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give my money right so I want us to

learn about this concept of getting our

finances right and can I just go ahead

and give you a spoiler alert the title

wait till I get my money right it’s just

bait we just threw that out here for all

the people you know who like Kanye and

all those other people we just threw it

out there because honestly it does

matter how much money you have if your

heart is not right it doesn’t matter

like like if you’re gonna do finances

God’s Way if you’re gonna steward and be

generous the way God has called you to

it doesn’t matter how much finances you

have if your heart is bankrupt that’s

how people with 50 million dollars can

commit suicide it’s not because they

didn’t have things or stuff it’s

something in their heart was sick and so

if you don’t get anything else that I’m

about to say I want you to realize that

God doesn’t want you to have a blessed

wallet he wants you to live a blessed

life do you hear what I’m saying

it’s not about money it’s about the life

he said that I’ve come that you might

have life and life took a fool so if I

could give you my first point I want you

to realize when we talk about finances

when we talk about giving when you talk

about stewardship it’s all about the

heart everybody say that with me it’s

all about the heart see if you realize

that right now everything gets real easy

when it comes to giving I want you to go

to Matthew 7 and we’re gonna start at

verse 1 and I’m gonna read this and I

want to show you something in the

scripture that you may have never seen

before Matthew 7 verse 1 it says judge

not that you be not judged for with what

judgment you judge you will be judged

and with the measure you use it will be

measured back to you let me ask you a

quick question was the word money

mentioned anywhere in that verse money

was nowhere in that okay and I want you

to see the context of this verse was

judging so if you judge people the

measure you judge

was the measure you’ll be judged back

okay I want us to go to the parallel

passage of this in Luke six but I want

us to commit to short-term memory just

these two phrases I want you to repeat

after me I want you to say judge not and

you will not be judged with the measure

you use it will be measured back to you

okay we’re gonna say it one more time

like we drink coffee this morning okay

judge not and you will not be judged

there y’all are and with the measure you

use it will be measured back to you go

to Luke 6 verse 37 and look at the first

sentence of this passage and the last

sentence it says judge not and you shall

not be judged condemn not and you shall

not be condemned forgive and you will be

forgiven watch this verse 38 give and it

will be given to you good measure

pressed down shaken together and running

over will it be put into your lap for

with the same measure that you use it

will be measured back to you now this

may shock you but the word money is

nowhere in that verse either yet every

time we hear Luke 6:38 is that offering

time yeah yeah yeah and it will be get

back to you good measure say Kentucky

come on somebody shape like that we do

all of that I’ve done it before

okay but money was not mentioned in that

verse it’s because I think God is trying

to teach us a bigger principle that that

giving is bigger than just giving

finances giving is the cornerstone piece

of the Christian life and so what we do

is we relegate it come on let’s think

about it anytime we think about giving

we think money like that’s the first

thought like we want to give our

again lower Jesus but what happens is I

believe the enemy has distorted or

perverted this word giving just to think

of money so that we automatically check

out are we automatically saying you know

I got enough of that or you already know

where it is and so we distance ourselves

from a key of the kingdom that will

allow us to reach purpose because we

automatically think it’s just talking

about money but this scripture is not

talking about money a pastor was being

interviewed and the the person

interviewing and asked them pastor how

much do you you know speaking how often

do you speak on giving and the pastor

said every week and the reporter said

you speak on giving every week he said

yes he said I think what you meant to

ask me is how much do I speak about

giving money not giving because I cannot

talk about grace without talking about

giving because for God so loved the

world that he I can’t speak on having a

healthy marriage without giving because

