Manifested Abundance – Part 4

by faith able offered giving God first takes faith it takes faith to say I

don't have enough to pay my bills this month it's going to take 100% of my

money but I believe that God will bless my 90 if I give to him first it takes

faith when the ends are not meeting up and you're saying God I want to put you

first anyway welcome to the city light church podcast thanks for joining us

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Can you sing to Lord hallelujah how many blessed people in the house that's

how many blessed people are in the house man I am blessed I'm blessed in the city

I'm blessed you know that's not just words that's scripture when you're singing

that song you're making a confession over yourself no matter where I go no

matter where I live it's not based on my geography is based off my revelation I'm

blessed it doesn't matter you can put me in the worst situation I'll be blessed

there it don't matter how bad things are once you put me there the blessing of

the Lord has to be there because I'm blessed how many blessed people are in the

house all right let's go let's get into this word I'm excited okay can I say

something past the mo is so nimble on his feet for a big guy this is insane the

way he moves he moves like he's 135 pounds it is as scary as he's like you know I'm

like this is crazy nimble nimble with hides oh he got hides feet

Genesis chapter four got hides feet you jumping over the walls yes if you don't

know that you gotta read your word some of you didn't get the joke they're like

hides feet I don't understand those are for like the super say people Genesis

chapter four I'm excited to be here for this series talking about abundance is

something I love talking about is something that I believe in I don't believe

it because like like past most said it's it didn't come from a teleavangilist

or from some preacher it's in the scriptures and here's the problem church

people don't like when you step on their feet talk about what makes me

comfortable let's not get into the areas that are uncomfortable but these type of

areas are a little bit uncomfortable when God is demanding us to give and he's

saying bring the tides into the storehouse ooh that hurts or maybe it's just the

church doing this as a manipulation play no it's the scriptures all right y'all

ready to go into the word you sure they don't sound as videos for service okay

yes I like that Genesis chapter four let's do it oh man this is good so I want

to talk about something a little bit different I think for the first few weeks

we talked about God wanting to bless us God desire his will like I think it

helped build your faith to know that God wants to bless you he wants you to be

blessed he wants you to have abundance he wants you to be in harvest he wants

open doors for you he wants opportunities he wants supernatural things to come

your way he wants like that Jeremiah chapter 17 where it doesn't matter what

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season you are your leaves are gonna be green you won't you won't with her you're

gonna be by the river and everything you do is gonna prosper I believe that's

what we've been learning this last few weeks but I want to challenge you on your

responsibility in walking in the blessing because Jesus already died for you to

be blessed amen he already rose from the grave so you could be blessed amen he

did everything he did his part he did everything he had to do it is finished your

blessing is already here it's in store but there are things that the Holy

Spirit is expecting you to do and requiring you to do so that you can walk out

in that blessing do you believe that all right let's talk about it Genesis chapter

four verse three and I want to talk about the first fruit I want to talk about the

first fruit or let's call it the first things first first things first I like

that title first things first all right Genesis four verse three here's what it says

and in the process of time it came to pass that came brought an offering of

fruit of the fruit of the ground to the Lord verse four able also brought of

the first born of his flock and their fat and the Lord respected cable able's

offering but did not respect Cain and his offering and Cain was very angry and his

countenance felt we can read later on he kills his brother but I don't want to talk

about that I just want to stop right there I look at this verse and I see

something really important and I see something really valuable because in order to

understand Genesis chapter four you have to read Genesis chapter three and Genesis

chapter three the the serpent comes and he tricks and deceives Adam and Eve and

they get kicked out of the garden and God puts these fancy clothes on them and

they have children and the two children that they have at first are Cain and

able they're the first children that were born of a woman on the earth and I'm

thinking that if you're writing about the first children you should write about

their childhood you should write about their lives you should write about how

they grew up you should write about the circumstances that they have to go

through knowing that their parents messed everything up for the world nope none of

that is written about the first thing we hear about when we hear about Cain and

able was how they gave I see this is very important because for the Holy

Spirit to emphasize for the first people born of human beings and the first thing

he wants to talk about in their lives is how they gave the importance of their

giving I thought that God would have talked about something that was more

significant but obviously the Holy Spirit sees this as such an important aspect

that he puts it right at the front center I want to talk about Cain and able

and the first thing I want to mention is their giving and he wants to list down

their resume and giving and he doesn't hear in Genesis chapter 4 so clearly it says time

