Sunday Message (2nd service) - Pastor Tim Carscadden (April 26, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. All right, good morning.

All right, I'm asking the time because there's

organ time and then there's pastor Brad time.

All right. Is that true? I have certain people

in my life, I call them their clockless. You

know anybody like that? That's a personality

trait sometimes. But it's so good to be here.

And we had a great service this morning. I really

felt the Lord was really speaking clearly for

this house and for you. And as we were staying

at the lodge here last night, I had multiple

dreams. I didn't get to sleep much because God

just kept speaking. I'd have a dream. I'd wake

up. I'd process it. Okay, good. Now I can go

back to sleep. I'd wake up, have another dream.

And that's how God speaks to me. I think in Job

it talks about I came to you once, twice, then

in a dream and a vision in the night. I'm the

dream and the vision and the night person. I

don't get the once, twice thing. I miss that.

And I think because I'm too busy and too, I don't

know. You know how that can be. Your life is

so much. I guess as a kid, I could have been

ADHD, but I don't receive that at all. And I

think I'm multitasker in the spirit. That's what

I call it. And I can do many things at one time.

Just look at it that way, right? So I always

say dyslexic people are probably Jewish because

they read right to left. See, it's just the other

way because that's how Hebrew goes. I find an

answer for everything the devil is trying to

throw on us. All right. I want to just come to

you today, and I had a dream about this service

that was separate from the other service. So

I want to speak to some of that here this morning

about what the Lord wants to do for you. And

there is a real battle in the spirit for you

here today. And one of the things I saw in the

dream was distractions are trying to steal you

from hearing the word of the Lord. And it's something

that God wants to help you with. And I feel like

as somebody who spends my entire ministry, my

whole life as a prophetic person, I've spent

my whole. ministry almost trying to learn how

to hear God and press in. And we're in a season

right now with the war in Iran. It's a picture

of what's happening. This prince of Persia that's

very active is trying to release a spirit that's

going to cause us not to hear and to fulfill

our command. And if you know Jezebel, the main

thing she did against Elijah was to try to get

him to stop prophesying. And I'm not going to

stop prophesying. And nor should you stop. And

in this moment, the distractions of all that's

going on in life and the world is trying to keep

you from your ministry, what you're called to

do, but more importantly, from hearing from God.

So I want to take authority over this. Is that

a dream for this service? And so if you've been

battling distractions, it's like God's trying

to speak and problems come. Has it ever happened

to you when you try to read the Word or pray?

You know, what happens is every thought, well,

I've got to fix that. door over there. I got

to call somebody. Am I talking to myself up here?

We all do. What I learned to do is get a notepad

and every time one of those thoughts come in,

just say, thank you, Satan. I'll write that down.

I'll do that later. And then you have a list

of things to do after the prayer. You're not

disturbed in the prayer because you focused on

the prayer so that you could get finished to

where God wanted you to go. And so I think that

when it says to pray without ceasing, speaks

of that you're not interrupted. We think it means

praying all the time, which it can, but I think

it's about without being distracted. And I think

one of the focuses y 'all need right now, especially

with the warfare that's going on here, the bank

and all that's going on, is you've got to hear

the Lord right now. And you have to prophesy.

One of my favorite passages in Revelation is

when John, you know, he sees all these cataclysmic

events in the world, and the angel comes to him

with this little book. And he says, I want you

to eat the little book, you know. And so he eats

the book, and whatever's in that book was sweet

to his mouth, but it was bitter in his belly.

And so I imagine part of it was, look, these

people don't want to hear what I got to say anyway.

But on top of that, I'm seeing all this stuff.

But he went ahead and the Lord said to him, the

angel said to him, you must prophesy again to

the nations and people. So there's a point in

ministry and the call of God of your life that

you cannot be distracted by the bitterness of

what you're going through. You cannot be focused

like what's going on here at this bank. We cannot

be distracted by what the enemy's trying to do

here. And steal your property. That's one thing.

We're going to get that back. Amen. Maybe God

will give us property somewhere else around here

that we need as well. Let's add. Let's build.

I'm not telling you that's a word of the Lord.

I'm just going for it. It's like if you stole

it, devil, I want my stuff back. And I say that

for everybody. Make it personal to your own life

as well. What has happened to you? What have

you been stolen from in these last few years?

And let's get that back from the Lord. And begin

to go through that process. I had a gross dream

recently. In the sense, in this dream, it was

a prayer room. And it has to do with prayer.

And I think about not being distracted too. But

in this prayer room, we were fasting and praying

for a cleansing of our prayer lives. And while

we're praying. And in the room, all these worms

came to the surface. I mean, ugly, big, all different

size worms, colors, everything. And the person

in the dream came to me and said, Pastor, all

these worms, I don't know how to get rid of them

all. And I had just gotten a prophetic word prior

to her giving me this dream. It was that, I had

the dream, but before she gave me that part,

was that we were in Joel chapter 2 where God's

Joel 2 · chapter mention

restoring the years that the worms or locusts

have stolen. And she didn't know that. And so

I think, okay, that's a good sign to me. And

so anyway, so we went in there, and I saw these

worms. They were all over the place. Now, most

of them were dead. We had prayed them out and

killed them. But some of them were dormant, and

then some of them were acting like they're dead

so that they could come back and devour later.

And I was given this instrument, the dream, to

cut their head off and to get rid of them and

to remove them from our prayer lives so that

we don't lose what we've been praying for for

years. Okay, so we've been praying for an awakening

in Oregon. We've been praying for transformation

in Oregon. We've been with this petition. That's

part of the process. But we got to believe for

transformation in this state. I'm not going to

accept that the devil gets this state and that's

just the way it's going to be. We disagree with

that. And we have gotten for us who've been fighting.

We fight. I feel like I fight in that arena a

lot in Louisiana. We did and we got it back.