you cannot have a healthy marriage if

you don’t have two people that are

constantly giving to the marriage and

see what happens is our our thought

process about giving has been dumbed

down or numbed because we have relegated

to money so college students when they

talk about finances you don’t even do

stop thinking your brain stop working

because you think about all the money

you have you owe people and you’re

eating ramen noodles and all this stuff

and and then people with finances and

six kids in sports and a mortgage you

stop thinking because when they say give

it’s like all that ain’t me he ain’t

talking about me

you know ain’t got nothing to give over

here sit down don’t don’t don’t look

husband don’t look wife and God is

saying no I want you to open your heart

again and realize that giving is more

than just your money it’s your time it’s

your talent some of you are so hoarding

and keeping away the gifts God is giving

you and he said I need you to give

everything that God’s God I’ve placed

inside of you because when you do that

you begin to form my heart in you and

church Akeem giving is all about the

heart

look what Matthew 6:21 says because a

lot of people don’t realize they say

this in passing but there is so much

power in this verse right here it says

for where your treasure is there your

heart will be also let me break that

down your heart follows your treasure

your treasure does not follow your heart

so a lot of people would be like you

know if I really love it I’ll give to it

lies if you give to it you’ll really

love it I’ll prove it to you some of you

like there’s a heart string connected

from your heart to your wallet because

as soon as God asks you to give some

that hurts you uh you start you start

moving let me prove it to you you put

money in a stock and you didn’t check on

that stock or that investment ever

before

you’re checking it every day why cuz you

put treasure there and where your

treasure is your heart is you watching

the stock go up you watching it go down

some of y’all check y’all bank account

more times than you check on your kids

do you understand what I’m saying you

didn’t change you can paid on the first

and a fifteen but you’re just checking

why cuz where my treasure is that’s

where my heart is and so when you start

asking that a lot of people are asking

God to allow their heart to line up with

some where they have not put their

treasure can I talk to married couples

you stopped investing in your marriage

after the wedding and so you wonder why

the love is fading and it’s not the same

you stop putting your treasure there you

don’t buy her gifts anymore you won’t

spend no money on dates you won’t do it

and so where your treasure is that’s

where your heart is some of us are in a

place where we have shut our heart down

but God says you want to open your heart

back up in an area you want to go put

your treasure there what are you saying

to me Pastor Mike because I know a lot

of you are thinking right now dad I see

I knew it the turns just wants my money

to church just more my money that’s why

I told you I was gonna die transfer I

just want my mother let me help you no

the church doesn’t want your money God

wants your money why are you saying God

wants my money because if

get your finances he has your heart see

what you what you got to realize is God

does not need your finances to do

anything you need to give your finances

so that you have placed your heart in

God’s hand and when he has your heart he

can change your habits and so that’s why

a lot of people realize like I said the

Salvation prayer area like I’ll keep

coming to church and I’m serving but

you’re not giving and it is the mode

which God uses to test your heart and

and this is the thing that I say all the

time when we’re giving the altar call

and inviting people to the family of God

I say this all the time I said if God

can get your heart he can change your

habit let me and I believe that with all

my heart but let me take it a step

further if God can get your finances

he has your heart and that’s where we

try to play Jehovah Jireh and superhero

in our own life we try to provide for

ourselves we try to keep everything

together and I know this is tight but

it’s right I know your booty is

squeezing together I know you’re

thinking about all of the things that

you could be doing but I promise you if

you get this revelation today things

that has been held up for you I just see

God prophetically holding back things

until he gets your heart he said you

