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well is anybody excited about the word
today and listen man I am so excited
about what we are about to get into this
is week one of a series that we are
calling ducks in a row and I need you to
get out your notes and and on your
smartphone or your dumb phone whatever
you have because we’re gonna we’re gonna
walk progressively through um really
probably one of the most life-changing
subjects that have changed the
trajectory of this church changed the
trajectory of me and my family’s life
and changed the trajectory of so many
families we’re going to talk about
stewardship and generosity now I know in
2019 these are not sexy words
stewardship it don’t even sound sexy
stewardship and generosity but I found
all through God’s Word
these are two cornerstones for God to do
everything that he wants to do in a
believers life it’s gonna take
stewardship and generosity just say the
word with me say stewardship you don’t
even say it right say stewardship and
generosity so we’re gonna talk about
these things and what I’m asking you to
do is to lock in with me for the next
five weeks
like like cuz this is the series that if
any series you could be taken out of
this would be the one because the truths
that are gonna be expounded upon through
God’s Word in this series are the ones
that break generous generational cycles
of poverty as well as the truths break
generational cycles of selfishness yeah
oh yeah cuz you thought it was just
about getting more and god says why
would I give you more cuz you’re not a
river you’re a reservoir when I give you
something that stops with you but God
says I want you to be a river I want to
be able to give you so much that it
flows through you that you’re blessed to
be a blessing and that’s what we desire
for our church is that we would give
just to give and not to get and let me
go ahead and give you the the disclaimer
for all the people like I lost you in
the time today because I’m gonna be
talking about money
yes we’re gonna be talking about money
but I’m gonna do it from a very delicate
standpoint because I know the stigma the
church just wants me for my money we
don’t want you for your money
what we’re telling you in this series is
to relax everybody say relax
we’re not taking any second offerings
okay there’s no campaign that we’re
raising money for right now as a matter
of fact because of the generosity of
people who’ve already bought into this
blessed life attitude because of that
this four weeks coming up we are giving
away to organizations and and people who
are doing ministries and partnering with
all kinds of stuff I cannot wait for you
to see every week what we’re gonna be
doing we’re gonna give away over two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
four weeks can we give God oh come on
y’all can we give God praise for that
now now that’s a different bend than a
lot of people have in with money and in
church and the reason that this is
coming to us and I’m so passionate about
it is because when I started pastoring
this church about four years ago my
second sermon series ever what’s called
the blessed life and and we did this um
based off of Robert Morris who’s down in
Dallas Texas and they have a church down
there where he has this revelation of
generosity and stewardship and all this
other stuff and because I’m a
transparent leader I can never get up
here and talk about nothing that I I
haven’t been through or I don’t know and
so I stood up it’s so crazy when you
talk about representing I stood up at
our church and I say hey guys
God told me we’re supposed to do this
series on generosity and stewardship and
I don’t know enough about it yet so
instead of me getting up in here and
faking for four weeks and trying to
teach you something that I don’t know
we’re gonna play these videos for pastor
Robert Morris
and he’s white and dry and has the juice
do you hear what I’m saying
and and and and this is when our church
was predominantly african-american and
more expressive and all this other stuff
I said but I don’t want to get up here
and tap-dance for you for four weeks and
you don’t get transformed
I’m telling you I said instead of me
trying to do that I’m gonna sit right
here on the front row and I said in that
seat with my wife and for four and a
half or five weeks we set and learn the
principles of the blessed life together
I want to just teach you I will never be
a leader that gets up here and tries to
fake the funk I’ll bring in the people
who actually got the phone do you hear
what I’m saying because we don’t have
time to waste and people are really
struggling with situations and so when
we learned about this blessed life it
changed everything y’all it changed this
church and it changed my life and today
I’m telling you we’re not doing this
series because the church needs more
money we’re doing this series because
God wants you to live a blessed life
everybody say blessed life say it like
you mean it say blessed life that’s what
he wants for every person and so we’re
