The Posture of Obedience Pt 6 In between promise and possession

There is a space every believer has to walk through—the gap between promise and possession. In this episode, we talk about what to do when God has spoken, but nothing in your life seems to match what He said yet. We’ll look at how Abram handled that tension, how questions and anxiety show up in the middle, and how the posture of obedience keeps you steady while you wait. If you’ve ever wondered, “Did I hear God right?” or “What do I do until it happens?”, this conversation is for you. Hit play and be encouraged that the delay doesn’t cancel your destiny—it’s where your faith is being formed.

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Turn with me to Genesis chapter number 15. And we are going to begin reading at the very first verse. And then we're going to read the first verse, skip down to 6, and then we're going to skip down to verse 18. So we're jumping a little bit through the chapter. Genesis 15, verses 1, skip to verse 6, and then skip to verse 18. And the word of the Lord reads as thus. After these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. Verse number six. And he believed in the Lord, and it counted it to him for righteousness. Verse number 18. And the same day that the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I have given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Put your Bibles down and let us talk to our Heavenly Father. Heavenly Father, we come. We come just to say we love you. Just to say thank you. Now, God, as we are prepared to hear from you. We ask that you forgive us for everything we said, did, thought about that was not like you. Cast it in the sea of forgiveness and remember it no more. We don't want anything to stop, hinder, or impede what you're trying to do in our lives. I ask that you open up the ears of the believer that they can hear what you have to say on today. Strengthen their hearts and their minds, God. Do it in the name of Jesus. God, I'll I ask that you forgive me. If I said when I said anything wrong. When I didn't listen to everything you had to say, forgive me, Father. Cast the energy of forgetfulness, God. God, I ask that you hide me behind the cross. As I studied and did my due diligence, God. As your word penetrated into my spirit. And buried deep in my heart. I ask right now that you don't let them see me, but let them hear and see you. God, I yield my body, my spirit, my mind. Everything about me belongs to you. Use me for your glory. God, I ask that you save, set free today. Fill with the Holy Ghost, God. And let someone on the other end of the broadcast cry out to you, What must I do to be saved? Do it right now in the name of Jesus. Leave your mark on them, God. That they may hear and see the fullness of your glory. And that they may see the compassion of your love. Do it right now in the name of Jesus. And we ask this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. And Amen. As we continue in our theme, the posture of obedience. I would like to leave this thought with you. Still in the same theme. But the title of this message is Between Promise and Possession. Between promise and possession. Look at your neighbor or type it in the chat and say, I'm in between my I'm in between my promise and in my possession. I'm right in the middle. I'm between what God promised me and I'm in the middle trying to get to what the profession is. I'm stuck in the middle. I'm between promise and my possession. I remember growing up in the Bronx, New York, running with a gang. When we would go and fight the other gangs, and we would come out on top. You would think that we could take a breath and relax. You would think that we could take it easy because we just won a great battle. But no, we could not. We were always on high alert because we never knew when or if the other gang would come back and retaliate. So we walked around always looking over our shoulders. We walked around with our head on a swivel because we didn't know when or if the attack would come. I'm here telling you that nothing was said or nothing that was done could bring the anxiety that we had down. Our anxiety was high because we were on high alert. Our minds were all over the place because we had to pay attention. Ladies and gentlemen, Abram had had to have felt the same way. He just defeated four kings with only three hundred and eighteen men from his own house. He rescued his nephew Lot. He recovered everything that had been taken. But on the long walk back home, the threat of retaliation from those kings had had to weigh heavily on his mind and in his spirit. Because when you win a big battle like that, the enemy doesn't just go quietly away. The enemy regroups, the enemy plots, the enemy waits just for the right moment to attack back. But watch this. God will speak the greatest blessing over your life. When you're at the most vulnerable part of your life. When you're at the most vulnerable part of your life. Have you ever been in a place where you felt like everything on the world was collapsing around you? I feel your spirit now, God. And you didn't know how you were going to make it through. You didn't know where your next meal was coming from. You didn't know how you're going to get to work. You didn't know how you was going to make it. Your mind is just all over the place. And here come God speaking. Here come God trying to get your attention. Here come God trying to say, I'm here, I got a word for you. But because of the anxiety that's gripped us, because of the anxiety that has a hold on us, we have a hard time hearing God. Ah listen. The noise in your head makes it hard to hear what God is trying to say. So I can hear God screaming this to Abram. Don't be afraid. Now hear me clearly. God was not speaking to Adam's physical man. He was speaking