Giving Up And Still Winning Part 2

Living in scarcity can make you feel like you are being a responsible Christian. And it's often depicted as being holy or very pious, but you must realize it is quietly training your hands to stay closed. Today we sit with scriptures that confront the lack mindset head-on and invite a different way to live: abundance with purpose. Tell me how can we meet the needs of others if we don't have an ability to fulfil the need. From Deuteronomy 30:19 to the call to “choose life,” we talk about why God’s vision is not barely getting by, but living with enough to share and the courage to believe you will not run out. 

We walk through Deuteronomy 15 and the “year of release,” where generosity gets tested by fear of not being repaid. That leads to practical stewardship, knowing the state of your finances, giving wisely, and refusing to let excuses harden your heart. Then we land on Proverbs 19:17, one of the clearest promises on biblical generosity: when you have pity on the poor, you are lending to the Lord, and He repays. We also zoom out to Jubilee, debt cancellation, and God’s design for a prosperous culture that does not crush people under endless obligation. 

We do not ignore the realities of poverty either. We name oppression, lack, and the ways limited access to education, health care, and stability can trap people. Help is still commanded, and it can look like money, encouragement, and words that heal. We close with Leviticus 23 on gleaning, Ruth’s story of provision with dignity, and Deuteronomy 11 as a picture of a new land and a new process for provision, where God waters what He calls you to build. If this challenged you, subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review, then tell us what scripture hit you the hardest.

Transcript

Welcome And Why Abundance Matters

SPEAKER_03 0:07

All right. Well, thank you for tuning in to another version, another episode. Uh for life and legacy. We know that you're a valued listener, and we just want to say thank you again and again. We believe it is the grace of God and his uh ability to continue to bless us and show us favor upon us on today that we're able to have an opportunity to be before you. And listen, we just want to take the time, give a shout out to you, you and you, who've been faithfully listening, and you've been replying to uh emails and you've been providing us with insight and even providing us with clips that have encouraged us. So we just want to say thank you in advance for that. And we want to continue to tell you uh that we are hearing from you, that we're believing God for your best as you've believed the best for us. And uh prayer still works, and prayer still changes things, and we still believe in the God of our salvation, and he's still King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and there is none like him. So today we want to dive back into our session that we had on uh I think the last episode we're talking about giving, and sometimes it seems that the scriptures and uh may be uh almost hidden behind a veil, as if we can't understand them or discern them. But what we took an opportunity to do in this particular session is to finish up uh learning a little bit more about giving, and sometimes that's a difficult topic, but you know, it's not hard to give when you have freed yourself from the mindset of black. When you start to learn, and let me say it another way, when you learn that there is more than enough, you're never concerned about running out. Right? If you know there's more than enough, if you you you come to a place where you ever got to uh uh open a new roll of uh uh, if you will, uh of um um what do you call it, uh paper towels, and you got a brand new roll of paper towels, and and you you every single time you I don't know if you like to clean, but I'd clean paper towels, and if you knew every time you put your hand out, you had another sheet of paper towel that you you look at the never-ending role of paper towels, then you never ever concern yourself whether or not when you go home, whether or not you'd have paper towels. I think there was a movie that said the uh everlasting and never stopping gobstopper, I think. Uh right. So, you know, it it was as if uh, you know, I know you're gonna correct me, and I love you for that. But uh, you know what I'm talking about, Willie Walker. At the end of the day, though, if we we give God his due, we would begin to understand that there is a state of abundance that he wants us to live in. There is a place of abundance that he wants us to live in. As a matter of fact, Deuteronomy 30 and 19 is the inspiration behind this podcast. It says, I have called heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessings and cursings. Therefore, what? Choose life. It's God's desire that we should know we should choose life. Not just any life, but life abundantly. So we should stop selling ourselves short, stop trying to pretend that we need to live in a state of like st let go. How about this? Let go of past perceived notions, let go of the things that maybe uh some people around you that you love have uh been holding on to and won't let go, uh, because those that's the best pair of shoes. Uh and God forbid that they'd be the lucky shoes that have holes in them. I don't know. Those shoes have holes in them. I'll leave that alone. Anyway, some of you got socks that have holes in them, you hold on to them. Anyway, we'll leave that alone as well. But uh listen, uh I don't don't hurt me. I'm just picking with you right now. But look, it says that both thy seed, that that you and your seed may live. It is God's intent not just that you might live well, but that your children's children, your children's children, all those that are around you might live life more abundantly. Now here's what I want to do. I'm gonna give you a challenge. I'm gonna give you a challenge. If you could find the scripture that tells us that we that Jesus came that we might have what? Life and that much more abundantly. Let's see if you can find that in your own Bible. I don't care how you find it, it doesn't matter. Just look for it because I guarantee you, when you see it, it's gonna bless your socks off. And just his entrance of his word brings life. And that's what we want. We want life and freedom. We want free life, right? And free life more abundantly. So listen, I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time on this because we have a whole session waiting for you to dive back into and that you might be blessed by it, because this is what we want to believe, right? That there is a blessing upon you, a blessing upon you that your family needs,

