.
And for you ladies, as a woman. And then if you're married as a
husband, ladies, if you're married as a wife and then he's
put you to work as a parent, then he may have put you to work
in, in other areas, whether you're called a full time
ministry business, working for somebody else.
We're getting some of these other things soon.
But that's employment. And you will know what it says
in Luke chapter 1913. Luke 1913 says he called his 10
servants, He delivered them 10 lbs.
And he said unto them, occupy or be employed till I come.
Occupy means to work until everything feels the impact and
influence of your presence. Occupy means to work until
everything feels the impact and influence of your presence.
If you're married and your husband and you leave the house
in the morning, your wife should be like something's missing.
She shouldn't rejoice Hallelujah.
Just look straight ahead if you're we're on the other end.
If you're if the man's home and the wife comes home, the man
shouldn't be sad, right? You can say man or O me.
It's truth nonetheless. So you need to work.
If you don't show up for three consecutive churches services on
a Sunday, would we even know that you were gone?
Well, nobody talks to me when I go to church.
My my Bible says to have friends you must show yourself friendly.
Why don't you go smile and shake somebody else's hand, right?
Do we walk by faith or by sight? And then enlargement comes after
you've been employed for a while.
That means you have become or been made large.
You've extended and expanded what God has given you.
It's like the parable of the talents.
He gave one to what, 51211 to five.
What'd he do? He was engaged, he was employed,
but then he expanded. He extended and he took what God
gave him and he doubled it. And the one with two, guess
what? He doubled in.
And there's no competition in the Kingdom of God.
We're all in our own lane with our own assignments.
All God is asking you to do as this child is take what he's
given you. And King David rightfully said
it, it, it was all yours to begin with God.
Did he not say that first? Chronicles 29 several times It
was. It's all yours anyways.
We're just giving back to you what you gave to us.
And in the parable of talents, he said he divided under them
His abilities, his grace. So God wants to expand and
extend and stretch your life where you make a great footprint
and a great influence, where you do great things for a great God.
First Chronicles chapter 4 verse #10 says this.
This is about Jabez. And Jabez, you know, his name
meant, sorry is what his name meant.
But he said, I don't want to be sorrowful anymore.
So he prayed this prayer. He said Jabez called on the God
of Israel saying, oh, that you would bless me, indeed enlarge
my coast, and that thy hand might be with me, and that would
keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me.
And God granted him that request.
Do we have enough tenacity and faith and conviction and courage
to say, Lord indeed, bless me, enlarge me Now when you pray
that, guess what? There's a process for that to
manifest. And then we always need to keep
evangelism in mind. As we are engaged, as we're
employed, as we are enlarged, we need to evangelize.
I brought up the term marketplace before because guess
what? We are not or should not be
running around swords and Shields today at Walmart.
You will get arrested, right? That's not the fight we're
fighting today, but there is a modern day fight in the
marketplace. Listen, I, I've, I've been with
a church since 2009. But before that I was with
enterprise Rent a car, which is a secular, secular organization,
right? And that was the marketplace.
And what did, what did I do? And Marcus went, was there too,
the same time I was, I ran 4313. He ran 4321, which is Palm
Coast. But you know, all we had was
buy. We didn't have college degrees.
We had Bible college degree, but both he and I, because of the
grace of God, guess what? We were engaged, we were
employed, we enlarged, we both became branch managers.
Matter of fact, we used to battle back and forth from
Northeast Florida who was like #1 and #2 of the best branches
in all of Northeast Florida. But that took work.
But God will grace you for what He's called you to.
But in the marketplace, guess what?
I was able to increase the enterprise.
Guess what happened? My tithe increased, my influence
increased. I remember Costa who was from
Russia, He gave me a little micro fish of the Bible, but we
used to evangelize to him all the time.
Actually came to church once or twice.
But I wasn't this there there just for a paycheck.
Although my paycheck increased because God was increasing me, I
was able to evangelize there too.
So God wants to use you the same way he used David as mighty man.
You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.
So I want to give you keys to increase.
This is primarily about finances tonight, although it impacts a
lot of different areas for what God desires to do through his
church. So when I said the Golden
Corral, this is going to be like a fire hydrant tonight.
Now you know, or let me say, let me use my when I go to the
Golden Corral, everybody know what the Golden Corral is.
Thanks, Christopher. Lord, we pray for a golden
crown. There's space up front in the
mall. No, I don't eat like that all
the time. But when I go to the golden
crown, and some of you may relate, the first plate that I
get is a little bit of everything.
You know, I do that 'cause it's a sampler and I get more
specific on the second, third plate in greater quantities with
what I got from the sampler. There's there's like an extra
compartment in your stomach for dessert.
