Kingdom Increase - Always Advancing with Pastor Mike Krulcik

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Now enjoy this message. This is one of our Saints at

Anchor Faith Church always advancing.

So one of the sayings we have in Anchor Faith Church is we're

always advancing. You know, God is a God of

increase. We serve a great God who wants

to do great things through his great people.

We serve a great God who desires to do great things through his

great redeemed people. We serve a great, large,

magnificent God who wants to do great things or great works

through his great people. That's you.

Say, that's me. Say I'm a child of God.

Say I'm in the Kingdom and the Kingdom's in me and God wants to

do great things through me. That's going to take increase

though, and advancement. And God, you know, God is not

stationary, He's not static. We serve a dynamic God with a

song we sung. He's always working, He's always

moving, He's always advancing. We could say it that way.

Now, advancing means this. It means to accelerate, to make

progress, to grow, and to move forward and rise.

And when we say always, that means you're perpetually an

ongoing advancing. So advance means to accelerate,

make progress, to grow, to move forward, and to rise.

And this is the will of the Father in your life.

He wants to see acceleration in your life.

He wants to see progress in your life.

He wants to see you grow. He wants to see you move

forward, and he wants to see you rise.

This is the will of God for you is to always advance.

Now there is a hindrance to advancement.

Matter of fact, the greatest hindrance to advancement is a

thing called pride. The greatest hindrance to

advancement is pride. And I'll say this, don't take

credit for advancement. All the glory goes to God.

We never take credit for advancement.

It's God's will, but ultimately all the glory goes to God.

Deuteronomy chapter 8 is a delicious chapter.

Deuteronomy 8 · chapter mention

I want to take one verse, but if you read that one of the themes

in Deuteronomy 8 is don't forget, don't forget, don't

forget. We could say this way in the

positive, remember, recall, bring to mind what God has done

for you. I can, I can think back to when

my journey started in 1997 when I gave my life to the Lord of

many great things that God has done.

I can recall to remembrance a testimony.

Testimony is what God has done in my life, and we want to

remember those things. God has done some great things

in my life personally, but it's not me.

It's Him and His Word and His anointing working through me.

It's me working out the principles and the keys to the

Kingdom consistently that manifests results.

But it's all the glory to God. And pride will keep you from

advancing. So the opposite of pride is

humility. Matter of fact, the Bible gives

a promise. It says if you humble yourself,

and there's two ways you can have humility.

One, you can humble yourself, or secondly, God can humble you.

Either way you're going to be humbled.

But it says that before a fall is pride, but before it a

promotion or increase is humility.

So we need to remain teachable. We need to remain teachable.

Isaiah the prophet said it this way.

He said that God is the Potter and we are the clay and an

unteachable person, and we are called to be disciples, which

means we need instruction. A disciple desires to be taught.

And Isaiah said this. He's the Potter.

We're the clay, which means we need to have humility in order

for God to shape us and instruct us.

I'll say this way, you can't mold dry clay.

And a proud person thinks they know it all and therefore God

can't shape or mold their life 'cause there's no water, there's

no humility in their life to be shaped, to be molded by God.

Learning is a lifelong process. We are enrolled in the Kingdom

educational system. It didn't say you're going to be

a disciple for one year, five years, 10 years.

You were called to be a disciple for life.

So we're in a if you always want to advance, then you always need

to want to be taught. Matter of fact, the Holy Spirit

is called the one of his characteristics is called the

teacher. He brings to remembrance the

word of God to us. And why 'cause God so loves you

that He's got a great life for you and wants great things for

you, but you have to follow His instructions in His plan.

If you don't follow his instructions in His plan, you're

going to have an unblessed, we'll say this way, cursed life

outside of the purpose, plan and pursuit of God, what He has for

you. So I'll say this, it's what you

learn after you know everything that counts.

And to learn you must want to be taught.

Do you want to be taught tonight?

I'll say some scriptures that you may have heard several

times, but are you listening like it's the first time?

Are you hungry? Are you ready to receive and get

everything that God has for you in this service?

It's not up to me. It's up to you to draw on and

receive from the Word of God tonight and the anointing of God

tonight. God will meet every need in your

life if you listen and obey. And God has some things to

instruct us in tonight. So to learn you must want to be

taught. And to be taught you have to

admit that you don't know it all and everything you know you've

been taught, but you've not been taught everything.

So we're in a perpetual state of always learning and growing.

If we're always going to be advancing in the Kingdom of God

and God wants to increase us. God desires to take us like it

says in Romans 117, from faith to faith.

In in 2nd Corinthians 3, it says He wants to take us from glory

to glory. So God has great things in store

for us, but we need to make sure we strip away pride, stay humble

and hungry and say, God, I'm a clean slate today.

Download, impart, instruct. I will listen, I will obey

because I know your plan is the best plan.

Your commandments are the best way, the best life.

And I want to, I want to do what this vision says, ignite this

city, impact the nation and influence the world.

And in order to do that, I need some instruction.

Father, I need your word in my life.

