 The topic I want to talk today is about growing instead of getting. Somebody say growing, come on, say it, somebody say growing, instead of getting. And if you have your Bibles, we're going to read just a little bit from Matthew 25 verses 14 through 18 and 24 through 30. It's just, it's a very famous scripture, but I just want to be able to read that real fast for you guys before we go into further. And it should be on our screen behind and it says this, again, it will be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and trusted his wealth to them. To one, he gave five bags of gold. Somebody say I receive, come on. To another two bags and to another one bag each according to his abilities. Somebody underwrite that each according to his ability. Then he went on to his journey. The man who had received five bags of gold went once and put his money to work and gained five more bags. So also the one with two bags gained two more. But man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground. Terrible idea. Dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money. Then we go to verse 24. Then the man who had received one bag of gold came said master. He said, I knew that you are a hard man. Underline this. I knew. It deals with mindset. I knew that you're a hard man harvesting where you did not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seeds. So I was afraid. Underline that. I was afraid. I went out and hid your gold in the ground. See here is what belongs to you. His master replied. You said you wicked and lazy servant. You knew that I harvest where I did not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed. Well then you shall have put, at least you have put my money deposit with the bankers so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. Verse 28 says, so take this bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has 10 bags for whoever has to him more will be given and he will have abundance. Whoever does not have even what they have will be taken from them and throw this worthless servant outside into a darkness where there will be weeping, agnashing of teeth. A little sour at the end but Jesus is trying to point out certain things from this parable and before we go into the message just want to underline this fact as we are touching on the area of finances and wealth is that money is not a sign of righteousness neither is poverty a sign of sin or a curse in your life. We have to understand that part. Some people feel like if I have money God loves me. No it's not. Some people feel like well if I don't have money you know God has punished me. That's not the goal. That's not the point. Also it's not that if you do get blessed financially some people say well I might have pride and all this or if I lose all the money God is trying to keep me humble. That's not it. The Bible clearly says that the money is neutral that it's that first Timothy 6 10 that it's the love of money is the root of all evil. It's never the subject in itself that is evil. It's a heart towards that area that makes it good or evil. It could be a blessing in your hands or the love of it can become a curse in your hands. So I just want to get that out of the way so we're not thinking like oh we're preaching prosperity gospel again no God wants us to be blessed. We reflect the character of our father amen. So as we reflect a heavenly father who says gold and silver is mine that this is what God wants us to have and through this parable we're just going to touch on a few principles that God has few things I want to take out is that God entrusts each poor each person according to their ability. So each one of us we have certain things in our life according to what we can handle. Somebody has more than us doesn't mean they're better than us. Somebody has a little bit that doesn't mean they're more worse than us. It's God entrusts each person to our own abilities that we have. So don't be looking to judge oh well God didn't give me this much as that he must not love me as much no he gives us to what we can handle and what we can do with my oldest son I don't give him say hey go change an oil in my car it's just he can't handle that. I'm more like hey go take your bike and put it in the shed I know that's something that he can handle. It's not that I don't love him more if I give him a bigger task no I just know what he can handle and what he cannot handle. If God begins to entrust you with things that you can't handle you'll begin to be frustrated you'll begin to fail and you'll ask God why are you punishing me instead of God why are you loving me. So the things that God gives us the riches the skills the family the marriage the church our home groups it's a matter of us being able to handle it and our abilities amen second thing I want to point out is sorry and the first one is Luke 1248 talks about to whom much is given much will be required to whom much is committed much will be requested amen so the more you're given the more you're gonna be required from you the second thing from despair I want to point out is that God expects each one to be fruitful and to multiply so when God gives you certain things in your life it could be a job it could be in your marriage could be with your kids God expects out of each one of us to begin to be fruitful and to begin to multiply and Colossians 1 10 says that that you may walk worthy of the Lord fully pleasing him being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God and Genesis when we read from in the beginning of Genesis the Bible clearly says over and over and over be fruitful and multiply somebody say be fruitful somebody say and multiply so God expects out of each one of us that when he entrusts you with certain gifts certain talents and certain areas in your life God expects you to be for when people look at you they know there's something different about you you're not just a regular person you're doing something there's the blessing of God that begins to follow you why because it's the commandment that God has given us to be fruitful and multiply and the last thing I want to underline is that our ability to multiply depends on our mindset our ability to multiply and to be fruitful what we have in our life depends on our mindset in this parable the servant that was given one back of gold he said I knew that you're wicked I was afraid it deals with mindset it