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Speaker 7: I like to start with something funny and I heard
Speaker 7: about this man. He was on vacation in Jerusalem with
Speaker 7: his family when his mother in law suddenly died. He
Speaker 7: went to make arrangements to get her body back home.
Speaker 7: The consulate said it would cost five thousand dollars to
Speaker 7: have her shipt, but he could have her buried right
Speaker 7: there in Jerusalem for just one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 7: The men thought about it a moment, said no, I'd
Speaker 7: like to have her shift. The consulate said, wow, you
Speaker 7: must have really loved your mother in law. He said no,
Speaker 7: it's not so much that. I just remember a case
Speaker 7: here years ago where they buried somebody and on the
Speaker 7: third day they rose. I can't take that chance. All right,
Speaker 7: I have a great mother in law. Come on, let's
Speaker 7: say it together. This is my Bible. I am what
Speaker 7: it says I am. I have what it says I have.
Speaker 7: I can do what it says I can do. Today,
Speaker 7: I will let the word of God. I'll boldly confess.
Speaker 7: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will
Speaker 7: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 7: I want to talk to you today about more than enough.
Speaker 7: We're not supposed to go through life constantly struggling, not
Speaker 7: able to fulfill our dreams, or not able to be
Speaker 7: a blessing to anyone else. Lack is not your destiny.
Speaker 7: You were created to live an abundant life. But if
Speaker 7: you've struggled for a long time, it's easy to develop
Speaker 7: a scarcity mentality, thinking I'll never be able to afford
Speaker 7: a nice house, I'll never have the funds to really
Speaker 7: bless my family. But as long as you think not enough,
Speaker 7: you'll never have more than enough. You have to get
Speaker 7: rid of that scarcity mentality and start having an abundant mentality.
Speaker 7: God has ways to increase you that you've never thought of.
Speaker 7: He's not limited by your job, by your education, or
Speaker 7: by the family you were raised in. If you'll take
Speaker 7: the limits off of him, God will bless you beyond
Speaker 7: your normal income, beyond your salary, beyond what anyone in
Speaker 7: your family has seen. I talked to a gentleman the
Speaker 7: other day. He volunteers at Lakewood and he works in cells.
Speaker 7: One of his clients called and said that their boss
Speaker 7: wanted to speak with him. At first, he was kind
Speaker 7: of alarmed, thought something might be wrong, But this boss
Speaker 7: was so impressed with his work. He wanted to see
Speaker 7: if he would come and run his whole sales department.
Speaker 7: It was a huge promotion. The boss said, if you'll
Speaker 7: take the position, then I'll give you ownership in this company.
Speaker 7: He said, Joe, I didn't see this coming. I never
Speaker 7: dreamed I would be this blessed. He went from working
Speaker 7: at a company to owning part of a company. You
Speaker 7: don't know what God has in store for you. You
Speaker 7: don't know the promotions, the opportunities, the favor that He's
Speaker 7: already ordained to come across your path. Psalm thirty five
Speaker 7: says God takes pleasure in prospering you. It brings a
Speaker 7: smile to God's face to make things happen that amaze you.
Speaker 7: As a parent, when you do something special for your child,
Speaker 7: something out of the ordinary that they weren't expecting, you
Speaker 7: know how that brings you joy, makes you feel good.
Speaker 7: It's the same way with our heavenly Father. It gives
Speaker 7: him pleasure to see you blessed. You may not see
Speaker 7: how this can happen, but the scripture says God will
Speaker 7: supply all of our needs according to his riches. It
Speaker 7: doesn't say according to your job, according to your talent.
Speaker 7: If the boss likes you, if the economy's up, if
Speaker 7: you have the right friends. It's not according to what
Speaker 7: you have, it's according to what he has. The good
Speaker 7: news is God owns it all. He makes streets out
Speaker 7: of God. If he doesn't have what you need, he
Speaker 7: can create it. He speaks and worlds come into existence.
