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today we are starting part 4 of a series
that we are calling planted not berry
and people have been really getting
helped by this series and and the reason
that I’m super excited about us going
deeper into this series today is because
um we’re realizing that the best place
for a seed to be sometimes is under and
many of us have ideas in seed form our
lives are in seed form our relationships
are in seed form and and the world would
tell us if we’re under something like
under pressure or undervalued or we’re
under um different areas in our life
that are making us uncomfortable and it
feels isolated in a dark like that’s the
place where you should give up that’s
the place that you should stop that you
should say maybe this isn’t God but what
we’re finding out through this series is
that the place that is dark that is
lonely and sometimes where the pressure
of life is on you that’s the place that
God is making you and if you don’t see
it right if you don’t envision yourself
becoming what God has called you to be
you will despise the place that God has
you but I believe that there are some
people in here that have learned through
this series that under doesn’t mean tell
me under does not mean over and if you
find yourself under under pressure
undervalued under attack see some of us
have had just attack after attack on our
lives on our relationship on our
marriage on our faith and if you feel
like you’re under attack I just want to
let you know I’m here to spark your
faith today I’m here to get you
encouraged and bring hope to you today
that that what it looks like is not what
it is what God is trying to work in you
is a miracle and I’m excited about that
because as we read in Psalms chapter 1
verse 3 which is our anchor scripture
for this entire verse and I want you to
look at it we’ll look at it every week
of this series it says this is the
relationship that God wants every
believer to have as they mature in
relationship with him and I need to say
this very quickly where you’re at in
your relationship with God is okay for
today but it’s not okay
for the rest of your time with God and
what ends up happening a lot of people
we get saved and we’re doing better and
we think like that’s okay I’m good
Hills nowhere in the picture okay um I’m
not cussing everybody out like just
three people like I come on let’s be
honest I’m not I’m not sinning all the
time I’m just like and and I want you to
know there’s a maturity that God wants
to develop in you so that you can have
everybody say fruit have you ever eaten
a fruit that wasn’t done you don’t say
oh it was almost done you say it was
rotten
you discount everything about it because
you ate it prematurely and there’s many
people out here that have not stayed
planted long enough that God could
maturing you the fruit the character the
humility the things that when they
people come in contact with you that
they eat from you that they won’t say
that you’re rotten that they’ll see
taste and see that the Lord is good I
don’t know about you but when a fruit is
good like when its juicy and it’s just
like sweet and I mean you want to like
like you pick up you get the juice off
of something the question is are we
gonna be believers that people want to
come back and and interact with we both
be believers that they’re like I talked
to them before I did business with them
before I watch their kids well let’s be
honest and so everybody say we have to
mature and and I’m thankful that there
is grace to this thing that God is not
in the perfection but he’s in the
progression and so wherever you are it’s
okay we just got to know that right here
is not the destination
like like praying for two minutes right
now I’m glad you weren’t praying at all
last year you’re praying for two minutes
now but don’t be like I pray for two
minutes like don’t don’t get stuck here
maybe we’re moving to five minutes maybe
God’s gonna challenge us to to fast one
day like you got to know everybody we’re
going to progress and as we progress
this is a picture that David gives
of our relationship with God it says
they are like trees planted everybody
say planted along the riverbanks bearing
fruit in each season their leaves never
wither and they are prosperous in all
they do that’s what God wants for you
that’s what God wants for me so we’re in
our process to do that and and so if if
you’re under anything right now we’re
gonna give you some keys to how you can
be planted and stay under because a seed
can’t uproot before its time and too
many of us are uprooting because we’re
sick of being under 10 can we be honest
in here we’re hot how many people are
under some stuff that they just sick of
being under okay that’s almost everybody
in the room something like I’m sick of
being under you Beale that’s your
husband stop okay but for real we’re
sick of being under some stuff and last
week we talked about what to do when
we’re under fire and this week we’re
gonna take a step further and we’re
gonna talk in a message that I think is
going to help a lot of people in this
room today the title of the message is
planted and underfunded yep planted and
underfunded see many people make excuses
for what God wants to do through them
because they don’t have the resources to
do it and many of us in this room right
now are underfunded in some way some of
us it’s different for some of us some of
us don’t have a good paying job and we
feel like we’re underfunded others of us
in this room in our personal life or our
business or our career we feel like
we’ve made some unwise financial
decisions and now it’s affecting what
what we can do right now there’s other
people in here who are paying for past
mistakes they’ve made there are other
people in here paying their way through
college and there’s other people in here
paying back their way through college
Sallie Mae get off my back some people
