The Spirit of Scarcity | Ps Graeme Politanski

Lot of water in this and one little thing blocking the flow

and this just came to me before. That little thing is often this

little thing and God wants to do something amazing, but because

of our stinking, thinking, wrong doctrines with theology, we are

blocking the flow of God. And this month, faith, love,

hope You've seen the theme with what passes Rages did with our

tithes and offerings. We're going to break this open.

We're going to reform, get some transformation because because

this starts to move. You know what's about to happen

as we shift. It starts with the drop, then

financial blessing, and then the sound guy just gets a bit upset.

It's OK, we'll pass the right and we'll fix that during the

week. But here's the reality.

Church is I just use it. You know, water we often refer

to as Holy Spirit. OK, but we're talking about

money. Can you see it?

See, because God wants to do things on the planet and the

Spirit moves in all power and authority.

But that comes through you and I, and I'll prove this in a

moment through the Scriptures. It's found in the very first

book, first chapter of our Bible.

And so God created man and women and he said have dominion over

everything. And you might go, yeah, but

that's not talking about money. Well, it was actually because it

started with animals, trade currency.

And so he said we as the church as his children are that have

dominion over all things of the earth.

Why? Because when we have dominion

get here, this when we have dominion, the will of God is

outworked through his creation, you and I.

And so although the the bottle is the contains the water of the

Holy Spirit, I'm not saying we are the Holy Spirit.

But what I'm saying is God's will is to work through you and

I, and you've heard this saying before, if he can get it through

you, he will get it to you. Often we will live in poverty

and scarcity because God can't get anything through us because

of the lid on the bottle. And today, in this month, we are

going to change the way we look at money and no longer cower at

these messages once a year when we to come around faith, love,

home. But this is going to be the best

season of the church every year because we have dominion over

these things. We learn the power to use these

things to see God's will outworked on planet Earth.

Let me tell you, it starts with a miracle service flyer that we

have to pay for the ink in our printer because I don't get them

professionally printed. I do it myself.

It's to save money. But we we will get to a point

where it's not just paying the bills, but it's paying for the

whole mission of what we do in society.

She rescue home doesn't pay for itself in Cambodia, every

project doesn't pay for itself. It's coming out of the church.

Everything we do, We got hundreds here at youth every

Friday night. It's it doesn't pay for itself.

But we are transforming the world around us.

And we're at a point at the as a church, we can't do it any

longer with the limited finances we have.

We have to get into alignment with the word of God that says

the shirts should be tithing and when we all tithe 10%, if you

work, you should be tithing because it's not.

It's not even about obedience. It's not about, it's not about

law, Old Testament, New Testament, it's all about

worship. And this is what we get to is

when we realise, like we saw in the video today, that we're just

giving back to God. Why do we give back our tithe?

Because if he can get it through us, he will get it to us.

Does this that make sense? And listen, if he can get it

through you, then you get to live in the blessing.

That's called overflow, Amen. And so if you can get it through

my life, I get to live in that blessing as well.

Isn't that amazing? And so this is what this month

is about S church. Can we declare out loud today?

My heart is open, my ears are alert.

I'm going to change and grow and never be the same in Jesus

mighty name, Amen. Please be seated.

I had to keep some in there. Today's message I want to talk

about the spirit of scarcity and we're going to look at breaking

the scarcity spirit now it's good.

Often when we think of this, we can all kind of come around it

when we think, you know, breaking this spirit over the

community. But the reality is, is I want to

break it over my own life. And so because I realise that as

it is broken as scarcity and poverty and and this whole

mindset and spiritual thing that allow around my world, as I

stand in faith and break it, I show other people how to break

it for their own lives. And as the blessing comes

through my life, my prayer is, is that people would pick that

up and see the same breakthrough happen in their own lives.

But if we do this collectively as a church, imagine the

effective it has on the community and imagine if every

church is walking in this, which I'm sure we we all are, and

we're all just breaking the spiritual, like, like hovering

thing over our lives and over our churches.