deals with but like hey you know I don't want to do anything that's just that's just just me I have this mindset of the God you're wicked God you're out there to punish me God you know the moment I make a wrong mistake you're gonna just smite me you're gonna send to hell the view of God is from like a pessimist like saying that God you know you're just want to punish me you always want to keep fun away from me you don't want to bless me you want to always just you know just so I have enough just so I can survive so you can teach me humbleness or so you can punish me this or that the view of his master the view of our God it fits it's a negative view you won't be able to produce you won't be able to be fruitful the Bible says all good and perfect gifts come from the heaven above so when we have the view of God we are able to do good amen when I give a task to my child to do this or that and if he doesn't love he sees me oh my dad's just trying to punish me do you think the task that he will do will be good or not of course not because it's done out of fear it's done out of like well if I make a little mistake he's gonna punish me but if it's done out of love we know that we can exceed who performs better the one who gets scared to do a thing or the one that gets encouraged to do a thing it's the one that gets encouraged the one that says I believe in you you can do it you're fearfully wonderfully made you're the head you're not the tail you're more than conquered the spirit the crazed Christ from the dead lives inside of you or the one that says that if you don't do it I'm gonna punish you you know you're always worthless you always can't amount to nothing it's the one that gets encouraged so our mindset of God reflects on our ability to be fruitful and to multiply amen the first point I want you to to write down is that focus more on being than doing if you guys have your notes your phones right about take them out write this down I believe this is gonna change some of you guys live or impact them focus more on being than doing somebody say being than doing come on second century say being than doing in Daniel 11 32 says the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits becoming is greater than doing we have to understand in this first is that we just read it first starts with knowledge then it comes to transformation in your life then it goes into action the people that do know their God there has to be a knowledge more important than doing many people are concerned more about let me just do do do this to this to this but they don't have the knowledge of how to do it right some people are getting in and starting businesses left to right left to right and failing at all of them why is because it's the same mindset that is doing the work we begin to say okay I'm gonna I'm gonna just open up a home group I'm just gonna do do do I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna get this degree or do distances and they're more focused on let me do the action instead of increasing the knowledge of how to do it right instead of the increasing my ability to know what who I am in God who God says that I am what I can do and what I have in my life when we increase our ability to know who we are then we are able to perform better instead of just doing the work amen so we have to concentrate more being is more greater than doing every time that you are faced with failure every time you're faced with a challenge in your life you have to understand it is not the thing that you are doing that is failing it is your mindset that is limited to be able to get that thing to success it was never the action that you were doing it is simply that you're exhausted your mental capacity for the realm that you are currently in why because the same thing that you are doing right now somebody somewhere else is doing it and succeeding at it I've seen him many times two people doing the same thing one succeeds and one doesn't and one can sell us the markets this is oh it's it's the environment oh it's have been treated but if you really dig deep into that it is the mindset that separates the two apart that makes one to be successful and other to be failing at it why because in this parable that we wrote that we read every single person receive gold wasn't one that's the receive silver every single person receive gold yet one made successful was fruitful with it the other was lazy and wicked with it what separated the two it was never the environment it was their mindset one focus on being instead of doing and then was able to become fruitful and to bring back the reward back to his master I want to challenge somebody here today that it's never the action that you're doing it's more of the knowledge you acquire and knowing who you are in Christ Jesus what God says that you can do in your life the wisdom that comes from God more than the action itself we have to understand some people like well you know only if I if I can just do this thing wealth was never it was never meant to follow desire or the action it was always meant to follow growth it was always meant to follow you increasing your value you increasing your knowledge about that subject about that thing about that skill and God's blessing will begin to come into your life you know what they say if you give a poor person more money he'll still be poor if you give a poor person a book or a lesson he'll still ask for money if you take the money from the wealthy sooner later they'll still come back to it I read the statistic said that if you take that the whole the money that's in this world and you distribute it equally give it about a year and the money will flow back into where it was prior to that distribution why because it was never the money itself but it was the knowledge in the mindset that was able to keep that you look at two different marriages you see one marriage that is that is fighting and and and they're just can't stand each other and you see another marriage same same situation same marriage it's not the person's different it's not that the action is different is that the mindset that was going into that marriage so people like oh you don't know this person she's the devil I heard this quote I said the devil you know it's better than the devil you don't know you know so you think yours is bad until you try something else it's really bad so just because you think