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00:00 Family, Pastor Darius here.
00:02 Excited about this message, man.
00:03 It's called "I'm About to See Something."
00:05 This one's going to challenge you a little bit.
00:08 Here's my thought.
00:09 If I'm not challenging you to see an old thing a new way,
00:15 then why am I necessary?
00:17 I mean, like that's what growth is all about, right?
00:20 Being stretched and being challenged.
00:22 And that's really what we are...
00:24 I just think that's what I'm believing for through this message.
00:27 It's called "I'm About to See Something."
00:29 I'm dealing with this biblical concept of expectation and plowing.
00:33 And I want you to wrap your head around it.
00:35 It's some stuff I'm expecting.
00:37 Not because I said I got to have it,
00:39 but because God said He wants to give it to me.
00:42 I want you to enjoy this message, and if it helps you,
00:44 just share it with somebody else.
00:46 That's my only request.
00:47 Alright, take care. God bless.
00:49 [applause]
00:51 And so I want to read real quick
00:54 a couple of verses from the book of 1 Corinthians, chapter 9,
00:58 verses 9 through 10.
01:00 And it says this, "For it is written in the law of Moses,
01:03 'Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out grain.'"
01:07 Is it the oxen that God is concerned about?
01:10 Surely He says this for us, doesn't He?
01:13 Yes, this was written for us
01:15 because whoever plows and threshes
01:19 should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.
01:25 I want to talk from this subject in our time together, family.
01:28 I'm about to see something.
01:30 [applause]
01:31 Clap your hands if you received that change.
01:34 I'm about to see something.
01:38 I always like to inform some and remind others
01:41 that I was reared and raised in a very small town in Mississippi
01:45 called Kilmichael, Mississippi.
01:48 During my time and tenure there,
01:50 the population was about 800 people.
01:52 We had one full-time police officer.
01:55 His name was David Eldridge.
01:57 We had one part-time police officer.
01:59 I don't know his real name. We called him Dooney.
02:02 Dooney was my bus driver during the day,
02:04 and he was the police officer at night.
02:07 [laughter]
02:09 He was a very rural area,
02:11 but it was also a very under-resourced area.
02:15 What do you mean, pastor?
02:16 I mean there was no boys' and girls' clubs.
02:19 There was no YMCA.
02:22 There was no AAU basketball teams.
02:25 There were no summer camps.
02:29 So this meant during the summer season,
02:32 parents had to get very innovative and creative
02:36 when it came to what they did with their kids.
02:40 And for most of us, our summer activity
02:45 was the execution of two words you got from your parents--
02:49 go outside.
02:52 [laughter]
02:55 And that's what generally happened,
02:57 but one summer, my father got innovative and creative,
03:02 and he said, "This summer, we're going to make a garden."
03:07 We're like, "Okay."
03:09 We got--our family had land,
03:11 and we said, "Hey, he's going to pick out a plot.
03:14 We'll make a garden, and we'll figure out
03:17 what this is going to be about this summer."
03:21 But my father had something else in mind
03:24 when he said "garden."
03:25 He wasn't referring to a minuscule, a modicum,
03:34 a moderate amount of land.
03:37 He took one side of the whole house--
03:41 on the other side of the whole house--
03:42 and said, "I want to make this side a garden."
03:45 And I knew I would have trouble
03:47 explaining this to you verbally,
03:50 so I called him this week because I said,
03:52 "I need to show this to you visibly."
03:54 I said, "Dad, you remember when you made us have that garden?"
03:58 He said, "Yeah."
03:59 I said, "Can you take a video from that side of the house
04:04 so that the people can see
04:07 what kind of garden we had to create?"
04:09 He said, "Sure."
04:10 So I want you to see what I mean
04:13 when I say we had a garden.
04:18 [audience laughter]
04:46 So in my mind, I'm like,
04:50 "That's not a garden.
04:52 That's a football field."
