From Consumer To Supplier! / / Pastor Darry Davis

Bless the name of the Lord One more time.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise Jesus.

There is a word from the Lord this morning.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Bishop has already prayed.

Y'all receive that prayer, hallelujah.

I just want to say let's really quick, lord.

God, I ask you to hide me.

Hallelujah, hide your voice.

Let them hear with us.

Say the Lord this morning, encourage and strengthen your people in the mighty name of Jesus.

Amen, amen.

You may be seated.

You may be seated.

So I'm for preparation for this word, as I begin to spend a little time with God.

He began to talk to me about His people and that I begin to even identify myself in a lot of ways.

Anybody who preaches or teaches, or you, let God use them in any way you understand that the message comes for you.

First it's for you, but then he lets you know that he wants you to share it.

Amen, amen.

He reminded me of a powerful wisdom key, a powerful, powerful revelation that we oftentimes overlook.

If you would grab your Bibles and turn with me to Genesis 1.

Genesis 1.

And we'll start at the 11th verse Hallelujah, you have it.

Say man, you want to leave anybody behind this morning.

So the word of the Lord reads as this and God said let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after His kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth.

And it was so that key phrase in there the seed, whose seed was in itself.

It's a powerful truth that we find in nature, created by God, that everything God made, he put in that thing a seed.

He put in it a seed.

What is the seed?

The seed is its own ability to produce increase.

The seed is already inside.

So when he made the grass, everything that the grass needed to multiply and produce more was already inside of the grass.

It don't just apply to plants.

We find this same revelation in living creatures, animals, human beings.

We have been given the power to be fruitful and multiply.

We've been given the power to increase.

When God made everything he made, he only had to make it one time.

And because he made it with the power to produce more, he never had to remake.

Because he gave it the power to produce in abundance, he don't have to worry about abundance.

I'm going somewhere if you follow me.

So this is not only a law of nature, but it's a God principle.

It's a God principle.

Tell somebody, it's a God principle.

So pay attention, it's a God principle.

So the one thing that we know about the laws of nature, the God principles, godly principles, they cannot be all to change.

There's no exception.

They are law.

This is how it works, amen.

So if we understand that this is a God principle, then we should understand that God has called all of us, to all of His creation, to more than enough.

He didn't create nothing, anything, to just be enough.

He created it to produce and be more than enough.

God bless, come on down, break it down.

Okay, I'm going to take my time a little bit because I really need y'all to catch this.

Tell somebody God made me to be more than enough.

I have inside me the seed to produce increase.

God would not ask Adam to be fruitful and multiply if he didn't already have the ability.

He expected them to be, just like the plants Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth.

So, if you understand this, that means God have called all of us, purposed all of us, charged, all of us, not only to have sufficient enough for ourselves, but to have more than we need, to produce more in the earth that we can supply.

In other words, god called us to be.

Watch this, watch this.

He didn't call us to be a consumer.

He called us to be a supplier.

He didn't make things to consume the earth's resources.

He made them to supply.

Okay, I'm already preaching.

He made them to supply.

Tell somebody I'm a supplier, not a consumer.

But there's rules.

Here's the rule If you have an apple and all fruit, this applies to all fruit and everything.

This applies to everything In net is seed.

But here's the thing If you consume the whole apple, you kill your increase.

The law of the seed is that you take a portion of it and sow it.

Give it back.

Why?

Because what happens with it?

It brings forth more.

Not only more, but more than enough.

We're going to catch this in a minute.

I was reminded when I began to really study this.

I was reminded of something from my childhood and maybe some of y'all can identify with it.

I grew up in a country before a big portion of my life and remember my grandmother's house and my grandmother's neighborhood.

Neighborhoods were so different then.

I'm probably dating myself now.

I look like I'm young, but I'm not that young.

Neighborhoods were so different.

Everybody's doors was unlocked Neighborhoods everybody's kids ran up and down, played together.