Speaker 7: In the scripture, a young lady named Ruth was barely
Speaker 7: making it. Her husband had died and she was living
Speaker 7: with her mother in law in a foreign country. She
Speaker 7: had no income, nobody to help them. All the circumstances
Speaker 7: said she was stuck. This was her destiny, a life
Speaker 7: of struggle and lack. But just because you don't see
Speaker 7: away doesn't mean God doesn't have a way. Your circumstances
Speaker 7: may look permanent, but you can't see what God is
Speaker 7: doing behind the scenes. He's already spoken to the right
Speaker 7: people to help you. He's already lined up good breaks
Speaker 7: promotion that you don't see coming. It's going to happen unexpectedly,
Speaker 7: out of the ordinary. You're not going to have to
Speaker 7: go after it. It's going to come after you. The scripture says,
Speaker 7: when you keep God first place, his blessings will chase
Speaker 7: you down. One translation says, they will catch you by surprise.
Speaker 7: God is going to surprise you. He's going to open
Speaker 7: doors bigger than you've imagined. He's going to bring people
Speaker 7: that will use their influence, their platform to push you
Speaker 7: further along. It's going to be uncommon, unusual. You're going
Speaker 7: to know it was the hand of God. It's like
Speaker 7: this building, the former Compact Center. I never dreamed one
Speaker 7: day we'd own it, never dreamed we'd be having church here.
Speaker 7: This is one of those surprises that chased us down.
Speaker 7: We couldn't have made this happen our strength, our ability.
Speaker 7: It was the goodness of God. God's dream for your
Speaker 7: life is much bigger than your own. What God has
Speaker 7: in your future is going to boggle your mind. The
Speaker 7: places he's going to take you, the people you're going
Speaker 7: to meet, the levels you're going to reach, Paul said
Speaker 7: in Corinthians, no person has seen, heard, or imagined what
Speaker 7: God has in store for those that love the Lord.
Speaker 7: You may think you've reached your limits. God is saying
Speaker 7: you better think again. You haven't seen anything yet. I'm
Speaker 7: about to bring you into overflow, into abundance, into more
Speaker 7: than enough. Whatever level you're at, get ready another level
Speaker 7: is coming. What you haven't seen or imagined is on
Speaker 7: the way. Ruth would go out into the fields every
Speaker 7: morning and pick up the leftover wheat that the workers
Speaker 7: had missed. They were living off a leftover. She and
Speaker 7: her mother in law were barely surviving. I'm sure they
Speaker 7: weren't thinking about abundance. Nothing in their circumstances said they
Speaker 7: would ever have more than enough. Ruth heard this message.
Speaker 7: She say, not me, Joel, it's impossible. All the odds
Speaker 7: are against me. But Ruth didn't know what God was
Speaker 7: up to. Your circumstances may be against you, but the
Speaker 7: most high God is for you. He's called Jehovah Jawrah,
Speaker 7: the Lord, our provider. He said you will lend and
Speaker 7: not borrow. He says you are above and not beneath.
Speaker 7: You may not be there yet, but God is not finished.
Speaker 7: He's working behind the scenes. Things are happening that you
Speaker 7: cannot see. Keep being faithful, keep doing the right thing,
Speaker 7: keep going to work with a good attitude. Joe, nobody
Speaker 7: gives me credit at the office. I'll never be promoted.
Speaker 7: You are not working under people, you are working under God.
Speaker 7: Your job is not your source. God is your source.
Speaker 7: I can assure you God is keeping the records. Your
Speaker 7: time is coming. Ruth was faithful. She'd been through loss
Speaker 7: in a foreign country, no income. Yet you never read
Speaker 7: where Ruth complained. She didn't get bitter. She didn't give
Speaker 7: up on life. She kept doing the right thing, being
Speaker 7: her best, taking care of her mother in law, going
Speaker 7: out every day, gathering up the food. She could have thought, God,
Speaker 7: I'm made for more than this. I'm not gonna go
Speaker 7: pick up leftover wheat that's beneath me. Ruth passed the
Speaker 7: test in the small things. Before God can trust you
Speaker 7: with much, you have to prove to him you'll be
Speaker 7: faithful with little. Don't discount where you are. If you
Speaker 7: don't take care of that old car, why should God
Speaker 7: bless you with the new one? If you complain about
Speaker 7: that apartment, why should God bless you with the house.
