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Overflow in Generosity | Pastor Paul Strong | In God We Trust

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  1. Welcome to the Legacy Churches Podcast. We are so glad

  2. that you get you in us. Today we present God

  3. speaks to you through his message and through his work.

  4. Now let's tune into the message.

  5. Thank you Lord.

  6. I feel the sweet spirit of them in this room today.

  7. I believe that God's got fallow ground. I'm another seed

  8. that is really determined on the soil. If your heart's

  9. not open to receive, then the world will fall on

  10. deaf ears and you'll miss what God has. I don't

  11. want to miss anything that God.

  12. Has for my life.

  13. I don't want to miss a crumb off the table.

  14. You ever ate something so good that you you lick

  15. the bowl? Come on now, talk to me somebody.

  16. You know what I'm saying about.

  17. Oh, I made cookies yesterday, I made snickerdoodles. I don't

  18. know if you like snicker doodle. I love snickerdodles.

  19. Man. After I made the batter, man, I would lick

  20. in there.

  21. You remember, remember back in the day when you used

  22. to lick the the what do you call it? Come on,

  23. talk to me the beater, Yeah, you lick the beater off.

  24. Come on, now, you just be on the crevice. It's

  25. just everything glory to God'll y'all talking to me right?

  26. How many O?

  27. His word is sweeter than the honey on the homy gold.

  28. In fact, he says, the grass weather and the flower faded,

  29. But the word of our.

  30. God shall abide forever.

  31. And today I want you to receive today everything that

  32. God has Go to Second Corinthians, Chapter eight, verse one.

  33. And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know

  34. about the grace that God has given the Macedonian Church.

  35. Out of the most severe trial, they're overflowing joy and

  36. their extreme poverty weld up and rich generosity.

  37. I think you missed that. It says, their most severe trial.

  38. How many trials should take stuff out of you? You

  39. shouldn't have nothing left, he says, And they're overflowing you.

  40. How can you have joy and trials in the same place.

  41. It's all based upon how you see things. And their extreme.

  42. Poverty welled up in rich generosity.

  43. For I testified that they gave as much as they

  44. were able, and even beyond.

  45. Their ability, entirely on their own. They urgently pleaded with us.

  46. For the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.

  47. And they did not do as we expected.

  48. But they give themselves first the Lord and then to

  49. us in keeping with God's will. So we urged Titus,

  50. since he had earlier made a beginning to bring all

  51. sort of completion of the act of grace on your part.

  52. So just as you excel in everything, in faith, in

  53. speech and knowledge, and complete earnestness, and in your love

  54. for us, see that you also excel in the grace

  55. of giving. How many God wants you to grow in giving? Amen, Father,

  56. we thank you today. We ask it you'd help us

  57. today to hear your word and not only hear your word,

  58. but become doe words of it.

  59. And Father, we thank you today for this house today that.

  60. What you're doing and God will give you all the

  61. praise and all the glory if it's in your name

  62. and through your name, we're doing it. In Jesus name,

  63. we pray, and all godspeople have said, Amen, God bless you.

  64. You're gonna be seated.

  65. How many goone wants you believe God wants to prosper you.

  66. I mean I want God to prosper me. The word

  67. prosper means that to move forward, to grow. How many

  68. want your your marriage to prosper I mean I want

  69. my marriage. I've been married to my beautiful books. I

  70. don't know where she's probably working production today for twenty

  71. two years. And man, I'm telling you, I want my

  72. marriage to be better now than it was when we started. Amen,

  73. I want to prosper. I want my kids to I

  74. want my kids to prosper. I want them to grow

  75. in wisdom and stature and favor with God. How many

  76. want your emotional health or mental health to prosper?

  77. And I don't want to have good thoughts. I want

  78. my mind to.

  79. Be set on the Lord. But then when I say

  80. how many wants your money to prosper?

  81. Everybody? Oh, I don't know about that.

  82. But there's a holistic point of view when it comes

  83. to God prospering us. And I think it's important today

  84. because first John tells us that I wish above all

  85. things that you would prosper and be in health even

  86. as your soul prospers. But I think it's important that

  87. we recognize you make a living by what you get,

  88. You make a life by what you give. You make

  89. a living by what you get. You make a life

  90. by what you get. And the antidote to the Christian

  91. or the antidote to the world or the antithesis of

  92. the world, is generosity, because everybody in this room grew

  93. up selfish.

