we have a financial crisis what do we want finances what do we need to hear from God everything about our life is connected to God speaking you may say well I don't hear from God well well he talks loud enough to be heard the capacity to hear is largely created by the desire to hear it's not a skill set it's a hunger bless you go and be seated oh uh anyone here who has you've had a certain uh physical Affliction uh for 20 years or longer you've had it prayed for probably a number of times but if that's you just stand up 20 years or longer okay um I want all of you who are standing to move into an aisle just scoot out into an aisle and uh church I think we're supposed to just say enough is enough so just move into the aisle and um you know Jesus had a blind guy go wash in the pool of salom there's no magic in the pool there's no magic in that location what was important is that there was an activity and uh simply walking to the aisle is your pool of silone and so here's what I'm going to ask I only want those who believe God heals not occasionally but today I want you to go lay hands on these folks and we're going to take let let me give you I'm sorry I should give you a testimony first I'm very I'm very sorry I I I jump the gun and you are you are so hesitant you're so withdrawn in your desire to pray I'm joking um one of the most significant Miracles um I've ever ever seen was uh probably about six years ago I'm not going to go into the physical issue but bedridden for many many many years and um was able to come to a meeting and we prayed and the only thing I felt to pray was was literally for her to be flooded with his presence and that doesn't sound maybe like very specific pray but what I saw was if if you saw like a large vase and sand was in the bottom and you had a hose and you were just pouring water in until it overflowed and you kept that hose in there until all the sand had worked its way to the top does that make sense you're just trying to get something out and that's I feel like we're just supposed to do that right now we're just supposed to pray for these folks bless them and pray God just overflow them just overflow keep it very very simple but I feel we're supposed to just lay hands on them and uh and bless him and so now if you actually believe God heals you can stand and go pray for these all right uh it doesn't hurt if you find out what needs uh healing but for the most part in this situation here we're just praying for God to flood their soul literally okay now start praying I want to hear you praying [Music] thank you Lord just flood their souls literally flood their souls God flood their souls overflow them we're going to take a few minutes for this so don't uh don't become weary and well-doing flood their souls overflow them every single one we declare enough is enough 20 years is too long 20 years is too long enough is enough we pray for and declare healing Grace healing Grace just a flood the their souls thank you Lord just keep praying I want to hear you praying out loud just flood their souls says the anointing breaks the Yoke we're just praying that release of anointing into every part of their soul every part of their body flood their soul God every part of their [Music] body thank you Lord yeah thank you Lord yeah there they're starting to get some breakthrough so that's good don't stop take I was going to end it and then I started sing it's starting to lift so let's not quit yet the healing Grace of Jesus flood their souls flood their souls flood their souls every single part God we declared online to our online family should have mentioned that earlier forgive me we declare the same thing over you that the the Lord himself would flood your souls flood your souls that every attachment of Affliction infirmity every part of its attachment to your life would be broken and just flushed out of your system literally Holy Spirit Come increase increase the manifestation of presence and just flush out of people's systems right now this whole issue of Affliction yeah we just declare this now in Jesus name now I want you just declare just declare over them enough is enough enough enough declare it over them enough is enough enough is enough this healing begins now this cycle of Affliction ends now AFF in Jesus name amen amen amen bless you go ahead and and uh bless them hug them do something nice and then uh go ahead and be seated we almost always have people examine themselves and such I just felt like tonight that literally that that you're going to see measurable increase in breakthrough over the next maybe several minutes but certainly next several days and I really want to encourage you let us know because it's always so encouraging for us to hear um how how many of you were at the movie Last was the last Sunday night yeah we had uh someone uh when uh someone was being prayed for on the film one of our uh online bethl family members was watching and the exact part of the neck that was being prayed for on the in the movie they've had an Affliction for 42 years 42 years and and in the prayer on the movie they were healed completely completely 42 years that's so amazing yeah so amazing we've had people uh healed uh in Reading like some of the books that have been written that come out of this house they've actually reading a a a a story or maybe just reading a teaching and a miracle comes to them while they're reading uh uh an encounter with the Lord and they're healed Chris's book um uh I forget the the the one I'm basically on Deliverance uh spirit Wars thank you Spirit Wars um yeah uh very uh significant Deliverance took place in someone's