Christopher yes, I do the same thing when it comes to 1st plate
on dessert. Guess what?
It's a sampler. Second, third is the large
quantities of what I liked on the sampler.
So what I'm saying I'm going to throw out a lot tonight, but
with the help of the Holy Spirit and the sampler, He's going to
give you something to chew on for a second, third, and 4th
plate for the weeks and months to come.
Because God knows where you're at and God knows what you need
and the adjustments to increase where you're at to where He
wants you to be. Some of these things you might
be doing, some of these things you might not be doing well.
Some of these things you might not be doing at all.
And as we minister tonight, the key is you're going to take this
away. It's not just for yourself.
There is a lost and dying world out there and we need to.
God cares about you. God cares about your church, but
we need to care about the world. So this will be Golden Corral
for the remainder of the night. Work is not a dirty word.
Work is not part of the curse. Work, as the Bible teaches us,
is the ability God gave you to establish dominion in the earth.
Let me say it again, Work is the ability that God gave you to
establish dominion in the earth. Genesis chapter 1, verses 26
through 28. God said let us make man in our
image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over every cattle,
over all the earth, every over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth. So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God. He created him, male and female.
Female was not an afterthought. Praise the Lord, He created
them. God blessed them, male and
female. God said to them fivefold
command, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air,
over everything that moves on the earth.
Then we go to the next chapter, Genesis chapter 2, verse 15,
before the fall, before sin, God took the man that he had made.
He settled them, settled them some, some of us need to be
settled in work and He put them in the Garden of Eden to
cultivate it and to keep it. Work is a gift that God gives
you to establish dominion in the earth.
Five points on work. Remember, this is just going to
be a sampler to stimulate you 'cause I believe the Holy Spirit
is going to tailor this word to you and what you need you're
going to feed on, like I said, for weeks and months to come.
Putting yourself to work is called employment.
Putting others to work is called an employer.
Putting your money to work is called an investment.
Putting your knowledge to work is called consulting.
Putting a creative idea to work is called an invention.
What work has God called you to? And let me say this, Zechariah
14 says don't despise the day of small beginnings.
So the work you're doing now may not be the work you're doing in
five years. But as we look at these five
points, what is it and the passion and purpose that God's
put in you that He wants to get you to 'cause if you decide the
spa is working at McDonald's, but God's got a greater work for
you, 'cause He said greater works, will we?
Do you want to get out of McDonald's?
Be faithful, be a blessing. Work your tail off, Work with
the anointing, work with grace. You may be putting the fries in
the oil right now, but don't stop there.
You're faithful with that. They may let you run the cash
register. You're faithful with that.
You may become a shift manager. You're faithful with that.
You may become the manager of McDonald's.
You're faithful with that. God may call you to work your
own business 'cause now you have the knowledge base on how to
operate a fast food restaurant and now you know how to actually
take care of people because you love them.
Feed them real food, not genetically modified fries that
are golden brown in your car after 20 years.
But what work is God called you to?
Remember this, The greatest in the Kingdom is servant of all.
Serve your gift to humanity and the work that He's called you to
do. Servicing clients builds
business. Servicing congregations in
people builds churches. Servicing friends and family
builds relationship. What work has God called us to
as a church? I want to give you some basic
guidelines on money. Money is amoral, which means
there's no morality in money. Whoever holds the money
possesses the morality of the money.
You put money into the hand of a drunk.
It's drunk money. You put money in the hand of a
gambler. Guess what?
It's gambling money. You put money in the hand of an
unrighteous person. It's unrighteous money.
You put money in the hand of a righteous person.
It's righteous money. Money is not evil.
The Bible says the love, or we really say the lust of money, is
the root of all evil. Here's a guideline for money.
Money was made for loving and giving, not lusting and taking.
Money was made for loving and giving, not lusting and taking
and taking. Money is a resource.
It's a resource. Say money is a resource, that's
why it's called currency too 'cause there's got to be a flow,
we say resource 'cause you have to go to the source again to get
more of the resource. But here's 10 guidelines on
money, and number one goes with what I just said.
Money's a resource, but God is the source #1 if you really want
to be blessed in life, you know, you heard this term quality of
life. It's, it's, it's, it's really a
term I think the secular world throws around a lot.
But I'll say in a spiritual aspect, we should have a quality
of life cause the world seeks after money.
But Proverbs says the blessing Lord makes 1 rich, but he adds
no sorrow with it. So if money is your source,
you're gonna have sorrow, but if God is your source, you'll have
resource. Did you get that?
