Lawson Perdue - Blessing of the Lord (Part 1)

September 8, 2025 | 29:55

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Blessing of the Lord (Part 1) | September 8, 2025

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- praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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I'm so glad that you've tuned in.
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We are gonna be talking today
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About the blessing of the lord,
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And we're gonna talk about how to move
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From where you are to where god wants you to be
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Not only in the realm of giving,
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But also in the realm of receiving.
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God wants to bless you
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Even more than you wanna be blessed.
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You just gotta get this revelation, blessings.
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Friends, it's so good to have you with us today.
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And i have my good friend, mark hankins.
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- glad to be here.
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- mark's been a friend.
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I've known him for over 40 years.
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Praise god. - wow.
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- like 45 years ago. - been friends a long time.
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- and mark's a tremendous blessing.
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He serves on our church
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And helps us on our board and with wisdom.
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And he's been friends.
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And really we're gonna be talking about something
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About the blessing of the lord.
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And i did have some revelation.
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- yeah. - on the blessing of the lord
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Before i got to know you.
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And then, you know,
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I had some revelation that god wanted us to prosper.
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That's the first thing.
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And that's easy to see in the scripture
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When you study the bible.
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But then when i was pastoring in eastern colorado,
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In kit carson, colorado, i went up to denver.
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You were holding special meetings at a meeting
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Like we're having here this week, a camp meeting.
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And you were preaching on the blessing of the lord
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Or something along those line in the realm of finances.
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And mark actually really offended me
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Because he was using some examples
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That really challenged my religion.
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Talking about buying his wife a luxury car
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And talking about some different things that just,
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They challenged my poor thinking really,
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Just because, you know,
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I believed in economize to evangelize
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And i'm still very good with money.
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And i still, you know, manage things well.
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But at the same point in time,
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If you're gonna go certain places,
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You gotta change the way you believe.
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- amen. - so i was actually
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At those meetings.
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Pastor billy epperhart was the pastor of the church,
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Trinity christian centre in southwest denver in 1998.
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We were pastoring eastern colorado,
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Barbara and the three boys.
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And you said these things and i was,
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It offended my religion.
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So barbara-
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- i'm sorry. - barbara,
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She told me- - i apologize.
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- well, no, it helped me.
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She told me, "mark was right and you were wrong,
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And you need to get over it."
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And actually before she told me that-
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- you have a good wife. - right.
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And so we went to the mcdonald's on the way home.
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And pastor billy had taken care of us all week,
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Bought the hotel, and we put a little money in an offering,
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But we didn't have a lot of money. so it wasn't a lot.
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Now, i gave billy offerings for years after that.
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He actually didn't know it till a few years ago.
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I told him and he said, "oh, thank you."
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But anyway,
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Anyway, i had done that and so on and so forth.
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But when we went to the mcdonald's,
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I went and ordered, and in 1998 in the summer,
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You could buy three quarter-pound cheeseburgers.
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You could get two of 'em for, let's see, what was it?
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It's so good, the deal,
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You could get two for $2.
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- i don't eat there. - and then,
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You could get one meal for $3.
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So it was five of us.
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So i got four waters and four double bacon quarter pounder
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Or quarter pounders and cheese.
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- and what else? - and one meal.
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So the total was $7 plus tax.
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And then i went to the restroom
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And then i came back in at my place.
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Barbara got the stuff,
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'cause i didn't want her to spend too much
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Of my hard-earned money, you know.
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And it was barbara and the three boys,
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Aaron, andrew, and peter.
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And then at my place,
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There was a quarter pounder with cheese
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And a french fry box with one french fry,
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And then my water.
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And then somebody got the coke.
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I don't know who got the coke.
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But, i said, "where are my french fries?"
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And my wife, she said, barbara, she said,
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"listen, you can be a one-french-fry man if you want to,
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But i believe god has more," she said.
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"mark was right and you were wrong,
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And you need to get over it."
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So anyway- - that was 1998 though.
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That's- - yeah, so i, so, you know,
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I was- - and you have gotten over it.
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- that was saturday. - yeah.
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- so on sunday i preached my message and stuff,
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And on monday i went out running
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Early in the morning like i always do.
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And the lord spoke to me. he said, "mark was right."
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- huh. - "and you were wrong."
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- wow. - and you need to get over it.
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So i got over it.
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- you got over it. - and did you know what?
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I began to prosper. - yeah.
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- in my business, even while we were there in kit carson,
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Like i never prospered before.
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And then god gave me this word.
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And he said, if you could pastor a church of a hundred,
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That's about how many people
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Considered their church home in kit carson,
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And give away $50,000 to missions and other ministries,
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Which we did on a regular basis.
