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God's Word to sustain me | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | Nov 30th 2025

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  1. Father, we thank you for your word today. Thank you

  2. for the ministry of truth, the washing of our hearts,

  3. and the development of our inner man. We thank you

  4. for renewing our minds with wisdom from above and enabling

  5. us today to shed the wisdom from beneath. We give

  6. you the praise for it in Jesus' name, and everybody said, Amen, God,

  7. bless you.

  8. You may be seated.

  9. I want to talk a little bit about renewing our

  10. mind concerning financial well being today.

  11. So this is in the booklet that I.

  12. Gave out a few weeks ago where we talked about

  13. the tin trees of the heart garden. This is your

  14. heart garden right here, and so here it is and

  15. all of its glory, your heart garden. Typically there's ten

  16. trees in there. I put ten trees in there previously,

  17. but we're just going to focus on the one tree today,

  18. your financial well being. And I want to with the

  19. help of the Holy Spirit and then Holy Spirit just

  20. ministering to you. My hope is to wash our hearts

  21. a little bit today but also make a deposit of

  22. the Word of God in us so that we can

  23. be renewed further in our mind, be renewed further in

  24. our thoughts about financial well being. So one thing we

  25. know is that our financial well being, and I include

  26. on the New Creation House the New Creation worksheet, the

  27. prosperity of our household. So it's the prosperity of our

  28. household and depending on depending on our household. For instance,

  29. when all four children were actually Jasmine had already moved

  30. out for college. But when when all three of the

  31. boys were at home, our grocery bill, after after going

  32. through the food bank line every week, our grocery bill

  33. at the Wolf House was still over one thousand dollars

  34. a month. So how many of you know I needed

  35. some financial well being, right, And then there might be

  36. things you feel called to, like I felt, you know,

  37. for a while, we felt called that our children needed

  38. to be in private school. So there was a season

  39. where we felt very convicted about our children being in

  40. private school, so Christian school. We weren't being snobs, we

  41. were protecting our children, and so that was also another

  42. financial need, right. So what we know is that that

  43. there's some of these things that we need, and there's

  44. no argument that can remove the need. There's no even

  45. France's a CISI who took a vow of poverty. Guess

  46. what he still had to eat, He still had to

  47. change his robe, he still had needs. Everybody has needs,

  48. right and the needs that you have should relate to

  49. the vision of God over your life. That's why when

  50. you have, when you're provided for according to the word

  51. of God and the economy of God's thinking. When you're

  52. provided for, it's called provision. So because the pro that

  53. which is provided is supposed to relate to the fulfillment

  54. of the vision that God has over you. And the

  55. vision God has over you is related to your family,

  56. your calling, your.

  57. Church, what God has for you.

  58. I have a couple of millionaire friends and they inherited

  59. their wealth and they both inherited like nine million dollars

  60. from the family. When mom and Dad passed away. One

  61. of them chose to go into creating more wealth. The

  62. other one chose to go into government. So, and I

  63. say this just to say that God's provision for you

  64. is never to be worshiped. It's to be enjoyed, it's

  65. to be received. But provision is not Provision is what's

  66. provided for your vision, and His vision was government. Where

  67. we make a mistake sometimes is we make an idol

  68. out of money or mammon or sustenance or supply, where

  69. we exalted above what we're called to. So it's provision

  70. on purpose, and it's a vocation on purpose. Vocation in

  71. the original understanding of Scripture, means to be vocally called

  72. out for something in your generation by God. That's what

  73. it means. Vocation means to be vocally called. Actually, the

  74. voice of the Lord speaks over you to call you

  75. into something for your generation. And that's why it's called

  76. a vocation because it's God's voice that calls you. So

  77. you're vocally called. It's literally you should hear the voice

  78. of God concerning what you should do, and then God

  79. wants to pour out blessing on you. According to that vision,

  80. he wants to pour out a pro vision upon you

  81. so that you have fulfillment. Does that make sense? So

  82. this is in our heart garden. We can't escape it,

  83. we can't get away from it, but yet we don't

  84. need to. It's like God, it's not an unclean thing.