04:56 It was one of the most interesting
04:59 and seemingly invaluable seasons of my life,
05:04 but it taught me something.
05:05 It taught me a critical life lesson,
05:08 and that is what is agitation in one season?
05:13 You may look back on and call it education in another.
05:18 Did you hear what I just said?
05:20 Yeah, that God is literally the only one
05:23 that takes you to school
05:24 and doesn't tell you you're in class.
05:27 You don't know you are in school until you've graduated.
05:31 You don't know He's teaching you something
05:34 until He's taught you something.
05:36 Come on here.
05:37 And this is interesting, family.
05:40 This is interesting
05:41 because when I was experiencing that season,
05:46 it seemed like something that was unnecessary.
05:52 And now that I look back on it,
05:55 I see now it's something that's invaluable.
05:59 So I want to encourage you to be careful
06:02 to label--not to label a thing prematurely
06:07 because what you're naming it now,
06:10 you might have to rename it later
06:13 when God gives you a revelation of the why.
06:18 Am I making sense?
06:19 So that season of agitation was actually--
06:22 now I look back in opportunity for education
06:25 because what that season taught me
06:28 was the power of plowing.
06:33 [laughs]
06:34 Did you hear what I said?
06:36 Yeah, I had no idea that that experience
06:40 would have some exegetical value
06:42 and I'd be standing on this platform
06:44 using that experience to open up the Scriptures
06:47 to help us see a principle that applies to our life.
06:51 I saw the power of plowing
06:55 because when you look at that field now,
06:58 that is the way the field looked
07:01 before we created the garden.
07:05 You cannot sow seed on that field like that.
07:12 You've got to till that ground
07:16 to create rows so that you can sow in the row.
07:21 Am I making sense here?
07:23 I said, "Am I making sense here?"
07:25 Pastor, when you say plowing,
07:27 what are you referring to?
07:28 Plowing is the preparation and the cultivation
07:32 of a field to sow seeds
07:35 that will yield future results.
07:38 So before we could plant seed,
07:42 he had to plow because the plowing
07:45 helped remove the rocks and the rubble
07:49 that would get in the way of the results
07:51 that we wanted.
07:55 Did you hear what I just said?
07:57 I said, "Did you hear what I just said?"
07:59 That the plowing is actually harder
08:04 than the sowing
08:09 because when it came time to sow,
08:11 all we had to do was drop the seed.
08:14 We didn't sweat when we sowed.
08:18 We didn't get fatigued when we sowed.
08:21 We got fatigued in the plowing
08:23 because there's some stuff you have to plow through
08:26 to be able to sow the seed.
08:29 Come on.
08:30 That's going to produce the harvest that we work.
08:33 And this is what I see.
08:35 The enemy is not just after the seed.
08:38 The enemy is after the plow.
08:42 He says, "I want them to give up while they're plowing.
08:45 I want them to give in while they're plowing.
08:47 I want them to walk away while they're plowing
08:50 because if they keep plowing,
08:52 they're going to overturn some things.
08:54 If they keep plowing, they're going to expose some things.
08:57 If they keep plowing, they're going to remove some things
09:00 that are in the way of what I want to do in their life.
09:04 There's power in the plow."
09:06 [applause]
09:11 And I started thinking about this, and I'm like,
09:13 "Okay, I don't want to form some theological premise
09:19 based on some isolated text that if it's true,
09:23 I'm going to see the truth somewhere else in Scripture."
09:28 Got me?
09:29 So I started looking.
09:33 All right, y'all bring it down.
09:35 Hurry up.
09:36 Thank you.
09:38 You're telling me I sound good to me.
09:40 I don't know what's going on.
09:46 Y'all hear me better?
09:48 All right, praise God.
09:52 I felt better with the other thing, but all right.
09:55 This is what we're going with today.
09:57 What was I talking about?
09:58 Y'all interrupt.
09:59 What was I saying?
10:01 No, what's the last thing I said?
10:04 No.