in this room come from a poverty
background and those mindsets and ideas
have gotten planted and become cycles in
your mind and for other people I want
everybody to hear this very clearly
because when I said underfunded there
are some people in here who may be
living um well-off it financially and
all this ourselves like ah this was not
the message for me listen some of you
are well-off personally but you don’t
have the resources to do what God’s
called you to do so so maybe your house
and your bills and all that stuff is
taken care of but God’s put a 10 million
dollar organization in your heart and
you’re you’re at the starting line
because you you don’t believe that God
can come through and do something bigger
than what your finances can do today I
want to encourage every person’s faith
in this room because y’all know I don’t
preach nothing that that that I’m not
walking through personally God told me
Michael what are you gonna do when I
call you to something and you don’t have
the resources to do it
are you gonna stop and stay here and say
I coulda woulda shoulda are you gonna
step out in faith and be able to be
planted and underfunded and there’s many
of you right now who have left the
vision and the dream that God has placed
in you died because you said I don’t
have enough you stopped even talking
about the thing that God placed in your
heart matter of fact some of y’all won’t
even dream no more all you do is look at
the facts because that’s what I know is
true and that’s what I’m gonna do but do
you know the God that we serve and today
I want to spark somebody’s faith to get
off the sidelines of life and to get out
of your own bank account ah cuz it’s
empty in there or even if it’s not empty
there’s just enough and isn’t it funny
that when there’s just enough we start
playing it safe when there’s just enough
we start becoming our own provider when
it’s just enough we’ll neglect things
that God puts emphasis on like our
family to get more of something that
we’re gonna run out of at the end of the
month anyway and I want to challenge
every person in here to stay planted to
stay in your word to stay focused on
prayer to keep giving to keep sowing to
still be
generous when you are under funded I
know I know I know and everybody’s
trying to keep a faith a straight face
and a tight lip because you’re trying to
not show everybody how broke you are but
what I’m telling you what I’m telling
you is finances are relative it doesn’t
matter how many zeroes you have in the
bank God will always call you to
something that is outside of your realm
of providing so if you have three
million dollars in the bank God’s going
to call you to something that costs
thirty because this whole Christian walk
is about dependency not sufficiency Oh
like you ought to be self-sufficient and
God wants you to be dependent on him and
and until we get this many times the
plan that God has called us to we start
telling God we can’t because of what we
got there’s so many people in here that
God’s asked to open up a a shelter or
orphanage or to begin to provide for
somebody else and you say god that is
great but these lights this bill and God
said if if you thought this was about
money you are sadly mistaken everything
I’m looking for has nothing to do with
dollar signs what I’m looking for is
somebody that will have faith somebody
shot at me faith he’s looking for faith
and this scripture right here changed my
life and I want it to change yours look
at luke 18:8 now out of everything that
Christ could be looking for when he
comes back I want you to see what he’s
looking for be part of this scripture
says but when the son of man that’s
Jesus returns
how many will he find on the earth who
have funds
oh no Pastor Mike no we got to have
funds because because if we have funds
then we’ll be able to do everything no
no that’s not what the scripture says he
says the money is never a problem
resource is never the problem I’m
looking for somebody who has shouted out
at me faith and many of our faith is
weak
and today I’m coming to give you what’s
the thing called when you put them on
life support and then you say queer what
does that call shock defibrillator I’m
about to shock you today in your faith I
haven’t studied all my medical terms for
the service but some of you are on life
support in your faith and you’re barely
breathing and if it doesn’t make
complete sense dollars in cents then god
I can’t obey you but didn’t know I have
everything worked out before he started
building the ark like I just wanna I
just have to be convinced that God
challenges our faith by putting us in
situations where we’re underfunded and
he calls us to that so that he can be
glorified I have to be convinced look at
it being underfunded write this down is
fertilizer for your faith being
underfunded is fertilizer for you it’s
the thing that’s actually going to make
your faith grow I can imagine right now
Noah sitting there and and saying to God
you want me to be a what Ark like a big
boat okay first off I don’t have a wood
meal where is where the supplies coming
from I don’t have a working crew animals
I’m scared of the animals you’re calling
me to rallied up like how how do I start
a zoo and build this boat like like
literally a zoo – of every animal ha ha
how do I do that
God didn’t ask him to figure out how he
was going to be provided for he asked
him could he do it through him and this
is the challenge for all of us we have
to obey even if we don’t know what’s
gonna happen in the outcome and many of
us are so worried about looking crazy
and what are they gonna say and what if
I lose and God’s saying you
God who I am I’m the same God that got
you from where you were to where you are
now I’m the same God that stood with
Moses and Abraham and David I’m that
same God the same God that you praise
and worship and I’m that same God and
many of us in this room have to learn