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went by and finally Cain and able were able to offer give and offering to the Lord

listen to this and you can see the difference between these two in their giving you know in Sunday

school I was always taught like you know when you do those like little coloring things in Sunday

school and there's the picture of Cain and able and you would see Abel's sacrifice and offering

and it looked really amazing and beautiful and then you saw you saw Cain's fruit that he brought

to the Lord because Cain was a tiller of the ground and Abel was a herdsman he had his flock

so his flock would always look very beautiful in the pictures and then

Cain's fruit would always look rotten and decrepit like it was disgusting and you were like oh my

gosh why would he give that to the Lord but that's not the context of this verse it never says anything

about Cain's offering being decrepit are looking rotten there's a major difference between

these two people and they're offering and it's clear in the text you can see it clear in the text

let's go back to verse 4 here's what it says Abel also brought of his firstborn of the flock

okay you can see the major difference and the Lord respected Abel in his offering go back to

verse 3 and you're gonna see Cain's you gonna see the major difference in the process of time it

came to pass that Cain brought an offering so he brought an offering but you'll see the difference

is that the Bible says Abel brought an offering but he brought an offering of the firstborn the

difference wasn't that Abel's offering looked better the difference was the order in which he gave

it this is really good right here it was the order in which he gave it that made it completely

different than Cain it was the order that God respected it was saying I'm gonna give you first

God before I give the mortgage company I'm gonna give you first before I go to no strums

I'm gonna give you first before I pay my kids tuition what God respected with the offering

was not the offering per se it was the order of the offering it was saying God I'm gonna put you

as primary and first in my life well Cain goes God I'll just give you whatever's left over

and God says I don't respect it I don't respect when you decide to put everything else before

me and you put me second this is good but they say any man is it's tight but it's right

I'm looking at this and I see two different people Abel goes God I'm gonna give you the first

born of my flock a flock was at least 20 to 200 animals so every time a female in the flock

would give birth here's what Abel would do he would take that animal and he would say this is for

the Lord then the next female that had a baby this is for the Lord then the next one this is for

the Lord and when I read that I realized that took faith why would that take faith because imagine

that female in the flock may never give birth again that could be the only child and he took the

future away and said I'm gonna give it to the Lord first it took faith to give that away and

believe that God is gonna bless me even though I give him what's first all right let me say it

like this it's like saying God I believe that 90 is better than a hundred oh my God I knew

they were gonna get quiet God you know the president of Chick-fil-A came to my Bible college and he

preached and he preached a message he said six is better than seven that was his sermon six is

better than seven and I'm like what does that mean no seven I went to school right I went to

school seven is greater than six nope but for him he understands a kingdom principal the kingdom

principal is you give God what he requires the six days and guess what he does he will bless your

business as if you are open seven days and so Chick-fil-A now is the fastest growing fast food company

and the reason why is because he made a decision that he was gonna dedicate his day the rest day

the Sabbath day to the Lord and the Lord now has blessed him I dare you to begin to give God first

and watch him open up the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing you don't have room to

receive I dare you to put him first and you're giving put him first in your life put him first

in your situation and watch the windows of heaven open for you and your family and abundance come

the difference was the order I was read the story and thought man maybe his offering was

more exceptional no it wasn't more exceptional it just took more faith it took faith because

it said God if you don't bless me after I do this I'll have nothing left you know you got to make

a decision who's your God is it the ability to be able to pay your bills are feeling comfortable

enough because the Holy Spirit wants to challenge your comfort level because some of you are so

comfortable yeah I have enough to pay my bills and then maybe I can give something to God at the end

of the month and that's not what God's requiring he goes I don't accept one person's offering and

I accept the other person's offering because in the order that they gave it not the amount

you may not be as rich as someone else and guess what you're blessed and they're not blessed

because it's the order that matters all right let's go to Hebrew chapter 11 verse 4 because you're

saying this is Old Testament but here's what I like about this because even though it's Old Testament

it predates the law so it shows me something it shows me that this was God's desire from the beginning

being put first was always God's desire and what the Lord did was the Lord just confirmed what

Abel did in his sacrifice all right look at this Hebrew chapter 4 verse 11 y'all with me