10:09 Scripture, got it.
10:10 Okay, that's what it is.
10:11 That's what it was.
10:12 All right, Scripture.
10:13 All right.
10:15 All right, here it is.
10:16 Got to be tapped in, y'all.
10:17 Come on now.
10:19 So I've been doing some research, and this is what I saw.
10:22 I saw instances scattered throughout the Scriptures regarding the utilization of the principle of power.
10:30 I saw in Proverbs, which is wisdom literature, is situated in a section of the Bible called wisdom literature.
10:37 So the purpose of wisdom literature is to impart wisdom to the godly.
10:43 Did you hear what I just said?
10:45 Okay, so this is wisdom literature.
10:47 So this is intended to make us wise.
10:48 So Solomon says this, "Sluggards do not plow in season."
10:57 Come on here.
10:59 Somebody say sluggard.
11:00 Okay, think snail.
11:03 It's not that a snail doesn't move, but a snail moves slow.
11:11 And so the writer says that a snail, a sluggard, doesn't plow in season.
11:19 So at harvest time--I'm getting ready to run.
11:23 I love this word.
11:24 I love the word.
11:26 So that at harvest time, they look but find nothing.
11:33 Did you hear what I just said?
11:38 It says sluggards do not plow in season.
11:42 But at harvest time, they look and they find nothing.
11:47 It is procrastination.
11:50 It is paralyzation.
11:52 Come on.
11:53 It is an operation with the assumption you always going to have opportunity.
11:59 It is a lack of understanding of the two words the Greek New Testament uses to describe time.
12:06 One is chronos, which has etymological roots for the word chronology, right?
12:11 But there's another one called kairos.
12:14 And kairos are these sovereign moments that God has set on his calendar that are time-specific blessings for you and time-specific seasons for his agenda.
12:25 And he says, "Now, kairos don't wait for you."
12:31 It is a time-sensitive blessing.
12:33 It means that God knows that in order for me to accomplish my agenda, this needs to happen within this time frame.
12:41 The birth of Jesus was a kairos moment.
12:45 If Mary didn't give God a yes, he would have found somebody else that would.
12:50 But Jesus had to be born at that point in human history.
12:54 It was a kairos moment.
12:57 And God's got some kairos moments for you.
13:01 There's some stuff waiting on you with your name on it.
13:05 Y'all better come get me here.
13:07 I said it's been custom-made.
13:09 It's been tailor-made.
13:11 It's been providentially prepared for you.
13:14 And it doesn't matter.
13:16 Y'all better come get me here.
13:17 I said it doesn't matter what you think about it, whether or not you think you're worthy of it, or whether or not the previous seasons of your life have been any indication that breakthrough is getting ready to happen.
13:28 I came to tell you that there is a kairos moment that you step into where you're not doing anything differently from what you've been doing before.
13:39 But all of a sudden, he breathed on it.
13:45 Did you hear what I said?
13:50 Darren Hardy calls it the compound effect.
13:55 It is this accumulation of investment that a person has made in themself over time.
14:04 But they have the perseverance to plow through seasons where it seemed like the investment was yielding no return.
14:14 Come on.
14:15 They have the tenacity and the resilience and the stick-to-itiveness to say, "This doesn't seem to be working now, but I believe I'm working the right thing.
14:26 And if I keep working the right thing long enough, sooner or later, it's going to compound.
14:32 It's going to multiply.
14:34 It's going to accelerate.
14:35 God's going to breathe on it."
14:37 That's a kairos moment.
14:41 But the kairos moment doesn't wait.
14:46 So when you get to the moment, that's not plowing season.
14:50 That's harvest season.
14:54 So if I hadn't plowed in the season I was supposed to plow in, it'll be harvest season, and I'm looking, and the text says, "I have nothing."
15:09 And I remember several years ago, several years ago, I just felt like this inner witness saying, "Get more discipline.
15:16 Get more discipline.
15:17 Get more discipline.