  94. In fact, the first word you.

  95. Learned was not mom or dad, it was mine. Anybody

  96. got kids who talk about mine?

  97. Mine?

  98. Anybody got some what I call chord snatchers. Anybody got

  99. kids that steal your cords? Come on now, your power cords.

  100. You know you're trying to charge your phone, and you go,

  101. where is my charger?

  102. Come on now? And all of a sudden, my kids.

  103. Are notorious for stealing my charger and I'm gonna where

  104. my charger at.

  105. They just look at me all crazy. Ain't that ain't yours?

  106. That's mine? No, it's not.

  107. I bought everything in this house. Can I get a

  108. witness even that? But the dynamic is we all are selfish,

  109. all one what is ours? And the dynamic is the

  110. and the Christian life that God's requirement of us is

  111. to be generous. And we've been talking about generosity and

  112. God we trust. And I really want to pound this

  113. into our hearts. Because the Apostle Paul was giving us,

  114. he was commending us and the Corinthians, because the Corinthian

  115. was an affluent church. They had lots of industry, but

  116. the Macedonian Church, who did not have the same means,

  117. was actually out giving them. And Paul was frustrated because

  118. they had it, they just weren't willing to give it,

  119. and so he was challenging them, and he was actually

  120. he was spurring them on and telling them about how

  121. the Macedonian Church was operating in generosity and how the

  122. Corinthian Church was slacking in their.

  123. Ability to honor God.

  124. And God wants us to know that our conditions does

  125. not affect our generous behavior, that generosity has nothing to

  126. do with your economic status.

  127. That the truth of the matter is, it's really built upon.

  128. This understanding of having a kingdom perspective. Kingdom perspective really

  129. shapes our giving, how we see what we do and

  130. why we do it. A lot of times we give

  131. out of because we may give out of religious obligation.

  132. But I really want to challenge you to give out

  133. of the overflow of your heart, an overflow in generality.

  134. How many God wants to bring overflow. Just tell your

  135. neighbors say, God wants overflow.

  136. He wants overflow in your life.

  137. And the kingdom perspective lets us know that that that

  138. it doesn't matter what's going on, whether it's the economic

  139. status or whether it deals with our own means that

  140. when we honor honor God in our kingdom perspective, God

  141. can do more through our hands with his grace, but

  142. it takes kingdom perspective. Like today, if I said we

  143. need to raise a million dollars to day?

  144. How many know?

  145. Everybody be like, how many people know? How many if

  146. you haven't raised a million? How many think that a

  147. million dollars? Raising a million dollars for yourself would be

  148. kind of hard? I don't got any honest people in

  149. this room anyway. If you can raise a million dollars easily,

  150. talk to me after service?

  151. Amen? How many po know? If it like if the

  152. demand like all of a sudden, you needed a million

  153. dollars on Friday? How many like? I don't think so?

  154. Pastorm No, no, no, maybe maybe move them decibels, decimals

  155. and decimals. What I just say, help me, Jesus, decimals,

  156. not decibels, decimals over, I mean I can do a hundred,

  157. but not a million. Then you know, no way, there's

  158. no way we can do a million. Limitation challenges us.

  159. But God works in our limitation, because when we have

  160. the right perspective, we will be motivated by mission over

  161. our limitation.

  162. You don't believe that.

  163. Just see if one of your kids get diagnosed with

  164. the disease that there's no cure for, but they got

  165. one shot that costs a million dollars. How many gonn

  166. know you figure out a way to areas a million dollars?

  167. Mm hm, you'd do it in any way?

  168. You would? You would.

  169. You would start selling cakes after service. Come on, now,

  170. you'd be over there on the corner getting buckets. You'd

  171. be organizing, you'd be getting a GoFundMe. Hello, right, you'd

  172. be doing everything. You'd be selling, you'd liquidate all your

  173. equity out of your house if you're.

  174. Kids were in need.

  175. How many know you do anything and everything because you

  176. recognize the purpose is more powerful than the means. And

  177. when I need you to understand when it comes to

  178. the Kingdom of God, is that what we are sharing

  179. is more powerful and greater than the.