  85. It's what we surround our it's what we surrounded this

  86. with in order to fulfill it that becomes unclean. So

  87. it's not even money that is the root of evil.

  88. The Bible says, it's the love of money that is

  89. the root of evil. Right, So it's not it's not

  90. that this need is a problem. God knows that you

  91. have these needs, so it's not that need actually, And

  92. God wants to be the fulfiller. He wants to be

  93. the fulfiller so that he receives the glory, he receives

  94. the praise. He wants to be the fulfiller of this need.

  95. So that's you know, Matthew six thirty three. And it's

  96. just all sorts of scriptures. But what I want to

  97. what I want to go to a little bit, is

  98. I want to show you that from the very beginning

  99. that what God's ordained for you is actually abundance. So

  100. God has not ordained for you to have just enough,

  101. but what God has ordained for you is abundance. Okay,

  102. everybody say abundance. So we see this in the beginning

  103. in Eden. This is first of all in Eden. And

  104. when we see Eden, we see a picture of what

  105. God ordained for Adam, for Eve, but He's we see

  106. a picture of what He ordained for all of mankind.

  107. So Eden was a picture of what He ordained for

  108. all of mankind, and the blessing on Eden was to

  109. as they walked in righteousness with God, that blessing was

  110. supposed to go with them as they essentially heavenize the rest.

  111. Of the globe.

  112. So they were going to take the blessing of Eden

  113. out of Eden. And their assignment was to fill the earth.

  114. Remember the assignment to fill the earth. That was their

  115. assignment to fill the earth. And they were to fill

  116. fill the earth with the blessing of Eden. They would

  117. fill it out of intimacy with God, out of righteousness.

  118. That was theirs, because they were walking in righteousness, that is,

  119. they were in unity with God. There was no disagreement.

  120. They were in unity with God. It's unity with God.

  121. It's agreement with God that makes our heart rite with Him.

  122. That's righteousness. And so out of that righteousness, they were

  123. also covered with the glory of God. And they had

  124. the dread of God. So the dread of God was

  125. on them and the glory of God was on them.

  126. So this is what was common for Eden. And they

  127. had an abundance. There was no scarcity, there was no lack,

  128. there was no sickness, there was no disease, there was

  129. no thorns. There was no thistles. The earth was remade

  130. in fallenness. The earth was essentially subject to futility. And

  131. those things that were of the curse came after they

  132. were dismissed out of the garden of Eden. They were dismissed,

  133. and then two cherubim were set there to guard the

  134. entrance into the garden, and they were sent into what

  135. would become then scarcity for them. But then God immediately

  136. gives us a picture of Jesus, and this is God

  137. initiating abundance.

  138. Again.

  139. God wants to even in our fallenness, God is coming

  140. to us. We have this religious thinking that we have

  141. to talk God into blessing us. But from the very

  142. beginning God's been trying to talk us into receiving blessing.

  143. God has a greater level of blessing for you than

  144. you actually have a level of petition for so you're

  145. trying to talk God into blessing you. God's actually trying

  146. to initiate blessing. But we've been so conditioned with doubt,

  147. with unbelief, with the religiosity, and with the thinking of

  148. the demonic realm, that we can't accept the goodness of God.

  149. It's hard for us to receive the goodness of God.

  150. But immediately he comes to them and he sacrifices an animal,

  151. and he covers them with the skins of the animal,

  152. and that's the first blood sacrifice that makes them acceptable

  153. before him. And then that's the beginning of blood sacrifice.

  154. And every blood sacrifice, all the way to Abraham, all

  155. the way to Moses, all the way through to Jesus,

  156. every blood sacrifice is an atonement sacrifice. It's so Atonement

  157. is the word at one month, Atonement at one month,

  158. it means.

  159. That we're made through the sacrifice.

  160. Of the animal, through the shedding of the blood, we

  161. are made at one again with God. Our sins are

  162. out a side. They no longer obstruct us with God

  163. or before God. And that atonement, the blood of atonement.