life um they were in their bedroom by themselves reading and they had a visitation of the Lord and were set free of absolute horrific demonic stuff and uh anyway so it just happens everywhere you can't get away from it he will hunt you down he will hunt you down I feel like we're supposed to pray for a couple more things I really want to talk to you tonight out of uh out of the Bible and uh we're we're going to do that in a moment but there's a couple other things I felt we were supposed to pray for um two other things one um see how we're going to do this you you have family [Music] issues that have been there for many many years and it may be another 20year deal but many years of of conflict of impossible situation in family relationships and you want that healed stand all right we've got to see the stuff broken and and say say this with me 20 years is long enough years long and for some of these I know it's it's less than that but uh there's there's such an assault on identity there's such an assault and one of the reasons why there's such an assault on relation relationship is because it goes to the root of identity because we we actually find out often times who we are in our place in life through relationship so there's such a strong assault in that area so I I want you just to if you're seated you're the ministry team go and stand and uh just lay hands on someone who's standing and just and just start praying over them just start praying some of you that are standing together maybe pray for each other but just I just start praying God do the impossible do the impossible do the impossible we loose a spirit of reconciliation I want you to pray that specifically we bind division we loose a spirit of reconciliation over these households over these Family Lines the same online we bind that Spirit of division that divisiveness that confusion the chaos that has entered into household after household and we just declare this ends tonight we loose a spirit of [Music] reconciliation I want you to pray for family members to have dreams pray it right now family members to have dreams all over the Middle East people are dreaming of the man in white let's pray that it happens that our world that people dream of the man and white that they are drawn to this Jesus and that there's reconciliation because of these dreams thank you Lord okay stop your prayer for just a moment look at me cuz we're going to we're going to add part two to this how many of you that are how many of you are receiving prayer put your hands up I want to see who you are see your hands okay how many of you who are receiving prayer you feel like you've done so much to try to bring reconciliation and it just hasn't worked put your hands back up all right here's what we're going to do we're going to pray God take my Loaves and Fishes take my Loaves and Fishes I want you to put your hands out like this literally take my in fact everybody might want to get in on this one take take my Loaves and fishes take my loes make it enough God make it enough touch what is insufficient and lacking and make it enough we ask this that Jesus would be exalted everybody said amen amen amen wonderful please be seated I know we I I really do want to to teach but uh we're going to pray for one more thing now this one is this one is is very very specific I they all have been but I I feel like we're there's there's this thing called systemic poverty and it's where multiple Family Lines your your your parents your grandparents there was just never enough and forget the reason why there's just uh uh the Bible says uh I I love this passage in Proverbs it says that the soil of the poor there's major crops in the soil of the poor but Injustice keeps it from them so if you can picture somebody in poverty a family aligned just stuck in poverty and there's this steel plate that they are standing on that keeps them from the soil that could produce abundance and that steel plate we're just going to call injust Justice according to Proverbs it's Injustice so I feel like we're just supposed to go after this thing tonight and watch what will happen over the next we're going to go we're just going to say the next 12 months all right I'm I'm not I'm not praying for anyone to win the lottery because the Lord is going to he has to make us prosperous in here before we can maintain a Prosperity here it is the truth it is the truth we got to learn his ways here so that we're good stewards so if if you are part of a family that has been locked in a cycle of poverty what I just said makes sense to you I want you to stand guess what we're going to do I know it's hard to imagine right now but I'm going to have you that are seated stand you're the ministry team go to these and I want you to begin to listen listen carefully to me sh listen carefully I want you to confess the word of of God over them I want you to confess scripture if you only know one verse about finances just say that one verse over and over again U but I want you just to confess the word over them and declare the cycle of poverty Ends Tonight so let's pray pray out loud once again online we declare the same in fact there's going to be household after household of our online family that you will notice in the next 12 months everything changes about about the economic environment of your home attitude spending income favor everything we declare it shifts and it changes tonight in Jesus name in Jesus name thank you Lord in Jesus name we declare an end to the cycle of poverty pray right now for prosperity of Soul pray for prosperity of soul not just on that individual but the entire family line