You know where it started. It started in a prayer

meeting. We started many years ago when we were

so corrupt. We were the most corrupt state in

America. We met in South Louisiana with a group

of intercessors, a guy named Tony Perkins. If

you know him, he's from a family, whatever his

group's called. I forget what it's called. What's

the name of his group? Yeah, Family Research

Council, if you keep up with him. He was from

Louisiana, and we met with like seven of us or

so, seven, eight of us. And here's what we said.

We got in a circle about Louisiana and the atmosphere,

and we said, enough's enough. We want our state

back. That's what we said. So we started praying.

We divided our state up into districts, and we

started praying all over the state. And we said,

God, we want back what the enemy has stolen.

Get the years back that we were supposed to have.

And we began to move so much forward that we

began to prophesy what God wanted to do. And

the Lord gave me a word recently that God was

going to make Louisiana a mouthpiece to the nation,

is what he said. And then Mike Johnson, who's

my congressman, he's a personal friend of ours,

became the speaker of the house. And he became

the voice for the nation. And so out of this

corrupt state, God turned it around and gave

us a voice in the land. And I want to say, if

God can do it for us, he can do it for you. And

what we're doing here right now is to break what

the enemy's trying to do. I felt like I was supposed

to come and just labor with Pastor Brad and Jenny

and the work here, the leaders here, to break

this spirit that wants to steal what God has

planted in this house and in this state. And

we're here to do it. Devil, you can say all you

want to do. We're going to get it back. Say that.

I want my stuff back. I want every part of it

back. And I think that's the critical part. So

in this dream, we got rid of all the worms. I

was going to leave some of them because they

were dead. And the Lord said, no, get rid of

them all. Don't have any memory of what the enemy's

stolen. Don't have a memory of it. Get rid of

those memories and say, well, that was a past.

I'm in a place now, what he has done is restored.

And the dream told me, I mean, the word about

this year was that for the last three years,

and then Pastor Brad told me, y 'all been fighting

this battle for three years. So it's time to

get it back. And in my dream, I saw like a bank

vault, a vision. I had a bank vault of all the

blessings we lost in the last three years. And

the Lord said, tell my people they didn't lose

them. I just stored them. And I'm about to open

the vaults up and release back to you what's

been stolen the last three years. If you want

that, can you stand up right now? I want to pray

over you right now. Everything that you've lost

in the last three years. You may have lost relationships.

You may have lost joy. You may have lost peace.

You may have lost finances. You may have lost

all sorts of things. I want to decree right now

that God wants to give it back to you. It is

his joy and his passion. Look, Israel did not

deserve to get it back, but God said, I want

to give it back. He said, I will restore it to

you. The kicker of that scripture is he didn't

say you'll restore it, so you can't work harder

to get it back. He said, I will restore it. So

I speak that over everybody standing right here

right now. In the name of Jesus, I decree right

now that everything that's been stolen from them

by the locusts, by the worms in the last three

years, especially, Lord, I speak to their houses.

I speak to their hearts. And I say, Lord, you're

a God of restoration. And I decree today on this

day here in April, Lord, on this day, you're

going to restore back to these people and to

this house what has been stolen. We say to that

vault right now, open up. name of Jesus and release

the blessing over us more than we can handle.

I just thank you, Father, for that portion right

now. In the name of Jesus, I speak that over

everybody here and everybody's family. Everybody's

connected this. I thank you for it, Lord. Now,

in the name of Jesus, we are getting our stuff

back. We thank you. Now, say that again. We're

getting our stuff back. All right. Look at your

neighbor and say you're getting it back. Come

on. All right. You can be seated. Come on. It's

weird. While I was prophesying there, if you're

prophetic, you understand this. That's why I

think we're all ADHD, because we can multitask.

But as I was prophesying that, I saw the tabernacle

of Moses. And it was when all the people were

bringing the goods to pay for it. And I just

saw it right here. I just saw it in the spirit,

like floating. And what did Moses have to say

finally? You know the story. Stop. I wouldn't

be like Moses. I said, keep bringing it. Keep

bringing it. No, but he said, we have more than

enough. And I just saw that. It's not here. Pastor,

it's not landed yet. I saw it floating right

in here in the spirit. So we want this thing

to land today. We want that provision. Now, if

the provision is going to come, who brought it?

The people did. So God, if you're not being blessed,

how can you bring it? You have to be blessed.

And that's why we're going to talk about First

Fruits here for just a minute. And I want to

speak to them. We're not here to take up an offering.

It's already been taken, thank goodness. And

so I'm not here to take your money. I'm not here

to do anything like that. I want to encourage

you because First Fruits is a principle. It's

not just an offering. I was, last week we were

at a Holocaust Remembrance Service. We're part

of that in our city. And we're at a Methodist

church, first Methodist in our city. It's a big

old church. And, you know, they're old. I mean,

they're not serving like what we do. Let's just

say it that way. They're going after different

things than we're going after. And I'm sitting

in the pew, and me and Susan are sitting there,

and they have a little hook with the offering

cards right there, and they have a little hook,

and they had a little flyer hanging on it. And

it was a basket of fruit, and it said, First

Fruits. And I said, how did the Methodists figure

this out? I didn't know they even knew anything

about this. And I knew it was a sign to me. It

was the week before I came here. And I knew that

the Lord said, I'm going to touch even the religious

that are going to start flowing in the first

fruit anointing. And I think that's a picture.

I'm not calling you all religious. I'm saying

those people were, all right? If it fits, wear

the shoe. But I'm telling you, God wants you

to be a part of this principle. And when I learned

this principle many years ago, 20 plus years

ago, when I first time I heard it, it was foreign

to me. I didn't fully understand it, even as

it was being taught to me. But when it came,

I just said, that's right. I said, I don't know.

