“Four Ways God Will Provide for You” with Jentezen Franklin

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go with me to the book of Genesis it’s

where I feel like I’m supposed to go

tonight for tea I believe it’s 45 I want

to teach you on 4 ways God will provide

for you 4 ways God will provide for you

how many of you believe God is your

provider the Old Testament pattern shows

us how God deals with his people Israel

and the scripture said it was written

for our learning in other words they

were natural Israel but we are spiritual

Israel and how God dealt with natural

Israel he is is a pattern of the same

way that he would deal with you and I

spiritual Israel and the first thing

that I want to tell you there are four

ways that I could find that God will

provide for you in the first way that he

will provide for you is number one God

will provide for you through the hand of

man God will use men and women and

people to provide for you

Genesis 45 verse 7 in verse 8 this is

Joseph talking to his brothers that had

hurt him and now they’re in a famine

starving to death and he is the prime

minister of Egypt and he has the keys to

all the corn in the earth everybody else

was out of corn Joseph had it in silos

and he says in verse 7 to those who did

him so wrong and God sent me before you

to preserve a posterity for you in the

earth and to save your lives by a great

deliverance listen so now it was not you

who sent me here but God he has made me

a father to Pharaoh and Lord of all his

house and a ruler throughout all the

land of Egypt what he was saying was God

has blessed me so I can provide

for you my family the first way that God

provides is through the hand of man so

don’t be fussy about how he does it

don’t be fussy and picky about who he

uses to provide the needs and gives you

opportunity to do business with don’t

tell God who you think he can and cannot

use to provide for you because God can

use some strange people to bless you God

use Pharaoh to provide for his people

Pharaoh an evil idolaters who worship

statues and in hundreds of God’s and yet

God used Pharaoh to provide for the

Hebrew people you cannot put God in a

box Luke 6:38 and I want you to remember

this verse everybody say give let’s read

it out loud give and it will be given to

you good measure pressed down shaken

together and running over shall men give

into your bosom notice that men

different kind of men and women God will

raise up to provide for you he used

Ravens to feed the prophet Elijah and a

raven is not supposed to pick up food

and take it to somebody and give it to

them a raven doesn’t deliver food it

eats food anything it can get but God

changed the nature of that bird so that

it would take care of his prophet in a

family God knows how to take care of you

and he will supply God will never let

you depend on anyone individually too

long just if you get to depending on any

particular person what you do is you

circumvent the blessing of God because

you’re that person is not your source

that person is the is the me

means that God is blessing you

temporarily God is your source and he

will always so when people leave your

life or when business deals that you

were counting on you thought who you

would have the rest of your life don’t

sweat it

God has lots of people men that will

give unto your bosom and I want you to

start claiming this promise that God

will provide for me through the hands of

men that when I get up and I go to work

today God is going to prosper me and

bless me and cause me to have these

connections in life these associations

in life that men will give unto my bosom

I believe that not only will God supply

your need and provide for you through

the hands of men but the second way that

God provides is from his own hand after

seventy years of being fed by Pharoah

the Bible said there arose another

Pharaoh who knew not Joseph now I want

you to see this for seventy years

Pharaoh took care of Joseph and took

care of his people therefore all the

nation of Israel but there arose another

Pharaoh because that one died and

another one came in his place and the

Bible said he knew not Joseph panicked

I’m you’re not in the click anymore this

is where you learn man is not your

source God is your source and he will

sometimes provide for you through the

hand of man and then there are times

when God Himself will supernaturally

provide for you suddenly the link was

broke suddenly he had no inside ability

to get to the Pharaoh and it reminds us

of the fact that Jesus said without me

you

can do nothing this is called force

dependency this is when you have to get

back down on your knees and remind

yourself that man is not your source

alone God will use men to give to me but

God it’s from your hand to their hand

into my hand and I’m coming back to you

I’m looking to you I’m honoring you with

my giving I want a system going while

you know this is what we like to get it

where is so wonderful that everything’s

just clicking and everything’s just

happening and you don’t even hardly have

to pray you just you just pray lightly

and everything’s the money’s just

flowing but how many of you know that

usually when things are like that we

don’t pray like we ought to Elijah had

it made

he had a bird feeding him every day two

meals a day and he had the river flowing

with water and the Bible said the brook

dried up what do you do when your brook

dries up what do you do when your money

source dries up what do you do

when the business dries up it drove

Elijah back to his source the brook was

not his source listen carefully the

brook was his system the brook was the

system God was the source and your

business is the system but God is the

source and I’m saying to you that God

Himself then spoke to the Prophet and