that their relatives would be visited by the spirit of God now tonight change the identity Lord of every single household represented here the identity of being locked in not enough moving into more than enough more than enough just declare over them more than enough more than enough thank you Lord I want you to pray and declare over them that God is giving you the capacity to make wealth yeah in Jesus name in Jesus name amen amen all right go ahead bless him good hug him and do something nice and uh and be seated [Music] I uh I've got stuff I want to talk about and it's already late so um so if you get done before I do just go home that's all I know to say I want you to open your Bibles to the Book of Exodus chapter 14 we're going to be reading out of chapter 14 out of 19 out of 20 and hopefully Deuteronomy 8 don't become terrified it may not be as long as all that but but still that's that's where I'm hoping to go tonight I I don't know uh what your Bible reading is like what what you enjoy reading about I I honestly do love the entire Bible I I even weighed through the genealogies just because it's in the book and uh so I just make sure to slow down and read through that but I I have a special affection for the story of Israel coming out of Egypt going through the Wilderness into the promised land I like stories that are I don't want to say the story is a metaphor it's a real story story but the lessons in the story are are much like metaphors and they're so easy uh they're easy for me to learn from it's like David and Goliath it's a it's a I I love these Bible stories for children because they're really Bible stories for adults they're Bible stories for me and and I I I like the picture the pictures involved in the stories Daniel in the Lion's Den um Moses parting the Red Sea all these stories are so uh wonderful to learn from and but what was important for me to learn early on in my faith in my walk with the Lord is I is early on I thought the promised land was Heaven and so it was it was hard for me to to navigate the lessons that are involved in that story okay if you're new to scripture uh Israel uh grew as a nation in the land of Egypt long story but they prospered there God released them um from Egypt through the shedding of blood of a lamb and they put the blood on the doorpost of every Jewish household and they were released to go set free from slavery by blood into their promised land and it took them 40 years but it technically it was only 11-day journey and often times we slow down the journey that God takes us on because we have better ideas and so they they go through this process where they finally come uh so many years later 40 years later and they enter the land of promises now the land of promises is is the Christian Life let me be more specific the land of promises in the Old Testament is life in the Kingdom of God in the new so when it talks about the entrance into the promised land it's talking about us entering in to the realities of God's kingdom now here on Earth Jesus lays hands on a person who's tormented by demons and he delivers him and he said the kingdom of God Came Upon you so it was a present reality and the evidence of the presence of that Kingdom King's domain the reality of his Dominion the evidence of that was Deliverance or was Liberty Freedom where the spirit of the Lord is there's Freedom there's liberty where the Holy Spirit demonstrates the lordship of Jesus there's freedom on there's measurable Liberty and so this lesson this profound Old Testament lesson is literally about us leaving the old ways of life life the old ways of thinking and experiencing the unique way of thinking and the unique way of living in this place called the kingdom of God yes someday we go to heaven but right now we get to live in the reality of Heaven in whatever measure you desire the desire has to be matched with Pursuit and radical obedience you can have a dream of wanting to live in the reality of heaven but it has to be matched with the pursuit cuz he says seek first so it's priority and there has to be the radical obedience that matches that passionate Pursuit and wherever there's a passionate Pursuit match with radical obedience you see Heaven come to Earth so Exodus 14 are you there yeah now the reason I tell you well there's a lot of reasons but I say uh um the the promised land is not heaven Moses didn't make it I'm pretty sure he made it he didn't make it into the promised land but he did make it to Heaven all right all right that that was overwhelming but it's all right I'm I've worked with less so it's all right all right so here we are I actually read this passage this morning in our first two Services of the today um praying um during our ministry time verse 13 Moses said to the people do not be afraid stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will accomplish for you today for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall see again no more forever for the Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace all right so here's where we're starting the story Moses has this incredible let me just call it words from the Lord he has the he has a faith a confidence that if you can imagine all of Israel a couple million people standing on the banks of the Red Sea the Egyptians are right there they're just being held off by this like this Cloud they're being kept at a distance they want the soldiers want to come and kill the the Israelites and so they're there in fear they're terrified Moses stands up and says stand still don't be afraid the Lord's going to fight for you see the Egyptians take a good look cuz