  164. And every single one of those was the picture of Jesus.

  165. Every single blood sacrifice found its fulfillment in Jesus. Every

  166. single one of them pointed to Jesus. Every one of

  167. them were reaching forward into the final sacrifice. They were

  168. a prophetic picture that were reaching forward into this final

  169. sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the perfect, sinless, blameless,

  170. perfect Lamb of God. And that's why these animals had

  171. to look like they were the Lamb of God, because

  172. they were actually pictures of the Lamb of God. So

  173. they had to they had to be without blemish, they

  174. had to be a certain age, they had to have

  175. a certain look about them. This is all preparing the

  176. way for the one who will finally come, and he's

  177. coming to bring us into the family, all of us

  178. from every nation, so that we can all come into

  179. the blessing that God's ordained for us. Because God's trying

  180. to bless us. This is God initiating God initiating God,

  181. initiating God, initiating God chasing. God's chasing you today. He's

  182. chasing you. He's initiating a blessed relationship. This is part

  183. of how he shows his love to us. Right Mama Joel,

  184. she has something she says when the kids are loading dishes.

  185. When she hears the sounds of dishes going in the dishwasher,

  186. she says, Oh, that's my children telling me they love me.

  187. God's trying to tell you that he loves you in

  188. every blessing that he's making available, in every blessing he's

  189. pouring out on you, trying to tell you that he

  190. loves you. See, his love is not abstract. His love

  191. is not ethereal, it's not up in the sky somewhere.

  192. It's actually manifest in tangible ways by him pouring out

  193. blessings upon your life. So then in Genesis chapter twelve,

  194. he chases down this guy he likes him, and he

  195. finds this guy up in err of the Chaldies or

  196. up in Haran somewhere, and he finds this guy named Abram.

  197. Remember Abram. Now this is right after the Table of Nations.

  198. This is right after Babel. This is right after Babel,

  199. and Babel is right after the flood. So we have

  200. the flood, and we have God frustrated with humanity. Violence

  201. is filling the earth worse than every game you've ever

  202. seen that your children have played on a PlayStation. Violence

  203. is filling the earth. God is sorrowful that he's made

  204. me mad. He starts over with Noah, and then Noah's

  205. lineage continues, and then they disobey God and they make

  206. a tower. It was a cigarette. They were actually making

  207. a temple edifice to worship false God's false deities. And

  208. so God scatters them and he starts with a new nation,

  209. only one. He divides them into seventy nations. He divides

  210. them into seventy nations, and only one nation he keeps

  211. for himself, that's Israel. And so the nations are scattered.

  212. And right after that he goes and he finds Abram,

  213. and Abram will be the beginning of his nation. Abram

  214. will be the beginning of his nation. He's going to

  215. select one nation to lead into guide out of the

  216. seventy and the sixty nine are turned over to darkness.

  217. And so he finds Abram, and he says to him,

  218. leave your father, leave your household, leave your family, leave

  219. your nation, leave your tribe, leave what you've known, leave

  220. your idolatry, and follow me and co to the land

  221. that I will show you, and I will make you

  222. view a great nation, and I will bless you. And

  223. so Abraham does this. Now I want you to see this,

  224. because again this is God initiating and God setting something

  225. up where God wants to bless somebody. God wants to

  226. bless Abram. God wants to set him apart, and actually

  227. he makes Abram the superior king of the entire earth.

  228. Abram becomes the king of the earth, and the Bible

  229. goes on to say some crazy things about Abram, whether

  230. you like it or not. And I don't know if

  231. you like it. Some of us are deep in religion

  232. and so we don't like stuff. But the Bible says

  233. some interesting things about Abram. For instance, in Genesis twenty

  234. four to thirty five that says, the Lord greatly blessed

  235. my master Abram or Abraham, so that he has become rich.

  236. He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and

  237. golden servants. God blessed Abram and made him rich. Abram

  238. was God's covenant man in the earth. He was the

  239. superior cove and he was the founder, the beginner of

  240. what we know as the patriarchs. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

  241. are the spiritual patriarchs of Israel and the spiritual patriarchs

  242. of our lineage as well. And i'll read that to

  243. you in a minute. And then Genesis fourteen twenty three,

  244. when Abram was offered the plunder from five kings that

  245. he routed and overtook on his own with his own army,

  246. so to speak. When he was offered that, he said,

  247. I will accept nothing that belongs to you, not a

  248. thread or a strap of a sandal, so that you

  249. will never be able to say I made Abram rich.

