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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 5: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 36 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 5: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 37 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:55,919 Speaker 5: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless 38 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 5: you always a joy to come into your homes, And 39 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 5: if you're ever in our please stop by and be 40 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 5: a part of one of our services. 41 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 3: I promise you will make you feel right at home. 42 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in and thank you 43 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 5: again for coming out today. And I like to start 44 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 5: with something funny and I heard about this kindergarten teacher. 45 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 5: She wanted to explain to her students about self esteem. 46 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 5: She asked anyone in the class that feels dumb to 47 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 5: please stand up. She didn't think anybody would stand and 48 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 5: she would make the point how nobody is dumb. But 49 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 5: about that time little Johnny stood up, she thought, oh no, 50 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 5: Now what am I. 51 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 3: Going to do? 52 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 5: She said, now, Johnny, do you really feel like you're dumb? 53 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 5: He said no, ma'am. I just hate to see you 54 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 5: standing there all by yourself. 55 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 3: Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. 56 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 57 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 58 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 59 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 60 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 61 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 62 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about having an abundant mentality. 63 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 5: God's dream for your life is that you would be 64 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 5: blessed in such a way that you could be a 65 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 5: blessing to others. David said, my cup runs over. God 66 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 5: is an overflow God. 67 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 3: But here's the key. 68 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 5: You can't go around thinking thoughts of lack, not enough 69 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 5: struggle and expect to have abundance. And if you've been 70 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 5: under pressure for a long time and had difficulty making 71 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 5: ends meet, it's easy to develop a limited mindset. I'll 72 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 5: never get out of this neighborhood, or I'll never have 73 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 5: enough to send my kids to college. Now, that may 74 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 5: be where you are now, but that's not where you. 75 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 3: Have to stay. 76 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 5: God is called Elshaddai, the god of more than enough, 77 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 5: not the god of barely enough, not the god of 78 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 5: just help me make it through, let me live off 79 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 5: the leftovers. 80 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 3: Know the God of. 81 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 5: Overflow, the God of abundance, the God of more than enough. 82 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 5: And Psalm thirty five says, let them say continually, let 83 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 5: the Lord be magnified, who takes pleasure in the prosperity 84 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 5: of his children. They were supposed to go around constantly 85 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 5: saying God takes pleasure in prospering me. It was to 86 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 5: help them develop this abundant mentality. Your life is moving 87 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 5: toward what you're constantly thinking about. 88 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 3: If you're always. 89 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 5: Thinking thoughts of lack, not enough, struggle, you're moving toward 90 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 5: the wrong things. Now, all through the day, meditate on 91 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 5: these thoughts overflow abundance. 92 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 3: God takes pleasure in prospering me. 93 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 5: In the scripture, the Israelites had been in slavery for 94 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 5: many years. 95 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 3: That was the land of barely enough. 96 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 5: They were just enduring, surviving, barely making it through. One day, 97 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,119 Speaker 5: God brought them out of slavery and took them into 98 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 5: the desert that was the land of just enough. Their 99 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 5: needs were supplied, but nothing extra. Says Their clothes didn't 100 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 5: wear out for forty years. I'm sure they were grateful. 101 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 5: I don't know about you. I don't particularly want to 102 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 5: wear this same suit for the next forty years. If 103 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 5: I have to, I'm not going to complain. But that's 104 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 5: not my idea of abundance. It wasn't God's either. God 105 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 5: eventually took them into the promised land that was the 106 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 5: land of more than enough. The food and supplies were plenteous, 107 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 5: the bundles of grape so large two grown men had 108 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 5: to carry them. It's called the land flowing with milk 109 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 5: and honey. Flowing means it didn't stop, it never ran out, 110 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 5: It continued to have an abundance. That's where God is 111 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 5: taking you. 112 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 3: Now. 113 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 5: You may be in the land of barely enough Right now, 114 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 5: you don't know how you're gonna make it. 115 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 3: Through next week. Don't worry. 