Watch “Your Gift Will Make Room for You Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.

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if you have your Bible I have a word

today that I think is gonna encourage

you I want you to go to the Book of

Proverbs chapter 18 one of my favorite

scriptures in all the Bible I heard this

scripture and read it many many many

years ago and it’s always stood out to

me and I thought and pondered and

confessed it many many many many times

so many times I can’t count over my life

over my children over my family and over

this church and it is a powerful verse

and you ought to underline it and

underscore it in your Bible it’s one of

those verses that you can pray back and

say back to God and I believe it in acts

and in vain’ and invokes that word

proverbs 18 verse 16 a man’s gift makes

room for him and brings him before great

men so I’m going to stop reading there

and I want to talk about this this

disability that your gift has to make

room for you it will make room for you I

I think sometimes when we read the Bible

we don’t understand God’s dream for his

people when you read the systems of God

and the thinking of God the strategy of

God you see it first in Abraham Abraham

is the first major person that God says

I’m going to use my strategy and I’m

going to use my my system to produce a

mighty man that will produce a mighty

nation and the Bible said that Abraham

went got in covenant with God and when

he did he became a wise man he became a

wealthy man he became an influential

powerful man a gifted man and he started

a nation a whole nation God’s thinking

God’s system made him wise made him

wealthy made him influential made him

powerful and in the earth even though

there was no people the gift that

Abraham had which

the gift of faith is called the the

father of faith made room for not only

him but for his family which ultimately

would become his people and his nation

but God was a big thinker in the system

that he put Abraham in it would produce

a knight a nation and a national leaders

pretty powerful then he has a son named

Isaac and he inherits wealth and on top

of that created his own wealth and

became very wealthy Bibles very specific

it doesn’t shy away from it he was rich

Isaac was rich in cattle and sheep and

silver in gold because God had them in a

mentality that that I’m a big God and I

want to bless my people and my purpose

and my kingdom and my nation in

magnificent ways and I want you to

thrive in the kingdom system that I have

put you in and then Jacob the third the

the great great grandson of Abraham

comes along and he goes through a rough

season but he gets back on track and God

prospers him exactly the same way and he

has he has twelve sons and one of those

sons is Joseph now listen to me this is

the very first time God is revealing his

his system of advancement for his people

and you got Abraham Isaac Jacob powerful

earth-shaking changing national leading

people and out of Jacob comes the twelve

children of Israel or the twelve tribes

of Israel all of them his sons a nation

is being formed one of those sons is

Joseph and Joseph carries the same

wisdom the same ability of thinking and

strategy and and an understanding when

he’s thrown into the system of Egypt and

when it’s all said and done God raises

him up listen and one man whose

great-great-grandfather was in covenant

with God had been raised in a system

that taught him to be wise and make

brilliant decisions and surrender

everything to God and put your best on

the altar including Isaac teaching all

of the

things for generations until such a

leader in the fourth generation is

produced in that family that all of the

wealth of the entire nation of Egypt was

given to Joseph

he ran the entire wealth because he had

the wisdom of God he had this national

place of magnificent the whole world

went into famine and the only nation

that had food and wealth was Egypt and

guess who was over a man who came out of

the system of God the way of thinking

that God had put in for four generations

and so they came a new pharaoh who knew

not Joseph and he got jealous of those

people and he stripped them of their

wealth and enslaved them by the time

Moses comes on the scene 430 years of

nothing but slavery nothing but bread

and water nothing but what the

government Pharaoh would give them has

set in for 430 years generation after

generation the whole mindset has changed

we’re not leaders we’re not dreamers

we’re not wise we’re not wealthy

we’re not godly we’re not powerful we

are slaves and they have reached a point

when Moses shows up to where they don’t

even know who they are anymore and

they’re operating in a system that was a

slave mentality that we’re nothing but

get by people who will never do nothing

and that is being passed down to their

children now and I guess what I want you

to understand is that the system that

they were in enslaved the whole

generation and then Moses is born and

when he’s born his mother sees something

in him she says this is a goodly child

meaning there’s more to it than he’s

just a cute baby there’s something

special about this child there’s

something powerful about this child this

child is gonna mess the system up this

child is going to break the cycle that

we’ve been in as a people

and so she hid him the Bible said she

hid him from Pharaoh who was killing all

the male children she hid him but a

man’s gift even if you hide him a man’s

gift will make room for him and she put

him in the basket and put him in the

river and I watch this this is this is

so important they’re operating in a

system but God says I can’t use that boy

like I want to use him if he’s in the

old way of thinking and I know his

mother loves him but she doesn’t know

what she doesn’t know and if I let him

be raised in this little Hebrew village

where they know nothing but slave tall

can defeat in poverty and and and we’re

nothing and we’ll never be nothing and

can’t do nothing and if that’s what he

comes up in he will never be what I

intended him to be so God says put him

in the basket girl and send him down the

river and just down the river a few

maybe a half a mile there’s a whole new

system that I’ve got to put him in they

think different and not only did he go