you'll never see him again and he makes this prophetic announcement but what happens next is interesting he got most of the word right he said the Lord will fight for you while you keep silent verse 15 says the Lord said to Moses why are you crying out to me so what does that tell us Moses was doing after he prophesied anybody else ever done that you make this confident confession of faith of what God's about to do and then after the words come out of your mouth you go oh no and we start crying out to God well that's Moses here so Moses gives this profound word and then the Lord speaks says why are you crying out to me which tells me he was crying out to God so he says U he says why why do you cry out to me tell the children of Israel to go forward now how many you know there's a little difference between stand still and go forward Moses thought they were going to see see the Deliverance by standing in place God said you got the Deliverance part right but you're not going to see it standing still you're going to see it going forward sometimes we get the heart of the word right the application is where we struggle please listen to me on this often times we have this sense this prophetic sense of what God is saying what he's doing and we're confident in what God's about to do but we misinterpret how it's going to be released and so we stand still long past the time where we should have been moving forward come on word lift up your Rod verse 16 stretch out your hand over the sea divide it the children of Israel go on dry ground Moses takes the rod which by the way was the rod of Moses until he threw it down and when he picked it up it became the rod of the Lord do you remember when when all the uh The Magicians in in Egypt threw their rods down they turned into snakes do you remember snake his snake what did his snake do he ate all their snakes so their rod of authority is in the belly of your Rod of authority come on that should work that should work right there that that should encourage a few folks you know more than you know more than I know all right all right so he stretched out his hand and the Sea parted and Israel was able to walk through on dry ground instantly dried from moisture that had been there thousands of years instantly dry and they walk through on dry ground into the land of promises now what happens for many Believers is we go through this body of water oh I'm I I am so I need to apologize right now because I'm going to make a whole bunch of assumption in leaps and logic and you're just going to have to follow you just need to get your gospel track shoes on and run with me on this one all right so Israel leaves Egypt and they go through the Red Sea which is water baptism they come to the second baptism which this time is a river not a sea and the Holy Spirit is called a river in John 7 and they go through a second baptism into the land of promises right the second baptism in the spirit is what takes you into a supernatural lifestyle many Believers go through that second body of water this is the Red Sea crossing the second Crossing is the Jordan River where they go into the land of promises and they live the entire life on the banks of the river of of the land of promises being able to pray in tongues but never taking territory the entrance into that second body of piece of land second body of water was to give access to Triumph that you didn't have access to on the other side is anybody catching the what what I'm trying to all right all right let's just let's just move on so what we have here is we have uh Israel uh is starting to receive some instruction on their purpose and identity so I want you to jump over now to chapter 19 chapter 19 of Exodus so they walk through on dry ground they're in the wilderness this is not promised land yet I'm sorry this is Wilderness so it's the beginning of their journey and uh everybody's all excited because they just saw the miracle and then the Lord uh decides to give them a couple tests verse three Moses went up to God the Lord called to him from the mountain saying thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel you have seen what I did to the Egyptians how I bore you on Eagle wings and brought you to myself now listen to me carefully Israel has a problem by of experiencing the blessing the Bounty of the Lord incredible breakthroughs water out of a rock Pillar of Fire by Night Cloud by day uh mana on the ground all these extraordinary Miracles that sustained them kept them alive but they would repeatedly fall back into to the lifestyle of complaining it actually cost them their inheritance it cost them they did not enter the promised land because of their continuous complaining now why did they complain because they had unfulfilled promises everything they complained about was a legitimate problem they come to a place where they haven't had any any food for a while and they're complaining because they have no food Moses why did you bring us out here to die we could have died in Egypt at least we ate there and so they're complaining is the concern as a parent for your children being able to eat is that a legitimate concern yes it is the the problem is is what we do with the challenges that we Face we all face challenges but when I turn my challenge when when when a challenge gives me permission to complain and rarely do we complain about God we much rather complain about his people that's this the subtle way to complain against God they complained against Moses against Moses God said to Moses they're not complaining against you they're complaining against me yeah or maybe it's the system maybe it's the