Have An Abundant Mentality

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And I like to start with something funny. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.360 And I heard about this kindergarten teacher. She wanted to 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.239 explain to her students about self esteem. She asked anyone 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.400 in the class that feels dumb to please stand up. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.320 She didn't think anybody would stand and she would make 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.480 the point how nobody is dumb. But about that time 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.720 little Johnny stood up, she thought, oh no, Now what 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.320 am I going to do? She said, Now, Johnny, do 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.120 you really feel like you're dumb? He said no, ma'am. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.040 I just hate to see you standing there all by yourself. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.200 Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.840 This is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:49.160 I am. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.920 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.480 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.240 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.480 is alert, my heart is accept it. I will never 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:06.240 be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.080 want to talk to you today about having an abundant mentality. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.920 God's dream for your life is that you would be 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.640 blessed in such a way that you could be a 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:22.200 blessing to others. David said, my cup runs over. God 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.000 is an overflow god. But here's the key. You can't 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.480 go around thinking thoughts of lack, not enough, struggle and 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.800 expect to have abundance. And if you've been under pressure 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.280 for a long time and had difficulty making ends meet, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:42.200 it's easy to develop a limited mindset. I'll never get 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.160 out of this neighborhood, or I'll never have enough to 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.120 send my kids to college. Now, that may be where 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.680 you are now, but that's not where you have to stay. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.400 God is called Elshaddai, the God of more than enough, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.680 not the god of barely enough. God, just help me 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.920 make it through, let me live off the leftovers. Know 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.640 the God of overflow, the God of abundance, the God 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.720 of more than enough. And the Psalm thirty five says, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:16.000 let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified, who 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:20.240 takes pleasure in the prosperity of his children. They were 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:24.279 supposed to go around constantly saying God takes pleasure in 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:29.720 prospering me. It was to help them develop this abundant mentality. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.080 Your life is moving toward what you're constantly thinking about. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.839 If you're always thinking thoughts of lack, not enough, struggle. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.640 You're moving toward the wrong things. Now, all through the day, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:48.359 meditate on these thoughts. Overflow abundance. God takes pleasure in 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.520 prospering me. In the scripture, the Israelites had been in 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:57.360 slavery for many years. That was the land of barely enough. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:03.200 They were just enduring, vibing, barely making it through. One day, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.080 God brought them out of slavery and took them into 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.480 the desert that was the land of just enough. Their 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:15.040 needs were supplied, but nothing extra. Says. Their clothes didn't 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.640 wear out for forty years. I'm sure they were grateful. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.000 I don't know about you. I don't particularly want to 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.120 wear this same suit for the next forty years. If 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.640 I have to, I'm not going to complain. But that's 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.440 not my idea of abundance. It wasn't God's either. God 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.719 eventually took them into the promised land that was the 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:41.080 land of more than enough. The food and supplies were plenteous, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.080 the bundles of grape so large two grown men had 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.320 to carry them. It's called the land flowing with milk 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.880 and honey. Flowing means it didn't stop. It never ran out, 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.880 it continued to have an abundance. That's where God is 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.039 taking you. Now. You may be in the land of 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.160 barely enough. Right now, you don't know how you're gonna 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.680 make it through next week. Don't worry. God hasn't forgotten 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.640 about you. God closed the lilies of the field, he 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.920 feeds the birds of the air. He's going to take 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.920 care of you. You may be in the land of 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.080 just enough. Your needs are supplied. You're grateful, but there's 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.839 nothing extra, nothing to accomplish your dreams. God is saying, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.720 I did not breathe my life into you to live 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.160 in the land of barely enough. I didn't create you 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.599 to live in the land of just enough. Those are seasons, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:42.160 those are tests, but they are not permanent. Don't put 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:47.839 your stakes down. You are passing through. It is only temporary. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.440 God has a promised land for you. He has a 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:56.360 place of abundance, of more than enough, where it's flowing 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.240 with provision. Not just one time, but you'll continue, you 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.240 to increase, You'll continue to have plenty. Now, if you're 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:08.120 in the land of barely enough, don't you dare settle there. 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.640 That is where you are. It is not who you are. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.880 That is your location, That is not your identity. You 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.360 are a child of the most High God. No matter 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:23.120 what it looks like. You have this abundant mentality. Keep 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.720 reminding yourself. God takes pleasure in prospering me. I am 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:32.240 the head and never the tell. The scripture says God 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.040 will supply our needs according to his riches. So often 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.800 we look at our situations and think, I'll never get ahead. Joel, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.040 I'm in the projects, I'll never get out. No, it's 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.840 not according to what you have, It's according to what 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.000 he has. The good news is God owns it all. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.400 One touch of God's favor can blast you out of 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.480 barely enough and put you into more than enough. God 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.920 has ways to increase you beyond your normal income, beyond 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:10.400 your salary, beyond what's predictable. Now, quit telling yourself this 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.520 is all I'll ever have. Granddaddy was broke. Mom and 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.480 daddy didn't have anything. My dog's on welfare, my cat's homeless. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.520 Let go of all that and have an abundant mentality. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.440 This is not where I'm staying. I'm blessed, I'm prosperous. 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.720 I'm headed to overflow to the land of more than enough. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.560 I received a letter from a young couple. They had 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.560 both been raised in low income families. All they saw 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:41.400 modeled growing up was lack, struggle, can't get ahead. Their 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.960 families had accepted it, but not this couple. They had 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.640 been coming to Lakewood. They didn't have not enough mentality. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.640 They had an abundant mentality. They knew God had a 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.880 promised land in store for them, and they took a 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:00.000 step of faith, and on very average incomes, they decide 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.680 to build their own house. They didn't take out a loan. 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.360 Whenever they had extra funds, they would buy the materials 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.199 and hire the contractors. A couple of years later they 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.600 moved into this beautiful house and a nice neighborhood, all 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.680 debt free. It was like God had multiplied their funds. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.480 Not long ago, they sold that house for twice what 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.880 they had put into it. The lady wrote, we never 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.920 dreamed we would be blessed like we are today. She 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.080 went on to say something interesting. She said, my great 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.920 grandparents and my grandparents always told me that if I 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.880 had beans and rice, that was good enough. But I 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:49.199 always knew one day I would have steak. And if 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.560 you're going to become everything, God's created you to be. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.960 You gotta make up your mind like she did. You 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.160 are not going to settle for beans and rice. You 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.760 are not going to get stuck in the land of 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.360 barely enough or the land of just enough. But you're 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:13.400 going to keep praying, believing, expecting, hoping, dreaming, working, being 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.640 faithful until you make it all the way in to 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.199 the land of more than enough. Now, there's nothing wrong 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.720 with beings in rice, nothing wrong with surviving. But God 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.880 wants you to go further. God wants you to set 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.280 a new standard for your family. He's an overflow God, 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.760 a more than enough God. Jesus told a parable about 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:40.520 a prodigal son. This young man left home, blew all 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:45.320 of his money, wasted his inheritance, and decided to return home. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.480 And when his father saw him, the father represents God. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.560 He said to the staff, go kill the fatted calf. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.319 We're going to have a party. The older brother was upset. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.000 He said, Dad, I've been with you this whole time, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.360 and you've never given me a skinny goat. Let me 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.160 ask you, do you have a fatted calf mentality? Or 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.280 do you have a skinny goat mentality? Do you think 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.439 beans and rice are good enough? Or do you say no, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.960 I want some enchiladas, I want some fahetas, I want 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.960 some soap a pias. Listen, you can live off of 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.320 bread and water. You can survive in the land of 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.000 barely enough. We can endure the land of just enough, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.360 just enough to make it through, just enough to pay 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.679 my bills this week. But that is not God's best. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.000 Your heavenly father, the one that breathed life into you, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.800 is saying, I've got a fatted calf for you. I've 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.200 got a place for you in the land of more 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.360 than enough. Now, don't go around thinking that you'll never 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.600 get ahead. You'll never live in a nice place, You'll 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.880 never have enough to accomplish your dreams. Get rid of 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.960 that skinny goat and start having a fatted calf mentality. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.960 I want you to overflow with his goodness. When the 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.520 Israelites were in the desert, in the land of just enough, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.720 they got tired of eating the same thing every day. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.040 They said, Moses, we want some meat to eat out here. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.560 They were complaining, but at least for a little while 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:22.400 they had a fatted calf mentality. Moses thought, that's impossible. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.920 Meat out here in the desert steak for some two 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.560 million people. There were no grocery stores, no place to 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.400 buy food. But God has ways to increase you that 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.520 you've never thought of. God simply shifted the direction of 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.280 the wind and caused a huge flock of quall to 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.280 come into the camp. They didn't have to go after it. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:49.000 The food came to them. What's interesting is quall doesn't 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:53.000 normally travel that far away from the water. If there 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.920 had not been a strong wind, it would have never 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.679 made it way out there in the desert. What am 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:03.280 I saying? How to get your provision to you? A 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.080 statistician ran some numbers based on the size of the camp, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.800 the number of people quel three feet off the ground 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.000 like the scripture says. He concluded that there were approximately 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.880 one hundred and five million quail that came into with 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.960 a camp. That's an abundant God. God could have given 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.079 them a couple of quall that would have been four 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.360 or five million quail. But God doesn't just want to 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.000 meet your needs. He wants to do it in abundance. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.600 Now the question are you thinking skinny goat or are 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.520 you thinking fatted calf? Well, Joel, I could never afford 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.640 a nice place to live. Can I say this respectfully, 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.120 Skinny Goat, I could never send my kids to the 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.160 college they really want to attend, Skinny Goat, I could 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.960 never build that orphanage. I could never support other families. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.280 I can barely support my own family. Now, God has 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.440 a fatted calf of abundance for you. He is not 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:07.160 limited by your circumstances, by how you were raised, by 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.880 what you don't have. He's limited by what you're believing. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.120 And some of you have had that, Skinny Goat with 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.120 you for years and years you become best friends. You 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.600 need to announce to him today, I'm sorry, but our 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.200 relationship is over. It's done. We're going to be parting ways. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:32.800 He may cry, complain, ask is there anybody else? Tell him, Yes, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.040 I've found a fatted calf. No more thinking not enough, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.000 barely enough, just enough. From now on, I'm thinking more 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.120 than enough and abundant mentality. When you live like this, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.960 God will bless you in ways you've never imagined. It's 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.000 like this one lady. I know, she's a single parent mother, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.960 and her family has gone through a lot of struggles. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.560 For years, she was barely making it. But every Sunday 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.600 he and her two sons would be here at Lakewood 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.000 in spite of all the obstacles. They didn't have a 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.360 skinny goat mentality. They were in the land of barely enough, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.640 but they didn't put their stakes down. They knew that 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:18.080 wasn't their permanent address. Like she did, You've got to 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.040 be faithful in the wilderness if you're going to make 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.560 it into the promised Land. I'm not saying that everything's 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.640 going to change overnight. There's going to be seasons of 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.760 testing and proving. Thoughts are going to tell you it's 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.320 never going to change. But you dismiss that. You just 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.280 keep being faithful right where you are, honoring God, thanking 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:42.200 him that you're coming in to overflow. Her son, from 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.160 the time he was a little boy, always said that 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.480 he was going to get a scholarship to go to college. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.080 He could have thought we're poor, I'm at a disadvantage. No, 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.680 this single parent mother taught her sons that God is 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.760 a god of abundance, that he can make away when 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:04.400 we don't see away. Three years ago, her son graduated 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.680 number two in his high school. He received not one scholarship, 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.080 not two, not five, not seven, not eight. He was 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:17.320 awarded nine scholarships, totaling over one point three million dollars. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:23.480 His undergraduate, his master's, and his doctorate is all paid 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.720 for at Georgetown University. That's what happens when you say 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.720 goodbye to the skinny goat and you have a fatted 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:36.480 calf mentality. Jesus talked about how when we give, it 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.440 will be given back to us. Good measure pressed down, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.560 shaking together and running over. What does that mean? Press down? 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.040 I used to make chocolate chip cookies with our children. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.440 The recipe calls for three fourths of a cup of 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.600 brown sugar. When you pour the brown sugar in, it's 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.920 so thick, so dense, even when it hits the mar 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.640 for three fourths, you have to press it down. When 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.639 you do, you can put in about twice what it 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.400 looked like. That's what God is saying. When you look full, 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.639 you think you're blessed, you're healthy. All you need is 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.600 one scholarship. You just want the house to sell for 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.240 what you put into it. You just want quail for 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.960 a day or two. God says, that's fine. But I'm 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.600 an overflow God. I'm more than enough. God. I'm about 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.000 to press it down and make room for more of 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.720 my increase. I'm gonna press it down and show you 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.800 my favor in a new way. After he presses it down, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.480 he's gonna shake it together and not just fill it 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.320 to the top. He's gonna take it one step further 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.800 and give you so much that you're running over. You 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.200 just wanted one scholarship. God says, that's fine, I'm gonna 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.119 give you nine to make sure you're covered. You just 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.920 wanted to get your money out of the house. God says, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.760 I'm gonna cause it to sell for double. You just 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.560 wanted quail for a day or two. God says, I'm 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.080 gonna give you a stake for a whole month. That's 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.399 the way our God is. Why don't you get in 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.879 agreement and say, God, I'm ready, I'm a giver. I 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.720 have an abundant mentality. Lord, I want to thank you 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:16.880 for good measure, pressed down, shaking together, and running over. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.040 In my life, friend of mine has a son that 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.560 God is driver's license. A while back and really wanted 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.000 a car. His father said to him, let's believe that 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.399 God will give you a car. Son said, Dad, God's 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.479 not gonna give me a car. You can buy me 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.160 a car. He said, no, let's pray. They asked God 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.119 to somehow make a way that he could have a car. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.760 A couple of months later, this man's employer called him 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.080 in and said, for the last two years, we've made 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:51.040 a mistake on your paycheck. We've been under paying you. 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.760 They handed him a check. It was five hundred dollars 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.959 more than the car they had been hoping to buy. 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.879 The scripture says, is there anything too hard for the Lord? 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.080 There is no telling what God will do if you'll 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.879 get rid of the skinny goat. God is about to 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.480 press some things down. He's about to make room to 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:15.480 show you his increase in a new way. Says in Exodus, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.000 I am bringing you out of lack into a good 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:26.560 and spacious land. No, not a small land, a little place, tight, crowded, 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.280 not enough room. Nor receive this into your spirit. God 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.960 is bringing you into a spacious land, a land of 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.720 more than enough, a land of plenty of room, a 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:42.920 land that's flowing with increase, flowing with good breaks, flowing 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.919 with opportunity, where you not only have enough for yourself, 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.120 but you're running over, running over with space, running over 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:55.359 with supplies, running over with opportunity. If you're not in 0:19:55.480 --> 0:20:00.520 a good and spacious place. My challenge is don't se there. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.960 Don't let the skinny goat mentality take root. Don't think 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.480 beans and rice is good enough. That is not your 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:13.560 permanent address. It's only temporary. God has taking you to 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.560 a good and a spacious land. Well, you say, Joel, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.920 are you one of those prosperity ministers. No, I don't 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.560 like that term. That sounds like somebody that only talks 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:27.960 about finances. Prosperity to me is having your health, it's 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.560 having peace in your mind, it's being able to sleep 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:35.480 at night, having good relationships. There are many things that 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.280 money cannot buy. And while I don't like the term 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:44.399 prosperity minister, I must say I am not a poverty minister. 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.960 I can't find one place in the scripture where we 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:53.440 are supposed to drag around not having enough, not able 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.000 to afford what we want, living off the leftovers, living 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.760 in the land of not enough. No, we were created 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.119 to be the head and not to tell Jesus came 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:07.960 that we might live in abundant life. We represent Almighty 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.959 God here on this earth. We should be examples of 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:17.160 His goodness. So blessed, so prosperous, so generous, so full 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.479 of joy that other people want what we have. But 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.000 you've got to fight a religious spirit that says you're 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:28.320 supposed to be poor, broke and defeated to show God 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:32.040 that you're really humble. Now, when you're poor, broken, defeated, 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:36.160 all that proves is that you're poor, broke, and defeated. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:40.119 It doesn't bring any honor to God. If I brought 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.600 my two children up on the platform today and their 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:48.000 clothes were all raggedy, worn out, holes in their shoes, 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.960 hair not combed, you would look at me and think 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:53.720 what kind of father is he? It'd be a poor 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:57.399 reflection on me. Listen, when you look good, dress good, 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:01.800 live in a nice place, excelling your career, generous with others, 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:05.080 that brings a smile to God's face. It brings him 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:09.919 pleasure to prosper you. My father was raised during the 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:14.040 Great Depression, and he grew up extremely pooring He developed 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:18.040 this poverty mindset. He was taught in seminary that you 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.080 had to be poor to show God that you were holy. 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.320 The church he pastored made sure he stayed holy by 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.639 keeping him poor. He was making a little over one 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:33.520 hundred dollars a week, trying to raise his children, barely surviving, 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.760 and one time he and my mom kept a guest 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.680 minister in their home all week. Sunday, after the service, 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.080 a businessman came up to my father and handed him 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:48.720 a check for one thousand dollars like five thousand dollars today. 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.280 He said, I want you to have this personally to 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:54.080 help take care of the expenses of the guest ministry. 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.000 My father took the check by the corner like it 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.439 was contaminated. It might poison him. He said, oh no, 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.600 I could never receive this. We must put it in 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.760 the church offering. He walked toward the offering plate. With 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:14.000 every step something said, don't do it. Receive God's blessings, 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:18.000 receive God's favor. He ignored it, dropped it in the 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:21.200 offering plate. When he did, he said he felt sick 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:25.320 to his stomach. There's something on the inside of us 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:29.159 that says we're supposed to be blessed, We're supposed to 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:33.159 live an abundant life. It's because we are children of 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:37.119 the King. It was put there by our creator. But 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:40.720 here's the key. You have to give God permission to 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:44.840 prosper you. You can't go around with a lack of mentality, 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.880 thinking I'll just take the leftovers to show everyone how 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:51.960 humble I am. After all, God wouldn't want me to 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:54.879 have too much. That'd be greedy, that'd be selfish. No, 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.360 get rid of that false sense of humility that's going 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.240 to keep you from an abundant life. Listen to Deuteronomy 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:06.520 twenty eight. In the message translation, God will lavish you 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:10.520 with good things. He will throw open the doors of 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:14.560 his sky vaults and rain down favor. You will always 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:18.280 be the top dog and never the bottom dog. Now 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.320 you need to start seeing yourself as the top dog. 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:25.280 Not living off of leftovers, not able to afford what 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:27.920 you want, not in the land of not enough. No, 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:31.000 come on over to the land of more than enough. 