  250. So Abraham was very passionate about his allegiance to God,

  251. and he was dependent upon God. But he was seeing

  252. that God was keeping his covenant. God said, I will

  253. bless you, and I will make you a great blessing.

  254. And God was faithful to that. And as Abraham walked

  255. in covenant before him and believed God, then God credited

  256. to him that faith as righteousness, and righteousness qualifies you

  257. for Eden. Righteousness will always qualify you for Eden.

  258. And so then we go a little further.

  259. Down the line and we get into Isaac and Jacob,

  260. and then eventually Jacob has a son named Joseph, and

  261. Joseph is the favor of God, the rescuer of God.

  262. He's another picture. There's just pictures all the way through this.

  263. The Old Testament is filled with pictures of provision, the

  264. vision of God and the pro vision for the vision.

  265. The Old Testament is still full of this on purpose,

  266. so that we would trust God, so that we'd rely

  267. upon him, so that essentially we would leave the carnal behind,

  268. that we would leave the demonic behind, that we would

  269. leave the Idolatrus behind, that we would leave the darkness,

  270. that we would leave false doctrines behind, and that we

  271. would fully trust God with our finances, with our financial

  272. well being, with our household, and with all that God

  273. has put on our heart. This is what God wants

  274. to do. Right, Hello, somebody over here. We got error,

  275. and then we got aggressive aggressive demons, and then we

  276. have oppressive demons. Oppressive demons. We have oppressive mindsets, mindsets,

  277. we have aggressive mindsets, spirits demons, and then we have

  278. doctrinal error. We have that too, right, we have Okay,

  279. so let's get to that. But let's go here. Let's

  280. go We got Joseph. Let's go to Joseph. And when

  281. Joseph gets down to the land of Egypt.

  282. We thought that it was a bad thing.

  283. That he was sold into slavery and all this bad

  284. stuff's going on. But there's a famine coming, and God,

  285. in his fore knowledge knew there was a famine coming,

  286. and so God was actually sending Joseph forward through events

  287. that the enemy thought were dampening or sabotaging the favored one.

  288. The enemy thought he had Joseph. The enemy thought that

  289. he was suppressing Joseph. The enemy thought that he was

  290. taking Joseph out because the enemy saw favor on Joseph.

  291. He was the favored son of Jacob. He was the

  292. lineage of Jacob and the lineage of the Messiah, and

  293. so the enemy was after him. Right. But he gets

  294. down into Egypt, here comes the famine, and then Joseph

  295. like it opens up Jacob for provision. And so Jacob

  296. and all the brothers, all of Israel. Jacob's name has

  297. been changed now from remember Jacob's name what it means.

  298. It means trickster, deceiver's supplanter. God encounters him and changes

  299. his name to Israel, which means prince with God. Isaiah

  300. sixty says that God has given.

  301. You a name change.

  302. Isaiah sixty one, sixteen and sixty one says, God is

  303. changing our name. He's going to give us a new name.

  304. You wear a new name. Christian is a new name.

  305. And this name is anointed one. You're an anointed one,

  306. You're a favored one, You're a blessed one. So God

  307. changes Jacob's name. He's no longer going to rely on tricking.

  308. This is aggressive trickster tricks. Okay, different than trick or

  309. treat tricks. That's an aggressive mindset, sleight of hand, deception. Right,

  310. these are the old these are the old tricks. And

  311. actually this is.

  312. How good God is.

  313. Right, Jacob had relied on all of this stuff, and

  314. God still loved him, and God still pursued him, and

  315. God still corrected him, and God still met him, and

  316. God still desired him, and God didn't reject him in

  317. all of your stupidities, God's not rejecting you. God's trying

  318. to help you. God's trying to lead you. Now. The

  319. enemy wants you to think that you're disqualified, disqualified, okay,

  320. the enemy wants to think. He wants you to think that.