government maybe it's this or that but the the problem is as we feel justified in speaking words that are not like life and I've asked you the question before if God inhabits my praise who inhabits my complaints come on words words are habitations they will house something amen and and this I I think it comes down to the it's a it's it's a fight that we are in every day of our life a fight to sustain the lordship of Jesus over every part of our life and that's the fight true and to embrace a lifestyle of complaining that I resort to that when when I feel pain when I'm uncomfortable when I'm afraid to resort to that it's a lordship issue and most of the time for example most of the time we actually don't have a financial issue we have a lordship issue so good and it's it's the same for all of us we we wake up every day with the opportunity to yield ourselves to the lordship of Jesus or to come up with our own spiritually shaped values from the scripture that keep us in charge of our Christian routine on I know you don't need this but there are people out there that need to hear this you know them too yeah you know them all right um I didn't get very far on this did I but I I I stopped there because look at this verse again you have seen what I did to the Egyptians now the Lord is speaking to them how I bore you on Eagle wings and brought you to myself what more does a group of people need to hear does that Minister life to you if the Lord speaks that to you I brought you on Eagle wi Eagle wings and I BR I did it to bring you to me does that bring encouragement to you it didn't last long it it didn't last long they needed to hear again and again and again and and I'm embarrassed to say me too me too it encourages me it edifies me it strengthens me for for a little while and then for some reason I I forget oh yeah that Eagle wings word that that was a good word I I should have written that one down I should have maybe memorize I should have developed a prayer life reaction to the word of the Lord that I could sustain long past the immediate moment of inspiration because it was a defining word for the rest of their life would it make sense to you to say we often times hear lifechanging words that have very short shelf life life-changing words they they have the potential to define the rest of our days but because the place they have here they're not in entertained enough I I say this as an invitation because I I I know what I'm facing right now and I'm I'm pretty much just trying to talk to you and not talk to myself that's what I'm trying to do I'm trying to put it all on you that I I I know what I've I've done in the recent days where I keep going back to this having to learn the same lesson over and over again and here the Lord brings a word that is a life altering word and it's why why Jesus said if you abide in me and my words abide in you let what I say over you I bore you on E Eagle's Wings to bring you to myself let what I said to you stay in your heart forever because once you made that connection with what I say over your life I trust you to ask for anything and I'll do it this is the Covenant he makes with us to be a we receive a life Al Al ing word so that we can release a life-altering movement on a life-altering word all right this is going to take forever I got to get moving verse five now therefore if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my Covenant then you will be a special treasure to me wow a I have that underlined a special treasure to me above all people all the Earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words you shall speak to the children of Israel real quick Genesis 1 as the Nations begin uh the people began to multiply Nations begin to develop God extended himself to all the nations of the earth they all rejected him he chose Israel he chose Abraham out of him raised up one nation not in rejection of the rest but to illustrate his heart for one so that all would be invited in did that do you get that all right now we got Israel 12 tribes he extends the priesthood call to every tribe they rejected so he raises up the tribe of Lei Levi to illustrate on the one what is open to all in the New Testament you hear not you will be a kingdom of priests as it is written here but you are 1 Peter 2:9 you are a kingdom of priests priesthood means that we Minister directly to him and we represent him in ministering to people so here is the announcement you will be to me a kingdom of priests chapter 20 verse 18 now all the people witnessed the thunderings the lightning flashes the sound of the trumpet the mountain smoking and when PE when the people saw they trembled and stood a far off and they said to Moses you speak with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we die and Moses said to the peopleo not fear God has come to test you that his fear may be before you so that you may not sin so the people stood a far off but Moses Drew near the th thick Darkness where God was did you see that phrase the thick Darkness where God was sometimes it's dark because he's so near the shadow of his Wayne sometimes you're in a dark place only because of his nearness and he's protecting you so good verse 20 is interesting Moses said to the people do not fear for God has come to test you that his fear may be before you I like that don't be afraid why well because then you can't fear God right that actually makes sense you may have a a a a neighbor let's just say you have a neighbor that's a police officer and I I'm I love our our police force here in Reading we're we're blessed but let's just say you happen to have one that uh yells at