1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Let us pray, but I will sacrifice unto thee with 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that that I 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: have vowed salvation is of the Lord Jonah two nine. Father, 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: when I offer thanksgiving to you, it's not a sacrifice, 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: it's an honor and a privilege. It's my joy to 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: publicly acknowledge your divine goodness. Jonah was in rebellion to 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: your call upon his life. You wanted him to go 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: to Nineveh, but he had such bitterness in his heart 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: because he knew you would save them, and he didn't 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: think you should. Oh, how our human flesh defeats us. 11 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: His rebellion landed him in the belly of a whale 12 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: until he cried out for you to save him. He 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: sacrificed his thanksgiving for your mercy and paid the vow 14 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: he promised you for his deliverance. I think he finally 15 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: realized that you can and will day of whomever you wish, 16 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: and that salvation is not up to us. You're the 17 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:10,639 Speaker 1: only one to decide who you will save or not. Lord. 18 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: Let me keep my emotions in check so that I 19 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: don't rebel against you. Humble my pride that wants to 20 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: raise up against your will and to tell you what 21 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: to do even in the midst of my most dire circumstances. 22 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: Let me offer up thanksgiving to you. You inhabit the 23 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: praises of your people. So if I want your help, 24 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 1: all I need to do is thank you for being 25 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: with me in the midst of my circumstances and praise you. 26 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: Your presence will bring me peace and deliverance in Jesus' name. Amen. 27 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer for more 28 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay 29 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: tuned to pray dot COM's Sunday servance. 30 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: Doctor Bartholomew Or is the senior pastor of Brown Missionary 31 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: Baptist Church in South Haven, Mississippi, a church for all 32 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 2: people where we are equipping believers, evangelizing sinners, and boldly 33 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 2: proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite a large church setting, 34 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: Pastor Bartholomew Or works diligently to ensure that Brown Baptist 35 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 2: maintains a family like atmosphere. Doctor Bartholomew Or is a 36 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 2: humble yet powerful servant of God who loves people and 37 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 2: is passionate about teaching and preaching the Word of God 38 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 2: Pastor Teacher Arthur Mentor podcast and one of the most 39 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 2: sought after preachers nationally and internationally and always ready to 40 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 2: share an authentic, relevant and transformational word. 41 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 3: Let's join Pastor. 42 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 2: Bartholomew Or as he takes us on another exciting journey 43 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 2: in the Word of God. 44 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 4: It's chapter four, verses eight through seventeen, and these words 45 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 4: are recorded. They're in from the New Living Translation. One day, 46 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 4: Elisha went to the town of Shunam. A wealthy woman 47 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 4: lived there, and she urged him to come to her 48 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 4: home for a meal. 49 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 3: After that, whenever he. 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 4: Passed that way, he would stop there for something to eat. 51 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 4: She said to her husband, I am sure that this 52 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 4: man who stops in from time to time is a 53 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 4: holy man of God. Let's build a small room for 54 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 4: him on the roof and furnish it with a bed 55 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 4: and a table, a chair and a lamp. Then he 56 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 4: will have a place to stay whenever he comes by. 57 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 4: One day, Elisha returned to Shunam, and he went up 58 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 4: to this upper room to rest. He said to his 59 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 4: servant GAHESI tell the woman from Shunam, I want to 60 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 4: speak to her. When she appeared, Elijah said to GHEs I, 61 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 4: and tell her we appreciate the kind concern you have 62 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 4: shown us. 63 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 3: What can we do for you? 64 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 4: Can we put in a good word for you to 65 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 4: bring to the king, ord to the commander of the army. No, 66 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 4: she replied, My family takes good care of me. Later, 67 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 4: Elisham asked Gahzi, what can we do for her? Gahesi replied, 68 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 4: she doesn't have a son, and her husband is an 69 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 4: old man. 70 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 3: Call her back again, Elijah told him. 71 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 4: When the woman returned, Elijah said to her, as she 72 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 4: set in the doorway, next year, at this time, you 73 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 4: will beholding a son in your arms. No, my Lord, 74 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 4: she cried, Oh Man of God, don't deceive me and 75 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 4: get my hopes up life that. But sure enough, the 76 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 4: woman soon became pregnant, and at that time the following year, 77 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 4: she had a son, just as a life said, Amen, 78 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 4: I want to preach to your hearts this morning from 79 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 4: this subject called to be a blessing, call to be 80 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 4: a blessing. If it wasn't for the apostle Paul, we 81 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 4: wouldn't even know that Jesus said these words, because the 82 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 4: gospel writers brothers and sisters, did not even record them 83 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 4: in the gospel account. 