I sent a service they're very cerebral too they're very they're chilling

they had a late night you know all these young people it's all these young people all the old

the folk they're like I want to sleep at nine o'clock got ready for all these all these young people

went to sleep two o'clock in the morning and now they're trying to get a coffee jump

y'all can laugh I'm joking I'm also serious but I'm Hebrews 11 for his or his says

by faith able offered by faith by faith by faith giving God first takes faith it takes faith to say

I don't have enough to pay my bills this month it's gonna take 100% of my money but I believe that

God will bless my 90 if I give to him first it takes faith when the ends are not meeting up and you're

saying God I'm gonna put you first anyway there may not even be a sign of provision for me but

I'll still put you first I don't see how the doors are gonna open but I'm still gonna put you first

I don't see how things are gonna turn around in my life but I'm still gonna put you first

the over gyro if you don't come through I have no other options I came up here with my child

and I came up here to sacrifice and all I have left is your provision and if you don't come

through we're dead out here now that's the type of faith the Lord's looking for if you've never

given like that you've never given by faith oh that's good some of you give based on how much

you have you haven't ever given by faith giving my faith looks like God I barely have enough for

myself and God goes all right cool now give me everything I remember I have my nice beautiful

guy had a a Nissan Altima no it was a maximum my first car was the ultimate second car was a

maximum I called her Maxine I'll tell you I loved Maxine oh she was a butler she was red

oh she's a woo Maxine Maxine

now remember I'm in church my hands are lifted up I look over the losses give that person your car

I said the devil is a liar God is exalted

but I knew was the Lord let's say give him Maxine I'm not Maxine God

so give him Maxine I'm like all right so I go and I'm like all right I want this car to be at

100% I brought it to my mechanic I said all right um how is the car he's like your car's like 80%

it's really good you know you need to change this this a few things can cost you like a thousand

dollars for your car to get to a hundred percent like it's drivable it's really good but to get

it to a hundred percent you need to spend a thousand dollars I said all right cool spent a thousand

dollars and then I call him I just got back from Vietnam I went on a trip to Vietnam I called

him I said hey I'm you need to come to my house he was like okay I was like now you got to come like

now because when you got faith for something just do it don't waste six months some of you waiting too

long God but like give that $10,000 seed okay I'll do it next month God and then the faith is

gone for it once I got faith for something let's do it now that's how I got in trouble the other day

I was trying to give my money right at that moment because I don't want to give it after I preach

and then pass the bars like come up and preach oh y'all weren't here for first service oh y'all

second service people and then I'm giving it and he's like our preacher's texting I was like no

I'm giving I promise and I showed him the screen and he believed me so look at this I I'm like all

right God I'm gonna give this so I called him I said come over my house he comes over and we're

talking and I was like oh yeah we just came back for Vietnam and he's like kind of like why did

you ask me to come to your house this is weird I said um you know God told me to do something for you

and he was like okay I said the Lord told me to give you my car and he's like oh no but I don't

have money for it I was like I had to say anything about money as the Lord said to give you the car

I'm not exaggerating I give him the car he starts crying he goes you know I started a job in three days

I didn't know how I was gonna get there because it's an hour away from my house

he said you giving me the car is exactly the prayer God this job is an hour away it's two

and a half hours away through the bus and public transportation I don't know how I was gonna be

able to do it and the Lord answered my prayer and I said all right God's gonna bless you I get a

phone call two weeks later someone's like hey I just want to bless you with a car

three years newer 30,000 miles less come on somebody

by faith see there's some stuff you don't see I had to drive my wife's Nissan

no Nissan what does she have what does she have she had a Hyundai Alotra at that time

do you know I don't want you driving no hundred Hyundai Alotra

we had to share a car for a few weeks and I promise you I'm like God you about to bless me

because I didn't give that because I had it I gave it by

look what happened by faith able offer to God a more excellent sacrifice than came

which shows me Cain's sacrifice wasn't shabby a more excellent which means it was a cool sacrifice

but it wasn't what God required because God doesn't require a cool offering a decent offering

he requires first and anything that's not first is not God's will anytime you look at your bills

and you put your bills before God that means you love more money more than you love God

you can say out that means you love your house more than you love God you love your comfort more

than you love God you love your stuff more than you love God because he always requires being first

he is preeminent he's first no matter if you put him first I know you like man I

well you know I got responsibilities well you can stay broke

I'm serious because the way to blessing is putting him first man you seek he first the kingdom of God

all right let's look at this by faith able offer to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain

through which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts

and through it being dead still speaks can I just stop right there where it says God

testifying of his gifts I looked at that word testifying it literally means to preach God started

preaching about how good Abel's offering was I was like this is powerful God started becoming

a messenger Abel your offer is amazing he started preaching about Abel and this is the part

that really messed me up and through it being dead still speaks so Abel even though he was dead

his offering still had a voice can I tell you your offering has a voice your seed has a voice

that even though you may not be alive your seed still going to speak for your children

this is good your seed is going to speak for your children children do you know that when you give

your seed literally has a voice and start speaking it says things it says this person can't be broke

they're a giver no no no no they can never fall into poverty because they're a giver

the Bible says I've never seen the righteous forsaken neither his seed begging for bread

no no you're blessed in the city you're blessed in the field you're blessed when you come

the blessing of the Lord makes you rich and as no sorrow you have to prosper you must prosper and

be in help even as you're so prosperous you must be blessed so his offering started speaking

because he put God first his offering had a voice hey hey children children children have to be blessed

all right let's go to the next verse

y'all here with me can I just go to another verse this is not even in my in my notes but

I think we need to hear this our first king chapter 17 look at this I took I had a lot of verses

in the first service adding use all of them because if I do we won't go home

so first king 17 and I'm going to read verse 13 so this is Elijah Elijah goes to

man Elijah goes to this widow who's not even part of the covenant she's not a Jew she's a Gentile

she's a pagan she's an idol worshipper she doesn't know God but the principal works for anyone

because it's a principle that works even if you're an unbeliever that's why all these

billionaires want to give away 90% of their wealth even before they die and the more they give is the

more they get rich all right they understand the principle of giving that's my point all right

look at this first king 17 verse 13 here's what Elijah said to the widow this seems very

insensitive she's saying I'm going to make my last meal and then me and my kids are going to die

look what Elijah says and this is the same thing heaven says to us and God says to us

when you're at your lease here's here's what God still saying to you and Elijah said to her do not

fear go do as you have said but make me a small cake from it that seems mean that seems

insensitive why would I give you first when I have a need if you give God the seed you'll take

care of your need I'm gonna say it again if you give God the seed he will take care of your need

the problem is we think if we take care of the need then God gives the seed the Bible says he only

gives seed to the he gives seed to the soul not to the person in need he gives seed to the person who

souls so if you so just know you'll always have seed my God I feel this in my spirit if you so

you'll never be without the ability to give more oh God I want to fund your kingdom start now

if you start sowing now you will always have more than enough to be a giver givers become givers

because of they start giving and when they start giving God gives them seed to become givers

and even more opportunities and territory you want to be a bigger giver start giving what you have

and watch God increase it he'll take that small amount and then he'll give you more seed and more

seed and more seed all right look at this do not fear go do as I said make a small cake from it

I'm talking about the first fruit and bring it to me and afterward make some for yourself and your

son look at what verse 14 says for the saint the Lord of Israel she doesn't know the God of Israel

this how God is proving to her that he's God it's through provision he's saying unlike the other

gods who during a famine can't provide for you unlike the other pagan gods who they can't do

anything for you during a famine bail you know what bail was bail was supposed to be the God of

rain Astero was supposed to be the God of rain those gods can't provide for you and they're

supposed to be the God of rain but I'm going to prove to you why the God of Israel is not like your

gods because even though they can't provide for you the God of Israel will make sure that the

bin of flower will not be used up nor the jar of oil run dry until the day the Lord sends rain

on the earth so I'm going to bless you even in the midst of famine because you gave first

I don't care how bad things get in America I don't care how bad things get in this nation

I don't care how challenging things get if you give God first this is the promise for you

that in the midst of famine God will make sure you have divine provision somebody say man

all right that was a detour because I didn't even share that in the first service

so when you put when you give God first your first fruit you open it door for abundance and blessing

you know you know Jericho right when God told the children of Israel going to Jericho the walls fell

down Joshua chapter six you know that was the first land that he told them to go and to conquer

and to conquest and compared to all the other lands he gave them a command that was completely

different from all the other lands he said because this is the first place you conquer and conquest