gonna have to walk through some
principles so today it’s gonna be very
introductory very basic so we can get
your heart open so that we can be able
to do surgery in this series so what I
need everybody to understand is is two
words that we’re going to look at
because proverbs chapter 11 verse 24 is
gonna give us some groundwork I want
everybody to write down the scripture
cuz it wrecks me every time I read it it
says the world of the generous gets
larger and larger and the world of the
stingy gets smaller and smaller that’s
some good by phone right there because
at the end of the day it doesn’t matter
how much you have it’s about your heart
posture he says people who have a heart
to be generous he said I can give them
more and more and more and more he said
but people who hold that even what I
give him he says it keeps taking away
from them and this is what I believe at
transformation church this is the year
of what release and and and we believe
that because we are walking in this God
doesn’t just want us to be healed in our
emotions and healed in our bodies he
wants us to be healed in our finances
and there’s a lot of people I counsel so
many people and I know there’s some
bushi people think about pesum like you
don’t know how much I have in my account
but your heart is ugly
it doesn’t matter about amounts God’s
going after hearts right now and so as
the lead shepherd of this house I have
to bring to you the things that are
gonna help our hearts all I’m saying to
you today is that we want God to release
everything he has for us the more the
expansion this is not a prosperity
gospel this is a gospel that says God
does have more for you but you have a
part to play in this thing and what God
has ordained for all of us he wants to
release it to us but the prerequisite to
get what j-bars pray for enlarge my
territory when we pray stuff like that
he says oh that can only happen with the
motivation of generosity let me help you
you have to know that when God blesses
you it’s for the first reason to be a
blessing to somebody else and I know I
know because everything tells you to
hoard it but God says I want you to be a
blessing everybody just declared this by
faith say I am a blessing just say it
one more time say I am a blessing what
happens when you walk into your job and
and you are a blessing when you’re not
there something’s missing what happens
when you’re not at the family dinner the
joy is not the same like I am a blessing
somebody just say it one more time
I am a blessing and until you believe
that you walked around beneath what God
has called you to be and so through this
series I’m gonna allow you to recognize
and I hope the Holy Spirit reveals to
you see revelation all it is is it’s
revealed truth something that’s there
but you can’t see is revealed and I’m
believing that the scales will fall from
our eyes and generational things that
have been over us as far as finances
will be shattered as God gives
revelation to us and so this is where
we’re gonna start
today we titled the series ducks in a
row because number one I like ducks
number two number two it gives us a
picture it’s a quote kalokhe you how do
you say colloquialism
well it’s a saying that we have like hey
we need to get our ducks in a row when I
look this up in the urban dictionary I
love it it says to be well prepared or
well organized for something that is
going to happen like I feel like God
wants to do something and it’s going to
happen my question is how prepared are
you what have you been doing with what
you got how are you how are you handling
what’s in your hands and and that’s why
I said if we’re gonna be that type of
church that won’t just give 250,000
dollars away in in one month of
generosity but God could possibly trust
us to be a church that gives that type
of money away every month and for that
to happen that means he would have to
bless your business and have to bless
your life and bless your family and if
he’s gonna trust us God said you ain’t
even prepared for what I’m about to do
you’re not even handling what you have
been given the way I want you to do so I
need you to write down these two words
because they’re gonna be very pivotal to
us understanding this concept of a
blessed life it’s per preparation and
stewardship again I’m saying these words
over and over because I want them to
drill into your consciousness they are
not sexy but they are significant and
while you’re writing right now um write
down the title of today’s message are
your ducks in a row and I’m not gonna
answer that question for you you are
because I know you know you come into
church and people will be trying to
nudge you like see you should in the
done that and see no no no keep your
shoulders to yourself and your elbows to
yourself okay but I need you to answer
this question today are your ducks in a
row
are you prepared for what God wants to
do in your life are you prepared for
what he wants to do in your finances are
you prepared for what he wants to do so
that you can be a blessing and and today