The church will just come out with all of this missional, you

know, thing within us to see change and transformation, to be

an answer to our world, not just be part of the world.

The Bible says be in the world, but not part of the world.

And so we need to lead society, not be led by society.

Does that make sense? You can live in Caboolture, but

we can change the way Caboolture has historically been all the

way from Bribie all and listen to me all the way to Tigulwa.

You just heard me right now. Just expanded the tent.

So there's a, there's a book that we, as you know, the

platform team are going through and all the leadership will

start to go through shortly called God, Money and Me and

it's Paul by Paul Dejong. And can I encourage you, if

you're a note taker today or just grab your phone out, just

quickly write that down. You can listen to this book on

Audible. God Money and me, God, Money and

Me by Paul Dejong. And this is a transformational

book, audio audio book. Or you can order it.

And it just completely unpacks the Bible and all of its stories

and its financial verses and just breeds light on it so that

we can understand, get our heads around it a little bit, but also

bring ourselves back into alignment.

Because the reality is as life goes on, as as life happens and

the the church evolves through all different cultures and eras,

the the reality is we always got to bring ourselves back into

alignment with the word of God and not just run with culture.

Does that make sense? And so this book will really

help you do that. It's a great tool for this.

I've got 2 scriptures that I want to start with today.

Psalms 23 verse one, just one verse.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not once when we follow

the shepherd, we no longer have wants in our lives.

Philippians 419 And my God shall supply all my needs, all your

needs according to his riches and his glory by Christ Jesus.

God doesn't supply all your needs according to your riches.

Thank you Jesus, thank you God. Listen, but you got to listen.

You got to hear that God doesn't supply the needs you have in

your life according to the income that your job provides.

That's not what the Scripture is saying.

And so today we're going to learn how to break this open by

5 points. I'll have coming up in a moment.

Today I want to talk about something that quietly effects

many, many believers. And it's the spirit of scarcity.

Not just lack of money, but a mindset of fear, anxiety, of

striving and never feeling secure.

Scarcity is often spiritual Before it's practical, it's

spiritual. And then we listen to it, then

we Stew on it. So now it's wobbling around in

our brains. And as you Stew on these things,

lack of money coming in this week, too many bills, look at

society, look at what the government's doing.

We're giving away all of our car companies.

What's going on in Australia? Where's our oil, you know,

factories. And we, we Stew on these things.

And what happens is as you Stew, you start to see all the

problems and you start to blame. And then it just comes down and

becomes a heart issue. And So what happens spiritually

in the world around culture? OK, we as the church listen to

Channel 9 every night and we Stew on it, and then it comes

down and starts to dictate and influence our doctrine and our

core belief system. There are many people who earn

enough but still feel trapped. They constantly worry,

constantly compare, and constantly fear the future.

They may have provision in their hand, but poverty in their

hearts. The Holy Scripture teaches us

that money is never just about money.

And this is what we are getting to the bottom of over this, this

month and next month. It exposes trust.

It reveals belief systems and it uncovers where our security

truly sits. And you might say, well, well,

how does that re reveal my belief system?

Well, when the bill comes in, do you say, oh man, we don't have

the money for that just revealed your belief system.

So if I go back to the other verse that I just read earlier,

we aren't dictated to by the the paycheck, but we walk in his

riches and his glory. And so we know what's dictating

to us by our response to the situations around us and the

things that come into our world. And on the kitchen table.

Our response to that shows who who really rules this part of

our life. The issue is not always what is

your bank account? The deeper issue is often, what

thoughts have I believed about provision?

I'm not a prosperity preacher, but I believe the church should

be walking in prosperity. Does that make sense?

Lack thinking sounds like there's never enough.

I'm always behind. Someone else gets blessed, but

not me. I'll never get ahead.

I have to protect myself because no one else will.

That's not the language of sonship.

It's the language of slavery. I'm getting like today, any sons

in the house, women you can put your hands up to.

