Did you know God used ravens to feed Elijah? He made birds deliver meat and bread to the prophet twice a day. God’s provision can come from unexpected places. In this message, Four Ways God Will Provide For You, Pastor discusses four specific ways God will provide for you and the essential role you play in receiving from Him.
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hello and welcome to kingdom connection
thank you for joining me today I’m
Jensen Franklin and I am just delighted
to come into your home of wherever
you’re watching this program I believe
God’s going to speak to you you know one
of the main needs of our life is
provision if if we don’t have the
provision that we need it doesn’t matter
how much vision you have if you don’t
have the provision that God gives you
for your life and for your purpose and
calling then you can’t fulfill the
vision and today I want to talk about
four ways God wants to provide for you
now I want you to listen because this
message will get your faith up sometimes
we need to go back to God’s Word and
hear the promises of God concerning our
resources sometimes we just are you know
not really operating in faith because
we’ve not connected the promises of God
to our need and I want to say to you
today that for every need that you have
God has a promise for every for every
mountain or problem that you face in
life God has the answer it’s in his word
and it’s not just a promised land we’re
trying to get to called heaven but he
has a book of promises called the Bible
and one of the major things that the
scriptures teach us is God is our
provider he is our Savior he is our
Redeemer but he’s your provider and the
question is how does a god I can’t see
provide for me I’m talking about a home
and clothes and food and resources to to
succeed and go go in life and do what
you need to do for yourself for your
family and for the kingdom of God for
your business how does God provide well
the in the Bible we see the nation of
Israel as a type of you and I spiritual
Israel and the same way that God
provided for Israel he will provide for
you you see in the Old Testament we see
God providing for Israel supernaturally
in amazing ways and specifically I want
to say that there are four ways that God
provides
for Israel in those same four ways are
the ways that he wants to provide for
you now listen to me carefully this is
important
the first way that God provides for you
is by the hand of man you see in the
book of Genesis chapter 45 it says that
Joseph was given the keys to all of the
corn during the famine and Pharaoh who
he worked for began to give food to
Joseph and Joseph through his hands gave
food to the Israelites his own family to
keep them alive so one of the ways that
God will provide for you is through the
hand of man God used Pharaoh an evil man
and I just want to say don’t be fussy
about how how God provides and who he
uses to provide don’t tell God who he
can use and he can’t use he used Pharaoh
Pharaoh was a wicked man who did not
believe in Jehovah God but God used him
to keep Israel Jacob and his sons alive
and his family alive during the most
severe famine they had ever experienced
before so God will use the hand of man
to provide for you that’s why it says in
Luke chapter 6 and verse 38 Gill and it
shall be given unto you good measure
pressed down shaken together running
over listen to this by the hand of man
shall men give unto you I’m believing
that as you’re listening to me faith
will come alive that God will provide
for you in this year by the hand of man
just say that right where you are lord I
thank you for the people coming into my
life that are going to be used by you to
provide by the hand of man now this is a
very important statement I’m about to
make God will never let you depend on
any one individual too long just when
you start depending on some person or
some source that God is using to really
bless you
he will not let you depend on one
individual too long and the second way
that God provides for you is not only
through the hand of man but secondly God
will provide for you through the hand of
God you see the Bible said that he’ll
provide from his own hand because Joseph
was the source that God used in Pharaoh
to provide for Israel but then there
came a shift and a change in just when
they had their faith in Pharaoh and
Joseph
the Bible says and there after seventy
years of being fed by Pharaoh there
arose another Pharaoh listen to this who
knew not Joseph Oh suddenly the
resources were cut off the hand of man
that had been meeting every need of
their life was cut off and now God says
it’s not just going to be the hand of
man I’m going to take care of you God
Himself broke the cycle and said I’m
going to take care of you jesus said
without me you can do nothing I don’t
want your faith in the hand of a man
maybe maybe you’re going through a tough
time and you just lost a big business
deal and you know some company that has
been a big deal going on it’s been
blessing you for years and years or some
somebody who’s really been in your life
and God’s really used through their
hands to provide resources and maybe
that situation has broken off I’m saying
to you that any time that happens God is
driving you back to your source it’s
forced dependency it’s just like Elijah
when his brook dried up you remember for
a season the brook fed him and the
Ravens fed him and the water was there