So I'm hungry to learn. And the other thing, don't let

let the past hinder your advancement.

Any failures, any disappointments, any setbacks,

any circumstances, Don't let that.

Don't let that dictate or dominate.

Right now. It's in your power of choice to

say, listen, maybe you blew it, maybe you messed up.

There's a there's a word in the Kingdom though.

It's called repentance, and thank God, a real man and a real

woman of God is going to take personal responsibility if they

miss the mark. God has a solution.

It's called repentance and a real man, a real woman is going

to respond to that truth and say, Father, I missed it.

I ask for your forgiveness. And I want to move forward.

I want to grow, I want to make progress.

So forgive me of that. Unforgiveness will hinder your

advancement if you choose not to forgive.

And there's 3 dimensions of forgiveness.

Number one, you need to ask God to forgive you.

You know there's sins of Commission, meaning sins that

you commit. Easy, right?

Adultery could be a sin of Commission, murder, right?

Theft. But then there's sins of

omission. You know what to do, but you

don't do it like worry. Hello, that's a sin.

Are you with me? Anxiety that can hinder

advancement. And you got to look at that as a

sin just as much as you would murder or adultery and say,

Lord, you don't want that in my life.

Isaiah 26 three says perfect peace will he give whose mind is

stayed on him. Philippians chapter 4 verse #6

Philippians 4 · chapter mention

says be anxious about some things.

I'm just seeing if you're paying attention.

It says be anxious about nothing.

I like the amplified says don't worry, don't fret, right?

I can meddle in the marriage covenant right now on the sins

of omission. Like men doing the dishes,

Hallelujah, you can say Amen O me.

Vacuum in a rug, men. Hallelujah, folding the laundry.

How sexy is that? Hallelujah.

Well, I'm not committing adultery on my wife yet, but

what are you omitting if he wants your marriage to increase

and progress and grow? So repentance is pivotal in the

Kingdom of God. The Bible's a wonderful book, 66

books of just Power Pack truth that'll transform a life and

hook you up with your destiny and always keep you advancing.

I love Genesis 'cause it shows the birth of a nation.

Exodus shows the deliverance of a nation.

Leviticus shows the sanctification of a nation.

Number shows the journeys and we're on a journey.

He that began a good work in you once to complete it.

There's a purpose and an assignment and number shows us

the journeys of the nation. Deuteronomy, which I quoted

chapter 8. I want to give you one verse out

of that in just a second, but that's a retelling of the law.

That's instructions. If you read Deuteronomy, do the

book of Deuteronomy, it's a retelling because we don't get

everything the first time. We do not get everything the

first time. That's why you taking notes and

reviewing is so pivotal to your growth and advancement because

it'll help you retain and remember what was instructed.

But then I love the book of Joshua 'cause that's the

possession of a promised life. So the Bible was wonderful.

We see the children of God in Exodus in a land called Egypt.

Now, Egypt is a typology for us today, which means this.

It's a land of bondage where Pharaoh was king and the

children of Israel were in bondage.

And you realize there's some believers that have made

covenant with God, but the devil still has rule in their life.

Whether it's sins of Commission or omission, there's still some

kind of bondage. And I got good news for you

tonight. God wants to set you free.

God wants you delivered. God doesn't want you in a vice

grip, or in shackles or in chains.

God's will is for you to be free, unhindered, unfettered,

Unchained, to run with the purpose.

Hebrews chapter 12 says it this way.

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Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

stripping off any weight or sin that so easily besets us.

And you know what? In Egypt, that's a land of not

enough, and that's not advancement.

When you don't have enough, guess what?

You can't do anything. You may want to give, but you

can't give. You may want to pray for healing

for somebody, but you may not feel worthy because you're

barely healed. God does not want you there.

So what's he do? He takes him out of Egypt

through the man Moses who brings deliverance.

He said, I'm taking you out to bring you into a land.

So he takes him out of Egypt. And they go through a place

called the wilderness. So they get delivered from

Pharaoh and his rule from the House of bondage, but they're in

the wilderness. And Deuteronomy 8 talks about

the wilderness. He said, I LED you through the

wilderness to test you read the whole chapter, Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 8 · chapter mention

chapter 8. I'll give you verse 18 right now

because I want to key in on that with what God has assigned for

us tonight. Deuteronomy 818 says this.

And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives

you the power to get wealth. Hallelujah that He may establish

His covenant, which He swore to your Father's.

As it is this day. Now, I got downright ticked off

yesterday. I did 'cause I believe the

Bible. Do you believe the Word?

So I'm read in Deuteronomy 28. First of all, I don't.

The curses outweigh the blessing.

That bugs me, but I'm reading things in Deuteronomy chapter 28

Deuteronomy 28 · chapter mention

and talking with people and counseling with people.

I thought, Lord, there's more, there's more.

I read this verse. It said that the children of

Israel shall be the lender and not the borrower.

I said, Lord, why are Christians?

Why are we not there? Your word says it.

What are we not connecting? What are we ignorant of?

What are we too prideful about? What are we too worldly minded

in that we're not functioning in this.