into Pharaoh’s house you know the story

the daughter if they roses bathe and she

sees the baby in the bulrush and she

takes him in and he starts getting

raised in the palace and suddenly he’s

exposed to national things and wealth of

Egypt and big thinking he done ever got

it over there he done ever broke that’s

why church is so powerful you might have

been raised in a in a home that never

saw a marriage work that never saw a

family that wasn’t dysfunctional never

got broke out of poverty never graduated

from high school or college never had

anybody in your family but when you get

in the river which is the Spirit of God

he’ll take you to another system and

it’ll show you things you never dreamed

your family could do you could do you

come out of that defeatism you come out

of that victim as victims and I’m this

and all I need is just give me give me

to you become a person who actually

begins to to to manage instead of just

give me I want to manage I want I want

to rule

I wanna reign with Christ and it’s a

difference that’s why coming to church

is so important cause if you get in a

good church like this you won’t stay

where you are your whole thinking’s

gonna get messed up you get in the river

and God says that’s not what you were

born for you were born for greater

things come on and give God a praise

enough and so when when the time comes

you know what’s interesting is they

changed his language the Bible said he

was taught Chaldean now he spoke Hebrew

over here but if you’re gonna operate in

this system

you gotta learn how to talk gotta learn

how to communicate in this world you

can’t be you can’t be talking this

defeated nothing nobody foreign to

success language but I want to change

your language and you’re gonna talk

Chaldean you’re gonna talk their

language cuz you gotta you gotta learn

how to get a job and you gotta learn how

to sail and you gotta learn how to

manage and you got to learn how to be

the head and not the tail you got to

learn how to look somebody in the eye

and talk to them with confidence and

communicate your ideas you got to get in

this system I don’t see you can take the

most gifted talented person and put them

in this system and they’ll never do

anything but if you can take somebody

average and put them in this system and

they can do great things so so so Moses

uses all of that knowledge of that

system to break it he says I’m the only

one and God says well here’s what I’m

gonna do I’m gonna find 70 I want you to

find 70 men and I’m gonna take of your

spirit I’m gonna take of your mentality

I’m gonna take of your of your um

assessment I’m gonna take of your

mindset and I’m gonna give the same

thing to them and they will prophesy

when we think of prophecy we think of

something super spiritual but or another

way to say prophecy is future talk in

other words I when I put your

spirit on them they’re not going to talk

about where they came from and talk

about Egypt and talk about this is how

it’s always been

they’re going to start talking future

talk they they are going to they’re

going to get future talk on them and not

talk about the hurt they came from and

not talk about the defeat and how their

family and all of this and nobody’s

never done that they’re gonna stop

talking defeat and and the hurt of the

past in the gonna talk future talk

they’re gonna speak where we are going

not where we are it’s so powerful that

that when you begin to talk future talk

this is what the kingdom of God and this

is what a good church like this can do

some of you say well yeah I think it’s

just luck I just think no it’s not is

it’s what you got a talk future talk you

got to get to focus and quit making

excuses and being a victim from the past

and get in the river and the river will

take you where you can’t get yourself

but you talk future talk you prophesy

you talk future talk now let’s bring

that home to the church the statistic

said that in the next three to five

years approximately 40% of the pulpits

of America are going to have a pastoral

change meaning most of the pastor’s are

elderly and they’re going to be retiring

I am NOT one of them

but but I’m just saying I’m just saying

imagine imagine the transition that’s

about to happen in the body of Christ

40% of the pastors over the next five

years will senior pastors will step out

of the way and make room cuz a man’s

gift will make room for him for a new

generation of leaders but here’s the

problem if those people don’t want to

talk future talk if they want to live in

the good old days if they’re not open to

what God is wanting to do with new

vision and new territory and in future

talk you can’t live off yesterday you

can’t live in the good old days you

can’t do it and I tell you you

have to shake it I don’t care how old I

get I’m going to stay young at heart and

realize that his future told never going

back never going back never going back

now in John chapter 14 Jesus gives

heaven’s plan for advancement so

important listen he said in John 14 let

not your heart be troubled which he’s

really saying is get hold of your

emotions because what I’m about to tell

you is a big principle it’s not just

about heaven it’s about down here on

earth I know this is in its original

content about heaven but it also has to

do with the way God does advancement

here on earth there’s a there’s a key

truth you got to see and he says in

order for you to handle this you got to

get your emotions under control I can’t

let you let your emotions attach you so

much to the past that I can’t advance

you let not your heart be troubled you

believe in God believe also in me in my

father’s house are many mansions if it

were not so I would have told you watch

I go to prepare a place for you that

where I am where I am I’m over here and

where I am there you may be also Jesus

chose his disciples and he said I go and

I’m going to prepare a place for you but

a man’s gift will make room for him and

when I go if I’m still here you can’t

take you can’t be where I am come on try

to be where I am you can’t be where I am

if I’m here so what I got to do is I got

to go somewhere else and in order for me

to go somewhere else I need you to step

in where I was disciples I prepare a

place for you and a man’s guilt will

make room for him that don’t push me off