the food was there and then the birds
start coming stopped coming I should say
and the river dried up when any time the
river dries up is to drive you back to
your source listen the brook is not the
source it’s just the system I’m going to
say something important right here the
brook was the system God was the source
don’t get to thinking that that God
cannot meet your need because the system
dries up God is your sword
the system is not your source and
through the hand of God that’s why it
says in Exodus chapter 16 that God began
to feed them when they were in the
wilderness and manna would come down
like Dew God would deliver the bread to
their tenth door like Domino’s Pizza
every morning fresh cooked from the
bakeries of heaven and they would walk
out and pick it up and God Himself
provide sometimes God would provide by
the hand of man but other times God can
give you supernatural miracles on
provision where he provides for you I’m
about to give you bread from heaven God
said to him and he supplied all of their
needs when God prospers you listen to me
he will do it according to the size of
your assignment if you had two people in
your tent he gave you a certain portion
that was smaller if you had six people
in your tent then he increased that
portion three times and it was according
to the size of your assignment was the
size of resources God gave you I know in
this ministry you know when we first
started out 25 years ago our tithes and
offerings the first Sunday were $1500
you know that was the need that was the
need of our ministry that we didn’t have
a staff we didn’t have anything and now
through the years as we have grown and
it’s just thousands of people and we
have many many people on staff and now a
worldwide ministry through Kingdom
connection and other churches that were
starting and landed property and
buildings the need has gone from from
from that small portion that was enough
to meet my need but now you know we have
to trust God for millions and millions
of dollars and only God knows how he’s
going to do it but I’ve seen him do it
through the hand of man and then there’s
those times when God Himself steps in
and unexplainable miracles take place in
your life just like it did for the
children of Israel I want to say to you
what Philippians 4:19 says but my God
shall supply
all your needs according to his riches
in glory but hold it just one moment
hold the boat because you have to
understand who he was saying that to if
you back up to verse 15 and 16 he said
you Philippians became my partners in
giving and you assisted me and enabled
me to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ
everywhere I went and then he makes the
promise in the nineteenth verse and you
Philippians who partnered with me to
help me listen to what he says my God
shall supply all your needs according to
his riches and glory through Christ
Jesus right there where you’re sitting
say my God will supply all of my needs
according to his riches and glory I have
a God in heaven and by his hand I’ve got
the hand of man providing I’ve got the
hand of God providing he’s on my side
he’s on your side his favor his blessing
is on your life and then thirdly God
will meet your need listen to this not
only through the hand of man not only
through the hand of God but by your own
hand
Joshua 5 in verse 12 said and when they
entered into the promised land listen to
this the manna ceased guess what they’ve
gone from depending on Pharaoh to
depending on God for 40 years to do
everything and now God leads them into a
new season where he says I use Pharaoh
and I use my own hand to take care of
you but now I’m going to use your own
hand the Bible said the manna ceased and
here’s why God said no longer will I
send the man I want you to take seed and
sow the seed into the ground and the
ground and your own hands will reap the
harvest from the ground and I’m going to
use your own hands to provide for you it
says in Deuteronomy chapter 11 and verse
10 for the land which you go to possess
is not like the land of Egypt from which
you’ve come where you have sowed your
seed and watered it by foot as a
vegetable garden but this land which you
cross over into
this is the land of hills and valleys
and which drinks water from the rain of
heaven and the eyes of the Lord are on
you always from the beginning of the
year to the end of the year now boy I’m
going to tell you you can read right
through that not get it but I want you
to hear how God’s going to provide for
you he said said some very significant
things he said it’s not like the land of
Egypt that you worked in where you had
to have did you catch it a foot pump but
God said I’m going to take you from that
foot pump to a land that is flowing with
milk and honey and I love what he said
in that eleventh and twelfth verse he
said two significant things he said and
whether you’re in the heels of whether
you’re in the valleys I’m going to
provide and I’m going to cause the land
that you possess to bring forth fruit
and by your own hand you’re going to
reap that harvest and then he said the
harvest would would not be seasonal but
he said in verse 12 from the beginning
of the year to the very end of the year
you’re going to see my provision I’m
going to bless the work of your hands
boy do you hear what I’m saying right
now in your spirit God wants to prosper
your work God is an entrepreneur that
wants to bless you God wants to give you