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He said, "you can pastor a church of a thousand,
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And you can give away $500,000 to missions and ministries."
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And you know what, when i changed that thinking,
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Then that word came to me.
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And then in 2001, three years later,
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We moved here to colorado springs.
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Which, if i would've never got that revelation from you-
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- yeah. - about increase,
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About the blessing of the lord,
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I would've still been just pastoring there
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In kit carson doing that.
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But we moved here.
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And it took 16 years after we moved here, but in 2016,
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That was the first year we broke 500,000,
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Our giving to other ministries and missions.
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And we've done it every year since.
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If we haven't done it in cash giving,
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We've done it in gifts and kind, so on and so forth.
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But i believe it's gonna go far beyond that.
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- yeah. - actually,
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My dream is to have $100 million in a fund,
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You know, like these universities have,
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And give $10 million a year.
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Aaron actually, my son,
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Gave that word at our camp meeting in 2021.
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- wow. - and i first thought
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It was for aaron.
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And then last year god said, "no, that's for you."
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- wow. - so we're believing
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For that to come to pass.
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And i believe i'll see it in my lifetime.
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- that's amazing. - so, anyway-
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- amazing grace. - we're gonna talk about
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The blessing of the lord.
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So you can go ahead and we're gonna jump in the word of god.
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If, praise god, if this offends you,
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Just be like pastor lawson,
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Like pastor barbara said and get over it.
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'cause it'll help you go places
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That you couldn't go if you don't think like that.
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- well, just to kinda scan some of the scriptures
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On the blessing of the lord,
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Just several of them together.
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One of my favorites is proverbs 10:22, which says,
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"the blessing of the lord makes us rich
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And adds no sorrow with it."
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Well, there's a lot of rich, unhappy people.
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But the blessing of the lord makes you rich.
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All the word rich means is abundantly provided for.
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- amen. - plenty for yourself.
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Plenty to be a blessing to others.
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- amen. - and adds no sorrow with it.
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So you can be rich and happy.
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- right. hallelujah. (laughs)
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- and actually, 1 timothy 6,
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Paul talks to the rich people in the church in 1 timothy 6.
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And he says, "charge those that are rich in this world.
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The lord says that they be extravagantly generous."
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- right. - and he says,
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"because god gives us richly all things to enjoy."
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- amen. - so god really wants us
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To richly enjoy life,
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But also be extravagantly generous.
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- amen. - amen.
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- and i know you, you're very generous.
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- yes, we practice that.
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- i have some friends.
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You are one of my best friends in the ministry,
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And jesse duplantis.
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- yeah. - and andrew wommack.
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- yeah. - and you are all very-
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- generous. - very generous people.
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- one thing the lord showed me about the blessing
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Of the lord in the area of your finances,
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'cause it includes much more than just your finances.
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But the lord said to me,
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"i did not design generous giving or tithing or sowing,
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I did not design giving for you to decrease."
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- amen. - in other words,
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God's whole generous giving and blessing
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Will actually call supernatural increase.
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- amen. - i just recently saw a video
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From harvard of a guy that was sitting there
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And they studied all the rich people
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And studied the ones who were the most generous.
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And he said the ones who were generous givers,
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Rich people, constantly increased.
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- yeah. - in other words,
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They just kept getting more.
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In other words, they were giving and increasing
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Instead of giving and having less.
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- and that's what happened to me.
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I'm telling you, when i accepted that revelation,
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When the lord spoke to me and said mark was right,
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And he sound just like my wife, but my wife,
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Anybody thinks a woman can't preach
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Just ain't read the bible, number one.
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Number two, they probably ain't been married for very long.
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- yeah, yeah. - but anyway,
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When i accepted that,
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Immediately my thoughts began to change.
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And i had a cattle business
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And i'd been borrowing like 100,000, you know,
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And i limited myself at 100,000.
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And i'd borrow two or 300, you know,
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Buy two or 300 cattle a year.
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Immediately i went to borrow 500,000
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And buying, like, 1,000 cattle.
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And it took me a little bit to get to 1,000.
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I think i went to 500 the first year,
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But they all made money.
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And then i got to where i owned
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Up to 3,000 cattle at once,
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Owed like $3 million to the bank in the feedlots.
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I mean, it's a terrible amount of risk.
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- wow. - and with cattle, boy,
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They could cut your head off and, you know,
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But the lord protected me and blessed me
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And i increased like never before.
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- yeah. - there.
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And then god brought me here.
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And when we started here,
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It was really challenging at first,
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But we constantly increased.
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And the lord's increased us and blessed us
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And helped us so we can be a blessing
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To many people around the world.