Different people's houses, the neighborhood took care of itself.

And how?

How?

God reminded me so many times.

I remember my grandmother used to grow tomatoes.

She used to grow tomatoes and every now and then, when she would reap her tomatoes in, she would say DB that's what they call it, my nickname go up the road and take such and such a bag of tomatoes, because I have more tomatoes than I need.

I have more than enough.

So let me send some tomatoes to the neighborhood, to people that need some tomatoes.

And here's the interesting thing I would go up the road with the tomatoes and take it to Miss So-and-So.

But Miss So-and-So every now and then.

Sometimes somebody else, sometimes you go with a bag or something and come back with something else, because they say well, you know what I'm about to bring in them greens, and I got more than enough.

Take your grandma a bag of these greens and take that person over there a bag of them greens, and before you know it, I'm running around the neighborhood.

I done got eggs, I done got greens, I done got this.

Why?

Because somebody had enough sense to me, more than enough to be concerned with having more than what they needed.

Now here's the interesting thing we didn't grow up rich and we didn't have a lot of money.

We didn't have a lot of stuff.

Grandma didn't have a lot of food in her house.

Sometimes she had need.

But here's the interesting thing God don't need you to become concerned with having enough of everything If he can give you the law of the seed, the principle, and you can have more than enough of something.

Watch this Sometimes you got more than enough of something and you give your overflow to somebody Guess what.

Somebody else's overflow will come into your house and after a while you will realize you are looking your kitchen and you got everything you needed.

Why?

Because you had more than enough of what.

Come on now.

This is a God principle.

This is not something man came up with.

This is the law of nature.

Everything God made has in it a seed, the seed in itself.

But the problem is with some of us, we have become seed eaters.

We have become seed eaters and because we're seed eaters, we never have enough and we're always trying to have enough.

What if I told you that the mindset of Lord, help me I need?

If I could just have enough, if I could just Lord, if you just could help me to get through another month.

What if I told you that mindset is in total opposition to God?

What if I told you your mindset is Lord, I need you.

There's one more time to help me put some food on this table.

If you just help me grow grocery shopping, put some food on my table, lord.

I just Lord.

I know how to thank you.

I just want to thank you.

I believe you.

What if I told you maybe God is so slow in answering your prayer because you need to change your prayer.

Maybe it's because your prayer is in complete opposition to your purpose.

God didn't create anything to have just enough.

God is not a just enough God.

God is a more than enough God.

Maybe the challenge is I need to start praying for overflow, for somebody else's table and somebody else's house and somebody else's need?

Maybe I need to start asking God for more than enough.

Maybe I need to stop eating my seed.

If I stop eating my seed, I wouldn't have to worry about my pantry, my tea.

I'm already.

I ain't even, I ain't even good at winning.

To what I really want, to the text I really want to give you.

I'm going to give you an example in the word.

I'm going to give you an example Get with your Turning your Bibles to first Kings.

I love this because God, in this we're going to see a powerful story that should shift our minds this morning.

Amen.

Let me see what verse I want to start it.

Y'all don't mind if I read a little bit, all right, I'll just.

I'll start at first five because I want to give you some backstory and then carry on away in the story.

So we're talking about the man of God, elijah.

So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord, for he went and dwelt by the brook charath that it before is before Jordan, and the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank up the brook.

So a little backstory.

There's a famine in the land.

God sends the man of God give him instructions to where to go so that he could be sustained during the famine.

He goes by the brook and miracles are taking place, which every day.

He is sustained by the ravens.

All right, and it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

I need y'all to pay attention to this, because this is a key that many I have found myself in this place and many of you can identify with.

Even when God has gave you instructions and showed you where your miracle is, don't mean your miracle will last forever.

God told the man of God go by this brook and it's going to sustain you.

And the miracle the raven came and fed him daily, but sooner or later soon enough the river drank, dried up and he could get no more water from that place.

How many of you, god, have been?