There's many other things in there I thought, and some of

these things I I could say, Lord, this is in my life.

Glory to God, your word is true. And some things I'm like, OK,

I'm not there yet, but I want to advance to that Lord, I want to

be in a place in a position that I could lend and I want to do it

your way. I was reading last week that the

children of Israel, they, they had a, a borrowing law or a

lending law which says you could borrow to, you could lend to

fellow Israelites and not charge them interest.

Now, if it's a foreigner, guess what?

Those outside of covenant, go ahead and make some money off

that. Charge him 8%.

God's got a wonderful economic plan.

Hallelujah. So in Deuteronomy though, he

says, I brought you through the wilderness.

The wilderness has landed just enough.

You are barely getting by. Listen, this life is a journey.

I I guarantee you this cause the word of God does not fail, it

does not return void. It always accomplishes what he,

he said. Now we live in a microwave

society. We live in A10 items or less

matter of fact, it's worse than 10 items or less.

Now it's Instacart, it's Grubhub, it's DoorDash, right?

Don't let the world intermix with the culture of the Kingdom.

Don't let the world intermix with the culture of the Kingdom.

There's a thing called faith and patience in the Bible.

I remember when Angie and I had our two sons in the house.

We were in the wilderness financially.

Lord, I've repented of this, 'cause this was a, you know,

ignorance will kill you. But I remember going to

McDonald's. Now, those that are still eating

there, I'm not judging you. I just have a conviction if a

fry has a shelf life of 15 years because it's under your seat

that you dropped, It's been sitting there and it still looks

golden brown. I remember they used to, they

probably don't have this anymore.

We used to go through. Then they had the dollar menu.

Do you remember that? So we tell Mike and Jacob guests

we were so tight. We said you guys get four things

off of that dollar menu. So it's usually like an apple

pie, 2 cheeseburgers and a fry. Hallelujah that that was just

enough. For $8 we could feed those boys,

but it was just enough. I mean, we weren't going to

Longhorns and we surely weren't going to Ruth's Chris 'cause we

had just enough. But guess what?

We keep working the principles which I'm going to give you.

We kept on applying it, and God has brought us into a land of

more than enough. So the wilderness is just

enough. But God wants to bring every

believer to the land called Canaan land.

Canaan land is still a reality in the New Testament.

You can read 1st Corinthians 10. It says everything in the Old

Testament was an end sample or an example for us.

So they literally live this out. But there's also things we can

learn from their journey there. Listen, I said pride will get in

the way of advancement and we want to be taught.

There are things that we can learn from them so we can

continue to advance. And God, God said, I want to

bring you out to bring you in. Well, here's the sad indictment.

Do you realize that even though God wanted to do that, many of

them died in the wilderness. And I, I know this God's heart

tonight for you as I'm instructing you is not for you

to die in the wilderness. God has greater things in store

for you than that. But even though God has that in

store, guess what? People are still going to make

choices, and those choices are going to have consequences

whether you're going to have God's best or whether you're

going to be mediocre or whether you live in failure.

God's no respecter of persons. He's got great, great store,

great things in store for everybody in this sanctuary

tonight, but it's up for you to submit and commit to him and

continue to grow and take this journey seriously.

The Canaan land is a land of more than enough.

John 1010 really is the reality of Canaan land as Jesus quotes

it. He said I came to give you life

and to give it to you more abundantly.

I came to give you life and to give it to you more abundantly.

One translation says I came to give you a rich and a satisfying

life. Now I had the media team put

this up. There's a thread what I mean

scriptures that you can track of this land that God started

talking about. So Genesis 12 chapter one, you

can write this down. I'm not going to read everyone,

but God starts talking about Abraham, about the land in

Genesis chapter 12. You'll see it in Genesis 1315.

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You'll see it in Genesis 15, seven.

You'll see it in Genesis 5024, you'll see it in Exodus 68.

And then you'll I like Leviticus chapter 2024 because God goes

into more description about this land and I'll read Leviticus

2024. It says this, but I have said to

you, you shall not inherit the land.

You shout in here at the land. I will give it to you to

possess. Now listen to what God says

about this land. It's a land flowing with milk

and honey. This is Canaan land.

He said, I'm taking you out of Egypt.

I'm going to take you through the wilderness.

Listen, this journey is a process.

All of us go through the wilderness.

All of us go through the wilderness.

You going to shout in the wilderness?

You going to be grateful in the wilderness?

You going to be thankful in the wilderness?

You going to remind, remind God of his promises in the

wilderness. Murmuring and complaining will

hinder advancement. If you start griping, you start

complaining. What you need to do is Lord, you

said this, I have faith, I have love, I have hope and things are

going to change. Things are going to get better.

I know that because I'm lining up with your instruction.

So he said it's a land flowing with milk and honey.

Now the amplified as a footnote says this about milk and honey.

I'll say this right now since I have the podium and pastor can

correct me Sunday and y'all can tell him because we have our

differences when it comes to how to drink coffee.

He says you should drink it black.

