What Is In Your House

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What a joy for our heart it is to come together and lift up our voices and just praise you and worship you. Yes. Just, just remembering how great you are and how wonderful you are and your plans, father god, for our lives too. Father, encourage us today, raise up a standard in us, father God, today to be able to break through and get into new things and better things that you have planned long ago. Father God, we just thank you, we're and just so joyful. So we...

We're just right now. We've just lift our eyes and just see you the way you are, and we thank you so much for your presence here. Hallelujah. Together with us, father God, in this moment, we just worship you from the bottom of our heart. Hallelujah. In Jesus' name, let's just worship.

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And I'm not a worship singer. Thank you. Good to see you guys, and it's good to be seen. Guys, today, we're talking about... Today's message is prosper on purpose week three. What is in your house?

What is in your house? Now I know what happens a lot of times. We walk around with this kind of list, not a grocery list, but a list in our minds as we go through life, as we go through our everyday of everything we don't have. It's like, oh, I don't have the connections I want. I don't have the money that I want yet. I don't have the income that I thought I would have.

I don't have... And we just have all... I don't have enough time. I don't have enough education. I I just moved to this country, so I don't know anyone. And not in...

We don't have enough of anything. Right? We just think, man, I just don't have enough of what I think I should have at this moment. And every time you think about the dream that you thought you had or the dream that God gave you, the vision that you gave, we have this list of I don't have this, this, this, or this, or this. And we talk ourselves out of where I think God wants us to go. We we we we we...

If I just had more. If I just had a little more time. If I just had a little more... Or when things get better, once once we get to the better mountain and they... We're on that side of the... Then it's gonna...

And and and then... You know what I'm saying? It's like this list that we go through our minds. And and we think, oh, someone like me just doesn't have enough to start. We just we just don't... I just don't have it yet because I'm Latino, I'm Brazilian, or I'm a white gringo in Miami, and I don't speak Spanish.

So so... But hear me. I don't think you're as empty as you think. And... So good morning, Imagine Church. This is the last message on prosper on purpose because week one, we talked about that God is for you, that you gotta remember and understand that God has got your back.

He's for you, not against you. He loves you. You are a child of the king of kings and the lord of lords. You're in the right standing with God. He is for you. If God before you, who can be against you?

If he gave his son for you, why would he withhold anything from you? Week two was favor finds you working, and a lot of you are... You wrote me this. I'm working, Erik. I'm working, Erik. I'm working.

I'm working. Today, I'm working. Like, almost like, oh my gosh. But favor finds you working. When you put your hand to something, good things happen. When you start the business over time, right, good things happen.

If you stick with it, favor finds you working. And today, we have seventy four days left in 2026. If you're watching online, we are streaming live today for the first time. It's actually working. And, this was an idea Kenny gave me a long time ago when he walked in here. Right.

And we finally took weeks and weeks and all this whole this whole last week. I've been working on it at home, testing it, and it's working. So welcome, YouTube live. If you're watching... Yeah. Hey.

Let's give him a round of applause. Whoever watches now or later, yeah, you gotta come here on Sunday morning at 10AM, but share this with someone. We're glad you're here, but there's seventy four days last... Left in 2026. And I wanna ask you the same question that God asked a broke widow almost three thousand years ago. What's in your house?

What is in your house? See, there's a story of a widow that had a debt and she got a jar. In second Kings chapter four verse one through two, now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, your servant, my husband, is dead. And you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor had come to take my two children to be his slaves. And Elisha said to her, what shall I do for you? Tell me.

And he said, what have you in the house? And she said, your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil. Yeah. Now look at her situation. We just read the text. Her husband's dead.

Right? She's in debt. This guy's a man of God. He's a prophet. So can you be in the will of God and be a man of God and a woman of God and be in debt? Yeah.

They were. The creditors, he just dies. They're at the door. You owe us, and if you can't pay, your two kids are gonna become slaves. Right? She's got no money.

You ever been there? I was like, man, we barely make it. I got no money. The creditors at the door, you're getting all the phone calls, those spam calls that you don't answer. I don't... You know, I just block.

And and this isn't a woman that made bad choices. Wasn't like, oh, well, she's sinner. She did all these bad things. This is why she's in this. No. No.

No. Her husband feared the Lord. It just said it here. He's a prophet. She did life right, but she got hit hard by life. You ever been hit hard by life?

Probably a lot of us in here at different times, you've been hit hard by life. And does that mean you're not with God or God's not for you or etcetera? No. This widow who was married to a man of God that feared the Lord got hit hard by life. I know sometimes in our Christian life, we just think, oh, because I'm gonna seek the Lord, because I love the Lord, because I serve the Lord, everything's just gonna be roses. We're never gonna get hard with life.

But in fact, it's quite the opposite. I think, in fact, because you're with the Lord, you're gonna get hit all the time. Just get used to it. If you actually read through the scriptures, you will see throughout the Bible, everyone gets hit hard every time they read this, open this, or live by this. I see that all throughout scripture. So she's hit hard.

And some of you are here thinking, man, I've been giving to the church. I've tied or I give my offerings consistently. I've prayed. I serve. I do all these things. I... And the bills still come.