More Than Enough Mindset

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and that they will ever need. Do what you what you're called to do. If you live in what God has called you to live in, you will always find that there is more than enough for you. As a matter of fact, it's so much more than enough that you have to share it. That's why it's called a gift. Yes, so let's jump right on in. Here we go. Are you ready for it? Because life is ready for you. Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 5:41

You're burying stuff. God gave it to you, he meant for it to increase.

unknown 5:45

Right, right.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

He meant for it to increase you and the kingdom. That's why he's really upset. Because it's not just for you. The gift isn't just for you.

SPEAKER_05 5:54

That's right.

SPEAKER_04 5:55

You kept it to yourself. Singing the songs by yourself.

SPEAKER_05 5:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:00

You just kept it to yourself. Should we keep anything to ourselves? No, we should learn how to give. That's what this is about. Learning how to what? Give. We're supposed to be givers. Are we right? Am I right? For God, so what? That he y'all gonna hear me say that over and over again. God loves giving. And if he loves giving, shouldn't we? Alright, let's do this. Here we go. Verse 9 says, Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, the seventh year, verse 9, chapter 15 of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 15, verse 9. I said it backwards, forwards. That way we get it. Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and that and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him naught. And he cry unto the Lord against thee, and wow, and it be sin unto thee. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. So if I don't give, it's gonna be counted as what? Sin against me. I got it to give. Or do I? Because I don't know the state of my flocks. Or maybe the reason I don't give is because I feel like I'm in lack. Because I still don't know the state of my flock. Say it again.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

It's your fault.

SPEAKER_04 7:19

It is your fault. Because you're supposed to be wiser than that. So if you don't know, start somewhere small until you figure it out. I know some of you say, Well, you you're trying to tell me I shouldn't know my business. You should. You should know your business. That's why it's called your business. What Tabitha Brown? It's your business. You should know your business. There's a personal business, right? That's your personal business. We shouldn't know this. And I know it sounds like it doesn't resonate for some people because I ain't speaking in tongues, but let me tell you something. I need to speak plain to some people. Because you know what? That folks who speak in tongues won't speak to your name.

SPEAKER_05 8:02

Amen.

SPEAKER_04 8:05

Now you ain't figured that out yet. So let's speak to you in English. In English. See, so what let me give you something. Let me give you this hint real quick. Proverbs 19, 17. Proverbs 19, 17. Proverbs 19, 17. While you're turning there, let me give this to you. The seventh year, the seventh year, the year of release in this particular time, if you owed a debt to somebody, if you owed a debt, somebody said, if I owe the debt, then in the seventh year, I would be released from that debt. Now, what the scripture is capturing is that if in the sixth year, and they know the seventh year is coming, and you're in need in the sixth year, then I would say, Well, the seventh year is coming. If I give you $100,000 this year, you will be released from that debt next year. I ain't

Deuteronomy 15 And Refusing To Give

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giving you anything. I will refuse. Hold on, wait a minute. No, you're supposed to be given. It's entered into your heart, a wicked heart, that you won't get it back. But here's a problem who caused you to increase? Did you do it?

unknown 9:09

No.

SPEAKER_04 9:10

Did you do it? Deuteronomy 8 and 18 says, No, don't worry about it. He says, I give you power to get wealth. I give you power to get wealth. God says, I give you power to get wealth. The verse before it says, Don't sit there and think you did it yourself. So we've got a hip on the shoulders. And then we won't give to somebody. What does Proverbs 19 and 7 17 say? Proverbs 19 and 17.

