Master Money | Bishop Dale C. Bronner

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From the sixth chapter of the gospel of Matthew, this is Jesus talking, an extension of The Sermon on the Mount. In verse 19 through verse 24th, notice here: "Don't store up for, uh, store up treasures here on Earth where moths eat, eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasure in heaven where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body, and when your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the, the light you think you have is actually darkness, is how deep that darkness is. No one can serve two masters, for you will hate one and love the other. You will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money."

I'm talking today from the subject, "Simply Master Money." Master Money. Now, I know you could read that two ways: as an exhortation for you to master your money, or it could be a call out as a saying that money is a master, so you're calling him master, master money. But here, Mammon refers to the treasure that a person trusts in. The treasure, whatever it is, of worth or value that the person trusts in, that becomes Mammon. And for Jesus to serve God and money simultaneously is an impossibility. And this is why Jesus is telling us, "You cannot serve both God and Mammon."

I love what John Wesley said. He said, "You cannot serve both God and Mammon comfortably, consistently, and without being contrary." Uh, sometimes you don't get answers unless you ask questions. Never be afraid to ask questions, even of God. If you don't understand, God is never put off or intimidated by your questions. Do you know that curiosity is a gift? And that God blesses people that have curious minds? Because that's how you're led into the deeper knowledge of the things of God. It's a blessing to actually hunger to know something that you don't know, to just be curious about it, so that God can then feed your curiosity. Uh, it, it, it bores me when people don't have any curiosity to want to know anything about anything. But when we have a curiosity on the inside of us, something is crying out to say, "I wonder why," or "What if?" And I, I sometimes just have questions that just come to my mind. I thought about this: What if more money doesn't make you happy? But better still, what if more money equals more stress? What happens if money becomes your master?

I love something that Rich Viota said. He said, "Money is not a passive tool. It is a rival God, drawing us into its temple." And you think more about money, the less of it you have. Isn't that interesting? Whenever there is a threat of inflation, recession, depression, the less that we have, the more we think about it, about how we're going to get it, how we're going to hold on to it. Master money. Take a look at this little meme. And look at that: "Be your money's master, not its slave." It is designed to be a tool, but it's manipulative, and it can be a slippery slope for some people. But you ought to be your money's master and not its slave.

And let me give you some indicators here, because you may be enslaved to money if you sacrifice the well-being of your family for it. You may be enslaved to money if you lose your health in pursuit of it. You may be enslaved to money if you compromise your integrity to get it. You may be enslaved to money if you choose money over people. You may be enslaved to money if you would trade your soul to get the money. Jesus reminded us in Mark 8:36, "And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? What will a man give in exchange for his soul? What will a woman give in exchange for her soul?" That's why you don't want money to be your master.

Right? And I would say this to you: Don't let greed dominate you, and don't let fear hinder you. Don't let greed dominate you. Some folks are dominated by greed, and other people are hindered by fear. And sometimes scarcity creates fear in the minds of people. Um, most people know about the man that founded Apple, Steve Jobs, but he also had a co-founder by the name of Ron Wayne. And Ron Wayne had a unique opportunity because in 1976, uh, out of fear, it is interesting that he, he owned $800 worth of Apple stock and he sold it in 1976 because he was scared it wasn't going to do well. Had he held on to his $800 worth of stock, which was 10% of the company at that time, today he would have been worth $340 billion. And he lost $340 billion trying to get $800. Fear distorts your judgment.

And this is one of the reasons that when God calls you to do something, it scares the daylights out of you. And in that moment, when you are intimidated about something that God calls you to do, because you don't have any experience. In the future, all of experience is based on what has already happened in the past, but you don't have experience in the future. And it is interesting to note that every time that God told a person, "I am with you, and I will never leave you, and I will never forsake you," whenever God told somebody that, it was because they were facing something they had never done before, and it was intimidating to them, and it was a big, daunting task that looked hairy and scary. And God was reassuring them, "I'm with you. I'll never leave you. I will never, ever forsake you." He was giving them a challenge for which they had no reference of experience. And all God was saying is that, "I'm guaranteeing you that I will be with you. I'm omniscient, I am omnipotent, I'm ubiquitous. You can never get away from me, and I will be with you. I'm calling you to do something that is intimidating to you." But God says, "You go, and I'll go with you," because I'm sending you into something that you've never done.

