Increasing Your Capacity To Receive

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I promise you 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.160 we'll have a lot of fun, plus we'll make you 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.800 feel right at home. But thanks for tuning in, Thanks 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.600 again for coming out. I like to start with something funny, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.360 and I heard about this airplane that was about to crash. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.760 And there were four passengers but only three parachutes. The 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.959 first passenger said, I'm a leading heart surgeon. My patients 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.960 need me. He took the first parachute and jumped. The 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.320 second passenger said, I'm a rocket scientist in one of 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.239 the smartest men alive. My country needs me. He took 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.919 the second parachute and jumped. The third passenger was Pope 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.880 John Paul. He said to the fourth passenger, a ten 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.040 year old boy scout, son, I'm old and frail. I 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.160 don't have much time left. You take the last parachute. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.960 The boy scout said, don't worry about it, sir, there 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.720 are still two parachutes left. The smartest man alive, he 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.440 just jumped out with my backpack. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.560 All right, hold up Bible, say it like you mean it. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.200 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.160 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.880 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.919 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.360 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.800 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.760 I want to talk to you today about increasing your 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.840 capacity to receive. God has all kinds of great things 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.000 in store for you. He has favor in your future 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.680 like you've never imagined. He's got good breaks, new opportunities, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.000 the right people. God wants to take your places you've 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.480 never even dreamed of. But here's the key. God is 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:49.400 limited by our capacity to receive. For instance, if you 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.160 have a one gallon bucket, yet I have fifty gallons 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.360 to give you, the problem is not with the supply. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.960 The problem is you don't have the capacity to receive. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.320 If you'd get rid of that small container and get 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.160 something larger than I could give you more, It's the 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.240 same principle with God. If we think we've reached our limits, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.800 we think the economy is too bad, we're going to 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.520 have a down year, we think we'll never get well, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.480 that's what the medical report says, never afford the house 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.520 that we really want. It's not that God doesn't have 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.600 the resources, it's not that he doesn't have the ability. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.880 The fact is our container is too small, our thinking 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.360 is limited. We have to enlarge our vision and make 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.160 room for the new things God wants to do. Now 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.640 our attitude should be Yes, the economy is down, but 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.400 I know God is still on the throne. I know 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.120 he still has promotion and increase already lined up for me. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.760 I know his favor surrounds me like a shield. I 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.560 know wherever I go, goodness and mercy follow me. So 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.440 I'm believing to have an extraordinary year. When you have 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.400 that kind of attitude, what are you doing? You're increasing 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.839 your to receive. That's when you're going to see God 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:07.040 show up and show out in unusual ways. But some 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.479 people they go around with a small cup, so to speak. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:15.200 They're not expecting much. They've always struggled. Others have traded 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.560 in their cup and they've got a bucket. They're doing okay, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.080 they're surviving, but not planning on going much further. Still, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.719 others they've traded in the bucket. They've stretched their faith. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.440 They've got a barrel. They're believing to rise higher. Yet 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.880 there's one other group. This group is very unusual. These 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:38.240 people believe for far and beyond favor. They believe God 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.560 is going to prosper them even in a recession. They 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.839 believe their children will be mighty in the land. They're 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:50.720 expecting explosive blessings. They know down deep supernatural increase is coming. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.880 So they don't have a cup, they don't have a bucket, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.640 they don't have a barrel. They've been coming to Lakewood 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.000 too long. They've got a barn, they've got a whole warehouse. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.840 They're expecting God to open the windows of heaven and 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:11.640 pour out unprecedented favor, supernatural opportunities, exponential increase, says in Psalms. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.479 Open your mouth wide and I will feel it. My 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.599 question is do you have your mouth open wide? What 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.119 are you expecting? Well, Joel, I don't think i'll ever 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.839 meet my sales goals this year. With the economy like 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.360 it is, I don't think i'll ever get promoted. I'm 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.000 not that qualified. Don't think i'll ever get well. The 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.840 problem is your mouth is barely open. You're not expecting 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.640 good breaks. You're not expecting increase. You're not expecting God 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.320 to show up and turn it around. And unfortunately you 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.720 won't be disappointed. The scripture says Jesus said it according 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.200 to your faith, it will be done unto you. He 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.760 might as well have said, if you've got a cup, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.680 I'll fill you with a cup. Level of blessing if 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.480 you got a bucket, I'll fill you with the bucket 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.880 level of blessing. But he's saying, if you've got a ball, 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.240 In other words, if you'll take the limits off of God, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.320 if you'll believe for supernatural opportunities, if you'll go out 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:13.040 each day expecting far and beyond favor, you won't be disappointed. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.480 Psalm thirty seven nineteen says even in famine, the righteous 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.080 will have more than enough. When you've got your mouth 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.440 open wide, you're not complaining about the economy. You're expecting 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.320 to have a supernatural year. You're expecting increase even in 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.720 the middle of a recession. Your child may be off course, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.080 but you're not praying, Oh God, just keep him from 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.280 driving me crazy. Now you're saying, God, you said my 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.840 children will be mighty in the land, So I want 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.880 to thank you. You're not only going to turn him around, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.240 but you're going to use him to do something great 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.200 for you. When you have your mouth open wide, you're 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.120 not just hoping to make your monthly mortgage payments. You're 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.200 believing to totally pay your house off, to live totally 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.760 debt free. That's barn level living. Let me ask you, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.960 do you go out each day knowing that favor is 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.520 already in your future, Or have you gotten stuck in 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.600 a rug? This is what happened to the people of Israel. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.640 They were headed toward the Promised Land. They had big goals, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.440 big dreams. But along the way they hit some setbacks, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.800 had some disappointments. They got so discouraged they gave up 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.400 on their dreams and just settled where they were. One day, 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.480 God said to them, you have dwelt long enough on 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.719 this mountain. I believe God is saying that to each 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.679 one of us. You've been where you are long enough. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.120 Some of you have held that cup year after year. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.679 It's how you were raised. It's all you've ever known. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.000 Some of you, at one time you had your sight 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.040 set on the barn, but you had some setbacks. Now 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.320 you've just settled for that bucket. God is saying, this 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.840 is a new day. Get your fire back. Where you 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.080 are is not where you're supposed to stay. Now, I'm 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:06.200 asking you to increase your capacity to receive. That means 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.160 you're gonna stretch your faith. You're gonna start thinking bigger, 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.200 believing bigger. You're gonna go beyond barriers that have held 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.920 you back, and you're gonna make room for God to 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.360 do something new. I've learned you've got to give God 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.439 permission to increase you. You've got to give God permission 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.839 to prosper you. God has brought opportunities across my path 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.840 in years past that I turned down. I thought they 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.400 were too big. I didn't think I was qualified. It 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.360 was so far beyond what I thought I could handle. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.480 I didn't even get in agreement with God and at 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.440 least release my faith for it. Now I realize I 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.680 wasn't giving God permission to prosper me. I missed those 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:54.280 opportunities to go further. Jesus put it like this, you 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.480 can't put new wine in old wine skins. He was saying, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.959 you can't go to a new li level with an 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.240 old way of thinking. Many of you are ready for 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.280 God to do something new. When you hear this truth 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.760 that it's gonna be a great year, that God has 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.120 more in store, something resonates on the inside. That's your 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:18.800 spirit person coming into agreement with God. But very often 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.920 our natural mind will try to talk us out of it. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.040 Your mind will tell you it's not gonna happen for you. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.800 You're not gonna have a great year. You know what 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.720 the economy is like. Or you're never gonna get well. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.480 You saw what the medical report says. You're never gonna 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.760 get married. You've been single so long, Just accept it. No, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.520 get rid of that old wine skin. Trade in that 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:44.000 small container for something larger. This is a new season. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.200 What's happened in the past is over and done. You 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.600 may have been through some disappointments, tried, failed, it didn't 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.040 work out. That's okay. God is still in control. Get 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.080 a new vision for your life. Have the attitude. This 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.040 is my year to go to a new level. This 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.000 is my year to be totally healthy. This is my 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.920 year to meet the person of my dreams. If you 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.199 open your mouth wide, God said he will fill it. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.600 But it starts right here with us, with our capacity 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.920 to receive. We cannot go around thinking thoughts of mediocrity 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.720 and expect to excel. We can't think thoughts of defeat 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.000 and barely get by. Help me to survive and at 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.599 the same time expect God to fill us with abundance. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.800 The two don't go together. Get rid of that cup, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.040 trade in that bucket, throw away that barrel, and come 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.440 over to the barn level God is a god of abundance, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.439 and it says in Psalm one point fifteen, the Lord 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:48.240 your God will increase you and your family more and more. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.640 Increase has always been on God's mind. His dream is 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.920 that we never get stuck at one level. In fact, 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.360 Jesus said he came that we might have life to 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.640 the full in abundance till it overflows. You need to 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.680 get that on the inside. Here's why I'm headed three 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.160 places to a full life and abundant life and overflowing life. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.720 And if you'll stay in faith, no matter what container 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.439 you put out there, God will cause it to overflow. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.520 I remember when I wrote my first book, Your Best 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.800 Life Now, before it came out, I would pray, God, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.520 if you'll just let this sell fifty thousand copies. That 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.040 was so big in my mind. I was stretching my faith. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.480 And at that time we had about twenty thousand people 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.720 coming each weekend, and I thought, if each one of 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.320 you would buy one copy, that would be about half 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.720 of the fifty Then I'll get my family and friends 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:44.120 and neighbors. But God likes to do exceedingly abundantly above 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.600 and beyond. He is a god of overflow that book 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.160 went on to sell more than one hundred times that 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:55.000 fifty thousand. I've learned now, if you'll start higher, God 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.240 will still cause it to overflow. It's great to overflow 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.079 with a cup, it's exciting over flow with a bucket 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.000 or a barrel. But when you put that barn level 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.480 of faith out there, that's when you'll see God do 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.440 more than you can ask or think. That's when you'll 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.520 see God open up doors that you thought were impossible. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.200 What happened You stretched your faith and that allowed God 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.800 to pour out his far and beyond favor. Now I 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.360 want you to get a bigger vision for your life. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.040 It says in Proverbs twenty nine, verse eighteen, if people 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:32.280 can't see what God is doing, they stumble. In other words, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.360 if you don't have this vision for increase, if you're 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.680 not expecting favor, you've just kind of gotten satisfied with 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.600 where you are, then you will live below your privileges. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.040 But if you will get a vision not of only 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.080 who you are a child of the most time, but 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.640 a vision of what you're entitled to, and you go 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:58.160 out expecting supernatural opportunities in favor. It goes on to say, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.400 if you can see what God has has revealed, you 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:06.200 will be the most blessed. Notice not average blessed, not 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.920 good enough blessed. As a child of the Most High, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:14.000 you are entitled to be the most blessed. Well, you say, Joel, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.760 I never get any good breaks. I don't think I'll 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.800 ever be able to pay my house off, never get 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.200 out of debt, never get well. No, your vision is limited. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.560 I'm trying to help you today understand the great things 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.280 God has in store, the amazing places He's going to 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:34.160 take you, the incredible opportunities he has in your future, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:39.040 because I know if your vision increases, then your capacity 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.880 to receive will increase, and that's when the Most High 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.160 will pour out blessings to where you say, I am 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.040 not a little blessed, I'm not average blessed. I have 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.240 to say I am most blessed. Well, you say, Joel, 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.280 are you one of those prosperity ministers. No, I'm not 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.320 a prosperity minister. But I can tell you this, I 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:06.320 am not a poverty ministry. I cannot. I cannot find 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.640 one place in the scripture where we're supposed to drag 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:14.080 around defeated, depressed, barely making it always just scraping by. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.640 It is just the opposite. You remember those three things, 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:22.480 an abundant life and overflowing life, a full life. You 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.360 and I are supposed to be examples of what it 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.160 means to live for the true and the living God. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.840 Everywhere we go, we should be so blessed. We should 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.400 look so good, so sharp, We should be so kind, 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:40.080 so friendly, so generous. People think, Man, what is it 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.720 with them? They always look good, They're always friendly, They're 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.720 always in a good mood. People should want what we have. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.920 If I brought our two children up here today, their 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.520 clothes were all raggedy, holds in their pants, nothing's iron, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.520 hair's messed up, long, drab faces. First thing you'd think 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.280 is man a father? Is he? Why would he let 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.960 his kids go around looking like that? It's a poor 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.280 reflection on me. It's the same thing with our God. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.320 It doesn't bring him any honor when we think we're 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.200 supposed to go around defeated, depressed, barely getting by. No 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.960 matter where you are, no matter what level you're at, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.560 you need to put your shoulders back, hold your head 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.560 up high, put a smile on your face, carry yourself 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.840 with confidence. You're a child of the most high God. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.880 You may only have one suit, one dress, one outfit. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.360 You need to clean it, iron it, and wear it 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.200 like you're on top of the world. And it says 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:45.200 here in Romans five seventeen, we are to reign in 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.360 life as kings. When God looks at us, he doesn't 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:54.560 see us defeated, barely getting by. Just take the leftover positions. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.040 Not at all. God sees you as a king, He 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.440 sees you as a queen. You have his royal blood 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.840 flowing through your veins. You and I are supposed to 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.119 reign in life. You know what that word reign means. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.639 It means your time in power. God said we're to 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.840 reign how long in life. That means as long as 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.360 you're alive. That is your time in power. You don't 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.680 have a two year term like a mayor a four 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.200 year term like a president. Your term is to reign 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.720 every single day, to be victorious, to rise to new levels, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.840 to accomplish great things. And on those days where you 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.000 don't feel like a king, you don't feel like a queen. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.400 If you can just remember to reach down and check 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.720 your pulse, and as long as you feel something beating, 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.639 you can say, what do you know it's still my 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.360 time to reign. Let that be a reminder to put 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.560 on a new attitude. And sometimes you have to do 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.480 this by faith. You may not feel victorious, it may 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.600 not look like you're blessed, But I like what somebody says. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.359 You got to fake it until you make it. By faith. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.520 You need to walk like a king, talk like a king, 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.240 Think like a king, Dress like a king, Smile like 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.080 a king. Don't go by what you see, go by 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:19.119 what you know. There is royalty in your dna. You 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.879 have the blood of a winter. You were created to 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:27.240 reign in life. Too many people are living below their privileges. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:33.200 It's because their vision has been clouded by past mistakes, disappointments. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.760 How they were raised. They don't feel like royalty. They 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.399 don't think they could be successful, really accomplish what God's 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.960 put in their heart. But I believe today as I'm 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.600 speaking faith into you, something's happening on the inside. New 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.400 seeds are taken root. Strong holds that may have kept 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.240 you back for years even right now, are being broken. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.160 You need to rise up and say that's it. I'm 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.199 not settling where I am. I know it's still my 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.879 time of power. Yes, i may have taken a break 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.360 for a little while, but I've got an announcement. I'm 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.440 coming back. I'm gonna start stepping up to who God 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.400 created me to be. When you really understand your God 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.680 given possession, the fact that you were created to raign 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:21.000 and it's still your time of power, those negative mindsets 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:25.639 cannot stay. As you renew your mind, a transformation is 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:30.080 taking place. Your vision is increasing today. I believe even 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.080 right now, you are making room for God to do more. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.800 The good news is God is ready to pour out more. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.280 Doesn't matter what's happened in the past. What matters is 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.600 your future. Don't live below your privileges. You were not 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.040 created to be averaged. God put a crown of favor 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.199 on your head. He has destined you to do great things. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.880 You may not have seen it yet, but if you'll 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.639 stay in faith and make room for it. The Most 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.320 High says you're going to be the most blessed. You're 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.959 gonna have the most peace, the most friends, the most fulfillment, 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:07.200 the most resources, the most wisdom, the most opportunity. Most 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.720 blessed means you will not lack in any good area. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.000 And some of you today you just need to give 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.080 God permission to increase you. You have given, you have served, 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.399 you've honored him. The only thing that's holding you back 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.679 is a limited mindset. Maybe you've tried and struggled and 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.120 it didn't work out, or I don't know. I talk 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.280 to people that they don't feel like they deserve to 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.680 be blessed because of past mistake. But you've got to 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.000 shake all of that off. Dare to believe. Get rid 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.679 of that cup, get rid of the bucket, get rid 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:41.800 of the barrel. God has a barnload full of blessings 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.280 in store for each one of you. This is what 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.159 my father had to do. Daddy was raised in an 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:51.280 extremely poor environment. That's all he had ever known, and 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:56.360 he developed this limited mindset. Really, it was a poverty mentality. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.000 It had been ingrained in him. He loved God and 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.320 he was a good person, but early on he didn't 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:07.080 have any vision for increase. He thought barely getting by 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.359 and struggling was just his lot in life. He didn't 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.560 want to complain about it, so he just accepted it. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.520 When he first started pastoring, this was more than sixty 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.679 years ago. One week, he and my mother kept a 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.400 guest minister in their home and Sunday, after the service, 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.280 a business person came up and said, Pastor, I know 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.119 you've had a lot of extra expenses this week keeping 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.520 our special guess, so I would like you to have 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:35.400 this thousand dollars check. That would be like somebody giving 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:39.200 you twenty thousand dollars a day. My father nearly passed out. 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.640 He had never had anybody give him anything like that. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.399 In fact, his first offering was only twenty five cents. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.040 He and my mother they were making one hundred and 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:53.280 seventeen dollars a week, barely scraping by, trying to raise 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.680 their children. And you would have thought my father would 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.280 have been thrilled, so happy, just thanking God. It was 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:05.399 just the opposite. His capacity to receive was limited. He 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.960 had embraced that little cup for so long. He could 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.800 not fathom having a bucket or a barrel, much less 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:16.160 a barn. Here God was trying to do something new. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:19.320 God was trying to expand him. But he had that 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:23.840 old wine skin. That gentleman handed him the check. Daddy 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.520 took it by the corner, the very tip, like there 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:29.560 was something wrong with it, like it was poisoned. He said, 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.440 oh no, brother, I could never receive this for myself, 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.360 I must put it in the church treasury. He walked over, 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.120 and he said, when he dropped it in the offering 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.920 play right, when he let it go, he felt sick 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:47.199 to his stomach. Why was that? God has put something 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.879 on the inside of every one of us that says 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:53.639 we're supposed to be blessed, We're supposed to rise higher, 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.880 We're supposed to leave an inheritance to our children's children. 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.640 My father eventually learned this truth. He shook off that 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:07.320 poverty mindset, and he began to increase his capacity to receive. 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:10.520 He inherited a cup, but he got rid of it 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:12.920 and put a bucket out there. God filled it up. 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.360 He put a barrel out God increased him. He developed 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:20.840 this more than enough, this barn level mentality. We wouldn't 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:23.280 be here today if he hadn't been willing to break 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:26.560 out of that rut. Your relatives may have handed you 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:30.679 a cup, maybe your parents, the people you grew up with, 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:33.240 they just handed you that cup. But that does not 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:36.040 have to set the limits for your life. You need 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:38.600 to draw the line in the sand and say where 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.280 I am is not where I'm staying. I may have 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:44.080 been handed this cup, but I'm trading it in, not 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:46.840 for a bucket, not for a barrel. I'm going for 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:50.320 the gold. I've got my sight set on that barn. Now, 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:54.280 as you increase your capacity to receive, just like with 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:57.520 my father, God is going to open up supernatural doors. 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:00.600 He's going to give you new ideas. He's going to 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:02.960 bring tallet out of you that you didn't even know 0:24:03.040 --> 0:24:07.120 you had. Don't live with a narrow vision. Don't think 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:10.000 that you've reached your limits. You would not be alive 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:13.640 if God didn't have increase in your future. Get rid 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:16.880 of that old wine skin. You may have had victories 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:20.040 in your past, but you haven't seen anything yet. You 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.959 haven't touched the surface of what God has in store. 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:26.679 He has levels of blessings in your future that are 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:30.040 going to amaze you. It's like this little frog I 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:32.960 heard about. He was born at the bottom of a well. 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.080 It was just a small circular well like you'd see 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:39.359 at a typical rural area farm, and just he and 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:42.560 his family lived there. He was so content every day 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:46.200 to splash around and to play in the well. He thought, 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:50.000 life is good. We've got all the water in the 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:53.280 world to ourselves. It just doesn't get any better than this. 