can’t handle it yet because but if I get

your heart I can release the floodgates

he said you are not a pharaoh through

you’re not somebody I can get things

through you’ve become a dam that when I

give you resources you hold it all up he

said and so when I look at you I give

seed to the

somebody I can get it through but you

have become a reservoir and not a river

and God is challenging us today that

maybe we need to open our heart again

and say you know what everything that I

have is God’s anyway maybe I can

actually become a river again maybe some

of the things that I’ve stopped doing

because I thought I was getting taken

advantage of or maybe I’m gonna I’m

gonna start giving again and I want you

to say it out loud just in a prophetic

way somebody say I will live a blessed

life

I’m telling you this is God’s plan for

you I do not care what you came from I

do not care what your family line was I

do not care how broke you are right now

God’s plan for you is to live a blessed

life and I need to speak that into

somebody because you’ve just seen all

the figures and you’ve seen all the

numbers and you’ve seen all the doubt

and you see it all the fear and God says

if you give me your heart I can change

the habits that have literally been

passed down from generation to

generation and I want you to see that

this scripture is talking about giving

and receiving and it’s a principle once

you receive this principle you can apply

it to any area of your life when you sow

a seed you don’t get back a seed when

you sow a seed you get back a tree that

has more seeds in it you had you get

back more in God saying would you trust

me with the laws of just the earth like

you can literally plant a tomato seed

right now and you can have tomatoes for

your salad after some time but why don’t

we come to God like Lord imma give this

and I just don’t I do not know oh Jesus

and we’re standing over one seed every

day like it ain’t growing and the Bible

tells us a farmer doesn’t plant one seed

and look over it he keeps just throwing

it out there

cuz we never know what seed and what day

is about y’all don’t hear me do you you

keep giving and from a generous heart

knowing that God is Jehovah Jireh my

provider so if he can get me to keep

giving it he’ll keep giving me the seed

too but let me help you it’s not about

figures it’s all about the heart and can

I can I can I help you because I’ve

never heard this scripture really taught

how I really think it should be taught

because remember this scripture is

talking about judgment and condemnation

it’s saying like the measure you give

judgment is the measure you get in

judgment back good measure press down

shaken together and running over will

judgment be given back to you

what gossip be giving back to you oh

yeah uh yeah yeah what backbiting be

giving back to you it will overflow this

is a principal and so can I help my

parents just for a second some of y’all

be like my kids are just disrespectful

they’re mean they just talk crazy could

it be that the seed you’ve planted in

them it’s coming back to you good

measure

press down shaken together and running

over is your seed giving you disrespect

how you gave it to them all I’m saying

is this principle works and so if giving

anything brings a return I should

probably give good things I come on even

if people are hating I’m giving

compliments because what I want to come

back it’s compliment press down shaken

together and running over when people

back bite me I love them and give them

grace because that’s what I want and

that’s why I’m saying maybe this thing

of giving is more important to the

kingdom of God than just giving finances

it’s being able to have the heart to

give period but can I help you define

this the way that God tests your heart

is through finance so this is where like

huh he he doesn’t need my finances what

that’s the way he tests my remember

where your treasure is not where you

promise it will be don’t tell me you

love God show me your checking account

not look at y’all some say oh god please

don’t

but honestly some of us we trust Visa

with our provision we trust the mortgage

company we trust Fannie Mae and God

saying if you honor me I can work in

your life like you’ve never ever thought

possible so we have to develop a

generous heart or a heart of generosity

so how do we develop a heart of

generosity I’m gonna give you four

things that I believe the word says in

Deuteronomy 15 go there in your Bible

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Deuteronomy 15 okay and we’ll start in