to Adam's to Abram's spirit man. He was talking to a part of him that was anxious. He was talking to a part of him that was uneasy. He was talking to a part of him that was unsure about what to expect next. How do you handle your anxiety, your uneasiness, your weariness, and God trying to speak to you at the same time? You're anxious about tomorrow, uneasy about what's around the corner, unsure about what's next in your life. The Bible tells us in 1 Peter 5 and 7, cast all your cares upon him, for he careth for you. See, we don't have to carry the weight by ourselves, we don't have to carry the stress, we don't have to carry the uneasiness. Why? Because we have a father who can handle everything that we cannot. That offers a reassurance to every believer. When things get out of control, when things get out of hand, when things get stirred up, instead of panicking, instead of trying to handle it on our own, we have someone we can lean on. We have someone who can handle everyone, every every one of our cares, and his name is Jesus. When life becomes unbearable, when life becomes or you get tired and weary, that is the time when you need to seek God. That is the time that you must go to God and find out what's going on. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door shall be open. For everyone who receives, everyone who asks receives, and everyone who seeks finds, and to everyone who knocks, the door will be open. See, many of us, when we get into situations like this, instead of seeking God, we start seeking other people. Instead of seeking God's opinion and God's direction, we start looking for other people to tell us what to do. As believers, we gotta learn how to seek God first. As believers, we gotta put other people on the backbone and say, no, no, no, I'm in a situation and only God can get me out. I need an answer. I can't rely on what you're telling me. I need God to tell me what to do. I gotta stop looking for people to tell me what to do and look to God, who's the author and finisher of my faith. Ah, ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to tell you stop seeking people's advice over God. I don't know who I'm speaking to. I think I'm talking to myself because many times instead of us going before God, we go to other people first. Ah, and other people give us their opinions and we run with it. But instead, we we need to go to Jesus because he can tell us what to do, he can tell us how to act, he can tell us where to go, and we can get relief. Because other people can't tell us what they never experienced. Ah, you're running to people that have no experience of what you might be going through. You're running to people who might be unable to articulate what your message is trying to say, but God said, Come to me, all those who are heavy laden, come to me, all those that need my help, come to me, and I'll give you rest. Ah, when you're looking for rest, all you can do is run to Jesus. When you're looking for rest, all you can do is run to God and allow Jesus to speak to you. What God was saying to Abraham was, don't be afraid, I got you. Ah, don't be afraid. I understand what you're going through. Don't be afraid, I'm with you all the way. Don't be afraid. I got this under control. Don't be afraid, just trust me. Ah, see, see, see, see, God just dropped this in my spirit. Sometimes we trust other people more than we trust God. Ah, how do we know? Because you run to them before you run to God, you take their opinions before you run to God. You like you put God on the back burner after you exhausted all who you can, all your resources that you have. But God says, I'm the only resource that you need. Stop putting God on the back burner. And this is what he said to Abraham, Abram. When your mind is uneasy, I got you. When you are unsure, I got you. How do you know that God got us? He tells us in John 1, 1 John, first, first John 4 and 4, you are God's children, and you have overcome them because greater is He that is in you, that's He that's in the world. See, when you got the Holy Spirit, ah, we said it like this back in the day. When you got the Holy Ghost, you already know that God got you. When you got the indwelling of God's power in your life, you already know that God got you. When you got the Holy Ghost walking and leading, directing you, you already know God got you. But what we do is we we don't rely on the presence of God that's in us, we don't rely on the presence of God that got us. We rely on other people that's outside of what God is trying to do in our lives. So we rely on them instead of relying on the person that's inside of us. I'm here to tell you, God says, stop relying on outside influences. All you need is on the inside of you, which is me. Ah, I don't know who I'm preaching to, but you better tell tag somebody in this message to tell them I'm stuck between my promise and my possession. Here we see God tell Abram, I got you. Why? Because he's protecting his investments. Ah, he he he to protect his Abraham, to protect the purpose in Abram's life, God had to calm him down. Ah, better yet, God had to calm his mind down. Why? Because God can only speak to you when your mind is clear. Because when you uh when your mind is all over the place, when your mind is here, your mind is there, God has a hard time speaking to you. So what God has to have, he has to calm your mind down. I said this plenty of times. You gotta shut out the noise from the outside. Ah, but what do you do when the noise is not coming from the outside, but it's coming from within you? How do you handle the noise that's coming from your own spirits? How do you handle the noise that's coming from your own mind? How can you handle the noise that you thought was from the outside, but it's actually inside of you? Ah, the only way you can shut the noise down is you