I want you to get all the gold I want you to get all the silver I want you to get all the possessions

and I want you to bring it to me as an offering because it was the first place they conquered and

guess what happened when they gave that first that's what set them on course to win

because they gave God first in their conquest God was like all right I'll set the lane easy for you

to win the rest of the battles when you give God first you set yourself on course to prosper you set

yourself on course that no matter what you have to do and what you have to overcome you can overcome

it because you gave God first it's interesting you know it's interesting God never commanded that with

any other place they want to it was only in the first place they want to if you give me the first

fruit I bless you if you give me first I bless you all right let's go Matthew chapter six verse 33

I want you to see this and if you've been saved for more than five seconds you know this verse

but we got to know it verse 33 let's look at 33 I want you to see it in the context someone's kid

is giving trouble you better go get your kid

y'all could love thank God it's not my kid

but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you

oh yeah if I pray if I pray God's going to bless me if I fast God's going to bless me that's not

what this verse is saying you got to read verses in the context this verse is talking about

money all right let me prove it let's go back to verse 31 let's go to 31 here's what it says

therefore do not worry saying what shall we eat what shall we drink or what shall we wear so

people are worrying about things possessions and God say don't worry about that kind of stuff

don't worry about what you're gonna eat don't worry about what you're gonna drink don't worry

what you're gonna wear verse 32 he's gonna tell you who does that people who don't know God

for after all these things the Gentiles seek pagans they don't know God so they're worried about

clothes they're worried about food they're worried about the roof over their head they're worried

about all their possessions because they don't know God people who know God are not supposed to

worry about that stuff it says for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things

well look at the next verse but seek the first so the pagans worry about the stuff unbelievers worry

about what they're gonna have and what they're gonna eat and how much money's in their car you don't

have to worry about that here's why because when you seek first anytime you put God first you

put yourself in position that all of these things shall be added to you I'm thinking this has to

do with prayer fasting and seeking the presence of God no it had to do with giving when you put

God first and you put his kingdom principles his kingdom initiative his kingdom perspective when

it comes to giving first he goes everything that they're worried about you'll have

everything they're concerned with it won't concern you don't worry because when you seek first

his way everything else is going to be provided for oh man I feel this for someone who may be

struggling right now and you don't know even how you're going to pay your bills I dare you I

double dog dare you to put God first and watch he said prove me in this if I would not open the

windows of heaven and pour out a blessing you won't have room to receive I double dog dare you

even God double dog dares you he says prove me in this test me in this that I would not open the

windows of heaven I believe that if you would put him first you will put his kingdom first you

will put giving first you'll see heaven open up for you in a way like you've never seen it before

the grass will definitely never wither where you are the favor of God will follow you in every

aspect of your life where are those with saying God I'm ready to put you first I'm ready to put you

first all right let's let's go to the first John chapter 2 first John 2 I was trying not to preach

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I'm trying to do like some more teaching but I couldn't help myself look at this first can't first

first John let's open up that that that one first John would you see this okay I think oh sorry

first John 3 I said 2 I'm sorry look at look at first John 3 all right look at this

what does it say we must not be like I am bringing it back to the story we must not be like

says who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother he aligned himself with the devil

and he killed his brother and then is going to show you what happened to Kane and why did he

kill him because Kane had been doing what was what was Kane doing before he killed his brother

he was putting God second evil equals putting God second

his brother had been doing what was righteous righteous equals putting God

y'all are smart I read this and I couldn't believe it because it's the New Testament it's not

the Old Testament it's bringing up Old Testament reference but it's it's the New Testament saying

because of his posture the posture of his heart and giving it opened the door for him to align

himself with the devil and kill his brother you know what will reveal your heart you know how you

can see where someone is you can look at their checkbook and I guarantee you can determine you

know what's funny when church people get offended at the pastor of the leader you know the first

thing they do they stop giving because they think oh I'm gonna hurt the church I'm in such offense

it shows me you got the spirit of Kane oh God this is good because what did God equate

Kane's evil too what he was doing and what was he doing he was giving an offering but he was

giving God second see this isn't this is not just about money some of you like man that he really

wants people to give I really want people to be blessed and I know what the scripture requires

but I really want you to see that this is more of an issue of the heart than anything else there's

an issue with God's challenging your heart and challenging the preconceived notions of your heart

are even challenging some of the toxic things that happen in the past with churches you were a part

of before and saying that doesn't matter what matters is doing what God tells you to do I know you

were hurt by the past I know things happened in your last minister in your last church and you're

you're kind of disillusioned about giving but giving was not a principal instituted by man

so your feelings can't come in the middle of your giving

because if it was instituted by emotions and feelings you can give based on how you feel

and one day you feel like giving a lot and in other days you feel like giving a little bit

someday you feel like putting God first and in other days let me take care of all my other

expenses and my other bills and then whatever's left over I'll give it to God but faith says God