you wait your turn and you learn and I’m

mentoring you and I’m teaching you and

I’m going to show you what you need to

do and how you need to do it and when

it’s time

I know it’s time you’ll know it’s time

and I’ll move on to the next thing God

has for me and it’s a new season and I’m

okay with that now I go to prepare and I

prepare a place for you but now I want

you that where I am there you may be

also

there is now what’s supposed to happen

turn around there’s another whole

generation because here’s what we do

we think we belong here to rest of our

life and God’s thing is always moving

it’s generational

Abraham Isaac Jacob it’s generational

and he says that’s good that’s good

you’re doing good you’re in your prime

but don’t you just be in your prime I’m

glad you got that usher badge I’m glad

you got that that Deacon badge I’m glad

you got that badge on your own the altar

team and all that but at some point you

need to look around you and find

somebody else to say I prepared a place

for you hey you’re my grandchild I’m

gonna put my sticker on you I’m gonna

put my tag on you and now you step in

and we move on out and then you’re

supposed to turn around and look again

now come back come back listen to this

Jesus began with leaving on his mind

and and I think about this in just for

church I think about business people in

this church right now there’s people

starting businesses and they’re in that

struggle season they’re in that system

of can I make it kind of making there’s

other people setting three seats down on

the same row you’re on who are blessed

and have made millions and hundreds of

thousands of dollars and they know they

sneeze and make money and the kingdom is

supposed to turn around and say you know

it ain’t just about me building my

kingdom but if I can help a business

person if I can help somebody in a

struggling marriage because my marriage

is working if I can help somebody raise

those crazy kids cuz I’ve raised some

crazy kids and I’ve learned we’re

supposed to pass it

and instead of starting from scratch

what’s sad is what happens is is the guy

some guy is preparing a place but he’s

not willing to wait for his prepared

place so he goes out and starts his own

thing ends up in a storefront has

nothing in the ministry but a storefront

ten or fifteen steel chairs and a PR

department instead of getting in a house

and submitting yourself to Authority and

becoming nothing but a servant and if

you’ve got the gift your gift you don’t

have to politic you don’t have to push

people you don’t have to lie on people

you don’t have to go around and

circumvent your gift will make room for

you if you serve if you serve think

about this Moses Moses Saul Joshua and

said there’s something different about

that boy and said he’s gonna be my

successor and the Bible said he asked

him to go up on the mountain with him

just he and Joshua if he didn’t trust

Joshua once he told him you’re gonna

take my place when I’m gone can you

imagine if he wasn’t a trustworthy guy

Moses walking on the cliff kind of close

to the edge

Joshua looks around

what happened he failed but he could

trust him he had a spirit about him that

wasn’t about self-promotion it was one

of humility it was one of I’m here to

serve you and a man’s gift at the right

time will make room

don’t you worry if you’re serving and

doing what God has called you to do when

the time is right your gift will have a

room for you so let me close with this

Elijah is the old prophet Elijah is the

new generation and they are together

when he lied ja is about to go up and

Elijah the old man takes his mantle

which was a leather jacket okay and he

hits the Jordan River and when he when

he hits the Jordan River with it it

parts and he walks across to the other

side with Elijah a fiery chariot comes

and he gets in it and goes to heaven and

never dies and on the way up see if

you’re helping somebody go up the mantel

came down you can’t have the mantel if

you ain’t helping somebody bit go up who

are you helping I won’t know when

somebody’s gonna help me who are you

pushing up who are you raising up who

are you focused on lifting up because

it’s not about God what God takes this

servant stuff serious now watch where

the last thing that Elijah did in his

miracle ministry was hit the water and

the water parted the first thing that

heal I sure did was take the same mantle

the water had come back together and he

hit the water and he started where the

old man stopped I love that I’m

preaching veteran y’all letting on right

now

why don’t you get that mentality about

wealth in your own family that I just

don’t leave them so much that my

goodness and watch he started where the

old man stopped didn’t have to go start

over and work his way back no he started

did the same thing he stopped he started

but what’s this he did not Elijah did

not start with party in the water he

started with pouring the water because

there’s a little obscure verse in 2nd

Kings chapter 3 that says that there was

a young man named Elijah who was

travelling with the old prophet Elijah

listen and he poured water on the hands

of the old prophet like a servant

you will never part the water until you

learn to be humble enough to pour the

water and if you can’t serve and pour

the water that’s why when people come

here and they want a position they want

me to hire them and this and that and I

say what ministry have you been working

in if you’re not pouring the water you

are not qualified to part the water if

you don’t go into that season where

nobody knows your name and you’re not

doing it for any other motive or purpose

but for the glory of God to honor and to

help build the kingdom of God and if you

learn to pour the water God will trust

you one day to part the water a man’s

gift will make room for him and bring

him before great people I’m so grateful

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do you know why Jesus came and carried

the cross and shed his blood on Calvary

one writer wrote a song and said when he

was on the cross you were on his mind

and he saw you right where you are when

he was on the cross he saw you helpless

to fix your own dilemma to break your

own addiction to change your own habits

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