verse 7 because there’s a story and I

want to help you understand the children

of Israel are in this season where God

has set up an economic system where

every 7 years that every debt is

forgiven so no matter how much debt you

have every seventh year the year of

Jubilee they literally cancel all debts

quick question how many of you would

like God to reinstate that financial and

economic structure I had glory to God

fix it Jesus and so the children of

Israel are in this moment and then

there’s this story that is told and I

want you to look at it

we’re in Deuteronomy 15 verse 7 he says

hey listen if there’s anybody among you

like a poor man a brother of yours and

he’s within your gates and in your land

and the Lord your God is that the Lord

your God has given you notice who gave

you the land the Lord okay you shall not

harden your heart remember it’s all

about the heart don’t harden your heart

nor shut up your hand from your brother

that’s a whole nother message but your

heart in your hand are connected when

your heart is hard your hand is closed

when your heart is moldable your hand

will be oh you give whatever God wants

you to it says verse eight but you shall

open your hand wide and give to him

willingly that has to do with your heart

lend him sufficient for his need

whatever he needs the first point I want

to give you is that if we’re going to

live a generous life and we’re going to

be generous givers we have to deal with

the selfish heart see today’s gonna be a

heart check we got to deal with the

selfish heart the one talking included

look at verse 9 it says beware watch out

hole up let there be a wicked thought in

your heart look where the thought is

wicked it’s in your heart saying the

seventh year the year of release the

year where they we don’t have to pay

back anything the year that the debt is

forgiven

it’s that hand and my eye is evil

against the poor brother and you give

him nothing and he cry out to the Lord

against you and it becomes sin among you

let me let me break this down see God is

saying if you have in your heart

selfishness it’s wicked and and that

wickedness turns into sin let me remix

this passage let’s say you got a friend

named Rufus and Rufus is not the most

dependable person but but Rufus comes to

you and he says yo my crops were bad

this year and I need to borrow some

money

you know Janis we got these 10 kids not

much to do without cable and and you

understand like we we’re sitting over

here but this was a bad bad year can I

borrow some money to be able to get

through this and God says you’re

supposed to open your hand and lend to

him generously and don’t think hold on

what month is it it’s only six months to

the year of release that means if he

don’t pay me back at Rufus if he don’t

pay me back in six months I got to

forgive his dad 9 I’m messing with him

God says don’t think like that that’s

selfish

he said in that type of selfishness is

wickedness and turns into sin in your

heart and this convicted me because I

know there are tons of homeless people I

have walked past and I said in my heart

I ain’t giving him nothing he making

more money

than me standing on that corner asked

him for money and God says when you give

it’s not about what they do with it when

you give it’s about your obedience to me

and many of oh yeah I see looking people

tight right now ask you around the mouth

I’m coming for you because what has

happened is our hearts have become hard

because we’re we’re projecting what what

people are doing well they just gonna go

and buy some alcohol or some cigarettes

or maybe God’s testing their heart and

he’s working on them and he’s asking

them to do the things but it does not

matter what people do if God asked me to

give he’s not judging me based on what

they do he’s judging me based on what I

do and some of us are sitting here right

now and we’ve generationally been passed

down this thing of selfishness we’re

where we we have not allowed our hearts

to be open to giving to people and so we

see people and we judge them instead of

being the ones to help answer their

prayer God checked me earlier this year

he said Michael I want you to stop just

praying for things to happen I want you

to be the answer to people’s pray that’s

why God wants us to live a blessed life

that’s why he wants you to be and do

more than what you’ve seen is because he

wants to his kingdom to be built through

you but he gives you a promotion and

you’re more stingy than you were before

he gives you more relationship but you

won’t share your contacts he allows you

to walk into doors and you won’t bring

nobody with you he said maybe because

it’s you still have a selfish heart and

he’s saying lend to your brother don’t

don’t start thinking selfish don’t start

thinking like your dad don’t start

thinking like your uncle don’t start

thinking like your grandfather don’t