116 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 5: God hasn't forgotten about you. God closed the lilies of 117 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 5: the field, he feeds the birds of the air. He's 118 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,159 Speaker 5: going to take care of you. You may be in 119 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 5: the land of just enough. Your needs are supplied. You're grateful, 120 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,239 Speaker 5: but there's nothing extra, nothing to accomplish your dreams. God 121 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 5: is saying, I did not breathe my life into you 122 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 5: to live in the land of barely enough. I didn't 123 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 5: create you to live in the land of just enough. 124 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 5: Those are seasons, those are tests, but they are not permanent. 125 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 5: Don't put your stakes down. You are passing through. 126 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 3: It is only temporary. 127 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 5: God has a promised land for you. He has a 128 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 5: place of abundance, of more than enough, where it's flowing 129 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 5: with provision. Not just one time, but you'll continue to increase, 130 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 5: You'll continue to have plenty. Now, if you're in the 131 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 5: land of barely enough, don't you dare settle there. That 132 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 5: is where you are. It is not who you are. 133 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 5: That is your location. That is not your identity. You 134 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 5: are a child of the Most High God. No matter 135 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 5: what it looks like, you have this abundant mentality. Keep 136 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 5: reminding yourself. God takes pleasure in prospering me. I am 137 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 5: the head and never the tell. The scripture says God 138 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 5: will supply our needs according to his riches. So often 139 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 5: we look at our situations and think. 140 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 3: I'll never get ahead. 141 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 5: Joel, I'm in the projects, I'll never get out. No, 142 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 5: it's not according to what you have, It's according to 143 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 5: what he has. The good news is God owns it all. 144 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 5: One touch of God's favor can blast you out of 145 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 5: barely enough. 146 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 3: And put you into more than enough. 147 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 5: God has ways to increase you beyondyond your normal income, 148 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 5: beyond your salary, beyond what's predictable. Now, quit telling yourself 149 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 5: this is all I'll ever have. Granddaddy was broke. Mom 150 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 5: and Daddy didn't have anything. My dog's on welfare, my 151 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 5: cat's homeless. Let go of all that and have an 152 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 5: abundant mentality. This is not where I'm staying. I'm blessed, 153 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 5: I'm prosperous. I'm headed to overflow to the land of 154 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 5: more than enough. I received a letter from a young couple. 155 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 5: They had both been raised in low income families. All 156 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 5: they saw modeled growing up was lack struggle can't get ahead. 157 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 5: Their families had accepted it, but not this couple. They 158 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 5: had been coming to Lakewood. They didn't have not enough mentality. 159 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 5: They had an abundant mentality. They knew God had a 160 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 5: promised land in store for them, and they took a 161 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 5: step of faith, and on very average incomes, they decided 162 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 5: to build their own house. They didn't take out a loan. 163 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 5: Whenever they had extra funds, they would buy the materials 164 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 5: and hire the contractors. A couple of years later they 165 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 5: moved into this beautiful house and a nice neighborhood, all 166 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 5: debt free. It was like God had multiplied their funds. 167 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 5: Not long ago, they sold that house for twice. 168 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 3: What they had put into it. 169 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 5: The lady wrote, we never dreamed we would be blessed 170 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 5: like we are today. 171 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 3: She went on to say something interesting. 172 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:37,559 Speaker 5: She said, my great grandparents and my grandparents always told 173 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 5: me that if I had beans and rice, that was 174 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 5: good enough. 175 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 3: But I always knew one day I would have steak. 176 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 5: And if you're going to become everything God's created you 177 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 5: to be, you gotta make up your mind like she did. 178 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 3: You are not going to settle for beans and rice. 179 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 5: You are not going to get stuck in the land 180 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 5: of barely enough or the land of just enough. But 181 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 5: you're going to keep praying, believing, expecting, hoping, dreaming, working, 182 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,559 Speaker 5: being faithful until you make it all the way in 183 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 5: to the land of more than enough. Now, there's nothing 184 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 5: wrong with beings in rice, nothing wrong with surviving. 185 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 3: But God wants you to go further. 186 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 5: God wants you to set a new standard for your family. 187 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 5: He's an overflow God, a more than enough God. Jesus 188 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 5: told a parable about a prodigal son. This young man 189 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:41,239 Speaker 5: left home, blew all of his money, wasted his inheritance, 190 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 5: and decided to return home. And when his father saw him, 191 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 5: the father represents God. He said to the staff, go 192 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 5: kill the fatted calf. 193 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 3: We're going to have a party. The older brother was upset. 194 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 5: He said, Dad, I've been with you this whole time, 195 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 5: and you've never given me a skinny goat. Let me 196 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 5: ask you, do you have a fatted calf mentality? Or 197 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 5: do you have a skinny goat mentality? Do you think 198 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 5: beans and rice are good enough? Or do you say no, 199 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 5: I want some enchiladas, I want some fahetas, I want 200 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 5: some sopho pious. 