 Okay, so yeah, let's pray and then we'll get started for the god We we just want to thank you a lot for this time. We thank you a lot for who you are Lord Master, we thank you that You are holy We thank you that your righteous We thank you that you you chose to reveal yourself to each one of us Lord through your Holy Spirit and We thank you that you continue to do that But as we draw near to you Lord with With a measure of the hunger and the thirst Lord to seek you Lord, we thank you that you are faithful to to fill that measure God and even more master And Lord we we just ask for a revelation of who you are This morning Lord your heart Lord your ways Your thoughts Lord so that your thoughts will be our thoughts and your ways our ways and But everything about you God Your glory when we see God that it'll be life-changing It'll be so life-transforming For each of us God and to that end Lord we we yield ourselves We say come Lord have your way in us Open our eyes to see you open our ears to hear you and Lord make our hearts tender to receive what you have for us We thank you. We give you all the praise and all the glory in Jesus matchless name. We pray Amen Okay, so Yeah in financial stewardship. We're in chapter 3 a last class. We finished with chapter 2 and we were looking at some of the You know, the we looked at the wrong attitudes. We looked at some of the People in the Bible who God prospered. We also looked at some of them who had a wrong attitude towards money or wrong Perspective towards wealth and then we looked at their greed and we read about them also And also the fact that God is the one who gives material blessings in financial and miracles that So we see that this That but God is a source Right. He's a source of all blessing. He's a source of the supernatural works which result in You know increase which result in in blessing Whether it's a family or a community or group of people God does so and God does that the supernatural works flow out of him And it results in and blessing a person, right? So we we saw that and and also Just to refresh our memories about you know, when we say Biblical prosperity. We're talking about divinely enabled success and growth and prosperity Which is through divinely enabled means and for God appointed or denied divinely Appointed objectives, right? So so that is the That is what we saw as the definition of a biblical prosperity or the scope of a biblical prosperity, right? so today We're looking at we're gonna look at looking to the word to see to be sure of You know, what is God's will really when it comes to prosperity when it comes to growth increase What is God's heart, right? What is God's will? because if we are sure of that Then we can pursue God in these aspects Without any guilt without any doubt Right because if you are in two minds about okay, I think God is not really Wanting me to be successful or wanting me to you know grow Financially or have these material blessings if we you know, if we if we have these doubts in our minds Then one, you know when these things come into our lives We feel uncomfortable handling it Right Let's say, you know, there's a certain sum of money that that comes into your life. You know, you're not sure Right, you you feel a little bad about it. Maybe in the back of your mind, you're not sure, you know, what am I supposed to do with it? You're you're even thinking, you know, is it God's will for me to have it at all all these things Go through, you know, you know one's mind when we are not sure of God's will For us regarding finances. Okay regarding maybe, you know wider things like success material blessings, etc So the thing is to to look into God's word and see, you know And to be sure of these things And to look at scripture and to and to look at God's heart to study and see, you know What is God's heart about this about this so that I can be sure of it I can stand sure I can stand strong in it and Continue strong, you know in it even when I'm asking God or even when I'm Resisting the works of the enemy. I know for sure that it's based on The word of God that it's based on scripture So when we base it on scripture, then that gives us faith, right when God's word quickens Scripture quickens his word to us When God's spirit quickens God's word to us, then that results in faith Right Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. So we are we increase in faith We grow in faith As we continue to hear the word of God as we continue to hear his voice about these matters, right? So, yeah, so today, let's look at Chapter three which deals with God's guarantee God's assurance To prosper his people Okay, so are we going to look at that? How can we be confident? How can I be in a place of confidence to know that yes, God? really Wants to prosper his people God really wants to prosper me as a child that he did he takes delight in Prospering me, okay so let's I'll just share the notes and We'll just go at it Okay There we go. All right. The first thing that we're going to see is the nature of God Okay, now the nature of God when we study God's nature What are we what do we mean by that? Right? So? Let me just put this into chat I'll read it out as well. So when we say you know nature We are talking about The basic or inherent features or qualities, you know character qualities of Of something or someone, you know when you say, okay, this is the nature of ice or this is the nature of this particular material Now, this is the nature of metal, you know that it is You know, you learn so many things right? It's malleable. It's ductile and all those things, you know so what is the nature what is the inherent quality the features of Someone so that is what we say when you say, okay, we're going to talk about the nature of God right So the best place of course is to go into the word to talk about the nature of God Well, testimonies are great when you say, okay, God did this in my life