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- wow, and so the blessing of the lord,
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You can read that so clearly.
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We always read it in our church services, in numbers 6,
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Where the priest would, god would command the priest-
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- oh, yeah. - to stand up and-
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- bless the people. - and say-
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- the priestly- - say to all
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The people of god,
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"the lord bless you and keep you,
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Make his countenance shine upon you."
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One translate says, "prosper you and smile on you."
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- amen. - "and give you peace
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Or blessing in your life."
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So god commanded the priest or pastors
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To pronounce that blessing on people.
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- yes. - yeah.
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- it goes on.
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It says, "the lord will lift up his countenance on you
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And give you peace, which is shalom.
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- shalom. - which is actually peace
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And prosperity. - yeah.
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- "and they will put my name on the children of israel."
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God says, "listen, i wanna make you an example
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Of how i bless my kids."
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In fact, i heard you preaching this.
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- the lord tell me, he said, "i'll bless you so much,
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I'll use you as advertisement of how well i treat my kids.
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- yeah. that's it.
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- and so that's the blessing of the lord.
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- so i stole that from you one time.
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- that's okay. - and i was preaching it,
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Now, it was years later. - yeah.
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- but anyway, one of my people heard me preach it,
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And then they went and made this advertisement on facebook.
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And they put, like, a billboard.
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And they said pastor lawson perdue.
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- yeah. - and you liked it.
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- i liked it. i said, "yeah, that's a quote from me."
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But that's right.
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But the lord told it to me.
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- it's all good. - "i'll bless you so much.
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I'll use you as advertisement,"
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And actually says,
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"even the heathen will see how blessed you are.
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And they will say, "look what the lord has done."
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So that means heathen people need to look
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At the people of god and say,
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"look at how blessed they are."
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And then they'll give god the glory.
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They said, "look what the lord is-"
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- yeah, in fact, when it says, "i'll put my name on you,"
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In verse 27, numbers 6:27, the end of this,
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That hebrew word of shem, it means reputation,
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Fame, memorial, monument, or glory.
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Friend, i'm so glad that you've been
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With us in watching the broadcast today.
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We've been teaching about the blessing of the lord.
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You know, when you understand what the scripture says,
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You'll know that god wants to bless you
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Even more than you want to be blessed.
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And in these teachings,
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On the blessing of the lord that i taught live in my church,
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I believe that you'll receive an anointing to prosper.
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- and part of the glory is wealth.
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- absolutely.
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The first time the word glory is used
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In the bible refers to the wealth
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Of jacob. - that's right.
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- so that means the glory of god,
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Even the glory includes financial blessing.
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- amen. - so wherever the glory is,
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I like to say it this way.
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God never shows up anywhere broke.
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(pastor lawson laughing) in other words.
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- i love it. - if you spend time,
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If you spend time in the presence of god,
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Then you're not gonna have a consciousness of lack.
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You're gonna have a consciousness
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Of god's great abundance in his blessing.
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And we would always use the 23rd psalm.
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- right. - the 23rd psalm would be,
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"the lord is my shepherd.
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I shall not want." - "i shall not lack."
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- another translation says, "i shall not lack."
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So i learned from dad hagin many years ago,
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Never talk lack.
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And so that's the key to the blessing.
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Don't talk lack.
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I like to say when you're complaining about lack,
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You're accusing god of child abuse.
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In other words, he's your father.
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So you say, "the lord is my shepherd.
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I do not lack for ability.
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I do not lack for opportunity.
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And i never lack for money."
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- amen. - i'm a tither.
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I'm a giver. i sow generously.
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I reap generously.
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God makes all grace abound towards me.
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- amen. - so i have all sufficiency
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In all things,
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May abound to every good work.
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In other words, you're saying you're blessed,
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And you're able to be a blessing.
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- amen.
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Yes, and, you know, in malachi where god said,
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"you're cursed with a curse because you've robbed me."
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Well, how have we robbed you?
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He says in tithes and offering.
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He goes on.
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And he says, "you've said it's vain to serve the lord."
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- yeah, he said- - and he really gets on them
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Because they were complaining.
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- yeah. - that's actually,
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It was just my birthday,
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And i just celebrated 61 years last week.
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But, you know, when you're in the ministry,
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You've always got a few people, you know,
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That fight you, whatever, or have in the past.
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And that tends to stick in your mind a little bit too much.
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I like something you said in one of your newsletters.
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This is a great comment.
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I called and sent you a good offering for it.
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And i used it a little bit, but it said,
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"you could whip a skunk, but you may not want to."
