This is “Little by Little.” God wants you to be powerfully favored, supernaturally gifted, and abundantly successful! But the progress to your promise land may not move as fast as you think it should. Learn, with Jentezen Franklin, how to get what you want without losing what you need … little by little.
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connection you say greater is He that is
in me than he that I can rebuke the
Devourer for your sake jesus said when
you when you walk with Him little
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if you have your Bible I’d love for you
to open it with me to the book of
Deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 21 you shall
not be terrified of them for the Lord
your God the great and awesome God is
among you
that’s pretty powerful because he said I
don’t want you terrified the King James
I think it is says that our God is great
and terrible it says that in several
places God is great and terrible what
does that mean that means God’s great to
us who who love him serving but he’s
terrible to our adversaries I like the
fact that I don’t just serve a great God
who’s great to me but he’s terrible no
weapon formed against us will prosper
he’s he’s the terrible one to our
adversaries watch verse 22 what a
profound little verse right here and the
Lord your God will drive out those
nations before you here it is little by
little you will be unable to destroy
them at once in other words it’s not
gonna happen instantly it’s gonna happen
little by little that’s what I want to
talk about for just a few moments
because I believe that there are many
people who need to hear and understand
what God said to the Israelites he’s
saying to you and I today number one is
this he said victory and success to you
is no longer in debate it’s going to
happen but what is in debate is the
timing and Psalms 84 and 11 underscores
it’s not in debate because he said in
Psalms 84 and 11 no good thing will he
withhold from them who walk uprightly
God will hold no good thing from them
God will provide every good thing you
need it’s not in question victory and
success is not a hope so maybe so I
wonder God says I want to get the debate
over I am a God whose very nature is to
bless you with victory and success I
want you to win you’re going to win but
God wants you to see how much he loves
you
so that you will be powerfully favored
supernaturally gifted and abundantly
successful I’m not afraid of any of
those words I just say it
as a matter of fact I want you to speak
it if you’re not scared of the good part
of the Bible everybody say God wants me
powerfully favored supernaturally gifted
and abundantly successful in Jesus name
shout about it just a minute and I’ll
keep moving that’s good news now let me
balance it out now that’s the good news
but it needs a little balance and here
comes the balance the balance is this
the progress to your promised land may
not not be at the rate and at the speed
that you think it should be have you
ever felt like that you knew that you
were headed somewhere that God had
promised it and yet the progress the
success the advancement felt like it was
going way too slow but I’m here today to
defeat doubt I’m here today to conquer
confusion many of you have irritation
agitation and frustration as to why am I
not there yet why doesn’t it grow
quicker
why won’t God give me instantaneous
success what is the inhibitor what is
the problem why can’t I seem to go as
fast as other people are going and I’m
gonna answer your question because God’s
Word gave the answer in the text I read
the issue is not a what the issue is a
who the answer is God God is the one who
has slowed you down because God loves
you for who you are not what you do
God’s not gonna love you more when you
do something big then he loves you right
now doing what you’re doing I learned
and I had to learn that when the church
grew from 300 people to 500 people this
came as a revelation to me God didn’t
love me any more than he did when we had
300 people and when we grew from 500 to
a thousand he didn’t love me anymore and
when we grew from a thousand to five
thousand he didn’t love me anymore but
what happened is I began to get in love
with all that more busier and busier and
busier and all of a sudden I’m giving
him less time and I’m giving this more
time so God has to put a governor on our
success sometimes and say let’s slow
down and let’s go back to what made you
great it’s not your talent it’s not your
gifting it’s not your ability I’ll bless
you in accordance to how you lean on me
and you connect to me what we want to do
should always be overshadowed by who we
want to be I want to be like Jesus more
than I want to do something great in
Luke 10 and verse 20 the Bible said the
disciples came back and they they were
rejoicing they said we’re not even the
demons subject unto us and Jesus said
rejoice not that the spirits are subject
to you but rejoice that your name is
written in heaven I don’t want you
rejoicing over what you are doing
I want you rejoicing over the fact that
I through my blood and
my love for you have saved you and who
you are is more important than what you
do Matthew 7:22 reads like a revival
dream list for a preacher says if not we
prophesy in your name cast out Devils in
your name do many mighty works in your
name and then the dream turns to a
nightmare when Jesus says depart from me
I never knew you now they did some
pretty amazing things for him but they
weren’t in relationship with him
relationship should supersede what you
do so many times we want what we do to
be the biggest and fastest and greatest
and who we are and who we’re in
relationship with is totally neglected
we want to do what we want to do should
be overshadowed by what we want to be
and what I’m saying to you is really
illustrated in the fact that in 1st
Samuel 3 in verse 1 the Bible said in
the child Samuel watch this ministered
unto the Lord but six verses later in
verse 7 it says now Samuel did not yet