and therefore, you know I understood about the nature of God how understood about God Well, that's that's great, but what is unchanging and You know unshakable and steadfast is the Word of God, which is You know the place to go to find out about the nature of God. So let's look at a few scriptures there, okay if you go right back up to Genesis 1 and I think the verses there are You know, there's a slight difference there is if you look at verse 22 for example Genesis 1 verse 22 now, this is right after God creating the sea creatures and You know and the living things in it and also He's created verse 20 talks about the birds and everything worst way Sorry, when we come to verse 22 we see that God bless them Okay, God bless them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the sea and let birds multiply on the earth, okay, and then We see verse 24 the earth being for the living creature according to its kind, etc. And then God Verse 28 again, we see that God blessed God bless them After creating man in his own image. He blessed them and said to them be fruitful Multiply fill the earth subdued, etc. So we see that God Blessed everything we see that over and over again chapter 2 verse 3 also that God blessed the seventh day He sanctified it. So we see God releasing a blessing God blessing God is someone whose nature is to bless That's a God blessed in in the book of James chapter 1 verse 17 talks again about it gives a description of God it says that every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and Comes down from the father of lights With whom there is no variation or shadow of Turning okay, so everything that's good everything that's perfect Comes from the father of lights. Okay, so you see that God is blessing God is giving and It's a Talking about the gift that comes from the giver comes from the father of lights With whom there is no Variation of changing or shadow of turning so he's not like He's generous one day and he stingy the other day Or he wants me to prosper one day and he wants me to suffer and he wants me to you know be in poverty the other day It's it's that's not God Right, so his nature. It's very clear. It says that there is no variation or shadow of Turning, you know, he is steadfast He never changes And we of course we read in the Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 8 Which talks about the son who talks about the Lord Jesus that he is the same yesterday and today and forever Yesterday today and forever. I'm talking about him. It's talking about the eternal word Which does not change and of course that verse is there in the context of don't listen to or don't give yourself to Strange and various doctrines because the you know, these things would not profit those You know who who associate with them or occupied with them. So talking about the unchangeability of God and the immutability of his nature and unchangeable He's the same and praise God for that right. He's steadfast. He's the same is the same So it says here that you know Jesus Christ same yesterday today and and forever So he's the one who blesses. There is no variation or shadow of changing If you go to Psalm 84 Samus talks about how God 84 and verse 11 for the Lord God is a son and shield The Lord will give grace and glory No good thing will he uphold? Sorry with he withhold from those who walk uprightly Okay, so no good thing will he withhold so It's it's God's nature to bless. It's God's nature to be a protector Son and shield it's God's grace to give it's God's nature to Not withhold any good thing Okay, to not withhold any good thing. So that's that's something we We read about his his nature, right? It is it is inherent to him It's his inherent quality to bless and not withhold to give and To give generously Okay, so that's his nature. Okay, the other thing that we see is this word Shalom Okay, the word Shalom, which which we which we see in Isaiah 9 and verse 6 and several other places in the Old Testament We see that though the word refers to You know, it refers to peace, of course, but it also refers to total well-being right, it refers to prosperity it refers to You know a safety And it refers to there's so many other things which Which is about total well-being of a person Total well-being of a person. So let's let's turn to that the scripture. Let's look at Isaiah 9 and verse 6 Okay, Isaiah 9 verse 6 so Unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the government will be upon his shoulder and his name will be called Wonderful counselor Mighty God everlasting father prince of peace Okay, prince of these are It's talking about Shalom the word used there is Shalom. So What is being said there is that he is the prince or he is the source of this Shalom He's a ruler of this Shalom And it says that this these are his names. These are his characteristics. This is what he does All right, and he is the prince of Shalom. He is the steward or the head or Or the ruler the captain Right one who was one who's dispensing Shalom Shalom comes from him, right? So we see that and Let's look at another verse Isaiah 48 Isaiah 48 Verses 17 and 18 Thus says the Lord your Lord your redeemer the holy one of Israel. I am the Lord your God Who teaches you to? Prophet okay Who leads you by the way you should go? Was 18. Oh that you had heeded my commandments Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea Okay, so the first thing we see in verse 17 is that you know, I'm the Lord your God and This is what he teaches us. He teaches us to bring us to a place of benefit Okay, so that's Isaiah 48 and verse 17 So the Lord is saying I'm the one who who teaches you who you know who begins to instruct you and To bring you to a place of a great benefit a prophet and it's you know in the in the English when we look at the word Yes, it the word is It talks about When you look at the word prophet itself it talks about, you know, what you have after you paid