Speaker 7: If you're not faithful at the job where you are now,
Speaker 7: why should God bless you with your own business? Past
Speaker 7: the small test, one day, while Ruth was out work
Speaker 7: in the fields, God spoke to bo Az, the owner
Speaker 7: of those fields, and told him to be good to Ruth.
Speaker 7: He had his workers leave wheat on the ground on
Speaker 7: purpose for Ruth. Now when she went out, she had
Speaker 7: more than enough. She gathered it in a fraction of
Speaker 7: the time. When she went home. I can imagine her
Speaker 7: mother in law said, Ruth, what in the world happened?
Speaker 7: Did you win the lottery? How did you get so
Speaker 7: much wheat in so little time. Ruth had no explanation,
Speaker 7: She said, I don't know how it happened. For some reason,
Speaker 7: these workers left all this extra wheat. That was God saying, surprise,
Speaker 7: here's a blessing. You're not going to have to work for.
Speaker 7: It's going to come to you. You just show up
Speaker 7: and it'll be waiting for you. God has some of
Speaker 7: these blessings in store for you. You're not going to have
Speaker 7: to make it happen. You just keep being faithful, keep
Speaker 7: doing the right thing, and suddenly there's more than another.
Speaker 7: Suddenly the compact center, suddenly, ownership in a company, Suddenly
Speaker 7: the house falls into your hands. You can't explain it.
Speaker 7: You didn't see it coming. What happened. God surprised you.
Speaker 7: One of his blessings chased you down. What's interesting is
Speaker 7: God spoke to Boaz to be good to Ruth, but
Speaker 7: Ruth didn't know about it. God didn't tell her. I'm
Speaker 7: going to speak to this man and he's going to
Speaker 7: bless you. All Ruth knew was suddenly her life became
Speaker 7: much easier. Suddenly there was an abundance of wheat on
Speaker 7: the ground. You don't know who God has already spoken
Speaker 7: to about you. There are people God has already lined
Speaker 7: up to leave wheat on the ground for you, people
Speaker 7: that will cause things to happen that you had nothing
Speaker 7: to do with. But suddenly you'll go to a new level.
Speaker 7: Suddenly you'll come into more than enough. You can't explain it,
Speaker 7: you can't take credit for it. There was nothing in
Speaker 7: your circumstances that said it was going to happen. That
Speaker 7: was God simply taking pleasure in prospering you, God showing
Speaker 7: his favor on you, causing you to stand out. The
Speaker 7: story could end here, and it would be a happy ending.
Speaker 7: Ruth and her mother in law had plenty, but God
Speaker 7: likes to exceed our expectations. Boaz fell in love with Ruth.
Speaker 7: They ended up getting married. Now, instead of working in
Speaker 7: those fields, Ruth owned the fields. She never had to
Speaker 7: go out and pick up wheat like that. Again. She
Speaker 7: came into a new level abundance overflowed. Those workers she
Speaker 7: used to fall behind, now they all worked for her.
Speaker 7: She went from the tail to the head, from borrowing
Speaker 7: to lending, from being in like to heaven more than
Speaker 7: an eye. If Ruth were here today, she would tell
Speaker 7: you it may look impossible, the odds may be against you,
Speaker 7: but stay in faith. You don't know who God is
Speaker 7: whispering to right now about you. You don't know who's
Speaker 7: going to open a door for you for no reason.
Speaker 7: You don't know who's about to show you favor that
Speaker 7: you didn't see coming. But sometimes religion tries to make
Speaker 7: us feel like we're not supposed to be blessed, we're
Speaker 7: not supposed to have resources. But the scripture says that
Speaker 7: Job was the wealthiest man in the east. He was
Speaker 7: very blessed with resources, livestock, a successful business. God said
Speaker 7: about Job, there was no better man than him. David
Speaker 7: left an inheritance to his son Solomon to build the
Speaker 7: temple that some scholars say would be over a billion
Speaker 7: dollars today. David's called a man after God's own heart.
Speaker 7: Abraham is the father of our faith. He's the one
Speaker 7: God chose to start the New Covenant. He too, was
Speaker 7: very wealthy in cattle, sheep, gold, silver. What am I say?