that the thing that you're doing is really bad or it's so hard why is it that the same thing that you're doing now here somebody else is succeeding in it somewhere else why it's the mindset that patreves and we acquire in order to do that thing in our life our body our life is is a slave to our mindset when somebody gets in the car crash hits a pole you don't blame the car for that accident you blame the driver right our mind is that driver the things that we have in our life the things that are surrounding us if they are failing don't blame the the circumstances that is failing you have to look deeper which it is the Bible clearly says that as the man thinks in his heart so is he God begins to portray your heart your mind to a thing that look you have to take care of deeper things before I could be a blessing the multiplication says be fruitful that means that it comes out of the inner being is that being fruitful then multiply you say well you know it's kind of like you know whatever out there it's just God expects each one of us to be that when he entrusts us with the marriage God wants you to be fruitful and multiplying and not just that you're living together know that your marriage can impact other marriages it could be a voice of hope for those who are given up that your family could be a voice that you raise next generation leaders and world changers not just that you have a family raise him that they don't get into no that there will be an impact in our society don't make difference in the history in this world you're not just a mother raising children no you're a mother raising a prophet your mother raising the next president your mother raising a doctor is going to find a cure for this or that you're not just a person that just trying to do life no you're called to be fruitful and to multiply in every era of your life I remember when we first was starting with the church and we had just only like two pews of people coming here and and remember pastor Vlad's like God has challenged me to be a pastor of a hundred and a thousand people and we're like okay cool what does that mean so we would literally the the simplest thing that we did was take the the pulpit that was standing here in the middle here on this side and just move it to this middle and then move it up on the stage so to act like we're preaching to the whole sanctuary where I was only two people over here God will never change your circumstances he will always change you then the circumstance will begin to follow because you grew on the inside the funny part yeah let's give God a praise for that the funny part was the moment we literally moved the pew from here to there to here like what's the pew has to do with anything start preaching as if we had the whole sanctuary people started coming it's like what's going on but God even in Genesis he says first let there be light and then light comes he first begins to speak it out of his existence and then it begins to happen in our lives don't blame your marriage for you know oh if you only knew what he did to me or if he only knew how she this is no change your mindset begin to declare who you are in Christ Jesus begin to act like you have a blessed marriage begin to act like you have kids that obey you begin to walk according to and you will see how sooner or later your circumstances will begin to align according to it amen church when you're facing failure in your life it means that you have exhausted the mental capacity for that round you just exhausted your mental capacity every time I face failure in whatever area that I am I always come back to this and I always say what is it that I still don't know because the thing that I'm doing now somebody else is doing and he's succeeding at it what is it that I don't know yet what is what is the area where God wants me to grow still into there's many times that we ask God for a blessing and God says you're not ready the blessing that comes with this thing there's a responsibility there's a maturity and there's a mindset that needs to handle that blessing I don't give my my five-year-old keys to the car why because there's maturity and there's education there's a knowledge that comes to receive that blessing so many times when we pray and we say God why you're not blessing we'll ask yourself why is God not blessing you what is this next level in your life that you need in order to maintain that blessing because you have to understand higher places are slippery places you can't make mistakes at a higher place than you are making now there's certain requirements certain certain minds of the God needs you to have in order for you to handle and maintain and to keep it's better for you not to receive that blessing than to receive and lose it I mean you guys agree with that it's better for you not to know oh I got a brand-new car and then two months later a tow truck is taking it it's better for you not to have why because God says I want to give you that blessing but I don't want you to lose it because in what the scripture says that the God makes God's blessing makes one rich and adds no sorrow to it he doesn't want to give you a blessing that later on you're pulling out your hair because you don't know how to maintain it I remember back in the day I was praying God bless me with the business then I got the business God I was asking God take it away you have 35 employees most of them 30 like grown men acting on like like little kids and you're becoming a counselor now instead of a boss because you're trying to manage people's problems and he took this tool he looked at me that way and and you're sitting there and you're ripping out your hair because you don't know how to handle this you ask God for a blessing but that blessing came with responsibilities that you weren't prepared to take be careful because if you're not careful enough the blessing can turn into curse when you don't know how to pay your bills next month that's not a blessing because you can't lose you can't sleep you're losing sleep over how am I gonna handle this the next level in your life where God wants us to to take you to God says I want you to focus more on being than undoing that doing will come it will it will be it's most like it's like as you increase your your worth on the inside know who you are the knowledge that you need to have to require for the next area of your life those things will