SPEAKER_05 9:40

That have pity.

SPEAKER_04 9:46

And uh that we have hippos, we paid him. Woo! Say that loud, say it proud.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

He that have pity from the Lord.

SPEAKER_04 9:58

Have pity on the poor.

unknown 9:59

Lendeth unto the Lord.

SPEAKER_04 10:01

They do what? They lend to God when you have pity on the poor. Pete, please keep going, because sometimes people just stop there. Please read the whole verse.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

He that is upon the poor.

SPEAKER_05 10:15

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

Lendeth to the Lord. Lend to the Lord. Amen. Uh-huh. That which he hath given. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 10:21

Will he give him a pay? Pay him again. Okay. Who's gonna pay him? The Lord's gonna pay you. Again. Again. I think, you know what? I think God knows how to pay his bills. I think he knows how to pay his bills. Y'all think God knows how to pay his bills? Is that in that's in your Bible? If you go to 1917, that's in your Bible. So that means that God will give. You know one thing I like about God? He don't give light. He don't give light. He knows exactly what you need. He don't give light. Matter of fact, I don't know about y'all, but I've lived in a place where God has given me abundantly more than I've ever asked for. He gives me things that I didn't even think about. Are you with me? He gives me things I anybody here ever been in a place where God has given you something you're like, I didn't even think God you were gonna give it to me this way. I didn't even think. Look, look at it. So many times. And I thank him for it. So listen, here's the thing. The year of seven, and I want to give this as a side note just so you know, it says in the seventh year you'd be released. Does that sound familiar to anybody? Seventh year? What's sound?

SPEAKER_02 11:35

Completion.

SPEAKER_04 11:36

Completion? Is there anything we do in America that's very similar? Seven years. When you declare when you declare bankruptcy, normally it takes what? Seven years. Seven years. Let me clear this out for everybody. This is a cultural reset debt cancellation. Let me put it this way. Anyone know what the national debt is today? Trillions of dollars. What if all of a sudden next year it was paid on? You said, well, I don't care. What if every debt you had next year was gone? Huh? Every debt you had. Now let me be scripturally correct. Let me be scripturally correct. There you go, student loans. In the year of Jubilee was the 50th year. So let's do this calculation real quick. Seven times seven is what? 49. There's a 50th year. So think about this. Y'all get this real good. There's a reason why I would be excited in the 50 year. Because if I was in debt in the year past seven years, it's gone. And then I get a I get another Jubilee the next year. That's two years back to back. I'm clearing everything. Are y'all with me? That's a beautiful thing because at the end of the day, you get a double blessing. Now, in the 50th year, that means even the debt you owed on land, if property was taken from you, it was given back. What does this mean? God has, if you will, a mindset

Lending To The Lord Promise

SPEAKER_04 13:40

to make sure that the culture stays prosperous. I'm not making sense. The culture today is there to be, if you will, uh uh uh what do you call that thing that sucked the blood out of you? Leech. There you go. A leech. Right? It's there to leech off you. It is. It's there to leech off you. And that's the reason why the scriptures tell us to be mindful of when we go into debt. Even the scripture tells us that even if you become surety of you strike an agreement as a cosigner for something, you ought not to do it. I know some people don't believe me, but if you read the Bible, I'm gonna get to it later on, maybe in another lesson. But it tells you to be mindful not to be a cosigner unless you're ready to pay the bill. Well, I'm just gonna be nice. That the Bible never said he'd be nice. The Bible said to be kind. If you read the fruit of the spirit, it said be kind. If you don't understand, look up the etymology of the word nice. You will find out why you are not to be nice. We ain't got time for that. So here's what we need to know. So if you're with me, we were there, Galay, um, and Deuteronomy 5 and 9, and I need to go on. Um Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 15 and 11. Deuteronomy 15 and 11. Deuteronomy 15 and 11. It says the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore, I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hands wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to the needy in the land. Now we already discussed why people go through uh poverty and how they end up with poverty. It is a spirit of oppression. The spirit of oppression gives birth to the spirit of lack. The spirit of oppression gives birth to the spirit of lack because you really will lack something. If you are if you don't have right to the uh right educational institutions, you can't get the higher forms of education, what does that mean? You can't be as smart as your counterparts. If you don't have access to facilities, you can't you can't do those things. You can't do those things that are medically necessary. You don't you're gonna end up in places where you don't. Here's an here's some numbers. In 2023, over 36 million people lived in poverty in the United States. Uh the number today, as far as poverty is concerned, around 33,000. If you make less than $33,000 a year, you're in poverty according to the United States.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

That's the family of four now.