Don't you love those bills? They... The mortgage still... They still call me right two days before the grace period's up. You know? They still give me a call like I have forgotten.

And, or the diagnosis still comes. You know? Oh, I have this bad diagnosis. What happened? I thought, what... What's going on?

Or the layoff still comes or or the the expectation I had of this breakthrough or this prayer I've been praying didn't happen yet. And so the man of god doesn't start with a sermon for this lady. He starts with the question. What have you in the house? So here's the whole message in one line today. God multiplies what you bring.

So point one is start with what you have because we're talking about prosperity. Start with what what do you have? What do you have? Listen to her answer. Your servant has nothing in the house except. Nothing except.

She called it nothing. God called it enough. But I got nothing. See, God always starts with what is in your hand. Moses, all he had was a staff. God said, look what's in your hand.

Here's the staff. Whenever you go before Pharaoh, throw it down, it becomes a snake. Whenever you need to part the Red Sea, extend the staff. Right? David, that slew the giant started with the five stones and the sling that he always slung around to to scare the the things away from the sheep. The there's a a bunch of people that are hungry, and there's a boy with five loaves of bread and two fish, and it gets multiplied.

Right? So much that they have more than enough. What is in your hand? You gotta start with what's in your hand. God doesn't need what you don't have. It's not all...

God needs, and he always is waiting for what do you have. Right? What do you have? So your accept is a skill, a story, something that God's brought you through, a skill that you have like this guy. He's a famous soccer player. He has a skill, so now he's gonna use it.

His skill is not gone. Oh, you're not done. You're not retired. Now he's gonna use his skill to help other kids learn the skill that he had all his life. Right? Right, Mateus?

Now you're gonna use that skill that we think is, oh, well, I don't play anymore. You're gonna use that skill. Some of you have a recipe, a camera. I know people that make lots of money selling their recipes online. In Brazil, a friend of my wife's... A camera, a gift that you have for organization or a relationship or a language or a story of what God has brought you through, that people need to hear.

You've been calling it nothing, but heaven calls it a seed. The very skill, the very thing that is in your house is the very thing that God wants to use to help you. God's always... I've always been crying out to God, God help me. Help me. Help me.

Help me. And always reminds me. Just went through all my journals again this past week. He's like, Erik, I've already given you everything you need. You already have what I've put in your heart. Go do it.

These are the keys to your prosperity. Yeah. But, God, I want you to I want you to give me something else that's out there. And, oh, what do you have? You have a story. You have a skill.

You have something that God has put on the inside of you that you need to do. That dream or that thing or the vision that you have, only God put it there. The Bible says when you delight yourself in the Lord, he gives you the desires of your heart. So heaven calls it a seed, and God has given you seeds that have come from heaven that you have. Your accept is God's starting point. Oh, I got nothing in my house except this.

Use it. God gave it to you. He gave you this education. He gave you this life journey that you've been on. He gave you this story of coming from this country and now you're in that country. He gave you all these things that you have to this moment he's given you.

Use it for his glory. Your accept is God's starting point. So maybe you turn to someone and say, hey, stop calling it nothing. The little thing you've overlooked, not the leftovers, that's your lunch. Now think of this, she has a jar. This is the closest thing I can...

I don't I don't know if this is a jar, but she has a jar. I got nothing except one jar. She's got a jar. And Elisha tells her something that sounds crazy about this jar because God is about to stretch her capacity. Now I know what we want. Oh, God.

I need your help, and I would think that he would just manifest gold bars or the lot... The winning lottery ticket. I mean, have you... I've done that. It's a billion dollars. Let me go buy one and, you know, god, if I win, I could start a thousand churches tomorrow.

And then... Oh, man. It's like a roller coaster of emotions. It's like this vision and dreams of of its glory and, you know, and and I think as we've been going throughout the scriptures, I see that God is for us and God is for you. He's not against you. You are his child.

You are part of his kingdom. He withholds nothing from you. He says, ask for wisdom when you need it. He gives it. He loves us. He gives you favor when you put the hand of the diligent, makes you rich.

He gives you the power to make and create wealth. He wants you to lay up, an inheritance for your children and their children. He wants you poor. No. He doesn't. But he gives you the power.

He put us on the earth. He said, be fruitful and multiply. He said, subdue it. He said, work it. God wants to stretch this lady's capacity. She's in a bad moment.

But the second point is make room for more. Second Kings four verse three. This is... Then he said, go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels, and look what it says, and just a few. No. It says, and not too few.

Right. Not too few. God is telling her, want you to think bigger than your jar. Wow. Good. Go out and get the jar, but not too few.

Basically, go get as much as possible that you can get. Think bigger than your jar. Think bigger than where you're at right now. Maybe where you're at... Where you are right now is the floor. This is as bad as it's gonna get.

It ain't gonna get any worse. Some of you are, my back's against as bad as it's gonna get. And you're still alive, and you're still here. And God is still for you. Amen. Yes, And he's got big dreams and big plans and a and a purpose for you and a plan for you and things didn't work out and maybe...