said go to the widow woman I’ve

commanded her she’s down to her last

meal she doesn’t have any hope either

and if she will obey you with her last

meal give and it shall be given unto you

but if she eats her last meal then she’s

gonna miss the harvest for the next

three and a half years that will sustain

her

and her son through the famine I’m

saying to you that if I were the devil I

would tell people that giving doesn’t

really matter because he knows that that

one offering from that woman kept her

son and her alive through the family I

want you to see that it’s through the

hand of God that he gives look with me

in Exodus if you’ve got your Bible turn

there to the book of Exodus chapter 16

in verse 14 and when the layer of dew

lifted the children of is were out in

the wilderness on the surface of the

wilderness was a small round substance

as fine as frost on the ground and so

when the children of Israel saw it they

said to one another what is it for they

did not know what it was and Moses said

to them this is bread which the Lord has

given you to eat now I want you to

notice a couple things about this food

and provision that came from the hand of

God God said I’m gonna give it to you

and sometimes it’s hard to recognize the

blessing that God is bringing to you

because you don’t always see it and

sometimes he’s repositioning you through

a transition to get you ready for a new

miracle I’m about to give you bread from

heaven God says and God doesn’t give

everybody the same amount if you keep

reading that story it said that if you

had a household of two people God would

give them one loaf of manna but if you

had a household of six people he would

give them three times that amount so

everybody didn’t get the same it was

according to what they the people that

they had in their household when God

prospers you he would do it according to

the size of your assignment look at

Philippians chapter four and my God

shall supply all your needs according to

his riches in glory about

Jesus and everybody shouts no no no no

no no that’s what they do they don’t

even know what that’s tied to now folks

God is a fair god in order to understand

that you have to go back to verse 15 now

you Philippians this is who he was

talking to they made that promise to you

know how in the beginning of the gospel

when I departed from Macedonia no church

shared with me concerning giving and

receiving but only you even the

Thessalonica you sent aid once again for

my necessities and now I can tell you on

the authority of God’s Word because you

helped me take the gospel to the lost

all over the world when nobody else

would do it my God will supply all your

needs according to his riches in glory

through Christ Jesus

number three God will meet your needs

from your own hand Joshua chapter five

and verse 12 and the manna ceased on the

day after they had eaten the produce of

the land and the children of Israel no

longer had manna but they ate the food

of the land of the of Canaan that year

we read right over that and think

nothing for forty years God

fed them three times a day with bread

from heaven and now after forty years of

never having to lift a finger for their

food and provision God says as soon as

they get into the Promised Land the

manna will cease panic God transitioned

them and he said sometimes I’ll cause

men to meet and provide your need

sometimes I will supernaturally I’ll

cause the IRS I’m even though that would

be the supernatural I’ll cause the IRS

to send you a check back in the mail

from seven years ago I might be speaking

to somebody right now and you better tie

on it when you get it to this how many

of you’ve ever had God supernaturally

provide for you let me see your hand

I mean I mean supernaturally provide

just if there’s an it made no sense the

way the money came and then he says

there will be seasons where I’m gonna

use your own hand the man is gonna cease

it’s just gonna be hard work you’re

gonna get out and sow and reap you’re

gonna get up

you gonna get out and get it I’ll use

your own hand you can’t just kick back

expect me to do everything God says I

won’t do for you what you can do for

yourselves go help yourself if

everything shut down on you go back to

school

I mean it’s sure seats beats sitting

around eating Cheetos you know get

getting your unemployment nothing wrong

with that if you’re going through

unemployment for season but why not

better yourself why not do any and

everything you can why not why not do

any anything man I pick up coke bottles

if I had to God blesses people who are

busy he calls people who are busy when

people come to me and say I can’t I

can’t find a job nowhere I can’t I don’t

have no and I think the Lord wants me to

work in the church for you

you don’t wanna work for me like that

come on let’s get real Deuteronomy 11

and nine that you may prolong your days

and lend that Lord squirel to give your

fathers and your descendants listen to

this it’s a land flowing with milk and

honey now this is strange look at the

next verse for the land which you going

to possess is not like the land of Egypt

listen to this from which you have come

where you sowed your seed listened and

watered it by foot as a vegetable garden

I saw that and I couldn’t figure out

what that was talking about and I looked

it up today and this is what they said

in Egypt the only way that they could

irrigate their fields was by foot pumps

that they would draw water from the Nile

River with foot with foot pumps and that

they’d get a just enough out in that

desert with pipes and things and foot

pumps but God said I’m taking you out of

a land where you had foot pumps

squirting a little bit of water out and

I’m taking you into a land that is

flowing with milk and honey you’re