SPEAKER_04 16:21

Family of four. Thank you very much. Alright? These are things that, as far as the uh United States is concerned. So here's where we happens. Um, we already went through what happens when you're poor. You start coveting things because that spirit comes upon you. Spirit of light, spirit of lack. Y'all say it with me. Spirit of lack has no place in my life. All right, here we go. Um let's talk about this, and I think I got two minutes to do it. Proverbs 1924. Let's talk about how you end up being really poor. Proverbs 1924. If you're there, say I'm there. Alright, who's got it? Who's gonna read it real quick?

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Slow man tides his hand in his book

Jubilee And Debt Reset Culture

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and would not so much as bring it out to his mouth.

SPEAKER_04 17:13

What's that? He we he what he we a slopher man would do what? You heard it. You heard that's in your Bible. A slopher man hides his hand where? Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Not so much as bringing it to his mouth again.

SPEAKER_04 17:29

He won't even bring, he won't even feed himself. That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. If you go to 26, 15, it says he's so bad that he'll take his hand, put it in a dish, and won't even bring it back. He's gonna say, No, you know what? Here's what happens. Don't do this with me. Um Proverbs 26, 16. I'm gonna take y'all there. Proverbs 26, 16. Here's the problem. Most of the time, people who are lazy have this thing in mind. I deserve to be this way. Nobody cares for me. Or they have a mindset. Typically, that uh who's got Proverbs 26, 16?

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Lazy man surprises in his own eyes. The seven man, he can answer something.

SPEAKER_04 18:22

Hmm. I've already made up excuses for you. So you say, why am I taking because listen, I'm gonna be honest with you. Some of the people that are poor are gonna have excuses. So I'm gonna I'm gonna teach a class, I'm gonna teach a class, I'm gonna teach it right. Why are the people poor? There's some people poor because of medical conditions. There's some people poor because of mental conditions, right? How they looked at themselves and kept themselves, low self-esteem. Things eat, these are issues that eat them up. Maybe they've been oppressed or somehow have been told that they were no good. And whatever reason, they remembered it and they keep it in their heart, and they will not go beyond that state. So now I could give you money, but if I give you words of encouragement, would that be better?

unknown 19:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 19:07

How about if I give you both? How about if I give you both? Wouldn't that be something? So look, should we be ready to not just give somebody money but give them words of encouragement too?

unknown 19:19

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 19:19

Is that a good idea? Yes, sir. So, because there are people who are destitute. There are people, Jesus said specifically um in Matthew, uh Mark 14, 7. Listen to this closely. For ye have the poor with you what? Always always. Here it goes, and whensoever ye will, ye may do to them good. Do good to them. Do good, you have the poor with you what? I had a problem with that scripture, honestly, because I knew God was not a God of lack. I knew it. I couldn't, I couldn't make it make sense to me. Why would the poor be with me always? And I began to read my scriptures, and I began to realize that there's a state of man in depravity through oppression, that there's a spirit of lack that exists within the mindset of the people. And because that happens, if we don't do our jobs as those who've been born again, we have to open our hands. Like, I'm not making sense. We have to open our hands. Where else will they get liberty? Because there are hands that made them this way. There are hands, oppression, hands of oppression have made them this way. We need some healing hands to let them free, help them be free. And in some instances, we need to use the words of our mouths to minister to their souls. Are you

Poverty Oppression And Real Help

SPEAKER_04 20:40

with me? So let me let me move on. Um, I recovered the anthetical piece. Um, let's do this. Leviticus 23 and 22. I got three minutes. I gotta give you some things that I think are gonna be Leviticus 23 and 22, and I need somebody else. Um Deuteronomy. I do. Alright, we did that. Go ahead, somebody with uh Leviticus 232.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not only reap the corners of your field when you reap. Nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.