I’m gonna allow you to be able to assess
that through God’s Word I want us to go
right now to Matthew chapter 25 verse 14
are your ducks in a row the truth is
some of our ducks is just floating some
are ducks is just floating away some of
our ducks we only have enough of them
some of y’all like
FASTA I don’t have enough ducks to put
in a row you hear what I’m saying I
ain’t got no money I don’t have any
resource and I’m not just talking about
money I’m talking about time
how are you prioritizing what God has
placed in your head I’m talking about
your giftings because some of us have
giftings that we have not done anything
with and God says are your ducks in a
row
some of y’all trying to figure out what
the duck is going on I had to use it
anyway the church people over here
they’re like oh my god so we’re gonna
see how we can get our ducks in a row
through a parable that Jesus is telling
this is Jesus telling and you may have
heard this before but we’re gonna take
it from a whole different we’re gonna
represent this scripture it’s the story
of the men with the talents let’s look
at it and in verse 14 a Matthew 25 it
says and again the kingdom of heaven can
be illustrated by the story of a man
going on a long trip the man right here
represents God he said he called
together his servants and entrusted his
money to them what did he entrusted him
what did he entrusted him say it and
every service all everybody that’s
watching what did he entrusted him he
could have used any example but he
decided to use money do you know that
money in possessions is talked about in
the Bible over 800 times the second most
talked about topic in the Word of God
now now it’s so funny when I say that as
so many people want to look to the
economic system and government for
financial practices but they are
trillions of dollars and then the
problem is maybe the system was created
by someone more intelligent than anybody
that’s here and maybe just for these
five weeks could we allow the Word of
God to be the standard of how we look at
finances can I get one big yes okay
let’s let’s go so he said it was like a
man that went on a long trip he called
together his servants and entrusted his
money to them while he was gone he gave
five bags of silver to one two bags of
silver to another and one bag of silver
to the last
fighting it in proportion to their
abilities oh I love the word of God
God’s not dumb see so many people know
he’s not dumb at all so many people are
frustrated right here off the gate
because it’s like God so unfair why
would he give one five one two and one
one like like matter of fact I’m the one
with one I don’t even believe that but
but but we always look at what God gives
us compared to somebody else
uh oh we’re always looking at how they
started and what school they got to go
to and and how their parents were set up
and and how this was and and and we’re
all doing that but I want you to notice
the last sentence that last part of that
sentence it said that God divided it in
proportion to their ability you have
what you have cuz that’s what you can
handle uh uh oh
you have what you have cuz that’s what
you can handle let me put it like this
the next season of ability is dependent
on the last season of responsibility
that’s good he’s in right there so you
so mad because God gave you this and he
said just work what I gave you he said
but you’re so mad about how little or
how insignificant or it’s not like bears
that I’m not gonna do nothing with this
and God said that’s why you’re still at
the same level of influence that’s why
you’re still at the same level you’re at
a different job but the same level of
influence
you’re in a different sphere you’re
older now but it’s the same level he
said because you were now responsible
with what I gave you and today I need
you to see in this text text that
stewardship says today matters everybody
say today matters
see see stewardship says what I do today
matters how I use my money today matters
how I prioritize my time today matters
what I say to people today matters how I
love today matters because when you deal
with today this is the thing you have to
understand about today today will always
show up tomorrow
uh-huh like like like what you do today
is gonna show up tomorrow how many of us
and I’ll say us know that you need to
work out come on hands lift it all over
the place
okay now let’s be honest when it comes
to this whole thing about working out
for your boy some of y’all are experts
out there okay but as you can see
there’s some areas that I’m believing
God for a miracle you hear nothing but
the miracle is never coming the miracles
never coming because it’s going to
require stewardship so so could it be
what you’re praying for is not on the
way cuz you’re praying for the outcome
of something you actually have to do oh
yeah I know I ain’t man myself before I
got here today cuz I knew y’all was
gonna be acting funny but this is what
I’m saying to you like stewardship is
what I do today matters so some days
I’ll be like man I need to go to the gym