out all your You know covered all the costs like if you have all your overheads of Maybe if you're running a business or something you have all the overheads, right? You have the the rent and the You know everything else is paid paid out and then you have You know, what is what is left behind which is the prophet and yeah, let me just just pull out the word there in The Hebrew it talks about something of value like something that's a benefit again So we see that God is the one who teaches us to come to that place right Now all the everything is paid for all the overheads are paid off and you have this Prophet and God is the one who is actually Teaching right. He's teaching you to profit teaching us to profit. So that's his will. That's his desire He teaches us to come to that place of profit Okay, verse 18 says that oh that you had heated my commandments Okay, so here is God who's teaching His teaching is people and here is God who's commanding You know, what teaching is right and what is the difference between teaching and commandment and this is God is saying, okay Here is my teaching. I'm I'm giving you the know-how right, I'm giving you the nuts and bowls of How to profit? Okay, so which means that God is not against somebody Coming to a place of profit right coming to a place of having a benefit in their lives After paying off everything like financially if you look at it You know after paying off all the bills after paying off all the overheads all the costs are taken care of and you have surplus Now God is teaching someone is saying I'm the God the holy one of Israel I'm the Lord your God who teaches you to come to that place Right, so it's wonderful. We see that God Wants to teach Someone wants to teach us to come to that place of profit now He leads us Verse 17 also says he leads us now verse 18 says oh that you had heated my commandments. Okay So he's commanding something. He's teaching. He's leading is commanding and Then he says if you had heated, you know, obviously here is a situation where someone did not heed The command so he's saying, okay, if you had heated my commandments Then your Shalom would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea So we see that, you know, even it comes to a river. It's not like the river Get a you know after one hour of flowing it stops My river Continues to flow a river that is now that is full It just continues to flow so so God is saying oh if you had heated my commandments that your Shalom Your well-being which and you know everything that involves healing and deliverance and prosperity and peace Your Shalom would have been like a River And your righteousness like the waves of the sea so you see that When God provides the Shalom, it's It's coming it's flowing it's not ending and It's it's coming in abundance All right So we see these scriptures which talk about that. Okay, we then we go on to the and we go on to the New Testament and and the book of Romans they had Romans chapter chapter 2 and verse 11 says and Okay, we might say okay God, you know, is this for someone it is is it for You know a certain people verse 2 and verse 11 says, you know, there is no Partiality with God That's another aspect of his nature that God is not partial God is impartial which means that you know his provision of Shalom Being the Prince of Shalom is for everyone, right? There's no partiality with him. So It's not like he's you know, kind of zeroed in on some people for Shalom for this abundance and the others he does not want. It's not like that with God You know, there is no partiality like he's an impartial God If you look at Acts chapter 10 and verse 34 Again, Peter says the same thing now. This is in in the light of salvation itself, right? This is in the light of God pouring out his Spirit People being saved now. This is in that context, right? Peter's in Cornelius house. He shared the gospel and And in the sense, he's just about to share, you know, the gospel and how they have Invited him and Cornelius talks about, you know, how how he invited him how he went about what happened to him So then Peter says Peter opened his mouth and said in truth I perceive that God shows no partiality and then it goes on to say, you know, how People can perceive and he goes on to preach the gospel and the Holy Spirit Spored out on all who hear the word of God So in that context, he's saying, you know, what is not partial and truth I perceive that God is not partial at all. So So his inherent nature is inherent character qualities that God is not he's not a partial God So so we we know that okay, God is a God who blesses God is a God who's pleased He got as a God who teaches one to profit. He leads one he commands and His commandments when he did result in Shalom like a river. So He's not one who is partial. It's not for certain, you know, certain Chosen few and not for the others, but God is not partial, right? Let's look at one more scripture Psalm 145 and So like this, I'm sure there are, you know, many other scriptures. We are looking at a few here Psalm 145 and Yeah, versus nine and ten Some 145 verse 9 says the Lord is good to all and His tender mercies are over all his works All your work shall praise you, oh Lord and your saints shall bless you Okay, the Lord is good to all It's tender mercies over all and his tender mercies over all his works All your work shall praise you, oh Lord and your saints shall bless you in response to You know his goodness and his mercies He's good to all Okay, so that's something that we understand. No, we might have different pictures of God or when I say different picture of God, we might have, you know, um a mental picture of God in our thoughts, in our minds And this can be pretty deeply entrenched right, it can be very deeply entrenched in us and this picture, you know, is formed because of maybe our experience, you know, good, bad, ugly, whatever, you know, our experience through life