If you just chase money, you're going to have sorrow?
Read Proverbs 23 it it says, you know, he says eat and drink, but
his heart's not with you. And it says money makes wings
and it flies away. It's insatiable, like you can
never have enough when that's all you're seeking.
But when God is your source, you're going to have no sorrow.
But you'll have you'll have a thing called wealth, not riches
'cause wealth comes. This is why Deuteronomy says
I'll give you the power to get wealth.
There's a difference between wealth and riches.
I want to stretch your thinking. Riches is just accumulated
goods. Wealth is more than that.
Wealth is well-being. Wealth is wisdom, knowledge, and
understanding, all working together to create economic
solvency, stability, and security.
Wealth is wisdom, understanding, knowledge, all working together
like ingredients to create economic solvency, stability and
security. And God said, I'll give you the
power to get not just riches, but wealth.
I saw an NFL player some years ago who had millions, but he
burnt down his mansion. I can't remember if there's
domestic things going on or drugs, but that, that's riches,
but not wealth 'cause you're broken your mind.
And when you're in the Kingdom of God and operating under His
laws, not only can He get you the riches, but He gives you
wealth. Your marriage will be
successful, your kids will be acting right.
Your body won't be broken down, your mind won't have a vice grip
around it, you won't be depressed #2 Seek God first in
everything. Seek God for He has an amazing
way of getting resources to you. You know the woman that died or
her husband died in the Old Testament.
And this is a sad statement, but when that woman died in the Old
Testament, somebody could probably find their reference.
I think it's over in Kings. And it said the only thing it
said about the man was he left me in debt.
So I'm going to challenge. If you care about your family,
you should have a life insurance policy in place.
We're talking primarily about finances tonight.
Does that mean you're going to die?
No, but I just believe it keeps the devil at Bay, 'cause it's
wise, right? But the only thing they said
about that man. But guess God.
When you see God first and everything like she did, He gave
her a creative idea that became an invention.
That was her work and it was the most unusual thing.
Go get the pans from your neighbors.
Remember that. And then start pouring oil into
it. And then she asked the prophet,
what do I do after that? He put her into business, he
said go sell all of it and now listen this live off of the
rest. That was like the lottery.
Seek God first in everything #3 decisions require
responsibility. For those of you that are
married, decisions cannot be unilateral in the marriage
covenant. Husbands, you may like to fish,
you may like boating, but you do not pull up on a Saturday
morning with a brand new boat without consulting your wife.
That's a unilateral move and decision in the marriage
covenant. Now, if you're single, you got
some fluidity. Hallelujah.
There are pros and cons of being married, and there's our pros
and cons of being single. You can get the no new boat with
your single as long as God says 'cause you're still consulting.
Decisions require responsibility.
God, should I get this boat? But if you're married, you
better have that conversation or you may not see her for several
days and then then when your eyes, the swelling starts to go
down, finally you'll see her again #4 Tithe and offerings are
basic visible evidence of faith. You say you believe in God.
This is a fundamental in the Kingdom of God.
It's an evidence you're not really giving anchor faith
church. When you give, it's really a
release of faith towards God, saying you trust him.
And when you don't give, you know, what you're saying is I
really don't trust that you'll do what you say.
When it comes to finances #5 it's what I call the good plan.
GOOD. Get out of debt.
You know, there's nowhere in my Bible where I see Jehovah visa
number six. Start where you are with what
you have #7 goes with #5 Live within your means.
Too many buy people, buy things with money they don't have, to
get things they don't need to impress people they don't like
#8 To obey God today is to trust Him for tomorrow #9 Keep
detailed records. I'm going to follow up with this
when we get to another sampler #10 be generous with God and be
generous with others. Don't have the American mindset.
The American mindset is get all you can, can all you get.
Sit on the can. Proverbs 11/25 says this though.
The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will
also be watered himself. And I'll follow up with that.
Another scripture from from Luke chapter 12, Luke chapter 12,
starting in verse #13 this just goes along with being generous
with others and being generous with God.
Not hoarding, right? Not storing up to the point
where all you do is trust in your riches and not God.
So Luke chapter 12 verse 13 says this.
Then one from the crowd said him, teacher, tell my brother to
divide the inheritance with me. So he's talking to the Lord
about finances. He said, but, but he said to a
man who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you.
And he said to them, Jesus said to them, take heed and beware of
covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the
abundance of things he possesses.
Verse 16 Then Jesus spoke a parable to him, saying, the
ground of a certain rich man yielded plentiful.
And this rich man thought to within himself, saying, What
shall I do since I have no room to store my crops?