today I need to go to the gym today like
I got to and then it’ll be tomorrow and
I don’t like you know what I’m calling
the day today is gym day but not just
did I not go to the gym that day I ate
McDonald’s that say I eat Chinese food
that day they had to third out of the
blue at my job and what I did today
showed up tomorrow are you you it showed
up tomorrow I’m using a practical
example for me because this applies to
every area of your life God’s calling us
to another level of stewardship what is
stewardship taking care of something
that’s not yours see some of you don’t
understand stewardship because you think
you own your life you think you are in
that job you think you were given those
gifts and talents so that you can own
them where do they come from
I know you went to school and I know you
you you prospered some with what was
given but who gave you the natural
ability only God and the reason that
many of us don’t know how to Stewart is
because we think we’re owners instead of
managers and God called us the reason we
got to get our ducks in a row because
the master has given us everything and
we’re supposed to manage over and he’s
gonna ask us hey what y’all do what I
gave you and so that’s where we pick
back up in this story in verse 16 the
servant who received the five bags of
silver began to invest the money and
earn five more the servant with two bags
of silver also went to work I just need
to stop what did he do he went to work
let me just stop right here if you don’t
have enough grind in you to take care of
your responsibilities and work on your
passion you’re out of line of the will
of God for your life I’m just over here
I’m a creative bro I’m just trying to
make this thing happen
you’re gonna be broke and what you got
to do is you got to be responsible in a
season so that you can be able to do
what you love to do in another season
and this man went to work and I know
this is something that people don’t like
to hear about today but in this
environment of everybody doing what they
feel God’s very clear about us using
what we have in this season stewardship
to create a better season for it so I
just have to do this cuz I got a lot of
Millennials that are watching right now
and and that are a part of my church you
got to work because it’s developing
something in you that will prepare you
for what you’re supposed to do and this
is the thing that I got to get you to
understand if you see somebody that’s
lived over half of their life and
they’re still not working in their
passion it’s because in the time that
they were supposed to Stewart over their
gift they did not and now they are
forced to work in a different season of
their life I’m coming to encourage you
everybody who’s not married and don’t
have kids you have more time today than
you will ever have and can I get some a
man’s for married people and people with
kids
amen and you dial out so much to do you
don’t know I’m I’m trying to tell you
cuz I was blind to it like I didn’t even
understand it this is the time where you
get on your grind this is the time where
you do the things that don’t impact a
child in a wife or a husband this is the
time where you fully sell out to what
God has called you to do some of y’all
praying so hard to be married but you
need to sit in your singleness for a
second and get your stuff together again
it’s good to get your ducks in a row
so you can be and do everything God has
called you to do my rant is over amen
and so it said the servant with two bags
of silver also went to work and earn two
more but the servant who received the
one bag of silver dug a hole isn’t it
crazy that all the way back here they
used the language that we use today to
talk about how people get into debt I
dug a hole and I’m trying to get out of
this hole trying to pay back these
student loans trying to try to pay back
this Macy’s car trying to trying to pay
back like they’d done and it literally
parallels this man’s situation he said
he had a little and so instead of using
what he had to multiply in and to do
what’s right with it he dug a hole in
the ground and hid the Masters money
after a long time their master returns
from his trip and called them hey y’all
I need y’all to tell me what y’all did
with my money
he said the servant to whom he had
entrusted five bags of silver stepped up
real proud he said master hey you gave
me five bags of silver to invest and
brah here’s five more and then the
master was full of praise he said well
done my good and faithful servant you
have been faithful in handling the small
amount
now this tripping me out this time that
I read it because this is the guy that
got the most but in God’s eyes it was a
small amount like like like like what
you gotta understand is God is not
carrying about amount he said this was
just the test the job you have right now
is just a test no matter how much you
think all I’m living the greatest life
we’re
I have no worries God said that small
amount that few hundred thousand Depp do
you million that this is the idea you