start thinking what is in this for me

say give and if you can give to people

he said I’ll always supply you if you

will always be be conscious of my heart

for people for my children for my babies

who are lost for those neighbors and

friends and family members some of y’all

are so

engi with family members what I’ve done

me wrong in the past yeah but we’ve done

God wrong in the past too how many of us

have made a promise to God and gone back

on it everybody’s hand should be uh but

he still loved us and he still cared for

us and he still looked beyond our faults

and he saw the need and he met that God

saying if you’re gonna be like me if

you’re gonna be like the example you

have to deal with the selfish heart

God’s saying I want you to be generous

like I’m generous I don’t want you to be

selfish anymore I don’t want you to just

think what do I get out of this see I

have a question for you why do you think

God created giving like honestly because

he invented it this wasn’t just like

something he made everything but he

invented giving and most people that

I’ve talked to or I’ve said something to

they’re like well he created giving so

that his so that his work could be

provided for that so we could provide

for God’s work and my response would be

really you really think God created

giving so that we could provide with our

money for God’s Word we’re talking about

the God who breathed life into us we’re

talking about the God who uses gold for

gold for the streets in heaven did the

light bill in heaven get too much for

God No

he developed giving not for his sake he

developed giving for our sake that if we

would ever get the concept of generosity

that we could get into a place where we

could live a blessed life and that’s why

I’m telling everybody with no

manipulation and no gains I don’t want

you to start giving because somebody’s

gonna promise you something that’s why

it’s so busted about so much of this

teaching that’s going on because they’re

teaching give and you’ll get give you’ll

get give and you’ll get and it’s

basically like a good business deal a

dummy would do that if I put ten dollars

in and I get a hundred dollars back I’m

doing that all day it don’t take faith

to do that and God says that’s wrong I

want

to to give because I gave and when you

give I want you to believe me

and I see some people like well that

doesn’t make sense nothing in the

kingdom does see what God wants you to

do is trust him and he says that’s when

I start clowning people when I give when

when you give and and it just seems like

why is nothing happening and then God

thrust up the windows of heaven and pour

out a blessing that you don’t have room

enough to receive and that’s why God

wants us to deal with the selfish heart

and I’m challenging you because God has

been wrecking me on this he says Michael

will you give that and there’s some

things right now if God asked me to give

it take everything in me because my

treasure is there and what my treasure

is my heart is there but if he asked you

to give the car would you give it if he

asked you to give the home would you get

if he asked you to give the shoes even

though the shoes would you give it and

for many of us if the answer is no we

may be dealing with this selfish heart

now ladies I want to help you real quick

because there’s an area of giving but

that that men will never ever grow up

and and start functioning right in we do

not want to share our food and y’all

seem to not understand that’s why we

asked you at the drive-thru do you want

anything and I’ll have some of yours no

you won’t if you want some you might

want to say something cuz all of these

fries are mine and the fries at the

bottom of the bag are mine can I get a

Amen from all the fellas amen y’all pray

for us cuz we do need deliverance but we

got to deal with the sin itself is hard

if we’re gonna become generous point two

you need to deal with the grieving heart

a heart that grieves after you give look

at Deuteronomy 15 verse 10 it says you

should surely give to him we’re gonna

give to Rufus okay and your heart should

not be greed so we should give and we

shouldn’t be like oh I shouldn’t have

done that

because when you give to him this thing

giving with the right heart is what it’s

talking about when you give with the

right heart the Lord your God will bless

you in all your works and then all to

which you put your hands I want to help

you understand when you give with the

right heart you get a Midas touch you

ever heard of Midas touch where

everything you touch turns to go God

says when you give with the right heart

you’ll give over here and something you

do over here just works you’ll give over

here and you’re thinking it’s gonna come

from this way and God says no you don’t

even got to worry about that because you

gave with the right heart when nobody

saw you when you stretch this it’s gonna

work that’s why God is trying to work