Speaker 7: God has no problem with you having money as long
Speaker 7: as money doesn't have you. Money should not be our goal.
Speaker 7: Fulfilling our destiny should be our goal. Money is simply
Speaker 7: a tool. Money can send your children to college. Money
Speaker 7: can help you accomplish your dreams. Money can renovate a
Speaker 7: compact center. Money can build an orphanage. Money is not
Speaker 7: a problem. It's the love of money that's the problem.
Speaker 7: If you make money your gold and you only focus
Speaker 7: on yourself and live to show off what you have,
Speaker 7: life is not going to be very fulfilling. There are
Speaker 7: some things that money can't buy. Money can't buy peace,
Speaker 7: money can't buy good relationships. Money can't buy health. I
Speaker 7: know some very wealthy people that are not well. Money
Speaker 7: shouldn't be our focus. But the fact is it takes
Speaker 7: money to fulfill dreams. Now, don't let a religious spirit
Speaker 7: convince you that you're not supposed to have anything. Constantly struggling,
Speaker 7: being overwhelmed by debt, not able to pay your bills
Speaker 7: is not God's best. Jesus did not come and give
Speaker 7: his life so that we could barely get by and
Speaker 7: live off of leftovers. He came that we might live
Speaker 7: an abundant life. Abundant means plenty, plenty of joy, plenty
Speaker 7: of good health, plenty of strength, plenty of opportunities, plenty
Speaker 7: of creativity, plenty of courage. God wants you to be
Speaker 7: so blessed that you have to choose which opportunities you take.
Speaker 7: You have to choose which contracts you accept. David said,
Speaker 7: my cup runs over. Running over means you have so
Speaker 7: much you can't contain it all. I would love to
Speaker 7: take that contract, but I'm so full, I'm so blessed.
Speaker 7: I'll have to pass so I can take this better opportunity.
Speaker 7: I'm Joe. This sounds good, but I don't see how
Speaker 7: it can happen for me. It seems far out. Can
Speaker 7: I tell you? We serve a far out God and
Speaker 7: exceeding abundantly above and beyond God. That's why he has
Speaker 7: you hearing this. He wants you to get rid of
Speaker 7: that scarcity mentality and start having an abundant mentality. A
Speaker 7: couple of years after Victoria and I were married, one
Speaker 7: evening we were walking through a nice neighborhood not too
Speaker 7: far from our townhouse. There was a big two story
Speaker 7: house being built. It was almost finished. Nobody was there,
Speaker 7: so we went in to look around. It had big windows,
Speaker 7: a spacious entryway with a curved staircase, vaulted ceilings, great backyard.
Speaker 7: It was so beautiful. As we were walking out, Victoria said, Joel,
Speaker 7: one day we're going to live in a house just
Speaker 7: like this one. She might as well have said, one
Speaker 7: day we're going to go to the moon. That was
Speaker 7: so far beyond anything I could imagine. Being the great
Speaker 7: man of faith that I am. I went on to
Speaker 7: tell her all the reasons why it wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 7: I said, Victoria, are you kidding? I work for a ministry.
Speaker 7: We'll never have that kind of income. We could save
Speaker 7: up for thirty years and we still won't have enough.
Speaker 7: I did my best to talk her out of it,
Speaker 7: but she acted like she didn't even hear me. She said, no, Joel,
Speaker 7: I'm telling you, one day it's going to happen. A
Speaker 7: few months later, we sold our townhouse and bought this
Speaker 7: old Rundown house, very dilapidated, but it was on a
Speaker 7: big lot close end to the city. The day we
Speaker 7: closed on the property, a realtor pulled up while we
Speaker 7: were standing in the front yard. We didn't know the lady.
Speaker 7: She said, would you like to sell the house? I
Speaker 7: said no, we just purchased it. She said, congratulations, you
Speaker 7: just bought your dream house. What she talking about? She
Speaker 7: explained how the neighborhood was in the process of changing
Speaker 7: the deed restrictions to where you could subdivide the lots.
Speaker 7: A year later, we sold half of the property for
Speaker 7: more than we paid for the whole thing. Two years
Speaker 7: after that, we were living in one of those houses,
Speaker 7: just like we'd seen that night. Like with Ruth, it
Speaker 7: was as if God had somebody leave wheat on the
Speaker 7: ground on purpose for us. We didn't know they were
Speaker 7: going to change the deed restrictions. But God has an advantage.