And this rich man said, I'll do this, I'll pull down my barns,
I'll build, I'll build greater ones, and there I will store all
my crops and my goods, and I will say to my soul, So you have
many good years laid up, take your ease, eat, drink and be
merry. But God said, fool this, not
your soul be required of you. Then whose will those things be?
What you have provided? So this person was only rich
towards himself and not rich towards others.
So we need to be generous with God and we need to be generous
with others. I want to give you 5 keys to
increase, 5 keys increase. So we've looked at work, we've
looked at these guidelines, and I want to take this last
sampler, 5 Keys to increase. And as we go over these, I just
want you to review and evaluate your life and see if there's
anything lacking or underperforming in any of these
five years 'cause I guarantee you this according to the word
of the Lord, if you do these five things, the blessings are
going to flow. Now with finances, it doesn't
always happen overnight, but it will happen.
And I, I know and others in this room know that if practice these
five things, it will take place. Listen, there was a day when our
sons were in the house and all we could do was the dollar menu
when we ate at McDonald's. That was a long time ago and all
they could do was get all we could afford was to get 4 things
for each of them off the dollar meal, which they probably don't
have a dollar meal anymore, but that's where we were at that
time. Now in life, I tell my household
we are going, we are going to aim to not eat out more than
twice a week. Do you see the flip on that?
So there's one time when we're driving a red it used actually
it was a, a Quest. Remember the Quest, Nissan
Quest, but it wasn't really a Nissan Quest because the
domestic manufacturer made it. Did you know that it's a fake
Nissan with a we, we thought, you know, this is pretty cool.
We had AVHS in it with, you know, in between the the driver
and the passenger seats in the front and there was a console
right now they have the everything.
It flips down from the roof. It's on the back of the seats
and everything. But but God has delivered us
from the quest. It was a good quest.
That thing got to Albuquerque, NM to visit my brother.
Praise the Lord and back, because if you do this one thing
and tithe, it'll rebuke the devourer.
Hallelujah. All right, so the first thing is
tithe and offerings. First key to increase is tithe
and offerings. What's the tithe?
That's 10%. So if you make $100, what's the
tithe of $100? What's a tithe of $105?
So I can get so many mathematicians to think real
quick, what's a tithe of $111.00?
What's a tithe on $10,000? You can participate.
What's a tithe on $1,000,000? What's a tithe on a billion
dollars? What is it, Red and Randy, $100
million Done. You got it.
You dropped an offering bucket. Praise the Lord.
Malachi chapter. In all seriousness, Malachi
chapter 3 verse #10 says this. Bring all the ties into the
storehouse. Not Christian radio, not
Christian television, not a minister you may like listening
to online. Is it right to give you those?
Yeah. But what?
What would that be considered? Good.
You all are trained up. That'd be an offering, right?
He said. Bring it to the What's the
storehouse where you primarily get fed?
The local body church. I want to give a testimony on a
side, well it's 836. My wife's preaching in the
current. So I think I got like an extra
30 minutes tonight. So I had to create an idea, but
I didn't invent it. She's talking on the Holy Spirit
cause Pastor Chase was praying and said man, we need a
minister. So he got my wife in his spirit,
said I want you to minister on the Holy Spirit.
So they were coming up with all these titles with my daughter
yesterday like goat and all these other ones, but they
settled with something about Dove.
And I said you should get some Dove chocolates.
So she's passing out Dove chocolates tonight.
You're getting no sweets but the word of God.
Now I won't go till 9:30, but I do want to say this, 'cause I
make, I want to make sure I get through everything that the Lord
desires to get through. Your storehouse is where you get
fed, equipped and trained and in in our evaluation today, we have
evaluations for all areas within the ministry that we do annually
and we're working through Washington Classical Christian
School right now, but we had the privilege of doing it with
Theodore Moreland. Is Ted in here Ted everybody
know coach Ted Well, his little baby June just had some trials
with some health issues, right. And but we're doing this
evaluation. I didn't, I didn't know the
whole story, but I'm bringing this up because you bring all
the ties into the storehouse. And so when they couldn't figure
what was wrong, she had a fever and they took her to Flagler.
But then end up going to Wolfson's on 1616, the new one
up by Texas Roadhouse, which I forget who was it was Pastor
Bradley was pulling out the same time that Ted was walking in.
So Ted said it was amazing 'cause I'm getting text messages
from Pastor Earl. Like, how do these people know
where I'm at? Like, well, Bradley just
happened to be in the right place at the right time and
asked Ted what was going on. All of a sudden, Ted's he's
like, dude, I'm so glad I'm part of Anchor Faith Church.