15:18 Get more discipline."
15:19 It wasn't get more holy.
15:21 It was get more discipline.
15:23 Get more discipline.
15:24 Get more discipline.
15:25 So that doesn't seem like a spiritual thing, does it?
15:28 I mean, it's like undisciplined can lead to sin, but undisciplined is not sin.
15:32 Undisciplined is just undisciplined, right?
15:34 Undisciplined itself is a weight, the sin and the weight that so easily besets us.
15:42 It's a weight, not necessarily sin, but it's just prompting, "Get more discipline.
15:45 Get more discipline."
15:46 And to me, it didn't make sense because I was one of the most disciplined people I knew.
15:52 But he was talking to me in my yesterday about my tomorrow.
16:00 Did you hear what I said?
16:02 So to act on a word in my yesterday that doesn't apply to my today, take faith.
16:10 Because you're telling me to do something I don't see I need.
16:16 But what God knew is that there was a season of my life, a Kairos moment that he had prepared
16:24 for me, and when he was telling me to get more discipline, that was plowing season.
16:30 Come on here, because he knew I was going to step into a season that will require more
16:36 than the use of a gift.
16:37 Y'all better hear me.
16:38 You better hear me.
16:39 I'm not telling you my business to tell you my business.
16:42 I'm telling you my business because it's some of your business, because you've been too
16:47 gift-heavy.
16:48 Let me go to this side.
16:50 You've been getting away with gift only, and your gift has been getting you by, and you
16:55 have not added to your gift some of the discipline that you need to carry you into this next season.
17:06 And you're so good, you're getting by disorganized.
17:20 He said, "No, no, no, your preaching gift not going to carry, Darius, what you're going
17:26 to have to carry in this season."
17:29 It was plowing season.
17:32 And so, am I making sense now?
17:35 And so, if I hadn't plowed during the season I was supposed to plow, I wouldn't be able
17:41 to reap in the season I was supposed to reap.
17:45 I got to go, but what is God talking to you about?
17:52 For me, it was discipline.
17:53 What is he talking to you about?
17:56 It's because there's a moment you're going to step into where you already have to be
18:00 it to handle the moment.
18:07 Did you hear what I said?
18:08 See, there is some responsibility that the responsibility of itself, itself puts a demand
18:14 on your development.
18:15 Meaning you step into the responsibility and then you have to develop.
18:18 Then there's another set of responsibility that requires you to have been developed before
18:24 you carry it.
18:28 It says that when it's time to be ready, it's too late to get ready.
18:32 So, Noah, when I say build the ark, build it.
18:35 I don't care if you don't see a cloud in the sky, build it.
18:38 I don't care if people think you're crazy, build it.
18:40 I don't care if it doesn't make sense, build it.
18:43 Because I know when it's getting ready to rain, you don't.
18:46 So you need to build it.
18:47 When I say build it, so you'll be ready for what you don't know is coming.
18:52 Somebody that believes is getting ready to rain.
18:56 Don't wait until you see a cloud in the sky.
18:59 But if you believe it's getting ready to rain, somebody give him a rainmaker praise right
19:05 now.
19:18 Am I making sense?
19:20 I said, am I making sense?
19:22 This, this, this, this, this, Jesus said this about plowing in Luke 9, 62.
19:28 No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of
19:39 God.
19:40 I don't know if you've ever seen anybody plowing, but what happens when you let go?
19:49 Come on here.
19:50 He says a person that puts a hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom.
19:57 I'm seeing all this.
19:58 I'm like, man, there's been this obsession with reaping sowing, but I'm looking at scripture
20:05 and I'm seeing this concept of plowing that there's power in the plow.
20:15 That the sowing precedes the reaping, but the plowing precedes the sowing.
20:25 And what's this sowing in scripture refers to three distinct things.
20:29 One, sowing refers to conversation.
20:33 My words, the Bible says are seed.
20:36 Y'all better hear me now.