That means you. We are sons and daughters of the

supplier of all our needs according to His riches and

glory. That's who my Father is.

Amen. Let's look at five thoughts from

Scripture and reframe our thinking and our belief systems

today about how God wants us to approach our finances.

When we talk in the church about money, about finances and about

tithing, your spirit needs to leap with joy because what we

are saying is, hey, church, we're going to craft how we're

going to use these things in our life to bring glory to God, not

to obtain bigger houses and more riches and and best cars and all

of this. It's not to line our pockets,

but it's to see more of earth go to heaven.

It's to influence our world for good and for God #1 The shepherd

breaks scarcity, David says in Psalms 23.

One, the Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not once notice

David connects provision to relationship.

The Lord is my shepherd. Before David mentions provision,

peace or protection, he identifies who is leading him,

Who is leading him. He always runs back to the the

Lord is my provider. The Lord is my protector.

The Lord is my shield. I shall not once.

When God is your shepherd, fear loses its authority and lack

loses its authority over your life.

Scarcity thrives wherever trust in God weakens.

God never intended money to become a master or our source of

identity. Money is a tool, but God is the

source. That's good, isn't it?

Money, Church is our tool. It's what we use to do things,

to work on planet earth, to feed our our families, yes, but also

to outwork the mission. But we have to remember

businesses, just because you have money coming through, you

aren't the source. God is the source of the

blessing. The money coming through is the

tools to outwork the mission of God.

If you're in this place and you've got above the average

income in your world, don't think that your own hands are

making your wealth. You've got to remember who the

source always is. And when we forget the source,

the things our hands are making will start to weary and go dim

in our lives. This is true in your life and in

the church as well. Many believers say God is my

provider, but emotionally they live as though everything

depends entirely on themselves and on the bank balance.

We do this, don't we? Like like we don't want to talk

about money, but we leave every single day getting our phone

out, checking the Commonwealth app or the the the NAB app Don't

we do this at least once to twice, if not 30 times a day.

You go to get a coffee. What comes out first, making

sure money is in the right account.

Everything we do on planet Earth, your rent, your fuel,

which you need a lot of money in that account at the moment, your

diesel, what everything you do, if you're having a birthday,

someone's paying for that cake and you want extra money for the

candles, right? It's a literally everything we

do. We look so good here today

because we all have haircuts, right?

It costs money. Just everything we brushed our

teeth. I've smelt your breath this

morning. I said hi there, so many people,

we all brushed our teeth. Toothpaste, money.

Money is everything all the time in our world.

We need to switch the tables and start to have dominion over it

rather than it having dominion over us.

It's telling us what our shopping is like too much.

We need to start to tell it what we are going to shop like.

Does that make sense it we need to tell it with the church

should not struggle for miracle Flyers, but we should be going.

We are getting professionally done miracle Flyers so that we

can use our printer for the other things for youth on Friday

night because they needed it as well.

Our resources. We should never have a lack.

Did you know I don't know if you've ever done that.

I would love you to do this if you would do this.

Go home and just say in this auditorium today there's

probably, I don't know, 220 people and there's about 55

kids. So if there's 220 people, you've

got to think there's about 180 people in this auditorium right

now who actually work, get the award wage on 180 people and do

what the tithe is, right? And then if you look at that and

then you get a small Church of 50 people, OK, And then you work

out, probably 40 of those people would be working.

So they would be tithing if we're following the principles

of the scriptures. And then if you get a mega

Church of 3000 people, OK, and maybe 2200 something like that

are working, and then you work out their tithe according to the

minimum wage. What you will realise is God's

plan of the tithe works whether you're a fifty person church or

whether you're a 10,000 person church with all their expenses

and bills and everything in the mission that they're trying to

do. Because 10,000 people churches

do crazy things like build homes and schools in Cambodia, right?

