Spirit Stream #59 - Abundant Life

In this Spirit Stream, Nick Griemsmann teaches on true Abundant Life in Christ—moving beyond worldly success to loving God, serving others, humility, and divine love. He openly shares about:

• The difference between worldly abundance and biblical abundant life
• Humility, servant leadership, and true greatness in God’s Kingdom
• Loving God and neighbor as the heart of the Bible
• Breaking free from false humility and partiality

If you’ve ever chased money, fame, or success yet felt empty—this teaching will shift your thinking and draw you closer to Christ’s abundant life. The Holy Ghost leads us into real life!

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Welcome & Opening Prayer
4:30 - Abundant Life Introduction
5:05 - What Really Matters: Love God & Neighbor
6:00 - Servant Leadership & Humility
9:35 - False Humility vs True Humility
10:00 - Worldly Abundance vs Kingdom Life
11:35 - John 10:10 Explained (Thief Comes to Steal)
13:45 - Jesus Came for Life More Abundantly
1:23:00 - Closing Prayer & Encouragement

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Transcript

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See if I got this here. Hello, everybody. This is uh Nick Grimsman. This is uh Holy Ghost Television Spirit Stream number fifty nine. Fifty-nine, guys. Can you believe it? Spirit stream fifty-nine. I'm excited. Are you excited? I'm excited. Praise God. I'm so thankful that uh almost a year ago I started this uh Holy Ghost Television Spirit Streams, and this is number 59. Isn't that neat? I'm excited. Well, let's begin with prayer. I hope everybody's doing well today. Um, if you're uh if you're uh watching, you can always leave a comment. Let me know where you're watching from. If you're listening, hey, hi, good to good to speak into your ears. I love you. God loves you. Uh let's uh begin with prayer and see where the Lord takes us. Father, thank you so much for your uh your word. Your word is strong and powerful, it's able to um transform us, to change us, to help us, to bless us. And your word is true, Lord, in that you died on the cross for us, Lord Jesus, and your blood was shed, and we are saved because of your perfect sacrifice and your resurrection from the dead. We thank you that we have hope of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you that anyone who confesses Jesus as Lord and believes with their whole heart that God raised them from the dead, they shall be saved. I thank you that years ago, Lord, over 20 years ago, you heard my prayer of salvation, you heard my heart's cry. I called on the name of the Lord and I was saved. And I pray for anybody watching this that they would sincerely call on the name of the Lord Jesus to be saved. Not only, Lord, do you save us when we call on your name, but you deliver us, you heal us, you rescue us. Thank you that you're my rescuer. You've always rescued me from trouble, you've always protected me and my family. And I just really uh can't thank you enough. I praise you, most high God. We praise you for your mercy, Lord. We all deserve death because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And it's by your grace, Lord, we are saved through faith. And we thank you that by believing in you, Lord, we are saved from the wrath to come. We are saved, and our names are written in the Lamb's book of life forever. And that can never be taken away from us, Lord, because we didn't work ourselves into salvation. We simply believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. And then you sealed us with your Holy Spirit of promise. We thank you, Holy Spirit, that you've sealed us. You've sealed us, and you are the guarantee of our inheritance stored up in heaven, undefiled. It's waiting for us in heaven. Thank you for the inheritance of eternal life. Thank you that we're joined heirs of Christ. I could pray all day, guys. Thank you, Lord. You are faithful. Praise God. Lord, I ask that you'd speak through me to help somebody today in Jesus' name. Amen. Hey guys. All right, I'm back. Just uh praying a little bit. Uh I was uh just feeling really good today, guys. Uh, God is good, God is faithful. Uh today I'll talk to you about abundant life. Uh, I don't know how long the stream is going to be, but I want to talk to you about abundant life, and I want you to start thinking differently. Okay, start thinking differently. Stop thinking like the world system and start thinking like the word of God, Christ in you, the hope of glory. Start thinking about uh what really matters in life. What uh did Jesus say matters? What matters, guys? What really matters in life? Loving God and loving your neighbor as yourself. The whole law is wrapped up in what? Love God, love your neighbor. Love, guys. The whole Bible is love. That's what it's about. Not sensual love, like the world tries to say what love is, but true divine love. Jesus said, you know, that uh that a friend, you know, there's no greater love in this that a friend gives it gives his life or for his friends, basically. Sorry, I'm misquoting that probably a little bit. But think about that. He laid his life down for his friends, and so we as Christians, we lay our lives down, right? We lay our lives down for our communities, for our uh uh other members of the body of Christ, for our families. We serve. That's what we're supposed to do. If you ever want to be a pastor, uh you have to be uh the one that's gonna serve everybody, okay? You're gonna be the greatest servant at your church. So if you esteem to be a pastor or