Discipleship in Making Jesus Lord
Sunday, June 19, 2022 – RECAP/Study Points
Thank you for the Father’s Day gifts! However, the greatest gift you can give to me is to show me the results of my lessons in your lives. If I can’t get the fruit back from you, all the other stuff is meaningless. I’m very grateful. If you ever want to give me something as a gift, the only thing it would cost you is your discipline and dedication to present back to me the lesson in life form. Real Pastors want to see transformed lives. There is something about you coming up and saying how the word has revolutionized your life.
All of you know how critical my voice is to you. I had two millionaires on stage with me, and I’m doing business with them both.
Pastor Dewayne: Knowledge is the power for us to know something. But wisdom is the power for us to experience that which we know. Just getting the knowledge is not enough; you have to act on the knowledge that you get in order to possess or get the manifestation of that…that you have knowledge of. When you act on the knowledge that you get, there is a power that is released that will cause you to experience what you say you have.
Dr. DeeDee: Faith without work is dead. We sit here and get all this knowledge and understanding of the scripture and different principles, but if you don’t apply the work to it, you will not experience an increase in every area of your life.
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What I really love about this ministry is that we are interested in whole-life prosperity. We want you to increase in every area of your life to be on top and thrive. God has so much more He wants to get through you to get to somebody else. A lot of times, we are a blockage to someone else’s increase because we settle and say I’m good. My family is good; we are protected and covered.
God is in your tomorrow today. He is not necessarily giving you information about where you are today. He is giving you information to protect you, to cover you… so you can provide for someone else that you’re connected to.
It is so important to lean in and hear all this word. Some of us are lord over certain areas of our lives, and we have to begin to make Him Lord in every area of our lives.
Minister Lisa: There are some people, even though this clarion call is going out again, there are some people sitting there thinking they don’t know my situation, they don’t know all I have been through, God has no respecter of person. You are that person that He cares about. He has already given you a promise for whatever the circumstance is. You must know that there is enough power in His word to deliver every promise He has given to you.
Pastor Dewayne: Never despise the model that God puts in front of you. He is trying to make you a model so that you can be a model for others. That’s the only way we are going to multiply.
Stop spending, start saving, and sowing. There are some things you have to spend money on, such as energy bills, gas, etc. Also, be mindful not to concern yourself with gas prices, don’t get engaged in the same discussion with people about gas prices. For example, saying things like: “This gas is going up so high, I don’t know what to do.” Don’t you dare include your voice in those kinds of discussions. I’m trying to give you some gauges on the wealth and expansiveness of your Father’s responsibility of taking care of you. Now, some other things must be congruent.
You must be consistent in other areas of your life.
We must become more financially literate. The Bible says the blessings of the Lord maketh rich and added no sorrow. (Proverbs 10:22)
When little got you, you will try to prove to be big. But, when big got you, you don’t have to prove a thing. I was big way before it manifested. When I was going to work in a manhole, I would dress up like I was going to the office. I would get to work, go to my locker and change clothes to go into the manhole as an Electrical Technician. Just because you are not where you are supposed to be, doesn’t mean you’re not where you need to be. My reality is where God called me to be. I would jump in the first-class line while I had a coach ticket. Big got me!
Faith is acting on what you believe. Big had me! Just like our 900ft townhome, people would come in and say; I would have never expected all this in here. Where a man lays his head down will also determine how he will dream. Your environment is always dictating to you where you’re going to be. My associates reflect where I am going.
I’m meeting with a group of pastors in September, and I have entitled the conference “Stretch22.” If you are around people that don’t place stretch marks on your soul, you don’t have to get rid of them; just get in a different group too.
Pastor Dewayne: You will not become what you want; you will become what possess you or what you possess. It should make people investigate their lives in every area to see am I just saying I want something. You can want big, and just because you want it, you haven’t possessed it, and that’s why little got you. God never designed us just to want something and never grab hold of what we wanted. I would have a self-examination to see if what I’m talking about – have I really embraced it. Because if you don’t, something else will grab hold of you, and you will be wanting, and your life will become frustrated. It’s what the Bible calls hope deferred; it always makes the heart and mind sick. Let’s possess the things we say that we could have. When you discover what God said you could have, go ahead, and possess it in your soul. If you and God are the only ones in agreement with it… if God be for you, He’s more than the whole world against you.
Don’t reduce this just to material things. I’m talking about your EQ (Emotional Quotient) and your EI (Emotional Intelligence). If you are an emotional wreck, stop hanging around emotional wrecks.
You don’t want to be around people that enjoy the buffet, and it’s pernicious (having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way). The best thing you can hear is how to be free!
Pastor Dewayne: It’s important that Jesus is Lord in every area of your life because if He’s not, you’re going to lose in that area of your life. You’re not going to know who to listen to, you’re not going to know who to hang around. But when He is Lord in every area of your life, those areas that you submit to His Lordship, you will win every time.
Philippians 2:10-11 (NKJV) and Romans 14:11 -12 (NKJV)
I would not be giving like I’m giving if He was not Lord over my life.
“There is coming a season where your seed will be your source of survival.” The scripture says Isaac sowed in the land of famine and reaped in that same year. You may think I’m trying to get something from you, but I’m trying to get something to you.
What does the law of faith say? I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart. Everyone needs to establish the faith confession in their heart.
I can only have what I say if my mouth and heart are congruent. How can you live with a daily expectation of increase, and you’re standing at the pump complaining?
“I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” Psalm 37:25 KJV
Assignment
Sit down with yourselves and your family, start cutting away things from out of your budget, sell them if you have to, and give yourself some room so you can start saving something. I have never lived above my means; I have always lived beneath my means, and God has proven himself.