And it's not us. It's God's system, it's God's
plan, it's God's purpose. It's just us during our role and
we're like a family. And so he just loved the
support, the prayers and everything.
But he when he, when they were trying to figure out what's
wrong, they, they want to do a Spinal Tap on baby June.
And so in doing that, one of the adults, they couldn't take both.
One of the adults could go into the room, but not both.
And he asked Kaylee, do you want to go?
She's like, I don't want to be in there for that.
And Ted's like, I'm not going to let my little go going by
herself. So I'm going in with her.
But he said, thank God for this church.
He said, because I've learned to listen to the Holy Spirit.
And when I was taking baby June in to go into that Spinal Tap to
get that, he said, the Holy Spirit checked me pray for the
baby. And so he was getting ready to
lay the baby on the table for them to do the operation.
And the Holy Spirit said, again, pray for the baby.
You know what he did? He's he's he put back up.
He said, everybody bow your heads.
I want to pray nurses, doctors. It wasn't a Hannah prayer, which
is silent prayer. He with the boldness he, he
said, he told the doctor and the nurses, bow your heads.
I love it. And he prayed the power of God
down on that and said, man, this is going to take the first time.
It's going to be successful. You're going to guide the
doctors. You're going to give wisdom to
the nurses and he read through the whole thing.
They make you sign a a release form of everything that could go
wrong, and then they say it normally doesn't take on the
first time. So he prayed that they got it on
the first time. The next day we talked about
being engaged, employed, enlarged and evangelized.
This is evangelism. The next day the nurse comes
back and says to Ted, I went home and told my husband about
you praying today in the power of prayer.
And he said, do you worship anywhere?
She said no, but there was power in that prayer 'cause they never
take the first time. So really an unbeliever told a
believer there's power in prayer and witnessed it.
That's the storehouse that you're pouring into right where
you're primarily trained. In the clip he said bring all
the ties into the storehouse that there may be food in my
house and now try me on this says the Lord of hosts.
If I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour out a
blessing for you that you will not have room enough to receive
it the the tithe. We could pass the mic right now.
What are you saying back there? Oh, you want me to read verse
11? I don't have verse 11.
My notes for Randy and you're interrupting.
I thought he was giving me the love sign back there.
Love you too, brother. 11 OK, so here's your homework assignment.
Per Reverend Randy, read verse 11 on your own.
Now. You messed me up.
I forget what I'm saying. The storehouse.
I could pass the mic. But I know like things that have
opened up for us. We have a business called
Kinderfit and all five of these keys, I'm telling you we did,
but this is one of the ones that opened up for us.
Angie was employed. Or worked for.
The previous owner who wanted to get back into teaching, this was
her baby. Her creative idea, you know,
that she put into, gave life to basically create a business
called Kinderfit. She actually started in
Oklahoma, which is ironic 'cause we're from, well, Angie's from
Oklahoma, but moved to Florida and has had success in this
business. Angie worked for her, but back
in, I think it's 2018, she wanted to get out of the
business and she was going to give it to her sister.
But she, she knew Angie's work ethic, which is our next point,
and she knew her heart for God. And they end up giving us the
business at a really good deal and actually working on a
payment plan for us. So we didn't have to pay
everything upfront, but that's what the tithe that did open up
that business to us. The house that we're in right
now, it was a fight of faith to get into, but this is how good
God is. We didn't, we wanted acreage,
but I didn't want to drive 20 minutes, Hallelujah, 'cause, you
know, to get acreage usually way out.
And with everything we do and responsibilities at the church,
I want to be close, But I believe with all my harp tithing
and offerings open up to get the house we're in currently.
And I, I, we could go around this room of testimonies of what
the tithe and the offering has done in your life and will
continue to do 'cause God is not God puts no limits on faith.
Faith puts no limits on God. How big can you dream?
Don't let anybody else create your world for the you.
They'll create it too small. The tithe will open up things.
The offerings is really where you get to invest in the Kingdom
of God and this you go back to the guidelines seek God first
and everything we review every year when I go over goals with
Angie, you know what, what is our giving goals this year?
Tithe is standard, but we are way above the tithe and we we
pray and we seek and we ask God, what do you want us to do?
And so we've done that for years now and I've seen God just open
up amazing things through the tithe and offering.
Matthew 2323 says this woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites, for you pay tithe of men a nice and cumin and have
neglected the weightier matters of law, justice and mercy and
faith. These you have ought to done
without leaving the others undone.
So even Jesus pointed back to the tithe.
He said, now you need to have mercy, right?