have to give that God is not bound by
our small thinking he’s limited by our
small obedience he he’s not limited by
but by our small thinking he’s limited
by our small obedience and that’s why
he’s saying man if y’all could just get
your ducks in a row and do it my way
because if if you take what you have and
work what you have and give to me and
and honor me and and bless other people
he said this moment the best job you
ever had
that’s your 401 K blooming that and and
this is the thing that you have to
realize because the person with one
thought he had so much and everybody the
five the two and the one God said this
was all the pre-show for what I really
want to do in your life so that’s why we
got to get our ducks in a row and he
said to the servant with five bags he
said you gave me five bags and Masterson
was full of praise well done it said the
servant who had received the two bags
verse twenty-two a sibrel came forward
and said master you gave me two bags of
silver to invest and I’ve earned two
more well done boy that’s what I’m
talking about you’ve been faithful and
handling the small amount so now I’m
gonna give you more not money look what
it says I’m going to give you more
responsibility Oh
hold on no no hold on I thought if I did
was right with the finances users gonna
give is just magic trick more money he
said no no he said the reward of being a
good steward is more responsibility and
this is where people get tricked and
that’s why they think it’s a prosperity
gospel and if I give three hundred and
thirty-three dollars God’s gonna me give
me three thousand three hundred
then under that he said when when you
honor me I give you more responsibility
which gives you the ability to do more
with what I’ve already given you it
it’s the same amount of work to invest
and dig a hole both people got to work
but but one’s gonna get an outcome where
they get more responsibility and the
other is going to get nothing and so I
want you to see that the reward of our
stewardship and our preparation is more
responsibilities that God can use in our
lives it says so the servant with two
bags said master I knew look at verse 24
the servant that had one bag of silver
came and said master I knew you are a
harsh man harvesting crops you didn’t
plant and gather them across you didn’t
cultivate so I was afraid I will lose
your money man so I hid it in the earth
so look here baby here’s your money back
but the master replied look you wicked
and lazy servant if you knew a harvested
crops I didn’t plant and gather crops
I didn’t cultivate why didn’t you at
least deposit it in the bank the least
you could have done is is manage my
money how the world tells you to I got
to leave it right there at least I could
have gotten a little interest on what
I’ve given you then he ordered take the
money from him and give it to the one
with the ten bags of silver to those who
use well what they are given even more
will be given and they will have an
abundance or they will live a blessed
life and this is what my desire and my
faith is for everybody a part of
transformation church that we would live
a blessed life everybody shot at me
blessed life that’s what we want but for
those who do nothing even this is so sad
even what little they have will be taken
away now throw this useless servant into
utter darkness dang God where there will
be weeping and gnashing of teeth and
that’s what a lot of our finances look
like weepy and gnashing of teeth let me
give you a point right here preparation
releases prosperity and procrastination
releases poverty when you prepare it
sets you up to walk in prosperity when
you procrastinate I’ll do it tomorrow
I know I’m going to get that budget
right
I know I’m gonna start I’m gonna bring
somebody into my fan finances that
procrastination it releases this is the
year of release it depends what you want
to really have released in your life if
you prepare it’s gonna release
prosperity if you do not prepare and you
procrastinate it releases poverty you
think I’m making this up look at
proverbs 12 verse 24 it says diligent
hands will rule but laziness ends in
forced labour like like a lot of people
are forced to work right now I’m not
gonna ask you to raise your hand but how
many people hate their jobs blink at me
right now just blink you said you should
see all the blinkers in zero okay like
like you hate your job if you hate your
job halfway into your life it’s because
you procrastinate it in a season you
were supposed to be preparing no no I’m
telling you there’s a preparation season
so every 18-year old don’t go quit your
problems job this is a season of
preparation but if you’re 48 58 68 years
old and you still hate what you do that
means that in a season of preparation
you were procrastinating and I don’t
nobody like to hear that and that’s why
I have security so I can run out of here
after service but if I don’t tell you
who’s gonna tell you but I came with
good news the God that we serve is a
restorer of time he’s the one that has
grace that at the moment we were picked
