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Next week 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.400 he talked about gossip and how you have to watch 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.280 your tongue, and the song leader led, I love to 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.880 tell the story. The pastor got so frustrated he finally resigned. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.880 He said, Jesus brought me here, and Jesus has taken 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.000 me away. The song leader then led, what a friend 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:44.400 we have in Jesus. All right, hold up your bible. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.120 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.160 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.880 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.680 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:00.280 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:05.000 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.560 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:13.840 about developing an overflow mentality. Our God is a running 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.680 over God, and we're not supposed to just have our 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:17.520 needs supplied. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.519 We're supposed to be so blessed when other. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:25.040 People get around us, it overflows onto them. We should 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.480 be so blessed in our finances that we cannot only 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.080 pay our bills, not only accomplish our dreams, but we 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.640 can be a blessing to others. And if we're going 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.800 to live this abundant life, we have to have an 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.760 overflow mentality. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.240 You've got to know it's God's dream that you prosper. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.360 Just like as a parent, I love to see my 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.520 children doing well. I love to see them looking good 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.040 and see them excelling. It's the same way with God. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:58.080 He takes pleasure in prospering you. We were never created 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.360 to barely get by, created to have to constantly struggle. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.000 God made us to be the head and not the tail. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.880 He said we would lend and not borrow. We may 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.640 not all be there just yet, but don't settle where 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.520 you are all through the day. Reminds yourself. God takes 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.120 pleasure in prospering me. His favor surrounds me. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:20.839 Like a shield. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.840 His blessings are chasing me down. Promotion and increase are 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.960 coming my way. And of course we all go through 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.120 times of testing. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.120 There are seasons where we. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.880 Don't see any increase, we're not getting any good breaks. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.760 We have to dig our heels in and press through 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.359 the difficult times. But the way God designed it is 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.680 that seasons always change. That means we're not supposed to 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:50.159 constantly struggle. It is not your destiny to always be 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.840 in lack and never have enough. At some point, the 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.440 test will come to an end. At some point you 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:00.640 go from sowing into reaping. But if we're not careful, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.880 because we've struggled so long and not seen the results 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.200 and the increase that we've hoped for, it's easy to 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.080 lose our fire, lose our passion, and think, all, man, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.160 it's never going to happen to me. I'm never going 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.360 to rise any higher. No, don't settle where you are. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.880 You've gone through sowing. Now you need to start believing 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.120 that harvest is coming your way. And some of you 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.280 have been so faithful. You've gotten up each day and 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.000 done your best. You've given even when you didn't have enough. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.480 You've kept that attitude of faith. And God is saying 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.200 today it's your time to come into harvest. It's your 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.240 time to start reaping all those seeds that you've sown, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.159 why don't you get a vision for it, not to 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:47.360 barely get by. Maybe one day I'll have enough. Maybe 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.800 one day I'll be able to send my children to college. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.479 Maybe one day I'll be able to afford that house 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:53.360 that I really want. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.599 No start thinking overflow. You're a child of the most 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.360 high God. He wants to do more than you can 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.559 even ask or think. And I know I've had people say, well, Joel, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.839 my family's always struggled. My parents never had enough. My 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.040 grandparents were always in lack and defeat. That may be true, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.880 but this is a new day. You can set a 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.120 new standard. God wants you to be the one to 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.560 break the curse of lack in your family line. You 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.799 have seeds of greatness on the inside of you right now. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.080 God has equipped you with everything you need to succeed. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.400 And the fact is your parents, grandparents, ancestors, they may 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.240 have been good people, but maybe they didn't understand this 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.880 truth that God takes pleasure in prospering you. Or maybe 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.440 they sowed the seeds, they made the sacrifices so that 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.039 you could live a better life. In either case, God 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.680 wants you to go further than your parents. He wants 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.920 every generation to increase, and if you'll rise up in faith, 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.719 you can affect your family line for generations to come. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:01.800 This is what my father did. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.200 His family was one of the poorest families around. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:06.240 They had nothing. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.720 But at the age of seventeen, when my dad gave 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.800 his life to the Lord, he made a decision that 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.800 his children would never be raised in the lack and 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.000 poverty that he was raised in. He drew the line 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.480 in the sand and said, this is where we are, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.160 but this is not where we're staying. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.960 We are coming up higher. What happened he developed a 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.320 new mindset. Up to that. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.560 Point, he had had a poverty mentality. That's all he 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.600 had ever known, Barely able to get by, barely have 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.840 enough to pay the bills. He could have easily settled 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.040 there and just thought, this is who I am, this 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.920 is my lot in life. If he had had done that, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.280 I wouldn't be where I am today. The decision he 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.800 made way back in the nineteen thirties is still affecting me, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.640 my children, even future generations. But my father knew deep 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.600 down he was supposed to live this abundant life, developed 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.920 this overflow mentality, and it didn't happen overnight. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.280 But he and my mother stayed faithful. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:11.440 They kept giving, serving, believing, and over time God did 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.080 more than they could even ask or think. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:14.680 They came in to overflow. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.480 You may be in poverty today, but don't ever let 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.680 poverty get in you. Hold your head up high, know 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.640 that you're a child of the most High God. That 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.680 may be the way it's been, but that's not the 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.640 way it's gonna stay. You are coming up higher. You're 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.720 gonna see God's favor in a greater way. You're gonna 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.200 see your gifts and talents come out like they've never 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.560 come out before. I believe you're gonna be given supernatural 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.320 opportunities that, just like a rocket, can launch you into 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.120 a new dimension. If you'll stay in faith, it's just 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.959 a matter of time before it comes to pass. That's 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.800 what the scripture says in Psalm sixty five, verse eleven. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.920 God will crown the year with a bountiful harvest. Your 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.960 carts will overflow with abundance. That's my prayer for each 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.320 one of you, that you will see God's blessings like 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.640 you've never seen them before. That you will come into promotion, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:15.800 increase bonuses, raises, even inheritances. God likes to do unusual things. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.920 It talks about in the Bulk of Malachi. If you'll 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.560 be a giver and keep God first place, he will 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.240 open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessings 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.439 that you cannot contain. That sounds to me like it's 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.480 supposed to be running over. After all, he's called El Shadai, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.120 the God who is more than enough, not el Chipo, 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.040 the god of barely enough. Don't ever go around talking 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.040 about how high prices are and how you're never gonna 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.000 make it. If you have a poor mouth, you're gonna 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.040 live a poor life. And you may be so broke 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.240 that you can't even pay attention. You may have so 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.200 many things coming against you. But if somebody asks you 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.360 how you're doing, don't give a twenty minute explain nation 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.640 of how bad things are and gases so high, and 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.160 my business is slow, my dishwasher. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.280 Broke, my dog died. He knows if all that up. 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.160 Don't speak defeat over your life, no matter how it 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.240 looks in the natural. You need to start saying it 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.720 by faith. I am blessed. I have the favor of God. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.760 Everything I touched prosper Yes, prices may be high, but 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.240 God always supplies my needs. Yes, the economy may be 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.040 a little slow, but I'm not going under. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:29.840 I'm going over. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.800 God always causes me to tryumph. A while back, this 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.080 young couple ask me to pray and agree that this 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.120 furniture they wanted to buy would go on sell. They 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.880 had been watching it a long time and they knew 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.480 if it went on sale they'd be able to buy it. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.000 And I had to think about that a minute, and 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.760 I finally said, instead of praying that it'll go on sell, 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.840 I would rather pray that God would bless you in 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.520 such a way that, even if it doesn't, you would 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:56.520 still be able. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.520 To purchase it. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.480 It's not about trying to make things come to so 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.559 we can afford it. It's about us believing to come 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:04.880 up higher where we're. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:05.360 Supposed to be. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.840 After all, the same God that can cause it to 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.400 go and sale can cause you to be blessed in 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.800 such a way that you're not sitting around waiting for 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.040 a discount. And I'm all for getting good deals. I'm 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.920 for being frugal and not wasting. In fact, when I 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.120 order a pizza over the phone, I still use the 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.199 coupon out of the paper. I'm not against any of that, 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.920 but some people, and I say this respectfully, they've got 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.360 a cheap spirit. They won't buy anything unless they can 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:35.679 find it on sale. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:36.679 I've known people that. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.240 Will drive across town and spend ten dollars on gas 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.559 to save three dollars on a box of detertion. They 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:49.160 don't realize their time is valuable. Years ago, a friend 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.160 of mine went to a family reunion in another state 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.680 and the next day a cousin of his was flying in. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.240 But this cousin flew to a city that was two 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.160 hundred miles away so he could save sixty dollars on 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.800 his airplane ticket. My friend drove five hours to get him, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.720 waited two hours at the airport, five hours to get. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:10.920 Back to the family reunion. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.480 When he got back, the cousin offered him one hundred 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.040 dollars for coming to pick him up, and my friend, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.679 of course he wouldn't take it, but he thought to himself, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.520 I wish you would have just spent the sixty dollars 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.200 on your ticket, so you would have saved us both 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.920 a whole day and a lot of other headaches. What's 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.839 my point this cousin? It wasn't that he couldn't afford it. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.520 He had just programmed himself to think cheaply. I don't 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.040 have enough. I got to get the bargain basement flight, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.400 even if I've got to go through Tokyo first. No, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.959 you need to be set free from that cheap spirit. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:49.960 You are a child of the most high God. Your 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.160 time is valuable. You are a person of excellence. If 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.600 you don't realize who you are and get rid of 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.680 that barely get by mentality, it'll keep you from coming 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.640 into overflow. I remember when I was growing up, just 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.200 a little boy. I was with my father and he 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.840 was buying a suit, and the man selling it to 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.880 him found out that he was a minister and kind 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.680 of demeaning, almost like we were second class. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.920 He said, well, you know, we can give. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.760 You a minister's discount if you need it. I could 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.160 tell my father did not like that. That rubbed him 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.680 the wrong way. He thought to himself, I am not 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.480 a beggar. I'm not looking for a handout. I'm a 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.479 child of Almighty God. I don't need a minister's discount. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.720 And understand, my father loved to get good deals. He 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.880 came out of the depression. He was very conservative. I'm 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.560 not talking about being arrogant or being wasteful. It wasn't 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.120 out of pride, but rather out of a boldness of 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.560 who he was and what he represented. He put his 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.560 shoulders back and said, no, sir, I don't take a 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:51.679 minister's discount. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.839 Do you know who my father is? That salesman stepped. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.040 Back, looked at him kind of differently. He thought that 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.720 he came from a well to do, in fluid family. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:02.200 He didn't know. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.920 He wasn't talking about his earthly father. He was talking 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:10.600 about his heavenly father. That day, something just rose up 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.280 in my dad. He was saying, in effect, this is 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.680 a new day. We've stepped out of poverty, in lack. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.360 We've gotten the Christmas basket long enough. Because we were 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.360 the poorest family, I went to high school with holes. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:23.760 In my pants. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.840 All I could ever afford going up was half a 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.440 glass of milk. But Daddy was saying, this is a 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.240 new day. Don't tell me the God I serve has 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.000 to have a discount. He's well able to take care 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:39.960 of me. He's Jehovah, Jirah, the Lord, my provider. If 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.200 there's anything that must make God sad is for his 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.960 sons and daughters to go around with a barely get by, 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:48.800 defeated mentality. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.440 I gotta have a discount. All I can. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.640 Afford is the day old bread. All I can afford 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.040 is the leftovers. Now, you need to get a bigger 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.360 vision of who you are. You need to start reminding yourself. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.280 I am blessed, I am prosperous. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.520 I may not be able to afford it right now, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.920 but my time is coming. I may be on welfare today, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.960 but this is not where I'm staying. I don't need 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.520 a handout, even if you have to stand against. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:14.520 That your whole life. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.840 You should never give into the fact that you're supposed 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.440 to live in lack and always be at the mercy 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:21.280 of other people. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:22.960 You need to make up your mind. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.080 You may be taking a handout now, but one day 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.600 you're gonna be given the handout. One day you're gonna 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.520 lend and not borrow. You're coming in to overflow. That's 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.360 God's dream for each one of you, and you may 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:36.760 not see how it can happen. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.960 But that's okay. That's not your job. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.400 Your job is to believe God can give you one 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.640 idea that can totally change your life. He can cause 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.320 you to bump into one person that will offer you 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.360 a position that'll take you to a new level. He 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.600 can give you an inheritance from a long lost relative 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.720 you didn't even know you had. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.000 He's God, He's got it all figured out. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.840 The other day, he told me how he had reached 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.120 his limits in his career. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.160 He didn't think he can go any higher. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.560 The man in front of him, his supervisor, had just 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.960 gotten the big promotion that he was hoping to get. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.600 And this supervisor was a young man, looked like he'd 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.000 be there for twenty or thirty years. This other man 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.480 was so discouraged, and I told him, just stay in faith. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.640 God's still in control. You never know what could happen. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.680 About six months later, that man all of a sudden 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.560 decided to move to another city, this supervisor, to be 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.480 with his family. And now they offered this man the 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.200 same position. He was on cloud nine. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.200 It put him into overflow. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.280 If you'll stay in faith, God will move people around 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.400 to get you to where he wants you to be. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:46.440 I know this couple. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.040 They bought a home in another state, and a couple 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.280 of months after they purchased it, they got a certified 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.920 letter notifying them that a company had discovered oil underneath 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.960 the whole neighborhood. They offered them an incredible amount of money, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.320 not to purchase the property, not to disrupt their living, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.200 but simply to be able to go underground and. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.200 Drill for that oil. He was so happy. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.400 I mean, you would have thought he was Jed Clampett 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:17.119 the Beverly Hillbillies. But you think about it a couple 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.359 of months later, and those owners would have never sold 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.840 him the property. God had it all arranged, moving one 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.960 out to move another end the right place the right time, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.080 that comple stepped into their season of harvest. You don't 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.760 have to figure it all out. Just stay in faith, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:39.000 believing that God takes pleasure in prospering you. He wants 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.879 you to come in to overflow, not just so you 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.040 can be blessed. There's a purpose for our prosperity, and 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.120 that is to be a blessing to others. If all 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.040 you have on your mind is yourself, that's going to 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:53.360 limit what God can do. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:55.360 We need to have the attitude. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.480 God give me ways that not only my family can 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.600 be blessed, but help me to make a bigger difference. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.600 Help me to impact more people. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.679 God has blessed Victorian I beyond our wildest dreams, and 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:08.840 I say this humbly. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:09.880 I think you know my heart. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.280 But we've always had a desire to help others. We've 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.439 talked about for years being able to build hospitals in 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:21.560 needy countries, having orphanages to support less fortunate children. Right 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.480 now we're in the planning stages of helping to underwrite 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.280 a home for troubled teens here in the Houston area. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.120 We're not supposed to be. 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.359 We're not supposed to be a reservoir to hoard everything up. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.760 We're supposed to be a channel where God's blessings can 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.679 flow through us. And if you will keep God first 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.080 place and have a desire to help others, there's no 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.639 limit to what God can do in your life. He 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.960 can give you one good break that will put you 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:50.760 into overflow. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.400 He can give you one dream at night that. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.159 Can revolutionize your life. Growing up, my parents knew a 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.560 man by the name of Henry Kraus House was a 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.359 farmer in the natural, just an average ordinary person. He 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.240 didn't have a college degree, he didn't seem to be 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.160 super talented, looked like he would just live a normal 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.000 life and make a modest living. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.600 But God is not limited by our. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.480 Education, He's not limited by our profession. He likes to 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.920 do unusual things. And one night God gave mister Kraus 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:23.800 a dream. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:25.600 And in this dream he. 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.399 Saw a certain kind of plow, a plow like he 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.879 had never seen before. He got up the next morning 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.159 and wrote it all down. Over time, he engineered it, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.160 He designed it, later had it patented. It became known 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.360 as the famous Krause plow. It went on to help 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:45.399 revolutionize the farming industry. Mister Kraus was one of my 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:50.439 father's biggest supporters. Just one idea, just one dream. The 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.719 good news is God hasn't run out of ideas. He 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.600 hasn't run out of ways to put you into overflow. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.480 One scripture talks about how God can give us witty inventions. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.120 Stay open, don't settle where you are. 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.440 You're not supposed to live in the land of barely enough. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.880 That's where you're always struggling, always trying to make ends meet. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.879 You're not supposed to live in the land of good enough. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.159 That's where you can pay your bills. But there's no abundance, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.280 there's no overflow. God wants you to come in to 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.160