That's God's original intent. I go to Leviticus 2024 and I

said it's coffee with milk and honey.

Matter of fact, I'll give let everything be confirmed by two

or three. He made darkness into light.

OK, we'll see what his rebuttal is and I will humble myself.

But the amplified says this. This phrase referred to the

abundant. Think about your life right now,

not just a lamb, but you. You know, we are the temple of

God right now. We are his territory right now.

So he said this phrase. Milk and hunt referred to the

abundant fertility of the land of Canaan.

Milk, typically that of goats and sheep, was associated with

abundance. Honey referred mainly to syrups

made from dates or grapes and was the epitome of sweetness.

We could say the sweet abundant life, the sweet abundant life.

Who wants that? Who wants a sweet abundant life?

Got about 5 people. This is exciting.

I see some hands raised. Now the book of Joshua is

actually the book where the children of Israel finally, you

know, they, they, they wandered for 40 years.

I don't have 40 years. I don't have 40 years to waste.

I want to learn the you are the sum total of everything that you

learned. I want to learn the lessons

quickly. Lord, what do you need to teach

me out of this? And then I need to get quiet

enough to listen what the Holy Ghost is saying and make the

internal adjustments and course correction to make sure I stay

on the pathway in the plan of God.

Man, you got the greatest counselor on the inside of you.

He is the Tor conductor who will the whole reason listen.

Jesus was given to the world, but the Holy Ghost was given to

the church and, and the Bible says about the Holy Spirit that

he is the counselor, the helper, the comforter, the intercessor,

the advocate, the strengthener, the standby.

But he's just like the tour conductor.

When you take the trolley tour downtown, guess what, there is a

conductor that knows each stop where you're going, how much

more the Holy Spirit is going to help instruct you.

So when you're, when you're going through things, some

things are self-inflicted and proverbs that a man may ruin his

chances and then blame it on God.

Some people ruin their life by dumb things.

The great thing though is God loves you so much he's giving

you a thing called repentance that you can turn around out of

that thing and not be in in a in a muck or in a downcast or in a

discouraged state. Back to forgiveness, forgiveness

before God. I told you 3 dimensions,

forgiveness towards others. And if you do blow it, you need

to forgive yourself. You could release things before

God. You could have released things

before others. But are you carrying guilt?

Romans 81 says there's no guilt or condemnation.

That could be a way. Let it go.

If God Forgives you, forgive yourself.

If you don't forgive yourself after God Forgives you, you're

making yourself greater than God.

And if God says in Psalms one O 3, I'll remove your sins as far

as the east is from the West, which means they'll never meet

again. If you've put that thing under

the blood and been a real man or woman repented of it, then let

it go. Let it go.

I didn't even know that was a song, Christopher, but frozen.

There we go. I did know that's a song.

What a great example. Listen, you need to sing frozen

every night. Let it go.

Good job, Christopher, let it go.

So God wants to bring you into the land, but you want to learn

every lesson quickly and other things are just you're walking

through. Some things are self-imposed,

some things listen. The apostle Paul in second

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Corinthians chapter 12, he said, Lord, remove this thing from me.

And God said, no, he said, my grace is sufficient for you.

And I love what Apostle Paul says.

He says, then bring it Lord, that that was my that's when I

read. That's what I see.

Bring it on. May I have another please.

He said, I'll, I'll joy in this thing.

Then just like James once says, count all joy.

So he realized he wasn't in sin. He was now the will of God, but

there were people coming along persecuting him, putting

pressure on him, and he wanted to be delivered from people,

Judaizers that were coming alongside undoing the work that

he was doing. It said it was like a thorn in

his side and he said, Lord, I want them out of my life.

And God said I ain't removing them.

They're going to help perfect you.

You realize people are going to help perfect you.

Lord, I want to be around somebody that loves me all the

time. It's not going to happen.

There's going to be people that celebrate you, people that

tolerate you and people that hate you.

And you got to realize in all those I want to handle it right,

because if I handle it right, I'm going to come through the

the furnace of affliction and come out a more refined,

stronger vessel and have more advancement in my life.

So Joshua is a a fascinating book, 24 chapters of of the

children of Israel, children of Israel going in to possess this

sweet land and it's example for us.

But here's a sad indictment in Joshua chapter 18.

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It's 24 chapter. So we're 18 chapters in how many

tribes are there? How many tribes?

So he says this in in Joshua chapter 18 verses one through

Joshua 18 · chapter mention

three, It says this is from the amplified says then the whole

congregation of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh in the

tribal tribal territory of Ephraim.

They set up the tent of meeting there.

The land was subdued before them.

There remained among the Israelites 7 tribes who had not

yet divided their inheritance. So Joshua asked them, how long

will you put off entering to take possession of the land

which the Lord, the God of your Father's has given you?

Wow, how long will you put off this sweet life?

Let me read it from the message. It says the entire congregation

of the people of Israel got together at Shiloh.

They put up the tent of meeting. The land was under their

control, but there were still yet 7 Israelite tribes who had

yet to receive their inheritance.

