THE HAVES OR THE HAVE NOTS - Dr. Gayla Holley

it's not what you have that makes you rich, it's what you do not have that makes you rich. Told me to look up the word rich first. Okay. Well, you know, God's definitions are not like ours at all. So what you think you understand right now can be totally different in the next phase of life as he deepens us and strengthens us and pours new revelation through us. Right? So I begin to ponder. It's not what you have that makes you rich. It's what you don't have that makes you rich. What on earth, God, are you trying to say here? [00:25:11] (35 seconds)  #DontHaveMakesRich

Our have not is the procurement device that God requires to bless us. What is in your hand? Well, I'm a has been. I used to have a ministry. I used to have a house. I used to have the big job and the big car. I'm a has been. Anything is possible and it's placed in God's hands. A stick, a dream, a loss, a handicap, or even the cross of Jesus Christ. You see, resurrection could only happen after the death of Jesus. He actually had to die. [00:40:29] (52 seconds)  #HaveNotAsProvision

to be honest with my brothers and my sisters today, salvation is free. Yes. Thank God it is. But anointing has a price. It's not free. A calling will cost you. And sometimes, it takes all you have to fulfill the calling. You end up with nothing but the anointing. But the anointing is what breaks the yokes. The anointing is what brings the miracles. The anointing is what causes freedom to happen in the lives of other people. It's the anointing. It's not what you have at all. It's what you don't have that works. [00:33:02] (45 seconds)  #AnointingCosts

Let's look at the man who was born blind that Jesus came to. He had no eyes. No eyes. Just little sockets, k, from the day he was born. And do you know the people in his community said, well, your parents must have been sinners for this to happen because God doesn't do that kind of stuff. So you are born in sin. You didn't serve God. That's why your kid was born blind. You don't have eyes. So you're not like the other kids. You're just gonna be a beggar. What do you have? [00:33:47] (43 seconds)  #BlindnessRevealsPurpose

And Jesus says the most mind boggling words. I quote, neither, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. Wait. Wait. You mean God had him be born blind so that the works of God would be revealed through his blindness? Yeah. And how did Jesus do this one? He knelt down, he spit in the ground, and the almighty creator of heaven and earth formed eyeballs out of mud, put them in his eyes, and then he could see. [00:35:08] (45 seconds)  #WorksOfGodRevealed

So instead of mourning and instead of clinging to each loss or each possible thing that could go wrong, The secret is that every one of your experiences is actually a metamorphosis to transformation. It takes pain for birth to happen. I'm gonna tell you about a few guys in scripture that understand this principle. Let's talk about Moses. Moses went through all kinds of losses, didn't he? He lost two sets of parents. He lost his Jewish parents when he had to be adopted. And then when he grew up, he lost those parents. He lost his identity. Didn't know who he was. [00:27:36] (51 seconds)  #LossToTransformation

Now, has faced God, and the Lord is giving him a great and a mighty job to do. And what does he do? I can't do that. I don't have what it takes. I don't speak good. I stutter. I'm not eloquent. I don't have a speaking voice. But he was a man that God chose because he was a have not man. [00:28:45] (35 seconds)  #GodChoosesTheHumble

And it says, and it's God speaking. And he said this to them, have not man. Who hath made man's mouth? Or who make it the dumb or deaf or the seeing or the blind? Have not I the Lord? Wait a minute. We want everything to be rosy, and right, and perfect, and good. The devil's been fighting me all the time. No. No. No. Sometimes that is not the truth. So God tells Moses, I made you like you are. [00:29:28] (42 seconds)  #GodMadeYouAsYouAre