And you know what? We make mistakes sometimes. We make bad... I've made bad investments because I just believe that everyone's just a great person and because I'm a divine optimist and I've had to learn, you know what? Sometimes I need to think through my decisions and not act so quickly and and we learn and then you realize, man, all that's in the bible. Think through things, you know, don't be naive, You know?

Be prudent. All that's in scripture. Sometimes we just wanna jump. But he says, don't miss this. Not too few. Think bigger than your jar.

Now jump to the end of the miracle because when the vessels in second Kings four six said, when the vessels were full, she said to her son, bring me another vessel. So she fills them up, and he said to her, there is not another. And then the oil stopped. When did the oil stop? When there's no more jars. When there's no more jars.

That's when she ran out. Not when God ran out. God didn't run out. There's just no more oil to put the jars. There's no more capacity to receive what he wanted to give. He hit the she hit the limit.

She went and did, and not too few. She went everywhere. She got as many jars as possible. She did it. This was the plan. This is God's provision.

This is three thousand years ago. What God did with the widow that feared the Lord, her husband was a prophet of God, a man of God, and someone that loved God. They got credited at the door. Hey, you owe us. If you don't pay, we're gonna take your kids as slaves to work off the debt. And life had just hit her hard, and she didn't make bad choices.

She's just in a bad part of life right now. See, the size of her miracle was set by the size of her, you could say, preparation or expectations or what she was able to do. Look at Ephesians three twenty. It says, now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we can dare ask think according to the power that is work within us. Now to him who who is able... Is God able?

He is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask, so farther above than we can even think about to even ask of him according to the power at work within you. Again, you got the power, man. I got the... You know, I got the power. You got the power, Yoli. There we go.

I need you. Help me preach, my friend. Super abundantly above. So you're in real life. This is real life. You are here.

You move from another country. You move from Argentina here. You move from Brazil here. You move from Puerto Rico here. You move from Kansas to another country here. That's me.

And you're praying for a business, and you you gotta file the paperwork. You gotta build the plan. Right? If you're praying for a house, you gotta fix your credit. Gotta fix it. Stop spending.

You gotta do the things that you don't wanna do. You gotta do it. Those are things you got... What do you gotta do? Do your part. God, I just want you to know you gotta go do it.

I mean, people in Brazil, they say, god called me to America. Said, did you go get your passport yet? Gotta go get your passport. And then you get your passport, you got that, then you gotta go get your visa. And you gotta pray and believe that god will allow you get it because they only allow a certain amount of people to come in. Take the steps.

Do what you can do. If you're praying for a promotion, take the class. Right? I think, you just got a promotion, but I remember you telling me, oh, I'm taking these extra classes and extra education to get your promotion, and then she got the promotion. But if she doesn't take the class, she don't get the promotion. If she don't stay faithful at the job, then she don't get enough work experience, and then she doesn't have the chance to then take the extra classes then to get the promotion, but she had to go through the journey to get to the promotion.

Yeah. Lot of us, we want the promotion, but we don't wanna go through the process of what it takes to get to the promotion. Amen. God, I just want you to do it. And God's like, I've given you everything you ever need. Right?

You got you got two arms and two legs. You got supernatural brain. You got thoughts. You live in the richest area of the world. You got every tool and ability. Anything and everything you want to help you is available to you.

Preach it. Come on, baby. Preach and everything. You can make money out of thin air today if you want to. You can do it. Yeah.

If you're praying for a marriage to become... You know, you gotta become... If you wanna be married one day, well, get ready to be married. Do what you need to do. That was always my... Lord, make me the man you want me to be.

What... For that person. Because I remember when I was single, I'd like, oh god. This is horrible. Just show me who it is. Please, lord.

You know? Glory to God. See, the oil didn't run out. The jars did. God's provision, his anointing didn't run out. It was just the the container to hold it ran out.

Right? So God's supply and what he wants to do has no ceiling. We only are the ceiling. Our minds and our expectations are the ceiling. So get more jars. Think bigger than big.

Right. You know? Pray big prayers. And then do what we gotta do. Do what you gotta do to make it happen. Do the work because favor finds you working.

He blesses the hand of the diligent. You know? That business is hard, but I get it. Might as well... What else are gonna do? Uber is hard too.

I've done Uber. It's horrible. Ten hours a day. It's horrible. But you make money, you gotta do it sometimes. Do cleaning...

I I clean houses sometimes too. It's hard. Clean offices sometimes. It's hard. But, man, if you gotta make some money, I do whatever I gotta do. But I'm also building other things and doing other things and...

You know? But you gotta think bigger. Make room for more. Amen. See, God multiplies what you bring. Amen.

So Elisha gives her an instruction. Most people skip right over, and it might be the most important part of your miracle. You gotta shut the door. You gotta shut the door. Look at this in second Kings four four through five. It says, then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all the vessels.

And when one is full, set it aside. So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured, they brought the vessels to her. Everyone say shut the door. Shut the door. Shut the door.

See, no audience, no crowd, no Instagram stories and reels, and, you know, the biggest miracle of her life happened behind closed doors with nobody watching but her sons. You know, it reminds me of Matthew six six. It talks about, hey. When you pray Yeah. It goes, go in the closet, shut the door. You know?