how to you know what I’m not gonna die
at this point I’m not gonna die when God
gives me a vision bigger than my bank
account I’m not gonna die God’s been
telling some of you that you are going
to end the poverty in your family that
you’re gonna be able to pay off debts
and help people and all that other stuff
and you’re saying how can that happen
and I can’t take care of my debts and
God says I didn’t ask you to have the
solution I ask you to have the faith a
church I know I know some of y’all in
this room are like but pastor I believed
before I’ve given before I’ve tried
before remember their seed time and
harvest and could it be that some of us
have given up our faith too quickly to
believe that God is working this thing
out and this place that I’m at that
feels hard and I feel the pressure and
I’m under debt and I’m under maybe this
is the fertilizer that God is going to
use to increase my faith and he’s gonna
work a miracle out of this entire
situation if you believe it can somebody
say Amen yeah yeah I know I got a little
convincing to go cuz some of us are just
broke minded we’ve seen so much loss
we’ve seen so much of our hope not met
by the things that we thought was gonna
happen that we stopped believing but but
what I want to help you understand is
that you either have two ways of living
and we’re gonna play a little game right
now and we’re not gonna do it out loud
because I don’t want anybody to judge
anybody in their process but in your
mind we’re gonna play a game called
which one do you trust okay
and in your mind I’m gonna give you two
options and I want you to circle in your
mind because people will judge your
process they’ll be like you ain’t gonna
say for that and then in another
instance they don’t
pay for something we don’t need to judge
anybody’s process I just want us to be
able to look and I need you to be honest
with yourself because God cannot bless
who you pretend to be he only can bless
who you really are I say that almost
every Sunday because it makes it very
real to you I need you to be honest
which do you trust
do you trust facts or do you trust faith
circle one in your mind because some of
us if it if it’s not block block block
block block then we can’t go with it but
the Bible tells us that that we should
walk by faith and not by how let me ask
you another one okay do you trust in
resource or source now some of us are
saying what’s the difference your job is
a resource and some of us will die to
keep our job but will not do anything to
keep connection with God I just I need
to ask you because if you’re tied up in
the resource when the resource goes away
that’s why you get people jumping off of
buildings when when the Dow Jones
crashed in 2008 and all that is the
people were killing themselves because
their resource failed them but my God
shall supply all right I need it I need
somebody to hear me say this right now I
don’t trust in the resource thank God
for whatever company you work for thank
God for the business but if that folds
I’ll still be ok see somebody needs to
hear this today cuz we’re so stressed
and worried and what if the what if the
account doesn’t come through and what if
they leave me in whatever so that is
just a resource my 401k and my pension
plan and all this other stuff so like if
God allowed the children of Israel to be
resourced every day
like literally they would wake up oh I’m
hungry
oh my god food from the sky what’s it
called manna what does that mean what is
it I don’t know
it literally means what is it but we are
nourished and there’s no kitchen what
everybody thinks we need to eat it’s not
here but we still eating you have to
trust the source not the research and
these are the thinking’s and the idea
that get us stuck from pursuing and
going after what God has called us
because it’s gonna be bigger than you
it’s almost like God always makes
something that he wants you to do
outside of your reach and sometimes I’ll
be asking God why wouldn’t you just make
me be able to do this like pastor a
church like why didn’t you send me to
school to be a pastor why didn’t you
give me like why didn’t you do all of
these things he said cuz I want you to
depend it on me like like like my
strength works best in your weakness so
the place that should be a place of
burial the place where we’re so stressed
out and we don’t know what to do maybe
the exact place that God has planted us
so that he can get glory out of our
lives one more one more one more just
answer it in your head which do you
trust money or God Bible tells us very
clear that you can’t serve both of those
cuz you’ll love one and hate the other
and money’s not bad I need everybody to
hear hear me hear me said that money is
not bad but but what it can do to our
heart let me be honest some of y’all
pray only because you have a need if God
met all of your needs you wouldn’t even
pray so people say stuff like this
either God will come through or I need
some money even if I have money i still
need God to come through
like do you understand what I’m saying
and that’s why I need everybody
understand money can’t solve everything
because if it could why would people be
jumping out of buildings medicating
themselves and dying of suicide with 50
million dollars in the bank see see see
those things are all external what God’s
trying to do is let you know that
whatever situation you’re in right now
no matter how much debt no matter how
much money you have no matter how you
were trying to stew it over what God’s
given you he does not want you to die
and be buried in a place that He has
called you to be planted he’s always
gonna give you a vision bigger than you
he’s always gonna put you in a place
where you gonna have to trust him he’s
always gonna allow you to not have
everything you need so you can call on
him and when you do that God will take
people who are planted and underfunded
and he will work miracles through their