and You know, are relating to God, maybe some of the things that some of the regrets, disappointments that we experienced in life in relation to God. I remember, you know some people whom I know very closely very angry with God, you know, God, I asked you did not give and I'm angry or, you know, I experienced this in life and and so I'm so disappointed. I'm angry with you, God All right, so we form a picture of who God is He's an angry God. He's a disappointing God you know, he's a God who and and we with our finiteness right with our limited abilities, we come to that conclusion about an infinite God and we come to a conclusion, you know, in all sincerity because of all the things that have happened in life and we say, okay, God, this is who you are Lord, you are stingy, God, you do not do this God, you disappoint and we sometimes have this picture, a very negative image of God and and that image gets changed or gets clarified to something that is in scripture when we begin to, you know, see scripture for what it is, see God for who he is and renew our mind with scripture So this is what I thought based on my experience. This is what I thought based on, you know, whatever life threw at me So, you know, this is who God is. Maybe this is who God is. I've come to that conclusion but then I look into the word and I see God explaining himself. I see scripture You know, explaining who God is, describing who God is and the response to that is that I take that and I renew I renovate my mind I renovate my thinking about who God is, you know, that is what is renewing our mind, right? When we renew our mind that results in transformation and you renew our thinking that results in transformation of our life, you know, our actions get changed because our mind is renewed Right? So our life and our lifestyle everything changes because our mind is renewed Right? So the way we relate to God now begins to change God says, you come drawn here. I was just digressing a little bit, but I just felt that we need to look into that, right? Well, like God says I mean, we see this exhortation in Hebrews 4 and verse 16, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain grace and mercy and find grace to help in time of need that is Hebrews 4 verse 16 so But then, you know, we're not able to come boldly because our picture of God is tainted or distorted with various things that may or may not be, you know, the correct thing it could be distorted because of You know, our wrong understanding or maybe a deficient understanding of who God is So when we look into scripture and when the Holy Spirit Begins to speak to us and and give us proof And gives us proof and and witnesses to our heart. This is who God is then we begin to believe We begin to grow in faith. We begin to renew our mind our thinking And that changes the picture that we have about God So we begin to understand who he's loving who he is kind who is gracious, right? The the cross was, you know, for me The reason he went to the cross the reason he carried this on the cross is for me The reason he reversed everything is for me Right, then we begin to change our understanding perspective of God Okay, so so when we are looking at, you know, the nature of God as revealed in scripture So it's important that we begin to receive that as God reveals and begin to renew our mind And use that to renew our mind and this renewing our mind is something that We need to do consciously We need to do intentionally and say Lord This is what you your word says. I will go by what your word says Like what you say about yourself. Okay So the second thing that we're going to look at is the general promises of God So what are we looking at? We are looking at God's assurance, you know, God's guarantee To prosper to prosper his people Right so that we can be sure When we pray so that we can be sure when we stand in faith and we can be sure when we resist the works of the enemy um When the enemy comes against us with lies and and and thoughts of fear and intimidation and you know thoughts of lack and so on So we can be sure That this is what God says. This is what the Bible says. This is who God is And so we're looking at the God's guarantee to prosperous people Okay, so the second thing that we're seeing is the general promises of God Okay now You know, there are two words that we looked at I think when we were looking at when we're studying the Holy Spirit In the Holy Spirit class, right? We looked at the word logos Right and we looked at the word rama And we and we looked at both, right? We said, okay logos refers to the The word gentle word God the principles of God the precepts of God The word of God has given in the scriptures applicable to for all looked at logos Then we looked at rama. We saw that rama specific instruction Word that is quickened by the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit quickening or You know focusing highlighting the logos for us At us given instant so we can you know follow we can We can obey And and in fact God wants us to do that so we saw logos and rama So when we look at the general promises of God Okay, and you look at the logos the general promises of God We see that God wanting to bless God wanting to prosper God wanting to lift a person bring increase into a person's life We're looking at the logos itself, right? and Uh specifically of course when we when we look at the rama God can speak. God can use this God who does use this Um to highlight to us You know in our points of need to highlight to us and to show us that He is who he said he is Right that he will take care Um, okay, so let's look at a few scriptures some 84 verse 11. We've we've seen already Okay, some some one And versus one to three Okay, it talks about a man who trusts in God Who okay, let's let's read right someone versus one to three. Blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the ungodly Nor sits in the path of sinners