I'm going to have to study this. I'm going to

have to work this out in my heart. But I know

this is right. And I began to do this. Susan

and I, we began to sow as a family. Begin to

see the blessing. I knew what happened. And this

is something last night in my dream. I had another

dream. Thank you for the portal over here, this

next door over here. If y 'all need to get here,

God, just go sleep in room 205. It's right there.

Double the price, though, don't you? Extra money

goes for the bank. Anyway, so in my dream, one

of my teachers who taught me first fruit principles

was in the dream. and all of a sudden, I know

he has three boys, and the natural, and so do

we, but he had three boys, and in my dream, I

saw his children prospering, and I saw them alive,

and they were carrying on the first fruit principle.

And the Lord said to me in the dream, when you

sow in the first fruit principle, it creates

a generational blessing that will go on from

generation to generation. And I saw his three

kids being blessed and now they're prospering

in that same principle because of mom and dad

sowing into it. Well, where's that in the Bible,

brother? Well, I want to say this. When it says

in Hebrews that when Abraham tithed, he said

Levi was in his lawns. Levi was generations away.

So when Abraham was sowing, it was touching future

generations. So when you participate in the first

fruit principle and sowing here, you're not just

for yourself. You need to get over yourself and

realize I'm touching future generations. And,

well, I don't have any kids. Well, you have people

you influence. You have spiritual children. I'm

not going to let you off the hook. You've got

to begin to believe for this for future generations.

And so I wrote him this morning. I had talked

to this pastor, this minister. He's a big -time

minister, big, big minister. I won't tell you

who he is. I hadn't talked to him in probably

10 years. I text him this morning and I told

him what my dream was last night. And he texts

me back and named his boys and they're all in

ministry right now, serving the Lord in a mighty

way. And he said, that principle, he said, that

dream means a lot to me. And I said, well, it

means more to me because I'm preaching it this

morning, all right? But I'm telling you, it is

a powerful word for you as you're gonna sow.

So I have three boys. I have two of them now

are in full -time ministry. And my third one's

in college, and he's headed the same direction.

Because, see, I'm not saying full -time ministry

is the answer to everything. I'm just saying

they're going to follow in the anointing that

their daddy's walking in, their mama's walking

in. And we started with first principle because

what happened is we created a culture in our

house that God is first in everything. Not just

in our giving, but in our lives. It doesn't matter.

And so sometimes as a minister, it's really hard

because we got to pour into people that don't

have that principle. I'm talking to the people

over here. I'm not talking to you. All right.

And it's hard because we want 100 percenters

because we wouldn't be in ministry if we weren't

100 percenters. And the Bible talks about there's

people 30, 60, and 100. And I realize God uses

them all. I get that. There's sheep and goat

in the church. I heard Rodney Howard Brown say

one time, don't forget, you can milk goats, brother.

And I said, well, I guess you're right there.

But some of y 'all caught that. But it's one

of these things where we want everybody to be

100 % because it's about being married to the

Lord. And there's a passage in the Song of Songs

that I teach. I teach a lot of Song of Songs.

And it talks about, because Solomon is a type

of the bridegroom. I mean, of the bride, the

stories about the bride. And he talks about he's

a type of Christ in the book. And he said this

of his 700 wives. I realize he had women problems.

I get it. But more ways than one. But as a type,

let's look at it spiritually. He describes his

wives. And he says this. He said, there are virgins

without number. There are 80 concubines, 60 queens,

but one bride. And in the analogy of that passage

is of the 700 wives, there's only one that was

considered the bride. There was virgins. In other

words, these are people that get saved, come

to the Lord, but they're without number. They've

never had intimacy with the Lord. They've never

been with him. They're virgins. They're pure

in the sense they got saved, but they've never

had an encounter. 80 queens, 60, you know, 80

concubines, 60, some that got a little bit closer,

but only one who said, I want to marry you. And

that's a picture of the church. And the first

fruit principle will be this. You want to marry

Jesus. You want all of it. You do not want to

be married to anything else but him. And if you

struggle with that, guess what? You don't have

the fullness of the first fruit principle because

Jesus wants all of us. He doesn't want part of

us. Not in a selfish way. It's such a joy to

walk in your purpose. I don't know how better

to put it. Because when you start living for

yourself versus living what he wants you to live

for, there's always something missing in your

journey. You may be saved and have a measure

of peace because you're saved. But the fact is,

inside of you, you know you're not doing all

that you're supposed to do. You know that's why

you don't want to die? Because if you... If you

don't want to die, it's because you know you

haven't finished your journey. When Paul had

finished his journey, he says, my time's up.

I'm done. He said, I'm a drink offer. I've been

poured out. He said, there waits for me a crown

of righteousness. He knew his time was up because

he had run his race. And he ran it as a first

fruit principle guy. Everything that he gave

was for the Lord. Well, that's for the prophets

and apostles. No, that's for you. That's for

me. Well, nobody may know what I'm doing. Amen.

Look, as many people are getting hit right now

for being popular, famous, it's probably good

you're not known. And just hang low with Jesus

and spend time with him and do what God's called

you to do in your life. And that's a first fruit

principle. As we celebrate this truth, and I

know y 'all are going to teach on it next week,

and I'm not trying to. Pastor Brad is going to

do a much better job than me. I'm here as a prophetic

voice this weekend just to pour into you. But

as we saw this first fruit principle when Israel

came out of Egypt, right? That's when it got

instituted. So I want you to understand this.

One of the first principles he taught them at

Passover was the first fruits, was the first

thing they learned after they came out of Egypt

or they came out of the world. So the first principle

we should all learn when we get born again is

this principle. That we give the best. He's the

Passover lamb. He died for us. Covers our sins.

