Trusting God: Renewing Minds for Abundant Blessings

1. "Isaac was facing a famine. And in today's standard, that would look, let's see how to explain this, that would be like saying he's in a bad economy, right? How many of you have ever been in a bad economy? I think everyone in here has been through one. Maybe you're facing rampant inflation. Maybe there's just not enough money at the end of the month, you know what I mean? But Isaac was facing a situation where he would likely be struggling to make ends meet, and he was looking to everyone else around him, and he said, you know, if I go to Egypt, I'm going to be in a bad economy. And he said, over here, it'll be better. And God goes, no. Stay where I've put you. Stay where I've got you. Stay here. I've got you." [07:38] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "So, what is increase, right? Increase is always for the purpose of increasing influence, increasing our ability to influence the world around us, whether it's financial increase, spiritual increase, relational increase, all of those things. And as Christians, we're called to be the ones to have the answers that the world seeks. Remember how Solomon was king over Israel and all the people, you know, there was kings and queens that would come from all over, most notoriously the queen of Sheba. She traveled from a great distance to hear the wisdom of King Solomon so she could get the answers to her problems back home." [10:18] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "My question for you today, is it possible to look out at a barren field, to look out on a budget that doesn't make it to the end of the month and see something and say, my God is greater, my God is more. And if I do it his way, He'll actually supply all of my needs according to his glory in Christ Jesus. Tithes and Offerings is not about just money, but it's about your heart. Maybe your barren field looks different than mine. Maybe you're struggling with something financially, or maybe your heart isn't car just broke down or maybe you have family problems and you're like god i just need help with my family or you need a new job or whatever it is you can listen to god and if you actually follow his plan it's going to turn out better than you can imagine because he says i have more than you can hope think or even imagine for you." [10:18] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "The way we see ourselves is so important. I was listening to an interview with John Maxwell years ago, and he's kind of like the world-renowned expert on leadership. I think he's written almost 100 books now, which, that's a lot of books. And he was talking in this interview, and he said, he said, you know, you've heard it said that you take the five people who are closest to you in life, and that will determine your future. And he goes, well, you know, that's, that's kind of true, but not really. He said, then, recently, they've said that the, if you take the person you admire most, that inspires you the most, that you're connected with, that the most important person in your life, you'll live up to what they what they think of you. And he said, well, you know, that, that's more true, but that's actually not true either. He said, the most true thing I can say is, it's actually what you think the most important person in your life thinks about you, is how you'll, is the way you'll live your life." [49:58] (68 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "The way we see ourselves, the way we see other people, the way we see God, and the way he sees us, the perspective we live by. If our eye is good, our whole body will be full of light. In the King James Version, I believe it says, if your eye is single, the whole body will be filled with light. If your eye is focused on one thing and one thing alone. In another part, in another place, Paul writes this. He says, no soldier enlists in war and looks back at civilian life. No soldier says, you know, I got to worry about myself. No, he is all in for the war. He's all in for the fight." [52:52] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "Turns out there's two ways that people change. They've shown that up until about 25 years old, you're still kind of like learning. Who you are, you're developing, you're becoming this person. You're trying to figure out what pair of glasses you're wearing. See, Theo, my son, he's two, almost two, and he does not have a pair of glasses yet. You know how I know that? It's because when he's walking along and he trips and he bumps his head on something, he's like, he stands up and he looks at me and he's like, did that hurt? Like, that's the look he gives me. He's like, did that hurt? And I go, no, you're fine. It's okay, buddy. And he's like, oh, you're fine. You're fine. You're fine. You're fine. Okay, well, I guess that didn't have to hurt then. And he gets up and walks on and I'm like, man, he just like knocked his noggin really hard. You guys have seen that, right? And then if on the other hand, he, you know, like walks into a table and just like completely beans himself, he'll stand up and he'll look at me and if I go, oh, buddy, I'm sorry, that probably hurt a lot. He'll go, and he'll cry because he's like, oh, okay, that one's supposed to hurt. I'll cry out that. He doesn't have a pair of glasses yet about how to think about things. He depends on me." [54:14] (70 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "The word meditation actually is a word picture in the Jewish culture. It means to chew your cud. So for those of you who don't know, cows, what they'll do is they'll bend down, they'll eat some grass, they'll swallow it, and it'll go into their first stomach. And then they'll regurgitate it back up into their mouth later and chew it again. And then they'll swallow it again. And they'll do that over and over and over as it passes through. I think cows have like seven stomachs. Is that right? Four? Four stomachs. Okay. So I was a little overexcited. They have four stomachs. So they'll chew their cud three to four, maybe even five times before it passes all the way through their system. So that's what meditation is. And it's like, it takes time. It takes effort to be intentional about focusing on that." [56:59] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "The whole goal of the Bible is to get to know the one who wrote it, is to get to know the person of Jesus. 1017, it says this. It says, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. It doesn't say faith comes by the Word of God. What it actually says, put that verse back up there real quick, David. It says, faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the Word of God. So you get to know God. You know, you get the ability to hear God when you're in His Word. This is your lifeline. This is your grounding. This is your anchor of life. And when you're in the Word, then you get to hear Him. You get to learn how to hear and get to know God." [01:07:21] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "We can become new wineskins. God wants to make you new wineskins. He wants to give you a new perspective with which you live life. He wants you to see things from His perspective, from His point of view. He wants you to see things from His perspective. He wants you to see things from His perspective. There's a lot of people that could say, you know, man, we're in trouble. The world's just getting darker and darker. I don't think God sees that. I don't think God looks at the world and goes, oh man, it's getting darker and darker. What am I going to do? Oh me, oh my, what am I going to do? God's not up there doing that. God's up there going, ah, I know, I've got a plan because I've got a bride on the earth who's being refined and being reformed to look like me. And as we look like Him, as we walk like Him, as we walk like Him, as we walk like Him, as we walk like Him, as we love others around us like He loved them, we're going to begin to see a difference in life. He's just looking for somebody who's willing to actually trust Him fully." [01:10:19] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "If anyone were to come after me, let him deny himself because you were never made for you in the first place. In Genesis, God made man in His image. And when I say man, I mean man and woman, both of us, mankind. God made man in His image. So our whole purpose, our destiny, our reason for being is to look like Him. That's why you have to deny yourself because you were never made for you in the first place. Then you have to take up your cross. What does that mean? What does that mean to take up your cross? means not to let sin against you produce sin within you, not to let what somebody else does to you determine your outcome, but instead let what somebody did for you determine your outcome. That the way we react should be the way He reacted." [01:11:52] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)