begin to come to you you know we prayed for more people to come to church we ask God we want overflow but the overflow comes with problems like no parking lots people complain to packed places you know people are like saying it's too hot in here you know we can't park and we have to park all over there it comes with problems there's more drama there's more people leaving the church there's people saying this is this if you're not careful this blessing can can no longer look like a blessing somebody say somebody say focus more on being than doing life will always take you back to the real place where your mindset is always life has a way of in a way dragging you either forward or backwards where your mindset is you know they did a study that most of the people that win the lottery in three or four years actually become more broke than they were before the lottery and actually most of them commit suicide and die because life has a way of dragging you back or forward where your mind is and Jesus says like pay attention to your heart out of the heart flow the issues of life and we want to God give me give me this God give me that guy's like no I I want to first increase your worth and I want you to become more stable to you that you're grounded in God that if good times come you're not moved if bad times come you're not moved that you're walking with God knowing that that job is just a resource that I am your source that God is the fountain of everything that's in my life if you make him you're all you know the good times come you're anchored bad times come you're still anchored why because you are known who you are in Christ Jesus what you can do in what you have in your life in Jesus name amen transformation takes time it's not a one thing that had tomorrow I'm gonna take a book I'm a ready memorized for scriptures and that's it all is good and I'm gonna go and conquer the whole world it takes time somebody say transformation takes time we we took years to build the mindset that we have we can't expect one book to change our mindset I remember some good guys I go I listen to this podcast I'm gonna go start a business I'm like please don't just please don't I'm like I don't want to I'm tired of helping people with money and stuff cuz you're broke so it's like it's it's first educate yourself on it build your mind to acquire the skills that needed in order to maintain the blessing that God has for your life number two is this God will always bless you through opportunities if you ask God for money he'll never give you money just understand that God will always present an opportunity for you to exercise the God-given desires and the gifts that he's placed inside of you in order for the blessings to come in your life always in a with God God gave every person in the Bible this through opportunities a throne or or that area where blessing begins to come if you look at Joseph's life for example you know God showed him a dream that he's gonna be one day to rule and God's gonna people gonna bow down to him but before that came God gave him an opportunity to be a slave and he exceeded and being a slave the God put him in a potter for his house and then he exceeded he became the best a potter for his house he lost opposition he went to jail then became the head in the jail come on I was like that's that's tough right here you're you're in jail and to become the top and like I don't know what you do but you must be good at that every area Joseph was tossed into he saw this opportunity I'm gonna come the best study people gonna see Christ through what I do in my life and sooner or later life dragged him out of that place and put him in the throne where his mindset was originally when he wasn't not in a dungeon dungeon when he was in the potter for his house he said that look I know where I belong it is not here it's not here you might have him right now at things fight in your marriage but let your mind not be so you know we are happily married God is the myth of marriage we love each other as Christ of the church you know and you're sitting there and sooner or later you'll get to that place why because you did not allow the circumstances to affect the God given word that was in your heart God expects each and one of us to become to a place where we reflect Christ when people looked at Joseph that said God is with this guy when people see you they gotta say man this guy is there's something different about him he's not just you know walking around praying in tongues no he's exceeding in everything that he does and sooner or later you begin to rise to the place with God has called you to be a man of Proverbs 10 22 was a thing the blessings of the Lord makes one rich and adds no sorrows to it there's a woman named Ursula Burns Burns began her career as an intern and later a junior engineer at Xerox company she worked her way over the years eventually to became the CEO of Xerox in 2009 making her the first African woman to lead a fortune 500 company started off as an intern saw as an opportunity knew who she was and sooner or later God begins to promote promote and she becomes a CEO of a company many times we see our job or like God this thing I just need a higher paying job God's like I want to make you the head of the company in this job it's not that dollar difference that's gonna make an impact in your life it's your mindset that's gonna do the difference in way you are right now if you are a mother if you're a teacher if you are if you whatever area that God has placed you in it doesn't have to be that every single person here has to start a business no the area that you are in right now God says I need you to be fruitful and to begin to multiply and as you begin to increase your worth to begin to increase your knowledge and the skills that God has in that area it wasn't that Joseph begins to preach to to the potter first house that made him successful no he did what he did with excellence how you are acting when it comes to your job when it comes to your family are you going an extra mile are you just doing enough just to make it sure hey it's done that makes a difference if it's just like oh I just you know barely making it on time to to work and you know clocking out early trying to cheat on hours you know trying to do a half job not and no when you excel when you begun and go do an extra mile God will begin to reward the work of