and all that word means is to ten at the
moment we turn he’s standing there
saying I will redeem the time the Bible
says it like this that the cankerworm
has stolen everything that you thought
you lost he said at the moment you turn
back to me I’ll redeem them crazy
college years I’ll redeem the time that
you were keeping up with the Joneses
I’ll redeem it all but somebody has to
start by getting your ducks in a row
that’s what for the next four weeks
don’t play yourself by not coming
because this is going to
allow you to get blessed so this is what
I’m gonna do with my time remaining I
want us to do an assessment and I
thought this would be good and very
practical for us to do today because um
um a lot of people don’t think they need
help that do need help how many people
know somebody that need help but they
don’t think they need help to like you
know yeah just cuz somebody I’ll say
next one and and so and so today is a
self-assessment
it’s a ducks in a row assessment this is
what I want everybody to write down D I
a are okay and that stands for ducks in
a row put two columns and I want you to
see the two stark contrasts in this
story there’s two guys who got they
ducks in a row the one who was given
five and the one who had two and there
was one other guy and he was the guy
that was digging a hole and I want you
to just write that down because these
are the two types of people were talking
to today people who have their ducks in
a row or people who are digging a hole
let me prove it to you right here just
so everybody knows that in Matthew
chapter 25 verse 18 it said but the
servant who received the one bag of
silver dug a hole in the ground and hid
the Masters money my question to you are
you continually being in cycles of debt
are you digging holes that you can’t get
out of in the future I had to be very
very honest with myself and I had to
come to grips with my shoe addiction oh
okay you want to judge me and my wife
for believing God for a new home and um
I was about to buy some shoes the other
day on the internet and it’s just so
easy because you don’t even see the
money exchange you don’t even it’s just
like boo no shoes on the way
and and God convicted me he said are you
stewarding and preparing for what you
want are you about to wear your new
doorknob and it hit like it hit me like
a ton of bricks cuz I was gonna stun him
one time and then put him put him in the
closet with the with the other million
shoes that I had he said why would I
give you more well why would I bless you
what you’re asking for and you won’t
Stuart over what I’ve already given you
and I’m telling you I gotta be honest
with where I’m at I am judging you but
I’m putting my stuff out on the street
cuz maybe just maybe there’s an area of
your life that you’re wasting resources
and things that will burn up when heaven
and earth are actually passed away like
like and for me I was digging a hole but
God said you ain’t got your ducks in a
row and and this is where I want
everybody to understand this because you
dig a hole when you have a certain
mindset and I’m gonna tell you about the
mindset that you’ll have when you’re
digging a hole if you’re digging a hole
or if you have your ducks in a row you
have faith for the future if you’re
digging a hole you have fear of failure
which category are you in see look at
verse 25 it says this man with one he
said I was afraid I
I was afraid I would lose so instead of
doing something with a little bit you
gave me I played it safe and I’m here to
tell you that you have to have faith for
the future because this thing that
you’ve been walking in in fear and I
just gotta make sure that this month
money saved in this this and this this
and this this because you’re fearful
there’s nothing wrong with saving and
planning and all that other stuff but
it’s done based in fear you have the
wrong motivation and I’m trying to tell
you right now the difference is the guy
who was given five he was had faith for
the future hold on this master just gave
me five men he said he’s coming back
what would happen if I took what he gave
me and multiplied that month and I
when he comes back i’ma give him five
more he might let me keep the five that
I had he had faith for the future but so
many of us are so paralyzed by what
happened that we’re now moving in fear
of failure so we’ve dug a hole we have
fear of failure and we’re standing still
in the same place but I came to tell you
according to second Timothy first
chapter 1 verse 7 it says for God has
not given us a spirit of fear and I love
the second part of it you ain’t supposed
to be scared or timid he said no no no
no walk up in there like gods on my side
somebody asked me what’s one of your
greatest qualities in your opinion of
your leadership I said I divorce the
fear of failure like like I’m just gonna
do it if I’m 55% sure it’s happening but
are you ever a hundred percent sure
about something 95 80 know if I’m 55 we
gonna do it because I’ve realized who’s
on my side and if God before me who we