But you still need a tithe. In Genesis chapter 14 verses 18
through 20, it says then Melchizedek, king of Salem
brought out bread and wine. He was the priest of God Most
High and he blessed him and said blessed be Abraham of God Most
High, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be God Most
High who has delivered your enemies into your hand.
And Abraham gave him a tithe of all predates the Mosaic economy,
the Mosaic law, and Abraham just knew he was to give God 1/10.
So that's the first key to increase is giving your tithe
and your offerings. What is God saying above the
10%? What is God telling you to do
right? And that's something you need to
communicate with God and let God communicate with you his will
when it comes to offerings beyond the tithe.
But I tell you what, God is faithful.
You can't out give God. And when you do give, He gives
back to you a good measure, pressed down, shaken together
and running over Second ingredient and increase of these
5 keys is work ethic. Proverbs chapter 24, verses 30
through 34 from the Amplified Bible says this.
I went by the field of the lazy man and by the vineyard of the
man lacking understanding and common sense.
And behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, and nestles were
covering its surface. Its Stonewall was broken down.
When I saw, I considered it. Well, I looked and I received
instruction. A little sleep, a little
slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and Daydream.
And then poverty will come you as on on you as a robber, and
you're want like an armed man. So listen, if you give tithe and
offerings but you don't work hard, you're going to miss God's
best. Proverbs 1819189 second
reference on this. He was slothful in his work as a
brother to him was a great destroyer.
I was at a checkout line one time and there was probably a
teenager or somebody in their early 20s on their cell phone
disengaged with the customers. That's not Scott's standard of
work ethic. Showing up 10 minutes late to
work with a bad attitude is not God's standard for work ethic.
Complaining about your employer is not God's standard of work
ethic. Sleeping on the job is not God's
standard of work ethic. Proverbs 2819 says this.
He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread.
That's work ethic. I was reading one time was it,
was it Hagar when the baby is getting ready to die and, and,
and, and he said there's, there's water.
She thought it, I thought, God, it's provisions all around us.
We're complaining. And he's like, just cultivate,
just cultivate, plant the seed, water it work.
Second Thessalonians chapter 3 verse #11 says we hear that
there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not
working at all, but they're busy bodies.
Hallelujah. Now don't get me wrong, there's
some legitimate needs. So understand when I say this,
that could be communicated via social media.
But then we're also know there's people that are busy bodies on
there that are raising funds because they don't work.
Are you with me? Deuteronomy 1510 says you shall
surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when
you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God
will bless you and all your works and into which you put
your hand. If you read Psalms chapter 1
verses one through 3, you know talks about blesses a man that
don't walk in the council ungodly, nor stands the way the
center, nor seats in the seat of the scornful, but his delights
in the law of the Lord, and that law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of living water,
and whatever he does with his hand will prosper.
What are you putting your hand to every day?
What do you put in your hand to in parenting?
What do you put in your hand to in praise?
What do you put in your hand to as an employer and employment?
What do you put in your hand to in a creative idea?
What do you put in your hand to with investing money?
Right. Whatever you do with your hand,
if it's in God's will, it's going to prosper.
The hand is the instrument of instruments.
It's the symbol of human action. It's the symbol of power and
authority. Jesus has sat at the right hand
of the father. Whatever you put your hand to as
a spiritual believer to do, it will prosper.
If it's in a with the word of God, anointed by the Spirit,
whatever you do, a prosper. What a great confession for you
to have when you go to work tomorrow and say, Lord, whatever
I put my hand to, it will prosper.
I didn't even put confession on the sampler, but confession is
important when it comes to prosperity.
If you say I'm broke, I'm never going to have enough.
The third key is management. Proverbs chapter 27, verses 23
through 27 sees it says, be diligent to know the state of
your flocks and attend to your herds, for riches are not
forever, nor does a crown endure to all generations.
When the hay is removed, and the tender grass shows itself, and
the herbs of the mountain are gathered in, the lambs will
provide you clothing, the goats the price of a field.
You shall have enough goats milk for your food, for the food of
your household and the nourishment of your maid
servants. You know what this verse is
exuding with is knowing what's coming into your house and
what's going out of your house. If your outgo is more than your
income, then your upkeep becomes your downfall.
Luke chapter 14 verses 28 through 30.
I told you this is kind of like a fire hydrant tonight, but I'm
believing you're going to get what the Holy Spirit needs to
give you to have increased in your life.
Amen. Luke chapter 1420 through 30
says for which of you intended to build a tower does not sit
down 1st and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish
it, lest after he has laid the foundation he's not able to
finish all who see it begin to mock him saying this man begin
to build it was not able to finish first.