life can I get somebody to give God a
shout of praise
some of y’all still don’t believe me so
go to Philippians 4:19 it says but my
god somebody say my god now this is a
key component to this scripture because
a lot of people quote this but he’s not
their God like you’re trying to get in
on the benefit and you haven’t committed
can we be honest has anybody ever had a
landlord like like at an apartment
complex and landlord the thing that I
found about a landlord is that if you
stay in a property that they own when
anything breaks the Lord of the land is
obligated to fix whatever is wrong and
many people have made Christ’s Savior
but he hasn’t been Laura and this is
what ends up happening when you don’t
allow him to be your Savior and your
Lord then you have to provide for
yourself when things start breaking when
you don’t have enough but when he’s your
Lord you can stand and you can quote
this scripture in Philippians and say
but somebody say but my god no you
didn’t even say it right say it with
some attitude but my god
so listen see when you know who your
Lord is when you look when you know who
owns everything on this planet you can
say I know what that bill says but my
god shall supply oh did I say some oh
did I say a few up he shall supply all
your need this part trips me out because
I thought it was according to what he
had given me I thought it was according
to the family he put me in I thought it
was according into the pedigree that I
that I got raised it says he shall
supply all your need this ain’t even
about you no more
imma supply your needs according to my
riches and glory by Christ Jesus a this
to you like your underfunded but you
have a Lord Oh God that’s yours who
knows how to fix the finances that who
knows the partners you need who knows
what is he’s calling you for and you
just need everybody shot at me the faith
if you get the faith he’ll supply
everything you need and I know I know I
know I know pastor it’s hard it’s hard
to trust God with a little it’s hard to
trust God when it feels like not enough
and the truth about it is some of us
have had more than enough we’ve just
been poor stewards come on let’s be
honest that God tells you to start
saving for something and a sale comes
thought if you didn’t want me to buy
this why did you show it to me
come on anybody pray some dumb prayers
like that God if God if you didn’t want
this why would you expose me to it cuz
the greatest thing he gave you his
choice and he puts things in front of
you sometimes to see where your maturity
is a mature adult adult knows that if
they have children like I’m not picking
this thing that I I could
that would not benefit me the same way
as me getting food and diapers for my
children like it’s just a mature
decision and many of us have been eating
our seed many of us God has been giving
us something and preparing for something
we just been poor stewards
no matter where you are and thank God
for His grace because if you’re in this
room today God is trying to tell you
it’s not about perfection it’s about
progression I want you to start from
here because anytime we talk about
finances are being underfunded people
start getting all shrunk back and all
this stuff no this is to encourage your
faith that where you are right now is
not a dying position where you are right
now is now I’m just gonna lose
paratrooper drag through the rest
tomorrow life no you don’t have to
unless that’s where your faith is if
you’re always you’re gonna work for the
company and not be able to own the
company or maybe you started one before
and it went under and God’s saying I
want you to start another one but this
time I want you to know that I am the
provider not even the people who are
coming in come on so so I want to show
you a story and in in Luke chapter 9 go
there real fast
and and some of you are familiar with
the story of the feeding of the 5,000
but but I want to take this and I want
you to have this movie with me of how
this may be a little different when it
comes to being underfunded and how God
works a miracle and some practical
things we can take out of this scripture
Luke chapter 9 and we’re gonna start in
verse 12 can I set it up real quick
Jesus is preaching and this is most
theologians believe the largest crowd
he’s ever preached to it says that he
was preaching to 5,000 men but but it
actually was 5,000 men plus their wives
and children so this was 20,000 people
because you know they don’t have
television back then and those men
needed to do something so kids started
coming and so all I’m saying to you is I
want you to get the picture of this
miracle because it wasn’t just 5,000 men
it was 20,000 people okay at least okay
and so we pick up here and the disciples
are coming on behalf of the people to
give a great suggestion to our Lord as
he’s preaching look what they say late
in the afternoon the twelve disciples
how many disciples I need you to
remember that for the very end of this
message
okay twelve disciples came to him that’s
Jesus and said hey Jesus JC and you’re
doing great
I think we need to send the crowds away
to the nearby villages and farms so that
they can find food and lodging for the
night it’s getting late there is nothing
to eat here in this remote place there’s
not enough here but jesus said you feed
them ha ha jeez are you crazy boy no no
no no that’s not what I was saying I was
saying that they actually need to go to
chick-fil-a before it closes they
absolutely need to get up from this
place cuz there’s nothing here and they
need to go somewhere else and he says no
no you feed them they’ll tell all your
homeboys y’all now have become the
catering service ok but like we do we
start to tell God what we have our
limitations but but Jesus you already
know we only have 5 loaves of bread and
two fish that’s what they answered and
then they got sarcastic with Jesus boy
this is crazy or are you expecting us to