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:36.040 It starts in your thinking. Give God permission to increase you, 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:41.080 Give him permission to lavish you with good things. We think, 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:43.439 is it wrong for me to want to live in 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:46.679 a nice house, drive a nice car? Is it wrong 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:50.439 to want funds to accomplish my dreams, or wrong to 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:53.960 want to leave an inheritance for my children. God is 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:58.640 saying it's not wrong. I take pleasure in prospering you. 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:04.160 If it was wrong to have resources abundance, Well, why 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:07.840 would God have chosen Abraham to start the new covenant 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:12.159 with Abraham is called the father of our faith. The 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:16.199 scripture says Abraham was the wealthiest man in all of 0:25:16.240 --> 0:25:21.280 the East. He had more livestock, more cattle, more possessions 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:24.960 than anyone else. He was the bill Gates of his day. 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:29.359 God could have chosen anyone, but he chose Abraham, a 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:34.199 man extremely blessed. David left billions of dollars for his 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:37.960 son to build the temple. David is called a man 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:41.400 after God's own heart. Get rid of that thinking that 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:44.480 God wouldn't want me to have too much, that wouldn't 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:47.119 be right, that might not look good. No, it's just 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:51.440 the opposite. When you look good, it makes God look good. 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:56.919 When you're blessed, prosperous, successful, it brings him honor. I 0:25:57.080 --> 0:26:01.240 realize everything I have comes from God. This suit that 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:07.000 I'm wearing, my car, my house, my resources, it's God's goodness. Listen, 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.960 you don't have to apologize for what God has done 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:14.639 in your life. Where your blessings well, the scripture says, 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:18.040 it is the Lord who gives you power to get well. 0:26:19.040 --> 0:26:22.200 God wouldn't give you power to do something and then 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:25.560 condemn you for doing it. There's nothing wrong with you 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:29.360 having money. The key is don't let money have you. 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:33.560 Don't let it become the focus of your life. Don't 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:38.720 seek the provision, seek the provider. Money is simply a 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:44.600 tool to accomplish your destiny and to advance His kingdom. 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:47.680 Victoria and I have big dreams in our hearts. It's 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:50.159 going to take millions of dollars to do what's on 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:54.119 the inside. These are dreams not just for ourselves for 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:57.120 a bigger this or bigger that, but a dream to 0:26:57.160 --> 0:27:01.280 build orphanages, a dream to build medical clinics. I can't 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:05.240 do that with a limited lacking. God doesn't want me 0:27:05.280 --> 0:27:09.280 to have too much mentality. I realize my father owns 0:27:09.320 --> 0:27:13.080 it all. He makes streets out of gold. You are 0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:18.440 not going to bankrupt heaven by believing for an abundant life. 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:21.720 All God has to do is go pick up some 0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:24.960 pavement and give it to you. When you have this 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:29.720 abundant mentality, you have a desire to advance the kingdom. 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:33.560 God will lavish you with good things. He will open 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:36.480 up the doors of his sky vaults to where you 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:39.399 not only accomplish your dreams, but you can help be 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:42.919 a blessing to the world. My prayer for you is 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:46.320 found in Deuteronomy one to eleven, says, may the Lord, 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:51.120 God of your fathers increase you a thousand times more 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:54.119 than you are. Can you receive that into your spirit, 0:27:54.320 --> 0:28:00.200 a thousand times more favors, a thousand times more resources, 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:05.640 a thousand times more income. Most of the time our 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:09.399 thinking goes tilt. It's because we've been hanging out with 0:28:09.440 --> 0:28:12.680 that skinny goat too long. It's time to cut him loose. 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:16.440 It's time to have a fatted calf mentality. God is 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:19.600 about to press some things down. He's about to make 0:28:19.680 --> 0:28:22.919 room for more of his increase. Now get up every morning, 0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:25.679 say Lord, I want to thank you that you're opening 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:29.679 up your sky vaults today, raining down favor, lavishing me 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:33.399 with good things. If you'll have this abundant mentality I 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:36.199 believe in, declare you won't live in the land of 0:28:36.400 --> 0:28:39.200 just enough, nor the land of barely enough, but you're 0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:42.560 coming into the land of more than enough, overflow and 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:46.840 abundant life in Jesus' name. If you receive it, can 0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:50.280 you say him in today? Well, we never like to 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:53.480 close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 0:28:53.600 --> 0:28:56.440 Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 0:28:56.960 --> 0:29:03.560 Just say, Lord, Jesus of my sins, come into my heart. 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:07.880 I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:10.680 prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:14.520 Get in a good Bible based church. 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