Timothy 35 from the Amplified says for if a man does not know
how to manage his own own household, how we take care of
the Church of God. Management is taking care of
what God is giving you. It's being wise with the
resources and the wealth that he's given you.
It's stopping to ask God, what do you want me to do with this?
Management is having a plan in place.
Management is knowing what's in your account and working and
counseling for years I've I've realized some people don't know
what's in their account. All they they do is look at
their online banking. They have no budget, no
spreadsheet. Listen, people, friends,
congregation, family of God, Hallelujah.
We live in such a modern technology.
There is no excuse that you can't find your flavor or your
style when it comes to having something in place.
Nothing's changed mathematically as there's debits, there's
credits. Now, how you record that you and
your wife, if you're married, come together.
If you're single, make your own decision, but record it.
You should know your what your break even is.
Each month there's a question for you.
I won't have many. Raise your hand.
Do you know what your break even is?
What? What do you mean break even?
What does it take between rent, mortgage insurance, cell phone,
utilities, Netflix, DoorDash, Instacart to meet to meet Uber?
Thanks, Christopher. To meet your budget each month,
right? You know what management is?
I've saved $1170 since April 2024.
How did you do that, Pastor Mike?
Because I manage. What did you say of that?
Because I was paying $65 a month on PMI.
What's PMI? It's private mortgage insurance.
But once you hit a certain value on your house, you can get that
removed. Have you looked at your PMI?
Do you have PMI? Do you know what PMI is?
I'm just giving examples, right? I read a book recently just on
paying a little extra in principle over.
I do this weekly because everything's so easy with
technology now. But right now I'm just giving
you examples so you and your household could help manage
better because sometimes your income may need to come up or
your overhead can go down. I remember years ago when we're
State Farm, just calling around, I got Farm Bureau to get a
better insurance rate. So I went with them, right?
So there's things you can do and management that can help you
out. Now I joke around about DoorDash
and Instacart, but do you really need that?
Because part of listen, temperance is part of the fruit
of the spirit. What's temperance?
It's called self-control. Restraint, temperance, and
self-control are all characters of disciples of Jesus Christ.
Just cause the bank says you can borrow $100,000. self-control
may say no, and that's good management.
Remember that one. Live within your means. 7 out of
10 Americans live paycheck to paycheck and some of this is
obviously they don't know tithe and offering.
They're not walking in that blessing.
They don't know work ethic, they're not working that
blessing. They don't know management,
they're not walking in that blessing.
So all I'm saying is get a plan in place.
If you don't have one, then I encourage you and listen for
you. Married couples, let me help you
out 'cause I helped myself out. I would frustrate Angie because,
you know, I, we are aims to get together once a month, although
that doesn't quite happen. That's my goal.
But we, we try to get together frequently because I want the
next thing called unity. That's the fourth key.
But early on, and this helped me, I would just rattle off
everything because it's in my mind like a Rolodex.
And I, I just saw her eyes go crossed and I realized real
quick, if I'm going to communicate with her, it's got
to be on paper. So in my household, when it
comes to management and in your household, listen, there's
always a spender. There's always a saver.
So for the husbands that are spenders, raise your hand.
I'm kidding, but God didn't put you together to frustrate one
another. Listen, here's me in management
when it comes to Christmas time. I've become a better manager
because I never planned for that.
But Angie loves to give. So in my saving and her
spending, we balance each other out really well.
We break even. Thanks, Rafael.
But I've learned, guess what she's done?
It's learned. It's taught me how to be more
generous and not so tight. So I'm just saying, God, when we
get to this next principle, which is unity, He didn't put a
husband and wife together to frustrate one another, but to
complement one another. Can you say Amen?
Do you know that men and women don't think alike?
And do you realize there's one that's a savor and one's a
suspender? So just settle it now.
This is not frustration. God did this for us so that we
could unite because the 4th key is unity.
The place of disagreement is the pace place of powerlessness.
The place of agreement is the place of power.
Amos 33 says how can two walk together unless they be agreed?
Matthew 18 what's it? 18181819 says how if any 2 of
you on earth touch and agree about anything according to my
father's will will be done. Is this a key that's missing in
your household if you're married?
Is this a key that you're missing if you're single because
you're not united with God? Remember when it said David's
heart and hand were together? They were united.
So whether single or married, there's still a unity principle
of cooperating either with your spouse or with the Lord to
experience God's best. But unity is important, and
unity comes through a thing called communication.
Reliable communication permits progress, but an unreliable
messenger causes a lot of trouble.
So if you want to get unified, you got to learn how to
communicate, not shut down. You got to be able to
communicate with God, let God communicate with you.