84 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 3: Amen. Alrighty okay. 85 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 4: Mmmmmmmmm alrighty I tell you what. Okay, stop, everybody stopped 86 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 4: texting me. Everybody stopped texting me. Everybody stopped texting me. 87 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 4: Everybody stopped texting me. Alrighty uh. 88 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: Now. 89 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 4: Somebody said, stir the lemonade wrong. A sanctuary person said 90 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 4: faith wrong. Another sanctuary person said lemonade wrong. H called 91 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 4: in brokenness. That's what I'm preaching right now. But the 92 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 4: Wonder Robinson, the Wonder Robinson, the wonder robinsons. You can 93 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 4: have your cake and eat it too. You can have 94 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 4: your cake and eat it too. The wonder is here. 95 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 4: I haven't gotten an online person yet. Helen Wallas was 96 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 4: a second one who said you can have your cake 97 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 4: and eat it to. Helen is in the sanctuary as well. 98 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: Online. 99 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 4: I'm gonna give y'all something else by the end, before 100 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 4: the service is over with. So you make sure you 101 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 4: stay till the benediction. But you two ladies, amen, y'all 102 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 4: got dinner. Amen? Now, this this is not the data. 103 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 4: Choose MacDonald. Amen, it's not the day to choose MacDonald. 104 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 4: All right, call to be a blessing. Here's words that 105 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 4: Jesus said that only Paul is going to give us 106 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 4: as Acts chapter twenty and verse thirty five. And it's 107 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 4: the latter part of those verses Paul says, I've been 108 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 4: a constant example of how you can help those in 109 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 4: need by working hard. You should remember the words of 110 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 4: the Lord Jesus is more blessed to give than to receive. 111 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 4: It's not the political direct statement, brothers and sisters, but 112 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 4: over the past eighteen months, we have become more accustomed 113 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 4: to being on the receiving end than we are on 114 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 4: the given. In why do I say that stimulus checks 115 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 4: PPP loans that you don't even have to pay back 116 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 4: that relief eviction moratorium which somebody said, even if you 117 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 4: didn't pay your rent, you couldn't get put out utilities, 118 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 4: assistant food give aways, our tax break, Brothers and sister, look, 119 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 4: in these broken times, we literally got a break and 120 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 4: it felt pretty good. Matter of fact, I believe it 121 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 4: felt a little bit too good, and it has left 122 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 4: us with an entitlement mentality. We are now living in 123 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 4: a time where everybody is walking around. 124 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 3: Whipped and you owe it. 125 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 4: To me kind of add up to and we see it, 126 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 4: Brothers and sisters. We see it in the selfishness. We 127 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 4: see it in the stinginess, in the stubbornness. 128 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 3: Every time you tell somebody something, you can't give me nothing. 129 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 3: Who do you think I am. I'm gonna do what 130 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 3: I'm long to do. 131 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 4: Look, we can see it all around us when it 132 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 4: comes to generosity, Jenna, who you won't mean to give, 133 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,839 Speaker 4: You won't mean to give of my time. I'm gonna 134 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 4: do what I wanna do when I want to do. 135 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 3: If you want me to give of my time to 136 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 3: the church, the being clonation and and and beers in 137 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 3: the way you want me to give of my. 138 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 4: Talents in order to help somebody else and to bring 139 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 4: about resolution. And then you're talking about giving of my treasures. 140 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 3: To those in need of brothers and sisters. 141 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 4: We like them receiving and not the giving. And so 142 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 4: we're living in these times, y'all that we need to 143 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 4: be reminded that it. 144 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 3: Is more blessed it to give than to receive. 145 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 4: We need to be reminded of this morning that to 146 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 4: whom much is give them. 147 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 3: Much is required. 