John Joshua addressed the people of Israel said how long are you

going to sit around on your hands putting off taking

possession of the land that the God of your ancestors has given

you? How long are you going to sit on

your hands? God, why are you not moving in

my life? Let me put it this way, God,

you're not waiting on God. God is waiting on you.

Matthew 16 is is awesome. Verse 18, it starts in verse

1415161718 says I'm going to give you the keys of the

Kingdom. It says whatever you bound on

earth will be bound in heaven. What do you loose on earth will

be loose on in heaven? He gave you the authority, He

gave you the the instruction, the commandment and he said

guess what, it's in your power of choice.

Joshua 24 says the same thing. He says choose this day.

Whom you going to serve? As for me and my household, we

choose to serve the Lord. I'm going to get up every day

and tackle it with an enthusia enthusiasm unknown to most

mankind. Every day is a gift from God.

Are you maximizing every day? Canaan Land is a maximized life

where you're living life to the fullest.

It's filled up, it's complete, it's satisfying, It's more than

enough. You're living life so well in

Canaan land that your life is flowing over into the lives of

others. God just doesn't want things to

go well for you. He wants your life to be lived

so well that actually impacts and influences other people's

life. People should see you.

I'm going back to the marriage covenant, your marriage

operating so well, they're like, tell me, what do I need to do to

attain to that? Or your parenting's so great you

could sit at a restaurant without your kids hanging from

the chandelier or giving them a phone to pacify them and babysit

them. You compare so well that your

kids actually learn how to look in your eyes and have adult

conversations. You compare so well, you just

give the look and they respond. But you're doing these things so

well, your business could be so successful.

Others are like, what are you doing?

And guess what, all the glory goes to God.

I'm just lining up. I'm just lining up everyday.

Instruction, download. Following his command, following

his voice, being obedient to what He says, and bit by bit,

little by little, you're going to get out of McDonald's.

Hallelujah. Canaan Land is the maximized

life. It's where you make the most of

every day. You could have a Canaan Land

marriage. You can have Canaan Land

parenting. But I want to go over 7 areas of

evaluation. Then I'm going to highlight one

that's important not just for you, but because of the vision

that God placed at Anchor Faith Church.

And I come with great seriousness, great soberness,

and great joy. Tonight though, you are vital.

You are vital. You are vital to what God wants

to do in this vision. Without you.

This isn't Pastor or Marcy by themselves.

This is another leadership. It takes all of us.

It takes all of us and I am just challenging you.

If you're in a bad position, get to a good position.

If you're doing good, then get to great.

But I, I'm talking about next level tonight.

I'm talking about increase. I'm talking about advancement.

If we are going to do what God has called us to do, then it's

going to be vital that everybody is connected and doing their

part. If we're going to ignite this

city, impact this nation, and influence this world, we need to

live the sweet, abundant life in Canaanland.

We don't want God looking at US 20 years from now and say, how

long you going to put off? And if you're not going to do

your assignment, guess what? God is faithful to raise

somebody else up to fulfill what He called you to do.

And it's not that He didn't want you to do it.

It's that you chose not to line up with and submit to you

settled. Maybe you got complacent and I

just want to shake you up tonight.

I don't want to slap you. I just want to shake you.

I want to stir you like a good glass of chocolate milk.

Sometimes all that syrup goes to the bottom and what do you got

to do? You got to get that spoon in

there. And like Paul said, I want to or

Peter said, I want to stir you up by way of remembrance.

So these are 7 areas, though I look at this on a, on an annual

basis. I think everybody as you're

grown with God should look at these areas #1 spiritually.

Are you in a Canaan land spiritually?

And what does that mean? Are you connected with intimate

and in communion with God every day?

The word says draw near to me and I will draw near to you.

I don't feel the presence of God while you're taking time to read

the word of God. Are you taking time to pray?

Are you taking time to meditate and reflect on His Word?

This is a spiritual scalpel right now.

Some of you could stand to cut off some TV.

I'm going to step on some people's toes.

Social media right now, is there a thing is anything wrong with

this? No, but if you're giving more

time to that than you are to God, then how are you really

living a Canaan land, maximize existence spiritually and that's

the first and foremost. You're never going to get to

everything else if you're not growing in this and advancing in

this first and foremost. Proverbs 4, chapter 20 says

Proverbs chapter 4, verse #20 says guard your heart with all

Proverbs 4 · chapter mention

diligence, for all of it flows. The issues of life, everything,

the issues of the flesh are the result of issues of the spirit.

And if you're not living a Canaan land, existing

spiritually, you can get there. Well, how do I keep on?

How do I get there? Keep on growing.

I remember when I was at Raymond Christiansen in 1997.

Actually, he's 96. No, I went to Raymond 98.

Yeah, 97. And I was sitting in the pews.

Well, not in theater seats. You are sitting in theater

seats. It was pews back then.

No, it's actually cheers. Sorry.

It was cheers and I was taking notes.

I got so frustrated taking notes.

I was like, where has this been my whole life?

I wanted everything. I wanted it now.