go and buy enough food for the whole
crowd money you know we don’t have that
type of resource you you know that
that’s far out of our league we could
never open up that business we could
never make a partnership with somebody
it was so real that it was funny how in
somehow underfunded they were it said
for the crowd was about five thousand
men there let me give you this first
point when you’re planted and
underfunded don’t blame the place for
the provision the disciples they said
there’s nothing to eat here in this
remote place and that’s what a lot of us
feel like at this job
ah God can’t do it
it in the hood I was raised in God can’t
do it like like with the background with
the debt with the things that I got
going on at this place it’s not God I’m
in college how can I start that business
and do that and I’m in this place and
many of us blame our place for what God
wants to do in us and we stay in the
same place because we think the place
and the provision have to match up for
God to do a miracle that’s why so many
people trying to move to LA and New York
and Atlanta like it’s better for me
there
is it the same God that’s in Atlanta
England London isn’t he here with you in
Tulsa the disciples forgot that they
were not talking about a place to just
anyone they were talking about the place
to the provider I need you to understand
if God is close to you it doesn’t matter
where you are like if God is the one
directing and leading you and you’re
doing proverbs 3:5 acknowledging God in
all your ways then he will direct your
if he’s doing it you can be anywhere
does everybody understand what I’m
saying and so many people press pause
and stop on the plan of God because they
feel that they’re in the wrong place but
God is about to show them like he’s
trying to show us as long as you got me
with you we can be anywhere and I can
work a miracle Oh from that FedEx job
I’ll work out bless you to where you
given your whole paycheck to people at
that job maybe I got you there to do
something completely different
maybe I got you at that place I’m
underfunded but God is saying I will
work the miracle at that place and these
disciples they didn’t understand they’re
like many of us but but what I found out
is I think God is attracted to our
deficiencies
I honestly thinks it arouses him like
when we say we don’t have enough guy be
like yeah yep
it’s exactly what I wanted to hear watch
me work I love my mama
you you better come on that’s my mama
right there my real mama but I want you
to see that I think he’s attracted to
our deficiencies because after this
moment where they said yeah I think this
place is not good enough look what Jesus
say he literally ups the ante look at
verse 13 they say oh okay the place is
not good enough they need to go
somewhere else to get the provision no
you feed them hold on Jesus we don’t
have no food we don’t have enough and
now you’ve taken us from a position of
needing food to a position of providing
food you’re taking us from a place of
meeting your help to say before I meet
your need I want you to meet somebody
else’s need uh-oh
see see we got to be careful because
when we get too close to Jesus he’ll
turn our problem and take our problem
and we become the solution to somebody
else the same problem he he said you
feed him and and at this moment what we
all would do is is make the very obvious
even more obvious do you know what we
have absolutely nothing all we have is a
snack pack from Long John Silver’s
that’s not enough to feed one of us let
alone feed 20,000 people use since Jesus
what are we freaking gonna do
why do you want everybody to have just a
microscopic piece of these five notes
see we start getting angry because what
we have is not even enough for us and so
why would God even ask of us huh why
would he even require of us to give a
tide or an offering or to share our time
that’s insulting we don’t even have
enough to eat as the disciples and we’re
your boys nobody packed the lunch for us
how could you dare ask us to give to
somebody else oh I’m sorry I’m in your
heart right now I’m just saying what
your heart said they asked for more
money they asked for I good you give me
this $8 an hour job this bad boss I
don’t know why I’m talking like this and
the very place that we have need God
says I want you to meet that same area
in somebody else’s life and I’m gonna
make it so much bigger than you that you
know you can’t do it without me so look
what happens verse 13 but Jesus said you
feed him but we only had a five what was
a bread into fish Jesus are you
expecting us to go buy enough food for
the whole crowd I want you to see this
point right here when you’re planted and
underfunded you have to take inventory
even if it’s not much something that’s
overlooked in this story is even though
it wasn’t a lot they knew how much they
had they said all we have is five loaves
and two fish that’s all we’re working
with the thing is some of our faith is
so low for God to work a miracle we
won’t even take the time to figure out
what we need or what we have and I need
some of us you took for you to start
accounting what you have God has placed
gifts on the inside of you he’s placed
connections on the inside of you he’s
given you people but you because it’s so
little but I want you to remember God
doesn’t plant trees he plants seeds
despised not today
a small begin you you don’t even put no
effort towards it because it’s not a lot
but it reminds me of a woman in second
Kings chapter 4 who was a widowed woman
and all she had was a little bit of oil
and Elijah came to him and she and he
said I need you to help me cuz I’m about
to lose my sons I’m about to lose
everything and Elisha asked her two
questions and I want you to see he said
how may I help you and the second
question he asked her is what’s in your
house I need you to take inventory and
this woman almost missed her opportunity