have to go to God. Ah, that's your part that you have to do. Ah, because if you do that part, God will do the rest. See, when we when when we do our part and do what God wants us to do, God will show up and show out. Uh, the Bible tells us in 1 Philippians, I'm sorry, Philippians 4, 6 through 7, be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplications with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understandings, will guard your heart and your mind through Jesus Christ. When you find yourself in a divided mindset, that's anxiety creeping up. When so what you do, so what you need to do is first find yourself a quiet place. Find yourself a place where you can't be disturbed, find yourself a place where no one can come and bother you. Turn your phone off, turn social media off, turn the TV off. It's time to talk to God. Ah, tell your friends and family, don't bother me for the next three hours. Tell your friend that I'm going into seclusion. Why? Because I need to hear from God. My mind is scattered. Ah, and when you get to that quiet place, begin to call on the name of the Lord. Begin to tell him what you're anxious about, begin to tell him why you're feeling this way, and watch and allow God's peace to overtake you. And when that peace decides, or when that peace comes and that peace overtake you, let that be the posture you stand in. Stand in that posture of peace that he placed you in. This jumped off the page of the living word right into my mind. He says, I am your shield. Ah, I don't know if you understand what he was saying. He says, I am your shield. What is the purpose of a shield? The purpose of a shield is to protect the one thing or the one standing behind it from attack. God was assuring Abraham with that statement that divine protection. Would function like a warrior's shield, actively deflecting harm and covering you or covering him from every assault. This scripture just dropped in my head. It's I believe it's in Isaiah, where he says, He says, What he said, God, it just dropped in my spirit. He said, The weapon may be formed, but it will not prosper. See, see, see, when the weapon is formed, there will be an attack, but the shield of faith will protect you. Ah, that means the weapon is going to attack. But with the shield of God right before you, it will not prosper in your life. Meaning that it will have no effect on what is going on around you. I don't know who that's to, but their weapon has been dispatched. But God is saying, I'm gonna stand up as a shield so the weapon can do you no harm. The enemy will attack you like a like a like a battleship, but I will lift up a standard and I'll stand right between you and him so you don't get hurt by the damage. My faith shield is going to cover you. God will be a battle axe and an armor. Ah but God's promise extended beyond Abram's physical security. An extraordinary act of faith exposes a person to danger. And Abram could not could not see God's shield around him, but he had to trust that the shield of faith would be there. Ah, ladies and gentlemen, God is protecting you when you don't see it. The enemy has shot fiery dots at you, the enemy has shot arrows at you, and they're coming in the spirit, and God is saying, I'm that shield that you can't see. Ah, just imagine an army of the Lord standing in front of you. You can't see it, but the enemy can see it, and they get mad that they can't penetrate that army. Who? Why? Because God said, I got you back, I got you covered, daughter, I got you covered, son. This shield was God's active, personal commitment to Abraham's well-being. Not a distant promise, not a distant promise, but an immediate and entangled and tangible covering. Now that the God's spirit and God himself steadied Abram's mind, steadied Abram's spirit, looked at the words that he spoke that would define Abram's understanding of blessings. He said, I am your exceeding great reward. In other words, Abram, before I give you anything else, I want you to know I'm more than enough for you. I don't know who that's for, but God told me to tell you that He's more than enough for you. You don't need the Negro, you don't need that female, all you need is me. You don't need all the stuff that the world is trying to offer. All you need is me. You don't need all the riches of the world, you don't need all the backlash of the world, all you need is me. Franklin wrote a song a minute ago. I don't need silver and gold, all I need is Jesus. God was reminding Abram that because you rejected the wealth of the king of Sodom, because you refused to be bought, but because you chose obedience over opportunity, God Himself would step up and bless you. Not only would he step up and bless you, but he'll bless you beyond measure. Abraham turned down riches, earthly riches for a heavenly response. Ah, ladies and gentlemen, live long enough, and there will be a time where you will have to turn down things just to walk with Jesus. Are you willing to turn down earthly riches just to have Jesus? Are you willing to turn away earthly riches to say Jesus is enough? Because if I got Jesus, I got everything I need. If I got Jesus, I got my health. If I got Jesus, I got my strength. If I got Jesus, I got riches waiting for me. All I gotta do is have Jesus. You can have this whole world, but give me Jesus. Ah, I don't know who I'm preaching to, but God said, give up the stuff that don't concern him. Because all you gotta do is take on him, and you'll have everything you need. Ah, ladies and gentlemen, Abram didn't lose anything by saying no to Sodom, but he positioned himself to receive something far greater from God. And God wanted Abram to understand that the reward was not just land, it was not just prosperity. It is, come on, computer, it is what God, what is just not for protection, the reward was God Himself. The