this in us to be generous listen to this

and write this down selfishness attacks

us before we give but grief attacks us

after we give y’all know that that

feeling when you give something here

like oh I should not and the enemy comes

to suggest soul out and and some of us

have given a large gift or made a

commitment and as soon as we do

something breaks or some the kid needs

something or that the tire goes out and

we’re like ah I shouldn’t that’s the

enemy and he’s trying to tell you you

shouldn’t have done that and you start

having grief in your heart but what you

got to realize is God it’s not concerned

about what happens cuz he’s gonna meet

the need he’s testing our faith when we

do that you know I just had a crazy

thought and I probably should let this

thought go away but I’m just gonna say

it cuz I feel like saying it right now

um I literally just thought after church

I’m going out to eat but I don’t have

any cash to go out to eat and I’m gonna

take my whole family and I don’t have no

cash to get something to eat what’s up

Charles you gonna bless your boy

appreciate you bro you’re light-skinned

and pretty go sit down man Charles gave

me a hundred dollars man Thank You Man I

was just gonna go to Cheddar’s but now

if you go somewhere else now let’s talk

about that why when I said I didn’t have

any cash – Charles get up so fast

and give it to me it’s because I gave it

to him before service

and so he had no problem giving me what

I already gave him he’s not grieving

right now because two hours ago he

didn’t have it I gave it to him I asked

for it back and he gladly without grief

in his heart gave it back to me can I

help you that the only reason you would

start grieving over anything God gave

you is somehow you thought it was yours

yeah you know you’re unqualified for

that job and you know God provided for

you but when he asked for anything it’s

like God how dare you hey baby

you know without me none of them see

this is the beautiful thing when God

knows that he can trust you then what he

does is he gives it back to you do you

understand what I’m saying I’m trying to

find it where to go it’s just so much

money in here you know and he can give

it back to you because he knows that

whenever he calls for it again

you’re not gonna grieve over it you’re

not gonna have to pray and fast I’m on a

40-day fast to see if the Lord told me

to give can I help you the enemy will

never tell you to give Oh something else

like oh yeah uh what I’m telling you is

we have to deal with the grieving heart

okay

let me just take it a step further okay

point number three how are we gonna be

generous givers we have to develop a

generous heart see see the reason that

Charles gave me that is because I gave

it to him and he remembers what Psalms

24 says the earth is the Lord’s and the

fullness thereof that means God does not

have us lack of resources if you trust

him and he has your heart you can have

as much resource as you need and

remember I’m not just talking about

money

see that’s what you’re thinking like

I’ll just have stacks of money God will

give you more time to give he will he

will increase your gift so you can give

it here

crease your ability to think creatively

so that you can give it God is not just

concerned about you given finances are

concerned about you giving and many of

our purpose is stopped up because we’ve

stopped giving I’m challenging you and

asking you right now when’s the last

time you gave not expecting anything in

return

honestly you know we can say those fake

little things like oh no no I want

nothing back no except follow me on

Instagram tell everybody that I did this

like do you understand what I’m saying

and God’s saying I want you to develop

my heart of generosity and develop a

generous heart look at Deuteronomy 15

verse 14 it says and you shall supply

Rufus liberally Jenner you should be

generous and you should supply them from

your flock from your threshing floor

from things you have in your closet from

things that are in your bank account

let’s make it real because we always

like to give away other people money

we’d like to give other people’s

resources y’all know them friends

that’ll volunteer your time yeah Janice

she would love to and God said no no no

I want you to develop a generous heart

by giving of yourself of what the Lord

God has blessed you with and you shall

give to him see God wants you to be

generous and I want to help you

understand this that we are born selfish

you don’t have to teach a kid mind you

didn’t have to teach me mind like when

we come out mine but when you’re born

again great news you’re born generous

you’re born again generous the great

news is that generosity is in you you

just have to renew your mind that’s why

the word says don’t be conformed by the

patterns of this world but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind

that’s why we can’t look at how the

world handles money and try to be Diddy

and try to be all these other people we

have to do things how God says to do it

because then our mind transforms and God

says there’s my heart I see I see it in

you now I see it and many of us for

honestly we act like how we act with our

children the thing that we have to teach

them coming out the womb before they go

to kindergarten hopefully share

share is that my kid Oh Lord

because your kid will be playing with

something and and and another child

would come up and they’ll start playing

with this like I was playing with that

and they’ll take it and then the little

kids like okay and they go to play with

something else enjoy kid run over there

was like I was playing with that you’re

like oh my god that’s my seat and then

and and and you’re teaching them share

that’s the concept I believe God’s

trying to teach us as the body of Christ

share like like share what you have be

generous with what you have and I

believe that if you if you really start

thinking about it after a while of you

telling a child to share and they’re

growing up the real thing you want to

say is what are you gonna grow up and I

believe that’s what God’s saying to me

and all of us when it comes to being

generous when are you gonna grow up I’ve

been providing for you all this time you

haven’t had to want for anything and I

just asked you to share I ask you to

help your brother I ask you to give to

my church seek first the kingdom I ask

you to do when are you gonna grow up and

be like your father who loved you so

much that he can’t on a maybe with no

credit that somebody was going to

reciprocate or receive the giving God

gave his son for us and it’s funny cuz

we start teaching these things and me

and my wife were teaching our daughter

when we did the stride about two series

ago I thought a message called less is

more

and so God was really working on my

heart that we needed to start giving

away stuff so we went in my closet if

you follow me on Instagram and I gave

away tons of clothes and tons of shoes

and and we gave away tons of stuff and I

said babe let’s teach Bella about

generosity let’s be good parents

listen let’s teach her about generosity

and so we brought her in and there was

all these toys sitting here and was like

Bella okay there are a lot of little

boys and girls that don’t have as much

as you have and we want you to start

giving some of it away

so other little boys and girls why don’t

we start talking like that when we talk

to argue so Heather a little boys and

girls

can be able to experience the blessing

and Bella was like not having it

she’s four she’s like no and she was

finding a reason why to keep stuff so

she ain’t played with the years as I

know that’s my blanky like you I never

called it your blanky like what is what

is going on and then her God mom

explained it to her again and she was

like okay and she put one thing over in

the pile and we’re like yeah yes see you

give room for God to do more in your

life and it’s better to give and so she

did a couple of things that she started

getting into it and then she started

giving away stuff we had just bought and

it turned into yay to like hold on hold

on and everything was like aha she is

not giving Bella you are not giving that

away we just took that this week Natalie

started hiding stuff and and and stuff

started happening and and the Holy

Spirit convicted me he said Michael your

four-year-old daughter is experiencing

what many believers have never

experienced the blessing that it is to

be a blessing it’s more blessed to give

than it is to receive we unlock that

four years old the engine that stopped

caring about what she was gonna get out

of it but that other boys and girls she

kept bringing things to the pile that

her mom was thrown back and puts back in

her room I’m telling on you and this is

this is what I’m telling you the Holy

Spirit said Michael I want you to be

like my child and have childlike faith

because she didn’t have to worry would

she ever get more she knew who her

father was

so she could give freely not worried

about what her father provide for her

can I help you guys

God is gonna provide for you you

shouldn’t be here now but he did it

before and he’s gonna do it again come

on touch with it same God right now yeah

same copper

Hey okay stop what I’m telling you is

that God’s not slack on his promises but

are we faithful to ours and we have to

develop a generous heart last point how

are we going to be generous givers you

have to develop a grateful heart yeah

look at Deuteronomy 15 15 and this one

messes me up every time it says you

shall remember that you were a slave in

the land of Egypt and the Lord your God

redeems you therefore I command you this

thing today he says I command you to be

generous and how can you command me to

be generous because I knew who you were

and I’ll saved you and I delivered you

and I brought you from bondage into

where you are now and there are times

that we have to remember who we used to

be see for some reason some of us are so

fancy now that we forgot where we used

to be God has blessed us so much and we

got rooms to decide what we want to do

with but some of y’all remember that

one-bedroom apartment you really

remember eating Roman noodles for real

like that wasn’t an option that was it

some of us remember being lost and in

change and what God said is that it’s

easy for you to be generous and have a

heart of generosity when you remember

what God has delivered you from and this

week I got a reminder I was cleaning up

some papers

and I got a reminder this paper right

here is from August 4th 2014 and this is

from Tulsa County Court system my

completion of community service and the

expungement of my record for insurance

fraud oh yeah the pastor was riding

dirty

but God saw me here when I was still