And we are on the precipice of something that we have never experienced before. These are some crazy, crazy times and crazy ideas in our world. And God needs people to be able to plant their feet and, and, and have sobriety of mind. And that's why you need older folks that can help ground younger folks, and younger folks that can help give older folks an idea of how to navigate in this new world of technology and all of that, and to, to, to understand the handwriting on the wall. We need each other. It is amazing because like never before, like never before have we needed the Eli and the Samuels at the same time. And while Samuel is too old, uh, uh, he's too young to understand what he hears, Eli is Caesar and he knows everything that Samuel is hearing, but he can't hear it, but he can understand it when he hears it. And here, Samuel is a young child and he can hear something that he can't understand. And so he goes to the wisdom that is in Eli, who can't hear it, but he can understand it and interpret it and tell him what his next move ought to be. And that's why we can't be at variance with each other, because sometimes the younger generation actually helps the older generation to be able to hear something that we can't hear on our own and see on our own.

And we who have the strength, when you get a certain age, we become like the, uh, Samson. After Samson had grown old, Samson had to get a young lad to place his hands. He says, "I need your eyes because I can't see. And you're young, and you can see opportunities that I cannot see. And I just need you to place my hands on the central pillars. I got the power, I know what to do once my hands up there, but I, I'm blind. My eyes have been gouged out, so I can't really see clearly. But young man, come here, place my hands." And Samson had a strength that little, uh, that that little boy didn't have. But the little boy had a sight that Samson didn't have. And so they worked together. And I'm just telling you that God is bringing us into something right now that we're going to need each other. And somebody is going to need your wisdom, and you're going to need their strength, and you're going to need their ability to hear, and you're going to need their sight. But you might have the interpretation and be able to understand the handwriting of the wall, but they got to read it to you and tell you what it's saying. We need each other. Touch somebody, say, "We need each other." We need each other. You're not my enemy, I'm not your enemy. We need each other. God made us for each other. God made something in young people to be able to inspire older people. You know, the last thing that you want to do when you're get old is to be around a whole bunch of other old folks. So the older we become, the more we're inspired by youth, and the more that youth is inspired by the wisdom of eldership and the guidance of eldership. And if they give anything to know what you know, and to be able to have your perspective and your understanding, and be able to connect the dots. God made us to be able to come together.

So you don't let fear just lock you down the way that Ron Wayne got locked down with $800 worth of stock that later turned into $340 billion, because he didn't have the foresight to be able to see it. Had he had an older person in his life, they could have told him, "Son, hold on to that. You don't know what it's going to do. Don't sell too quick." God's a God of timing. And sometimes prophetic people, if they don't know anything else, they know the timing of the Lord. Sometimes if God just says, "Let it go right now," let it go right now. That sometimes you got to just be able to obey God. You just obey God in your simplicity, and God will provide. I'm just telling you, God will provide. But you can't let fear dominate you, because fear will paralyze you. Fear will keep you from opportunities that God has planted for you. So you've got to be able to hold, hold your, your, your hope.

Sahil Bloom said that, "The worst prison in the world is having the talent and intelligence to achieve something great, but lacking the courage to go out and do it." You know anybody like that? I mean, they got the talent, they got the intelligence, but they're scared to go. They lack the courage. All you need is an old, wise voice, or seasoned voice, is just say, "Go with God." Because God will give you something that will scare the daylights out of you. But you need somebody who has already walked in a scary situation, and they found the strength and the help of God to come in and to help, help them right at that moment.

And may I just tell you that there are some times that God will bring you into situations and you don't know what to do. I don't know who I'm getting ready to prophesy to right now, but God will tell you sometimes one of three things. He'll tell you to let go of something. Let go. Let go. Let go of the stress. Let go of the anxiety. Let go of the unforgiveness. Let it go. What do you need to let go of? What is God calling you to let go of? Let go. To let go of folks, that situation that you cannot control. Let it go. Let it go. If something swells up on you, you can't do anything about it. Let it go. Just, just let that thing go. Let go and let God. Just let it go. What do you need to let go of?