And then he becomes the first fruit of the resurrection

of the dead. And so therefore we go into that

principle and we live like he did. And we experience

the power of that first fruit. Thank goodness

for that. That he is that. And I want to use

a scripture. Do you have Bibles in Oregon? Yeah,

okay, good. All right. If you will, turn to Genesis

4 for a second. And I want to, one of the best

ways to demonstrate this principle is through

Abel and Cain, the story here. It not only reveals

the Lord's blessing upon one who gave their best,

but it also reveals the issues of the heart of

why you don't give your best. And it started

in the very beginning. It didn't take us humans

very long to screw it up. Okay? The first kids

were already getting off from the first fruit

principle. I want you to understand that. That's

why the devil fights this truth. Because if he

can get you off and go selfish on yourself, then

you won't walk in the fullness of that. So our

story, Abel's the keeper of the flocks. Cain

was a farmer. And I like that. I like that they

had two different vocations. So it makes you

understand that this principle works for whatever

vocation you have. It's not just for one group

of people. It's for all of us if we walk through

this. So Genesis 4, verse 3, it says, So it came

Genesis 4:3

about in the course of time that Cain brought

an offering to the Lord, the fruit of the ground,

and Abel on his part also brought the firstlings,

or the first fruit, of his flock and of their

fat portions, and the Lord had regard for Abel

and for his offering. Okay, let's talk about

this for just a second. The word there, it says,

in the course of time, in the Hebrew, literally

means at the end of days. So what this does,

it implies here that this was a reoccurring appointed

time that happened every year, and it was a form

of worship. So every year, God was going to come

to Cain and Abel and ask them for this offering.

And that's where we are. And it signifies the

passing of time. And Cain and Abel offered their

labors and highlighted that it was an established

time of habitual worship rather than some random

event. And so a lot of the church doesn't practice

first fruits because they don't understand it's

an appointed time. It's a set course time that

the Lord has for us. And for us who've been walking

in it, it's amazing because I don't want to ever

not walk in it. Because now it's a part of our

lives. My kids are already doing it. We already

have generations in our church that are already

doing it. They don't think about should I, should

not. It's about how much. You know, what are

we going to do this year? And for Susan and I,

every year we want to give the largest offering

we ever give all year long. I say that, but that's

not an easy thing to say because every year it's

got to go up. But every year it does go up. And

I want to say this. For the last, I think, five

years, I'll say this. We've sowed the biggest

offering we ever do one time a year. Within three

months of us sowing, we get it back. I have not

gone past three months. And I didn't. I wasn't.

asking for that. That wasn't what I was seeking

because the promises for the entire year, you

get your, your crops are blessed the entire year,

but all of a sudden it started coming quicker

and quicker. One time it happened like within

two weeks, the largest one we ever gave. We got

right back in two weeks. I say, hundo, shundo,

come on, Lord. I like this. I like this. I like

this. I like this. Everything you touch in your

life starts becoming blessed. everything you

start touching is blessed. When you walk in this

principle, again, it's way beyond your money.

It's your life because it's your heart. And I

want to deal with that for just a few minutes

here while we have today about those issues.

And so that course of time, let's keep reading

verse five, but for Cain and for his offering,

God had no regard, right? So Cain became very

angry and his countenance fell. Then the Lord

said to Cain, why are you so angry? And why has

your countenance fallen? If you do well, will

not your countenance be lifted up? And if you

do not do well, sin is crouching at your door

and its desire for you, but you must master it.

So God was offering grace to Cain in the middle

of his mess up. You know what I'm saying? He's

angry. He's angry about this whole thing that

God did not have regard for it. And there's a

reason God didn't have regard for it, right?

Because it wasn't his first. Nor was it his best.

Abel gave his best. It doesn't matter the size,

it's the best. You understand? Whatever God tells

you is the best. And so that's what Abel did.

And Cain, because he obviously had more produce.

It was easier for him to choose what he gave

rather than give what the Lord asked for. And

that's when you get off on the first fruit principle

is you start deciding what you should give and

what you should do. You've forgotten several

things. Number one, he's the one that gave you

the ability to produce wealth. Number two, it's

his earth that you're producing from and that

everything you're blessed with is from him anyway.

There's a scripture in Isaiah that said he gives

us beauty for ashes. You want to understand that?

The only beauty that we all walk in in the Lord

is what the Lord gave us. You are very ugly in

the spirit without Jesus. I don't care what kind

of makeup and dress you wear. I'm telling you,

your beauty comes from him. And from that, it's

in a divine exchange. And so as I give my best

to him, he gives me beauty back. Look, I look

great in the Spirit. Right? If I give and I sow,

I do what God's called me, you look great in

this. Look at your neighbor and say, man, you

look great in the Spirit. Don't say what they

look in the natural. Just talk about the Spirit,

all right? Go there. So, in the short passage

we just read, we see the difference between the

hearts of two brothers. Abel and his free will

did not withhold his best, what the Lord had

provided for him, and Cain chooses. To give at

a giving level that he chose. So here's what

happens with the first fruit offering. You're

going to hear me. Even with your tithe. What

the Lord does, he lets you know what's in your

heart. And there's a power of this. God uses

the offering and it reveals things. And when

you're asked to give, what rises up in you will

let you know what you need to deal with. It's

awful quiet up in here. Because I remember one

time I asked some leaders to help do a work day

at the church and one of my leaders said, can

I just write a check? I said, well, we'll take

your money, but we sure would like your hand

too, you know. Because what happened when I asked

him to work, his heart rose up and said, I'd

rather just give money than do anything. So when

the ask comes from the Lord, It's to reveal the

heart. And when it comes to first fruits, he's

trying to find out where you are. And so he asked

this every year of Cain and Abel. And what he

found out was Abel had the right heart. Cain

did not. And it revealed the anger in Cain's

heart because he didn't like God giving favor

to somebody else. And yet he was not being obedient.