Well, 50 people churches do crazy things for their church

like print out flies and get signs for services coming up and

things like that to impact their community and do breakfasts and

all that sort of stuff. The reality is, is the church

tithed because only about 2.5% of the average church does

tithe. If the church typed, which

should be around 80% for workers, the church would have

so much money right That no matter the size church bills

would never be an issue. Staffing in proportion to sizing

would never be an issue and we would be doing the the missional

things that God places on the heart of the pastor because that

works within the size and the next era of where the church

which is currently at. That's just if the church tide

that's not with offerings on top offerings is like faith, love,

hope that we're coming around right now it's an offering

season where we go. You know what God on all of our

increase. We're going to give you more on

an increase. Why Because my hands didn't

bring the increase your blessing and favour brought my increase.

Does this make sense? I would love you just around the

table. Get your kids and get the

calculators out and do these sumps and you will see where the

church worldwide currently is AT and why the church should be

having dominion over the earth. But right now, governments have

dominion over the earth. But the church is where the

money should be flowing out of where schools should be flowing

out of where universities should be flowing.

Does this make sense? This is God's plan.

And so in the book of Genesis, when he he said a man have

dominion over the earth, this is what he was talking about.

But it requires our partnership with his plan and his model.

Does this make sense? And so This is why this should

be an exciting time of year for you and I.

So how do we change? We change by changing who we

trust. You overcome scarcity when you

stop looking first to the economy.

And I'm blown away. I'm blown away.

We all know that Mel and I just sold their house.

The market has shifted in the last probably 3 months according

to fuel prices, what fuel has dictated to the market.

But when you stop looking at the economy and keep looking at his

economy. Now when I read his streets are

made of gold, the Bible says he prepares a mansion for you and I

all of us, we have a mansion. I can't wait to see what this

all looks like in the end. But if he's got that level of,

you know, he just walks on gold, you know, it's see through gold,

by the way, if you read the Book of Revelation.

So it's the purest of pure and there's gems that this is the

world we're going to live in or the heavenly world in which

Father God lives in. When we realise that why would

we ever bring our economy level down to earths when we can walk

in that? Does this make sense?

But we've got to work finance out.

We've got to work budgeting out for this to to happen.

We overcome scarcity when we stop looking first at culture

and we stop looking first to your fears, to your fears and

start anchoring your confidence in the shepherd.

You know the the great thing about a shepherd is a shepherd

leads the sheep. A shepherd doesn't just sit

there and have a pity party with the sheep.

Shepherds understand what the sheep is going through but

doesn't grovel in the mess. Shepherds have a greater vision

of the future. Shepherds know where you're

going even when we don't know when where we're going.

See, Jesus is our shepherd. And when it comes to to money

and to finance and to budgeting and all all of this, he is our

shepherd on which we lean even in this area of our life, not

just for salvation, but for all areas of our life.

Why would we lean on him? Because he knows what he has in

our future. We've just got to learn to

follow or in other words, walk in that future that God has

prepared for us. He's a practical change.

Replace fear language with faith language rather than allowing

yourself say, I'll never get ahead.

Nothing ever changes for me or I'm stuck.

I'm just stuck in this. Well, I'm stuck in this job.

And while I'm stuck in the job, we're just stuck in this

financial realm. My kids are stuck in that

school. You know, I'm just stuck.

Or you might say my future is not controlled by fear or

uncertainty any longer. Let's start declaring God is

leading me. God is faithful.

He is always faithful. He's forever faithful.

God is my source. When you get your next rates

bill, come on, you know what I'm talking about.

Don't get the rates bill and go, oh, I'll never get ahead like

this. Get the rights bill and go, God,

I thank you that you are my source and this big figure there

does not dictate to me. I will steward it well and I'll

do what I have to do to see this paid out.

But as I take righteous steps to to do this, as I tithe and I'm

faithful in that area, as I'm generous over in this area, when

you prompt me, I will begin to walk in your overflow in these

bills will lose their power over my life.

That's how we approach these situations.