Then I heard the Holy Ghost say this: What do you need to grab hold on? What do you need to lay hold of? You need to lay hold of a promise in God's word. You need to lay hold of a truth. You need to lay hold of a testimony. You need to lay hold of something, uh, in, in your remembrance, that God has already done to remember now, and that'll empower you and give you the courage to go to where you're getting ready to go. What do you need to let go of? And what do you need to lay hold of? All certain things you need to let go of. Other things you need to grab hold of. And I need to grab hold of the faith. I need to grab hold of the promise. I need to grab hold of the covenant. I need to grab hold of the vision and run with it. So what do you need to grab hold of and hold firmly?

And then the third thing: What do you need to give away? Jesus said, "My peace I give to you. My joy I give to you. My love I give to you." There's something that you need to let go of. Something you need to lay hold of. And there's something else that you need to give away to others. And that's the way that it multiplies. He's not talking about to decrease you, he's talking about to multiply it in the earth. When you give away your knowledge, you don't lose it, it multiplies. Your knowledge is one of those unique things. Your wisdom is one of those unique things that you can give to another, and it never diminishes you. But what do you need to give away? Who, who needs your peace? Because other folks are, are in an uproar, and anxiety has them all jacked up. And they just need somebody to say, "Baby, it's going to be all right. You're going to make it through that." Sometimes you just need to hear the voice of an older person who has survived the storm. It's not about what's said, it's about who's saying it. And when you see somebody, and you don't have to wonder, you can look at them and tell, "Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come." You need to, you need to just, there's something comforting about the voice of somebody that you know that has been through something. Or they got some story, they got some stuff that'll make you blush. They got some stuff that'll say, "Oh, I'm not this stuff I'm dealing with. You're dealing with popcorn kind of stuff." And they got some real stuff that were really heavy burdens, and it puts things in perspective to you. Sometimes you just need to break off some of what you have and give your peace away. It's like, "Baby, I ain't going to worry about that." And some people are are ready to walk off and leave a relationship. You talk to somebody old that's been through hell and high water, they say, "Stay right there, baby. Stay right there, baby." They tell you stuff like this, you know, "The fool you know is better than the fool you don't."

But what do you have to give away? What is God calling you? I want you to think about that. What is God calling you to let go of? What is God calling you to grab hold of? And what is God calling you to give away that can bless somebody else without it ever diminishing you? Because sometimes you're through with it, and it is a sign that I'm passing a baton. You know, God won't give you what you can't give away. And if you need more time, but you won't give anybody else any time, you got to give the very thing you need. And if you've got a peace and a blessed assurance down in your soul, in a time when people are so shaken and they are mastered by things that are stressing them out, and they believe that money will solve everything. But sometimes it's not even money, it's just a peace. Sometimes you think, you think that if you had enough money, that you won't worry about it. But I know people that have money, and they still worry. They worry about somebody taking it away from them. They worry about them losing it. They worry about getting sued. They worry about. And so you can have money, and it'll create a whole another level of stress. Money is not designed to just take your stress away. That's, that's the dependence of God. And when you depend on money to do what only God can do for you, that's when you've made a mistake. And so that's why God says, "Give your peace away to somebody else." You're not going to lose yours. When you give peace to someone else, you never lose yours, you multiply it. Grace and peace be multiplied to you. It's because you give it away to others that when somebody grabs your hand, and anxiety is filling them, and the peace of God that passes all understanding begins to guard your heart and minds by Christ Jesus. And sometimes God will just send me into a place, and the moment they hear my voice, the peace that is in my soul oozes out like warm honey flowing over their bodies. You'd be surprised what God can do just when you share, break somebody off what's in you. What's in you? People need more of what's in you. But when you have poverty of spirit, you are afraid that if I, I break somebody else off something, I'm going to diminish myself. No, no, no. You multiply. Grace and peace be multiplied. The knowledge of Jesus was multiplied in the earth as they began to share the gospel.