I trust you with the 90 that the 90 will be blessed more than a hundred that's cursed

because can I have been doing what was evil and his brother had been doing what was righteous

putting God first we just ready see you first the kingdom of God and his

all right two more verses and then we're done is that cool with everyone

let's hope you put on their jackets already my God talk about putting God first

like we can't even give an hour and a half in church I am done with this loud black man

oh my gosh it has to come from the heart first that's where it starts it starts at the place of

the heart giving starts at the place of the heart that's where it starts all right let's do

Proverbs chapter three let's look at verse nine and ten I want you to see this

Proverbs three honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first fruit of all your

increase verse 10 so your barge will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine

I want to show you something that before we can even get to this place the first thing that the

writer of Proverbs does is that he deals with the heart issue and he gets right to the heart of the

issue and then he starts talking about honoring the Lord with your giving because the word

honor is completely different than respect right respect is something that's lost and gained

is lost and earned that's why the Bible doesn't tell you to respect your mother and your father

because your parents are gonna do stuff that's gonna make you lose their your respect for them

and never said respect them oh they got quiet oh the daddy issues started coming up

well I felt it I felt it because they're like oh I don't respect my the Bible never said

respect them it said to honor them honor means no matter what they do no matter what they say no

matter how they act no matter how they treat you no matter what they've done I'm not saying you

put up with toxic behavior but you still should have a position where you place them that no matter

what they do that position cannot leave because they're your parents they got quiet

they got oh I got itchy because they started making me feel weird honors different than respect

right it's a position of the

all right let's go to Proverbs chapter 3 verse 1 I'm gonna show you over and over this you know

Proverbs 3:1

the Proverbs is a father writing to his son and giving him wisdom principles telling him this is

what you should do this is how you should live this how you should treat people these are the type

of women to stay away from some of you who got problems with with these Jezebels need to start

reading Proverbs they'll tell you don't walk by her house go around the block that's

what the Proverbs I know I I didn't say it like he said but he said don't walk by her house

because she will pull you in make sure you go around the don't follow her on Instagram don't

like her pictures while preaching better than they say in a man

I believe she could get saved no no no we ain't doing no missionary dating out here

oh they got quiet my son do not forget my law but let your I told you there's an issue of the

giving's always an issue of the heart because the Bible says where your treasure is that's where your

giving and money's always an issue that starts right here and God always wants to attack it

here a lot of people want to attack it here that's how you lose man but it doesn't make sense

why does the church need that's not coming from here God you said it all right I want to

live according to what your word says someone told me they're like man but preachers still I don't

care it doesn't change my giving no matter what anyone else does I know what the principal says

and I know what God's word says I I want to get into it too much tangents my son do not forget

my law but let your heart keep my commandments heart verse two look what happens when his heart

keeps the commandments for length of days and long life and peace I talked about the word peace

last week the word shalom it doesn't mean just peace it means prosperity in every area of your life

hey if your heart's in the right place if your heart's in the place of my commandments I'm gonna

allow you to prosper in every area and I'm gonna allow you to live a long blessed life look at this

verse three let not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck right them on the

tablet of your I told you it has everything to do with the heart look look at verse four

and so find favor who attracted favor the person who wrote

grace and truth on their heart they attract favor and not only favor favor in the sight of God

and man that means God ain't only looking out for you God's gonna allow people to start looking out

for you and to give you opportunities you weren't even qualified for that you didn't have the skill

or the pedigree to get God says I'ma make sure you get it because you wrote

it on your heart verse five I tell you it's all about the heart

trust in the Lord with all your

this is an issue of the heart giving has to start here and it's so interesting the father could

have started with the best verse to me the best verse was honor the Lord with your first fruit

