SPEAKER_00: Hi Parklands Baptist Church.
SPEAKER_00: So today we look at this month's theme vision: impartation of uncommon abundance, spirit-led increase.
SPEAKER_00: The scripture I want to refer to is Joel 225, where God is giving us a promise.
SPEAKER_00: Anytime the Lord gives us a promise concerning our circumstances, then it's up to you to take that word, take that promise, and begin to enforce it, begin to declare it, begin to decree, declare it until it manifests in your life.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord says, I will give you back.
SPEAKER_00: There is a promise of giving back.
SPEAKER_00: And what is the Lord going to give us back?
SPEAKER_00: He's going to give us back what the swarming locusts have eaten.
SPEAKER_00: This could be an environment we are in that is taking away from us.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a difficult marketplace.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a difficult season.
SPEAKER_00: They're hoping locusts.
SPEAKER_00: Hoping locusts are opportunistic things, sudden losses.
SPEAKER_00: Stripping locusts are things that are stealing from us.
SPEAKER_00: You're losing your money.
SPEAKER_00: You're losing your investment.
SPEAKER_00: You're losing your job.
SPEAKER_00: And cutting locusts.
SPEAKER_00: Cutting locusts are things that are downsizing us.
SPEAKER_00: These are voices that are saying that we cannot rise.
SPEAKER_00: Voices that are saying that we cannot go far.
SPEAKER_00: But the Lord is saying, I will give you back what has been stolen.
SPEAKER_00: Are you dealing with stagnation?
SPEAKER_00: Is this month, has this month not begun to manifest uh in your life?
SPEAKER_00: Is abundance not manifesting in your life?
SPEAKER_00: Is increase not manifesting in your life?
SPEAKER_00: I want you to have the same attitude like Isaac.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says that the Lord appeared to Isaac in Genesis 26, verse 2 and told him, Do not go down to Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, God was telling him, Don't go to other places for help.
SPEAKER_00: Don't run to Egypt, but run to God.
SPEAKER_00: God was telling Isaac that I am your source, I am the only one who can help you in this situation.
SPEAKER_00: The moment we realize that only God can help us, that moment, then God starts to do something concerning our situation.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says that uh Isaac sowed, he planted in the land, and in that season, which was a difficult season, he reaped in that same year a hundred times.
SPEAKER_00: Finally, I want us to enforce Isaiah 45, verse 2 and 3.
SPEAKER_00: In Isaiah 45, 2 and 3, again, God tells his people, what is this that is rising against your abundance?
SPEAKER_00: What is this that is rising against your increase?
SPEAKER_00: He's giving us a promise that he will go before us and he will level mountains, he will break down gates of bronze and cut through iron bars.
SPEAKER_00: What this means is that you need now to start standing in your own house and you are going to start speaking to mountains, you're going to start speaking to bronze gates, and you're going to start speaking to bars of iron that have been resisting you or that have resisted you for a long time.
SPEAKER_00: And you're going to tell them iron bars break, bronze gates break.
SPEAKER_00: And the Lord is also assuring you that as you do these things, he will also uh give you, uh He's also going to open your eyes to see, He's also going to help you locate hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you might know that He is Jehovah Jairah, and that God is not a respecter of persons, and that he can lift you from the pit and sit you up with the princes of his people.
SPEAKER_00: So God bless you as you enjoy your uh impartation of uncommon abundance and as you enjoy spirit led increase in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.