for her miracle because she was like I
have nothing except and what is that
thing that’s your except that you’ve
been counting out that you’ve been
saying is not much but you didn’t go to
school for it that there’s not enough
nobody’s ever paid you before for it and
all this stuff and God says that’s all I
need
he said I have nothing except a little
jar of oil and he she the prophet said
that’s all you need
I came to tell you what you got is all
you need like like but you have been
asking God boy if you would give me more
I would and God says I gave you what you
needed because from this underfunded
position I’m about to work a miracle
that allows everybody to see that I am
Jehovah Jireh your provider I’m your God
I’m the waymaker I’m the one that brings
it out but many of us won’t even take
inventory because it’s just a little and
if you’re gonna see the miracle like
that woman saw can I tell you the end of
the story in 2nd Kings chapter 4 cuz
some of y’all don’t go back and study it
this woman whatever she had the faith
the man of God told her to borrow some
vessels go around and borrow vessels and
whatever she had the faith to borrow
like I don’t know if it was three
vessels thirty vessels 300 vessels but
the Bible tells us that whatever she had
everybody say faith whatever she had
faith for it said the oil kept pouring
until the last jar was full it said the
oil only stopped flowing when there was
no more could I submit to you that God
will supply everything that you have
faithful
whatever you have fate no you can’t go
get it after you start pouring you gotta
get it before you got to everybody say
prepare that means I have to have faith
that God’s gonna do something right now
do you know I’m sitting here right now
and we need a different building it’s
Labor Day and this place is packed
there’s no parking there’s all this
other stuff and many of us are walking
by sight what we see but I’m telling you
that there’s something in me that over
this past three weeks I’ve been closing
my eyes and I’ve been seeing vision and
God said give me another vessel and when
I close my eyes I don’t see this room I
see an arena and I see people coming
from every walk of life see I can’t look
at you right now
I gotta see it with my eyes closed I
can’t pay attention to what everybody’s
saying but I gotta see it with my eyes
closed
yes sight says this ain’t enough but
vision says it’s more than enough and
God is about to do something but hear me
what I see with my eyes closed I can’t
pay for and may I submit to you it’s
that’s just how God wants it when he
stands and does this miracle it won’t be
because Pastor Mike was so good or you
were so calculated or your annuities
were in place and your 401k was so fat
God said I’ll supersede all of that and
I will allow the demand to outweigh the
supply and I will supply all your needs
oh this is good this is good
I want you to see something that almost
missed go to verse 14 is said for there
were 5,000 men there jesus replied to
them tell them to sit down in groups of
about fifty each so the people all sat
down when you’re planted and underfunded
I almost missed this oh this gonna help
somebody you have to go ahead and
organize overwhelmed
the disciples didn’t know what Jesus was
about to do like sometimes we read the
Bible stories and cuz we know the end we
act like they knew the end while they
were going through it
but I want you to picture this gee
they’re still sitting there with one
snack pack from Long John Silver’s and
somebody’s holding it tight and they’re
really thinking about eating it like
they’re to say what I’m saying and and
and and literally at this moment Jesus
says yeah you feed him now go tell
everybody to sit down in groups of 50
Jesus made them still organized they’re
overwhelmed State and they didn’t know
the outcome yet and practically there
are things that are so unorganized in
our finances in our homes and our lives
and until we hit the lottery with some
of y’all pray for harder for that
Claudius $200,000,000 he ain’t gonna let
you hit the lottery he wants you to
organize everything that’s overwhelming
you sit it down in groups of 50 get it
in columns of my debt and and who are
Owen what can I pay up like just
organize he didn’t ask you to supply for
it he just asked you to organize it see
mind many of us are trying to get to the
last step and he saw just need you to
abort obey the next step so I wonder
what the disciples were thinking as they
were corralling people to sit down in
groups of 50 hey y’all hey this is he
killing it ain’t it um uh what I need
everybody do right here is sit down in
groups of 50 like just sit down in
groups of 50 and then somebody from the
back goes like we hungry about that um
yeah we hungry too and we don’t know
exactly what’s about to happen we don’t
know what’s next we don’t know how God’s
gonna provide but I just know this was
my last instruction
so so so I’m not going to not obey
because I don’t have the outcome I’m
gonna go ahead and just follow this next
instruct like some of y’all’s next
instruction is go meet with a financial
adviser like like some of your next
instruction is to put all your debt on
paper some of your next instruction is
to actually be transparent with your
husband your wife your wife don’t even
know you got $50,000 worth of debt that
they got your name or they don’t even
know it you got it no you somebody else
like really Jimmy like like I’m just
saying like like maybe the next step is
is not going to give you that outcome
but it’s gonna lead you to it and they
had to organize it even when they were
over well cuz y’all know this whole
thing is about stewardship this whole
thing that God’s trying to work in you
is just just do what’s available and
write over what I’ve given you
and what and these disciples they’re
going through and I know they they’re
they struggling alright Jesus they in
groups of 50 now what