I was like a sponge and I'm still like a sponge.

I love to learn the Word of God. I love to be in the Word of God.

There is nothing greater than I'd rather do to them.

Be in the Word of God. It fuels me, it feeds me, it

revised me, it gives me clarity of thought.

It relieves all, all all of my worries, concerns.

It puts me in His pathway, His promises and His greatness.

But I'm saying that why? Because it's a process you just

continue. I didn't know as I didn't know

as much in 1997 as I know now. But guess what?

I still don't know it. I'm still growing and going.

But the point is, don't stop. Secondly, your soul realm, your

soul, which is your mind, your will and your emotions.

How are you doing with the Canaan Land soul realm?

How is your mind? How is your will, the choices

that you make? How are your emotions?

Are you ruled by your emotions? God made you with the emotions,

but are they supposed to sit on the throne of all your

decisions? I'll give you one verse in

Ephesians chapter 4 verse #26 it says.

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Be angry in emotion, but don't sin.

Don't let the anger make you make a decision.

You control it, it doesn't control you.

How you doing with your body? What I mean this, this has to

carry you around for your purpose.

Now I have a tendency to like sweet things but I realize this

it needs to be in moderation. I remember getting my blood work

done last December coming off of Christmas which was bad because

I always get chocolate covered cherries along with your

peppermint patties along with all the other sweets that go

around at Christmas time and my glucose is one O 6.

It was in the yellow marker and my doctor said what happened.

I don't know lie. I know exactly what happened.

I told the truth. I took responsibility.

Well, I pounded sugars for about 14 days before the blood work a

lot good because I've never seen that from you before.

Guess what next time I got it back normal like where it's

supposed to be right, but your body what are you living a

Canaan land existence. I believe when we're, I believe

like Caleb in the book of Joshua at 80, I am stillwell able, but

you realize that doesn't fall on you like ripe cherries off of a

tree. You can't sit on your backside

eating bonbons. Somebody didn't know what

bonbons was that Twinkies, ice cream, cookies and all this

other stuff. And expect to have a great body

or be physically fit at 80. Hallelujah.

See ignorance or kill you. And now that you know you got to

do something with it, you're responsible for what's

ministered at this platform. So what are you doing though?

Just everybody's goals are not the same.

Some people love to run marathons.

I don't like doing that. You know, some people may like

to do racquetball. That's awesome.

Whatever your flavor, whatever you like, I would just say move,

be active, do something. Whether you just want to walk

and enjoy the scenery, you could do two things at once.

Pray in the Holy Ghost and go walk around your neighborhood

for 30 minutes, whatever the case is, but do something.

You know that Jesus walked up mountains and prayed.

We just think about the spiritual side.

But you know what he was doing? He was creating some stamina in

his body by doing that. Hallelujah.

Another area is family. Are you having a Canaan land

family experience in your manhood, your womanhood,

relationships, finances? Are you having a Canaan Land

time in your finances? Are you having a Canaan Land

time socially? And I, I think a social in this

aspect. Do you have good godly friends

around you and are you evangelizing the world?

To me it goes with both. Are you winning the lost and are

you connecting with other godly people?

That's what I call the social goals.

And the last thing is ministry. When I say ministry, I'm not

talking about just full time ministry.

I'm talking about your gifting and your and your talents that

God has put in your life. Every one of you is unique.

Every one of you has something special on the inside of you.

I'll put it this way. Every one of you has something

that can serve humanity. All right.

I want to highlight, though, on finances when it comes to Canaan

Land, because if we're going to advance this vision, guess what

it's going to take? If we're going to advance this

vision to ignite this city, impact the nation and influence

the world, guess what? It's going to take all of us.

But it's going to take finances. It's going to take money, Moola

Dinero money. Our youth group had a train of

minivans, nine of them that went to East Coast camp.

You know, Enterprise didn't give those to us for free.

Guess what somebody had in their heart to actually.

So we we were trying to keep the cost at a minimal for the

students so we get maximum participant participation and

not put such a burden on the students.

You know, they stay at a hotel. They did the Cracker Barrel

which was $759. Praise the Lord on Sunday night.

I saw that already entered that transaction in the general

Ledger and Pastor Earl on the thread when Pastor Brandon sent

them at Cracker Barrel, he said breakfast only.

It was that night. So Pastor Earl's philosophy as

you always get breakfast at Cracker Barrel, but we're trying

to keep them. So there's, there's a camp cost.

You know, they did obviously lunch for them on Monday and

then camp obviously when they get there, they're doing lunch

for them on Friday on the way back.

So it takes money to get them there, right?

And you know, the, the vans themselves, we took that out.

That was $5000. Now, thank God, guess what,

somebody had that and it moved on their heart to give.

Think about that in the Kingdom of God, what if three lives get

changed out of that? That's better than the stock

market, right? We support an orphanage in India

that went from 2000 last year to 3000 this year.

Guess what? That takes?

Money. Hallelujah, I can right now.

Thank God we're in an air conditioned facility.

We could choose not to play the electric bill, which is more

than I think probably everybody's mortgage, possibly

in this room. It takes money.