201 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 3: Listen you can live off of bread and water. 202 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 5: You can survive in the land of barely enough. We 203 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 5: can endure the land of just enough, just enough to 204 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 5: make it through, just enough to pay. 205 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 3: My bills this week. But that is not God's best. 206 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 5: Your heavenly father, the one that breathed life into you, 207 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 5: is saying, I've got a fatted calf for you. 208 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 3: I've got a place for you in the land of 209 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 3: more than enough. 210 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 5: Now, don't go around thinking that you'll never get ahead, 211 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 5: You'll never live in a nice place, You'll never have 212 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 5: enough to accomplish your dreams. Get rid of that skinny 213 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 5: goat and start having a fatted calf mentality. God wants 214 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 5: you to overflow with his goodness. When the Israelites were 215 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,199 Speaker 5: in the desert, in the land of just enough, they 216 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 5: got tired of eating the same thing every day. They said, Moses, 217 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 5: we want some meat to eat out here. They were complaining, 218 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 5: but at least for a little while, they had a 219 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 5: fatted calf mentality. Moses thought, that's impossible. Meat out here 220 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 5: in the desert steak for some two million people. 221 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 3: There were no grocery. 222 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 5: Stores, no place to buy food. But God has ways 223 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 5: to increase you that you've never thought of. God simply 224 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 5: shifted the direction of the wind and caused a huge 225 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 5: flock of quall to come into the camp. 226 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 3: They didn't have to go after it. The food came 227 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 3: to them. 228 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 5: What's interesting is quall doesn't normally travel that far away 229 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 5: from the water. If there had not been a strong wind, 230 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 5: it would have never made it way out there in 231 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:55,959 Speaker 5: the desert. 232 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 3: What am I saying? God knows how to get your 233 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 3: provision to you. 234 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 5: A statistician ran some numbers based on the size of 235 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 5: the camp, the number of people quel three feet off 236 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 5: the ground, like the scripture says. He concluded that there 237 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 5: were approximately one hundred and five million quail that came 238 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 5: into with a camp. 239 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 3: That's an abundant God. 240 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 5: God could have given them a couple of quell that 241 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 5: would have been four or five million quel. But God 242 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 5: doesn't just want to meet your needs. 243 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 3: He wants to do it in abundance. 244 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 5: Now the question, are you thinking, skinny goat or are 245 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 5: you thinking fatted calf? Well, Joel, I could never afford 246 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 5: a nice place to live. Can I say this respectfully? 247 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 3: Skinny goat? 248 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 5: I could never send my kids to the college they 249 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 5: really want to attend. Skinny goat. I could never build 250 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 5: that orphanage. I could never support other families. I can 251 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 5: barely support my own family. Now, God has a fatted calf, 252 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 5: a place of. 253 00:13:58,480 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 3: Abundance for you. 254 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 5: He is not limited by your circumstances, by how you 255 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 5: were raised, by what you don't have. He's limited by 256 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 5: what you're believing. And some of you have had that 257 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 5: skinny goat with you for years and years you become 258 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 5: best friends. You need to announce to him today, I'm sorry, 259 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 5: but our relationship is over. 260 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 3: It's done. We're going to be parting ways. 261 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 5: He may cry, complain, bah, ask is there anybody else? 262 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 5: Tell him, Yes, I've found a fatted calf. No more 263 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 5: thinking not enough, barely enough, just enough. From now on, 264 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 5: I'm thinking more than enough and abundant mentality. 265 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 3: When you live like this. 266 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 5: God will bless you in ways you've never imagined. It's 267 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 5: like this one lady. 268 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: I know, she's a. 269 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 5: Single parent mother and her family has gone through a 270 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 5: lot of struggles. For years, she was barely making it, 271 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 5: but every Sunday she and her two sons would be 272 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 5: here Lakewood. In spite of all the obstacles. They didn't 273 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 5: have a skinny goat mentality. They were in the land 274 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 5: of barely enough, but they didn't put their stakes down. 275 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 5: They knew that wasn't their permanent address. Like she did, 276 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 5: You've got to be faithful in the wilderness if you're 277 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 5: going to make it into the promised Land. I'm not 278 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 5: saying that everything's going to change overnight. There's going to 279 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 5: be seasons of testing and proving. Thoughts are going to 280 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 5: tell you it's never going to change. 