And that's one of the things, when others prosper,

and if that bothers you, it's probably because

you're not practicing this principle. If you're

practicing this principle, you're excited that

somebody else is being blessed as well. You're

pumped that they're being blessed because they're

part of the principle. This little testimony

up here, the couple up here a while ago was awesome.

It's awesome what God is doing right there because

what they've done, they've tapped into that principle.

We should celebrate that and say, Lord, what

you're doing for them, do it for me. Do it for

my house as well. And I want to participate in

this truth as well. And if we all start doing

that, we'll have a spirit of thankfulness that

comes in this house. And when thankfulness comes,

everything's available. Because I'm telling you,

that brings the power of God in such a great

way. And I want to say this. Cain had a chance

here to deal with the issues of his heart. You

have a chance right here. And it'll depend on

this. Do you understand that God's your provider?

And if you don't think God's your provider, you're

not going to want to give your best. Because

you think if you give your best, you're not going

to have. You know, I watch pastors drive around

their towns and look at the churches that are

prospering and get mad at them. I go, why are

they prospering? You know, I'm praying more.

You know, whatever their issues are. And what

they do is they have a poverty mentality. They

think that if God blesses them, he can't bless

his church. God's big enough to bless all churches.

And I should celebrate. I should drive by that

parking lot. Praise God. People are hearing the

gospel. People are hearing the word of the Lord.

Amen. And start celebrating that and watch God

say, look, I'm going to run my race and let them

run their race. I'm not going to worry about

them. I'm going to worry about what I'm called

to do. Are you with me there? And so when you

go to, I won't go there, but if you were to go

to Galatians 5 where the sins of the flesh or

the lower nature is listed, most of those issues

are in Cain's life. He has most of them. He has

idolatry in his life. He's got jealousy. He's

got strife. He's got enmity. He's got outbursts

of anger. He's got disputes. He's got envying.

These are all in him. He said, I forewarn you,

the scripture says, that you, if you practice

such things, you will not inherit the kingdom

of God. So Cain was not in line to inherit the

kingdom because his heart was there. So the actual

first fruit offering revealed that to him. That

was the goodness of God. Because had he not had

it revealed, he would not know it was there.

So when Pastor Brad and they're saying, we need

your first fruit offering this year. We want

you to give to the kingdom. If you struggle with

that and stuff, anger, he's always asking for

money. I'm not saying they do that to you, Pastor

Brad. But I'm just saying, I'm sure there's some

people around town that do. You know, they're

always out there. It's such garbage when that

goes on. Because his man and his wife are fighting

for your souls. And they want you to prosper

more than anything else. As a pastor, and I've

been a pastor in 30 years this August, I'll say

this. The greatest joy I have is when the people

we sow into are walking in what we've sowed into

them. I don't know of a greater joy. And to see

them walk it out and walk in that purpose, I

say, yes, that's why we're here. We're here to

care for their soul, but to see them prosper

in everything that God's called them to do. And

that to me is like, yes, it brings such peace

to my soul. And so we see this picture here that

the Lord tells Cain, you better master this thing.

And I'm here to tell you today, you better master

it. You better master the sin that's crouching

at your door that you don't want to give your

best. I'm not talking about money always. It's

part of it. I'm talking about the best of everything

you have. That you give your life, your joy,

your peace, everything you have, you give the

best that you have to the Lord. When it talks

about when you practice these things, that means

repeatedly and habitually. That's not talking

about every once in a while you get angry at

the guy in front of you in the car. I'm not talking

about that. I'm talking about this is a major

issue in your life. And so the lower nature of

Cain is demonstrated there. In 1 Corinthians,

1 Corinthians 9:5

9, verse 5, it says this. So I thought it necessary

to urge you, brethren, that they would go on

ahead of you and arrange beforehand previously

promised a bountiful gift, and so that the same

would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected

by covetousness. So Paul was about to receive

an offering, but he warned them as well to don't

let it be affected by having a covetousness in

your heart. So there's going to be a thing. I'm

giving this thing. It's like squeaking out of

your hands when it goes in, you know. Look, I

want that. No, release it to the Lord. You know,

everybody, well, I don't know if that church

is using the money. You know, that, I, hmm. Here's

the thing. If God told you to give, don't worry

about that. I'm not saying they should be responsible.

They should do all those things. There should

be checks and balances. I get all that. But your

responsibility is to sow. And let God take over

from there. You understand that? Even the laws

of our state says that offerings that come to

churches, the people can actually not really

determine where it goes. That's what the laws

are as nonprofits. But when people designate,

we give it exactly where they said they're going

to give it. I know they do that here too. Because

we want to be people of integrity. And that's

one of those things. But we sow it and we release

it and we say, it's yours, Lord. I don't even

think about missing it. It's gone. And now I

know it's in the ground, and I expect a harvest

from that very thing. Look, you can give a bountiful

gift, but it must not be affected by that you're

coveting what you just gave. You want it back,

okay? So there describes two things about offerings

in Scripture that I want to share, and then we'll

let y 'all go home. Number one is the amount,

and number two is the heart in which it was given.

And I want to say this very clearly. We see this

in the widow when Jesus watched the widow when

she gave. Remember that? He stood there and watched

in the offering of Luke 21. It says the rich

people were given, and so was the widow, and

it was all being observed. And I want to say

this as a principle. All the amounts that we

give are being observed by heaven. I don't expect

any amens here because it's making you nervous.

But there's bookkeepers in heaven. I want you

to understand that. And so the kicker of that

story was it was Jesus who was watching the offerings.

I don't know where he was, but they had a thing

that they brought the offering. He stood right

there and watched everybody give. He's watching

it. And I want to say that every offering, Jesus

watches what's given. Okay, that shouldn't scare

you. That should delight you. He took notice

of it, right? That should delight you. And he

saw the widow and what she said of her. She gave

more than all of you. Because why? He measured

two things. He measured the amount and the heart.