  180. Cure for cancer. Because this is the cure for the

  181. human condition.

  182. The Gospel does not make us better, it makes us alive.

  183. Aren't you just so thankful today that somebody shared the

  184. Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ today with you. And

  185. here is the challenge when we talk about giving there

  186. are nations that we got missionaries here that there are

  187. nations that have never heard of the name of Jesus.

  188. And how should we be able to.

  189. Hear it every day when there's some people who have

  190. never heard. And when we understand the mission is so great,

  191. come even want the gospel to be spread to the

  192. four corners of the world, and the gospel to be

  193. shared with those who are dying. Oh, my God, when

  194. we think about the gospel, to have a gospel.

  195. Changes us and shapes us. And it's just like.

  196. One beggar telling another beggar where bred is? That Once

  197. I was lost, but now I am found. Once I

  198. was blind, but now I see. And because I see.

  199. I don't want you to walk in blindness. I don't

  200. want you to walk in darkness. I don't want you

  201. to walk in depressions. I don't want you to walk

  202. in defeat. I don't want you to walk towards the

  203. devil's hell. I want you to walk with joy and peace.

  204. And right to it.

  205. And that can only come through the grace of the

  206. Lord Jesus Christ, come on, give God a praise today,

  207. and we've lost our kingdom perspective. But when you begin

  208. to understand through the lens of the kingdom and you're like, oh,

  209. I get to do this, I get to.

  210. Be a part of the Kingdom of God.

  211. I don't ever want to be about something where I

  212. have to do anything.

  213. I don't have to preach. I get to preach.

  214. I don't have to share the good news. I get

  215. to share the news. I don't have to give. I

  216. get to give because I have a kingdom perspective. And

  217. in that process of this overflow of kingdom perspective, it

  218. gives me supernatural giving. The Bible tells us that that

  219. because the Macedonian Church have this mentality, the Bible says

  220. they gave beyond their ability.

  221. Do you know that God can do more through you

  222. than you can think?

  223. If you will do the possible, God will do the impossible.

  224. Do you believe that today?

  225. Do you believe that God can do the impossible through you?

  226. That God can use your giving, God can use your.

  227. Means, and God can do things that are beyond your imagination.

  228. If you'll just begin to trust God in the process.

  229. And the thing about it is is that God doesn't

  230. ask something that you don't have, but God always asks

  231. something that you do have.

  232. I mean, God always challenges us because how man.

  233. No.

  234. In American culture, especially in Christian American, we we like comfort.

  235. Let me turn, I'm gonna make sure I see everybody.

  236. I mean, we like we like If I turn the

  237. air condition off, y'all would change your attitude real quick.

  238. Hello here, I don't know what they're spending their money on,

  239. but they better fix that. We like comfort. But you look,

  240. when I go to your gone, there's no air conditioning

  241. in the in the in the in the in the church.

  242. In fact, most of.

  243. Them, don't you know how many cars are parked in

  244. the in the church parking lot zero?

  245. Because an all of them have to walk to the

  246. House of the Lord.

  247. But you know what, they find their way singing and

  248. praising God.

  249. And when they give to the Lord, they give whatever

  250. they have out of that.

  251. And I can tell you that God blesses them. God

  252. causes their chickens to multiply. God causes their goats to multiply.

  253. God causes their gold, their cows to multiply. God blesses

  254. them with provision. God supernaturally does what seems impossible. They

  255. know the God of provision. Why because they recognize when

  256. he puts it in my hand and I put it

  257. in his hand, he always gives back pressed down, shaken

  258. together and running over.

  259. When you put it in the father's hand.

  260. His hands are bigger, his hands are grayer, his hands

  261. are stronger.

  262. Come on, just put it in his hands today.

  263. I like putting in his hands, just like the little

  264. boy that went up to the counter back in the

  265. day when they went up to the counter. Remember of

  266. the day where you could grab a handful of candy

  267. for five cents.

  268. That's way past when I was born. Amen, I ain't

  269. that old.

  270. And for back in the day, remember you have the

  271. five cent candy in the twenty five cent candy. The counterman,

  272. the man at the counter, he the little boy come up.

  273. He says, go ahead and get your hand full. He said, no,

  274. you know, sir, I don't want to use my hand.