Because Jesus is like, you don't need to go out in front of everybody. You don't gotta be on Instagram and tell them, I'm praying for this and I and letting everyone know everything. No. No. No. God wants you to get in, shut the door, and what you...

And he rewards those who pray in secret. Look at this. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you. Yes. Shut the door. Hallelujah.

Amen. Amen. Here's what I love. Her sons carried the jars. Her kids didn't just hear about the miracle. They were a part...

Partners in the miracle. They handled the jars. They watched their mom pour out by faith. See, some of us, we want this public breakthrough. We want just the Rolls Royce to drive up to our car... Our house with a red carpet that just goes and with trumpets, and we want just money falling, and we want all these great things to happen.

But look at... Guys, it all starts with this private obedience of shutting the door, being obedient and private. The prayer that nobody sees, the budget that nobody claps for, the 5AM that you don't post about where you're getting up early and you're working and you're you're doing what you gotta do to get ahead or you're staying up later. And the... And you gotta let... And you let the kids, they're gonna see your faith.

They're gonna be a part of the miracle. Let them watch. You... You've seen this in your life. You've seen your kids see... I've been to your house in Bolivia.

He's got a castle, a little castle. It's amazing. And the story of what God did with your family starting with building just one room and then... And it's amazing. Your kids got to be a part of it. They got to see your faith in action in another country, starting a church, building a house in one of the nicest communities that no...

I mean, unbelievable, incredible to see. Let your kids carry the jars. Let them watch you trust God. Private obedience comes before public breakthrough. That's where it all happens. Shut the door.

Do the work. Do what God wants you to do. Some of you are in a shut the door season right now. It's like, hey. You gotta shut the door. It feels hidden.

No one cares. You feel like no one knows. You're not where you wanna be. You kinda feel like I got this empty list everywhere I go. I don't have this. I don't have that.

But you're not forgotten. You're pouring right now. What God sees in secret, he rewards. He will reward you. The Bible says he he rewards those that diligently seek him in Hebrews eleven six. He's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him, diligently seek him, diligently find him, diligently go after him, diligently get in prayer, diligently get in his word, diligently be in church, diligently shut the door, meet him in secret, and he will reward you.

Give you ideas and thoughts and things, and then you gotta take that favor, and it'll find you working, and you know he's for you. He's for you. And just like he took care of the widow, he gonna take care of you. See, overflow has a purpose. Point four. Second Kings four through seven.

Some came and told the man of God, and he said, go sell the oil, pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest. Look at that. She came and told the man of god, and she... And he said, go sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest. Look at this. Overflow takes care of your past.

Like... So look... Ain't this crazy? So it's like... This is very crazy. I mean, just think of this miracle.

I mean, a widow, your husband dies. He's a man of God. Creditors are at the... Knocking at the door. Hey. You're gonna take your sons for slavery because you gotta pay these debts.

And then she cries out to God, and then Elisha says, hey. Go get every jar and not too few, as many as you possibly... Why? What is God setting up right here? Now she's got all these jars of oil, a whole house of oil. And then he says, alright.

Now go sell it Yeah. And go make your money. Go sell it. Go get it. Mhmm. And so take care of your past debts.

Pay off the creditor with what I've given you. Pay it off. Also, I'm a take care of your presence so you and your kids can live now, and on the rest is your future. So God wants to provide like he did the widow for you, for your past, to take care of your debts, for your present, and your future. That's right. Mhmm.

Hallelujah. God's no respecter of persons. He has no favorites. God doesn't change with the shifting of the shadows. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He, the God of the Bible days, is still alive today.

Look what he did though when she needed a miracle. He didn't drop bars of gold. He didn't bring a Rolls Royce to sell. He didn't do any of that. He gave her... Said, what is in your house?

What do you got? Oh, I don't got anything except the jar. That's all he needs. Whatever you got. What's your skill? What's your story?

What's the gift that he's given you? What's the dream that he's put in your heart? What's the business idea? What do you got? He... He's not trying to get you to get something else or go find something else or no.

Develop what he's already given you, the passion he's given you for fashion or creativity or music, whatever it might be, and then go use it. Yeah. Use it. And then he's gonna bless it. And then he gives you all that, then he gives it to this lady. Now go sell it.

Go make money. God ain't against you prospering or having money and being able to pay your bills. He wants you to pay your bills. In fact, all throughout scriptures, the apostles would say, hey. We're working on tents. We're doing our own things, so we're not a burden to anybody else.

And we don't want you to be idle. And, hey. If you don't work, you don't eat. I mean, all throughout scripture, these guys, Jesus even sells with the carpenter. He's building furniture. He's building boats.

I don't know. He's out on the... I mean, he's doing all kind of things. Why? There... It's not wrong to to have wealth.

It's just wrong for the wealth to have you. That's it. Come back. To never worship the created things, but always worship the creator. Amen. But he gives you things, your story, your skills, whatever is in your hand.