But I will say this: Don't make everything that happens in your life about money. Am, we don't want money to master us. Don't make everything about money. Don't make everything about money. I love something I recently read in the Harvard Business Review. It says, "Too many managers make the mistake of assuming that motivation is all about money. But it's really about helping your team to feel great about what they do." When you're motivating people, you want to feel good about what you do, that you're contributing to something and participating in something that has meaning in it and life in it. It is not about our trying to make another buck. You want to have fun doing what you are called to do. I don't know about you, but if you got to do something, you may as well make it fun. If you got to be there, you may as well enjoy the journey. We're designed to be able to make a difference in the lives of other people.

I want you to notice the admonition of the scriptures in 1 Timothy chapter 6. The Apostle Paul writing to Timothy, and he's letting him know because, you know, they needed that ministry seated. And notice what he's telling him here in verse 17: "Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable." And anybody who has money knows how unreliable, you, you know how unreliable money is. Anything could happen. Anything could happen, and, and, and the value of your money could be rapidly, uh, decreased. Anything could happen. The unreliability of that. So he says, "Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God." Their trust should be in God. My trust should be in God. Your trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. God is not against your enjoyment. He richly gives us all that we need for our enjoyment, for our enjoyment. And notice what he said: "Tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others. By doing this, they will be storing up their treasure as a good foundation for the future, so that they may experience true life."

That's why, what, what do you need to give away? And it's not always money. Sometimes it's just your time. It's just your time. I recently saw a little clip of where Patty LaBelle was being interviewed by Oprah, and, you know, her sisters all died of cancer, and she was the only one that survived. And she said one thing that she regretted was when one of her sisters was dying of cancer, she said she would always send money to help out. And she said her sister called her one day and said, "Patty, just come over and just make me an egg sandwich." She said she knew, and she regretted that it wasn't the money that she wanted. She just wanted her to be there. She just wanted her presence there. And she said, "Can you come over and make me an egg sandwich?" And tears began to flow down her face, 'cause she lived with the regret that I was sending money, thinking that that's what they really wanted, when her sister wanted her presence. Presence is a gift. And you don't know how meaningful the gift of presence is until it is not there.

It's interesting. God gives us something to be able to press toward. The Apostle Paul said, "I press toward the mark of the call of God in Christ Jesus." There's, there's a mark that he sets for us. And most people will grab hold of a goal or some desire that they have, but what they fail to develop is a system to be able to get it. Amateurs have a goal, professionals have a process. They have a system. Success is in the system. Success is in the systems. Notice this: Systems enable consistency. You know, once you figure out how to do something, you create a system. Systems enable consistency. And if you're going to have quality control in whatever it is that you do, you've got to develop a system. Systems enable consistency. Consistency leads to growth. Consistency leads to growth. If you're consistent in the gym, your body will grow. If you're consistent with reading and studying and, uh, keeping your mind engaged, your mind will continue to grow. Consistency leads to growth, and growth empowers success. Growth empowers success.

I would say this, you know, people have said for so long, "Fake it till you make it." It's really not just because it rhymes. Listen, you can't fight the devil with poverty. He's a pauper himself. Don't, don't fake it till you make it. Face it till you make it. If you face it, God will help you fix it. Face it till you make it. I mean, uh, fail and then stand back up. Face it again. Do a little better. Fail again. Face it. Get back up. Isn't it interesting how the Bible says that a righteous man, not a demon, a righteous man falls seven times and rises back up? You, you got to face it until you make it, not fake it. Face it. Try it. Fail. You'll learn from that, but fail forward, and you grow through that. And in that process, you, you have to learn that I, I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to stick to my plan and not to my mood. Because when you stick to your mood, and it's time to get up and go to the gym, you don't want to go 'cause you don't feel like going. Stick to the plan, not to your mood. Stick to the plan. And just remember that discipline is about remembering what you want most over what you want now. When you talk about now, shout "Now." It's an acronym, really, just for needs over wants. Now: needs over wants. Now.