cuz this snack bag is not about to do
nothing get the picture
5 loaves to catfish not salmon from
catfish 20 thousand people they were
underfunded that they didn’t have enough
but look what happened verse 14 it said
Jesus took the five loaves and two fish
looked up towards heaven and blessed he
blessed what they had okay when you’re
planted and underfunded get what you got
blessed I know that’s wrong English but
it feels good get what little you got
blessed and see so many people don’t
want to give to God or return to God
because they say it’s too little you
can’t afford not to have what you got
bless can I be
to go how how do you do how do you get
what you have blessed you return to God
what’s his
that’s to tithing and I need to be very
clear because some people when you start
talking about tithing and offering it
all that stuff they get green in the
face and they start tightening up that
we not taking no extra offering we’re
not doing anything like this so I need
everybody to calm down we’re not doing
this because God’s trying to do
something for transformation Church he
will provide for this church this church
is going to be fine what I’m saying is
God’s trying to do something for you and
many of you have stopped up your
blessing because you will not take the
little you have and get it blessed God
says will you please take that three
hundred and forty eight dollars that you
get every two weeks and allow me to
bless him how somebody how do I bless
that I return ten percent of it back to
God and a hundred percent cursed is is
horrible because because what ends up
happening is a lot of us do not honor
God and we think that our money is going
to continue to flow and all that other
stuff I was a witness I used to do this
and Jesus told us he said how can a man
Rob God of the opportunity to bless him
he can rob him in tithes and offering he
blesses what we return back to him let
me say it like this 90% with God’s
blessing is better than 100% without it
and so many of us was too little or is
too much and hear what I’m saying to you
you’ll never be able to walk in the full
blessing of God financially until you
trust him with what you already have can
I prove it to you God tells us that our
heart it’s a heart issue it’s not a
money issue but our money is attached to
our heart let me prove it to you the
Bible tells us wherever our treasure is
our heart is also that’s why some people
who never check though a stock or a bond
before you put your money there you
checking it every day some of you got
shoes on that cost a lot of money if
somebody step on it you ready to fight
you like what are you cuz your heart is
there do you understand what I’m saying
all I’m telling you is when you honor
God with the tide with ten percent and
that’s the mic you don’t know how hard
that will be it’s already been hard and
you haven’t done it
I dare you to try it some people today
are gonna take a step of faith you’re
gonna talk to your husband and wife and
I encourage many of you to go back and
watch the series we did wait till I get
my money right so many of you took a
step of faith and started tithing in the
testimonies that are coming from
people’s life because this is what the
Bible says when you tithe when you honor
God it says that he rebukes
the Devourer not for his sake not for
the church’s sake for my sake so I can
walk in the blessing so I can do that
and I’m telling y’all this is the only
place in the Bible where God says test
me I dare you matter of fact i
double-dog dare you and you know when he
double-dog dare you you got to do a
double dog dare you to trust me and he
said see if I won’t open up the windows
of heaven and pour you out a blessing
that you don’t even have room enough to
receive some of you are underfunded
because you won’t trust their source and
these disciples took what they had and
got it
bless look what happens when they gave
it to Jesus when they return their time
when they gave it says then breaking the
loaves into pieces he kept giving the
bread and fish to the disciples so they
could distribute it to the people I need
everybody to see cuz we get this messed
up most people think that Jesus prayed
for it and then he started distributing
it to the people and it started it just
kept coming I want you to see what
happened Jesus didn’t give it to any
person he gave it back to the disciples
so he blessed what they had and he gave
it back to them it was now up to them to
be generous enough to give it out this
is where most of us get messed up
because God gives us a job that now we
have seed or God gives us a settlement
that we got a little money or God and
what we do is what I don’t want any of
you to do because the disciples there
were probably a few of them that wanted
to but when you’re planted and underfund
it don’t eat your seed the thing
that God gave him because remember there
wasn’t enough for one disciple to eat
five fish I mean five loaves two fish
one Peter could have ate that but he
gave enough that all the disciples had
something to distribute there was
already a miracle that happened it
already went from enough for one to
enough from 12 and what would have
happened if they would have eaten it
when they were supposed to be giving it
that’s why when God tells you to pay for
that person’s gas that’s at the pump
next to you don’t eat that seed and I
know y’all know what we do we’d be like
God they look fine that car newer their
mind what are you talking about no they
need to give me some gas money like we
try to size up people we try to get in
people’s business and in their banks and
God says they could be the richest
person in the world I’m not looking for
you to figure out why you’re doing it
I’m looking for obedience because it’s
better than sacrifice that’s what God
tells you to to give a little extra and
offering or he tells you to go sacrifice
your time and help a homeless shelter