your hands if your hands are lazy there's nothing to reward if you're our work if your hands are hard work and the diligent God begins to bless that because the Bible says whatever you hand touches will be blessed if your hand touches your tummy all the time it might be blessed too so be careful with that in 2 Kings 4 verses 1 to 7 there was a prophet and had and there was a widow with oil and the prophet came to her and the widow said hey this debtor is coming to collect two of my sons I need I need help and prophet begins to tell us to go borrow vessels begin to increase your mind begin to grab as much vessels as possible because as much as you increase it I will feel it God always begins to stretch our mind to be able to see more to be able to see more you know when we were starting the church our pastor tell us hey guys you got to say thousand locally millions globally we're like who's gonna listen to us we still have a Russian accent you know nobody's gonna we see like oh all these things nobody's gonna listen to no but God was like increase your mind stretch your faith straight see more and as we begin to say as we say people from countries we never even heard and don't even believe they exist to say you guys are impacting our lives they say you guys is slogan of millions globally I'm one of them but it all started as you begin to say thousands locally millions globally I'll be blessed as I walk in I'll be blessed as I walk out God is on my side and I will not be moved you know God is for me what can be against me I'm an overcomer God's gonna you know bless the work on my hands God's gonna make me an overcomer you know I'm gonna have an influence in my generation I'm not just gonna be a teenager walking by no I'm gonna make a difference in my school when I open and ashamed clubs I'm gonna the set of kids taking the lives they're gonna be given the life to Jesus Christ and you just declaring those things over your life sooner or later your circumstances aligned to your mindset that God has given you don't pray for a change circumstances pray God change me God increase my capacity to believe God increase my capacity to stand and not to give up and to know that sooner or later God will bring the reward to those who believe in my church and the last one is it is never the risk but knowledge somebody say it's never the risk but the knowledge in Hosea 4 6 says that my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge it didn't say somebody else says my people's God's children they're destroyed for lack of knowledge God wants to increase your capacity to believe God wants to increase your faith to be able to believe and to stand with God and to strive for more to believe that there's more to come with him amen church you know I was the first one to marry a Latina in my family and it was tough can I give a testimony somebody that's good so you know it's it's one of those things that knowledge makes a huge difference right especially when it comes to these things and you know going on to eight years married on my life thank you Jesus praise God there's a few things that you figure out how to do you know she didn't come with the manual so it was a little bit hard it's like trial and error you try it doesn't work you figure it out what they are known as like you're eating your dinner your lunch is like baby it's a little spicy you know you know what you lost it is when when her accent changes you know it's like do you think this is spicy you don't know spicy like what's what's going on even even my dog leaves the room at that point is like a homie you're on your own now so you learn a thing or two as time comes knowledge separates those that have success and those that have failure it's the knowledge that separates God wants us to understand it's that he will bless you but he doesn't want a blessing to begin to break your life many pastors they pray for a bigger church but bigger church comes and they they get on depressed and feels why because that enlargement comes with pressure enlargement comes with false accusation name calling losing friends backstabbing we feel like oh as long if I get more money things would become easier actually gets harder I was talking in my home room the other day and I was like have you ever been sued before talk what yeah you have more money you're gonna get sued no oh yeah have you ever been lied against we don't think that those those higher places are slippery place and God says before I take you to that area God was like Joseph look before I take you to that throne you gotta learn how to be rejected by your own you gotta be learned you gotta learn and have to master of being falsely accused after you begin to be falsely accused you have to learn how to still help while you were cheated by those people you Joseph the place that you're going to I need you to know that even if you help somebody they'll forget about you and you still have to move on that's an area of a throne and God says you can't have the throne unless you master these things we ask God God take away this this challenge for my life God's like no it's an opportunity for you to get your throne it's not it's not a curse it's not a punch no I'm trying to prepare you to maintain the blessing that comes with it it just doesn't come without challenges no great marriage succeeds without being able to say sorry when you're right yeah that's in King huh I learned your mouth shut while it open it's always my fault hey that's it figure out it's my fault that but that done take the money go we're good it's it's it's it works but that's how strong marriages are built because we feel oh it's gonna be so much fun and they get into the first car I can't do this any irreconcilable differences so the place where like I said it's you I prayed for God God give me bigger home group I want to impact more people but there comes drama with it there comes people that say things about you there's times where people don't show up there's times where it just gets hectic and all these things like do I want to do this and God says you wanted a blessing it is a blessing but you just have to learn how to handle it just like every newborn baby it's such a precious thing when you hold it at night and it's it's oh it's such a but then it comes out four in the morning with the baby starts screaming starts crying and it can't go to sleep there's life there's