his wife and yells at his kids and just is not a very nice person and uh but when he's in his car and he turns his lights on you don't ignore him because he's not a good husband you actually pull over why because you fear him in his position you don't have respect but you do have fear respect is greater than fear the fear of the Lord is a fear based on the character and nature of God it endear us to him it does not drive us from him come on it endear us to him and every step towards him is sacrificing personal agendas knowing that the only thing that will stand is what he has planned for us amen but here's what I wanted you to see out of this chapter most of all he says in verse 19 they said to Moses you speak to us with us they said to Moses you speak with us and we will hear but let not God speak to us lest we die my personal opinion is this is when Israel rejected the priesthood call previous chapter you will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation next chapter you talk to God tell us what he said don't let him talk to us cuz we'll die Priestly Ministry requires hearing from God it's face to face true genuine worship is born of the spirit not born of human will those who worship God must Worship in spirit and in truth it's a God born activity and it is the ongoing nature of the Holy Spirit to express deep affectionate adoration for Jesus the Christ and the father genuine worship we had uh several moments or spots periods of time where we we tapped into this reality of of the Holy Spirit empower the whole thing was but there were moments that just seemed to have a turbo booster put on where just there was such an acceleration of an offering it actually became his gift through us to God the father and God the son in this particular story Israel rejects the Priestly Ministry and chose instead a mediator I'd like to suggest to you that whether they realized it or not just T take this into consideration I I I can already hear the the texts and the emails I can I can hear them yes yes yes just take into consideration when they chose a mediator they chose law over Grace I don't know that Grace was available but I'm just saying they moved consistent with what is necessary for law because in law well let's let's put it this way I no longer call you servants I call you friends why would there be that graduation because servants are concerned about getting the right stuff done and friends are concerned about heart and about relationship and friendship and what Israel wanted to do here was to be the servant and never the friend they wanted to have the list of things to do the list of things not to do and then obey what was done so they have the personal satisfaction of doing what they're supposed to do but never having the relationship that was scary to them so good so good so here it says you guys all right yes all right all right let's see I I don't I don't have that much more I mean I got a lot more of this I don't have that much verse 20 again and Moses said to the peopleo not fear for God has come to test you now go to Deuteronomy chapter 8 God has come to test you [Music] verse one of chapter 8 every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers and you shall remember that the Lord your God LED you all the way these 40 years in the wilderness to Humble you and to test you to know what was in your heart whether you would keep his Commandments or not man I read an interesting quote to our staff this morning I wonder if I could find it um is from this here it is it's from this uh St Moses the black in Ethiopian it says you fast but Satan does not eat you labor fervently but Satan never sleeps the only Dimension with which you can outperform Satan is by acquiring humility for Satan has no humility in case you were daydreaming let me read that again you fast but Satan does not eat you labor fervently but Satan never sleeps the only Dimension with which you can outperform Satan is by acquiring humility for Satan has no humility so good just little light-hearted uh comment there all right so here he the Lord says he came to test and to Humble Israel which means you and me too to humble and to test us to know what was in our heart now well let me let me keep going he humbled you allowing you to hunger and fed you with Mana with which you did not know nor did your fathers know that he might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone but but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God let me go to verse three again he humbled you allowed you to hunger and fed you with Mana which did not know nor did your fathers know that he might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God this verse fascinates me for some reason he humbled You by letting you be hungry and then he fed you to teach what we live by every word that proceeds from God's mouth how is that connected to eating mana on the ground are you getting my question here he says he humbled You by letting you get hungry and then he fed you with what you didn't know Mana means what is it you know what is it eat it that's what it is it's what is it so I I let you I humbled You by letting you get hungry and then I fed you so that you'd learn man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God so good I humbled you I'll let you get hungry then I fed you with what is it so that you'd always remember man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God how how does that connect to every word that proceeds from the mouth of God we're hungry all right food appears eat it now you should know man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God in Israel's