You have went through a blessed season where you were seeing the miracles of God and it dried up.

Maybe somebody ain't identified with me, but this man of God is a prophet of God.

He ain't do anything wrong and his miracles still dried up.

How many realize it ain't God's purpose that you just live off of a miracle all the days of your life?

It ain't God's will that you live from God's hand to your mouth all every day of your life.

Don't get caught up in your miracle season and think that God is always supposed to perform a miracle.

Okay, then that's when you start to take miracle for granted and it becomes just the norm.

How many miracles in your life have you taken for granted and you think that's normal.

You woke up this morning with breath in your body and forgot that your breath is a miracle, until one day you're struggling for air.

I don't want to get distracted.

I'm going somewhere in this world, and the world of the Lord came up to him saying arise, bid thee to Zahra path which belongs to Zahra and dwell there.

Behold, I have commanded a widow, a widow woman there to sustain thee.

Pay attention to what God said to her.

Now God has taken them through some different things, showing you different ways that God moved.

One place.

God was bringing miracles straight out of miraculous ways Raven coming every day bring you food.

Wow, this is amazing God.

All of a sudden that goes away and he says no, now I'm going to use a person.

I ain't don't stop looking in the sky for the Raven and God sending you to a person.

Somebody thinks somebody's looking up when they should be looking around them.

God don't always use the Raven, he can also use us Sometimes.

The miracle ain't this big great thing that we're waiting, praying to the heavens for, but it's right in our house, in our neighborhood, down the street.

God commanded the widow there to sustain thee.

Pay attention Ten.

He rolled and went to Zaree Zaree path and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks.

I need you to pay attention.

And he called her and said fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may drink.

And she was going to fetch it.

He called to her and said bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.

Pay attention, every word matters.

Bring me a what Morsel?

Not a whole meal, not everything in your refrigerator, not all of your food that you're going to fix for dinner.

Bring me a.

Y'all going to catch something in a minute.

And she said, as the Lord, thy God, liveth, I am not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil and a cruise.

And behold, I am gathering two sticks that I may go and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.

This is good.

This is so good.

I need you to remember two things.

God said to the man of God that this woman supposed to sustain him.

In fact, god said he have told the woman to sustain him.

What is funny?

How, when he gets there, the woman says I can't sustain you.

Why?

Because I don't have enough for myself.

I'm living day-to-day asking God for enough for me.

Y'all gonna catch this in the moth.

Y'all gonna see where this other former scripture you apply to this.

What she didn't realize is that her portion of food is what she has.

But the man of God didn't ask for all our fill, for a plate.

He asked for a seed.

Y'all didn't catch that.

He didn't ask her for a meal, he asked her for a seed.

Where there's a seed, a small portion of what you have, it's.

A whole lot of people got excuses for God why they can't do something, because they said I don't have enough.

God said how can you not when my law says that everything you have has a seed in it?

How can you tell me you don't have enough when everything you have has in itself a seed?

The fact that you said you don't have enough is a slap in God's face, that you calling him a lie, that you don't agree with the law of nature, the God principle.

The God principle is a tip, a piece, a part of what you have.

It's only he asked you for but God, I just don't have enough.

We just ain't barely making it over here.

I don't have enough, but can I have a morsel, a piece of what you have?

But I ask you says it's not enough.

How many can identify with this?

Somebody say, oh he talking to me?

Ouch, that one hit me.

When you really understand the law and the principle of the seed, you realize that you always have enough, but the key is more than enough.

You have exactly what you need to have, more than enough, but you have to follow the law of the seed, except the seed be planted in the ground.

But her plan was to do what?

Eat her seed.

She said, madam God, I would love to help you, but me and my son ain't got enough.

But to make it through the day, we ain't even got enough.

For tomorrow we gonna eat what we got and we gonna die.

She wanted to eat her seed.

I don't know who I'm talking to today, but I can be meant to you.