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- ah. (pastor lawson laughing)
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I got that from an old preacher when i,
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Somebody had been giving me trouble
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And i was fixing to get even with them.
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And he said, "no, you don't wanna whip that skunk.
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You'll end up smelling just like them."
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So, and love covers a multitude of sins, so you say.
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I've really forgiven-
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- but anyway, i told my wife barbara,
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And i told my assistant here at the office,
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I said, "really?"
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Because there is so many people, you know,
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In the church that bless me and different things.
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And people got on facebook from all over the world,
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I mean, hundreds and hundreds of people,
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And said very kind things.
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My staff put that on there.
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And i was just looking through some of 'em
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And all these people,
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I told my wife barbara and i told my assistant in my office,
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I said, "listen, i should never complain
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About anything- - 'cause-
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- for the rest of my life.
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- so many people appreciate your faithfulness to god,
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To your faithfulness to the word,
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Your teaching, preaching of the word,
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That literally your voice and your influence reaches
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Far beyond what you can even see naturally.
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- right, so there's always gonna be a few people-
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- that's a blessing. - who don't like you,
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But you just gotta get over it.
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- smith wigglesworth said,
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I thought it was a great thing to say.
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- amen. - "my father god
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Always takes care of me
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In grand style." - amen.
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- "my father god-" - amen.
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- "always takes care of me in grand style."
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- amen. - so when you know god
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As your father- - yeah.
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- that you're a child of god,
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Even an heir of god and a joint heir with christ,
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Then your words are not, like, "i'm mistreated,"
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And you're whining or complaining.
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I always say, when you whine and complain,
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You accuse god of child abuse.
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In other words, if he's your father,
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You should be thankful and say,
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"thank you, father god, your great faithfulness.
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You always take care of me in grand style.
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I drive the best, wear the best,
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Eat the best, live in the best, but i also give the best."
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- amen. - in other words,
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Like him, i'm a generous giver.
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I don't see what the minimum is i have to give.
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- no. - i wanna just see
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How much i can give,
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And yet watch god multiply that seed sown
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And make all grace abound toward me.
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So he's gonna multiply.
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So i always say,
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"don't think subtraction when you're giving-
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- you gotta think multiplication.
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- think multiplication. - yes, sir.
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Can i testify? - yeah.
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- so i got a hold of this revelation.
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You know i had, it was different aspects, right?
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First i got the revelation
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That god wants us to prosper in 1978.
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And that's when i was just 14,
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Heard andrew wommack teaching the full gospel
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For the very first time.
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And then in 1994, after i'd been married 10 years,
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I got the revelation that you can believe god
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For specific amounts of increase.
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- sure. - and then in 1998,
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When i heard you, i got the revelation.
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When i got offended,
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My religion got offended is what happened,
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I got this revelation
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That you can take the limits off of god.
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But barbara and i, this is our testimony,
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And you can't explain this naturally,
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If you add up all the money that we've made in salary,
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So on and so forth for the last 41 years-
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- wow. - you add it all up,
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We have given about one third of that away.
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- good. - so we've given about,
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You know, 30 to 35%.
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- yeah. - but,
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Even though we've given not a tenth,
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We've given-
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- 30%. - about a third, 30 to 35%.
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Our net worth is more-
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- increased. - more than three times
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All the money that we've made in the last 41 years.
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- that's the blessing of the lord.
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- that is the blessing of the lord.
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And that's the only way that you can explain it.
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- well, you know the scripture in psalms
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Where it says that god,
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The goodness that god has laid up for us,
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In other words, somebody said it this way:
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There's no limit to god's giving
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Except his creature's capacity to receive.
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So god wants to do more for us
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And yet he has to enlarge our capacity to receive.
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So i always said when jesus was teaching,
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I said, well, "lord, why do you teach so long?"
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He said, "well, i was never working
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On the giving part of god.
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I was working on the receiving part of man."
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- yeah. - in other words, he said,
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"i didn't teach long to try to get god to do a miracle.
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- no. - i was teaching
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So they could receive a miracle.
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- right. - in other words,
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In the teaching, that's where faith comes from.
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- right, amen. - amen.
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- so that's fantastic.
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Well, we started with that scripture in proverbs 10:22,
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Where it says the blessing of the lord makes rich,
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And that means rich, abundance-
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- abundant. - to gain wealth, right?
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And adds no sorrow.
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- well, let me just say that there's one thing here,
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I don't wanna interrupt you,
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But here's the way the lord explained to me
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When i started going from giving 10%
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To 20% to 30% systematically.
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- right. - every week.
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And the lord said to me,
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"you can give more than you've ever given
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And still have more than you've ever had.
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- right. - in other words,
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People think they're gonna give and have less.