dealing with this see see what you don’t

understand is I could be in jail but now

God’s using me to free other people so

why can God get anything from me it’s

cuz I remember who I used to be why

can’t why can’t he add

why can’t he ask me for whatever and

even if it hurts I’m gonna give it and I

told him in the first service I can feel

it already

God’s about to ask me to give something

big I can feel it I’m just like what is

it and my wife knows when we start

talking I remember one time I came home

on a Thursday and I told my wife I said

we’re moving out of our house and we’re

giving it to this person and we were

renting the house at the time and it was

a great situation and we didn’t have a

place to move to

and they said leave all your furniture

paint it decorate it and leave

everything in it and that was a Thursday

and Johnny sure came over and me and

John went out of town on Friday morning

and they packed up our house cuz we were

gonna be out Monday cuz God asked me for

that home and we came home and we packed

up and we moved in with my big brother

Gabe my wife was pregnant with Bella we

moved into an apartment on the other

side of town while I was working here so

it cost us something we had to sacrifice

to drive back and forth we did not have

a home she was pregnant and we moved

upstairs into a little apartment we took

away our privacy for nine months because

God says can I have it back I gave it to

you can I have it back and then God

opened up a home for us supernaturally

paid for it did all this other stuff but

it could not have happened if he

couldn’t have asked for what he gave me

back

can I tell you this is not to set me up

because God’s gonna challenge me again

and I can feel it oh no I’m serious I

can feel it he’s gonna ask me to get but

the only reason that I know I’ll say yes

cuz he has my heart because he tests me

every month with my finances and I

cannot keep from God what he gave me

today I want to pray for you cuz I don’t

know where you’re at you may be dealing

with a selfish heart and honestly it may

be generational it may be something that

was passed down from your great-great

great-great-great and everybody’s been

holding but everybody’s been capped and

God says you’re gonna break that curse

you might be grieving cuz God says to

giving it like ah but you got to

remember it’s his anyway you don’t

grieve over what he’s given you some of

you are gonna be developing a generous

heart and many of you like me this week

you’re saying god I’m just grateful for

being here and I’m grateful that you’re

using me and I’m grateful that you got

me in the first year of college so you

gonna pay for the second year I’m

grateful that you kept my marriage

together so you’re gonna keep going like

come on y’all we gotta remember that our

God is faithful so when he asked there’s

gonna be a point where we go up and say

is that what you want god yes sir I’ll

do it cuz you’re faithful and your

promises are true if that’s you in this

place

and God put just tugging on your heart I

feel the power of God in this place

right now cuz he wants you leave a

blessed life but it’s all about the

heart and remember it doesn’t matter how

much money you have if your heart is

bankrupt if that’s you and you want God

to do a work in your heart remember we

ain’t asking for no money there there’s

no offering plates at the end this is so

God you know you don’t even have to go

to this church whatever church you go to

I want you to take this message and

become a generous person so that God can

use you everywhere you go

if that’s you and you really want God to

do a work in your heart I want to pray

for you if that’s you by faith I want

you to stand up if that’s you and you

just want God to do a work in your heart

yeah because there’s people all over

this place that you’re saying you know

what god I want to be generous I don’t

know I don’t want to live bound by this

I’m not there yet but I want to do this

come on

if that’s you even if you’re watching

online come on lift your hands right now

I’m gonna pray for you I feel the

presence of God father I thank you for

every person under the sound of my voice

got right now father you are doing heart

surgery this is a heart check father

things that we have we have been stuck

on how we’re going to live our life and

what we’re gonna save father your word

tells us not to store up our treasure

and things that can fade away but you

tell us in your word father to put our

treasure any eternal deposit in place

father God and that’s in the kingdom of

God and so I thank you right now and

every person that’s dealing with

selfishness father that you would cut it

out of our hearts and you would heal us

you don’t cut us and leave us you cut us

and heal us fathering you make us better

than before

father people are grieving right now

because they obeyed you or they’ve been

challenged god I thank you God that they

would have hope knowing that they obeyed

you father if there’s anybody in here

that needs more generosity father I

thank you God that you’re welling up a

spring inside of them father God to be

greater blessing than anything they’ve

ever been before father and I thank you

that you would allow us to remember that

if it was not for your love and not for

your grace we wouldn’t be here to take I

so right now we just say thank you come

on I dare you out of your mouth just to

thank God

god I thank you for saving me I thank

you for healing me come on I thank you

for delivering me I thank you for

keeping me I thank you Father for

changing me I thank you for Trent

somebody’s getting happy right now that

God has been good and he is gonna

continue to be good God over the next

three weeks I thank you that you will

help us live a blessed life in Jesus

name we agree come on say we agree let’s

give God praise all over this place