SPEAKER_04 21:37

Alright, so we got we got in the old testament that we shouldn't be cutting corners.

unknown 21:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

You heard that term before? Don't cut corners, the corners of your field. You leave them specifically for people who are what?

unknown 21:50

Poor.

SPEAKER_04 21:51

Poor, those who are needy. So, you know, if we think I'm gonna get it all, no, you're supposed to leave some for someone else. Let me give you a good example. Anybody remember Boaz? Boaz's wife ended up being who?

SPEAKER_02 22:09

Naomi.

SPEAKER_04 22:11

Ruth. There we go. Naomi was a mother. So Ruth was what? Where did Boaz see her? In the field. What was she doing?

unknown 22:19

Gleaning.

SPEAKER_04 22:20

Gleaning. She went out there because she knew this law existed.

unknown 22:24

Right, right.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

She went out there glimming, and now he, you know, he he looked at her and thought she was fair. Then favor kicked in. Hallelujah. Blessed is a man that findeth a wife. Amen. He findeth a good thing. So here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's a beautiful body. And I want to put it together. It said, in this thing, it's harvest time, right? What do we know harvest time to be? What is akin to in today's world?

unknown 22:48

Fall.

SPEAKER_04 22:49

Fall. What happened in harvest time, but in their season? It's called Pentecost. Pentecost was also harvest time. That time frame what he did seven weeks afterwards, that's Pentecost. So here what we have is a good example of the pouring out of the Spirit of God on his people, right? And at the same time, he expects even those who are poor and destitute to be filled. Are you with me? So that he's not leaving anybody out in Pentecost. Everybody gets fed in Pentecost. If you are giving, you should be giving all that you can in Pentecost. Understanding that God will replenish and he will not leave you in destitute. All right, I think I gotta get out of here. But let me give you one last thing, and I want to tell you this. Um Deuteronomy 11 and 10 through 12. Deuteronomy 11, 10 through 12. Deuteronomy 11, 10 through 12. This was this was an eye-opener. This

Gleaning Ruth And Leaving Margin

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is eye-opener. Somebody say eye opener. I gotta read it quick. Deuteronomy 11, 10 through 12. For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt. This is the place where you came from. The place you came from. It's not like Egypt, which you which you came from which you came. A land where you planted seed, which you irrigated by what? Hand, like a vegetable garden. Instead, the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys. A land that drinks in water from the rains, a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning of the end of the year. Listen, what are you saying? God will make your way prosperous and blessed when he moves you to the new land. He wants you to be blessed abundantly so that you can learn to be giving like he is. Because God is not a God of lack, he's a God of abundance. Matter of fact, he says, I will give, he wants you to have life and that much more what?

unknown 24:46

Abundance.

SPEAKER_04 24:47

Abundantly. So we're using scripture to understand and to indicate it is God's desire that we be in abundance and that our heart would be mindful to be abundantly giving. Because he's gonna put us in a land of what? We don't have to work hard. Do you see that? I don't know if you get that right there, because in Egypt, in bondage, you had to work hard. But God has moved, God has moved you to a land. You still got to do the harvest, but you didn't have to, you don't have to go get your own water. God brings the water in from the sky. I don't know if a process makes a difference, y'all. The process has changed. Somebody said the process in my life has changed. How I get blessed has changed. It's changed, and I know I got to go. Can somebody pray us out? You got something to say too? All right, yeah. Hallelujah. All right. God bless you. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_03 25:37

All right. Well, we thank you for tuning in again. We know that uh we know that God's blessed you and we believe in God for more and more and more. Amen. Of that. Because he's a blessing. He's a God uh who loves to bless, who loves to continue to make us more, and to reveal himself to us

New Land New Process Closing

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that we might become more. So listen, uh, once again, I look forward to another opportunity for us to break bread, for us to uh speak to those things that are needful for transformation. And we believe in God on today for greater things, because greater things are coming. Listen, you have yourself a good day and continue to do great things, continue to do great things, continue to do great things, because great things are coming looking for you. Alrighty, until next time. We love you. There's nothing you can do about it. Almost forgot to ask you. Hit that like and share button. Come on, hit that like and share button before we go. Ah, that'd be great. That'd be great. It helps make things happen around here. Alrighty.