that can’t help you or he doesn’t tell
you to help a homeless shelter because I
hate that everybody makes it like it has
to be a sad situation he tells you to go
help your sister that you don’t like
that’s a sacrifice but when you do that
when you don’t eat your seed that’s what
begins to produce the miracle I can just
imagine the disciples as they start
giving it out take a little I promise
you if you take more than a little I’m a
bush viewing your head you see all these
people greeting take a little you don’t
say I can see them going down the line
literally telling everybody take a
little
take a little I god bless you take a
little because when you when you have a
scarce mindset when you’re in fear of
running out you can’t be generous but
when it got to the last crumb and the
bread multiplied in their hands they
kept coming back to Jesus and there was
more they said I did somebody bring an
extra meal cuz since we didn’t eat first
y’all gotta realize the disciples were
hungry they had needs you have needs but
God told them to give first I know I
know I know
you-you-you don’t want to give it into
yours as men but maybe yours won’t be
met until you give it can I tell you how
dope god is check this out verse 17 they
all ate I need you to see this as much
as they want it
no now hold on now y’all know that that
fool that you get where it’s almost
insulting if somebody asks you if you
want more food like you’re at a
restaurant and they saw everything you
order and they’re like do you want
dessert and you like you shut up you
know you see I’m unbuttoned all my
buttons I cannot eat anymore I do not
want any dessert – chocolate eggs please
like but you know that foo like it’s
like no no no no no no no it said that
20,000 people ate until they were like
no more it started out as not enough
they started out underfunded but because
people took the time to take inventory
of what they had and realize that they
were not buried but they were planted in
a situation that was supposed to build
their
they started to look around and they
started to organize the overwhelmed they
didn’t eat their seed and they started
giving generously they got it blessed
that God allowed a miracle not just to
happen to them he loud miracle to happen
what is a better testimony then not just
to be people who ate when there wasn’t
enough but were to be the people that
God provided through when there wasn’t
enough you get the privilege of knowing
that if he did it before he can do it
again
I think ty said it like this he’s the
same God right now the same God back
then you got to understand that this is
what God has for you and look at the
rest of this verse it says they all ate
as much as they wanted and afterwards
somebody say afterwards that’s after
they had given generously to others the
disciples who remember in the beginning
that I told you there was twelve
disciples remember remember that now
this can’t be coincidence that the same
people that God asked to take on a task
to feed 20,000 people and they were
underfunded the twelve people that he
said you feed him God had to know that
he was going to provide for them from
the beginning they just had to have the
faith to go through the process and look
what happened it says the disciples
picked up not ten baskets how many
baskets how many baskets that means each
one had they own basket there was not
enough for one to eat first and because
God did the miracle through them they
get to take home an entire doggie bag
for themselves and whoever else they
want to share with and listen they
picked up the disciples picked up twelve
baskets I love this last word of left
off
I think there’s a scripture somewhere
that says what what’s the scripture
might I don’t forgot it there it is my
God is able to do exceedingly abundantly
above Oh y’all don’t hear me
you could ask think or animagic there
was a disciple that just thought and
imagined I would love to eat the
filefish and the two loaves at the end
of God working this miracle through him
from an underfunded position he got to
take home more then that was even there
to start with I’m coming to challenge
your faith today I feel the presence of
God because somebody’s getting their
faith back to believe that where I’m at
right now has nothing to do with what
God can do to me and through me
I may be underfunded but I need you to
know under does not mean over somebody
give God a shout of praise right there
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okay okay okay okay okay so I know some
of you are gonna have to go home and
hear this message over and over and over
again because there’s been so much lack
and and defeat but I came to tell you if
you’re under you’re underfunded you
don’t have enough maybe that’s the exact
position God wants you man to perform a
miracle that only he can get the glory
from and cannot can I remind you of the
God that we serve look at Romans 8:32
cuz we talk about money and being
resources and being funded this is how
much God thinks of you since he did not
spare even his own son like I want like
we’re talking we’re not even talking
about people we’re talking about things
that are made up funds money resources
God said I love y’all so much that I
gave my only son so if he wouldn’t even
spare his own son but gave him up for
all of us
won’t he also give us everything else
like this is the same God who saved you
that you thinking he gonna call you
through a vision that he will provide
for what today you need to know I don’t
care who you are if you’re underfunded
stay planted stay connected to God
cuz the miracles on the way cuz it may
be the position that God’s gonna create
a miracle and he’s gonna allow you to
know that under does it mean oh let’s
give God praise in this place one come
on if you know God it’s taking you from
glory to glory give him a shout of
praise in this place
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