148 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 4: My mama was righte Thank you Mama for teaching me 149 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 4: a long time. 150 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 3: Ago that boy, God blesses you to be a blessing 151 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 3: to somebody else. 152 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 4: That's what I'll stopped outing shore with us this morning, y'all, 153 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 4: that God wants us to be a blessing. We are 154 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 4: called to be a blessing. We're missing this in our family, y'all. 155 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 4: We're missing this in our community. Everybody got their hand out, 156 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 4: everybody wants somebody to do for them. And yet God 157 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 4: is saying, I have called you to be a blessing 158 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 4: to somebody else. 159 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 3: So here's one I want hanging my hat on this morning, 160 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 3: that since God has. 161 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 4: Called us to be a blessing, leave the cap of 162 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 4: Since God has called us to be a blessing, leave 163 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 4: the cap off, leave the lead off. I thank God 164 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 4: for this shooting man woman. I thank God for her. Woman, 165 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 4: for her example of generostan offgiving and given to the cause. 166 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 3: Ongoing work of the Lord Jesus Christ. How does she 167 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 3: do it? 168 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 4: How does she develop such a spirit of generosity where 169 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 4: she grew in her generosity? 170 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 3: How does she do it? Y'all? 171 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 4: I believe she did it because first of all, she 172 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 4: saw something. She saw something. I call this her insight, 173 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 4: because if you read Second King, chapter four and verse nine, 174 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 4: she says to her husband, I'm sure if this man 175 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 4: who stops in from time to time is a holy 176 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 4: man of God, she had sense enough to see something 177 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 4: in Elisha. I wonder this morning, brothers and sisters, what 178 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 4: do you see when you look around? What do you 179 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 4: see when you look around? Do you only see problems? 180 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 4: Or do you see solution? What do you see when 181 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,839 Speaker 4: you look around? What did you see when you look 182 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 4: even at other people? Do you only see opposition? Or 183 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 4: have God given you the insight to see opportunity? Do 184 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 4: you only see the color of somebody staring or do 185 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 4: you have the insight to see their character? Do you 186 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 4: only see the differences between you and the next person, 187 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 4: or do you have the insight to see the common denominator? 188 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 4: What do you see when you even look at yourself 189 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 4: in the mirror? Do you only see the conceit or 190 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 4: can you see contentment? Do you only see pride in arrogance? 191 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 4: Or do you see the humility? Brothers and sisters, look, 192 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 4: I prave that we would ask God give me insight 193 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 4: so that I can begin to see the best in 194 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 4: those around men. Give me insight so that I can 195 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,599 Speaker 4: see the positive and not all ways the negative. 196 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 3: Give me insight so that I can. 197 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 4: See what is right and not always just focus in 198 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 4: on what is wrong. 199 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 3: Give me the. 200 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 4: Insight so that I can be able to see better. 201 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 4: And that's why or what with this lady teaches us. 202 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 4: If we want a spirit of generosity to y'all got 203 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 4: to look for something in others. 204 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 3: We gotta look for something in others. 205 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 4: We got to focus on the positive in the lives 206 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 4: of others. We need to focus on the potential in 207 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 4: the lives of other focus on the promise that either 208 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 4: individuals have. Let's focus on the need and not the negative, 209 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 4: the good and not the greed. Let's focus on the whole, 210 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 4: lad and not the hellish. She saw something in this individual. 211 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 4: But not only did she see something brothers and sisters, 212 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 4: her insight, she started something. She started something. I called 213 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 4: this her initiation. Her initiation looks brothers and sisters, verse eight. 214 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 4: The Bible says there Second King's Chapter fourth, verse eight. 215 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 4: One day Elijah went to the town of Shuno. A 216 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 4: wealthy woman lived there, and she urged him to come 217 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 4: to her home for a meal. After that, whenever he 218 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 4: passed away, he would stop there for something to eat. 219 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 4: Her initiation This woman didn't wait to be asked or begged. 220 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 4: She did something for Elisha without him having to ask. 221 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 3: She initiated it. 222 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 4: And not only not only does she not wait to 223 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 4: be begged or err she was the one doing the 224 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 4: begging and the urge, and she was the one insist on, 225 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 4: let me do something. Have you ever seen folks? And 226 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 4: it's a good line. You ever need me, call me. 227 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 4: Then they see you outdoors, they see your car ain't working. 228 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 4: It's it's been on four flats for the last two months. 