serve the greatest Redeemer in history
he’s the only one that can take a
situation that’s broken and repair it
and bring it back together again
but the problem with the church and the
problem with people as we’re so afraid
of losing a little that we won’t even
step out in faith I’m challenging every
person in this room to divorce fear of
failure statistics tell us that most
millionaires go banked well at least
three to five times and how they get
million how do you been a millionaire
five times in your lifespan and you
ain’t got one let me tell you they’ve
divorce the fear of failure it’s
inevitable but when I take an ill I turn
it into a lesson I won’t do that again
I’m gonna do this again I’m gonna do
this and so we have to divorce the fear
of failure and these are the two things
that these men walked in let me tell you
something else that happened what was a
dire assessment for these guys if you
understand this you either walk in
acknowledging God are you assume of God
you either acknowledge God or you assume
of God let me show you in in verse 19 it
said after a long time their master
returned from his trip and and called
them all together and the servant to
whom he entrusted the five bags of
silver came forward with the five more
and said watch what he said master you
gave me he acknowledged where it came
from in the first place he didn’t say I
made he said you gave me he acknowledged
God even in his prosperity this is where
most of us make a mistake is somehow we
think that we did this and we made this
happen but Bible tells us in proverbs 3
6 that in all of your ways acknowledge
him and he shall direct your path look
at the contrast 1 acknowledged God
the other one assumed of God let me show
it to you it says in verse 24 the
servant who had one bag of silver came
and said master I knew you were hot on
one person acknowledge you gave it all
to me and the other one says I know who
you are
see when you assume you know how God
wants to bless you when you assume that
this is all God has for you you start
walking in a level of pride where you
discount God’s grace and goodness in
your life and this is what the one who
was broke minded did he dug a hole he
had the fear of failure and then he
assumed that God was not who he was can
we make a very clear distinction who
gave you the one talent that you had
like who gave you the one bag of silver
and so he he assumes the very opposite
of what he’s experienced and so many of
us do that God has been so good to us
he’s showed his grace to us over and
over we should not be in the place that
we’re in and somehow we assume that he’s
waiting for us to fail and messed up and
jack it up look what the the Bible tells
us that
I knew you were and look what he said a
harsh man
you talking about the same man they gave
you a bag for free you harvest crops
that you didn’t plan to gather crops you
didn’t cultivate I was afraid to lose
your money so I hid it in the earth I
just think I hear God’s saying when he
said I knew you were and he like y’all
know me bro but you have no idea and
that’s how God has checked me several
times he said God I know you and do he
see you don’t know me my ways are higher
than your ways according to Isaiah
chapter 55 verse 8 he says there my
thoughts are nothing like your thoughts
and my ways are beyond anything you can
imagine for just as high as the heavens
are above the earth so my ways are
higher than your ways and my thoughts
are higher than your thoughts all I’m
encouraging you to do today is that if
you’re in a place where you’ve been
digging in a hole and you’ve been in a
fear failure and you’ve assumed of God
don’t do that because when you do that
you’re limiting God to what he wants to
do in your life and in your family so
let me give you the last one it’s
already on the screen because I need you
to assess like check the box where
you’re at if you go and dig a hole have
fear of failure assume of God the last
thing you’re going to do is you’re gonna
use excuses for what you have now and if
you’ve got your ducks in a row you’re
gonna use what you have now what I’m
asking you today is before we cut into
the surgery of the rest of this series
what’s in your hand what have you
discounted that God’s counting on what
gift what talent well the tide of $10 is
$1 I know they don’t they don’t have no
need of my dollar and God said I was I
literally factored in everything based
on everybody doing what I asked him to
do like like I wanted to pour out a
blessing that was so huge but I don’t do
anything on earth without human
participation so I’m looking for some
people who will make a decision that I’m
not just gonna dig holes have fear
failure
use the excuse of what I have right now
assume of God I need some people who are
going to trust me and get their ducks in
a row look at verse 29 it said to those
who use whale everybody say use well for
those who use well what they are given
even more will be given and they will
have an abundance that’s the blessed
life where you have so much more you
don’t even need at all like like like