  275. Can you give them to me?

  276. Little boys thinks, well, you know my hand.

  277. It's bigger than your hand. He said, that's exactly right.

  278. If I put my hand in it, I only can

  279. get that much. But if you put your hand in

  280. it if you put your hand in it. If you

  281. put your hand in it, you can give press down shape,

  282. You can give more. You can bring overflow in my life.

  283. I don't want my hand in it. I want his

  284. hand in it. I don't want my hand on it.

  285. I want his hand on it. I want his hand.

  286. He said, I'll open up the.

  287. Windows of heaven and pour out so much blessing they'll

  288. not be enough room to receive. Can I tell you

  289. I want his hand? Hey, my God, I want his hand.

  290. I want his hand on my home. I want his

  291. hand on my marriage. I want his hand on my finance.

  292. I want his hand on my mind. I want to prosper.

  293. Oh God, I want to prosper. Put your hand hand

  294. on me today.

  295. I need his hand. I need his hand. Just tell

  296. your neighbors say you need his hand.

  297. If you put your hand in it, it ain't gonna work.

  298. But if you put if he puts his.

  299. Hand on it, everything he touches is gonna change. Everything

  300. he touched, his hands off is gonna have moved. Little

  301. fish and little loaves become multiplied in his hand. I

  302. can't feed these people better if you put it in

  303. his hands.

  304. If you put it in his hands. Your hand may

  305. be with it.

  306. But if you put it in his hands, he'll become.

  307. A hole because of his hands. Come on, just tell

  308. somebody put it in his hands.

  309. We gotta let God do the impossible. Oh, I can

  310. tell you I can testify in my own personal life

  311. that there have been many times that we've been we've

  312. been in lack and we've been faithful and God has

  313. put his hand on it.

  314. M there have been times when we didn't have the money,

  315. but He put.

  316. His hand on him God amply supply. I can be,

  317. I can be a witness of how God's faithfulness works.

  318. And I can tell you today when it comes with

  319. overflowing of joy the God, that how you overflow and joys,

  320. you first have to overflow in Christ, because you can't

  321. give what you don't have. The Bible tells us that

  322. they first give themselves to the Lord, and then they

  323. give themselves others. And you can't give to others until

  324. you first give yourself to the Lord, because if you're

  325. not careful, you'll give to others and you'll give what

  326. you don't have, and you'll start moving out of duty

  327. instead of desire. God wants overflow in your life. He

  328. wants to be the overflow.

  329. In your life. When you have overflow, it becomes a joy,

  330. oh man.

  331. And how many know you can't get overflowed just on

  332. Sunday mornings, and you can't live off somebody else's overflow.

  333. You gotta learn to have an overflow for yourself. How

  334. many of God is a rewarder of those who diligently

  335. seek him. If you seek him, he.

  336. Will show up in your life. But you gotta recognize

  337. that first starts with an overflow in because a lot

  338. of us are doing things out of duty.

  339. Do things in our marriage out to do.

  340. When you start doing stuff because you got to do something,

  341. your marriage is on bankrupt it's on deficit.

  342. Mm hmm. Anytime you're doing things and in the.

  343. Workplace and ya got to do that, your attitude becomes

  344. your altitude.

  345. You got real quiet in here.

  346. I'm just trying to teach you today that there's Gona

  347. and you've got to overflow in Christ. That's why it's

  348. so important that that out of your personal relationship with Christ,

  349. there's an overflow. And you need a baptism. You need

  350. a baptism of the presence of God in your life.

  351. Every day, Paul said, do not be drunk on wine,

  352. but be you filled with the spirit. Every day there

  353. should be an overflow in your life. Submit yourself to God.

  354. Move yourself into overflow. Excelling and giving starts with overflow.

  355. And when you understand that, then you begin to excel.

  356. You'll begin to do things, and God will begin to

  357. shape your heart and begin to shape your generosity.

  358. That's why Paul.

  359. Said, as you excel in faith and speech and knowledge,

  360. also excel in the grace of giving. Do you know

  361. that God wants to grow your giving?

  362. Amen? Amen? When I die, I should be.

  363. Given more than the twenty five dollars I started out with.

  364. Yet see yah, hey God.

  365. But it's the dynamic, is that how many know that's

  366. an area that's weak from most people. They don't have

  367. the gift of giving. There's actually a spiritual gift of giving.