experience the Mana was released because of decrees that were made to Moses as he directed them and led them them he announced to them the Egyptians whom you see today you'll never see again forever where did Moses get that word it's a safe guess this is not a trick question I know I know you don't trust me I wouldn't trust me either I get it I get so they he hears from the Father the Egyptians that you see today you'll never see him again forever and then they experien that Miracle what was the lesson they live because God still talks [Music] yes we have a financial crisis what do we want finances what do we need to hear from God everything is connected to us hearing from God right everything about our life is connected to God speaking everything everything and God said that there be light and there was light everything Faith comes by hearing hearing by the word he speaks and faith is created everything about our life is connected to hearing from God you may say well I don't hear from God well well he talks loud enough to be heard come on that's good I have a son he doesn't hear well he was born with 90% loss of hearing both ears so we raised over voice I'm not a better father than he is he doesn't whisper to the heart of hearing and then punish them for not listening so good the capacity to hear is largely created by the desire to hear it's not a skill set it's a hunger it's a realization of need it's a place of dependency God I am in a place place right now where if you don't speak to me I'll die I have no other options there's no other Alternatives I'm in the wilderness there's no place to get bread either you provide for us or we die here in the wilderness and it's that lifestyle of Abandonment and trust that that that has this deep affection and adoration and attachment to the voice of God it's this need to hear from the Lord said it many times but this is the only book you'll ever read where the author always shows up when you read it and he makes it alive it's alive it's like even things you don't understand are alive you may question we go what does that mean guess what nutrients just entered your soul he can deposit a word in you today that you don't understand and bring it to the surface in a year and provide the miracle but it was important that the seed get deposited today so that we expose oursel to what he's saying so he said he humbled you allowed you to hunger fed you with Mana which you did not know nor did your fathers know that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God and then he goes on and he takes them through this uh uh uh uh he reminds them of the test that he took them through he says um um I taking you into the land verse 9 you will eat the bread without scarcity you'll lack nothing when you have eaten and are full God will bless uh you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land beware that you do not forget the Lord by keeping his Commandments what is he saying here he's saying I brought you through lack so I could trust you with abundance the disciples sold everything they left everything I should say to follow Jesus yes yes before he left he said get a sword for me the sword represents I'm supposed to spend money on something I can't use wow Jesus wasn't leading them into physical battle anded he told him to get a sword why it's the ultimate representation of a different way of thinking about money he tells Moses throw down your Rod throws it down say now pick it up by the tail I don't like snakes I don't like them in National Geographic I turn the page hunt hunting magazines I hunt I have hunting magazines plural I have years but I turn the pages when they start talking about hunting for rattlesnakes I don't need H for rattlesnakes I went fishing at what's on the upper Sacramento River I pulled into this Campground and there's this huge sign that said infested with rattlesnakes never even stopped the car just turned around just kept on going there's probably some other fisherman put the sign there but I don't care I'm not taking the chance I I don't like the snakes at all Ben Armstrong disagrees with me he likes all snakes I do not I do not I do not so Moses picks the thing up by the tail I know it doesn't sound like the right way to pick up a snake to me the way I see him do it on TV and the times I have seen it when I didn't want to as they put something down on their head and grab behind the head oh that snake talk got me all messed up here I may need to go through a Sozo Don if you have a little extra time so we're done with this so you pick up a rod by the tail knowing that if you don't hold it right it can become a snake again again yes and that's what wealth is you hold it God's way it's a rod of authority you hold it your way it'll bite you good never meant to talk about money but I got it in there somehow and I even got some hunting in there so that's good it's been a good day it's just been a good day all right so here we have these tests that he takes them through verse 16 he fed you in the wilderness with Mana which your fathers did not know that he might humble you that he might test you to do you good in the end then you will say in your heart my power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth he he's correcting them so they don't do that and verse 18 you shall remember the Lord your God for it is he who gives you power to get wealth my goodness I I actually didn't plan on going there but we just kind of stumbled into it and maybe because we prayed for that thing tonight maybe this I I feel like the Lord's on that thing so let's uh let's take just a moment more and we're going to