there's love but yet there's a challenge we've seen many we've seen it over and over unfortunately many parents give up their kids why cuz they couldn't handle the pressure that came with having a blessing from God where God wants each and one of us to go is a higher place but it's not an easier place a living a blessed life there's certain things that you have to cut away from your life there has to be focus you know for every marriage to succeed you have to get rid of your single friends in order for you to have abundance when it comes to finances there has to be cut away of unnecessary spending there's certain things that have to lose in your life but some people are not willing to to do those things why because they want to just live life as if you know as everything is as good everything is perfect no there there's a price to pay where God wants it to go I'm not trying to discourage anybody to get to that place no it's it's a beautiful place it's a blessing I've been married eight or almost eight years now it's the best thing that ever happened to me even you know it's like some people might even though my jokes might portray that it's terrible no it's the best thing that ever happened to me but it was a challenge it taught me to certain things to to hey figure yourself out in order if you want to enjoy this thing you lay your pride down learn how to say sorry learn how to cut away certain things learn how to humble yourself and you'll enjoy that blessing and as you make that sacrifice you thank God for every day of your life say God thank you for being faithful in my life now as we are we praying right now for you know a new building that God has entrusted to us and and God has given us there's challenges with it there has to be money that needs to be raised there's infrastructure there's certain things that come with it but we know that God where God wants us to go is a blessed life that's why here we begin to teach on marriage strong families finances on health on the sound mind and learn how to overcome on dealing with strongholds on being deliverance from demons healings blessing all those things why because where we are going where God wants you to be is a place that is not easy but it's doable some practical steps before we finish this is that your first and foremost things that is your relationship with God above all don't lose your relationship God the Bible says Matthew 633 seek first the kingdom of God and in this righteous everything else will be added to you don't lose focus of God in the midst of it all as things get hectic spend more time with God in prayer second of all is you word-based teachings you have to surround your life with word-based teaching not just any type of books it has to be word-based begin to listen to sermons begin to listen to podcasts that is centered on God's principle for your life you have to have that in your life third one is that oh there's there's some there's some sermons you can ask my wife I've literally 30 times I'm just just listen and listen why because I know that this is not just information needs to become a revelation my life and has to become a part of my life sometimes you hear it once but man I just need to drill it drill it in my mind so much that it becomes automatic action that when God says to do something I don't think twice is a part of the Bible this is I know God said it I do it why it's because it became part of me took you 20 years 30 years some 10 years to get that negative thinking in your life don't think just one time sermon will get it out it's repetition in your mind as you hear the word of God as you meditate the word of God as you speak the word of God becomes part of your life then it changes your circumstance people who are where you want to go surround yourself with people who will challenge you this happens through home groups and challenge every single person don't miss home groups yeah it might seem like always just no it's it's where you grow it's where you get challenged where you where you see others doing goodness like okay I need to step up doing good what God will use different people in their life to begin to uplift you to encourage you to push you where you need to go you need to have that surround show me your friends I'll show you your future you have to have people in life to challenge you yes they might not know everything about where you're gonna go but they can see the fundamentals in your life and God can use them to correct you to uplift you and to be able to send you to the place where you have to go for example you know our pastor with with pastor of life no our pastor never wrote a book but yet he trained up pastors they're able to achieve more than ever he was able to and some of the things he doesn't know how to do yet the fundamental and core issues God use our pastor to instruct to correct your uplift and now this church where it is because of people like our pastor in our lives so you have to put yourself oh he doesn't know anything about business oh you know if he's anointed men of God if you know the woman of God God uses them let God use them to speak into your life amen and the last one is take action take action take small steps where where you need to go begin to begin to say hey next week you know if our marriage is strong let's let's go on a date let's try you know the the week after let's let's spend some time let's pray together you know the week after that you know if when a business say let's let's cut off 1% of spending just small little things in your life that you can take action but those things will begin to add up and sooner or later you'll see how they'll turn into a lifestyle and that lifestyle will begin to bring the blessings of God when they do come you'll be able to maintain in Jesus thanks for watching to this sermon if this was a blessing to you would you let me know in the comments below what stood out to you from this message what are you taking home with you from this message also if you enjoyed these messages would you help us and hit thumbs up to this video and subscribe to our channel so you can get new videos every single week delivered to you on your YouTube app if you go to hungry gen.com forward slash sermons you'll actually be able to download the transcript the notes and the quotes of this sermon and the rest of all of our 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