229 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 4: And they say, if you ever need something, call them. Look, 230 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 4: you need to tell that person just open your eyes. 231 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 4: I need right now. Look, she didn't wait to be asked. 232 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 4: Here's something else that I like about the fact that 233 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 4: she started at She initiated it. She didn't worry about 234 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 4: the cost. She didn't worry about the costs. It started 235 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 4: out with just one meal, happy meal, what four dollars 236 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 4: ninety nine cent? 237 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 3: It started out with just one meal. 238 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 4: But then every time the preacher came to town, guess 239 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 4: where he ate. 240 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 3: He ain't at her house. 241 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 4: That one meal led no doubt to them having to 242 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 4: put him on that budget line. 243 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 3: On the groceres. 244 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 4: But if that wasn't enough, She's going to tell her 245 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 4: husband in verse ten, less bild a small room for 246 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 4: him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, 247 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 4: a table, a chair, and a lamb. Then he will 248 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 4: have a place to stay wherever he comes. Ain't that 249 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 4: some from one meal to a furnished room. Literally, y'all, 250 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 4: she went from just being a hostess to giving this 251 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 4: man her house to making it a hotel for him 252 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 4: to be in. She gave brothers him sister. And here's 253 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 4: the thing that I loved. The more she gave, the 254 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 4: more she wanted to give, the more generous she wanted 255 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 4: to give, to the point that she said, bad, let's 256 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 4: build another room on to our house so that whenever 257 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 4: he's in town he has a place to stay. And 258 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 4: if it wasn't enough to build a room onto the house, 259 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 4: she furnished the room, went down to one of those 260 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 4: fancy department stores to get the best so that he 261 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 4: could have. She didn't worry about the costs. Are you 262 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 4: always checking your. 263 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 3: Check book when you give? 264 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 4: Do you always wonder? I don't know if I'm gonna 265 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 4: get that mag need to give them right now. Somebody 266 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 4: asked you that can I hold something, do you always 267 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 4: then after you left them whole something? Every time they 268 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 4: come around, you got that, you old man stare. Look, 269 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 4: she didn't worry about the cost, She didn't wait to 270 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 4: be asked, and then she didn't whine about the hard work. 271 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 4: Because this woman is. She became a chef to the preacher, 272 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 4: and then from a chef, she became a landlord provided 273 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 4: some free lodge, and then from that she became a 274 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 4: maid cleaning up after him. 275 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 3: And yet, y'all, she started and she kept it going. 276 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 4: She initiated it. She started something. You want a spirit 277 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 4: of generosity. Not only must she be willing to ask 278 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 4: God to give your insight to see something, but you 279 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 4: need to do something for others. You need to do 280 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 4: something for others. And let me ask you the question, 281 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 4: when when was the last time? When was the last 282 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 4: time you did something for somebody else? When was the 283 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 4: last time that you did the uh something unrequested? When 284 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 4: was the last time that you did something unexpected? When 285 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:43,159 Speaker 4: was the last time you did something that was unimaginable? 286 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 4: Can you imagine what the preacher Elisha must have felt 287 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 4: like he been stopping by for just a meal, but 288 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 4: one day when he stopped by. There's a whole, not 289 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 4: the room added home to the house. When was it 290 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 4: last time that you did something for somebody else? 291 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 3: His family? Mother? 292 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 4: When was the last time you did something for your family? 293 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 3: Now? Here's the challenge. Here's the challenge. They got it 294 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 3: up on the screen right now. 295 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 4: I call them this my generosity challenge, my generosity challenge 296 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 4: this week, this week. 297 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 3: That's what I want you to do. 298 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 4: I want you to do the unexpected, the unrequested, the 299 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 4: unimmasonable act of kindness. Now I want you to start 300 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 4: at home. I want you to start at home. And 301 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 4: when you do it, when you do it, when you 302 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,880 Speaker 4: do it, here here's the rules'all no posting about it, 303 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 4: no posting, no no, no posting, no posting, no posting, 304 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 4: don't don't, don't do somenight. 