coming off the pump and into the flow so

I’ll provide for you through the hand of

man I’ll provide for you through the

hand of God I’ll provide for you through

your own hand

and lastly God will provide for you by

the hand of your enemy 12 went into the

promised land 10 came back and said oh

they’re so much fruit it’s flowing with

milk and honey but the Giants are too

big the majority of people still see the

problems and say yes but and numbers 14

and verse 9 God says this only do not

rebel against the Lord nor fear the

people of the land everybody read the

next part of that sentence for they are

our bread once they go to the King James

translation because it says for they are

bread for us who they whose they are

enemies in other words God is saying I

am going to feed you through the hand of

your enemy I’m going you’re actually

going to reach a point that you feed off

of their attacks you feed off your

haters they actually encourage you

satanic attack is actually a sign that

you are a high-value target

it means you have something worth

attacking the level of the tak is going

to tell you two things it’s going to

tell you number one how valuable you are

to God in your assignment and the level

of blessing that is waiting for you when

you get through this attack that is what

the attack is all about it’s telling you

the value you are in the assignment that

God has given you and it’s telling you

the level of blessing that God has on

the other side of the attack if you will

be willing and obedient steadfast and

unmovable never quit never give up God

will bless you God will provide for you

God can use anybody anywhere anytime to

meet your needs now I want to end with a

couple scriptures second Corinthians

chapter 9 and verse 10 now may he who

supplies seed to the sower and bread for

food and he supplies and multiplies the

seed that you hold on to and put in your

pocket he multiplies the seed that you

have and increases the fruits of your

righteousness you either believe that

stuff or you don’t and I believe it down

to my bonus because I have experienced

let’s clap and praise God for the truth

of his word so say this with me he

multiplies seed that is sown he gives

seed to sewers am i a sower have I given

anything that God can multiply because

2nd Corinthians 9 says he that shows

little reaps little he that sews

generously reaps generously the folks I

don’t know about you but I believe that

God has a system whereby all the needs

of your life and history and his kingdom

are met and you just heard me teach them

and when you’re willing to obey the Word

of God in this area God says I’ll

provide for you through the hands of men

through the hands of God through the

hands of yourself and even calls your

enemies to become bread for here and

I’ll prepare a table before you a

banquet in the presence of your enemies

some I’m wanting like you and say there

hallelujah raise your hand up and praise

God with me right here this is good news

some of you are stressed out about your

finances and beat up by the enemy devil

told you God doesn’t love you doesn’t

care about you what a liar he is he

cares about it everything everything

concerning you if he’s got the number of

hairs numbered on your head he cares

about what you drive where you live what

you wear what you need what you have

what you don’t have he cares I want to

pray with you today as you are watching

this program I don’t believe it’s by

chance I believe in Kingdom connections

I believe that God can can know what

you’re going through and send a preacher

into your life to speak a message that

speaks to that situation in your life

and I believe while you’ve been

listening today that God has done that

in your life so why not open up your

heart why not why not just start all

over today and give your life completely

to Jesus Christ sellout maybe you never

prayed that prayer I want to pray with

you right where you are you can

experience the power and presence of

Jesus Christ he always comes where he’s

invited so open up and invite him pray

this prayer say Lord Jesus I give you my

life I surrender everything to you

forgive me cleanse me of my sins through

your precious blood I receive it by

faith I believe in you I believe you

died and rose again and I believe you’ve

come to live in me today with me you’ll

never leave me

you’ll never forsake me in Jesus name

that’s a powerful name in Jesus name and

I speak healing and health over your

body today if you’re sick just be healed

by the stripes of Jesus Christ amen

I’m excited about what’s happening we’re

getting close to a miracle in Haiti

we’re just a few a few months away from

the grand dedication of our miracle

marketplace over 20 acres full of

buildings where over 2,600 Haitian

people are going to be employed we’re

going to dedicate that facility for the

glory of God debt-free over a million

dollars that we’ve been able to send we

still need your help we aren’t quite

there we were close and if you can help

us put us over the top we would greatly

appreciate it I know God will bless you

because he said when you give to the

poor you lend to God and that that is

the truth and you know I believe that as

we sow and make miracles happen for

these precious people in Haiti God can

make it happen in our own house in our

own life in our own business and you can

do something today pray about what God

would have you do really just take a

moment if this ministry has been a

blessing to you if you’ve received you

know from the Word of God that we bring

this is a way you can make a difference

in somebody else’s life help us make

that miracle happen in Haiti thank you

pray for us I’m praying for you I’ll see

you next time on Kingdom connection

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