I would have started that verse one that would have been verse one for me verse nine would have been

verse one hey that's the best part my vats overflow I get wine all of that to me that's the best

verse I'm putting that as number one but but this father this rider was so wise he was like I

can't put that first without putting the heart first

trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean on your own understanding in all your ways

acknowledge him and he will direct your path so you can go to the next one do not be wise in your

own eyes fear the Lord in the part from evil which has to do with the heart right it will be

health to your flesh and strength to your bones verse nine honor the Lord see now this verse makes

more sense it's not just a weird verse misplaced because it seems like it's a verse that's misplaced

it's not misplaced because every time it talks about the heart it talks about favor it talks about

blessing it talks about you having favor with God and man so it talks about getting to the heart

and then it finally brings you to this place here's the place when you get your heart right with God

what happens honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first fruits the way to get to being

able to give God your first fruit is dealing with the heart says with all the with all of your

increase and look what happens when you do that verse 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty

how do you even want their barns to be filled with plenty all right y'all are like I don't have a barn

all right let me how do you even want their bank accounts to be filled with plenty okay three people

said amen how do you even want their bank accounts to be filled with plenty how do you even want

their vets to overflow with new wine that means God giving you strategic ideas for wealth

creativity for wealth business ideas for wealth promotion for what I believe it's yours

but the Bible says first fruits once you give him first he'll open all that up for you

oh I want to live in overflow I'm gonna share one testimony one verse I want to share more than one

but do I have do I have 10 minutes I have about three and a half can I get 10 minutes just to share

this I know I'm family but please all right so two verses and a testimony is that okay all right

don't get me in trouble now I was preaching from my spiritual father Apostle Ryan Lestrange and I was

talking about the thousand dollars seed because I've sold at least five or six thousand dollars

seeds that broke stuff open in the atmosphere for me that shifted stuff in my life and it's not

a gimmick it's not I just was like God at one point in my life a thousand dollars seed was the

number like I gave that every time I gave it the Lord would just open something up for me and so

I'm talking about the thousand dollar seed and one of my friends in ministry she was sitting

out there and she's like the Lord is telling me to sow this thousand dollar seed but I don't know

I'm just up there and I'm like sharing about it and I'm like all right we're gonna give and I'm

sharing about the power of the thousand dollar seed and she's like I got to give the seed I got

to give the seed I got to give the seed and she's like all right she said she looked over at a

husband she's like do we have the money he's like no we just we gave our time we we we paid all of

our bills we don't got it she's like man I feel in my spirit God saying to give she's like all right

what should I do so she's like let me look at my accounts so she looks at her accounts no money

so she looks at Venmo no money she looks at cash out no she's white white people don't use cash out

I'm sorry I never see the white person use cash out before but we're gonna use Venmo and pay

cow that's it and Zell and Zell I've never seen a white person use cash out that is black people

all the way I'm a I came in one time I was selling my books every black person's like you

got cash out every white person was like oh do you take Venmo yeah that makes a lot of sense

write the letters to pass the boy or not to me write him the emails you don't write me the emails

um now for God where I was oh cash out so yeah she did check her cash out because you don't

got a cash out white people don't use cash out so she checked her Venmo she checked her Zell

and then she checked PayPal and when she checked PayPal she realized she had a thousand dollars

in her PayPal account someone had sent her the money earlier and she didn't realize it and she's

like I have need but I believe this is seed you gotta know the difference because the problem with

some of us is we eat our seed and we wonder why we're hungry next week see I'm not eating my seed

oh yeah yeah let's go out to eat let's do this no that's called seed I'm I plant that I don't

eat it good so she's like man this is this is seed I'm gonna I'm gonna sow it she takes a thousand

dollars she's like she's so did that she comes to me she said man a god I sow a thousand I believe

in the Lord is gonna bring increase in my business I said yes and Jesus name Lord is gonna do it for

you she said I was starting an online business the next week she said me she said I made she's a

pastor in Arkansas and Jonesboro Arkansas and she said my salary at the church was $29,000

y'all thinking passes is rich $29,000 she goes I started this online business believing the

Lord is gonna bring me into another level of wealth she said I sowed that seed by faith a thousand

dollars he for someone who makes $29,000 that's major so she's like I'm believing the Lord's

gonna bring me into increase she said I started my online business she said in one week I made

$40,000 I'm on her church's board she said I spoke to her the other day we were in a board

meeting she's like yeah you know now I'm about to step into millionaire status

she said you know what I needed to do though I had to sow first and believe that if I gave