Nor sits in the seat of the scornful But his delight Is in the law of the lord and in his law. He meditates day and night He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season Whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall Prosper, so he talks talks about the blessedness of the man the condition of blessedness of the man Who does certain things who does not do certain things? Okay, who does not walk in the council of the ungodly Who does not stand in the path of sinners meaning, you know, he does not Walk he does not have a life. Um, that is that is uh Uh that identifies with the life of a sinner in the way that either in his choices or his actions right He does not see sit in the seat of the scornful or he's not like the ones who are scornful of us conning making fun of Um others maybe making fun of god and this word and so on But his delight great pleasure delight is in the law of the lord And in his law, he meditates day and night so so here's the man who has Who's walking not, you know, who's not doing certain things, but he's doing this. What is he doing? He is delighting in the law of the lord The word of god the laws of god are his delight It gives him great pleasure. It gives her great pleasure And he meditates day and night, which means that he's making this part of his Thinking he's thinking over and over again. He's talking about it. He's engaging With the laws of god is engaging with the word of god. It's so part of his her life And then verse three talks about he shall be like a tree And this tree it is planted by the rivers of water That brings forth its fruit in its season whose leaf also shall not wither And whatever he does shall prosper. Okay, so Um, so this is the outcome Right, he's talking about the blessedness of man now I just want us to focus on You know verse two Which talks about the one who is actually delighting now this person person. Sorry who's delighting in the law of the lord He's meditating on the word of god is part of his thinking so You see the outcome that is intended by god For someone who is Who's delighting in god And who's delighting in his ways Who's whose thoughts whose meditations are on the word of god Okay, so which means that god is again, you know Is someone who takes delight? In bringing this outcome To someone who is engaging with god in this manner right, so So at not no point can we conclude and say it's it's god's will to to keep you down to keep you in that place of lack right to keep you Suffering in that manner Now there are you know, there could be other things, you know, I might make a choice I might make a decision by myself saying that I want to live such a life or I want to live a life that is You know a very simple Kind of lie. I don't want to You know deal with these things. So I might consciously make now. That's a different thing altogether Right, uh, I want to live that that kind of a life now. That's a different thing. I make a choice saying I don't want I don't want anything. I This I'm satisfied and and this is how I want to live my life now. You're making and god will honor that choice But then you see that the way god Wants to and and god bought and you know the outcome of someone Who is making a choice? Not to be in a certain way not to make all to live life In and not to live an ungodly life, but choosing to completely immerse oneself You know in god in the words of god in the ways of god and and meditating and we know, you know When you meditate on the word of god Again, your mind is renewed your faith is renewed You're built up in the inner man and all that happens, you know when you meditate on the word of god So so you see that this is the outcome Of the word of god in a person's life Okay, so which is you know growth flourishing thriving And I mean there's so many things that you can you know get out of that verse three, you know like a tree planted bringing forth its fruit not withering And it very clearly says whatever it does shall prosper Right, so the this is what this is god's word So we take it and you renew it saying god. This is this is who you are This is what you your promises are what your promises are This is what your logos is for someone who you know walks by your principles right Okay, so let's when we look at Psalm 23 very familiar It again talks about restoration It talks about rest It talks about you know Green pastures and so on And it talks about goodness and mercy right following the person And as the person dwells in the house of the shepherd in the house of the lord forever, right? So First one talks about the lord is my shepherd. I shall not Want okay that word means I shall not lack anything lack anything, you know Well, it's not just spiritual matters, but everything I shall not lack Because he is my shepherd. I shall not lack What does he do I will not lack because he makes me lie down in green pastures and still waters. He restores My soul, you know, my emotions things that could be battered things that could be distorted He leads me in parts of righteousness Now he is leading me in parts of righteousness when when he is leading as a good shepherd when I'm following And this is the these are the path. This is the path of righteousness I don't lack anything Right The lord is my shepherd. I shall not lack because he's leading me and he's making me You know lie down rest refreshing he's restoring and You know, he says even though I walk worse for even though I walk through the valley of shed of death I will fear no evil Why because his presence is there his rod and his staff they comfort me right even the the Rod even the rod of correction, you know, that comforts me because he is with me And it says it's an open display of God's goodness He prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil my cup runs over I'm just overflowing Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever That's the that's the decryptal declaration. You