If you're married, you got to be able to communicate with your
spouse. And really, if we're training,
this is just another side thought and side nugget, another
sampler. It is the cheesecake.
We have a responsibility to train our children up in the way
that they should go. So just a side thought.
When Abby and Chloe were little, we got Dave Ramsey's 3 little
bags to give save and I can't remember the other one.
Give save and I'm looking at you Pastor Vanessa Spin yes, so that
when they got money they used to have these little bags which in
management I could have made these a lot cheaper myself.
Now I'm thinking about it and just got a little envelope and
not gave Dave Ramsey $24.00. But you have responsibility to
train your children, right? So it's not just for you.
You're training. And then what if God wanted to
use you as a mentor to help train other people?
Because what as you grow, so does His church.
So if you're blessed, you should be a blessing.
What I'm saying is it should be working in your life so you can
help other people's lives. So unity is important.
Y'all doing all right. We are to our last point,
vision. So the five keys were tithe and
offering work ethic, management, unity, and vision.
There is no fullness of provision without vision.
Vision is the ability to romance and dream about your future
while embracing the present. Vision is the ability to romance
and dream about your future while embracing the present.
Dream is a pictured goal really in the Kingdom God wants you to
be successful and success in God's eye is the predetermined
goals, dreams, and visions that He has in store for you.
I'll say it again, success is the predetermined goals,
visions, and dreams that God has in store for you.
Proverbs 2918 says where there's no vision is the people perish.
Habakkuk 22 says then the Lord answered me and said, write the
vision down. Make it plain that he that he
may run. Who reads it?
So really you think about vision and provision.
In order to have provisions you need vision.
I'm going to give you one more scripture, 2 examples and a
final statement and then we'll close.
It's going to go really quick. It's like the end of a roller
coaster ride, you know, I almost hesitated, but I felt like
there'd be a grace tonight to pour out so much and so little
time. But I really, the Golden Corral
set me free because that's when I was praying about.
It's what the Holy Spirit gave me.
If you just preface it with that, even though it's a lot,
the people are going to take what they're need.
The Holy Spirit's going to minister that to you and you're
going to feed off of that second plate, third plate, 4th plate
into dessert plates. So Genesis 1515 says, and he
brought him outside his tent into the Starlight and said,
look now toward the heavens and count the stars.
If you're able to number them. Then he said to Abraham, so
shall your descendants be. So with vision, God told
Abraham, look up. So I just want, I just want
everybody to close your eyes without falling asleep 'cause it
is 9:00. If your head hits the seat in
front of you, it's not my fault. But real quick I'll go real
fast. Vision.
OK, Pretend you're coming in on old Moultrie or US1 right now.
What does our parking lot look like right now in your mind?
But can you see it with black top and yellow lines?
OK, let's go to this. As you're pulling on the parking
lot right now for Moto US1, what does our building look like
currently? Can you see the building painted
black the way there's plenty of the marquee sign out there
black? Let me ask you one more
question. What does your life look like
with the mortgage right now? But what would your life look
without like without a mortgage? Can you see it?
All right, open up your eyes. That's vision.
I I want you. I I am closing right now so the
worship team can come. Mediocre men settle for good,
which is enemy of best. And there's really 3 levels of
living survival, success and significance.
I want God wants Anchor Faith Church to be a significant
church. So if you enlarge yourself and
you grow, guess what? So does the ministry grow?
And what I want to leave you with tonight is you should dream
when you come on the parking lot and be a part in the
participation of seeing the parking lot with brand new
asphalt all over it. You should be able to pull up
into your driveway and dream about going to your house and
your dog acting right and your kids excited to see you.
Are you with me? That's vision and that's what I
want to leave with you tonight is what has God put in your
heart to be engaged with, to be employed with, to enlarge and to
evangelize? Very last thing Sunday is
service and I want to leave with evangelism is because envision.
Can you invite somebody to church this Sunday?
Can you believe God that you pull up to a gas station or
you're at Publix or wherever? May your journey may take you
this week and God's going to set up a divine appointment for you
to connect with somebody who needs Jesus.
Can you see it in your vision? And in that moment, you get to
be like Coach Ted and be bold. You may even lead into Christ
right there at the pump. But then you can follow up and
say, listen, come to Anchor Faith Church.
We'll do you good on your spiritual journey.
I'll meet you in the parking lot at 9:30 AM whatever.
But I want to leave you with that tonight because I believe
that God is building his your life and the life of his church.
But there is a lost and a dying world out there.
We need to be mindful as we go through our day-to-day duties
and responsibilities that God is going to connect us with people
because we are called to ignite this city, impact this nation,
and influence the world.