  368. People that have a spiritual gift of giving that Paul

  369. talked about Roman chapter twelve, they actually they hate me

  370. preaching about giving because they think everybody should.

  371. Do it already.

  372. But for most people, they don't have the gift the giving,

  373. so which means they have to learn the discipline of giving.

  374. The discipline of working that faith muscle. You're working your

  375. faith muscle.

  376. How many No, you gotta start doing it.

  377. Your muscles don't grow by idea, they grow by action.

  378. You start operating.

  379. On the other day, I've got my my, my youngest son.

  380. He's he's got to get stronger for football. A man.

  381. He's got to live up to his last name.

  382. I think it's as Spanish as day Ah. I said

  383. it right, Praise the Lord. I'm working my Spanish amen.

  384. I was like, you can't be a strong and be weak.

  385. No.

  386. So he was out there and then and he was

  387. in the gym, and he's smaller than me.

  388. We were starting to shoulder work. You know, he's getting

  389. the he's getting them delt's working.

  390. Come on now, say come on, I said. First, I said,

  391. just get the motion right, get your form right. Say

  392. get your five Get five pounds.

  393. Oh it can be more. No, no, no, no, start with five.

  394. Come on, five pounds, then seven and a half, then

  395. ten pounds, then fifteen, then twenty, then twenty five, then thirty.

  396. Come on now.

  397. But if you don't use your muscles, they'll have atrophy.

  398. And God is saying, listen, as you've been blessed. God

  399. wants to make you blessing.

  400. How do I make it? Money?

  401. You got to put it into work. You got to

  402. excel in the grate. Don't skip leg day. Come on, somebody,

  403. don't skip leg Don't skip the work. Don't skip late day.

  404. There's people in the gym that they got all these

  405. big old muscles and.

  406. Got these little scarny legs. Look like a little birds.

  407. Come on now like a rooster.

  408. They got a big old chest and no leg Come

  409. on now, don't skip leg day.

  410. You know, don't skip leg day. Legs move you to

  411. where you want to go.

  412. The legs of the house are the giving andy, and

  413. no matter how much faith and vision we have, the

  414. legs is what moves us into the position.

  415. That God has.

  416. And spiritually there's a lot of us that are skipping

  417. leg day and we miss out on being a blessing.

  418. And God is saying, grow your legs, grow and watch

  419. what I'll do and how I'll move through your life

  420. in this process. And God will cause you to grow.

  421. So how in that excelling giving. The first thing we

  422. have to recognize how do we do it? Is we

  423. got to do it speedily.

  424. It starts now.

  425. It doesn't start when you get the money. F y,

  426. you have the money. It starts with what you have.

  427. You don't get to a place that you graduate and

  428. say when I have this, i'll start.

  429. No, if you don't do it now, you won't do

  430. it then.

  431. So you start now and sincerity, And Paul says, I'm

  432. testing the sincerity of it, he said. She says in

  433. verse eight, I'm not commanding you, but I want you

  434. to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it

  435. with the earnests of others. Because sincerity is tied to speed.

  436. The actual Greek word there is spout a. It's where

  437. we get the word speed. That sincerity is tied to

  438. speed because when you are sincere, you'll do it quickly,

  439. and when you are reluctant, it is a sign. And

  440. when you're delayed, it's a sign of where your heart is.

  441. When people don't do something and they're reluctant, it's because

  442. their heart.

  443. Is not sincere.

  444. Right right, like when when my wife, like my wife is,

  445. she's all about gifts.

  446. Any women in this room that like gifts?

  447. When I see some of y'all are not sincere, y'all

  448. are afraid to say something, But come on, how many?

  449. How many? But like gifts? Come on?

  450. Now, my wife, my wife, that's her love language. She

  451. in fact, all five of them are her love language.

  452. Amen.

  453. She loves gifts and my And the thing about women, guys,

  454. is that women don't tell you what they want.

  455. They hint through you what they want.

  456. She's already got her place, she's already her birthday is

  457. in October, and she's already hitting Oh, this should be

  458. really good. But the problem was she tells me everything

  459. that she wants, and everything she wants she can't.