God first he'll do the rest I give God my best he'll do the rest

one more verse I'm not gonna do the last verse one more verse and I want you to see this because

this is very valuable Philippians do that Philippians verse want you to see this Philippians 4 look

at this now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from

Macedonia no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but only you no other church

no other church wanted to give to Paul's ministry there was only one church who was willing to

give to Paul's ministry instead of point where Paul talks about this church and fonts over this

church so much that he talks about them in a different book second Corinthians chapter 8 he

2 Corinthians 8 · chapter mention

starts talking about the church in Macedonia he's talking about the Philippians church and he's

like yeah no Corinthians y'all didn't want to give to me but the Philippians gave to me hey

hey Corinthians y'all didn't want to sow but the Philippians they were so generous they didn't even

have any money and they gave they were at the point of poverty because of persecution and they

still gave and he's boasting about how much they gave and then he's writing a letter to them

years later a year later and then he's like hey guys thank you so much for your giving

and it is what he says to them verse 16 for even in Tesla Nica you sent aid once and again for my

necessities I was preaching out another church I was out there in another city and you wanted to

bless me so much you brought seed to where I was and you gave oh that's serious this is what he says

to this church keep going verse 18 oh sorry go back to verse 17 for a second not that I seek the

gift but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account verse 18 indeed I have all and abound I am

full and receiving from a paphroditus the things set from you a sweet smelling aroma and acceptable

sacrifice well pleasing to God look at verse 19 we always quote this out of context we always quote

this out of context we don't put God first we don't give God first and then we quote this verse

this was a church that put God first is a church that sowed to God first even when you read in

second Corinthians chapter eight it says they gave themselves to the Lord first and then gave to

us in giving there were always the people who gave first and look what the promise was for them

and my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus

Philippians you gave to the kingdom of God you sowed to the kingdom of God like my friend hey I'm

starting this business and before I start the business what I want to do is I want to give to God

first here's the first fruit God here I want to give to you first because I believe if I get to

you first you're going to bless me and here's the promise for every single person who's saying

who got that disposition in their heart who from this day forward God I'm not going to put my

mortgage before I put you I'm not going to put my bills before I put you I'm not going to put

my needs before I'm not going to put my kids to wishing before I put you I'm not going to put

the things that I want before you I'm not going to put Macy's and Nordstrom's before you I'm

going to put you first and look at what happens when you do that my God shall supply all your needs

according to his riches got a broke he owes cattle on a thousand hills he ain't broke

according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus you know there's different ways to seal words

you know how we're going to seal this word with our giving some some words you seal it with praise

you seal it at the altar you seal it by going home and like I got to throw everything out

oh I'm deleting her number I'm deleting his number I'm getting rid of this toxic thing you know how

we're going to seal this word by putting into practice God I haven't put you first

but I'm going to put you first I'm going to give you first and believe that you're the God of

provision so let's get prepared to give they're going to put the giving information up on the

screen there's four ways to give and they're going to show you all the ways that you can give

and they're going to put it up for a few seconds a lot longer than it was when I try to do it the

other day four ways that P.O. Boxes for you know people give them the P.O. Box that means they

really love the Lord for you to have to get a stamp and envelope instead of just going like

this online that's some serious dedication if you want to give you can scan the QR code

you can give online at city light NYC.com slash give you can text city light to 4577 you can mail

in your check money order however you want to give and there's some offering boxes in the back

for those who aren't going to give digitally I'm going to give you just a few seconds to

get your seed ready and I understand for those who want to give right now because I don't like

giving at home I like when I'm in church I feel like my faith is activated and I'd like to give

here so if that's you I'm going to give you just another minute or so

to give and then here's what we're going to do we're all going to stand together

and I'm going to have you lift up your seed so it might be your phone if you're giving digitally

it might be an envelope whatever it is I want you to lift up your offering your tithe

and I want you to speak over it and make the declaration I'm blessed I'm blessed I'm blessed I'm blessed

I declare the blessing of the Lord's overtaking you did everyone have a chance to give

amen all right let's stand to our feet

and I want you to get your phone your check your money order some of you gave during the first

service thank you you can just symbolically lift up your hand or lift up your phone

some of you gave throughout the week some of you the Lord is impressing on you I want you

to put me first in your giving

make sure on first I'll bless the 90 if you put me first

I just lifted up and let's make this declaration I declare and I decree I am blessed

in the city in the field when I come when I go everything I touch by faith increases now favor

favor favor follows me and I am abundantly blessed in Jesus name if you believe it give God a shout of praise

come on give him a shout of praise

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