So in every offering that we give to the Lord,

our lives as well as our finances, God measures

two things, the amount you gave and the heart

in which you gave it. Hmm. Mary Baxter, when

she was taken to heaven and one of her encounters,

she saw offerings and she saw angels. She saw

two angels at every offering. They had clipboards.

She said they wrote the amount and the heart

in which it was given. The Bible says God loves

a cheerful giver. Now I realize he can take money

from a grump, but he loves a cheerful giver,

right? He loves a cheerful giver because that

cheerful is the heart issue. Cain gave. He gave

an offering, but his heart was wrong. And therefore,

God had no regard for it. So next week, you're

going to take a first fruit offering. That ought

to really put the fear of God in you. is that,

Lord, I not only want to give the best, but I

want my heart to be right. So all week this week,

do this for me. Pray, God, I want to make sure

as I give this that my heart's right. That as

I sow, I want to say, I don't want any covetousness

on this. I want it to be yours, and I want you

to use it for what you're doing. And I want to

say this, because I know y 'all been giving to

the bank thing, and you're doing this, so you're

going to get a double blessing this year. Because

you sowed to this and you're going to sow to

this. And look, God is not running out of resources.

It is flowing, flowing. You know, I was telling

Pastor Brad, we have a gas well, a natural gas

well in our neighborhood. Literally in our neighborhood.

They found in our Louisiana. I actually prophesied

it. I went to the state senate. The Lord gave

me a word from the Lord and go to the state senate

and before every senate hearing, a meeting, they

asked the pastor to pray. And they gave me two

minutes and the Lord said, don't pray, prophesy.

And I said, Lord, they don't allow that. He said,

well, then pray, prophesy. Dear Jesus, the Lord

says, you know. And then at the end say amen,

all right? That's all you gotta do. The prophecy

is the meat and the dear Lord and amen is the

bread, all right? So that's how you do it. And

the Lord gave me Isaiah 45. He said, you'll find

secret treasures in hidden places. So I got up

there at the Senate, and they gave me two minutes.

The guy has a gavel with a clock. He got two

minutes to pray. I timed it. I wrote it out,

and I timed it. I was ready to go two minutes.

So I'm prophesying this whole thing, and all

the senators had their head bowed. And all of

a sudden, they lift up their heads like, what

is that guy doing up there? I didn't care. I

was doing what the Lord said. I was giving my

best at the Senate, knowing that I'd never be

invited again. Okay? I understood that. But I

had an assignment. And I prophesied it. I said,

we will find. In Louisiana, God's going to turn

us around economically. I said, we're going to

find hidden treasures and secret places. It was

great. I was having a good time. And that guy

with the gavel, he couldn't come down fast enough.

Man, that two minutes, two minutes. Come on,

shut this guy up. And, you know, he shut it down.

And so I walk off the platform and there's some

lobbyists over here and some people work at the

finances. And a guy walks up to me and goes,

how'd you know that? I go, what do you mean?

He said, how'd you know we're going to find hidden

things? I said, because the Holy Spirit told

me. And he goes, well, just today we found millions

of dollars in our budget we didn't know about.

And I said, well, it's starting already. I said,

I had this prophecy before I ever came here anyway.

I said, that thing's starting to happen. And

it was a matter of months in our district where

I live. Three months later, they drilled there.

They found the fourth largest gas shell in the

world underneath us. And I said, there we go,

hidden treasures and secret places. We had more

redneck millionaires than you'd ever believe.

Unbelievable. You don't understand rednecks when

they get money. I had another guy, he owned a

boat and RV store. He would sell out every month.

These rednecks are buying everything, man. Every

boat, every four -wheeler, everything. Brad don't

have nothing on them. I'm telling you, Pastor

Brad doesn't. Nothing. But it was a blessing,

and our economy began to turn over. And then

they drilled right in my neighborhood. Shondo

Kondo. I said, come on, Lord. I didn't even ask.

This is Lanyap we call in Louisiana. That's above

and beyond. I don't even have to work for it.

It comes to my door, comes to my mailbox every

month. We're here to bless you because you've

sown into the land. Because you said, I'm going

to plant myself here. I'm going to build myself.

I'm going to give my best here. And every month

they give it to us. And this, I told him this,

this last, this first three months, I made more

money in the first three months I made all of

last year. It's like this war in Iran, I'm saying,

keep it going. You know, because it's like price

of gas and all. It's like. Too bad y 'all had

to pay so much. But I'm telling you, we're being

blessed in Louisiana. There's so many boats on

our coast, we don't have places to put them.

We're filling them up. Because why? And I want

to say this to you. One of the reasons Louisiana

is blessed, a bunch of us prophetic people years

ago, we had a word from the Lord, because we

believe in sowing into the first peoples, which

is the Jewish people, Israel, because they're

the first people that God ever created, right?

As a family. After Noah, we had that, but we

had Abram and Abraham. It was the first family

that he created. And so we decided to do this

as a state. And so we went to our state treasurer,

a bunch of prophetic people. I wasn't at that

meeting, but we were before. We talked about

it. And we went to him. We said, we feel like

Louisiana should sow into Israel. Now, we were

in an economic crisis beyond belief. We were

horrible financially. And the treasurer said,

well, let's do it. So they invested millions

of dollars in Israeli bonds. And so we gave our

best we could for Israel and for the first peoples.

We call the first people, or I say first fruits

of the peoples. And within a year, the economy

of Louisiana turned around. And even the state

legislators scratched their heads and we don't

understand what's going on. And I said, well,

when you give your first and your best, it brings

a blessing on the house. And it brought a blessing

on Louisiana. When I became pastor, we were in

such debt, it was unbelievable how much debt

we were in. Susan and I took over. The church

was a mess. And I said, and I looked at the finances

of the church, and we were given less than 1

% of commissions or anything. And I said, first

of all, we got to at least tithe. I told my elders.