  321. You've done too much, too much, too.

  322. Many sins, too many mess ups, too many screw ups.

  323. It's over for you.

  324. No, no, no, no, that's a doctrinal air.

  325. God loves you as much as he did.

  326. Jacob was a complete trickster and deceiver and caniver. But

  327. God meets him and he says, you think you've been

  328. wealthy so far, you think you've a mess and herds

  329. so far, you think you've been blessed so far, you

  330. haven't seen nothing yet. Watch wait till you see what

  331. I'm gonna do with you now. But first I'm gonna

  332. break your heart and change your nature. First, I'm gonna

  333. lay hold of you and change your name. You're no

  334. longer gonna rely on deception, trickery and lying and sheeting.

  335. You're no longer gonna rely on those old aggressive patterns.

  336. You're gonna rely on me fully and wish you as

  337. you do. Then God is gonna, I'm gonna blow this

  338. thing up. And you know what he was trying to do.

  339. He was trying to fulfill the promise that he made

  340. the Abraham. It's Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And God is

  341. passionate that all of the lineage abides in and enjoys

  342. the same blessing as the fountain head. The fountain head

  343. was Abraham, and God wants everyone in the lineage to

  344. enjoy the same blessing as the fountain head. And so

  345. this is what he's doing with Jacob. So he changes

  346. his name, and so Jacob and all of them go

  347. down to Egypt, and Joseph is down there preparing the way.

  348. And guess where they go. They go to the land

  349. of Goshen. Now it says in the Bible that the

  350. land of Goshen looked just like Eden.

  351. This is the biblical pattern.

  352. And then some bad guys rise up in Egypt and

  353. they don't know Joseph, and so then they put him

  354. in bondage, and there's all this bad stuff going on,

  355. and God says, you're not gonna get my kids. You're

  356. not gonna oppress my kids. You're not gonna beat up

  357. my kids. You're not gonna harm my kids. I'm gonna

  358. deliver them out of there. I'm gonna take them to

  359. the land I promised them. When did he make a promise, Well,

  360. when Abram first shows up. Abram shows up where God

  361. leads him, and God leads him to a place like Eden.

  362. Look in the scripture. God leads him to a place

  363. that was like Eden. And then he says, Abram, lift

  364. up your eyes, and as far as you can see,

  365. I'm giving you this land. This will be your territory.

  366. This is your land, Abram. And so he lifts up

  367. his eyes. He looked north, and he looks south, and

  368. he looks east and west. And then they made that

  369. their boundaries. And God brought them back to that land

  370. that was the promised land. And though the enemy had

  371. come and invaded the Promised Land. Seven nations had come

  372. and taken over the Promised Land. God said, that's okay.

  373. We'll just let them build all the houses. We'll let

  374. them plant all the vineyards. Listen, do you think he

  375. loves you as much as he does or did the Israelites?

  376. Does he love you as much as he does or

  377. did the Israelites? Is anybody loved as much as he

  378. did love Jacob and Isaac and Abra anybody in the room. Well,

  379. can't you see what God does? God is so amazing.

  380. God says, I'm just gonna those seven nations. They are

  381. doomed to destruction. They are children of wrath, they are

  382. under unclean deities. But we're just gonna let them work.

  383. We're gonna let them build up the land and plant

  384. a bunch of vineyards and build a bunch of houses.

  385. And then you're gonna go in and you're gonna possess

  386. that land and you won't even need to fight.

  387. Just pretend that you're fighting. Just pretend that you're fighting.

  388. And if you'll just come in by faith and pretend

  389. you're fighting and work with me, then all ringing down

  390. some hailstones that are about this big and just disperse

  391. those guys out of there. And then I'll just cause

  392. the walls to just fall over, and they won't just

  393. fall over, they'll actually disappear, and you'll just go in.

  394. All you really need to do is on the seventh day,

  395. just like shout, really good would you?

  396. This is what God does.

  397. Oh, but God doesn't prosper us. You know those promises,

  398. that's for in heaven. When we get to heaven. Get

  399. to heaven, another doctor on later, Well, that's when we'll

  400. have blessings when we get to heaven. I got news

  401. for you. You don't need any blessings when you get

  402. to heaven. You don't need gold, you don't need silver,

  403. you don't even need a good thought.