know the Lord
so he’s in that he’s in the ministry
he’s on the praise team he’s singing and
he’s ministering to the Lord doing
things doing work doing things but he’s
not in close relationship with the Lord
our greatest blessing is not our gifting
our but a greatest blessing is not our
talent it’s not what we can do but is
simply to know him and to be known by
him that is the greatest blessing now
listen carefully this is why I’m saying
this it’s possible that you can get what
you want at the expense of losing what
you need and God knows that God knows
that it’s possible to get what you want
and I’ve seen it happen to so many
people it happens to athletes it happens
to people who who
find great success in business it
happens to people who achieve their
dreams and their goals and they pursue
them and start climbing the ladder and
it’s possible to get what you want and
lose what you need God said I’ll give
you the land nothing’s going to stop it
you will conquer them but it will be
little by little why less the beasts of
the field devour you God said I want you
to understand listen let us sink in
victory and success will undeniably be
yours if you will follow the Lord but it
will not be instantaneous success
there’s unrest there’s frustration
there’s agitation in hundreds of you
thousands of you listening to me right
now because it’s not going fast enough
according to your plan I’m going to tell
you why it hasn’t happened yet there is
a God who loves you so much that he
knows that if he gave you instantaneous
success listen all at once you would be
consumed catch it by the Beast
he knows that the higher you go up you
get the attention of the Beast and
there’s always on a person that God
elevates the release of the Beast
because the higher you go up while
you’re down here with everybody you can
hide your gift can hide but when God
starts elevating you it means two things
you’re uncovered you’re standing out and
suddenly the Beast notices you and when
the Beast notices you he targets you and
if you’re not ready for the attack the
Beast will consume
everything that you started out to do it
will be consumed and how many people
have we seen who begin to blow up
whether it’s in Hollywood or musical
talent in the church that that they had
and developed and then they went big
time and it’s not the big time is the
problem it’s the fact that they haven’t
walked with God long enough little by
little that when you get there it’s not
your God he’s my god and you say oh I
could handle it I could handle it but
how many athletes have we seen when they
how many people have we seen it’s the
spirit of the world it’s the spirit of
the Beast and you can’t fight that with
natural inclinations God loves what you
are more than what you do that means he
loves you right now like you were on top
of the world and had done everything
you’ve ever aspired to do now that ought
to warm your heart let’s just take a
moment and say thank you for loving me
just like I am not for what I do
but for Who I am Wow that set me free
that set me free we don’t even know
who’s who he’s so successful she’s so
successful we really don’t know who’s
successful we really won’t know until a
few hours after the rapture and if
you’re left here with all your stuff you
were not successful but when the trumpet
plant blows and you and your family go
up you are
I’ll take my little by little I don’t
want I don’t want God to bless me out of
the church I have seen too many people
get blessed out of the church started
out in the church with nothing
struggling Oh God I got a dream please
help me please help me and God begin to
bless them and God begin to bless them
and God begin to bless them and it got
blessed right out of the church and now
they’re at the lake now they’re at the
beach every weekend they’re blessed
right out of the Bible don’t read it
anymore bless right out of the prayer
place bless right out of serving bless
right out of the body of Christ they
don’t ever need to come to church cause
I’m so me and I’m its egotism is it
centered on you your life and the rules
don’t count you don’t need church
anymore because you make the big bucks
and it’s possible to be blessed right
out of church that’s why I say he’ll
withhold no good thing so if the Lord’s
withheld it it meant it wasn’t either
tie either it wasn’t good for your art
wasn’t time and he’s got to develop you
a little bit before the Beast is
released and comes with pride and ego
and tries to take away and consume God’s
purpose for that platform clap your
hands and say yes Lord yes yes yes yes
yes so someone say it like this all you
young people listen to me you got big
dreams the question is not can God
handle it and can God make it happen and
can God God could flip a switch
spiritually and and tomorrow you could
be discovered tomorrow you could get
full ride scholarship tomorrow you know
why didn’t he just flip a scrip hearing
and instead of us going through hell and
I mean fighting with banks and going
through stuff and church splits and
people mad and all all that oh that to
get to here why didn’t we just boom here
because then you’d have another preacher
crash-and-burn have a lot of you do the
same so God says let me let you walk
through the valley
let me will let you walk through some
hue some humbling situations let me
teach you how bad you need to stay on
your knees let me teach you that in the
good times you praise in the past times
you praise in the good times you go to
church and the bad times you you read
that book when you’re on top of the
world and you read that book when
nothing’s going right and everything’s
the reverse of what God told you and
when you go little by little when you
get there and the Beast comes at you you
say greater is He that is in me than he
I can rebuke the Devourer for your sake
jesus said when you when you’ve walked
with him little by little 2nd chronicles
26 and verse 15 says this and his name
was spread abroad he became famous for
he was marvelously helped listen to