end end this I'm not sure how but we're going to end it I may just walk off the stage I don't know so the disciples leave everything to follow Jesus and that was their school to be able to manage what he now puts in their hand I'm not saying they had palaces and all all this stuff that's never the point the point is going without is what teaches me to Steward well to be trusted with it was Israel's lesson they went without but their goal was not this bothers a lot of people but this their goal was not God getting Israel into the promised land where he could feed them Mana every day that was the school for the goal the goal was the promised landine where they would work and plant their own crops and C- labor with the Lord where God would actually partner with their labors and cause their work to prosper you know I it never even crossed my mind to talk to you about money at all tonight at all I know it's hard to believe but it's true I'm telling you the truth what's the date today 11 okay listen listen to this there's one who scatters yet increases all the more how many of you understand that's talking about generosity there's one who scatters yet increases all the more there's one who withholds what is right only leads to Poverty the generous soul will be made Rich He Who Waters will himself also be watered generous verses that's not a trick question generous verses all right very next verse the people uh the people will curse him who withholds grain but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it Proverbs 11:25-26 think through this with me he said all right those who water those who are generous they're going to receive back those who scatter there's there's going to be abundance for them and blessed will be the person who grows a crop and sells it it didn't say blessed would be the person who grows a crop and gives it away that's already established that's a kingdom value is generosity but there's another kingdom value that present day culture is in opposition to there's a de a demonic Spirit called socialism that dehumanizes people and elevates government let me just leave that there and move on T TV sets all across America just turned off right there all the international audience just dis disappeared all right the individual responsibility to be productive blessed will be the person who grows a crop and sells it they will be blessed because they contributed to the well-being of their community and they received a just wage for their contribution that is the way life is supposed to work it's not supposed to be that I live off of a system it's supposed to be that I am productive and I contribute now I understand there are people with disabilities all kinds of stuff I get that and and as a culture and a society we must care for people but this elevates something that is I think critical blessed it's in the same line of thought as generosity I met with a businessman here a while back and thanked him for his work a great contribution to our community our city is better off because of of he and his wife what they do and I told him about this verse I said God considers your labor and your contribution providing for what you provide for a city we are better off because because you're here God looks at that as generosity so if you are the person who cleans teeth at the dentist office you're making the city a better place you're repairing cars you make it so people can get to work you're selling groceries you bring joy to households and families all across the city every person that is making a contribution to the city is is elevating the esteem and the reality of blessing that rests on a community because of your labor that's enough stand this uh I I got uh I got a little distracted just a hair just a hair oh goodness I went way longer than I thought o oh well all right Jesus help us so what trial are you facing that you are looking for a temporary relief from I I don't know if I asked that right so what what situation are you facing where all of your all of your attention is on a temporary solution that will relieve pain when apparently the lesson hidden behind that which humbles us is actually to endear us to his voice good when Moses declared take a good look at the Egyptians you'll never ever see them again when he declared it it became reality because it was born in the heart of God and hearing from the Lord so that we can make the proper decrees C- labor with the Lord yeah he uses us to establish his truth his word his principles in the earth okay I'm done again that's the second ending only going to do two endings tonight that's the last one let's just pray help us Jesus hurry please hurry before I think of something else yeah no I I do pray I I pray Lord that uh for every one of us there' be this endearment to the voice uh I love how you talk to us he talks so differently you know he talks so so differently I love the still Small Voice the Audible Voice I'll take all of it but often times he speaks through this let me give you an example this isn't a third ending this is an extension of number two it's an extension of number two shut [Applause] up how how many of you are in the first service this morning when Dave Harvey stood up and he talked about the triple Yol the triple yoke I have three of the most impossible situations I'm facing in my of my life I'm facing right now the three most impossible and when he said triple yoke I knew that word was for [Applause] me how do you know you just know you don't we don't demand of him how he speaks to us we just have to recognize what he does so father loosen us up to hear from you better amen amen [Applause]