So let me say this. If the church is going to

advance, guess what happened? The people in the church need to

advance. If you don't advance, the church

isn't going to advance. That goes spiritually, soul,

body, family. We have 318 on Monday night, but

it doesn't matter if you hear those principles, you don't go

live it out in the house. But guess what?

Finance is another thing. It takes finances to run the

ministry. So I'm going to give you 3

things to prosper, to advance, to have a Canaan Land finances.

I'm going to run pretty quick 'cause it is 843.

That was a long introduction. I was trying to get to 35,000

feet and level off. I just took us to the moon.

So #1 if you're going to advance and this church isn't going to

advance unless you're going to advance, there's, there's gifts

in all of us. God wants you to be wealthy.

He said, I give you the power to get wealth.

Now listen, rich people are not always wealthy, but wealthy

people are always rich. Rich people are not always

wealthy, but wealthy people are always rich.

And God said, I'm going to give you the power to get wealth.

Wealth is at its etymology means well-being Third John two says

it this way. Third, John two, beloved, I wish

above all things you'd prosper and be in health even as your

soul prospers. He's saying, what good is it if

you have riches but you're broken your mind?

A rich person could have a great house but a terrible marriage,

kids that are heathens. And God said, I'm going to give

you a wealth. And wealth is established #1

through work. Work is not a dirty word in the

Kingdom of God. Grace does not alleviate work.

Work was in the earth before the fall.

Work is the God ordained way for you to establish dominion in the

earth. I don't I'm going to go quick,

but He said to go in all the world.

The world is a sectors of society.

When we get to #7 what I said, what is your minister, your gift

in your service, your talent. God said I'm going to give you a

talent. You need to go work that talent,

you need to go into one of those sectors of society.

I I remember them from ABCDEFG, which is arts and entertainment,

business, congregations, education, direct media,

government, family and education.

I know that was real fast, but God has assigned all of us to go

into an an area whether it's and most of us are going to be in

this in the in the secular field, not the sacred

assignment. Think about the tribes of

Israel. Most of them were what going out

to get the the provision to bring back to the the they were

going out to get the provision to bring for the vision to build

a Tabernacle. Are you with me?

So work is one of the ways that God has given you to establish

dominion on the earth and you're never going to advance if you

don't know how to work. You need to learn learn how to

work hard and how to work smart. We live in a generation that's

an entitlement generation that thinks they can sit on their

hand. The government's going to pay

them money. Not in our Kingdom, not in our

Kingdom. He said to work at your

salvation. He said he began a good work in

you and he wants you to complete it.

In Genesis chapter 25215, he says he put God, he put Adam in

the garden to tend it and to keep it, to work it, to

cultivate it, to bring fruitfulness to it.

I'm telling you right now, you want to be a great

representation of the Lord Jesus Christ when you go to work.

Be a person that can have wisdom, understanding and

knowledge that you're doing your job so well they can't replace

you. You are such a benefit and a

blessing to that organization, that man, they don't want to

lose you. Some people may try to recruit

you out because you're doing so well.

Listen, we want the anointing to come upon us in our work.

We are ordinary, but God puts his extraordinary on us.

He puts his supernatural on our natural in our work to for it to

be blessed so we could have wealth.

Deuteronomy 28, eight says this. The Lord will command the

blessing on you in your storehouses and in all what you

set your hand to do. Notice whatever you put your

hand to, you're not sitting on your hands doing nothing.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna correct something.

Some of you may have heard this. There was a time in the body of

Christ where some people are saying money comes to me.

Now money don't come to somebody sitting on their hands.

I don't care how much you confess it now is confession

right? Yes, I believe we should

confess. It is a key in the Kingdom.

But these are multiple things coming together to create the

flow. Proverbs 12/4 says the hand of

the diligent will rule. So many examples in the in the

Bible of people that worked hard.

I remember when I was at Enterprise Rent a car as a

branch manager. I worked hard and I worked

smart. So did Pastor Marcus and we rose

through the ranks. He became the manager of 4321

Palm Coast. I became the manager of 4313

here in Saint Augustine. And they, they were amazed at

us. We were there at the same time.

We were a great blessing and benefit.

We just kept going. We started off as in their in

their management program and we went to assistant managers and

we became branch managers. But God didn't want us there.

Ultimately both of us came into full time ministry because that

was the the goal that God had for us.

But while we were there, listen, we made them money and we made

ourselves money because he worked hard and we worked smart.

But I never forget when I was at Enterprise, there was a guy

named Bob who actually retired from UPS.

He was retired 80 year old man. And I had an intern from Florida

State and I'm not bashing Florida State, but he's probably

21. But the difference in work ethic

was amazing. Bob, my 8 year old, I never had

to go behind him and look and see if a car was clean before I

delivered to a customer. Now Tim, the guy that was at

Florida State, I always had to double check his work.

Just difference in in generations.

Bob knew how to work. Listen, I could go to Jacob in

the Old Testament. He worked hard for Laban, served

him and brought Prosperity Joseph anywhere he went.