Oh, I'm from another country. Oh, I speak another language. Oh, I am not... Oh, I'm not American. Oh, yes, you are. You're here.

And you're in a place that most people are dying and praying and begging God to come to one day. They would love to be in your place. And this is as hard as it gets. What do you got in your hand? The skills, the talent, the knowledge, the influence, the things that you have, the insight, the story, the the testimonies of... That that you got.

God's no respect of anybody. The world's out there. You know what I see? When I first moved here, drove cars around. I drove all these, like, wealthy guys around. I mean, they're making deals.

They're not, you know, they're not they're not... I mean, people are just buying houses on their phones. They're they're moving. They're doing things. Oh, I wanna create another... Oh, I'm gonna start this new shop over here.

I'm gonna... They're just doing it. See, faith without works is dead. So you can you can have all this belief that God is for me and he ever finds me working, but if I don't go do anything, then you're not gonna see the results of being diligent. And I know, I think what happens maybe in our culture, the spiritual culture, we just want God to do it. And God's like, no.

I've already given you everything you need. You got it. You got... Whatever you need around you is around you. Whatever you need to do to figure something out, you got it. Whatever tool, it's already out there.

Whatever possibility, opportunity, it's right before you. If you need a friend that has not... There's a... There's a group of people in this room that all got a different insight that you need or a skill that is all in the room already. Yep. And we need so much and just want it just to happen.

And I'm telling you, it's just not just gonna happen. You have not because you asked not. Faith without action is death. So the Bible says he reigns on the just and the unjust. I mean, I... As I drive here, I see all these people that are not in church, but they got nice houses. They got cars.

They're all eating. Got people running around, taking care of their... Is it god against any of that? No. I don't think so. It's not like he's like, oh, you didn't go to church today.

That lady just boom, fells down, and then a fire on all those houses. They're not making any money no more. No. No. No. No.

No. Ungodly are prospering because they just go and do. They act. Not all of them. But we have God for us. We have his presence in us.

We have his holy spirit, and we're still stuck and get in our heads. And look at this, what God does for this widow, he wants to do for you. She takes what is in her house. Oh, I don't got nothing. A lot of you think, oh, I got nothing. You got everything you need, whatever's in your house.

Whatever's in your life right now, you got whatever you need to succeed. Because if God before you, who can be against you? And he says, hey. Go pay your debts. You and your sons can live on the rest. Look at that.

Go sell the oil. Wait a minute. No, God. I don't wanna sell right now. I don't wanna do that part. What?

Can you imagine she stops there? Okay. God gives her everything and more to do, to pay and live the rest of her life without worrying, but then she... I don't wanna sell. I've met people like that. I remember when I was 16 years old and my stepdad said, hey.

I don't wanna market this month. Guess what? We made nothing. God told me not to market. I was like, oh my goodness. We had no food.

He just didn't wanna go knock on doors. I get it. I don't like knocking on doors. I don't want, you know, I don't wanna ask nobody. I don't want you know, months ago, I called a bunch of people, sent 50 videos out. Only four people replied, but I had $6,000 come to this church so we could buy more equipment and things.

But... And I didn't want to at all. I mean, I I went to, like, 50 people in my phone and sent them a little video. One person gave, like, $2. Someone I didn't even think. Someone I didn't really know that well.

I mean, I kinda did, and then they gave the most. I'm just saying, guys, and that's just like me raising money for church. Just think of, I didn't wanna do it. God, I need help. I wanna... And I don't wanna stress our group, and I wanna help us.

Praise God. You gotta go out and do. And as you do, god will bless you. It will. God didn't just get her out of debt. He got in her overflow.

Now notice, he still had to... She still had to sell the oil. Favor found her working. God gave the miracle. She ran the business. Run the business.

Start the business. Be the entrepreneur. Don't just settle for where you're at. God wants to do more. Look at this. Second Corinthians nine eight.

I love this scripture. It says, and God is able to make all grace abound to you so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. I love that. Very good. I love that. And if you read this in context, this is Paul telling the church to give as he gives to the work of the Lord.

This is what God does. He prospers. I love the so that, and God is able to make all grace abound to you so that having all sufficiency. Remember week one, you're blessed so that you can be a blessing. We read in the scripture, you're blessed so that you can be a blessing. Why has God blessed you?

Why is he gonna bless me? Why are we walking in his blessings? You've been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ, the scripture says, so that you can be a blessing, not just so I can be blessed. No. That's why we got to get the word out. That's why I gotta tell people about Jesus.

That's why we gotta do all the things that we're called to do, the mission that we have, make disciples. But you have all sufficiency in all things at all times so that you can... I love this word. You may abound in every good work. Abound. If you read that in the Greek, I don't know how to say it.

It's too complicated because I don't speak Greek. But it means, like, overflow, increase, abound. It's like... It's it's an incredible word if you go if you go read it. To abound. God wants you to abound in all, in every good work.

He wants you to abound. So you're not where you want. Okay. Well, you're gonna abound. You're gonna... It's gonna continue in every good...

So what does that mean for your family to be debt free? What would that look like to be debt free for the mortgage to be paid? Why not? Why couldn't you pay off your mortgage in a year or in three years or five years and ten years? Why not? To live without the creditor.