  404. You need nothing when you get to heaven.

  405. You're gonna have it all when you get to heaven.

  406. This is God working now because he loves you now.

  407. He wants to bless you now, and you're the ones

  408. now He's chowsen to heavenizes the earth with you are

  409. the new atom, and so he takes them to this

  410. promised Land. I remember there's some things that happen with

  411. the Promised Land. You got to remember a few things, like,

  412. for one thing is that we have to wrap our

  413. head around abundance. It's really hard for us to wrap

  414. our head around abundance, and so we don't really want

  415. to believe for abundance because we think that's not godly.

  416. It's not godly to believe for abundance. Even though Jesus

  417. said in John ten ten, I have come to give

  418. you life and life more abundantly. We spiritualize that what

  419. we mean is God is going to in the midst

  420. of my crawd God's going to give me a happy heart.

  421. Have you had a happy heart in the midst of

  422. your crud lately? It's actually hard to have a happy

  423. heart in the midst of your crowd unless if you

  424. had not believed. This is what David said. If I

  425. had not have believed that I would see the goodness

  426. of God in the land of the living, my heart

  427. would have failed me. My heart would have fainted. If

  428. I had not have believed that I would see the

  429. goodness of God in the land of the living. No, no, no,

  430. God does not want you to have a happy heart

  431. and then believe for a life of misery. God is

  432. actually trying to get blessing to you. Trying to get

  433. provision to you, trying.

  434. To get hope to you.

  435. He said over Israel Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. We've all

  436. memorized it.

  437. I know the hope I have for you.

  438. Hope to bless you, hope to prosper you, hope to

  439. give you a future. Yes, he said that to him

  440. when they were sinning. He said that to him when

  441. they had failed. He said that to him when they

  442. were messed up. But he said, you know what I'm

  443. gonna I got to tell you my heart. You might

  444. be struggling with your heart now, but I'm going to

  445. tell you what my heart is. My heart is I

  446. have hope for you. And this is the heart of

  447. God over every generation. So he takes him into the

  448. Promised Land. Now, those of us that struggle with abundance,

  449. we want to live in the wilderness, because remember what happened.

  450. The promised land over here is a land of abundance.

  451. The Promised Land is a picture of salvation. It's such

  452. a picture of salvation that the guy that takes him

  453. in is Joshua. That's the Hebrew name for Jesus. The

  454. guy that takes the men is Joshua. That's the hebret

  455. in for Jesus. Moses couldn't take them in. It wasn't

  456. because Moses was unholy. The law can never take you

  457. into the Promised Land. A do good life can never

  458. take you into the Promised Land. Trusting only in Jesus

  459. and in his righteousness and walking in unity with Jesus

  460. is the only thing that can take you into your

  461. promised land. So Joshua is ordained to take him into

  462. the Promised Land. And you'll notice he has to deal

  463. with those that have been wondering. They were wandering around

  464. the same mountain for forty years. They were wondering due

  465. to unbelief. They wouldn't believe they could go in and

  466. inherit the Promised Land. They didn't believe the Promised Land

  467. was for them. They didn't believe God could actually put

  468. these enemies under their feet and give them the Promised Land.

  469. And so they couldn't have it through unbelief.

  470. So, if you are happy in your unbelief, then they

  471. still had enough. How many Christians still have enough? Wow?

  472. Today?

  473. Somebody has needs today, somebody has needs. There's people all

  474. around us with needs. But you can't be a minister

  475. to that need. If you just have enough, you're consumed

  476. with holding on to what you have because you only

  477. have just enough. But God has ordained the Promised Land

  478. for you, which is more than enough, and he gave

  479. you a picture of it and told you all about it.

  480. And yet we still struggle to believe that this is

  481. God's will and purpose and desire for us. This is

  482. so much a perfect picture of New Testament liberty and

  483. abundance and grace that when they cross have heard me

  484. say this before, biaus love its I'll just say it again.

  485. When they crossed over the Jordan River, he stopped the

  486. river at a town called Adam. It's in the scripture.