Speaker 7: He can see what's happening behind the scenes. He knows
Speaker 7: things that you could never know. The scripture says God
Speaker 7: knows where the hidden riches are. He has inside information.
Speaker 7: When you honor him, he will lead you into blessings
Speaker 7: that you didn't see coming. Favor promotion opportunities that surprises you.
Speaker 7: It takes you to a level that you didn't think
Speaker 7: you could reach. When we moved into that new house,
Speaker 7: I carried Victoria over the threshold said, welcome to this house.
Speaker 7: I always believe for she barely even let me live there.
Speaker 7: Are you doing like I did, talking yourself out of
Speaker 7: what God put in your heart, thinking it's too big,
Speaker 7: too much, You don't have the funds, you don't have
Speaker 7: the experience. You may not, but God does. He wouldn't
Speaker 7: have given you the dream if he didn't have a way.
Speaker 7: Why don't you get in agreement with God. He takes
Speaker 7: pleasure in prospering you. He wants to take you further
Speaker 7: than you've imagined. When we needed a larger auditorium the
Speaker 7: Compact Center came across our path, those same thoughts came
Speaker 7: to my mind. Just like with the house, Joe, you'll
Speaker 7: never get that building. You're wasting your time. You don't
Speaker 7: have a chance. This time something was different. I had
Speaker 7: learned my lesson. I said, no thanks, I'm in agreement
Speaker 7: with God. It's bigger than I've imagined. It looks impossible,
Speaker 7: but I know God can do the impossible. All along
Speaker 7: the way we saw the hand of God. He brought
Speaker 7: the right people to help us. He changed city council members' minds.
Speaker 7: We sold a piece of property at just the right
Speaker 7: time to make a critical payment. I thought we'd have
Speaker 7: to build an auditorium, but God said, surprise, I have
Speaker 7: an auditorium already built, right on the main freeway. When
Speaker 7: you look around, you are looking at the goodness of God.
Speaker 7: You are looking at abundance. You are looking at more
Speaker 7: than enough. In the scripture, there was a king of
Speaker 7: Judah named Ahaz. He had no regard for God. He
Speaker 7: closed down the temple and sold the sacred treasures. He
Speaker 7: set up idols for the people to worship. Five armies
Speaker 7: came against him every time he lost. The nation was decimated.
Speaker 7: The people were very poor and struggling to survive. King
Speaker 7: a Has died at the age of thirty six and
Speaker 7: was so disliked he wasn't buried with the other kings.
Speaker 7: His son Hezekiah took over. He had been raised in dysfunction.
Speaker 7: He'd seen his father compromise and take the easy way out.
Speaker 7: But Hezekiah didn't follow in his father's shoes. He was
Speaker 7: just the opposite. The first thing he did was to
Speaker 7: reopen the temple. He tore down the idols. He brought
Speaker 7: the people back to worshiping God. The whole nation began
Speaker 7: to flourish. They saw God's blessings in favor. The scripture
Speaker 7: says Hezekiah was very wealthy and held in high esteem.
Speaker 7: He had to build special treasury buildings to hold his gold, silver,
Speaker 7: and special treasures. He constructed many storehouses for his grain,
Speaker 7: for the Lord had given him great wealth. Notice where
Speaker 7: the wealth came from the Lord God increased him. Here's
Speaker 7: my question. Why was Hezekiah so blessed yet his father
Speaker 7: died in disgrace poor defeated His father didn't honor God.
Speaker 7: When you put God first place, there is a blessing
Speaker 7: on your life that causes you to prosper, a favor
Speaker 7: that causes you to rise higher, to accomplish things beyond
Speaker 7: your own ability. Proverb says, when you fear the Lord,
Speaker 7: that doesn't mean be afraid. That means you reverence him.
Speaker 7: You ask him for guidance, You trust him with your dreams.