And transformation is the revelation of how far we can go when we actually combine persistence and dedication. And we're in what I would almost call asymmetrical times now. Something that is asymmetrical means that it is without predictable order. We know what predictable order is, but when something skips a beat, it's an unsyncopated rhythm. And so it's unpredictable because it doesn't just follow the standard kind of beat. Because when you add a dot to a quarter note, it makes it a little longer. So it's da-da-da. So you have to be able to adjust because it's now not necessarily predictable. And there are some rhythms of life, like storms when they come, that do not follow predictable order. Weather patterns normally move from west to east, but storms like the hurricanes, Africa is coming from east to west. It's coming west. It's totally unpredictable. And they don't exactly know whether it's going to come up the Gulf of Mexico or whether it's going to come up the East Coast, because storms are unpredictable. And sometimes, in, in asymmetric times, God will throw the rhythm off as soon as you thought you had figured his pattern out. God will step in a different rhythm, sir, that is asymmetrical. It is an unpredictable order. And it seems, of course, that sometimes I believe that God does that to disrupt our, our order, to turn us from our way, and to arrest our attention, and to bring us back to a focus that he has for our life. So he will disrupt where we are in order to bring us to where we need to be.

But there is a difference between the world's view of riches, because we don't want money to master us, we need to master it. There's a difference between the world's view of riches and the word's view of riches. And I just want to distinguish a few things for you with that. Notice the world's view of riches and the word's view of riches. The world's view says money brings freedom. Money brings freedom. But the word's view says money can enslave. Christ brings freedom. The world's view says money brings security. But the word's view says worldly wealth is insecure. Real security is found in trusting God. The world says money is what matters. The word says Jesus and his kingdom are what matter. The world world says money is power. The word says power comes from God's spirit. The world says money establishes your worth as a person. But the word says your worth is based on what God says, and not what the bank says. The world says money makes you successful. But the word says success comes from knowing and doing what God says. The world says money gives you options. The word says God ultimately gives you options. The world says money brings happiness. The word says happiness that money brings is short-lived. The world says money is your possession, spend it on whatever you want. And the word says all you have is God's. You are a steward of God's resources. So there's a disparity between what the world says and what the word says. That's why you have to know the word. "You do err not knowing the the scriptures, the word."

And one of the greatest ways to make sure that you can have money without money having you is to be generous. Generosity breaks the spirit of greed, because greedy people are not generous people. Greedy people are not. But generosity breaks the spirit of greed in your life. And sometimes, if your life gets in an unhealthy rhythm, God will send a storm that makes something asymmetrical, an unpredictable order in your life, just to bring you back to a place of quiet. Because hurry, hurry, whenever people are rushing, hurry is violence on the soul. And that's why you, when you get in God's presence, you cannot be in a hurry. And when you pray, you cannot be in a hurry, because hurry is violent on the soul. You know what the cortisol levels happen, how they change in your body when you are just in a hurry, hurrying, hurrying. He's calling us to slow down. He's calling us to just simplify.

I want you to remember the words of Matthew 11 in verse 28-30 in The Message Bible: "Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me. Watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly." We need to learn the rhythms of His grace to walk with Him and work with Him and watch how He does it. And stress will just start draining out of our bodies. And the peace of God, man, you don't know how valuable peace is until you no longer have it.

The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy wrote a short story entitled, "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" And in the short story, he talks about a poor farmer who is desperate to improve his conditions. And he is made, he's given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, an offer for about $11 American dollars to be able to have all of the land that he wants. It seemed too good to be true to this farmer, but it came with stipulations. And these were the stipulations: that he had to start out on the given day, and he said, "As far as you can walk and make it back before the sun goes down, he says that land will be yours for $11." What an opportunity! So he set out walking as rapidly as he could to cover as much territory as he could. And he had gone so far, and he saw that the sun was beginning to go down. And now he's trying to calculate how he can get back to the original spot before the sun goes down, or the deal is off. And so he starts running with all of his might because he had gotten so far away, trying to cover as much ground as he possibly could. And running and running and running and running, and he finally made it there right as the sun was going down, and he beat it. But he was so exhausted that he had a heart attack and died. And his servants dug a hole six feet deep and three feet wide. How much land does a man need? And it was six by three. It was six by three. In the moral of the whole story was that if we spend all the best of our energy and our passion to gain wealth, it ends up owning us. And he lost himself trying to get more, and he wound up, he had run and covered all of that territory, and he wound up with six by three. How much do you need?