  460. We can't. We're on a budget. Baby.

  461. But I'm one of those people that when I get

  462. get the hint, like even though it's October the nineteenth,

  463. that's her birthday, when she when I get her, and

  464. I know I got a good gift, you know what

  465. I'm saying, that's on her list, not the one that

  466. I think she.

  467. Wants that she doesn't want.

  468. Come on, men, have you ever given your wife something

  469. you got excited about and when you gave it to

  470. him to go?

  471. Oh?

  472. Like I gave my wife chocolate covered strawberries on on

  473. Valentine's That was a good gift. No, she don't like strawberries.

  474. We've been married twenty years and you gave me strawberries.

  475. Don't you know I don't like strawberries.

  476. Oh it's beautiful. That's fine. Maybe I'll eat the strawberries. Amen.

  477. But when I buy my wife a gift and I

  478. know she likes it because it's on her list, I

  479. mean I when I buy it, I have her birthday

  480. birthdays on the nineteenth. If I buy it on the twelfth,

  481. I ain't wait until the nineteenth. Oh, nor anybody like that.

  482. When you got it something that you like to give,

  483. you gonna give it right now. I ain't gonna wait

  484. till the nineteenth. I'm like, oh baby, and.

  485. I keep it back. What's this for it? It's for

  486. your birthday? But my birthday's not till next week. I know.

  487. But I got it early, and I can't wait for

  488. you to get what I give because I got a

  489. heart to give it, and I don't want to wait

  490. to give it because of since I love you and

  491. I want you to know every day it's Friday with you, baby.

  492. Come on, sincerity, and when you love God, you give

  493. it quickly.

  494. There's no like there's I don't know, no, no, you

  495. give it because it's out of the overflow.

  496. It's a sign of your sincerity that you get the

  497. joy to give you get that's the joy when we

  498. give it. Oh no, I don't know for God, No, no,

  499. your yes.

  500. Number two, look what excel and giving. You first have

  501. to have the sincerity. So there's got to be there's got.

  502. To be action.

  503. But number two, you got to recognize needs and seeds,

  504. Paul tells us. Watches says, our desire is not that

  505. others might be relieved by while you are hard pressed,

  506. but that there may be equality at the present time.

  507. Your plenty will supply what they need, so that in

  508. turn their plenty will supply what you need.

  509. Then there will be quality.

  510. So it's written, he who gathers much does not did

  511. not have too much, and he who gathered little did

  512. not have too little.

  513. He's actually quoting from the Book.

  514. Of Numbers talking about the man and are the man,

  515. I should say, the man that coming in and today

  516. I need you to understand that that.

  517. Seeds and needs.

  518. Today your seed will meet a need and on a

  519. position to receive in your season of need. Let me

  520. say like this, your unexpected blessing to others will become

  521. your unexpected breakthrough for yourself, that what you give will

  522. come back to you in due season.

  523. It will come back to you.

  524. So we need to recognize that there are seeds and needs,

  525. and so it's so important when we recognize that we're

  526. sowing that swing is actually it may leave you, but

  527. it will come back to you. That how you bless somebody,

  528. God will actually work that out so that somebody else will.

  529. Be a blessing back to you.

  530. When when you're in me, God is gonna set it

  531. up so that in the window where you are in

  532. a place where you don't know how it's gonna happen,

  533. or when it's gonna happen, or where it's gonna happen,

  534. you put something in the ground. It may have been

  535. last month, it may have been last year, it may

  536. have been ten years ago, that God is going to

  537. show up in that window to show you because you

  538. are a blessing, I'm gonna be a blessing back. Come

  539. on give God pray for that. So that's what I

  540. want you to learn. So when it comes to seed,

  541. when we understand this reciprocity, we need to understand first

  542. that when you give.

  543. Your seed first outlasts your.

  544. Obedience, that the seed is just the beginning of what

  545. God's starting in your life. God always outlasts I said

  546. this all the time. It may leave your hand, but

  547. it never.