what happens when you look at your
accounts every month and you’re saying
who do I get to bless this week who all
around me is in need no I want you to
really imagine yourself now I know it’s
hard to do that right now because a lot
of us have been in this column for a
long time and we just tried Lord forget
trying to be a blessing Lord just let me
get on a solid ground like no more I
just don’t want to be in the Hall no
more but God said for a second have
faith for the future see yourself
walking up to your family members who
get on your nerves right now and being
able to ask them genuinely not expecting
anything back in return how can I help
you
what would what would happen if you went
into your stressed-out boss and they
make more than you on paper but God has
blessed you so much in ways that you
couldn’t even imagine the joy able to
walk in to them and say hey I bought you
this this spa treatment on me and then I
cut on I made more money than you but I
serve a god you don’t like like what
what would happen if we were the biggest
blessing around God would get glory but
it’s hard to be a blessing and be
generous when your ducks aren’t in a row
something you got to see in this
scripture that changed everything for me
and why I’m starting off with this
before we go into the rest of the series
so because I saw something in the
scripture that I’ve never seen before
and it changed my entire view of God
because so many people think God wants
your money
no he did he just uses that as a tool to
get your heart let me prove it to you it
tells us in verse 28 it said after the
one with one told him I I ain’t do
nothing with your money I hate it I was
scared I dug a hole look what he said
then he ordered take the money from this
servant I expected that gave me this
money and what I expected God to do was
put it in his pocket because God needed
more money so he wanted him to all
prosper so that God prospered look what
God did I never saw it till this time he
said he take the money from the servant
and give it to the one that has ten bags
of silver her on the whole reason why
God wanted us to be a blessing was not
to return it back to him so his pockets
could just be fat he wanted them to
prosper so that they could prosper more
to bless more people
hear me God didn’t take the one and keep
it for himself he took the one and gave
it to the people who were faithful I’m
telling you our God doesn’t need what
you think he needs he wants to get to
you what you really need but today I
need you to assess where you really are
Pastor Mike I do not make enough money
to even check in to this conversation I
know that’s what some people are
thinking right now I’m on government
assistance I’ve got it uh God said all
I’m asking you to do is be a faithful
steward over a little and that’s when I
make you a ruler over munch today I want
to pray for you because if there’s an
area of your life that you’ve been in
this category today today not tomorrow
today stewardship is about today today I
want us to commit over the next four
weeks we’re gonna allow God to transform
our hearts and I don’t care how much
money you got in the bank coz some of
y’all got money but you’re not
acknowledging God you’re not honoring
him with what you have and today I
believe God’s going to show us
supernaturally how to take what we have
can I say it like this all you have is
all you need God will take what you have
right now and turn it into the blessing
that we’ll be able to bless so many
other people let’s pray in this building
father I thank you
for every person under the sound of my
voice as a matter of fact if you’re in
this room or you’re hearing this right
now and you know there’s an area of your
life that you’ve been digging a hole
that you’ve used excuses for what you
have that you’ve assumed forgot like
there’s an area in your life where you
know you need to get your ducks in a row
could you just lift your hands right now
just and and I want you to go I want to
pray for you father I thank you that
right now father God we’re not here to
be condemned we are here father for
conditioning you’re gonna do something
in our lives father God as we open
ourselves to you dead is a name and and
poor spending is a name but the name of
Jesus is higher and today I thank you
that this is not just information but
I’m thanking you for an impartation of
your spirit father God you have called
us to live a blessed life and today I
declare over every person who has had
the boldness to lift their hands and say
god I need to get my ducks in a row I
thank you that the eyes of their
understanding would be opened and that
their heart would be receptive to the
truth in this series today is the
foundation and the start of something
that’s going to change us for
generations to come
so today father we’re open to you we
give you glory we give you honor and we
give you praise in Jesus name somebody
shot at me amen come on let’s give God a
shout of praise in this building
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