20:39 Am I making sense?
20:42 The power of life and death is in the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit
20:55 thereof.
20:56 I'm eating what I'm saying.
21:01 So if I'm saying negativity, then I'm internalizing eating negativity.
21:08 If what I'm saying is full of cynicism, then I'm going to be eating, internalizing cynicism.
21:15 So I cannot have a positive internal state.
21:19 If my mouth is inundated with negative and cynical and doubt-filled words.
21:27 Come on here.
21:29 I've never seen a positive attitude with negative conversation.
21:36 Paul says, we therefore having the same spirit of faith, we believe, therefore, confession, homo lego, to say the same.
21:51 What does God say?
21:53 That's what I say.
21:57 Did you hear what I just said?
21:59 I said, what does God say?
22:01 That's what I say.
22:04 Faith means I don't ignore facts.
22:06 That's denial.
22:07 That's not faith.
22:08 Faith doesn't deny reality.
22:09 Faith believe God to change it.
22:11 Faith say this is a fact, but the word is truth and the fact doesn't change the truth.
22:17 But when I put this truth on that fact.
22:23 The fact may be there's lack, but the truth is he will supply all of my need.
22:29 So let me put that truth on the fact and the truth will change the fact.
22:38 So my words are seeds.
22:40 Here's the problem.
22:41 Some of us are trying to sow seeds of words in the other people without plowing.
22:49 So that's why the conversation in yielding a harvest.
22:53 Because there's rocks in the soul of their heart and there's a rubble in the soul of their heart.
22:58 And until that pride is plowed out.
23:02 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:04 Until that defensiveness is plowed out.
23:07 Until that hypersensitivity is plowed out.
23:11 Until that lack of self-awareness is plowed out.
23:15 No matter how persuasive, how profound, and how well-timed your words are.
23:21 There's never a right time to speak the right word to a sensitive heart.
23:26 It's too quiet in this church today.
23:34 You're trying to have conversation.
23:36 You haven't plowed enough yet.
23:42 It's the plow.
23:50 I sow words, so I sow conversation.
23:53 But I also sow choices.
23:55 My seeds are my choices, my decisions.
23:58 My decisions are the way I partner with God in my destiny.
24:02 I come into partnership with God's plan for my life by my willingness to allow him,
24:08 either by promptings of the Spirit or principles in his word, to influence my decisions.
24:15 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.
24:19 He delights in his way, though he falls.
24:21 He shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholds him with his right hand.
24:26 Steps, systematic, left, right, and sequential, one foot in front of the other.
24:35 Patterns of movement that get me from one place to the next.
24:39 So your steps are actually your decisions.
24:41 Because you get from one place in life to the next, not by what you do here,
24:46 but by what you do with this up here.
24:51 Am I making sense?
24:52 And so when the Bible says God wants to order my steps, it means he said,
24:56 "I need you to let me guide your decisions."
25:00 It means now--are y'all okay?
25:02 It means God wants us to let him be Lord, not just Savior.
25:09 Uh-oh.
25:11 Let me go over here.
25:13 Wait a minute. Okay, let me go back.
25:16 I said he wants to be Lord, not just Savior.
25:22 Lord means I let you influence me on the front end.
25:26 Savior means I just want you to come rescue me on the back.
25:32 Be a deliverer, but don't be a prophet.
25:35 Let me do what I want to do on the front end,
25:38 and if my decision-making gets me in a dilemma,
25:41 then I'll invite you in to rescue me from something that I got myself into.
25:50 He said, "But to get from where you are to where I want you to be,
25:55 you got to let me start influencing those decisions.
26:00 You got to let me order those steps."
26:04 Woo.
26:07 Come on.
26:08 Every decision pregnant with the potential to produce a season.
26:12 A season is in a decision.
26:18 [laughs]
26:21 I don't know if y'all are enjoying this.
26:22 I'm having a good time today.
26:24 I'm just as happy as I can be up here.