305 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 3: I got up, didn't mind that, and I fixed it 306 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 3: a negro. I all breakfast, no posting, no posting. But then, 307 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 3: no strings attached. 308 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 4: Brothers, if you bring the two dozen roses home, don't 309 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 4: put the pedals all the way to the bedroom. 310 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 3: No strings attached. 311 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 4: Generosity challenge that we are going to start something. 312 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 3: We don't have to be asked, we don't have to 313 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 3: be bad, but. 314 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 4: We're going to go above and beyond for somebody else. 315 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 3: I got so tickle. 316 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 4: I got so tickle because because I had asked Valerie 317 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 4: for something before I left home, and then I came 318 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 4: preached that message, and I got convicted. Last night I 319 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 4: went back home, I told Valerie, now, look now, what 320 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 4: we had agreed on was before my servant, but. 321 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 3: No strings attached. 322 00:20:55,320 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 4: Don't be kind looking for something in return. She started something, 323 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 4: she saw something. But then here's the third thing that 324 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 4: like about this woman. She sought nothing. She sought nothing. 325 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 4: I call this her integrity, her integrity because of verse thirteen. Rightly, 326 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 4: so Elijah asked the Haze, I tell her, we appreciate 327 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 4: the kind concern you have shown us. What can we 328 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 4: do for you? Can we put in a good word 329 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 4: for you to the king or to the commander of 330 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 4: the ardmen. He was appreciative. He was appreciative. He wanted 331 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 4: to show his gratitude. He wanted to give her a 332 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 4: pat on the back. Of no doubt, he had already 333 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 4: given her many passed on the back, telling her thank you. 334 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 4: But now he says, hey, maybe let me put in 335 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 4: a positive word to the king. I'm in good with 336 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 4: the King. God, I done helped them out a couple 337 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,120 Speaker 4: of times. I can put a word into the king. 338 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 4: Maybe I can give you some protective custod are from 339 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 4: the armed man, even the army. I've helped them to 340 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 4: win some battles. And if you just let me know, 341 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 4: I can put a word in even for the army. 342 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 4: Or maybe I can dip your some type of provisions 343 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 4: for whatever you need. 344 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 3: And yet this. 345 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 4: Woman said no thank you, no thank you, no, no 346 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 4: thank you, that's what she said. No of my family 347 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 4: takes good care of me. Even waiters expect to till 348 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 4: when they give good service. Even workers expect thank you. 349 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 4: Matter of fact, you do something for somebody, you want 350 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 4: them to tell you thank you. Yeah, I don't act 351 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 4: holdly like y'all don't past I did this, and I 352 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 4: did that, and I did this, and I did that. 353 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 3: And he just won't even say thank you. 354 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 4: And yet this woman salt nothing from Elisha. She wasn't 355 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 4: looking for anything in return. True spirit of generosity says, 356 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 4: not only do you look for something in others, not 357 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 4: only do you do something for others, but you expect 358 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 4: nothing from others. You expect nothing from others. This is 359 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 4: why I call it kindness with no streams attached. 360 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 3: Now that can I be honest with y'all. 361 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 4: We live in a I scratch your back, you scratch 362 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 4: my back mentality. Matter of fact, if you're not careful, 363 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 4: many of us won't even bless certain kinds of folks. 364 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 3: We might do. 365 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 4: We might give a couple of dollars to somebody that 366 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 4: we just think is just so pold and broken. 367 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 3: We don't look for anything from them. 368 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 4: But if it comes to somebody that got something from 369 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 4: somebody that we feel like is already or we won't 370 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 4: give anything to them, why an we give them something 371 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 4: to them? 372 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 3: They don't need anything, They already got more than I do. 373 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 4: And do you see what this woman does. She is 374 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 4: giving to Elisha. She's not given to somebody that has broke. 375 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 4: She's not giving to somebody that is wanting, and she's 376 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 4: not even looking for anything in return. When you have 377 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 4: a true spirit of generositad, look, you are led by 378 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 4: the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit tells you to 379 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 4: bless the paul, you bless the paul. If the Holy 380 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 4: Spirit tell you to bless the rich, you bless the rich. 381 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 4: If the Holy Spirit tells you bless this one. You 382 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 4: blessed this one, and you don't look for anything. 