Speaker 7: You do your best to walk in his ways. When
Speaker 7: you do this, it says you will have honor, wealth
Speaker 7: and a long life. I believe one reason God has
Speaker 7: blessed me more than I can imagine. It is not
Speaker 7: because I'm perfect, not because I don't have weaknesses, but
Speaker 7: I've done my best to honor God. I learned from
Speaker 7: the time I was a little boy to keep God
Speaker 7: first place, to make pleasing Him my aim in life.
Speaker 7: To always hunger and thirst after righteousness. That means to
Speaker 7: strive to do the right thing, to treat people with respect,
Speaker 7: to be a person of excellence and integrity. When you
Speaker 7: reverence the Lord, God promises you honor, wealth, and a
Speaker 7: long life. One way we reverence God is by bringing
Speaker 7: the tithe, the first ten percent of our income, to
Speaker 7: the House of the Lord. When we do that, it
Speaker 7: says in Malachi, God will open the windows of heaven
Speaker 7: and pour out a blessing too great to contain. This
Speaker 7: is what happened with Hezekiah. He had to build buildings
Speaker 7: to hold all the blessings that God gave him. Make
Speaker 7: sure you're doing your part, and God has promised he
Speaker 7: will pour out blessings you cannot contain, blessings that will
Speaker 7: take you into overflow. We see this in Luke chapter five.
Speaker 7: Jesus was teaching on the shore of Galilee, and it
Speaker 7: was so crowded. He asked Peter if he could borrow
Speaker 7: his boat. They had never met before, but Peter agreed.
Speaker 7: When Jesus finished teaching, he told Peter to launch out
Speaker 7: into the deep and he would catch a great amount
Speaker 7: of fish. There were no fish there a little earlier,
Speaker 7: but Peter went back out and caught so many fish
Speaker 7: that his net began to break overflow abundance. He had
Speaker 7: to call other boats to help him get the fish
Speaker 7: back to the shore. Here's the principle. A few hours earlier,
Speaker 7: Peter had fished all night and caught nothing. But when
Speaker 7: he honored Jesus by letting him use his boat, when
Speaker 7: he put God first place. Now, instead of dealing with
Speaker 7: no fish, instead of being in lack struggling, his focus
Speaker 7: has gone from not having enough to how is he
Speaker 7: going to get all the fish back to the shore?
Speaker 7: How is he going to manage all the profits? That's
Speaker 7: God's dream to pour out blessings you cannot contain. So
Speaker 7: instead of living worried, wondering if you're gonna make it,
Speaker 7: wonder if there's going to be enough, you spend that
Speaker 7: same energy trying to figure out how you're going to
Speaker 7: invest the increase, how you're going to be a good
Speaker 7: steward with what God has blessed you with. It all
Speaker 7: starts by keeping God first place. The Israelites had been
Speaker 7: in slavery four hundred years, struggle, lack, mistreated. They had
Speaker 7: no resources, no money, just the opposite of abundance. And yes,
Speaker 7: we all go through seasons of struggle, seasons where we're
Speaker 7: not seeing increase. You may be there now, but that
Speaker 7: is not how your story ends. Don't give up in
Speaker 7: the middle. Something is coming. God is a god of justice.
Speaker 7: He's not only going to bring you out, He's going
Speaker 7: to make up for what you've been through. Psalm one
Speaker 7: five says God brought the Israelites safely out of Egypt
Speaker 7: loaded with silver and gold. They didn't come out of
Speaker 7: that injustice empty handed. They came out loaded. That's what
Speaker 7: God wants for you, not to be loaded with burdens, debt, depression, sicknesses,
Speaker 7: but loaded with blessings, loaded with resources, loaded with joy.
Speaker 7: When we were little children, we would see someone we
Speaker 7: thought was well off, we'd say, man, look at them,
Speaker 7: they're loaded. When I look at you today, I see
Speaker 7: loaded people, loaded with favor, loaded with good breaks, loaded
Speaker 7: with creativity. Now do your part. Keep God first place,
Speaker 7: take the limits off of him, and have this abundant mentality.
Speaker 7: If you'll do this, I believe and declare. Increase is
Speaker 7: coming in ways bigger than you've ever imagined. God is
Speaker 7: going to open doors you never dreamed would open because
Speaker 7: you reverence him. You're going to have honor, wealth and
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