these words until he became strong this
is the story of so many people they
become famous because God marvelously
helps them God marvelously blesses him
the fame was not from hail it came from
God but when he became strong the next
verse says but when he was strong his
heart was lifted up to his own
destruction
the Beast was released and when the
Beast got released he couldn’t handle it
so if God has you on a slower pace it’s
to prepare you for what he’s taking you
to so that when you get there it won’t
be about this it’ll just be stuff it’ll
just be another thing that I do for the
king but the King is the focus the King
is my everything the King not the dream
is the most important thing in
my life here’s how you do it
the Song of Solomon 8 in verse 5 says
who is this coming out of the wilderness
here’s the key leaning on his beloved
you can’t lean on your own intelligence
you can’t lean on your personality you
can’t lean on your talents you’ve got to
lean on him I’ll give you victory
I’ll give you success but not at once
the higher men and women elevate the
less covering you have the greater of
target you become to the Beast and I
want to close with this little thought
that some of you are just like the story
of the prodigal son you’re the angry
elder brother because you’ve seen people
pass you by
remember remember the younger son wanted
instant success give me my inheritance
now I waiting on nothing know little by
little for me give it to me daddy give
it to me father see it and the father
says ok a gift is a gift the gift and
the calling of God is without repentance
I love you this is not your best your
best is – let’s do this little by little
because you’re not ready to handle it
you’re gonna the Beast it where’s he
going the pigs the beasts are going to
devour everything good in your life
cause you can’t fight this in the
natural you need supernatural protection
son where you’re going no I won’t mind
boom instant success Wow talk of the
town the younger brother the older
brother stays home and he’s angry he
feels overlooked does it pay to serve
God look how much fun he’s having look
how much attention he’s having I’m
living right can’t ain’t had a date in
six six months lonely
they go out every weekend leaving it up
seemingly no ramifications seemingly
angry with the father this a older
brother gets angry with the father some
of you if you were to if you would tell
the truth you’re a little bit irritated
at him no good thing here with Hodes
helped with a lot from me here’s my
point it’s a loving father father that
has your best interest that holds you
back more than what you do it’s what you
are and he loves you now just as much as
he would love you if you did all that
stuff but he would rather you let him
give it to you little by little as your
life becomes his life then he’ll get the
glory not you
your father has not forgotten you he’s
just trying to save you the Beast will
appear as soon as you get there so you
better be ready and the only way to do
that here it is leaning on your beloved
the question is not can God handle it
question is if God were to give you
everything deep in your heart you know
you were put on this earth to be and do
could you handle it and are you content
enough and committed enough and
submitted enough to Jesus Christ to say
Lord thank you then I’m on my way to the
promised land and I don’t have to have
instantaneous success but I’ll take
little by little as long as I’ve got you
I don’t want to get it I don’t want to
gain what I want and lose what I need
I need you how’s it been since you said
I need you how long has it been since
you got before God and just said Lord
cleanse me and purify my motives and
here’s my dream again I lay it on the
altar and I raise the knife and hey if
you want me to kill it it can die I want
your wheel see some of you don’t think
you can trust him like that but you can
trust him like that because the strange
thing is when you do trust him like that
stuff so much stuff comes that you don’t
know what to do with it but then you do
because you’re leaning on him you say I
only want to go where you would go with
me I have no desire to be there unless
you go with me
your presence must go with me
could could God give you glory today and
you not go goofy really could he because
he’s gonna he’s gonna find people cuz
he’s got to get stuff done and he’s
gonna find vessels that he can trust to
turn around and lean on him more that
when they have been marvelously helped
they don’t trust in their strengths but
they turn around and they say I lean
back on the one who gave it all and I am
not ashamed of his superiority in my
life he is my everything I never want to
close this broadcast without giving you
the opportunity to know Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior that’s why we’re on
television God wanted you to hear this
message inside of you is a hunger for
God as you sit there and watch this
we’ve been praying and fasting for you
we’re believing God for healing and
miracles in your life in 2020 father in
the mighty name of Jesus I pray today
for every person watching this program
heal the sick release your power deliver
those who are addicted and bound and
hopeless and discouraged depressed and
feel like giving up may the mercy and
grace and love of God reach them and
raise them and bless them in a new year
and those of you who want to be saved
pray this prayer say Jesus receive me
today I want you to be lord and savior
of my life I ask you to forgive me and
cleanse me in your beautiful wonderful
name I ask in the name of Jesus amen
there’s power in that name there’s a
victory in that name and I believe as
you become a part and give yourself to
what God is doing in the nation in the
world and in our hearts it’s going to
change your life and your family even
the atmosphere of your life
change just last November I went to
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s Kol Israel for the trauma center that
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