383 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 3: In return kindness with no strings attached. 384 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 4: She saw something, she started something, She sought nothing yet 385 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 4: here's good news. Can't give you the good news. She 386 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 4: secured everything. How do you secure everything? How do you 387 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 4: secure everything? I call this her increase? I call this 388 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 4: her increase because what happened. The preacher wasn't satisfied. He said, 389 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 4: he's gotta be something, gotta be something. Hayes, I said, Well, 390 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 4: her husband old she she ain't got a children. We 391 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,959 Speaker 4: don't even know whether or not it was because she 392 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 4: was born. We don't know whether or not it was 393 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 4: because the man was your soul old. But they had 394 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 4: no son. And so here's what the preacher said, This 395 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 4: time next year, you're going to have a son. 396 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 3: Look what this woman said. Oh Man of God. 397 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 4: Don't deceive men. Don't get my hawks up like that. 398 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 4: Have you ever said, have you ever said that? 399 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 3: Dog? 400 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 4: I don't want to get my hopes up because I 401 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 4: don't want to be disappointed. 402 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 3: I don't want to. 403 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 4: Get my hopes up because if something don't come and 404 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 4: then it's going to be let down. 405 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 3: I don't want to get my hopes up. Can I 406 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 3: tell you something. 407 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 4: When you have a true spirit of generosity, let me 408 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 4: tell you why you can get. 409 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 3: Your hopes up. 410 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 4: Because your blessings are going to come not from people. 411 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 4: Your blessings are going to come not from those around 412 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 4: you'll your blessings are going to come not from. 413 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 3: What the pope can do. 414 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 4: But your blessings will come from God himself. It is 415 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 4: God who will give them the increase. Here's what happened, 416 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 4: brothers and sisters. When you have a spirit of generosity, 417 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 4: when you ain't looking for anything in return, I'm here. 418 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 3: To take you. 419 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 4: You can receive everything from the Lord. You can receive 420 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 4: everything from the Lord. You can receive every everything from 421 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 4: the Lord. That's why David is going to say, the 422 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 4: Lord is mine shepherd. I shall not want he maketh 423 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 4: me to lie down in green past. Now he leaders 424 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 4: me beside the stealed water. He restores my soul. He 425 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 4: leaders me in the path of righteousness for His namesake, 426 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 4: and yave though I walk through the violance up the 427 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 4: shadow of death, I don't have to fear anything. 428 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 3: For thou art with men, your right and your stabb 429 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 3: They comfort me. 430 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 4: You prepare a table before me in the presence of 431 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 4: my inn. A man, you are notat my head with 432 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 4: all my cup run it over surely, Goodness and mercer 433 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 4: shall follow me all. 434 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 3: The days of. 435 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 4: My life, and I will dwell in the house of 436 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 4: the Lord forever. You secure everything, because God will give 437 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 4: you everything, and you'll have a sense of content. Man, 438 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 4: that's what happened. Yah, And that's what happened. That's what 439 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 4: the Bible said. The Bible said. Soon after that, the 440 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 4: woman got pregnant. Next year son is born. Good God, 441 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 4: all the money. Can I tell you something about the 442 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 4: blessings of the Lord. The blessings of the Lord Proverbs 443 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 4: ten twenty two, make this one rich, and he addeth 444 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 4: no sorrow to it. 445 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 3: When God blesses. 446 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 4: You, you got a peace that passes all, understand, Dad, 447 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 4: When God bless you. And so she gets this boy. 448 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 4: The boy grows up. He goes out in the field. 449 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 4: He's working with his dad. But one day the boy 450 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 4: comes in complaining about his head, lays down on his 451 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 4: mother's lap, and he dies, Good God, all the right. 452 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 4: Look what the woman is going to do? Read the 453 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 4: rest of the text. Look what the woman is gonna do. 454 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 4: She's gonna take the boy, and she puts the boy 455 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 4: in the room that she had built for the preacher. 