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But the laws of prosperity
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And the laws of sowing generously
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And reaping generously
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Is you can give more than you've ever given
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If you're not afraid.
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If you have fear, you're like,
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"oh, i can't.
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I'm gonna have to stick with this little amount here."
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But just stretch a little bit beyond your comfort zone.
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- yeah. - and you'd give more
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Than you've ever given,
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But still have more than you've ever had.
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- yeah, you know, in 2 corinthians 8-9,
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Paul talks about the grace of giving.
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He talks about faith and receiving.
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And, you know,
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I taught a message on this at a church recently.
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I was really trying to help this young pastor
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And his congregation.
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But i talked about, you know,
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Most of the time when we think about grace,
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We think about grace and receiving
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And we think about faith and giving.
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But paul actually calls it the grace of giving.
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There's a grace on giving.
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And in 2 corinthians 8, you know, verse nine,
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He says, "you know the grace of our lord jesus christ
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Even though he was rich yet for ourselves-"
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- even though he was poor- - he became poor.
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- yeah, he was rich- - so that we,
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Through his poverty, might be made rich.
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But he goes on and he says this
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In about verse 10 right after that.
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He said, "if there's first a willing mind,
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It's accepted according to what a man has
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And not what he does not have."
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So god is never looking for what we don't have.
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Now, me, i've always wanted to be a giver,
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Right, and generous.
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And there are times, like when i pastored a small church,
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I would get my giving
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Ahead of where i had capability to receive,
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And i had to adjust it.
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'cause that's just what happened, right?
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So i had to adjust it,
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'cause i was believing for all this increase.
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And, you know, we lived on a very limited-
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- it takes a little time. - amount.
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So i had to back up a little bit,
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But then after a while i caught up and now,
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You know, now the reality is,
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Barbara and i give twice as much per week.
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We give twice as much per week as we made per month
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When we started in the ministry, you know,
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Like, 37 years ago full time.
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We give twice as much per week as we made in,
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Oh, my god. - wow.
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- it just, god's grace is amazing.
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- it's really a spiritual law of the kingdom of god.
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A law, in other words, there's a law of faith,
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There's a law of the spirit of life in christ.
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There's a law of sowing and reaping.
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In other words, these are spiritual laws
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So that when you are generously giving,
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You will generously receive a harvest.
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- amen. - and the thing
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About generosity is anybody can do it.
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You don't have to be rich to be generous.
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- right. - in other words,
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Somebody rich may be able to out-give you,
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But that don't mean they can out-generous you.
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- right. - in other words,
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You really could be more generous
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Than somebody who's rich would.
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It looked like they gave more,
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But they had a lot more in reserves.
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- jesus talked about- - they got all that money
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In reserves and here you gave and you're like,
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Well, but you generously gave.
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And even the woman who gave,
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And, "jesus, what's the offering?"
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He said, "she out-gave everybody here."
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- she just gave a couple pennies.
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- so you don't have to be rich to be generous,
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But generosity will deliver you from poverty.
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- it will. - it will.
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- it has delivered me. - you can give your way up.
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Anne frank said this:
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"no one ever became poor by giving."
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- no. it just doesn't work that way.
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And when you understand it,
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You know, giving has revolutionized my life.
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And my revelation, really,
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Revelation about finances, first of all.
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You know, i grew up in a church,
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And they didn't teach you anything along these realms.
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- yeah, they don't teach 'em. - my dad taught me
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When i was four years old to be a tither.
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But i never learned about the blessing of giving
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And the promises attached to giving
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Until i heard andrew wommack when i was 14 in 1978,
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Got baptized in the holy spirit.
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But then it brought me to a whole new level in 1994,
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After i'd been married for 10 years
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And pastoring for six years.
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I got a revelation on,
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You can believe god for specific amounts of money.
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But then in 1998,
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When i went to your meetings at billy's church in denver
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And i really got offended,
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It was challenging my religious thinking
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When you were talking about really living at a higher level.
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That's what was, it didn't challenge me giving,
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But it challenged my thinking in the realm of living.
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- wow. - but when my wife said,
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"he's right and you're wrong, you need to get over it,"
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And then god repeated that to me.
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- well, you kind of blocked the blessing of the lord
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With your own thinking. - right.
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So it helped me break out.
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And i wouldn't be doing what i'm doing
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In the ministry today. - true.
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- you know, we spend
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About a million and a half dollars a year,
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And you know what, it comes back to us.
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And we're sowing all over the world.
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And we're receiving from all over the world.
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- it's true. yeah.
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Lawson Perdue - Blessing of the Lord (Part 1)

September 8, 2025 | 29:55

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