know, that's a that's a declaration of faith that the psalmist Some, you know, king David is making saying surely goodness and mercy will follow me now The thing is this, you know, when we look at the shepherd the Lord Jesus himself, you know he referred to himself as the shepherd and we see in john chapter 10 and and worse 10 So where the Lord says very clearly what the shepherd does He talks about what the hireling does He also talks about what the enemy does Right, uh, john chapter 10 and worse 10. He talks about the thief Talks about the enemy. So he says the thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy And he's referring to himself and he's saying I have come that they may have life And what kind of life is saying that they may have it more abundantly Okay, so this abundant life is what he came to give he came to bring To you and to me right This abundant life It's the life which is totally opposite of What the thief would come and do the thief would come to steal that thief would come to kill and destroy So you see it's the opposite of that. It's not it doesn't talk about stealing taking away From what we already have or destroying what we already have But it talks about addition and talks about multiplication and talks about increase says The thief does this he's very clearly differentiating. This is what the thief does This is what the thief thief come Is the thief's mission is very clear. It comes to steal It comes to kill it comes to destroy but I have come That they may have Life and that they may have it more abundantly and it goes on to say I am the good shepherd The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep Okay, so this is God's heart. This is his intention You know the the one who gives is willing to give or he gave his life For the sheep for us Um He also says that he will not withhold any good thing right, he also says that uh You know that there will be no lack And the testimony of the one who has made him has the shepherd The testimony is that The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not lack Okay, so we see here that again in the in the promises of God we see that In his very identity, you know, the Lord is saying I am this is who I am. I am the good shepherd And I have come So that you might be so that you might have Like you see those but I have come so that you might have And life and life in its fullness Okay Look at Psalm 112 verses one two three praise the Lord Blessed is the man who fears the Lord Who delights greatly in his commandment now. There are certain conditions. There are certain You know, um certain things that are that is expected right, so Blessed is the man who fears the Lord Who delights greatly in his commandments his descendants will be mighty on earth The generation of the upright will be blessed wealth and riches will be in his house And is up and his righteousness in yours forever. Now, you know, it's talking about wealth and riches and it's You know, the Bible is so comfortable talking about that right whereas we we sometimes are not comfortable because we have seen the Maybe you know in our minds it was just thinking about the negative aspect of it The negative aspect of wealth You know, we've seen the greed. We've seen the abuse. We've seen the way it's been You know, there's been coveted and the way it's been used and abused and and then we we come to play the saying Oh, we're almost fearing Right Can I handle it? Well Well, the thing is Blessed is the man And this is what will follow So the important thing is for us to renew our mind To you know, God's word and say God, this is this is who you are This is what will be the outcome Of someone who's trusting someone is blessing you will make this you will bring this into my life But lord my heart Will be for you my heart will be for the shepherd Right my heart will be for who he is So that what he gives Will not control You know my heart for the lord Right now that's the great place to be Now that's the right place to be Rather than saying, you know, I I will not, you know have anything to do with it Well, that's that's one end the other end is I want more of it. I want more of it And you know to be greedy and covetous about the what the one who's the shepherd wants to bring into our lives Right. So the the right thing is to say, okay lord. I want to be a channel I want to be a conduit Where I can be an instrument and I can just flow, you know the like the way you flow in through me like a river And we're we're bringing in and being an example being and being a blessing to others in this also May I be an instrument? I may I be a conduit where you just flow through me And I can you know be a blessing to the world in this as well Right Okay, so we'll stop here And you can you know go through the rest of the couple of scriptures also problems in marakai and And and the important thing is you know for us when we look at the nature of God You know next class we look at the covenant blessings and also the blessings of Abraham Um, but the important thing is this that we renew our mind that you are thinking. You know, that's the other Uh side of other aspect of learning, you know, this course that we renew our thinking renew our mind Say, okay, god, this is who you are and and come to a place spiritually where money does not have a hold on us Right, uh, where we are not swayed by it this way or the other where we are not, you know If we don't have much where we are not, you know unduly anxious or worried about it because we know that It'll come He is he is the source. He's the provider right and if ultimately, you know, we we uh, you know, when we see it and we come and so we are not controlled by it Right, and we handle it the best way possible Or the right way in which God wants us to handle it, right? Okay, so we'll stop here God bless. We'll meet again next week. Thank you. Thank you so much. Bye. Bye. Thank you pastor