I said, I'm not going to be pastor unless you

let me start leading this church to tithe. And

I said, the first place we're going to give to

is Israel. I said, if we'll do that, we'll watch

God bless us. And again, I shared it this morning.

Earlier, all the elders' names were on the mortgage.

So they were a bit nervous. And they wanted to

get out of debt in such a way because they wanted

to get their names off that issue. So they agreed.

They were desperate. We were in revival, so that

made it a lot easier. So we started doing that,

and we went to Israel. We found some ministries

to sow into. We started sowing, and within a

year and a half, our church got out of debt because

we sowed to the first. We sowed a principle.

It's more than just to Israel, to the Jewish

people. It's a principle. And God says, well,

this church is going to do what I asked them

to do. They're going to give their best. They're

not going to withhold. And this last year, almost

every year now, we gave over 30 % of our budget

away. We gave it to missions and ministries and

so forth. And we do a lot to Israel, but we do

it to other nations as well, because Jerusalem,

Judea, Samaria, the uttermost parts of the earth.

And as we did that, as a principle, God started

taking care of our resources. And we've been

debt -free for all those years. And I'll tell

you, as a pastor, that's a great relief to know

that you're debt -free. And I want to see this

for this house. I want this debt retired. I want

it to be tired and be gone. How about you? I

know Pastor Brad does. And look, he doesn't need

to carry this burden alone. This is your house.

That's what I saw. And this thing that I just

saw earlier about this tabernacle, it's floating

right there. That means it's not landed on you

yet. And I'm believing by the end of this service,

it's going to land on you. And you're going to

see, I want to be a part of this very thing that

God is doing right here and right in this place.

When we look at this story of what happened to

Cain and Abel, we can see that Cain never recovered

from that. And his line, his whole line of Cain

went off. Many interpretations suggest that Cain's

line moved into total depravity when you study

their history. It abandoned worship, and it went

in a whole different direction. So I want you

to understand, when you don't practice this principle

of sowing what God tells you to sow with the

right heart, it can curse your whole bloodline.

And I want my whole bloodline blessed. And I

say this to everybody here. I want you to do

this. We do this. At the end of the year when

you do your taxes, we just did them. How many

of y 'all still going through depression for

that? But it seemed like, man, they're taking

a lot of money. I said, Lord, remember that.

But anyway, at this time of year, I look at my

taxes and I tell even some of my staff, I tell

them all the time when they come on staff, I

said, I know what we're paying you. You probably

think you should have more. But I'm telling you,

this year and every year, you're going to live

beyond your means. I said, God is going to give

you more than you need to take care of your needs.

And you're going to wake up every year and say,

how did we do that? We didn't make that much

money, but we lived as if we did. And I'm not

talking about on credit cards. I'm talking about

God provided because they sowed in the first

fruit principle. And every time a new staff member

comes on after that first two years or so, they

go, you know what? That works. I said, I know

I've been in it a long time and I want you to

live like that. As you sow into this principle,

I want you to live beyond what your natural means

would say you would live. So whatever need you

have that God provides for you according to his

riches and glory in Christ Jesus, he comes and

takes care of you. And it starts with the first

fruit principle. It starts with your tithe. If

you're not going there, it's not going to work

either. You have to give that thing. Remember

this. There are two different entities. The tithe

is for the local. And to me, the first fruit

is for the global. It's really what it's looking

like because the tithe went to the Levites, which

took care of the people, and then the first fruit

went to the high priest, which is what the whole

global mission is, the apostle, because Jesus

is our high priest and apostle. You all agree?

It's what Hebrews 3 tells us he is. So when you're

given your first fruits this year, you're sowing

to the great apostle. And one thing I know about

a high priest and apostle is they intercede for

you. They go before the Father, and they say,

Father, help them, touch them, pour into them.

And that's what you're doing. When you sow, you're

giving it to Jesus. You're laying at his feet,

and he takes it, because it's his own anyway,

and he takes it back, and he says, Lord, now

bless the children, especially when they do it

with what? Their amount, but also their heart.

And when you do it with the right heart, what's

going to happen? There's no other outcome but

increase. There's no other outcome but increase.

I love God's stock market. It has never gone

down. Never. It says it ever increases. Government

is ever increasing. So it's always prospering.

So I want you to believe for that right now that

it's for you right now. Can I speak that over

you right now? I want to just pray over you as

we close here. And I want to say this. As we

honor the Lord with our wealth and the first

of our fruits, All our crops are income. I want

to say your barns will be filled. Your vats will

overflow with new wine. That sounds like faith

to me. It promises me my barns are going to be

filled. I love that principle, and Pastor Brad's

taught it here. You know, the Israelites were

the only nation that didn't store up that first

fruit. They gave it to God. The rest of the nation

is put in barns. Because they said our storehouse

is the Lord. Our storehouse is not natural barns.

I'm not saying you shouldn't save. Don't go there.

But I'm telling you, your trust has to be in

his barns. And in his barns, in time of need,

he unloads for you. They're full. I'm here to

prophesy over Life Bible, over Oregon, over this

house here today. The barns are full. The vats

are filled with new wine. And all we need to

do is have the Lord pour them out for you. I

speak that over this house right now. I say,

Lord, thank you for this house that has been

practicing and teaching the first fruit principle.

And I want to say this for this house right now.

That storage thing I saw in the vision, it's

here. It's here. It's here. I'm going to say

it one more time. It's here. And all it needs

to do is be poured out. So in other words, we

don't need to go find it. We just need to see

it released. I speak it over every house here,

every individual here, that, Lord, as they've

sowed the best they could at the amount you told

them to. I thank you, Lord, that you have regard

for that offering. And Lord, just like you loved

Abel for his giving, Lord, you love these people

for their giving. I pray over this house right

now that there would become wisdom over the leadership

here on how to walk this out. Wow. Just as I

said that, this is a simple statement, but I

just saw it flash. I actually saw it written.