456 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 3: You never know that when God uses. 457 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 4: You to open your house and your house become a hotel, 458 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 4: you never know when the hotel might have to become 459 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 4: the hospital in order to bring here land to your 460 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 4: dad's situation. 461 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 3: But she put the boy in the room. 462 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 4: Don't deserve And get me a horse and get me ready. 463 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 4: I need to go see the Man of God. When 464 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 4: told the Man of God, She told the Man of God, 465 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 4: did I tell you Verse twenty eight, did I ask 466 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 4: you for some No? No, did I tell you? Don't 467 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 4: deceive man? Don't get my hopes up high. But I 468 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 4: need to tell somebody. If God is giving you hope, 469 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 4: you can keep your hopes up high. When God began 470 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 4: to bless you, when God began to turn it around, 471 00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 4: you don't have to be sad. 472 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 3: No, no, And so long story is short. God Elizha 473 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 3: is gonna go back. 474 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 4: There, stretch over the boy, and the boy is gonna 475 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 4: come back to life. 476 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 3: I wish that was the end of the store rare. 477 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 3: But it gets good. It gets good. Uh. 478 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 4: If you go over to a second King Chapter eight, 479 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 4: a fam man came in the land. How many know 480 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 4: you can be blessed by God and a fami can 481 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 4: still happen in the land. But Elizha is going to 482 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 4: tell the shooner, might one man, I want you to 483 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 4: go down to a city in the Philistines, and the 484 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 4: Lord is gonna sustain you there, because when you're blessed 485 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 4: by God, he can bless you in the city, he 486 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 4: can bless you in the fields. 487 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 3: He can bless you in enemy territory. 488 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 4: He'll make your inner melity be at peace with you. 489 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 4: He'll use even the filler things to sustain. 490 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 3: And to prosper you. 491 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 4: That's why some folks, even in the pandemic, you ain't 492 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 4: have to feel the pressure of the pandemic because God 493 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 4: has given you favor in the misted up the faint man. 494 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 3: It gets gooder than that. It gets gooder than that. 495 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 4: She's down there for seven years, and when she came 496 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 4: back to her hometown. 497 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 3: Now she done lost everything. 498 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 4: She done lost Helene, she done lost her wealth, she 499 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 4: done lost everything. 500 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 3: But good God Almighty. 501 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 4: At that particular time, the king is having a conversation 502 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 4: Whipped the servant of Eliza Sha, and he is talking 503 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 4: about the great things Elijah had done. And he's given 504 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 4: the testimony that out of a woman by the name 505 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 4: of in the shoe up. And at the same time 506 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 4: he gives the testimony that guess who walks through the door. 507 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 4: The woman walks through the door the haze I said, 508 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 4: matter of fact, here she is. 509 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 3: She is proof right now. And you know what the 510 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 3: king did. 511 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 4: The King said, give it back to her, Give it 512 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 4: back to her, Give. 513 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 3: Her land back to her. 514 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 4: Give everything she had lost, give it back to her, 515 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 4: restore it to her. 516 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 3: Matter of fact, include the. 517 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 4: Value of any crops that had been harvest during her absence. 518 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 3: Even when she wasn't in the land, wasn't working the land, she. 519 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 4: Still got back there. If God speak favor, he is 520 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 4: such a god of restoration. But everything that you thought 521 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 4: you lost, he will give it back. He'll give back 522 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 4: your joy, He'll give back your peace. He'll give back 523 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 4: the rent money. He'll give back the seed money that 524 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 4: you gave to somebody else. Because God is able. He's 525 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 4: abel said, give you the increase, For the earth is 526 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 4: the Lord and the fullness. 527 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 3: Thereof the world. That they that dwell therein the cattle 528 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 3: on a. 529 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 4: Thousand hiss belong to the Lord. The gold is his, 530 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 4: the silver is his. He's recession proof, he's pandemic proof, 531 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 4: He's still God, and he is able to do exceeding. 532 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 4: Lets our abundant left, our boble. We can ask or 533 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 4: think the truth of the matter. He blows our minds. 534 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 4: That's why I stop going to tell you. When God 535 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 4: bless uship, when God is keeping you, develop a spirit 536 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 4: of generosity. 