leader someday, you can't just take a leadership course. I always laugh about that. You know, leadership courses are fine, but true leadership is surrendering to serving others. I used to be uh uh pastor here in Phoenix at a at a small church and associate pastor years ago. And I would always go clean the toilets, I'd take out the trash after the service, clean the floors, and there's volunteers there, uh, you know, that would volunteer or or whatever. I was volunteering too, I wasn't paid for it. But uh, and uh some of them would not clean a toilet or take out the trash or wipe down the counter in the bathroom or vacuum the floor or clean the chair off or something. They wouldn't do it, they were above it. And I knew that those people who didn't have that servant heart, that humble heart, it was gonna be a long time before they actually were true leaders. I mean, maybe they can get a you know a degree and become a become some pastor somewhere, but a true pastor or true leader is gonna be somebody that can clean a toilet or a trash can. Okay, so if you're above that, you can't be a pastor. Please don't try to be a pastor if you can't go humble yourself and clean up the church. Interesting, huh? Because it's uh it's about serving others and those who want to be greatest in the kingdom of heaven, right? Have to be the least. You have to humble yourself and be the least. And Apostle Paul, he always said that he was the least of all saints. Why? Because he had a humble heart. He was humbled by God. Um, you know, the road to Damascus and all the persecution he's been through, and he had a uh close relationship with the Holy Spirit. And the closer you get to the Lord, the more you realize how sinful you really are. Not sins outwardly that people see all the time, but inwardly type stuff, soul type stuff. You start seeing human nature for what it is. Yeah, you know what I mean? Human nature, uh, by just being born in the world and our programming is sinful. You know, we judge people, we make, we we treat people differently, maybe if they look different or if they have more money or less money or they're homeless or they're on drugs. We we just start treating people differently, and it's called partiality. And and you know, it's a human nature thing. You know, we treat other people differently. Uh, and we shouldn't do that in Christ. We should treat all people the same with love and respect and kindness. Humility, guys, is very important. Remember, there is false humility. I used to think not wearing a watch or any jewelry was false hum or was humble. So I'm not gonna wear any anything nice or anything like that because I'm humble. I'm not gonna wear a ring or a a watch or a bracelet because I'm humble. Guys, that's not humility, that's false humility, right? That's false humility. Okay, humility comes from the heart. You could be decked out in gold and have a humble heart, right? You really can't. You could be a king and they have all the gold on you and stuff, you still have a humble heart. Okay, remember, God sees your heart, not your outward appearance. Praise God. All right, so what is abundant life, guys? I don't know why I went on that tangent, but what is abundant life? What think about that for a second. Abundant life. Okay, so when I was young, uh in the 80s and 90s, we always looked up to, I mean, believe it or not, Donald Trump, because he was everywhere. He, you know, he was the the American dream. He was, he was the American dream back then. I remember I had a board game my mother bought us one time in the 80s, I think late 80s, it was called Trump, Trump Game or something. And you went and you bought hotels and Trump Towers and stuff. Old game, I think we got it like Value Village. Remember Value Village? Anybody remember that place? We used to love that place when we were little. My mommy stays there, thrift store thing. But we had this game, and I remember you go around a limousine and it's like Monopoly, but you buy hotels and stuff, and that was a Trump game. And so my idea when I was growing up of abundant life would be to be like Donald Trump with all the riches and the money and the fame, or like uh Brad Pitt, an actor, or you know, somebody famous with wealth. That was what I'm trying to get at. When I would think of abundant life, like if you asked me before I before I knew the Lord, what's abundant life? What does everybody want? Well, they want money, they want fame, they want um businesses, they want something, you know, they they want all this stuff and they want people to respect them, right? And so, in the same way, the Pharisees, they thought they had abundant life because they had wealth. The Pharisees were greedy. Uh, in the Bible, it says they were greedy for money, and they were uh they were, according to what people thought, blessed by God, abundant. They had abundant wealth, right? And it's very interesting that Jesus said that in John 10, 10, that the devil comes, what the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I have come to give you life and life more abundantly. So we want abundant life, right? So let's change our minds today and let's really dissect what is abundant life. What is abundant life to you? I used to think abundant life was uh, as a Christian, I thought it was becoming the Christian version of like a rich businessman or a famous preacher or something. I thought that if I had a ton of money and I was famous or people liked me, you know, it's real easy, guys. Once you start, you know, I've been on television several times, uh, you know, write