reward was God Himself. But it's okay. Cause God is in the house. Yes, God Hear now. We see where my notes have gone. Hear now. We see that God responded to Abram and told him that he is his exceeding reward. This moment teaches us that the deepest satisfaction in life does not come from what we accumulate, but from who we walk with. God becomes our ultimate treasure. Possessions do fade, power does shift, titles will expire, but your relationship with God endures forever. So here's the question for today. When God makes you a promise and he shows you that promise, why would you settle for anything less? Why would you trade God's eternal promise for temporary gain? Ah, God showed Abraham the land. He not only showed him the land, he said, walk through it. He walked through the land, he marked it as altars on his way through the land. He surveyed the land with his eyes of faith and not by sight. The Bible tells us to we walk by faith and not by sight. Every step Adam took was a declaration that the promises of God was real. Even though the land was promised, it was not time to possess it. What do you do when God made you a promise, but the possession is not ready for you yet? What do you do when God said you can have it, but you can't get to it yet? What do you do when God says it's here waiting for you, but you're not ready for it? What that place is is called stuck in the middle. Why? Because in that middle, God is developing you, and that middle God is preparing you. In that middle, God is changing your character. In that middle, God is preparing you for something greater. In that middle, God is stirring up your faith. In the middle, God is preparing your obedience. In that middle, God is preparing your heart. In that middle, God is virtuing on your virtue. In the middle, God is changing who you are from the inside. So when it's time to possess the land, when it's time to go get what God has promised, when it's time for you to have it, you will walk into it and say, God get it, I'm ready. Ah, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes we don't get what God has for us right now because we're not ready. I know. In our minds, we say we can handle it. In our hearts, we say we can handle it, but God knows best. And we don't want to get a possession and mess it up. So God says, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna make you stay in the middle for a little while. I need to develop something out of you. I need for you to develop more in me. I need your posture to develop better in me. I need you to stand on obedience more. I need your heart posture to be solid. I need your faith posture to be working, I need your virtue posture to be right, I need your character posture to be right. Why? Because when I give you the land, when you walk into that possession, there's nothing that can take it out of your hands. Why? Because your posture is right before me. And come hella high water, you'll know how to defend it when it comes up to our position. Ah, the difference between promise or the space between promise and possession, that space in the middle that God is trying to make sure that you got right is called faith. Where's your faith posture that will endure the tests? Where's your faith posture that will endure the problem? Where's that faith posture that no matter how long it takes, I'll wait for it? Where's that obedience posture? Say, God, I trust you. I walk this process, I'll go through this process because why? There's a blessing on the other side of obedience. God promised to Abraham, or Abram was sure. The timing was God's. And unfulf and until the fulfillment came, God had reminded had to remind Abram, I am your reward. How many of us has ever questioned God? Abraham did that in verse number two. Where he said, Lord, what will you give me seeing I go childless? And the heir of my house is Elias or Elizabeth from Damascus. See, God made a promise not just to Abram, but to Abram's future descendants, and yet Abram found himself struggling with the reality that was in front of him. The promise was spoken of generations, but Abram had no children or no child of his own flesh. Abram's question wasn't rebellion, it was honesty. He was standing between what God said and what he can see, and the two did not seem to line up. God promised increase, but Abram was empty-handed. God promised legacy, but Abram was childless. And the space between promise and reality is where often our questions are born. Let me be clear. Questioning God is not the problem. The issue is how you question him. See, when Abram, when you look at Abram, you notice that the question to God is not disrespectful, it's not out of sarcastic or sarcasm. It is not mean-spirited. It is not rooted in rebellion or doubt. Abraham's question came from a place of seeking understanding. Why? Because he was asking, because he wanted, not control. Too often, the reason we don't receive answers from God is not because God is silent, it's because how we approach him. We come demanding instead of depending, we come accusing instead of asking, we come frustrated instead of in faithfulness. And if we're going to be honest, God does not owe us any explanation for what he does in our life. Why? Because he's sovereign, he can do what he wants to do, he's God all by himself. But any answers that he give, he gives out of out of not out of obligation, but he gives it out of an act of grace. Abraham teaches us that the difference between questioning God in unbelief and questioning God in faith, one pushes God away, the other draws us closer to him. God's response to Abram's question was assurance, making it unmistakably clear that Abram's heir would be the one from his own body. God invited Abram to look at the night sky and tried to count the stars, saying, So shall your descendants be. In that