Many times I have eaten my own seed and because I ate my seed did today I ate my seed.

Tomorrow I gotta ask God for another miracle, because today I ate my seed.

Who am I preaching to this morning?

Let me make a plane for you.

Everything, everything.

Somebody say everything has in it a seed.

What does that mean, pastor?

What's the principle in that?

The principle in that is the same principle he gave to his people when he talked about the tenth of all the increase.

He won't just talking about money, he was giving them the law of nature, the law of the seed.

The law is don't eat the whole thing, don't use all of it.

Give me a part of it, give me a tenth of it.

That's not much, the prophet told the woman.

Give me a morsel.

That's not much, but nothing.

It's nothing like lack.

That puts us in a completely different place.

Concerning God, look at this thing.

Look at it.

The Bible says that the woman know who God was.

He, she said, as surely as you, are a man of God.

That means she believe in God and she believe in the people of God.

Yet she still lives in black.

Why?

I have to wonder to myself.

How many prayers did this woman pray every day just to get to the place she is now?

Just to have enough for going day to day?

Many times she prayed Lord, help me, I just need a little food for today for me and my son to eat.

And all this time she didn't realize that she is working against God.

And then, when God finally answers her prayer by sending the man of God to her house, she told the man of God you at the wrong house, because this is the house where there's lack.

We just got enough.

Tell somebody enough for today.

And God said oh no, no, no, that makes no sense because there's a law, and the law says everything has in it a seed.

Give me the seed, don't eat it.

Give it to me, I'm gonna help somebody in a minute.

The problem is everybody that reads the, the scriptures that deal with bring your ties to the storehouse, bring a tenth of all.

That is great.

Everybody think we're talking about money, but we don't understand.

That applies to everything.

It's not about money.

It's not about bringing money to the church.

It's about God teaching them the principle of the seed, the law of the seed.

Here's it.

In studying this I began to do a little research with some fruits and vegetables that I realized there is a lot of fruit and vegetable where we eat the fruit and the seed.

We eat all of it.

We we take for granted, we don't even think about that it has a seed in it.

We eat the whole thing.

So in there, it teaches us that to to sow the seed, you have to be conscious.

Sometimes it requires a little more work to get out the seed, take out the seed jump line requires a little more effort to get the seed out, to sow it.

And even when you sow the seed, sometimes you got to go through a season of waiting for the seed to come forth.

But the law is still sales trail, true.

If you sow the seed, you will have more than enough.

How many want to live in the more than enough?

That's my message to you this morning.

Tell somebody more than enough.

God has called me to more than enough, god, I know God has called to me to more than enough.

It's too many scriptures that tell me that I wish, above all things, that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul proper.

He told us in the law of the seed.

If you, if you give the God a tip of it, he'll open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing.

You won't have enough room to to receive it.

Therefore, you have more than enough.

God said I come that you might have life, and that more abundantly.

He's all about more than enough.

Why?

Because he has to give you more than enough to use you.

How can you be a benefit to this world if you don't have more than what you need?

How can they use you to bless somebody else if you ain't got enough for yourself?

Watch this, I'm gonna show you something.

It's nothing like lack that puts us into a mindset of pride, and this is people feel like this is the opposite of pride, because we think that riches make you proud.

No, poverty makes you just as proud.

Watch me show you, because it's when you're lack that your mindset only begins to be all about what you need.

More than rich people, poor people are the most selfish people there is why?

Because they can only think about their needs because they lack.

I need something, I need something.

Don't you dare ask me for something you see I need?

Don't you dare come to my house for help and you see I'm badly making it?

Go out here and ask somebody on the street for the connection.

You borrow a dollar and see that what happens?

It's something about lack that puts us in a selfish mind state, full of pride.

But then it's funny too, because even the people in lack that understands it.

They're more generous than the wealthiest people.

They become more generous than the wealthiest people because they begin to have compassion for other people that are also in lack.