Got, I hope you got something out of the word of the Lord. Bow your head. I just want this to be a time of introspection for you. Just to make sure that you're in right standing with Jesus. And may I remind you that one of God's greatest gifts to you is that if you are out of His will, God's greatest gifts to you is to make your plans fail. Is to create such a disruption in your life that it jars you back to your position of righteousness with Him. Whatever God has to use to bring you back into right standing with Him, whatever He has to use, it is worth it. And you ought to thank Him, even if you have to lose something, but if it brings you back to where you need to be with God, you ought to thank Him. And when your rhythm has gotten off, and sometimes if you have been angry with God because you couldn't see the bigger plan that God could see, 'cause He knows details that you don't know, and He knows seasons and He knows timing that we don't understand. And He's just calling us to say, "Come back."

And I just pray that you'll take inventory of yourself today and, and just ask the question once again: What, what do I need to let go of? Is it anger? Is it jealousy? Envy? Is it unforgiveness? Is it my tendency to compare? What do you need to let go of? Ask the Holy Spirit to search you and to expose it to you so you can let it go. Because if you're holding on to something that you need to let go, it becomes destructive to you. And then, what do you need to grab hold of? To take hold of by faith, whether it is healing, whether it is a promise of the word, whether it is understanding. What do you need to take hold of? And then, what is it that you need to give away? Something that has blessed your life, and you, you share it. My peace I give. My love I give. My joy I give. My wisdom I give. My knowledge I give. My counsel I give. My encouragement I give. What do you need to give? What is needed in the atmosphere where God has planted you that you have a storehouse to be able to give? God has made you a distribution center in the midst of something that you have abundantly in you, and there's a desperate need. And God's trying to marry those two. What do you have to give away that will bless somebody else's life and not diminish you at all? Think about that.

Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that You will so open the eyes of Your precious people today. Show us the truth, God. Help us to see ourselves in the light of Your word. Give us an understanding of Your incredible, amazing grace. Father, I pray that our priorities will be adjusted to where You are in, in the position of preeminence in our life. There's none before You. You are God alone, exalted. We trust You. We depend upon You. We need You. Father, I thank You in the name of Jesus today that You said that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That when Daniel called upon You, You locked the jaws of the lions. That when Hannah called upon You, You opened her womb and a prophet was born. Father, we pray in the name of Jesus to just call upon Your name. Help us in our world today, in the craziness where we have lost our sobriety, our understanding of Your will and Your way, the orthodoxy and the orthopraxy that You've called us to. Father, turn us back to You, oh Lord, and we will be restored. Renew us as of the days of old. Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that as we stand before You, Lord, that You will use us for Your glory. We pray that Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on the earth as it is in heaven. In Jesus' wonderful name, amen. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Wow.