moment, Abram put his full trust in God, and God credited him to be righteous. Ah, this marked the turning point. Abram's faith was no longer intellectual agreement, but it became a wholehearted surrender to what God was doing and a commitment to God and everything that he was doing. The apostle Paul tells us, later echoes this in Romans 1:17, for the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. Abram's faith grew deeper. He remained steadfast, unwavering, and consistent. When doubt came, he chose to believe. When anxiety rose up and uncertainty arose, he worshiped and continued to trust. When the tempter or when he was tempted to question God's greatness, or when he was tempted to question God's goodness, he stood on firm faith of his belief. God's decision to count Abram's faith as righteousness sets a standard for every believer who comes in God's presence or who would come in the presence and believe what God says. It is not a personal achievement, but trust in God's promises and the character that established the right relationship with God. Even though Abram trusted God, he longed for a tangible sign to confirm that God's promise would be fulfilled. And here's the beauty of it all. God recognizes our human limitations. He graciously provides a sign to reassure us of his words. On that day, God established a covenant with Abram. At that point, Abraham's confidence in God's promise and a new covenant with the Lord pushed his faith to another level. He trusted God no matter what. He built his faith on God and he trusted in what God was going to do. He believed that his descendants will receive the blessing, but here comes the problem. The problem is time. Time can be that element that will sometimes wear you out. Time will be that element that sometimes will cause doubt to creep up. Time will be that element that will wear and tail on your mind and your body, even though God has spoken to you. We as believers must understand that our faith or understand that our timing is not God's timing. See, God is not going to do it when you want him to do it. God is not going to show up when you want him to show up. God will show up on time every time. And the timing will be when God decides to do it, not when you think it should be done. The Bible tells us one day is as a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is as a day. See, see, see, see, we gotta understand that. We want something done right here, right now. God said, No, I'm not doing it right here, right now, because if I do it right handed right now, you may have a potency to say, I did that. You might have a potential to say that I took the glory. I prayed, it got done, I'm moving on. But God was like, No, no, no, no, I'm coming at the last hour. Why? Because when all resources are gone, when all resources are split. I heard someone say he's the God of the 25th hour. What that means is that even though there's 24 hours in a day, whatever time God shows up is the right time. Ah, that means no matter when God decides to show up, it's right on time. Look at your neighbor and say, God will show up on time every time. All you gotta do is wait. I don't know who I'm preaching to, but God has said, Hold on, my daughter, hold on, my son. I got you. Just wait for me. Over a year had passed now, and there was no movement on what God had promised Abram. What do you do when the promise that God made you has not come to pass? How do you handle waiting for your promise? The Bible tells us in Isaiah chapter number 40, verse 31 for those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. No, so now, as he is waiting, ah, and I must say this. Whenever you decide to wait on God, whenever you decide that you're gonna put on God's armor and you're gonna stand in what God tells you to do, even though it's been a year, even though it's been longer than what you expected. Ah, yes, you might get weary, but the Bible just told us not to get weary or don't get weary and well doing. You're doing well by waiting, but even in your will, even in your weariness, or even in your goodwill, and you're waiting on God. Now, here comes a situation. Whenever you decide to wait on God. Expect something to come up and try to get you out of the will that God has placed you in. Now, Sarai, his wife, and I'm almost finished, goes to her husband and tells him to take Hagar, her handmaid, as his wife, so that Hagar can conceive and be somewhat of a surrogate, so that the child that was born to Hagar would carry on the family name. Ladies and gentlemen, I must pause here. The Bible clearly tells us don't get weary and well-doing. Yes, I know the waiting can be hard. Yes, I know that I understand that the waiting can be difficult. But I understand that while you are waiting, you are also being developed. While you are waiting, you are not waiting, just waiting patiently. You are waiting with expectation of what God is going to do in your life. So waiting develops your expectation. Waiting develops your character. So whenever God says wait, you wait. Whenever God says hold on, you hold on. Why? Because there's something still inside of you that he's working out. There's something still inside of you that he needs to bring you to die to. There's something in your life that he says, no, no, no, no. If I give it to you now, you'll mess it up. So just wait on me. There's something inside of you I still need to kill. There's something inside of you that still needs to die. There's something inside of you that I still need to deal with. So wait while I deal with this. Don't rush me. Allow me to work the process in your life. Waiting brings an expectation that something great is going to happen. So don't rush the God's plan in your life. Take one moment at a time. Allow God to mold you. Allow God to shape your character. Allow God to strengthen your