What you repeatedly confess shapes what you eventually

believe. I'm going to say that 111 more

time. I do this all the time.

I don't know about you, but I'll do this.

What you repeatedly confess if you got self-image things going

on in your world. I'm just not beautiful.

I just hate my hair, just hate the way I look.

I don't like my freckles. What you can repeatedly confess.

You will start to believe in your heart, but it's not, it's

not the truth. You are beautiful.

You are handsome. The freckles is what makes you

the perfect you. My wife had freckles our whole

life. Like, freckles are awesome.

All right? Yeah.

You can have long hair. You can have WAVY.

We just had a hair discussion the other day and Ilia wants my

hair. I have no hair, so I said just

go to Mum's hair. But Mum wants an Ilia's hair

because it's long and curly like, and when we start to see

that God perfectly made us like I'm, I'm not the most beautiful

or handsome man. OK, well, I'm pretty close.

But but I remember, I remember growing up, OK, I'm just can I

be honest for a SEC? Like I when I grew up, I had big

ears. Stop looking.

OK, I had big ears. They're OK Now I, I think

they're OK, right? I kind of my head grew and I

grew into my ears. My head grew because my brain

grew and, and I sort of, but you know what I even remember as a,

as a little fella, I, I did used to look in the mirror and go,

what the where'd those two things come from?

But I loved my hair. I had hair back then, I don't

know, Lib talking 80s, early 90s.

So I had a hair with fringe. Do you remember the fringe that

went straight out? Yeah.

So Hairspray was like underneath and on top.

Does anyone remember? There was, is this a Townsville

thing? We're a bit different up there.

So I used to see how far I could get my fringe to come straight

out. Yeah, that's what fringes were

back then. But the the reality is, is what

we confess in our lives, if we never have enough, you never

have enough. You know what?

You know, ask my kids if they go.

Dad, do I have money? I say, yeah, I haven't even

checked my account yet. Yep.

Let me just check my account. Oh, it's not in there today.

It'll be in there tomorrow, though.

But yes, I got money. You know, I remember when when

my kids were young because I wear Nike shoes, right.

So every birthday or Christmas, I get a pair of Nike shoes and I

did that to make me look rich. So if you got a pair of Nike

shoes and if you can get one night jumper, you look rich

Anyway, So my kids, when they're, you know, I think of

any might have been about eights and the the boys were younger.

One day they I picked them up from school and they said, Dad,

are we millionaires? And I said, yeah, I said, why,

Why do you ask that? And I said, oh, just all my

friends, they just noticed whenever you or mum come, you're

wearing like Nikes all the time. And they thought maybe we're

millionaires. And I said, well, we are.

I said, but I've just got a normal wage.

What you speak comes in here and you start to present yourself

and live in accordance to what you believe so we can shift

reality. Did you know that you can shift

your reality? It starts small, but it starts

to snowball until reality actually shifts.

You form your world. Did you know he's a he's a

little key for everyone here today?

Did you know that you're living in the world that you confessed

yesterday? You're living in the world today

of your confession over your past.

And if we want to shift the spirit of poverty and lack, we

need to start to present ourselves like we're sons and

daughters of the High King. Does this make sense?

Because Church, it's not just about you and I.

My whole heart in all of this is because I want to see the spirit

of lack and scarcity and poverty broken from Bribie to Tegulawa.

And S will get a bit of the overflow, right?

But the reality is we breakthrough for our community.

As go the head, so goes the tail.

Does that make sense? So as we lead the church

spiritually, so right now we are we are changing our confession.

We're all standing and praying for our tithes and offerings

moments. Why?

Because we're declaring you might not be there yet, but

you're getting there, right? We're declaring that as a

church, we have said enough is now enough.

Spiritually, we're doing that. But as a church, we're going to

follow our prayer confessions. And so we'll start to change

this. You know, when your kids ask

you, are you if you're rich, we're not rich, we're

millionaires. Like, do you not know our God?

Let me let me tell you a little bit about God.