Well, stand at your feet, everybody. I'm so glad to be home. Last, last week, I think I was, I was in India, in, in New Delhi, and, uh, I visited a, a Sikh temple, a different kind of religion. And, uh, it was a really busy place. They, they fed 80,000 people a day there. 80,000. Uh, there's some kind of Hindu religion, but they fed 80,000 people regardless of their religion, the religion of the people, people coming. And so when I was there, and, and I, I went all into the kitchen, and they were, the people were just all over the place. And they informed me while I was there in India that now they have the largest population in the world. They have surpassed China. It's amazing. And, uh, God is, God is up to something incredibly. Well, while I was there, some pastor noticed when I, after I posted, they noticed that I was in their country. And this man was four or five hours away from me. He said, "Bishop, I've never been able to meet anybody of your status. He says, 'Can I come to see you?'" I said, "If you want to make the drive, that's on, that's on you." And he got in his car and brought his wife and his two children. And he got down on his knees and he says, "I have a ministry here, and he says, 'God has put so much in me to be able to plant some other things.'" And I just, just prayed the glory of God down on him. And the next thing you know, here comes another Indian pastor. Said, "I said, 'Listen, I'm not here for all of this.'" And then they reached out to me from Pakistan. They said, "You promised that you were coming." I'm said, "You know, I'm not here for that." But I'm glad that, you know, we serve a big God. God is doing great things in various places around the world. And I love Him and I honor Him, and I'm so incredibly thankful to God for the grace that He has given to me in my life, and, and the difference that is being made in the lives of other people. And it, it just blows me away that some, somebody has walked up to me in, in India and they said, "I watch it on YouTube." And so you never do know how, how far our voice reaches and the lives of people that are being touched and impacted for the glory of God. But God is on the rise. God is on the rise. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, and He's moving. He is moving. He's moving. And I'm just telling you, this is a time where the glory of God, whenever you have gross darkness, the only thing that penetrates gross darkness is great glory. And as God's people worship, glory is released. It's stirred up. It bubbles up out of us. Glory. We give glory to God, and glory penetrates gross darkness. Gross darkness is the kind of darkness that you can feel. It is a darkness of depression that comes over, that is perceptible. You can look at people who are under gross darkness and tell that this is gross darkness, and you just can't get rid of that just with a simple prayer. It takes great glory to break the power of gross darkness. And as darkness fills the earth, may the glory of God so fill the earth, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. And I'm just here to declare to you that God's glory is moving in the earth. I declare His glory in India. I declare His glory in China, moving in various parts of Africa. God is moving by His Spirit in Europe. I am excited about what Jesus is doing in the world. I'm excited about what Jesus is doing in the world. In South America, Jesus is alive and well, and He's just looking at people that will say, "Lord, if there's anything that You can use in me, you know, use me, Lord, for Your glory. Use me for Your glory. Use me for Your glory." Use your timeline for Him. Use your social media to tell some good news. I'm sick of this petty mess. We need the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's time. Run and tell that. I'm sick of the elephant and the donkey, but I'm excited about the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. Run and tell that. Post some good news this week. Post good news this week. Run and tell that that Jesus is Lord. He's saving people. He's delivering people. He's healing people. He's bringing people out of darkness. The glory and the light of Jesus is filling and shining in the, in the world. So let it rain. Let it rain. Let it rain. You just go there and give it away and let it spread on you. May the anointing rise up on the inside of you. May it bubble out of you. May the wisdom of God. May prophecy flow out of your lips. May anointing. May your hands shake with the power of God when you get around sick people. And may Jesus give you a wisdom to be able to grab somebody's hand until demons begin to come out, until the spirits of darkness will flee in the name of Jesus. May He snap our sons and daughters back into their rightful minds to the degree that they will see Jesus for who He is. And may the prayers of mothers and fathers chase them until they are arrested and brought back. God says, "I have heard your prayer." And the words that have gone forth out of your mouth will not return. God, they're still pursuing them, and He's in hot pursuit of what He loves. He came to seek and save that which was lost. That, and who is lost? And He's going after it. The glory of God shall be revealed in the earth, and all flesh shall see it together. Father, we give You glory today. We give You glory. We give You glory. We give You glory. We give You glory. We declare that Thine is the glory. Thine is the kingdom. The glory belongs to You. Jesus, the glory belongs to You. The glory belongs to You. It belongs to You. Money is a very weak god, but You are the awesome God, the only wise God. You're the God who lifts up. You're the God who gives life. You're the God who forgives sin. God, we love You today. We love You and we exalt You today. We exalt You. We exalt You. We exalt You. We exalt Your name. We declare, Father, Your majesty, Your dominion, Your power, Your truth. Oh Lord God, that none compare with You. Not one. Not one compares with You. Father, we pray that You'll show us exactly what to do and when to do it. We pray, Father, that You will accomplish everything that You've assigned for us to do. May the destiny that You've locked in our bosom be released, God, to a starving world that's waiting to be fed with what You have placed on the inside of us. And Father, I pray that as we bring glory to Your name, that redemption will come to Your people. Yes, that You will redeem, Father, those things that were formed for You in the earth to serve You, to worship You, to honor You, that they'll be restored, restored, restored. Father, may the great restoration and reformation happen. May there come a reframing in our laws and our understanding and even in our definitions. Father, restore us. Reform us. Restore us. Reform us. Restore us. Reform us. Maybe return, turn to Your apostolic law and see, Father, Your hand moving in ways that we covenanted in advance, that we'll give You the honor for it and the glory, majesty, and dominion, yes, both now and forevermore. In Jesus' name, amen.

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