Hey. You're gonna send that payment? What would it be like to have the rest the rest the rest enough to give, to build, to leave a legacy for your kids, not just barely making it. But I grew up in a home. We just barely made it. You know why?

We didn't want... Because we lived on government welfare. We didn't really wanna work, and we just made it. And people just get stuck in a mindset or in a culture or this place of poverty, and they just... Well, I figure out how to make it in that poverty. So that's what people do in welfare.

Oh, I got some little income coming in, so I'm just gonna make it here. And I'm just gonna stay here, and I'm not gonna increase with all the opportunities that we have. I'm just gonna stay here. No. God wants you to be able to give. It talks about the scriptures.

Like, if you don't provide for your own, you're worse than an infidel. You should, like, have a rope thrown around your neck and toss them to the sea. Like, God wants you to provide for your family and for your... For generations to come. That's not greed. That's freedom with a purpose.

It's God's will. Overflow clears your past. It carries your present, and it builds your future. So, yeah, God will multiply what you bring. Whatever you got in your home, use it, and God will bless it, and he will multiply it. Amen.

Amen. God wanted your family in bondage. God wants your family in overflow to abound. I love that. And God is able to make all grace abound to you so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. So if we need to build a building in the future, we're abounding, and it don't matter.

We're gonna support mission. Oh, we're so abounding in our lives, we're able to give to it. We see someone in need. I got so much abundance. I'm abounding with everything. I can do it.

Yeah. So good works. So I can do good works. Good. So we can help people. But if I can barely just pay the lights, then I got an issue.

What's in your hand? What's your skill? What's your story? What has God given you? What is in your heart? You got everything you need.

If he took care of the widow three thousand years ago, he gonna take care of you. Amen. But you might have to sell what he's given you. You have to put some work in. Because I know as Christians, for some reason, it's... I don't know what it is.

We... I'm safe. I'm with God, and so everything just should happen. I know. I want it that way. I wish it was like that.

I wish. But you gotta work, man. And he'll multiply it. He'll multiply it. Think of the the five loaves, two fish boy. Thousands of people need food.

One little boy, one little lunch, John six nine. There's a boy here who has five barley loaves. Man, sounds like a pizza. And two fish. But what are they for so many? The voice in your head right now.

What will my little skill do in this economy? What's the... My little faith gonna do with his diagnosis? What is my little savings or nothing that I have against this debt? But the boy did one thing. He just brought it.

Jesus took it, gave thanks over it, and multiplied it so much everyone was filled and they had 12 baskets left over. He used what he had. Not, oh, once I get to this certain level of life and I have more resources and more can... Or this and that, then I'll be able to. No. Right where you're at.

Amen. So three weeks, one truth, God is for you. God is for you. Favor finds you working, and God multiplies what you bring. Seventy four days are left in this year. Stop looking at what you don't have and look at what's in your house.

What do you got? Bring it to God. So what do we do this week? What are some applications? First, think about this because it's real good. You know, everyone...

Yeah. Yeah. That's so cool. That's great. Woo hoo. I got it.

That was a great message. I don't know what he meant. I don't know. I I think he's meant that. I don't know. You know, well, inventory your home.

Write five things down you already have, a skill. What is your skill? What is your... The relationship, an idea, an asset, a story? Stop calling it nothing. Ah, it's nothing.

No. What is the gift, the calling? What is it? Write it down. Take inventory of what is in your house, like what is in your heart. Write it down and stop calling it nothing.

Two, get your jars. I love this little coffee jar. And take one practical step for increase. Maybe it's a budget. Maybe it's starting the LLC. Maybe it's getting into that class.

Maybe it's starting in savings account. Maybe it's developing a business plan. May... Whatever it might be. Do it. Start.

Start. Start. Start. Take massive action with the with the inventory list that you have. Take the thing that... The business idea that you've had for so long or the things that you wanna do.

Do it. Do it. It. Do it. It. Do it.

Do it. Don't wait till January. Oh, January. Get in shape now. Start working out now. Start eating right now.

Oh, no. Do it now. Whenever you do it. It's like whenever I start eating right, then I lose weight. Whenever that is. And it's just whenever I start doing it.

If I don't ever do it, it just never happens. And a year goes by, and it's like, man, I know I gotta start that. Bro, I've had so many things in my heart that I just continually, oh, I think I should do. And we're just stuck in our heads. Gosh. We're just stuck in our heads.

Oh, I should. I know I... One day, I I don't have the list of things that I need, and so I can't yet. No. You can. You can. Do it.

And then shut the door. Maybe for the next week, spend time alone with God. He's the CEO of your business, of your life, of your house, and pray and commit your plans to the Lord is what the scripture says. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. Well, in my understanding and my thinking and the way it should go, stop thinking about that and just say, God, help me.

This is the plan. This is what I need to do. Help me and start putting a little time into that plan and asking him to help you. And as you take steps, he'll lead you a certain way. He'll open things or he'll he'll guide you with peace, but do it. And it might feel weird and you might feel afraid and and the devil will hate and do anything to allow you to stop.