ideas God wants to give you witty
inventions God wants to bless the work
of your hands to prosper you you have
gifts you have skills you have talents
you have abilities and God says I will
not do for you what you can do for
yourself at this point I want to bless
the work of your hands apply yourself
give me what you’ve got
give me the work that that business give
me that company give it to me put what
you have in your hands in my hands and
God says I will cause it to be blessed I
love that scripture from the beginning
of the year to the very end of the year
you need to claim that in 2014 you need
to say Lord I’m believing for your
provision to be upon my workplace from
the beginning of the year to the end of
the year in the valleys and on the
mountaintops and I’m not just eking out
barely scraping by
nine-one-one prayers all the time
emergency help help skimming by scraping
by no it’s a land that is flowing you’re
coming off of the pump and on to the
flow of God’s blessing he said no longer
will you just have to just scratch by
and scrape by but I want to send a
continual flow of my blessing into your
life hallelujah
I believe what I’m preaching right now
that God will provide number one by the
hand of men number two by the hand of
God number three by your own hand you
need to just hold your hands up and say
Lord bless the work of my hands
bless my business bless my ministry
bless it Lord bless when I put my hand
to he said in one place whatever you put
your hand to it will succeed hallelujah
and I just agree with you that God is
going to bless the work of your hands
and then lastly God will provide for you
through the hand of your enemy you’re
not ready for this one God a court
there’s a pattern in the scripture that
God many times for Israel in your
spiritual Israel will provide for you
even through the attacks and even
through the hands of your enemies I mean
somebody’s listening to me right now and
you can’t believe what I’m saying but
God can make the IRS send you a check
God can God can make your worst
nightmare that lawsuit that you’re in
God can turn it for your good that
situation that enemy that has come
against you God can cause even your
enemies to become a source of provision
in your life you see 12 went into the
promised land and to said we’re able but
10 said we’re not able the Giants are
too big we cannot receive God’s promise
the majority of the people see God’s
promises but they see the giant problems
and they say yes but yes but yes but and
that’s why some of you are not walking
into the promise
of God right now I told you we’re not
going to a land of promise we have a
book of promises and if you’re not
walking in these promises it’s because
you keep saying yes it’s true but yes I
know God but and what he wants to do
today is he saying is anything too hard
for me in numbers chapter 14 and verse 9
I love what Caleb said he said do not
fear them they are bread for us God’s
going to use them to provide our needs
God will feed you through the hand of
your enemy God will feed you off of the
attacks of your enemy what doesn’t kill
you will make you stronger so sometimes
you just need to understand that satanic
attack is actually a sign that you are a
high-value target and that you are
somebody in God’s kingdom and God has a
plan for your life and that’s why you’re
under attack it means that you have
something worth attacking something’s
coming in your life then the level of
attack tells you how valuable you are
and how valuable God’s assignment in
your life is the level of blessing
that’s waiting for you is connected to
the level of attack of the enemy when
you get through this attack there’s a
blessing on the other side of that
attack and that’s what the attack is all
about
I believe God can use anybody to bring
the blessing but he said I’m going to do
it in ways that’s going to astonish you
I’m going to provide for you number one
through the hand of men and I just
believe that there are people that God’s
going to bring into your life the right
people blessing people people who will
help you people who will assist you
people who will give to you people who
will support you people who will open
doors of opportunity for you people who
will be a connection in the dream that
God has for you through the
ends of men through the hands of God
there are unexplainable things that have
happened in this ministry that God just
when we needed it in the nick of time
God Himself I’m convinced sent the
provisions I know he used people I know
he uses this but it came from heaven in
my I know it was a direct answer to
prayer and he’s your God and your God
will supply your needs and then he’ll do
it through his through your own hands I
just really believe that today that God
wants to give you fresh ideas and fresh
vision and even through your own hands
and lastly even through your enemy’s
hands God can God can cause your enemies
to bless you David said thou prepares
the table before me in the presence of
my enemies he’ll feed you through the
hands of your enemies and I want to
close with this thought I want you to
listen to me carefully in 2nd
Corinthians 9 and verse 10 it said God
gives seed to sewers well I wish God
would give me some money he gives seed
to sewers are you a sower he gives seed
to sewers and then he goes on to say and
I will multiply the seed sown he did not
say I will multiply the seed he said I
will only multiply seed that is sown