  548. Leaves your life.

  549. God's done so much in my life in the area

  550. of finances just because I was honoring him when he

  551. told me to do It didn't make sense. Many times

  552. God told me to do things that didn't make any sense,

  553. but I didn't. I said, Lord, I trust you, and

  554. I'll obey you, and I'll meet the need. And in

  555. that process, when you give, when you understand this number two,

  556. when you give your sequell creed opportunity. See seed is

  557. based on frequency, the Bible tells us in the Book

  558. of Corinthians that continued on the next chapter. She remember this,

  559. whoever so sparingly will also reap sparingly, and who oversows,

  560. whoever sows generously, will also reap generously. Look watch this,

  561. here's the deal. Sowing is tied to frequency. If you

  562. are infrequent, then that means you so sparingly. If you

  563. are frequented, you so bountifully. Because it's the sign of

  564. the sower who's always scattering seed. It's not just the

  565. it's not just the amount, but it's the continuation. You're

  566. following me. I'm always sowing seed. And God wants to

  567. teach you frequency. He wants to teach you that you

  568. always and and and all make all grace abound to you,

  569. that it always and all times God will recoglar there's

  570. a frequency, Okay, there's always a frequency that when you

  571. God blesses you, you that you so continually.

  572. You don't sow when you think you have it. You

  573. sow because you trust God in the process.

  574. So it's just spa versus bountily that if you if

  575. you hold back when you have opportunities.

  576. To sew, you actually eat your seed. We'll talk about that.

  577. So seed is based on frequency, So God develops our

  578. sowing habits based upon frequency number two.

  579. So we sold based on faith.

  580. That's why the Bible tells us God loves a chill forgiver.

  581. Why because the person who gives cheerfully gives in the

  582. attitude of faith.

  583. No one gets upset if.

  584. They know that what they're doing is actually gonna come

  585. back to them. Who I don't get upset. When I

  586. bought investment into Apple, I think.

  587. Oh my God, I lost all my money y'all gone

  588. quiet on me.

  589. Now I put the money into Apple, and now Apple's

  590. working for me. When I understand the power of investing

  591. in the kingdom of God, reconizing God's kingdom, how many

  592. know He's a good He's faithful, and he will bring

  593. it back to me. Oh, there'll be return on the investment.

  594. It'll be eternal rewards. God will take care of my needs.

  595. But the eternal rewards. I'm not one of those prosperity

  596. pre review naming and claiming blabinah, no, no, no. But

  597. I do recognize that there is a blessing that God has.

  598. I give in faith, not to get.

  599. I give in faith to Him who is faithful over

  600. my life. And seed is based on function. God gives

  601. you seed to sow and bread to eat. But if

  602. you eat the seed, you'll have no bread to eat.

  603. If you sow the seed, he gives seed to the sower,

  604. and he gives bread to the eater. And many of

  605. us are eating the seed, and we're missing out on

  606. the bounty of the harvest.

  607. You're getting.

  608. This comes with frequency, comes with faith, comes with function.

  609. God blessed me to be a blessing. But if I

  610. take the blessing and eat it for myself. Then I

  611. miss out on the blessings that God has for my

  612. life that are way more than the money that I

  613. get that I meant that I didn't give. Forget not

  614. the Lord your God, For he it is he who

  615. gives you the power to produce wealth.

  616. He watches over you. Trust the Lord with all your heart.

  617. Lean not to your own understanding, and all that ways

  618. acknowledge Him, and He will make your path. There are

  619. things that God will actually do, things for your life

  620. that you don't even deserve, because you put it in

  621. the ground. So based on your it's on the grace

  622. that God has over your life. God wants you to

  623. understand this powerful truth today. That's why he says, Remember

  624. those who spoke so sparingly will read speraily. And he says, now,

  625. he who supplies seed to the soulred and bread for food,

  626. will also supply and increase the store of seed and

  627. will large the harvest of your righteousnes that you may

  628. be rich in every way, so that you can be

  629. generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will

  630. be in thanksgiving to God. The service that you perform

  631. is not only supplying the needs of God's people, but

  632. also overflowing and in many expressions of thanks to God

  633. because of the service by which you have proved yourself.

  634. Men will praise God for the obedience that the companies,

  635. your confession of the Gospel of Christ, and for your

  636. generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.

  637. And their prayers for you.

  638. For you, their hearts will go out to you because

  639. of the surpassing grace God has given you. Today we

  640. hear this statement. You ever heard this statement? You reap

  641. what yourself. That's not true. More than you sew, you

  642. reap more. Write this down. You always reap later and greater.