281 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 3: But you dismiss that. 282 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 5: You just keep being faithful right where you are, honoring God, 283 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 5: thanking him that you're coming in to overflow. Her son, 284 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 5: from the time he was a little boy, always said 285 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 5: that he was going to get a scholarship to go 286 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 5: to college. He could have thought, we're poor, I'm at 287 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 5: a disadvantage. No, this single parent mother taught her sons 288 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 5: that God is a god of abundance, that he can 289 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 5: make a way when we don't see a way. Years ago, 290 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 5: her son graduated number. 291 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 3: Two in his high school. 292 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 5: He received not one scholarship, not two, not five, not seven, 293 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 5: not eight. He was awarded nine scholarships totaling over one 294 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 5: point three million dollars. His undergraduate, his master's, and his 295 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 5: doctorate is all paid for at Georgetown University. That's what 296 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 5: happens when you say goodbye to the skinny goat and 297 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 5: you have a fatted calf mentality. Jesus talked about how 298 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 5: when we give, it will be given back to us. 299 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 5: Good measure, pressed down, shaking together and running over. 300 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 3: What does that mean? Press down? I used to make 301 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 3: chocolate chip cookies with our children. 302 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 5: The recipe calls for three fourths of a cup of 303 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 5: brown sugar. When you pour the brown sugar in, it's 304 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 5: so thick, so dense. Even when it hits the mark 305 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 5: for three fourths, you have to it down. When you do, 306 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 5: you can put in about twice what it looked like. 307 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,159 Speaker 5: That's what God is saying. When you look full, you 308 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 5: think you're blessed, you're healthy. All you need is one scholarship. 309 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 5: You just want the house to sell for what you 310 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 5: put into it. You just want quail for a day 311 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 5: or two. God says, that's fine. But I'm an overflow God. 312 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 5: I'm more than enough. 313 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 3: God. 314 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 5: I'm about to press it down and make room for 315 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 5: more of my increase. I'm gonna press it down and 316 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 5: show you my favor in a new way. After he 317 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 5: presses it down. He's gonna shake it together and not 318 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 5: just fill it to the top. He's gonna take it 319 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 5: one step further and give you so much that you're 320 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 5: running over. You just wanted one scholarship. God says, that's fine. 321 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you nine to make sure you're covered. 322 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:51,959 Speaker 3: You just wanted to get your money out of the house. 323 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 5: God says, I'm gonna cause it to sell for double. 324 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 5: You just wanted quail for a day or two. God says, 325 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you a steak for a whole month. 326 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 5: That's the way our God is. Why don't you get 327 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 5: in agreement and say, God, I'm ready, I'm a giver. 328 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 5: I have an abundant mentality. Lord, I want to thank 329 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 5: you for good measure, pressed down, shaking together, and running over. 330 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 5: In my life, friend of mine has a son that 331 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 5: God is driver's license a while back and really wanted 332 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 5: a car. His father said to him, let's believe that 333 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 5: God will give you a car. Son said, Dad, God's 334 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 5: not going to give me a car. You can buy 335 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 5: me a car. He said, no, let's pray. They asked 336 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 5: God to somehow make a way that he could have 337 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 5: a car. A couple of months later, this man's employer 338 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 5: called him in and said, for the last two years, 339 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 5: we've made a mistake on your paycheck. We've been under 340 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 5: paying you. They handed him a check. It was five 341 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 5: hundred dollars more than the car they had been hoping 342 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 5: to buy. 343 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 3: The scripture says, is there anything too hard for the Lord? 344 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 5: There is no telling what God will do if you'll 345 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 5: get rid of the skinny goat. God is about to 346 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 5: press some things down. He's about to make room to 347 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 5: show you his increase in a new way. Says in Exodus, 348 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 5: I am bringing you out of lack into a good 349 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 5: and spacious land. No, not a small land, a little place, tight, crowded, 350 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 5: not enough room. No, receive this into your spirit. God 351 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 5: is bringing you into a spacious land, a land of 352 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 5: more than enough, a land of plenty of room, a 353 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 5: land that's flowing with increase, flowing with good breaks, flowing 354 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 5: with opportunity, where you not only have enough for yourself, 355 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 5: but you're running over, running over with space, running over 356 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 5: with supplies, running over with opportunity. If you're not in 357 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 5: a good and spacious place, my challenge is, don't settle there. 