posture. Ladies and gentlemen, don't allow, don't let anyone talk you up out of what God told you. When God speaks, believe it. Hold on to it, because it must come to pass. The Bible tells us in Numbers 23 and 19: God is not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man that he should repent. He said it, and will he not do it, or has he not, or has he spoken it, and will it not come to pass, or will it not be made good for you? Ah, as I bring this message to a close, I want to anchor this message in Philippians 6 and 1. And it reads like this being confident in this very thing, he who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. The God who started it will finish it. And as you stand in a posture of obedience, I want to remind you that the same God who spoke to Abram in his fears is speaking to you in yours. He sees the battle you're fighting, he sees the weight that you carry after the dust settles. He hears the noise that he knows the noise that's in your mind and the questions in your heart and the tension that and the tension between what is promised and what you see right now. Yet, in the middle of all of that, his words over you have not changed. Don't be afraid. I got you. There is a posture. This is where the posture of obedience becomes more than a concept. It becomes a choice you make in the tensions between promise and possession. Obedience says, Lord, I understand it. I I don't the obedience says, Lord, I don't understand it all. But through trust, I trust you enough to keep walking. I trust you enough to keep waiting. I trust you enough to keep ob keep believing. Obedience says, I lay my anxieties at your feet. I lay my peace and let your peace and you let your peace guard my heart and my mind. Obedience said, I won't trade what you have spoken for me for anything, or what others are trying to tell me what to do. Today, God is not asking for you. God is not asking for you to perform. He's not asking for your performance. He's inviting you to trust his character so that you can leave this moment, make up in your mind, make up in your heart that you will stand in a posture of obedience, trusting that God will do what he has called you to do. God who shields you is the God who made you the promise. The God who called you is the God who will finish what he started in you. The God who called you is faithful. The God who called you is trustworthy. The God who called you will guide you. All you gotta do is have faith and let your posture of obedience stand strong. All you gotta do is while you're in between the promise and your possession. All you gotta do is work the middle. Don't let anxiety kill you. Let God quiet the noise so he can lead you through the middle. Allow God's faith. Oh, allow your faith in him and your trust in him. To guide you down every path while you're walking through this process. Because you're in the middle between promise and possession. And that middle ground is called faith. Have faith in God. Have faith in God. Heavenly Father, I want to say thank you. Thank you for this word, God. Thank you for what you have spoken over your people. I ask now that you let this word settle in our hearts. Let it take root in our spirits. That while we're going through from what you promised and to taking our possession, while we're in the middle, increase our faith and deal with our obedience. Let us trust you wholeheartedly, God, and walk us through God. This posture. Let it keep us all week long, God. Let us let it keep us all week long. Let it guide our hearts and our minds. And God, when we get anxious this week, take us to that quiet place. So that we can hear from you and calm the noise down. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen. I want to thank everyone who was with us on today. I am going to share our offering page with those that are on our Facebook and YouTube channels in case any one of them wants to be a blessing. Just give me one second. My computer's been acting up all service long. And I can't seem to find my mouse. I don't know why it's invisible at this moment. I don't know why my mouse is invisible at this moment. There we go. Let me close this out real quick. And let me share the offering page with someone who might want to be a blessing to the ministry. And for those of you who are with us live on our screen here, you might want to be a blessing to us as well. Just give me one second, I'll share it. This is the way that we can give. Yeah, I'm not that. This is the way that we could be a blessing to the church. The information's on your screen as we speak. If you want to be a blessing to the church, we implore you that you do be a blessing. You can go ahead and text the word give to 855-574-8462. That is to our general offering. We do believe in tithes and offerings. So if you want to be a blessing with your tithes and offerings, that's one way you can give. We also have an Impact Outreach under the direction of our First Lady Rhonda Jones. If you want to be a blessing to Impact Outreach, you can go ahead and do that. That number is 844-499-0078. Those are the ways that you can give, or you can just scan the QR code on the left-hand corner of the page and you can give that way. We want to thank you for your giving. For all those who have been giving, thank you. For those, all of those who have not been given. We ask that you find a way to give. But we don't, but if you don't have to give, don't worry. God still loves you and God will still bless you. Um, this is just a way to keep everything functioning on Destiny Temple. So find it in your heart to give. It's a blessing. If it's not, then God will still make a way for us to do what we have to do. But just you'll know that your contribution does help in doing what God wants us to do in this part of the vineyard. And for that, we say thank you.