I'm telling you. And not. Everything will come against you about what we're talking about today. This Wednesday, it was with the young adults. I talked about fear and anxiety and worry worry, and we thought about it. And we and the next day, had all this fear, anxiety, worry a minute right after the message.

It's like everything just came in like a flood. And all throughout scripture, when God speaks, that's how the devil is, man. He wants to steal the word out of your heart. He wants to discourage you. He wants you to just sit in that chair and not move. That's what he wants.

For the next seventy four days, I'm just gonna relax, and then we'll all... Let's see what happens in January. And then you just keep pushing it down the... And just push it down. You should talk to Ron. He started a business and just sold it, but he did it forty years?

Forty years. Forty years. Good. Yeah. And he had to leave a... And he had to take big risk, and he had to start things, they had to move and do it.

If you... You should talk to different guys that are, like, doing something you wanna do and ask them how... Well, what did you do? And you'd be amazed. I mean, it's amazing how... And then you sell it, and and god provide...

Guys, be encouraged because Ron ain't better than you. I'm not better than you. Nobody's better than the other person. It's just who's actually willing. There's people selling weight loss. They've lost seven pounds, and they're, like, making 100,000 a year online.

And they've only lost seven pounds online. It's crazy. But they're actually promoting it and doing it. And the rest of us were, well, I know I should sell that. I know I should do that. I know I should start this.

I know I know I know I know, but but but but but. And then I have this list of what I don't have, and I don't know really how to know how to do it and blah blah blah blah blah. And then we... And then there's other people that are making money, and they they don't even know. They're... They they they they think they're electricians.

They're not electricians. They just pretend to be electricians. They're, I'm an electrician. You should buy me that. No. They're not.

Whatever it might be, they do that. I'm a realtor. I'm in real estate. And they... They're not. And they're selling courses and, man, I mean, they're doing something.

Do. Do. Do. Do. Try. Shut the doors.

Spend time with God. Pray over. Yeah. Just you and him. Attack one debt. Make a plan this week.

Start paying it down. And sow on purpose. Number five, one generous act that stretches you, blessed so you can be a blessing. You know? Amen. Amen.

Guys, I believe in you, and I know God believes even more than I believe in you. Amen. Hallelujah. Even more. Be encouraged. I know we're here.

You're in a season of the shut the door. So shut the door. Get to work. Pray. What is in your hand? Use it for the glory of God.

And then God will use what's in your hand like you did the widow, and he'll take care of your past, your present, and your future. Hey. Let's close our eyes. Let's bow our heads. Father, I just thank you, Lord. The most important thing that you can bring to to God today isn't your money.

It isn't your skill. It's you. And you don't have to clean up yourself first. You don't have to have it all together. The widow came with nothing except, and you can come exactly as you are. Jesus took five loaves and fed thousands.

He can take a broken life, and he can make it overflow. Maybe today, you need to come back home. You really need to just surrender to God. Like, really. I mean, the demons know about God and they tremble. The beginning of the...

Of wisdom is the fear of the Lord and it's time to surrender to the Lord. Maybe you need to come home today and come back and say, Jesus, I'm yours. Maybe for the first time ever in your life, you've never made Jesus Lord of your life. I wanna pray with those people in the room. Maybe that's you. And as I pray, you're talking to God.

I want you to pray with me and you talk to him this morning. Maybe you're not where you wanna be. You're not right with him or you're coming home for the first time. Just say to him, say, Jesus, I bring you everything I am and everything I'm not. And I've been empty and I've been running. And today, I give you my life.

Forgive me, fill me, and make me new. I'm yours. In Jesus' name. Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, Lord.

Say say this with me. God is for me. God is for me. Say it again. God is for me. God is for me.

One more time. God is for me. Come on. God is for me. Finds me working. And God multiplies what I bring.

Amen? Amen. Your comeback starts today, guys. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah.

Holy Spirit, I thank you that the word that was sown in our hearts that we are good ground, that will produce 30, 60, and a hundredfold return. Lord, that the devil will not steal what has been sown into our hearts. Lord, that we'll hold on to it. And, when the tests and the trials and everything that will come against us today when we leave this room will happen. We know it. We are not ignorant of the devil's schemes, but we will stand on the word.

We will stand firm, and we believe, Lord, your word is true, and what you've spoken to us, Lord, today is sealed in our hearts. Lord, the heavenly seeds of the power of the word of God is gonna produce fruit in our lives. We are fruit bearers. We are believers. We are doers, not hearers only. We are good ground in this room.

And, Lord, I thank you that the next seventy four days are gonna be the best, maybe the hardest, maybe the most difficult, but, Lord, the door will be shut. We're gonna be with you. And, Lord, we are gonna grow, and, Lord, you're gonna make all grace and all sufficiency at all times so we can abound in every good work so that we can be blessed to be a blessing so that our past, our present, and future will be taken care of. Lord, I pray your blessings on everyone in this room, Lord, that we will not be stuck any longer. We will not look at the list of what we don't have, and we will look at what we do have, what is in our hand, what is in our home, what is the skill, the gift, the calling that you've given us, the dream. And, that's your provision.