358 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 5: Don't let this any goat mentality take root. Don't think 359 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 5: beans and rice is good enough. That is not your 360 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 5: permanent address. It's only temporary. 361 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 3: God is taking you to a good and a spacious land. 362 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,959 Speaker 5: Well, you say, Joel, are you one of those prosperity ministers. 363 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 3: No, I don't like that term. 364 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 5: That sounds like somebody that only talks about finances. Prosperity 365 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 5: to me is having your health, it's having peace in 366 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 5: your mind, it's being able to sleep at night, having 367 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 5: good relationships. There are many things that money cannot buy. 368 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 5: And while I don't like the term prosperity minister, I 369 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 5: must say I am not a poverty minister. 370 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 3: I can't find one place. 371 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 5: In the scripture where we are supposed to drag around 372 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 5: not having enough, not able to afford what we want, 373 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 5: living off the leftovers, living in the land of not enough. 374 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 3: No, we were created to be the head and not 375 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 3: to tell Jesus. 376 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 5: Came that we might live an abundant life. We represent 377 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 5: Almighty God here on this earth. We should be examples 378 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 5: of his goodness, so blessed, so prosperous, so generous, so. 379 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 3: Full of joy that other people want what we have. 380 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 5: But you've got to fight a religious spirit that says, 381 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 5: you're supposed to be poor, broke and defeated to show 382 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 5: God that you're really humble. Now, when you're poor, broken, defeated, 383 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 5: all that proves is that you're poor, broke, and defeated. 384 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 5: It doesn't bring any honor to God. If I brought 385 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 5: my two children up on the platform today and their 386 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 5: clothes were all raggedy, worn out, holes in their shoes, 387 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 5: hair not combed, you would look at me and think, 388 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 5: what kind of father is he? 389 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 3: It'd be a poor reflection on me. 390 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 5: Listen, when you look good, dress good, live in a 391 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,199 Speaker 5: nice place, excel in your career, generous with others. That 392 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 5: brings a smile to God's face. It brings him pleasure 393 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 5: to prosper you. My father was raised during the Great Depression, 394 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 5: and he grew up extremely pooring He developed this poverty mindset. 395 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 5: He was taught in seminary that you had to be 396 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 5: poor to show God that you were holy. The church 397 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 5: he pastored made sure he stayed holy by keeping him poor. 398 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 5: He was making a little over one hundred dollars a 399 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 5: week trying to raise his children, barely surviving, and one 400 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 5: time he and my mom kept a guest minister in 401 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 5: their home all week. Sunday, after the service, a businessman 402 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 5: came up to my father and handed him a check 403 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 5: for one thousand dollars like five thousand dollars today. He said, 404 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,880 Speaker 5: I want you to have this personally to help take 405 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 5: care of the expenses of the guest ministry. My father 406 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 5: took the check by the corner like it was contaminated, 407 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 5: like it might poison him. He said, oh, no, you 408 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 5: never received this. We must put it in the church offering. 409 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 5: He walked toward the offering plate. With every step something said, 410 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 5: don't do it. Receive God's blessings, receive God's favor. He 411 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 5: ignored it, dropped it in the offering plate. When he did, 412 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 5: he said he felt sick to his stomach. There's something 413 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 5: on the inside of us that says we're supposed to 414 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 5: be blessed, We're supposed to live an abundant life. It's 415 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,880 Speaker 5: because we are children of the King. It was put 416 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 5: there by our creator. 417 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 3: But here's the key. 418 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 5: You have to give God permission to prosper you. You 419 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 5: can't go around with a lack of mentality thinking I'll 420 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 5: just take the leftovers to show everyone how humble I am. 421 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 5: After all, God wouldn't want me to have too much. 422 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 5: That'd be greedy, that'd be selfish. No, get rid of 423 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 5: that false sense of humility that's going to keep you 424 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 5: from an abundant life. Listen to Doutero on twenty eight 425 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 5: in the message translation, God will lavish you with good things. 426 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 5: He will throw open the doors of his sky vaults 427 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 5: and rain down favor. You will always be the top 428 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 5: dog and never the bottom dog. Now you need to 429 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 5: start seeing yourself as the top dog. Not living off 430 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 5: of leftovers, not able to afford what you want. Not 431 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 5: in the land of not enough. No, come on over 432 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 5: to the land of more than enough. It starts in 433 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 5: your thinking. Give God permission to increase you, Give him 434 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 5: permission to lavish you with good things. We think, is 435 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 5: it wrong for me to want to live in a 436 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 5: nice house, drive a nice car? Is it wrong to 437 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 5: want funds to accomplish my dreams? 