Sit around the table. So that's my father right there.

And start to change our thinking, start to retrain our

children, start to retrain our own.

It's called transformation. And we invite the Holy Spirit

into this as well. Point number two men, I've got

5. I'm going to read real fast.

Scarcity is learned, but so is trust.

Israel spent generations in slavery, so even after

deliverance they still fought like slaves.

If you've ever read read that story.

They had Memon in from heaven. Miraculous protection.

Supernatural provision. Yet they still feared lack.

Why? Because freedom externally

doesn't automatically create freedom internally.

Many people today have inherited generational poverty.

Thinking mums and dads, it's time to say and it stops with me

and it stops right now. Even my family will no longer

live in generational poverty. Thinking because your tomorrow

can be changed by your decisions today.

Does that make sense? Maybe you grew up hearing we

never have enough. Rich people are greedy people.

People like us, we always struggle.

You can't really trust God when it comes to finances.

Those words create internal strongholds and listen, we need

to let go of them. Let go of this thinking.

Let go of this confession that we have.

The wilderness mindset teaches people to survive and not trust.

Listen, if you grew up in Caboolture, we no longer just

survive to live. We no longer just survive to

live. We are blessed beyond

understanding. We are favoured by the Almighty

God. We walk in riches that are like

a tap to us and we give it out as much as it comes into us.

We are the blessing to our community.

We are the favour that God has brought them, the answer to our

community. We are children of God.

We are not just living to survive any longer, but we are

living Lord, to bring other people out of the miry clay also

for themselves. God never called these people

merely to survive. He called us to live by faith

and to live in a realm of stepping out and seeing our God

who supplies, actually supply. We have to step into this realm.

We have to step into this understanding.

Listen, we have to step into these new behaviours that our

God who supplies all of our needs, actually does supply.

And you go, yeah, but he only supplies needs.

No, no, no, you got the wrong understanding of the Scripture.

He says he supplies all of our needs because our needs are and

wants are actually his needs and wants.

If he can get it through you, he will get it to you.

And so when your need is the need to see people come to God

to see the gospel go out to see crusades happening all across

Australia to to be able to fund the church in blessing to to

grow as a church and to get more locations and and our need is

people out there. God goes I can bless that with

all my riches in heaven. And when he's blessing that

need, he's blessing you. Why because that need became

yours. Does this make sense?

So this is all about alignment Church Romans 12 to be

transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Transformation begins when truth replaces fear, No longer fear to

finances in your world. But we live in the truth #3

God's economy operates differently.

Paul writes in Philippians 419. My God shall supply all your

needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Did you notice? Not according to your

limitations. See, God doesn't go.

Oh, Graham's too limited. I can't do my mission through

him. I'm going to look for a rich

person. That's not how God operates.

In fact, God's so gracious, he goes well until Graham changes

his stinking thinking. We just got to hold off a little

bit and wait. And the Holy Spirit just keep

working on him. See God, God doesn't say he

supplies our needs according to my limitations.

He says he supplies our needs according to his riches and

overflow. Scarcity says there's not

enough. But the Kingdom of God says

there is more than enough in God.

This does not mean irresponsibility.

It does not mean ignoring wisdom or stewardship.

Financial freedom flows from both trust and wisdom.

So let's remember, faith is not passive, faith is obedience.

So how do we change in this move from fear driven living to

stewardship driven living? This means honouring God first

with your first fruits, which is plain language, your tithe,

budgeting wisely, removing unnecessary debt where possible

in your life, practicing generosity, refusing emotional

spending. Scarcity spends emotionally

because fear seeks comfort. Wisdom spends intentionally

because trust creates peace. Some people ask God for

breakthrough while refusing discipline but stewardship.

Is a spiritual thing #4 generosity breaks the power of

scarce scarcity. One of the greatest antidotes to

scarcity is generosity. Why?

Because generosity confronts fear directly.