  487. Would he why would he do? You can't make this

  488. stuff up. Why would he stop the river at a

  489. town called Adam? Because he was rolling the curse back

  490. all the way to Adam for them. As they went

  491. into the Promised Land, they were going into the land

  492. of milk and honey. And the wilderness period was a

  493. period of just having enough. They didn't have more than enough,

  494. they just had enough. So if that's what you're believing

  495. for you're in a wilderness. God calls God calls just

  496. enough a wilderness. Hello, somebody. So he wants us to

  497. believe for more. I want to read you a few scriptures,

  498. and we'll look at a couple scriptures together and to

  499. see if we can back some of this up with

  500. the word glory to God. Genesis chapter twelve, one and two.

  501. Then the Lord said that Abram, go from your country,

  502. your people, and your father's household to the land I

  503. will show you. Remember, he's beginning a new nation. This

  504. is immediately following the Table of Nations. We call it

  505. the Table of Nations, the dividing of the nations. This

  506. is Genesis twelve, the dividing of the nations tower a

  507. babble Genesis eleven. So now he's making a new nation

  508. with Abram. And I will make you into a great nation,

  509. and I will bless you, and I will make your

  510. name great, and you will be a blessing God has God,

  511. and we're going to read it in a moment. God

  512. has actually woven you into the lineage of Abraham through Christ.

  513. Christ was the promised seed of Abraham. Christ was the

  514. promised seed of Abraham. And God has woven you into

  515. Abraham and brought you into the Abraham a promise, not

  516. that you would only be blessed, but you actually have

  517. been ordained to be a blessing. It's through you the

  518. blessing is supposed to flow. It's not through government. It's

  519. not through welfare. It's not through social security. It's not

  520. through this, that or the other thing. It's not through sinners.

  521. It's not through Google. It's not through bitcoin billionaires. It

  522. is through you, the Church that blessing is to flow.

  523. Because you are the blessed nation. You are the heir

  524. of Abraham. I will make you your name great, you

  525. will be, and you will be a blessing. I will

  526. bless this who bless you, and whoever curses you, I

  527. will also curse. And all people on earth will be

  528. blessed through through you. Wow, You're a walking Christmas stream.

  529. Come on, somebody, Uh uh, look at uh, look at

  530. look at Galatians Street. Let's go to Glatians Stree. I'll

  531. read the I'll read the collaborative verses to him. Therefore,

  532. know that only those who are of the faith are

  533. sons of Abraham or daughters daughters of Abraham. And the Scripture,

  534. foreseeing that God would justify the gentile nations every other nation.

  535. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by

  536. faith preached the Gospel to Abraham.

  537. He was preaching the Gospel.

  538. To Abraham beforehand. Now the word gospel, remember what it means.

  539. We've heard recently right here from this pulpit. The gospel

  540. means good news, good news, good news. He preached beforehand

  541. the gospel, saying, in you, all the nations shall be blessed.

  542. In You, all the nations shall be blessed. So then

  543. those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

  544. Did you hear that.

  545. Those who are of faith in Christ? Now the whole

  546. text is even better than this. The whole text is

  547. better than what I'm reading. I'm just picking out seven

  548. through fourteen. But those who believe, are you a believer

  549. in the building this morning, any believers in the building

  550. any believers shouting in their living room on camera this morning?

  551. Those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

  552. For as many rely upon the works of the Law,

  553. they are under a curse. For it is written, cursed

  554. is everyone who does not continue in everything written in

  555. the book of the Law, so that no one is

  556. justified by the law and the sight of God. It's evident,

  557. for the just shall live by faith. Yet the law

  558. is not of faith. The man who does them lives

  559. by them. So Christ has redeemed us from the curse

  560. of the law, having become a curse for us.

  561. For cursed.

  562. It is everyone who hangs on a tree that the

  563. blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ,

  564. Jesus the blessing that the blessing of Abraham might come

  565. upon the gentiles.

  566. Church.

  567. You don't have to pray for this. You don't have

  568. to pray for this. You how many hours have we

  569. spent in petition asking God to bless us because we

  570. didn't feel worthy. We didn't know if he wanted to.

  571. We didn't know if it was his will. Come on,

  572. We got if it be thy will, prayers all over

  573. the world. Oh bless me, if it be thy will.

