Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This
Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for
Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take
Speaker 1: it a little deeper.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know,
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Speaker 1: I've been doing things this is important in my life
Speaker 1: that support the flow of the Holy Spirit. Because when
Speaker 1: I'm not doing those things in my life, whether that's
Speaker 1: my relationships, or whether that's serving, or whether that's kind
Speaker 1: of like dealing with the weeds in the garden of
Speaker 1: the things that I say and do that don't match up,
Speaker 1: which happen every day, when I'm not putting God's word
Speaker 1: in my heart in a systematic way, from a place
Speaker 1: of love, from a place of challenging myself, from a
Speaker 1: place of asking God to speak to me, reading it
Speaker 1: through his perspective, not just reading it to see what
Speaker 1: I already think it means. If I'm not doing those things,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to come from abundance, because again I'm
Speaker 1: coming from my own personal point of view, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to read into every text that I read, or
Speaker 1: every situation that happens, every experience I have, I'm going
Speaker 1: to read into those things my own experience, prejudice, belief, insecurity,
Speaker 1: rather than drawing from those things what God wants me
Speaker 1: to receive so I can give it.
Speaker 2: So that's just an.
Speaker 1: Example of how it happens in preaching to come from
Speaker 1: a place of abundance that I've been reading, studying, listening,
Speaker 1: exposing myself to things that don't take away from the
Speaker 1: revelation that God has given me by just interfering with
Speaker 1: noise or kind of perverting things. If I'm putting things
Speaker 1: in myself and not just Bible versus man, but thoughts,
Speaker 1: dwelling on things, discussing, things opening up, you know, if
Speaker 1: those things are flowing in my life, I'm becoming from abundance.
Speaker 1: I hear the sound of the abundance of rain, Elijah said,
Speaker 1: Now that's not necessarily what the situation looked like, but
Speaker 1: that's where he was coming from.
Speaker 2: He was coming from the sound that he heard.
Speaker 1: Now, I think that faith comes by hearing, hearing by
Speaker 1: the word. I think we can say that the words
Speaker 1: that we put in our hearts, that we allow to dominate,
Speaker 1: the words that we put in our hearts, the words
Speaker 1: that we allow to give wind, the words in the
Speaker 1: form of our thoughts, the words in the form of
Speaker 1: our meditation, the words in the form of what we
Speaker 1: say to ourselves, what we say about ourselves.
Speaker 2: What we think about others.
Speaker 1: All of those words they work in the background of
Speaker 1: our life so that they're either drawing away, creating a leak,
Speaker 1: you know, your internal language, they're creating a leak. And
Speaker 1: everything that God puts in you, you're going to just
Speaker 1: feel like never enough. Man, I'm never enough. I was
Speaker 1: in bed eight hours, but I only slept three. I
Speaker 1: still didn't get enough sleep. That's not necessarily because you're
Speaker 1: doing something wrong, but I am saying that a lot
Speaker 1: of times. If I don't pay attention to what goes
Speaker 1: in during the day, then when I lay down at
Speaker 1: night when the day is over, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: have any kind of peace. I'm not going to have
Speaker 1: any kind of real rest, and I'm going to wake
Speaker 1: up again in the cycle of not enough coming from abundance.
Speaker 1: What does that look like. It looks like believing when
Speaker 1: I wake up every morning that I have enough time
Speaker 1: today for what God has called me to do today. Now,
Speaker 1: Jesus said, do not worry about tomorrow. So that's a misappropriation.
Speaker 1: If I start going, yeah, but tomorrow, well plan for it,
Speaker 1: think about it, give structure to it, build around it.
Speaker 1: I do not believe it's wise for you to not
Speaker 1: have a retirement account and you're fifty three years old.
Speaker 1: I do not believe it's wise for you to have
Speaker 1: all this empty space in your day, or your week,
Speaker 1: or your year, we have nothing looked forward to. I
Speaker 1: think that's a recipe for depression. I believe that's a
Speaker 1: recipe for a rut where you just automatically.
Speaker 2: Do things and kind of like, what do you want
Speaker 2: to do? What do you want to do? No, I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about that.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is God gave me the space and
Speaker 1: grace that I need for today, and that that belief
Speaker 1: that will bring me to a place of abundance because
Speaker 1: I'm not going into the day going there's no way
Speaker 1: I'm going to get it all done. Okay, now, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to get it all done today. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get it all done tomorrow either. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get it all done next week. But by
Speaker 1: sitting with God, sitting with my list, sitting with the
Speaker 1: people that are important in my life, figuring out what's
Speaker 1: important to us really paying attention. Okay, last week I
Speaker 1: got off track with this. It wasn't fruitful. Now this
Speaker 1: week I'm going to prune all that stuff that wasn't
Speaker 1: fruitful so I can bear the right fruit. These are
Speaker 1: the things that matter. This is what's important in this season.
Speaker 1: This is what I can't do anything about. Oh, this
Speaker 1: is the drama that I'm getting drawn into. You come
Speaker 1: from abundance. When you get clear in your heart with
Speaker 1: God in his presence about the priorities that He has
Speaker 1: for you, seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and
Speaker 1: all these.