26:32 He says, "No, no, no.
26:33 I want you all to understand every significant decision you made is a seed,
26:40 but you drop the seed in a moment, seconds.
26:44 It didn't take you that long to make the decision.
26:47 It took you that long to plow.
26:54 Because there are some decisions we know we need to make.
26:56 They're hard ones, but you make a hard one in a moment.
27:02 What's hard is not just the decision.
27:06 It's all the plowing you got to do to make it.
27:10 So you got to plow past fear.
27:12 You got to plow past how I'm going to be interpreted.
27:15 You got to plow past what if I get this wrong.
27:17 Come on.
27:18 You got to plow past how does this make me look.
27:22 It's the plowing.
27:26 My conversation, seed.
27:28 My choices, seed.
27:29 My currency is seed.
27:34 And I'm having this conversation with us on the back end, not on the front end,
27:38 on the back end, because what I want you to see, church, and we get ready to go.
27:41 I'm out of here.
27:42 I got four minutes.
27:43 I'm out of here.
27:44 Here it is.
27:45 What I want you to see, church, is this.
27:46 What happened in my earthly father's garden decades ago is what we did in our heavenly father's garden last week.
27:58 Pastor, I sowed, but before you sowed, you plowed.
28:07 You didn't plow through dirt, but you plowed through doubt.
28:11 And you plowed through fear.
28:13 And you plowed through second guessing yourself.
28:15 See, I don't know if you've ever seen someone who's plowing.
28:19 Come on.
28:20 And if you've seen someone plowing, very often you'll see that thing is not in a straight line.
28:25 Sometimes that thing runs into rocks and to rubble, and it starts veering in different directions,
28:32 and you've got to be strong enough to put it back on the right path.
28:36 And last week, as we were plowing, you were like, "I'm getting ready to do it."
28:40 No, I'm like, "Yes, I am."
28:42 No, I'm not.
28:43 Yes, I am.
28:44 God saw the plow.
28:51 I'm done.
28:52 But here is what the Bible says about plowing.
28:56 Paul says that if we plow, we should plow in hope.
29:07 I'm not plowing just to plow.
29:10 When my father was plowing, he was plowing in hope.
29:15 I didn't see what he saw.
29:19 Y'all missed it?
29:21 When he was plowing, he saw something different than I saw.
29:25 I saw that flat field.
29:27 He saw corn, greens, beans, tomatoes.
29:38 You missing what I...
29:41 I just saw a flat field.
29:43 He saw something that was going to feed his family.
29:47 He was plowing saying, "This look one way today, but when I get through plowing this,
29:53 it's going to look completely different."
29:55 And that's how you ought to plow in a marriage.
29:58 That's how you ought to plow in a business.
30:00 That's how you ought to plow with your mind, saying, "It looks one way now, but when I
30:05 get through plowing this field, I'm plowing in hope."
30:10 Pastor, what's hope?
30:12 It is the...
30:13 I'm getting ready to stretch you here.
30:16 Hope is the faith-based expectation and anticipation of the manifestation of something God promised.
30:26 So, are y'all ready for this?
30:28 No, you're not.
30:29 I said, "Y'all ready for this?"
30:30 I said, "Are you ready for this?"
30:32 It is the faith-based expectation and manifestation of something God promised.
30:37 So, faith-based.
30:38 It's not wishful thinking.
30:44 It's not wishful thinking.
30:46 It's expectation and anticipation of something God promised.
30:51 I love this.
30:53 So, it means I am not expecting God to do what I say.
31:04 I'm expecting him to do what he said.
31:10 I'm not doing this with conditions.
31:13 I'm not doing this with entitlement.
31:17 I'm not doing this with prerequisites.
31:19 I'm not negotiating with you on the front end, saying that if I do this, God, you got
31:24 to do that.
31:25 I'm going to do it from a pure place.
31:27 I'm going to do it because I love you.
31:29 I'm going to do it because I trust you.