  574. He made up his mind. He already made up his mind.

  575. His will was.

  576. Already set forth.

  577. He already revealed his will in Christ.

  578. Jesus.

  579. Christ was the fulfillment of the promise made the Abraham.

  580. And everyone who believes on Christ is qualified for the

  581. blessing of Abraham. Everyone who believes on Jesus Christ is qualified.

  582. Now the enemy wants to come along with accusation. That's

  583. another category we got accusation over here. Accusation can lead

  584. to aggressive mindsets or oppressive mindsets.

  585. I'm just a.

  586. Worm, I'm rejected, I'm an orphan. My parents aren't rich,

  587. I'm from the wrong tribe. I don't have enough talent, education,

  588. too many sins. So we can partner with that too.

  589. We can partner with oppressive mindsets and destroy what God

  590. wants to. Essentially, we're putting up roadblocks to the blessing.

  591. We're coming into agreement with roadblocks to the blessing. Doesn't

  592. change God mind. God still wants to bless us like

  593. he did Jacob. He wants to pin us down somewhere,

  594. maybe in a prayer meeting. Jacob was in some kind

  595. of a prayer meeting, all right. He laid his head

  596. on a rock, and then he started having a vision,

  597. and in the vision, angels were ascending and descending. He

  598. moved into a prayer meeting. That's one of the spots

  599. where he met God. God met him. God's trying to

  600. meet us and talk us out of our old mindsets.

  601. But what we need, we need the word of God.

  602. We need the word of the Word of God. When

  603. we learn God's will, I don't need to pray if

  604. it be Thy will bless me, I don't need to

  605. pray if it be Thy will favor me. I don't

  606. need to pray. If it be Thy will, go before

  607. me with your glory this week. God's already decided to

  608. do that stuff. What we need is a lot more

  609. receiving prayers. Send with me this morning, receiving prayers. What

  610. would happen if you shift from petition and whatever the

  611. enemy's been telling you, and however he's been holding you up,

  612. and however he's been sabotaging you. What have you shifted

  613. from petition into thanksgiving and into acknowledgment. Father, I thank

  614. you you're going before me this week. I thank you

  615. that I have favor going out and coming in.

  616. Father.

  617. I thank you that your glory is on me, that

  618. the glory you gave to Jesus you've.

  619. Given to me.

  620. Father, I thank you that that glory goes before me.

  621. I thank you the dread of the Lord is on

  622. my enemies. I thank you that wherever I go, I'm

  623. just acknowledging before you that I'm your favorite son. I'm

  624. your favorite daughter, and wherever I go, you're orchestrating good

  625. for me. You're leading me in paths of righteousness. There's

  626. enemies that might show up, but you know what, you

  627. prepare a table for me in the midst of my enemies.

  628. I'm just thinking you that right now, you're going before

  629. me by your foreknowledge Holy Spirit. You see sabotaging plans,

  630. you see enemies, you see difficulties, you see storms and troubles,

  631. and I just agree that you're going before me to

  632. create a table of increase for me in the midst

  633. of my enemies. Actually, the plans that they're setting for

  634. me in the traps, they are going to be put

  635. to shame. It's going to be embarrassing what happens for

  636. them when they see that in the midst of their plan,

  637. you prepared a table for me, in the midst of

  638. my enemies. That's Psalm twenty three. It's your palm prayer

  639. team as you come, and just I want to close

  640. by letting the prayer team just be available.

  641. We're going to.

  642. Close with the worship that if you need to shed

  643. something this morning before you leave, some wrong thinking, some

  644. doctors error, some oppression, some methodology that you've been working with.

  645. Just come and leave it here.

  646. Leave it here in prayer with somebody, or just come

  647. on your own and leave something here. Don't go as

  648. you came in, but leave something here to embrace the

  649. renewal of your mind, the washing of the water of

  650. your word. And leave here today lifted, built up, strengthened,

  651. knowing God is for you. God is pursuing you. He's

  652. overtaking you with blessings. He's giving you the power to

  653. create wealth Deuteronomy eight eighteen, to prove that you have

  654. a covenant with him. Father, we thank you for this

  655. day and for your hand upon our lives, for your

  656. increase in your kindness in Jesus' name. And everybody said