438 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 3: Or wrong to want. 439 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 5: To leave an inheritance for my children. God is saying 440 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 5: it's not wrong. I take pleasure in prospering you. If 441 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 5: it was wrong to have resources abundance, well, why would 442 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 5: God have chosen Abraham to start The new Covenant with 443 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 5: Abraham is called the father of our faith. The scripture 444 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 5: says Abraham was the wealthiest man in all of the East. 445 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 5: He had more livestock, more cattle, more possessions than anyone else. 446 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 5: He was the bill Gates of his day. God could 447 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 5: have chosen anyone, but he chose Abraham, a man extremely blessed. 448 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 5: David left billions of dollars for his son to build 449 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 5: the temple. David is called a man after God's own heart. 450 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 5: Get rid of that thinking that God wouldn't want me 451 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 5: to have too much, that wouldn't be right, that might 452 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 5: not look good. 453 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 3: No, it's just the opposite. When you look good, it 454 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 3: makes God look good. 455 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 5: When you're blessed, prosperous, successful, it brings him honor. I 456 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 5: realize everything I have comes from God. This suit that 457 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 5: I'm wearing, my car, my house, my resources, it's God's goodness. 458 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 3: Listen, you don't have. 459 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 5: To apologize for what God has done in your life. 460 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 3: Where your blessings well, The scripture says, it is the Lord. 461 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 5: Who gives you power to get well. God wouldn't give 462 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 5: you power to do something and then condemn you for 463 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 5: doing it. There's nothing wrong with you having money. The 464 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 5: key is don't let money have you, don't let it 465 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 5: become the focus of your life. Don't seek the provision, 466 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 5: seek the provider. Money is simply a tool to accomplish 467 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 5: your destiny and to. 468 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 3: Advance His kingdom. Victoria and I have big dreams in 469 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 3: our hearts. 470 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 5: It's going to take millions of dollars to do what's 471 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:48,959 Speaker 5: on the inside. 472 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 3: These are dreams not just. 473 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 5: For ourselves for a bigger this or bigger that, but 474 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 5: a dream to build orphanages, a dream. 475 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 3: To build medical clinics. 476 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 5: I can't do that with a limited lacking. God doesn't 477 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 5: want me to have too much mentality. I realize my 478 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 5: father owns it all. He makes streets out of gold. 479 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 5: You are not going to bankrupt heaven by believing for 480 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 5: an abundant life. All God has to do is go 481 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 5: pick up. 482 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 3: Some pavement and give it to you. 483 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 5: When you have this abundant mentality, you have a desire 484 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 5: to advance the kingdom. 485 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 3: God will lavish you with good things. 486 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 5: He will open up the doors of his sky vaults 487 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 5: to where you not only accomplish your dreams, but you 488 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 5: can help be a blessing to the world. My prayer 489 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 5: for you is found in Deuteronomy one to eleven says, 490 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 5: may the Lord, God of your fathers increase you a 491 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 5: thousand times more than you are. Can you receive that 492 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 5: into your spirit, a thousand times more favor, a thousand 493 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 5: times more resources, a thousand. 494 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 3: Times more income. 495 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 5: Most of the time our thinking goes tilt. It's because 496 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 5: we've been hanging out with that skinny goat too long. 497 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 3: It's time to cut him loose. 498 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 5: It's time to have a fatted calf mentality. God is 499 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 5: about to press some things down. He's about to make 500 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,919 Speaker 5: room for more of his increase. Now get up every morning, 501 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 5: say Lord, I want to thank you that you're opening 502 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 5: up your sky vaults today, raining down favor, lavishing. 503 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 3: Me with good things. 504 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 5: If you'll have this abundant mentality, I believe and declare 505 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 5: you won't live in the land of just enough, nor 506 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:36,640 Speaker 5: the land of barely enough. 507 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 3: But you're coming into the land of. 508 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 5: More than enough, overflow and abundant life in Jesus' name. 509 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 5: If you receive it, can you say him men today? Well, 510 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 5: we never like to close our broadcast without giving you 511 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 512 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say more Jesus, I'll 513 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 3: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 514 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 3: you my Lord and savior. 515 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 516 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 5: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 517 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 5: Keep God first place. He's gonna take your places that 518 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 5: you've never dreamed of. 519 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to the joel Oustine podcast. 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