31:31 But you said this is what you would do based on what I did.
31:37 So, since you said I can have it, I want it.
31:41 Y'all better come get me.
31:43 I didn't do it for this, but since you said you wanted to give it to me, I'm trying to
31:48 see something.
31:50 If you said that you want to do exceedingly and abundantly above all I ask or think, well,
31:57 I want exceedingly and abundantly above all I ask or think.
32:05 I didn't say do it for me.
32:08 You said you want to do it for me, and I said do your thing.
32:13 I got to go.
32:15 But somebody, somebody wave your hand toward heaven and say do your thing.
32:27 I didn't ask you for it, but since you want to do it, do it.
32:31 Since you want to bless me, bless me.
32:33 Since you want to open the door, open the door.
32:35 Since you want to make a way, make a way.
32:37 Since you want to blow my mind, blow my mind.
32:40 I'm done, y'all.
32:59 And this is what he said.
33:01 We don't do this just to do it, but this is what he said, y'all.
33:05 In Proverbs 11, 25, he says a generous person will prosper.
33:14 I'm not generous for that reason.
33:17 I'm generous because I want to be like you.
33:22 But you said you respond to my generosity this way, so I'm trying to see something.
33:32 Y'all see -- am I making sense?
33:39 I said am I making sense?
33:41 That's what he said.
33:44 He said that.
33:46 You said in Proverbs 22, 9, the generous will themselves be blessed for they share their food with the poor.
33:54 You said give, and it will be given to you.
33:58 Good measure pressed down, shaken together, running over.
34:01 Will it be poured into your lap for the same measure you use, it will be measured back.
34:05 I'm not giving for that reason.
34:07 But since you said it, y'all nice.
34:13 I'm trying to see something.
34:18 Here's what I want you to see.
34:20 Four ways that God honors those who do the plowing and do the sowing.
34:27 And for a blessing, I'm praying for me and my family for 2024.
34:33 And our notes for this will be on the website.
34:36 I won't be able to give all the explanation today because we're out of time.
34:40 I've been preaching long all day.
34:45 Whenever traffic is too crazy, like PD got happy in the last service.
34:50 Here it is.
34:52 Because guys, that garden taught me so much.
34:57 All the garden was harvest, but none of it was the same.
35:05 Some was peas, but it was still harvest.
35:08 And some was corn, and it was still harvest.
35:11 Am I making sense?
35:13 Some was tomatoes, but it was still harvest.
35:15 So harvest looked different.
35:20 So here are four things.
35:23 See, we did it already.
35:26 So here are four things we can believe for.
35:28 Because he said, here is number one, a harvest of wit.
35:33 What's wit?
35:34 A quality of intelligence and mental acumen characterized by the ability to think quickly, cleverly, and humorously.
35:42 Spiritual intelligence.
35:44 It's God's ability to give ideas that are answers to issues.
35:51 Y'all better come get me.
35:52 Did you hear me?
35:54 It's God saying, I'm going to drop ideas on you.
36:01 You're going to be in the grocery store not even thinking about what I'm going to drop on you.
36:08 And it's going to be the answer to your issue.
36:12 I want every man to hear me now, because this is my prayer for us in this house.
36:16 The Bible says a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children.
36:19 God's going to give you ideas that create the inheritance.
36:25 God Almighty, did you hear me?
36:28 All you need is an idea.
36:36 Creative abundance.
36:38 God, give me wit.
36:43 Spiritual intelligence.
36:44 Give me epiphanies.
36:45 Give me ideas.
36:48 Moses got to the Red Sea.
36:50 Got to the Red Sea, you gave him an idea.
36:53 Stretch out your hand, raise up the rod.
36:56 Joshua, Wiles of Jericho.
36:58 He said, walk around once a day for six days, seven days on the seventh day.
37:01 Shout an idea.
37:03 When Israel got to Marah and they needed water, drinking water, and it was salty, it was bitter.
