1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: it a little deeper. 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know, 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 2: let's go. 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: I've been doing things this is important in my life 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: that support the flow of the Holy Spirit. Because when 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: I'm not doing those things in my life, whether that's 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: my relationships, or whether that's serving, or whether that's kind 11 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: of like dealing with the weeds in the garden of 12 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: the things that I say and do that don't match up, 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: which happen every day, when I'm not putting God's word 14 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: in my heart in a systematic way, from a place 15 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: of love, from a place of challenging myself, from a 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: place of asking God to speak to me, reading it 17 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: through his perspective, not just reading it to see what 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: I already think it means. If I'm not doing those things, 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: I'm not going to come from abundance, because again I'm 20 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: coming from my own personal point of view, and I'm 21 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: going to read into every text that I read, or 22 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: every situation that happens, every experience I have, I'm going 23 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: to read into those things my own experience, prejudice, belief, insecurity, 24 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: rather than drawing from those things what God wants me 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: to receive so I can give it. 26 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 2: So that's just an. 27 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 1: Example of how it happens in preaching to come from 28 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: a place of abundance that I've been reading, studying, listening, 29 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: exposing myself to things that don't take away from the 30 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: revelation that God has given me by just interfering with 31 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: noise or kind of perverting things. If I'm putting things 32 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: in myself and not just Bible versus man, but thoughts, 33 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: dwelling on things, discussing, things opening up, you know, if 34 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: those things are flowing in my life, I'm becoming from abundance. 35 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: I hear the sound of the abundance of rain, Elijah said, 36 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: Now that's not necessarily what the situation looked like, but 37 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: that's where he was coming from. 38 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 2: He was coming from the sound that he heard. 39 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: Now, I think that faith comes by hearing, hearing by 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: the word. I think we can say that the words 41 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: that we put in our hearts, that we allow to dominate, 42 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: the words that we put in our hearts, the words 43 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: that we allow to give wind, the words in the 44 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: form of our thoughts, the words in the form of 45 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: our meditation, the words in the form of what we 46 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: say to ourselves, what we say about ourselves. 47 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 2: What we think about others. 48 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 1: All of those words they work in the background of 49 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: our life so that they're either drawing away, creating a leak, 50 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: you know, your internal language, they're creating a leak. And 51 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: everything that God puts in you, you're going to just 52 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: feel like never enough. Man, I'm never enough. I was 53 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: in bed eight hours, but I only slept three. I 54 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: still didn't get enough sleep. That's not necessarily because you're 55 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: doing something wrong, but I am saying that a lot 56 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: of times. If I don't pay attention to what goes 57 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: in during the day, then when I lay down at 58 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: night when the day is over, I'm not going to 59 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: have any kind of peace. I'm not going to have 60 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: any kind of real rest, and I'm going to wake 61 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: up again in the cycle of not enough coming from abundance. 62 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: What does that look like. It looks like believing when 63 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: I wake up every morning that I have enough time 64 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: today for what God has called me to do today. Now, 65 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: Jesus said, do not worry about tomorrow. So that's a misappropriation. 66 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: If I start going, yeah, but tomorrow, well plan for it, 67 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: think about it, give structure to it, build around it. 68 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: I do not believe it's wise for you to not 69 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: have a retirement account and you're fifty three years old. 70 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: I do not believe it's wise for you to have 71 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: all this empty space in your day, or your week, 72 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: or your year, we have nothing looked forward to. I 73 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: think that's a recipe for depression. I believe that's a 74 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:26,119 Speaker 1: recipe for a rut where you just automatically. 75 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 2: Do things and kind of like, what do you want 76 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 2: to do? What do you want to do? No, I'm 77 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 2: not talking about that. 78 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: What I'm saying is God gave me the space and 79 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: grace that I need for today, and that that belief 80 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: that will bring me to a place of abundance because 81 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: I'm not going into the day going there's no way 82 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to get it all done. Okay, now, I'm 83 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: not going to get it all done today. I'm not 84 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: going to get it all done tomorrow either. I'm not 85 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: going to get it all done next week. But by 86 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: sitting with God, sitting with my list, sitting with the 87 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: people that are important in my life, figuring out what's 88 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: important to us really paying attention. Okay, last week I 89 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: got off track with this. It wasn't fruitful. Now this 90 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: week I'm going to prune all that stuff that wasn't 91 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: fruitful so I can bear the right fruit. These are 92 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: the things that matter. This is what's important in this season. 93 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: This is what I can't do anything about. Oh, this 94 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: is the drama that I'm getting drawn into. You come 95 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: from abundance. When you get clear in your heart with 96 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 1: God in his presence about the priorities that He has 97 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: for you, seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and 98 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: all these. 