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
and his blood can cleanse you and it can
give you power to overcome the want to
the desire to break free comes through
the blood of Jesus Christ you need to be
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cleanse me forgive me
change me everything I have I lay at
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