God will get the glory. For what y 'all are going

through. I'm telling you. God is going to get

the glory. It's coming. It's big white letters.

I just see it like it's rounded over this house.

So there's a glory coming to this house. That's

not been here yet. Because it's going to be such

a great glory when he gets it. That it's going

to draw many. And it's going to help others who

come through their crisis. They're going to come

into a new place with the Lord. What your victory

is going to represent is if God did it there,

he can do it here. He can do it in my life. Father,

I pray for everybody here right now. Lord, sustenance

come to their house. Hope come to their house

right now. Father, that you're going to provide

for them according to your riches. But Lord,

I thank you now for our hearts to be rent. And

Lord, our hearts to be broken. Lord, as we give,

we give the best we can. but we give them with

the right heart. And I thank you, Lord, for the

hearts that are here. They want to sow. And then,

Lord, just put it on their heart, Lord. Where,

how they're going to do it is up to you, Lord.

But we surrender all. We give it all to you today

because we trust you in all our ways. Now, brother,

you got your arms in the back, you got the black

shirt. I just, as you were standing there, I

heard the word liberty. And the Lord said, where

the spirit of the Lord is, there's liberty. And

you've been pressing into this thing. And the

enemies tried to cause you to wobble just from

attacks, just little by little, just irritations

here and there. But the Lord said, this will

be a year that you're going to experience liberty

and freedom. And you're going to be a freedom

fighter. And as you fight, you're a fighter anyway.

But I'm telling you, as a greater fighter, the

day is coming where you're going to liberate

others to come and become strong in the name

of the Lord. This is a word over your life. It's

a word over this house. As you're on the back

wall, the Lord said you're a picture of the wall.

The liberation is coming for the wall issue.

But I'm telling you, you're going to be a manifestation

of it to all those that are around you. Don't

limit yourself as to your influence. For the

Lord said, I'm about to expand your influence

way beyond what you've ever experienced before.

There is a major shift coming in your life. And

I also saw the word of the Lord come in your

throat and begin to change your throat. In other

words, the sound that comes out of you. And it

will be such a strong word that it will pierce

things. Look, you've had some battles, but the

Lord said they're his. And he will continue to

overcome them. And you will be his champion in

this next season. I just speak that over you

right there. Now, I want to present this to Brad

and Pastor Brad and Jenny. This is a shofar.

And it's from Israel. And I felt like it's the

first fruit because it's the first fruit people.

And it's a different sound. I don't know that

you know how to blow a shofar. Do you know how

to blow a shofar? So -so, yeah. Find somebody

else then. But anyway, see, I can't either. But

it's from Israel. And the Lord told me, bring

a first fruit gift to you as a sign, as a first

fruit anointing. And as Jesus was there in the

land and he blessed the land and now they have

their land, this is going to be a promise to

you as you sound, this new sound comes out of

this house, that you're going to have the land.

There's more land coming. I'm telling you, you

got more land. I know we talked about that the

other day. There's more land coming. I'm telling

you, the enemy's going to have to cough it up.

And when he hears this new sound that comes out

of this house, the land's going to surrender

itself. I don't know how to explain that. Here's

what's going to happen. This is scripture. When

people defile the land, the land vomits them

out. And the Lord said, because you've blessed

the land, You prosper in the land. Those that

get vomited out, you're going to get what's been

vomited out. You can clean up the vomit. Don't

worry about that. I'm telling you, that's a picture

of what God wants to do for you. So with this

new sound, I release a new sound in this house.

And it's a sound of liberty. It's a sound of

freedom. But it's also a sound, Lord, of what

you did for a nation. You can do for this land.

You can do it right here, right now. So from

Israel to this land, we sow it into this house.

A new sound for this purpose right now. We decree

that in Jesus' name. Whatever you do in this

house, I say work it with all your heart as working

for the Lord, not for human masters. Colossians

3 .23. I decree that right now. First fruit portion

is a portion of the whole, and God is going to

bless the whole house here. I decree that right

now. Whatever you're doing, your businesses,

whatever, whatever you've invested in, prosper

right now. And I've shared this before, this

angel of abundance that me and Pastor Brad are

asking to come to our churches. I'm telling you,

he's still busy. I told you about an offering

last time I was here of a church. This angel

showed up. They had a million -dollar offering.

Had about 100 people there. Had a million -dollar

offering. And then I gave them another word.

They needed a property in California. We covered

this church. And we went and prayed over it.

And they needed $6 million. And somebody online

just sold to them $3 .5 million online. I'm telling

you right now, if you watch, I don't know if

y 'all are recording that, but I'm just telling

you, anybody can sow into this house. We speak

to the spirit of abundance, which is in the land.

It's in the spirit. And we say to the Lord, what

you've done for others, you can do for us in

this house. We release the spirit of abundance

again. Lord, upon the people first, but then

upon the house. Father, call them in from the

north, south, east, and west. And now we've gotten

in a new alignment here. We decree that the increase

is coming. Lord, we ask you to let it flow like

a river. What the enemy meant for evil, God,

you turn it for good in this house. We decree

that right now. Let it flow. Father, let it flow.

Let it flow. Let it flow. And Lord, we ask for

this anointing to take care of the tabernacle

that's sitting right here. We call it down. Land

it in this house now. And Lord, let it come.

And the people will sow and they'll sow and they'll

sow until we have to say that's more than enough.

Lord, we decree it right now. Increase right

now in that as well. We decree that right now.

Hallelujah. Let's worship. Let's just worship

the Lord right now. Can you stand? I feel like

as we worship, we're going to release this anointing

in this house to land this thing. We decree it.

Go ahead. If you are in need of prayer, send

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