You've given us your power for wealth. Lord, you said you'd bless the hand of the diligent. You'd make it rich, the scripture declares. I declare diligent people in this room, consistent people in this room. Lord, people that are not idle, people that are about your kingdom, and, Lord, people that work hard. And, Lord, I thank you for your blessings of prosperity.

I thank you, Lord, that before the end of this year, we're gonna see breakthrough because of who you are, because your word is true. And, Lord, everywhere you went in the days of old, the house, the home, the kingdom was blessed. Lord, I thank you. Everyone in this room is blessed because you are in us. You are for us and not against us. In Jesus' name, pray.

All God's people said, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Yes, Lord Jesus. Father, in Jesus name.

Lord, we just thank you. Lord, pray. Lord, I pray for Mephiles and Jessica. You prosper them, that your hand is upon them, Lord, in Jesus' name, Lord, that they will not get weary in doing good, Lord. Lord, we pray the windows of heaven be open upon them, that they are anointed, they are called, they are not lost, you... Are not forgotten, you have not left them.

You are for them and not against them, Lord. In Jesus' name, Lord. In Jesus' name, Lord. Lord, I thank you for Kimberly. Lord, I know what's happened. But, Lord, redeem it.

Lord, change it. Whatever can be done, let it be done, Lord, to your glory, Lord. Lord, in Jesus' name, father. Doing something. Come look what you have. Get together, you know, like, like, do do something even here, and then start doing something generous as well.

So he's exhorting them, and he said, I thought it necessary to exhort you, brethren, to to go ahead of time and to prepare you to receive a generous gift. We need to be prepared. This message is preparation. When you see what God wants to do, what God has in store, what God can do, then that is preparation to be generous. God blesses us to become a blessing. What a wonderful thing.

You know, it is it is more blessed to give than to receive. And then he is talking about the measure, you know, like the measure that we use is also the measure that he will use back to us. But then we have this verse and I don't know if you can get this this verse up again on the screen or maybe this can be part of what you do fifteen minutes a day for seven days. You know, like, part of it, you you can think about this verse and meditate on it over and over again. I I have received this this word afresh this morning. And it says it says that...

And God is able. God is able Amen. To make all grace. And I was thinking about... Look at this verse and the word all, how it repeats it. It comes over and over again, all.

You see here, makes all grace abound towards you. I like to think about the grace of God as the power of God in the life of the believer. And it says that all grace may abound to you. And where did I... Placed my verse here. Always having all sufficiency. Everything that you need, all sufficiency.

In all things, it doesn't leave anything else. It's just in all things. It's just, you know, like, you can think and think and think. You're not gonna find the thing Come that is outside of what God is already considering, what God is putting inside this verse here. In all things may have an abundance for every or for all good work. So God wants to prepare us.

God wants to have some things happen. And and, you know, we... We're part of a work. It's not a work in one place. It's a work that is is extending itself on the earth, different nations, different places. Imagine.

We're not just imagining anything. We're imagining God's will. What God has for us, that's what we are using. Our imagination is to think what God has. See, when when we were driving up here this morning to church, I I told my wife, we're gonna get to the point where we come this close to the church, we're gonna be in the line waiting. Amen.

Cars, you know, trying to find a parking spot, you know, just to get in the meeting. This is where we're heading to. So so, you know, like, I like to start imagining things that God is talking about in his world. It's not on nothing. We are imagining what God is speaking about for us. Let's use the days we have.

We have seven days. Part of it takes some time to imagine. Yeah. God supplying you with all of all the things preparing you and I to do the good work. So whenever we we give in the offering today, you can give in different ways. You can give with money, and you can write a check, of course.

You can get online, find a way to give. If you're not ready today, tomorrow, you can send that gifting for the church. You can use this square here. Show your phone this image and and and click on it. It will guide you. It's really simple.

I just did it before the meeting myself. It's really easy to get that done. I I like that. It's a good way to do it as well. So let's just get involved and and do... Don't compare yourself with anybody.

Just between you and the Lord, just do what you can do Yeah. With what God has put in your hand. And let's see God making it all happen. One more thing when we have all been giving the offering. Before we go, would it be possible to shoot a picture of the group that is here today? I I would like to keep that because, you know, God is gonna do some things.

And I would like... Kinda like to see how things build up. You know? So could we take, like, a family picture today before we leave? Would that be alright? If you...

If you're okay with it. Anyway, should we pray for the offering? Yeah. Father God, we just come together. We we just we just gather our faith today in the offering. We just do what we can do, father God, today, and we know that you're gonna lead us onto greater things and to show us the things that you have prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Father God, in Jesus' name, we just wanna have... We wanna live under an open heaven, father God, where your blessing is reaching us. So we just wanna become a part. We just wanna do our part, father God, today. We just wanna give in the offering, and you have said that those that give will receive. We believe in you today, father God.

We wanna honor you. We wanna do this on your word. We wanna cast our net. Father, in Jesus' name. Amen and amen.

Hallelujah. Praise God. If you wanna get anything in the picture, please. Take it right here. Take it right here.