  643. You always reap later and greater. Some of us are

  644. frustrated with the harvests that are coming into our life,

  645. with our children, with our lives. I just gonna ask you,

  646. what are you sewing? If you don't like your harvest,

  647. you may want to change your seed. You may want

  648. to change your seed.

  649. Come on, stay with me.

  650. Today takes faith, takes trust in God. It comes from

  651. an overflow. Overflow. Overflow. Everything comes from overflow. How many

  652. when you're grateful today, you can't help but get thanks.

  653. Anybody grateful today for what God has done for your life.

  654. Come on, can you give him thanks right where you're at?

  655. Come on, come on, come on, worship team comes, come on,

  656. come on, come on, come on, just give him thanks.

  657. Come on.

  658. Don't stop thinking and come on, don't stop thinking and

  659. come on, don't stop thinking it.

  660. Come on, come on, give thanks with a grateful heart.

  661. Give famous. Come on to the whole one give, Come

  662. on to clemic. Oh God, he's giving Jesus. Come on,

  663. worship team, come on, pussy yes, come.

  664. On, let the wee say, come on sing it.

  665. Let the polls see because because of what the Lord

  666. has come on for give.

  667. Oh yeah, come on, just say good thanks, give, Come

  668. on with your hands raised, come on, come on, mo

  669. more time, good thanks, give, yeah yeah.

  670. Come on, declaim it. Oh yeah, lor we're gonna give

  671. your thanks. Come on, come on, give thanks. Give, Come

  672. on from the fruit of your lips.

  673. Hold on one, yeah, yeah, come on here, thanks, keep thanks.

  674. Come on, come on, let it overflow in your heart,

  675. over your mind. Come on, get thanks.

  676. Ge hagks a lord, yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, get thanks,

  677. give give hank so long yeah yeah, the Father, We

  678. pray God right now in the name of Jesus. In

  679. this house today, God, that you would be going to

  680. stir us today into generosity, begin to move us God

  681. from fear to faith, God from familiar to God the

  682. supernatural Today and God Today, I pray in the name

  683. of Jesus, God, that you would help us to grow

  684. in the faith of grace and the faith of giving today. God,

  685. I pray God today that you'd build this house today, God, Lord,

  686. and God that Lord you'll do more God in this

  687. next season than God than what we've done in the

  688. last ten years.

  689. God.

  690. I pray God today for supernatural God, supernatural finances, supernatural favor,

  691. supernatural grace over and above us and beyond that we

  692. can imagine our think not so that we can raise

  693. our living, but so we can raise our giving today God,

  694. so we can be the blessing today.

  695. God.

  696. We pray it in the mighty name of Jesus God.

  697. With every head bout and every od close, no one

  698. looking around today you say pastor today on that relationship

  699. of Jesus Christ.

  700. Even in this message. Today, the spirit of God is

  701. dealing with hearts. Today.

  702. In the first service, people raise their hands and say

  703. that I'm not in right relationship with the Lord and today,

  704. you say, pastor.

  705. Today, I want to surrender my life to Christ.

  706. God's dealing with your heart today and today he wants

  707. your surrender today.

  708. Would you just do me a favors?

  709. You just raise your hand, Come on, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly,

  710. come on, make you the heart doesn't save it day.

  711. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,

  712. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank.

  713. You, thank you Lord, thank you. Today I just want

  714. you to pray this print, say Jesus today, come on

  715. say it with me. Jesus. Today, I surrender my life

  716. to you. I confess my sins. I've done wrong to.

  717. You, to others, and today I ask you to forgive me,

  718. cleanse me, wash me, make me.

  719. Right through your precious blood.

  720. I turned from sin and I turn to you, and

  721. I confess you as my savior, and I'm making my Lord.

  722. From this day forward, I'll choose to follow you.

  723. I'll give you thanks, and I give you pray.

  724. It's in your strong name, in Jesus' name, and all

  725. gospeople said, come on give him praise.

  726. So they come on, come on, come on, can you

  727. give God thanks? Say? Come on, come on, come.

  728. On, come on, come on, come on, come on, mom,

  729. come on, give him thanks.

  730. Come on, give him thanks.