37:09 He says, hey, take a stick, throw it in the water, and I'm going to turn the undrinkable water into drinkable water.
37:14 He did it with an idea.
37:17 You can feed your family for generations on ideas.
37:25 Somebody say, Lord.
37:27 Thank you for wit.
37:30 Here's a second one, wisdom.
37:33 This is the ability to distinguish between what's right and wrong, important and unimportant, beneficial and harmful.
37:40 You can recognize what's subtle.
37:42 You can understand motives and navigate through ambiguity and complexity.
37:46 See, sometimes the only thing that helps you differentiate a trap from an opportunity is wisdom.
37:56 See, I'm going to give you wisdom.
37:59 Watch this.
38:01 Because if God brings you into seasons that you're believing for, some of your decisions are going to move from good and bad.
38:08 You have to decide from good to good.
38:10 You have to decide from great to great.
38:13 And to make those decisions, you need wisdom.
38:19 You and I need wisdom.
38:22 Because if Judas betrayed me and Peter denied me, I need wisdom on how to handle them both.
38:28 I need wisdom to help me see Peter had a bad day.
38:32 Judas got a bad heart.
38:34 Let one go.
38:35 Restore the other one.
38:42 I need wisdom.
38:44 Number three, I need work.
38:48 I didn't know reaping was work till we got a garden.
38:55 And we had to go out there and pick them peas.
38:57 I mean, it's work.
38:59 We had to shell them peas.
39:00 Work.
39:03 Lord, I want to reap.
39:04 That's work.
39:06 This has been, I'm going to send you the right kind of work.
39:09 Work that gives you the highest form of compensation.
39:12 And I promise you, this is my prayer for our church.
39:16 And the highest form of compensation is fulfillment.
39:21 If you're going to spend most of your life working, my prayer is that you're not working at something that doesn't matter to you.
39:34 Most of you, by the time you go to heaven, you will have spent more hours working than sleeping.
39:40 You definitely will have spent more hours working than you will with your friends and family.
39:46 If I'm giving that much of my life to something, it's got to matter to me.
39:58 May God open doors for work that matter.
40:08 We out of here.
40:10 And last but not least, wealth.
40:14 And I want to show you four types of wealth.
40:16 Spiritual wealth.
40:18 This is an overflowing passion for his presence.
40:21 An understanding of his principles.
40:23 And an inner peace that passes all understanding.
40:27 I want that.
40:29 Emotional wealth refers to the abundance of positive emotions and the ability to manage my negative ones.
40:37 Relational wealth, a state where you got the right people in your life positioned in the right place at the right season.
40:48 And then financial wealth, a state of financial overflow that enables an individual to avoid some issues and address some that can be remedied by resources.
40:58 This is what it does.
40:59 This moves you from just being an intercessor to an answer.
41:06 Some people God used to pray prayers.
41:08 Then there are some people God used to answer them.
41:12 Come here.
41:14 Some people he uses to pray.
41:17 And then others he says, Lord, I'm going to -- one person, Lord, pray so they can get through -- I'm going to pray so they can get through school.
41:25 And then the other person God speaks to and say pay for their way through school.
41:35 And here's the way harvest works.
41:37 I love this.
41:38 He will make you rich where you're poor.
41:43 So some seasons it's not that you need financial wealth.
41:47 It's you need relational wealth.
41:49 God's blessing knows how to find your area of lack.
41:55 And say in this season I'm going to meet your need right there.
42:02 And I don't feel entitled to that.
42:06 My generosity is not attached to that.
42:09 But you told me.
42:11 You sent me harvest.
42:13 So I'm trying to see something.
42:16 This year me and my family will have wit.
42:22 This year me and my family will have wisdom.
42:26 This year me and my family will have work that matters.
42:35 And this year whether it's spiritual, emotional, or relational, or financial, me and my family, we will have wealth in the areas that matter.
42:46 In Jesus' name.
42:48 [Applause]
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