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:56.440 But as he got a little older, he noticed the 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:58.960 light at the top of the well. He wondered what 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:01.639 was up there. One day he got his confidence up 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:04.720 and he climbed the side of the well very cautiously. 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.199 When he got to the top, he peered over the 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:11.359 edge lo and behold, the first thing he saw was 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:15.080 a pond. He couldn't believe it. It was thousands of 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:18.399 times bigger than what he had. He hopped a little further, 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:22.440 and he came to a lake. He stood there in amazement. 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:26.200 Hopped a little bit further. Eventually he came to the ocean. 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:29.800 He looked left and right, as far as he could see, 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:33.439 for miles and miles there was water. He began to 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:37.680 realize how limited his thinking was. He thought he had 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:41.040 it all, but all he really had was a drop 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:44.200 in the bucket compared to what God wanted him to enjoy. 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:48.560 And in the same way, God's dream for your life 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:51.879 is so much bigger, so much better than you can 0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:55.760 even imagine. If God showed you what he had in store, 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.280 it would boggle your mind. But so many times we're 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:03.760 like this little. Our thinking is limited. We've been enclosed 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:07.160 in our environment. All we've known is a certain level 0:26:07.160 --> 0:26:10.359 of living, a certain way of thinking. Too often we 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:13.720 get satisfied, think well, this is just my lot in life. 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:17.600 But could it be that God has oceans for you 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:21.439 to enjoy, but you're staying in a little pond thinking 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:23.960 that you have it all. Could it be that you've 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:27.280 got a cup mentality? And yet God is standing over 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:30.080 by a big barn that has your name on it. 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:33.760 I'm asking you to go a little further than you're 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:36.720 used to going. Dare to do like that little frog 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:40.159 and look out over the edge. Get a bigger vision 0:26:40.280 --> 0:26:44.199 for your life, believe for bigger things. Your best days 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:46.840 are not in your past, they are still in your future. 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:51.120 It says in Psalm thirty five twenty seven let them 0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:56.359 say continually, let the Lord be magnified, who takes pleasure 0:26:56.680 --> 0:27:00.439 in the prosperity of his children. Notice they were supposed 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:03.919 to go around saying this, Let God be magnified, he 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:08.359 takes pleasure in prospering me. I believe one reason they 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:10.920 were supposed to say it all the time was because 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:13.840 God knows. When we hear something long enough, it gets 0:27:13.880 --> 0:27:16.879 down on the inside we start to believe it. It 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:20.440 starts to affect our vision. All through the day, they 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:24.840 heard themselves declaring favor over their lives, saying God takes 0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:28.480 pleasure in prospering me. They were saying, in effect, I'm 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:31.560 coming up higher, I'm coming out of debt. New doors 0:27:31.560 --> 0:27:35.399 are opening. God is restoring my marriage, my health is improving. 0:27:35.680 --> 0:27:39.720 What were they doing, They were increasing their capacity to receive. 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:42.520 We got to do the same thing. Speak that favor 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:45.240 over your life. Somebody asks you how you're doing, No 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:47.320 matter how you feel, you need to tell them, I 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:50.680 am blessed and highly favored, and you muy as well. 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:54.040 Add and I'm going to have a supernatural year. Friends, 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:57.520 God takes pleasure in prospering you. Will you get this 0:27:57.680 --> 0:28:00.600 down in your spirit? God wants you to write higher. 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:03.760 Some of you are stuck in a rut. Maybe like 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:07.679 my father, you come from generations of lack and constantly struggling. 0:28:08.160 --> 0:28:10.840 You're just about to accept that's the way it's always 0:28:10.880 --> 0:28:12.960 going to be. Now you've got to get rid of 0:28:13.000 --> 0:28:16.640 that old mindset. Make a decision. Today. You're coming out 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:19.160 of the well, coming out of the pond, coming out 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:21.520 of the lake, and you're headed straight toward the ocean. 0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:24.560 You're going to enjoy the fullness of what God has 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:28.360 in store. Remember you've been created to rain. You are 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:31.080 a king, you are a queen, and your time of 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:34.720 power is still in session. If you open your mouth wide, 0:28:35.040 --> 0:28:37.400 God is going to fill it. You may not see 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:39.800 how it can happen, but that's okay. God has a way. 0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:43.280 He has explosive blessings that can thrust you to a 0:28:43.280 --> 0:28:46.120 new level. One touch of God's favor can take it 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:49.000 from the well right over to the ocean. If you 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:51.760 will take the limits off of God and make room 0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:54.200 for him to do something new, then you're not going 0:28:54.280 --> 0:28:56.160 to have an average year. You're not going to have 0:28:56.200 --> 0:28:59.400 a mediocre year. You're gonna have a supernatural year. You're 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:05.880 going to see supernatural breaks, supernatural healing, supernatural deliverance, supernatural restoration, 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:12.000 supernatural opportunities, supernatural connections. God is going to unleash supernatural 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:14.800 increase in your life. 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