So I believe the question is to everybody should be asking is why on earth would God send His prophet to a widow woman?

That means she only have a husband that's provided for her of all places and of all people, of all houses.

Why would God send His prophet to this woman's house?

So he could, so she could sustain him?

That's the question you supposed to be asking yourself.

The answer is to change her mindset.

Her mindset was just God, help me, god, me and mine, god, I need God.

It's all about me.

God, if I could just make it.

God, if you don't help me today, I'm a die tomorrow, god, me me, me.

God, can you help me me?

And somebody?

God sent somebody to say can I have a muscle?

God's ways are not like our ways and God is funny like that.

God sent the prophet to a woman that had nothing and he said woman, can I have a muscle?

And she gave him the usual answer man of God, I promise you we ain't got nothing.

With a little bit we got, we go eat it today and we gonna die.

How many times have we said this I just don't have it.

I really just don't have it.

I would pay my tithes and give to the church, but I really just don't have it.

I would help my neighbor out and the person over for my friend out, but I really I just don't have it.

I would have gave that man on the street with the sign a couple dollars, but really I just don't have it.

I'm trying to pay this light bill.

I got to pay this phone bill, amen.

But God said yes, you do have it.

You got a seed in it.

If you give me a muscle, all right.

We got to read through the rest of the story Running long, y'all all right, hallelujah.

And it came to pass.

When an Ahab saw Elijah, the Ahab said unto him art thou.

Oh, okay, we're made.

I lost my place.

Lord, help me.

17 and 13.

Thank you.

And Elijah said unto her fear not.

Oh, this a big one.

Tell somebody.

Fear not.

See you scared you ain't helping nobody.

Cause you scared you ain't paying your tithes.

Cause you scared you ain't giving no money.

Cause you scared you ain't lending a hand.

Cause you scared you ain't being a blessing to your community.

Cause you scared.

You scared.

If you help somebody, you gonna go suffer.

You gonna suffer.

Fear not, go and do as thou have said, but make thereof a little cake first and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.

Tell somebody God, require some faith out of you.

Some of some people have told people if I had something left I'd give it to you.

God said give me the seed first.

Give me the seed first.

I need you to have a little faith.

I need you to have a little faith in the principles of God.

Give me the little seed first, give me a piece of it first.

And the Bible says and then go and make the rest.

Make yourself a meal for you and your son.

And he went and did according to the saying of Elijah.

I'm so glad that I obeyed what God said me to do.

When I did, I was in so much lack in the time of my life I had every excuse.

But one day I said what do I have to lose?

I might as well follow the law of the seed.

I might as well try God's way.

Thank God, I wouldn't have what I have today if I didn't live by the law of the seed.

And when I began to study this, I said even though I'm so in seed, I'm starting to realize I got more seed than I know I have.

I'm eating too much seed.

Even now it's still too much seed.

I'm eating too much seed.

I could be sowing more than I'm sowing.

Oh, somebody don't understand this, but I'm gonna show you the minute that I'm gonna close.

And the Bible said and she went and did according to the saying of Elijah, and she and he and her house did eat many days and watch this.

And the barrel of mill wasted not.

Neither did the crews of oil fell according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah, because she was sustaining the man of God, god kept her in the position of more than enough.

Maybe if you start being concerned about others, god will position you in the place of more than enough.

Maybe you get busy helping somebody else God to make sure you have more than enough.

How does this apply?

I'm almost done.

What past?

Are we talking about money?

What are we talking about?

God is saying everything he's given you has a seed in it.

He said the biggest one we have, the biggest problem we, most of us have church people, christians, some of us understand, given that we got that part, don't you know that your, your time has a seed in it?

We think coming to church two hours and 40 minutes a week is doing something that's not even a tenth of your day.

Two hours and 40 minutes, just a tenth of a one day.

That means that the bare minimum you should be spending two or three hours a day with God If you follow in the principle of the seed.