Whereas you're giving away, you're going, God, you supply

all my needs, You aren't going. Oh man, now I'm left with

nothing. What do I do?

Does that make sense? We go God, you supply all my

needs and because I believe that I'm giving to this need, if he

can get it through you, he will get it to you.

Fear says hold tight. Faith says God can replenish

what I release. The Kingdom principle is this.

Whatever you grip tightly will begin to grip you tightly back.

When we live open handed before God, we declare, my trust is not

in possessions, but my trust is in the provider.

Generosity is not the overflow of abundance, it is the evidence

of trust in God. Let me say that again.

Generosity is not the overflow of abundance.

You don't begin to be generous when you get more in your pay.

You're not getting more in your pay, right?

It's set, you contracted that. Generosity is a hard attitude.

Generosity doesn't move to your employer, generosity moves to

the provider. So we are generous because our

provider provides all my needs, not because my employer provides

my needs. Does this make sense?

Your employer gives you a benchmark of living.

Your provider lets you live in abundance and overflow.

Does this make sense? And so we look to God for all

things #5 peace is the goal, not just prosperity.

Some people think financial breakthrough alignment.

I've got a lot of information today.

This is good as helping someone this morning.

Some people think financial breakthrough alone will heal

anxiety. Let me tell you, God heals

anxiety and the Bible says to be anxious for nothing.

How do you be anxious for nothing?

You're anxious for nothing. When you understand truly in

your heart who your source is, your source of peace, your

source of blessing, your source of prosperity, your source of

love, your source of hope. When we understand that God is

love, that God is hope, that God is the fulfilling of the flesh,

that God makes me feel good, that God feels the enemy, that

God supplies the enemy, that guy supplies all my needs according

to his riches and glory. That means all you needs, not

just money, but all you need. Your thinking, your emotions and

everything, then we are anxious for nothing.

Money alone will not fix your anxiety.

Like money, your anxiety must go to the source of your provider.

Many wealthy people still live terrified and anxious.

Money will never, was never designed to carry the weight of

your peace. Only God can do that, David said

in Psalms 23. One, the Lord is my shepherd,

not savings accounts, restores my souls.

See, God wants his people free from anxiety, from striving in

day-to-day, just surviving free from panic.

Man, money brings panic. Money destroys marriages.

Like we should have dominion over this thing.

Money should just bring life to the mission of your marriage,

not come between the husband and the wife.

Money is is a tool that we use, not a thing that divides.

That's the enemy's plan, but the enemy wins when we lose

dominion. Does this make sense?

It's a church. We have to have dominion.

The goal is not greed, the goal is peace.

It's critical to have a settled confidence in God.

And here's your last practical tip for today.

Daily practice gratitude and financial surrender.

Daily practice your gratitude and surrendering your finance to

God. Well, God, I don't walk

according to the budgets of this world and the economy.

I'll walk in accordance to the blesser and my provider and

change our confession and everything will follow in Jesus

name. Listen, gratitude weakens fear.

So Church, I just want you to hear this in closing today, the

wilderness mindset of lack, worry, and fear will not enter

your promised land. The mindset of lack God, where

are you in my finance worry scarcity, poverty that that

mindset won't enter into your promised land.

See the Egyptians had to change. Sorry the the Israelites had to

change everything about their thinking when they left Egypt

because they were still thinking like slaves.

But God says you're not a slave, you're my child.

He has set us free to walk in freedom free indeed.

And money is the greatest economy on planet earth that

tries to enslave that. God is here to set us free today

in Jesus name. God wants to renew our thinking,

our language, our trust, our stewardship, and give us the

peace. So if you receive this message

today, I would love you to declare something.

I'd love you to declare it loud enough for your own ears to

hear. If you could say this after me,

scarcity will no longer shape my thinking.

I great break agreement with generational poverty, thinking I

will not carry a wilderness mindset into my promise to land.

I choose trust over fear, stewardship over chaos, and

generosity over scarcity. In Jesus mighty name, Amen.

Amen.