Speaker 2: Things will be added to you as well.
Speaker 1: So the things that deplete you, the things that pull
Speaker 1: from you, the things that suck the blood out of
Speaker 1: your your very being, suck the happiness, suck the energy
Speaker 1: out of your life. All of those things that that
Speaker 1: make you feel like I can't do it, they're not
Speaker 1: all bad. Sometimes you just haven't made the decisions in
Speaker 1: your daily life and your weekly life.
Speaker 2: In the structure of your month and the structure of
Speaker 2: your year.
Speaker 1: You haven't made the decision yet to prioritize God's presence
Speaker 1: and to prioritize the purpose that He put you here for.
Speaker 1: So you can't come from abundance because let me say
Speaker 1: it one way that I said it in a sermon
Speaker 1: one time, It's not an issue of there not being
Speaker 1: enough resource. It's an issue of their not being.
Speaker 2: Clear enough priorities.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't have enough resources, but sometimes we don't
Speaker 1: have enough priorities. Putting God first means the things that
Speaker 1: he wants done. How do I know what he wants done?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: If I spend time in his word, I spend time
Speaker 1: paying attention, if I spend time asking the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: inside of me, let me see through your eyes, I'm
Speaker 1: going to know more times than not. And if I
Speaker 1: pay attention to my last mistake, I go ooh, correction, boom.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to get better at that as time
Speaker 1: goes on. And when I fail at it, I'm going
Speaker 1: to pick myself up and go, Okay, all right, maybe
Speaker 1: I hit that a little different last time.
Speaker 2: And you get this.
Speaker 1: You get this feeling from God when you're off track,
Speaker 1: don't you. It's like it's not getting you anywhere. Change
Speaker 1: change approach, you know, like change course. And I believe
Speaker 1: that priorities are a huge part of coming.
Speaker 2: From abundance.
Speaker 1: I believe that presence is a huge part of coming
Speaker 1: from abundance, not only your presence in the moment, but
Speaker 1: God's presence with you. I don't know if you understand
Speaker 1: what it means to have Christ in you. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you understand what that means, because I know
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm trying to find out what that means.
Speaker 1: The problem is, I got so much on me, sometimes
Speaker 1: pressure on me.
Speaker 2: That it keeps me.
Speaker 1: From fully accessing, acknowledging and acting in the power that
Speaker 1: I have in me, the presence of God in me,
Speaker 1: Christ in you. I think a lot of us are
Speaker 1: messed up by the language we learn, maybe as children
Speaker 1: or maybe later in life. But we say, ask Jesus
Speaker 1: in your heart. I think we have really gotten arrested
Speaker 1: development when it comes to what that means, because it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: ask Jesus to come into your heart.
Speaker 2: He'll save you.
Speaker 1: That's the way you explain it to a kid, because
Speaker 1: they can't understand salvation. I don't think that is an
Speaker 1: elementary thing to ask God for. I just think we
Speaker 1: have an elementary understanding from when he asked Jesus into
Speaker 1: your heart.
Speaker 2: When you say Christ be in me, you are in me.
Speaker 1: I thank you Lord for the Holy Spirit in me
Speaker 1: who that's powerful. Okay, that's not some playful little phrase
Speaker 1: that we teach a preschooler.
Speaker 2: That's powerful.
Speaker 1: So I want you to go from a preschool understanding
Speaker 1: of asking Jesus in your heart or having Jesus in your.
Speaker 2: Heart to a powerful understanding of that.
Speaker 1: Coming from abundance means I am not this needy person
Speaker 1: who needs to go around begging people for crumbson scraps
Speaker 1: all day. I am someone who has great need, but
Speaker 1: I have a greater God who lives and flows through me.
Speaker 1: I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Speaker 1: Why did Paul say it that way? Why didn't Paul
Speaker 1: just say you know, Christ can do all things through you?
Speaker 1: Because he wanted us to understand it. Will take our decision,
Speaker 1: our initiative, and watch this. This is the last one
Speaker 1: I want to give you for today. Proactive So priority presence,
Speaker 1: which also goes along with power. How do I come
Speaker 1: from abundance priority? I decide what doesn't get my attention,
Speaker 1: presence understanding God is with me in this moment, and
Speaker 1: then I got to be proactive. That means I have
Speaker 1: to call on Christ. Like Samson called remember last week
Speaker 1: in the Hollow Place when Samson was like he cried
Speaker 1: to the Lord God, are you.
Speaker 2: Gonna give me the victory?
Speaker 1: But you're gonna let me out of here with chapped
Speaker 1: lips and parched throat, die in this desert. And God's like,
Speaker 1: I just waiting on you to ask me. Boom, water
Speaker 1: came from the Hollow Place. That's how the Holy Spirit works.
Speaker 1: Ask for the Holy Spirit, Ask your Father for more flows.
Speaker 1: Ask and he will give you your joy and make it complete.
Speaker 1: You have asked nothing in his name up until now.
Speaker 1: He's waiting on you to ask and act in what
Speaker 1: you've asked. What good is it to ask God for
Speaker 1: something and not act in your belief.
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