The law of the seed said give me a part of everything I give you, give me a part of everything you got.

Two hours and 40 minutes of every day is just a tenth of a day.

Y'all don't believe how powerful that is.

Watch this.

The Bible says all the way.

Let's go all the way back to Genesis again.

In the garden, the Bible says and Adam walked and talked with God in the cool of the day, not all day, just the cool of the day.

Every day Adam gave God a tenth of his day, a seed of his day, a peace of his day.

And he walked and talked with God.

That means in the morning and he had all day to do whatever he wanted to do, but he made sure he gave God a peace of his day.

Wow, and his days are blessed.

They have increased, they're multiplied.

Why?

Maybe you're not following the law of the seed?

That's why your days waste so fast.

That's why you never have enough time in the day.

That's why, before you know it, it's already night time and it's time to go to bed.

Why you don't give the seed?

I'm guilty and watch this.

He gave us this principle right there when he talked about the tenth, what it was the curse and the blessing.

The blessing is that you have increased, and more than enough.

The blessing is that when you give God a tenth of anything, you get increased.

Anybody giving God time in the morning and it felt like your day was full.

You could do so much and it comes with so much in your day.

But what's the opposite, the curse of it?

It says that you'll be he gave you a power but you'll be like a man with a hole in his pocket.

How many ever felt like your day had a hole in it?

The hours were just slipping through.

You felt like you had all this time and, before you know it, you said what happened to today?

Where did all my time go you under the curse because you didn't give the seed.

Who am I preaching to this morning?

God said we can't even talk about money because people ain't got the bad basics of the law yet.

They won't even give God a tenth of that time.

So that's why they get mad if you say give a tenth of your increase.

I come to church once a week.

You think you're doing something.

Yeah, it passed over there doing too much, the church doing too much.

Everybody trying to get them take from me.

Everybody want what I got.

I ain't got nothing.

Okay, that's the problem.

That's the problem.

It's a law.

It's a law.

It's a principle.

Amen, I'm finished.

Tell somebody God wants you to have more than enough.

It's time to live in the more than enough.

Watch this, take this from my grandmother you don't need more than enough of everything.

At least try to have more than enough of something.

Oh, I found out that every business mogul, all they did was learn how to produce more than enough of something, and because of that they was rich, became rich.

Tell somebody, whatever I got, I'm going to take the seed out of it and I'm going to sow it and I'm going to grip more than enough of it so that I can be a blessing, that I can be fruitful and multiply.

I could be a vessel of increase.

I won't just be a consumer, but a supplier I will.

I'll be the lender and not the borrower.

Stand on your feet.

I'm finished.

If this word of bless you, put your hands together, come on.

Thank God for the word of God, this word of encourage you to look at what you got and find the seed in it and make sure you're giving God the seed.

Give him the seed of your day, give him the seed of your money, give him the seed of your.

Come on, start looking at everything you have and say where's the seed?

What part of this can I sow?

What part of this can God give me increase?

Hey, man, let's pray.

Lord, we thank you for this word.

Every listener, every listener on podcast, every listener on social media, everybody under the sound of my voice.

Lord, don't let the enemy steal this word.

The Bible tells us that the word is like a sower sowing seed into a field and immediately the enemy comes to snatch it up before it's planted.

Lord, don't let us forget this principle.

Don't let us forget this law.

Help us to stop eating our seed, we eating too much seed.

The prayers that we pray, and look, God, help us to change our prayers.

We need to stop praying for what we need, start praying for abundance, start praying for how to be a supply of somebody else's need.

We thank you, god.

This word has challenged us.

This word has corrected us, this word has inspired us.

This word has empowered us and, god, we're going to hold on to it.

We're going to fight for it.

We're going to wake up tomorrow morning and remember it.

We're going to write it down.

God, not only hear us of the word, but we're going to be doers.

In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray Amen.

Put your hands together One more time and bless God, hallelujah.