seed the tale don’t – I don’t multiply
seed that it sounds – two powerful
things
God gives seed to sewers are you a sower
that’s who he gives seed to secondly he
multiplies the seed that is sown now is
action time now it’s when you do it now
is the time and listen to this whatever
your need is listen to me carefully it’s
such a small need for a big God you have
such a small need for such a big God and
he cares about you
and he says prove me listen to Malachi
three prove me and test me
and and give the tithes and offerings to
your church to ministries that you
believe in to your local church support
it and he says see if I will not open
the windows of heaven and pour you out a
blessing you won’t have room enough to
receive I’m saying to you today and I
speak this blessing over your life just
receive it that by faith I just I just
pray that these four ways God provides
will be initiated and activated into
your life that number one he’s going to
provide through the hand of man number
two he’s going to provide through the
hand of God number three he’s going to
provide by blessing your own hands with
skill and ability and lastly he’s even
going to bless you by the hands of your
enemies so right now just believe him
and rejoice and say god I thank you
you are my provider maybe you don’t know
him as your Savior today maybe you don’t
know him as your Lord do you know that
God so loved the world he gave His only
begotten Son Jesus Christ so that you
could be saved God showed his son as a
seed and now the church is his harvest
and he wants you to be a part of his
family and once you’re part of his
family he’s your provider everything I
preached is yours once you become part
of the family so ask him into your heart
right where you are I have the privilege
of leading you in the most important
prayer you’ll ever pray right where you
are say lord I need a change in my life
I can’t meet my needs and I can’t live
holy enough to be saved I need a Savior
I believe in the cross and the blood the
death and the resurrection of Jesus
Christ and today I receive you as my
savior I receive you as my lord I
receive you as my king and I receive you
as my provider you’ve provided all I
need the grace the deliverance the
freedom the joy the peace and even the
provision
it’s yours in Jesus name
a steel and a low moan cushy a desert
mommy Baba no go back in 2009 and 2010
we saw video of Haiti with Bobby and
sherry Burnette and we saw children and
adults hungry you know that that’s got
to touch your heart and we at that
moment decided to help the Haiti project
a premium table domestically feminine
Delphi no busting but frankly I’m given
to attend Google liquor in fact in pubs
my antennae Masyaf giggling doing over
games after that Laurie and I have five
children so we know the value of having
to have an income to support our family
Lori and I both in bliss because we both
have jobs and our lives we’ve been
blessed we’re now I feel like we’re
supposed to be vessels to channel some
of the blessings of the people that
don’t have what we have and yeah the
marketplace will outlive us you know
then Haiti will have a long-term way to
make a living and the investment that we
put some funds into that will outlive us
the Lord is behind this this is a light
in the midst of darkness food for life
sustainability giving jobs changing
lives not only for now a next year but
14 years 20 years 30 years and 50 years
in our closing moments together I want
to thank all of you who are helping us
make a miracle happen for some of the
poorest people in the world as a matter
of fact the poorest people in the
Western Hemisphere
are the people of Haiti and you’ve
already given over the last six months
over six hundred thousand dollars to the
work they’re their miracle marketplace
providing 2,600 jobs and most
importantly food for life it’s going to
feed thousands and thousands and
thousands of Haitian people and I need
your help we’re about four hundred
thousand dollars away from the
completion of this miracle the the
buildings have been built they’re being
shipped over now the material is being
shipped over foundations are being laid
even as I speak it’s a twenty acre
complex and you can be a part of the
miracle listen to me God told me to do
it God called me to do it and anytime
God gives a man a plan he calls men and
women to stand beside them and to help
support them and when you get involved
with what God is involved in God will
begin to bless you more than you could
have ever dreamed and I’m encouraging
you today to be one of the one of the
thousand to say I will sow a thousand
dollar seed to change the lives of
orphans and widows in Haiti I’m not
asking for myself we’re a member of the
evangelical Council of financial
accountability very much we do what we
say we do with the resources you trust
us with and today I’m asking you to be
generous if you can’t give a thousand
give the very best you can but I’m
believing in partnering with 1,000
people and we’re on our way 600 of you
have already responded I believe there’s
400 more maybe you’re one of the 400 I
would love to hear from you this week
and listen I’m praying for you I’m
believing that this this message and
this of the gospel of the kingdom will
touch and change lives
all over the world and you can be a part
of a miracle in Haiti thank you so much
and we’ll see you next time right
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