99 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: Things will be added to you as well. 100 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: So the things that deplete you, the things that pull 101 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: from you, the things that suck the blood out of 102 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: your your very being, suck the happiness, suck the energy 103 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: out of your life. All of those things that that 104 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: make you feel like I can't do it, they're not 105 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: all bad. Sometimes you just haven't made the decisions in 106 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: your daily life and your weekly life. 107 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: In the structure of your month and the structure of 108 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 2: your year. 109 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: You haven't made the decision yet to prioritize God's presence 110 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: and to prioritize the purpose that He put you here for. 111 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: So you can't come from abundance because let me say 112 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,799 Speaker 1: it one way that I said it in a sermon 113 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: one time, It's not an issue of there not being 114 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: enough resource. It's an issue of their not being. 115 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 2: Clear enough priorities. 116 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't have enough resources, but sometimes we don't 117 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: have enough priorities. Putting God first means the things that 118 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: he wants done. How do I know what he wants done? 119 00:06:58,200 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 2: Well? 120 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: If I spend time in his word, I spend time 121 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: paying attention, if I spend time asking the Holy Spirit 122 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: inside of me, let me see through your eyes, I'm 123 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: going to know more times than not. And if I 124 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: pay attention to my last mistake, I go ooh, correction, boom. 125 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: And I'm going to get better at that as time 126 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: goes on. And when I fail at it, I'm going 127 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: to pick myself up and go, Okay, all right, maybe 128 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: I hit that a little different last time. 129 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 2: And you get this. 130 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: You get this feeling from God when you're off track, 131 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: don't you. It's like it's not getting you anywhere. Change 132 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:42,559 Speaker 1: change approach, you know, like change course. And I believe 133 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: that priorities are a huge part of coming. 134 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 2: From abundance. 135 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: I believe that presence is a huge part of coming 136 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: from abundance, not only your presence in the moment, but 137 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: God's presence with you. I don't know if you understand 138 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: what it means to have Christ in you. I don't 139 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: know if you understand what that means, because I know 140 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: I don't. I'm trying to find out what that means. 141 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: The problem is, I got so much on me, sometimes 142 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: pressure on me. 143 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 2: That it keeps me. 144 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: From fully accessing, acknowledging and acting in the power that 145 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: I have in me, the presence of God in me, 146 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: Christ in you. I think a lot of us are 147 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: messed up by the language we learn, maybe as children 148 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: or maybe later in life. But we say, ask Jesus 149 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: in your heart. I think we have really gotten arrested 150 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: development when it comes to what that means, because it's like, oh, 151 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: ask Jesus to come into your heart. 152 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: He'll save you. 153 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: That's the way you explain it to a kid, because 154 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,839 Speaker 1: they can't understand salvation. I don't think that is an 155 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: elementary thing to ask God for. I just think we 156 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: have an elementary understanding from when he asked Jesus into 157 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: your heart. 158 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 2: When you say Christ be in me, you are in me. 159 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: I thank you Lord for the Holy Spirit in me 160 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: who that's powerful. Okay, that's not some playful little phrase 161 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,599 Speaker 1: that we teach a preschooler. 162 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: That's powerful. 163 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 1: So I want you to go from a preschool understanding 164 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: of asking Jesus in your heart or having Jesus in your. 165 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: Heart to a powerful understanding of that. 166 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: Coming from abundance means I am not this needy person 167 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 1: who needs to go around begging people for crumbson scraps 168 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: all day. I am someone who has great need, but 169 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: I have a greater God who lives and flows through me. 170 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. 171 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: Why did Paul say it that way? Why didn't Paul 172 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: just say you know, Christ can do all things through you? 173 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: Because he wanted us to understand it. Will take our decision, 174 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: our initiative, and watch this. This is the last one 175 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: I want to give you for today. Proactive So priority presence, 176 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: which also goes along with power. How do I come 177 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: from abundance priority? I decide what doesn't get my attention, 178 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: presence understanding God is with me in this moment, and 179 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: then I got to be proactive. That means I have 180 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: to call on Christ. Like Samson called remember last week 181 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: in the Hollow Place when Samson was like he cried 182 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 1: to the Lord God, are you. 183 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 2: Gonna give me the victory? 184 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: But you're gonna let me out of here with chapped 185 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: lips and parched throat, die in this desert. And God's like, 186 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: I just waiting on you to ask me. Boom, water 187 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: came from the Hollow Place. That's how the Holy Spirit works. 188 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,439 Speaker 1: Ask for the Holy Spirit, Ask your Father for more flows. 189 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: Ask and he will give you your joy and make it complete. 190 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: You have asked nothing in his name up until now. 191 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: He's waiting on you to ask and act in what 192 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: you've asked. What good is it to ask God for 193 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: something and not act in your belief. 194 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 195 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 3: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 196 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 3: get you all of these new messages as soon as 197 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 3: they're available. 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