537 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 3: Here's what you need to do. You need to live. 538 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 3: Whip the cap off, leave, whip the lead off. 539 00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 4: Stop trying to put a cap on the blessings of God. 540 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 3: Stop trying to just menasure out. But you ought to 541 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 3: tell the Lord. 542 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,879 Speaker 4: I want a spirit, a generosity for if I can 543 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 4: help somebody as I pass along, if I can shift 544 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 4: somebody with the word or so, if I can show 545 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 4: somebody that. 546 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,840 Speaker 3: They are traveling wrong, my living will not be in vain. 547 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 3: I want to keep my lid off so that I 548 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 3: can pull out and be a. 549 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:40,720 Speaker 4: Blessing in my home, be a blessing on my job, 550 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 4: be a blessing. 551 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 3: In the neighborhood. 552 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 4: God my company is often use me, Lord, if I 553 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 4: need to bless the poet, if I need to bless 554 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,000 Speaker 4: other rich folks. If I need to bless other churches, 555 00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:58,760 Speaker 4: use my Lord. 556 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 3: I want to keep my lid off. I want to 557 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 3: keep my lid off. 558 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 4: And the reason why I want to keep my lid 559 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 4: off is not on that so that I can pull in, 560 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 4: but good God, on my death, if you keep your 561 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 4: lid off, Can I tell you what God would do? 562 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 4: Can I show you what God can do? Somebody know 563 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 4: it is no secret what God can do. 564 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 3: What he have done for us, He'll do the same 565 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,879 Speaker 3: for you. I've been young and now I'm all. 566 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 4: But I'm never seeing the righteous for sicker, not his 567 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 4: seed begging bread. Forever a time I pull out for 568 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 4: the Lord in his good time, he pulls back into me. 569 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 3: Praise be to God. My god. 570 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 4: Shelf supplies all of your need. Not according to the 571 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 4: White House. Give me another bottle there, not according to 572 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:17,800 Speaker 4: my next door labor, but according to His richest and. 573 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 3: Glory, his part so much bigger. Every time I turn around, 574 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 3: he gets up, yesh heat a blessing me. My cup 575 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 3: running over sho. 576 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 5: Shut goodness, my son, thank you, Jesus, think you, Jesus, 577 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:51,600 Speaker 5: thank you Jesus. 578 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 3: Let me give you my worurs. I got to let 579 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 3: you go, But God whop me up this morning. 580 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:02,760 Speaker 4: If your life is all about competition, you still got. 581 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 3: The cap home. 582 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 4: If your life it's all about comparison and you're comparing 583 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 4: yourself with the next. 584 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 3: One, you still got the cap on. 585 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:18,360 Speaker 4: If your life is all about conflict, you keep mess away. 586 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 3: It's all the cap is home. But Jesus, let me 587 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 3: take the cap off, for on a heel our cow 588 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:29,840 Speaker 3: cap of. 589 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 4: The Jesus took the cap off. 590 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,439 Speaker 3: Jesus took the lid off. 591 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:43,240 Speaker 4: He just didn't die a little, but he died all 592 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 4: the way, hung, blending dies, shedding his blood. Yes, we've 593 00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 4: been called to be a blessing. Stop the competition, stop 594 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 4: the comparison, stop the conflicts, but instead make your life 595 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:24,280 Speaker 4: one of compassion. Make your life one of compassion. Do good, 596 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:35,440 Speaker 4: help others, be kind, Make your life one of contentment. 597 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,239 Speaker 3: Be satisfied with what you have, with where you are, 598 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 3: and just trust God. 599 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,640 Speaker 4: If he say yes, fine, If he say no, fine, 600 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,680 Speaker 4: If he say open, fine, if he says close, fine. 601 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:59,799 Speaker 3: But contentment compassion be a. 602 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 2: That concludes today's broadcast. To hear more messages from doctor Bartholomew, 603 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:10,040 Speaker 2: or please visit bartholowmewor dot org or his YouTube channel 604 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,759 Speaker 2: Bartholowme Or. 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Let's get ready to change 611 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 2: lives and make a difference as we impact the world 612 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,880 Speaker 2: with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 613 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,280 Speaker 1: You will be like God. 614 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 6: Human unity is God was severed and through it all, 615 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 6: God's promise remain true. 616 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,840 Speaker 1: Follow me and I make you great. 617 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:11,240 Speaker 6: This is the Chosen People. Listen to the Chosen People 618 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:15,920 Speaker 6: at the Chosen People dot com. That's the Chosen People 619 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 6: dot Com.