Didn't matter if he was in Potiphar's house, the prison or

with Pharaoh. He worked hard and he worked

smart and he always rose to the top.

So guess what? If Anchor Faith Church is going

to advance and excel, then you need to be a person that's going

to increase financially by working hard.

Don't show up Tim mates Tim minutes late with a bad

attitude. Don't act like your employer

owes you something. Matter of fact, when we say work

hard and work smart, I want to challenge you with this.

Some people put themselves to work, that's called employment.

Some people put other people to work, that's called being an

employer. Some people put money to work,

that's called an investment. Somebody, Some people put their

knowledge to work, and that's called consulting.

Some people put an idea to work, an idea or a concept and that's

called a business. So we want to work hard and we

want to work smart. Secondly, to prosper financially

so that the church prospers, you need to be a good manager, a

good manager. First Corinthians chapter 4

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verse #2 says this. Moreover, it's required in

stewards that one be found faithful.

The word stewards in in the Bible means a manager.

We don't own what we possess. It's gods.

We're only the stewards or the manager of it.

So you need to be a good manager in Matthew chapter 25, the

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parable of talents just forsake of time.

I'm not going to read this. He gave 151211 and what he see

what he say. He said do business till I come.

He said manage this till I come. Guess what they did, They

managed well and they increased what God had given them.

So my question is, what has God-given you that you need to

increase in advance in Now the five, what gained 5 the two

gained 2. The one mismanaged and he lost

everything that he had. So there's this.

This is a principle we can extract from that.

Good management attracts resources.

Bad management puts at Bay resources.

Are you with me? Good management means you keep

records. Proverbs 27 says be diligent to

know the condition or the state of your flock.

Do you know what's in your checking account right now?

Hallelujah. Do you have a check register?

I remember listening to the story one time of an individual

that was trying to help some other people and they were

looking at their Ledger and they noticed ESP every once in a

while. So they're trying to reconcile

their debits and their credits. You know your debits and your

credits is what credits is. Money coming in, Debits is money

going out. If your outgo exceeds your

income, then your upkeep becomes your downfall.

So he said what does ESP mean? And they just put error

someplace they weren't keeping accurate records.

What's a good manager do? They are a good administrator

and they maximize through administration what's in their

assignment, what's in their stewardship and what's been

given to them on on just a real practical level.

This year I was looking at our finances and we have a, you

know, a budget. We're not eating at McDonald's

anymore. But you know what, as a good

manager, I said we don't need to eat out every night.

So our goal in our household is not to eat out anymore.

And twice a week, that's us personally.

That's how we're unified about that.

My wife and I, we could go out, but I thought, man, we, you

could actually save money by not going out every night and

eating. And you, you realize you could

save money by actually, this is going to shock some of you going

to the restaurant you want to go to and not door dash it.

Hallelujah. On a practical side though, like

this year with our mortgage, I'm looking at, you know, there's

ways to increase, you can either decrease your overhead or

increase your revenue. So I was looking at our, all of

our outlay of our finances as I do 'cause I want to manage it

well. I realize if I bring order and

organization, God could bring increase.

If I'm disordered, disordered disorganization, there's going

to be no increase. It's mismanagement.

So I, I got to look in and I said, you know what, we could

drop our PMI, Angie, at $67 a month.

What's PMI? Private mortgage insurance.

And once you hit that 80% mark, you can drop that.

So I had to pay $190.00 for them to come out, put a value in our

house, and guess what? We qualified and I shaved off

$67. Would you do the math on that,

right? That adds up.

Over the course of a year, I realized we were paying 499 for

Discover Channel that we never watch.

It adds up. That's good management, right?

Are you with me? Last thing I want to hit 'cause

it is 856. These three have to all work

together. Being in ministry now since

2004, we've done premarital counseling, we've done marital

counseling, individual counseling, and I've just

learned this over the years, and I believe this to be true with

all my heart. All three of these have to be in

operation as a Kingdom citizen in order to prosper and have

advancement in this area and have Canaan land, which is work

hard, good management and then giving.

I have seen people tithe and give offerings, work hard and be

horrible managers and they don't have God's Canaan land.

They mismanage. I've seen people manage well,

tithe, not work hard and not have Canaan land.

I've seen people work hard, manage and not tithe and not

have Canaan land. So listen, are you with me?

It takes all three of these for you to advance.

And if you here's the here's the thing.

If you don't advance an increase, Anchor Faith Church

doesn't advance an increase. So all three of these have to be

in alignment. If you ever had a hose, you

know, in your water and something or like I'm washing my

car, sometimes there's a kink in the hose and it's really

frustrating. And there's many times I just

try to pop it. You know, you do that for a

minute and you finally just give up and you walk over there and

you unkink it right on God's end, He is the faucet it his

supply never runs out. He is perpetual energy,

perpetual provision. But on our end, sometimes we get

kinks and I'm just trying to identify in these three things.

If you're not seeing increase, where's your kink?

And all you have to do is make that adjustment and guess what

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