books and things like that. It's real easy to get that temptation to try to get a lot of followers and try to um please people, you know, try to be a people pleaser so they support you more, so they give you more opportunities, so they buy your books, all that stuff. It's it's a it's an easy thing to be tempted by an easy thing to go into, and I've been guilty of kind of going that route once in a while in my past. But I've learned through trials and tribulations and sufferings and all this stuff, that the way I think about abundant life is false, has been false. So maybe you're believing what abundant that a fake abundant life that people are, the world is telling you what abundant life is. Okay. Maybe you are thinking wrong about it. Maybe you're just like me. You thought if I just had enough money, a big house, um, you know, three, you know, two and a half kids, a wife, you know, they do the you know, wife and two and a half kids and the white picket fence. That's abundant life. But what is abundant life? Let's go to John 10 10, right? I think it's John 10 10. Let me uh go here. Give me one second. See if I can find it. There we go. So let's go to John. Let's look this up. So this is Bible Hub, I like to go on to. Let's see. John. Can you see it? I think you can, yeah. And like I always say, I like Bible Hub because it gives you different uh different scriptures, uh, different uh verses, uh, different types like new NIV, NLT, English Stand Version, King James, New King James, all those different uh translations, and also has the Hebrew and the Greek so and commentaries. So you can read it all and you can kind of you want to read stuff right like in context, right? You want to read it in context, and you want to be able to read kind of the get the flavor of what's going on so that you don't just read one scripture and go, oh, that's what it means. Okay. So John 10:10 says, the thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. So what? Who's the thief? Okay, the thief's purpose is to steal. So the devil, the thief, he wants to steal from you. He wants to steal anything he can from you, relationships, money, time, energy. I mean, these are things you don't think of sometimes. Energy. How many people have been sent in your life to pull your energy, you know, like this to suck energy out of you. You know, you deal with some people, especially in ministry. I deal with people that they want to take all your time and energy. And, you know, maybe they don't really realize they're doing it. Most people don't, right? But some people will they will try to steal your energy. The enemy will use people to steal your energy, your time, your resources, your money, everything. He'll he'll use people, right? The enemy uses people. The thief's purpose is to steal and kill. What does that mean? Kill. He wants to kill dreams, kill people. He wants to kill. He wants to kill your finances, kill your job, kill your family, kill your relationships. So he wants not only to steal, he's scheming to steal, but now he and also he wants to kill. Okay, so you're dealing with you're dealing with a an enemy that wants to kill and steal from you. Kill and steal. And what? Destroy. He wants to steal, kill, and destroy your life and the things around you. You have a dream, guess what he wants to do? He wants to steal it, kill it, destroy it. Remember, Paul told Timothy, uh, you know, he laid hands on him and he gave him uh a prophetic word. He said, you know, the um, you know, do, you know, do good warfare with the word spoken over you. When I laid hands on you, something like that, I'm I'm primus quoting again, but you can find, I think it's in first and second or second Timothy. So he was telling to do good warfare with the prophetic word he got. So somewhere it sounds like Paul or he got a prophetic word. Timothy got a prophetic word, the pastor, and it was some sort of word. I don't know what it was, we don't know what it was, but it was a weapon he wanted, he wanted uh, he wanted Timothy, Paul wanted Timothy to use it as a weapon against the enemy. You know, you use that, um, you hold on to that word, you fight with it, just like you fight with a promise. You're healed by his stripes, you're healed by his stripes. What's the enemy want to do? Steal, kill, and destroy that word in your heart. Okay, that's why it's important for you to know the word. It's important for you to read in context and to get it in your heart because it transforms your mind and your emotions. So when you truly start believing you're healed by his stripes and that the Holy Spirit lives in your body, gives the life to your flesh, then you start overcoming the thief. So has the thief tried to steal, kill, destroy one of your dreams, your hopes, your goals? Well, fight back with maybe the prophetic word that you really know is from the Lord. Maybe the Lord really spoke to you and you know it. You have two or three witnesses. I'm not saying somebody just came to you and said, you're gonna be uh, you know, this or that. I'm talking about a real prophetic word where it's two or three witnesses and it bears witness in your heart, and you know it's God's will for your life. That's your weapon. You hold on to that. Don't let the enemy destroy it, steal it, kill it. Okay. Same thing goes to your health and all that other stuff. Then it says something important, I have. So Jesus has come that they may have life and have it to the full. English Standard Version. The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. I can't came that they may have life and have it abundantly. So why did Jesus come? What does it say? Why did Jesus come? I came. Okay, so that they may have life. So Jesus came so that we may have life and may have it abundantly. So Jesus came so you can have life. So if you don't feel like you have life, you're bored, depressed, Christianity is boring, maybe you think, or all that stuff. Bunch of lies. Jesus came to give you life and life more abundantly. All right, let's break this down. Let's break this down. Let's start with John 10, 10, 1, real quick. Okay, verily, uh NIV, verily, truly I tell you, Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way is a thief and a robber. Okay, so he's basically saying you have to come through him. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. Okay, so Jesus is the shepherd. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. Okay, so he's he's talking about how he's the shepherd, father's the gatekeeper, and the sheep hear his voice. Okay, they know his name, he knows the name, he leads them out pretty much. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. Okay, King James, and when he puts forth his own sheep, so he's talking about people that belong to him, he goes before them. So who goes before you? The Lord Jesus Christ. So you're not alone. Stop thinking you're alone. I'm all alone, Lord. I don't know what to do. I'm so confused. Who goes before you? The living God, the Savior of all mankind, Jesus the Messiah. Okay, he goes before you, and you follow him. The sheep follow him, right? You follow Jesus, for they know his voice. You know God's voice. When you hear the word from God, you know it's him. That's how you got saved. You heard the gospel, you knew it was God telling you the truth in your heart. Okay, you hear the scriptures, you're like, oh, that's from the Lord. The Lord can speak to your heart because you have the Holy Spirit as well. So you have discernment in your heart. You know what's right and wrong in your own heart. Okay. They won't follow a stranger. They will run from him because they don't know his voice. King James and a stranger, they will they not follow. Maybe in times past you followed a stranger. Maybe you're in a false religion. Maybe you're new age. Maybe you're listening to voices, or maybe you're just falling the flesh, which is basically falling the devil. Okay. Maybe you were in the, you know, for a little bit of season in your life, maybe a lot of times in your life, but you will not follow him eventually when you hear God's voice. You will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers. So when you have the Holy Ghost, okay, and you know you're a son or daughter of God, you will not follow strangers. You will flee from false doctrine, you will flee from controlling individuals, you will flee from false churches and mini cults. I call them mini-cults. There's a lot of mini-cults out there, cults of personality. There's uh pastors that control people because they want money or sex or whatever's going on, right? So he you will flee from those people because they do not know the voice of strangers. So you feel those red flags in your heart listening to somebody. You feel those red flags at that kind of odd church you go to or whatever. Well, maybe that's the Lord kind of telling you that's a voice of a stranger. You don't really, you're not supposed to be here, right? That that's your heart. That's because you're a sheep of the good shepherd. Jesus wants to lead you into good pastures. He wants you to learn his love, his grace, his forgiveness, his kindness, his compassion, and his abundant life. Amen. I'm in I'm encouraged. I don't know if anybody else is encouraged out there. And a stranger will not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers. You only know the voice of God.

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Oops, what think I 10 6. Jesus used this figure speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them. So King James, this parable spake Jesus unto them, but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. So the Pharisees didn't know what was going on because they didn't hear Jesus. They didn't have eyes to see and ears to hear. Remember, the Bible says that they were establishing their own righteousness by works of the law and not by faith. So they lacked faith. They were self-righteous, so they couldn't hear the parables. Therefore, Jesus said again, I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. Okay, so I am the gate, I am the door of the sheep. Truly true. I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. Okay, all who come before me as thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. Okay, so he's talking about false people. I'm not really breaking all this down right now, but let's just keep going. Remember, guys, I'm not a Bible scholar, I just read the Bible. And you know, I might be wrong in some places, but you know, that's where your discernment kicks in, and you do your own studies. I am the gate, whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and out and find pasture. New Living Translation. Yes, I am the gate. Okay, so earlier I said it was uh God is the gate, right? Because Jesus is a shepherd. Isn't that interesting? How's that work? Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. So you you have found the gate. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. So Jesus is the gate into the Father, right? Those who come in through me will be saved. So you have to come to Christ, to God through Christ. That's the only way to be saved from your sins. That's the only way to be saved is through Jesus of Nazareth. It's the narrow gate, the narrow way. A lot of people they, oh, I'm a good person, or yeah, Jesus was a great prophet, but you know, I believe this, I you know, I believe Buddha, I believe all this other stuff. Guys, Jesus is the Son of God, the Messiah. There's no other way, no other name under heaven that you may be saved. Only Jesus. That's it, guys. You can be the nicest person in the world and serve homeless people and feed orphans, but if you do not enter into the gate, Jesus, then you are not saved. You are only saved by grace through faith in Jesus of Nazareth. Okay, by having the heart revelation, right? Takes a work of the Holy Spirit. You can't force somebody to get saved, you can't force people to convert to Christianity, like other religions try to convert people. You can't do that. It's a heart thing, it's called being circumcised in heart. Amen. All right, so that's the context here. So he's telling them, hey, I am the way. And then he says, the thief, the false teachers, the false people, the devil, they all come to steal, kill, and destroy you. They want to come and kill and steal and destroy from you. What is a false prophet? I was under a false prophet when I was in a cult 20-something years ago. Okay, what was that cult leader trying to do? Well, they got me to live in a commune. You ever heard of a commune? That's basically where you go live on a piece of property with a bunch of people, and then you all serve the false prophet. Okay, so I went there and what was he doing? He stole this false, this false prophet, this cult leader stole my time. I was working six, seven days a week all the time at their businesses they had for free. Okay, if you're volunteering for free all the time, you know, if you're volunteering all the time, they're just using you. Okay. Meanwhile, they have millions of dollars, they're using me for all this free labor, telling me I was serving God, but in reality, I was making them rich. Okay, so they're stealing my resources, my time, my energy. Try to steal my life. They destroyed my mind, being in a cult. A cult will destroy your mind. We'll try to, right? Steal from your mind. But one time I was in I was doing security. I wrote about it in my book, Becoming God's Friend. You can get on Amazon if you want, or on my website. I tell the story of the cult. This is a real cult, guys, the Tony Alamo cult. Okay, I was sitting there, we were doing security. We had to go do security like two in the morning because they were afraid they're gonna get raided by the cops or something. I don't know what was going on. I was young, I was only there for about six months. But I was sitting there and I heard uh I heard a voice like in my heart. I don't know how to explain it, but I knew it was God. I knew it was God. I I felt like it said, stand up and go outside. I want to show you something. I'm going back to where Jesus said that my my sheep hear my voice and they will not follow a stranger. So here I was in a cult, right? But the cool thing was is I really felt like the Lord told me to go outside and he's gonna show me something. I walk out to the front, right at that moment, this truck rolls up, and these two uh older gentlemen who were kind of leaders in the church, they were like almost fist fighting, swearing at each other, fits of rage, work of the flesh. And I read enough of the Bible that I knew that was a sinful behavior. But the problem was that this cult leader taught that you can't ever sin again, you're sinlessly perfect, and you lose your salvation if you screw up and do anything wrong. So, right there, I realized that these people are preaching that they're sinless all the time. I think I talked about this in Sidra too, uh, when I was on that TV show. And I realized that God showed me that they're teaching false, they're lying. Okay, they're teaching false doctrine, and then after that, that's when I started doubting where I was at, and then that's when the enemy attacked me with voices and um like real bad hallucinations and things. So I got the revelation from God that this is I'm listening to strangers, I need to follow the Lord, and then what did the enemy do? Oh no, we're gonna lose him, he's gonna leave this commune, and then he moved in with hallucinations and weird stuff like that to try to get because it was all fear-based, so I had a lot of fear going on. Okay, it's a whole nother topic we can talk another time, but it was um it was uh very interesting, but it goes along with John 10:10. Okay, the thief came to what steal, kill, destroy my Christian walk to get me so implanted with fear, fear of losing my salvation, the satanic fear of God and judgment, that I could never be uh uh you know a normal Christian, like a real Christian. I would I was a cult kid, I call them. The glossy eyes and telling everybody they're gonna burn in hell. Like that's all I could talk about. I was a cult kid, I call it. I was like 22. Okay. But what did God do? Well, his word is true. A voice of a stranger, they will not follow. I was fallen for a little bit, but God got me, right? He he the good shepherd said, nope, that's not the right way to go. I'm gonna show you something. Boom, they're lying, see? And then eventually I went through a bunch of stuff, but I got out of the cult. I recovered from mental health issues, I recovered from all the voices and all that stuff. And then God gave me a ministry, gave me a career and behavior health, and then I got into ministry. So God worked all out for my good. Why? Because he's the good shepherd, and he what? I have come that they may have life and have it to the fullness, to have a rich and satisfying life. Let's read this real quick, guys. Let's let's read um what this is here. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have life to the fullness. Let's go to Greek. Let's read this in the original Greek and let's really figure this out. The thief, the stealer, comes only to steal. What's filch? To filch. I think that's the steal, right? Let's look it up. Strong's 28 13. Give me a second, I don't know what's going on. There we go. Break in and steal. Okay. So the stealer, the filch. He wants to break in. He's somebody who breaks in and steals. And kill. He wants to kill you. Interesting, to rush. Let's see what 2380 is. What is wrong with my that's very interesting. Where is huh? Here we go. Let's see if this works. Here we go. To kill, to slay, to sacrifice. Okay, to rush, uh, to sacrifice, to give up to destruction. There we go, for any purpose. Okay, slay. Okay, so the enemy wants to slay people, slay things, slay your job, slay your relationships, and destroy, to destroy fully. He wants to destroy fully your hopes and your dreams. If you're dealing with depression today, right? Let's say you're dealing with depression. That's the enemy trying to destroy your hope, to destroy your joy. That's what he's trying to do right now. If you're dealing with depression, you know somebody dealing with depression, send them this. Uh, you know, if you're dealing with somebody, send them this. Hey, listen to this. The enemy is trying to destroy you fully through depression. He's trying to destroy what? Hope. He's trying to destroy your joy, he's trying to destroy your happiness, he's trying to destroy your life and kill your life. Don't let him do this today. Submit yourself to God and resist the devil. He's lying. That's what it is. Yes, depression can be physically caused by like a uh chemical imbalance or maybe uh, you know, hormones or something. But believe the truth that you're healed by his wounds and that God loves you, even if you're dealing with dark depression. But you need to disconnect from it and realize that it's it's the enemy or your flesh or whatever, it's trying to destroy your life and receive healing, go get therapy, do whatever you need to do, but get in the presence of the Holy Ghost and get in the word and realize that negative stuff is trying to kill and destroy your life. You need to disconnect from negative thinking, and you do that by submitting to God, resisting the devil, believing the truth, because the truth is what sets someone free. You will be free when you start believing correctly about what Christ did for you, and you get off of yourself, your self-righteousness, because self-righteousness leads to condemnation. Okay, that's a whole other subject. I could talk all day. All right, so I think there's a dog walking by. I think my little little Timmy's gonna bark. No, he's sleeping. Okay, to destroy fully. I have come, so Jesus has come that they may, so they who? Who's they? His sheep. The sheep. So Jesus came for his sheep to have what? Or people, right? You can say just people in general. Life. Okay, let's look this up. It's very important that they may have life and have it in all its fullness. Strongs 2 22. Life, both of physical and spiritual. From zeo, meaning life. Remember that word zeo. Strongs 22 2 2. Life above. Life, physical and spiritual, all life throughout the universe is derived. It always only comes from and is sustained by God's self-existing life. So, in reality, God's self-existing life. So, this is the God life, eternal life. So, going back to what I was talking about earlier, think about it. I used to think earthly life was abundant life. I used to think being a rich superstar or a famous person like Brad Pitt, Donald Trump, all these people, that was abundant life. But what is Jesus saying here? That they may have God, God's life. God's life, eternal life. Inhabit what? Let's keep going. Inhabit abundant. And have life in all its fullness. Have this type of life, God's life, in all its fullness, superabundant, superior, excessive. Yeah, let's look. Strong's forty. Look at this. Superabundant in quantity or superior in quality. Superior in quality. Excessive. Superabundant. Exceedingly abundantly above. Beyond measure. Beyond what is anticipated, exceeding expectation. Going past the expected limit. Guys, this is the good news. Okay. This is the good news that God wants you to have his type of life, which is eternal life, and to have it in super abundance, to be able to know the Father, because in another place it says eternal life is to know the Father. So what is life? What is this in all its fullness? Jesus is talking about. Victorious over what? The enemy trying to steal, kill, and destroy from you so you're successful. Right? That you receive the promises of God. All those things. But in reality, if you just break it down, it's to have an abundance of God's presence. The Father. It's to know the Father in superabundance. Think about it, abundant life in all its fullness is the Holy Ghost in you, is your fellowship with God. That's real abundant life. Not making a million dollars in your business this year. That's not that can be part, can come out of your abundant life with Christ. But rethink your mind, rethink how you think now. I mean, rethink how you've been believing. Like I used to believe if I didn't have certain things, then my life was incomplete. If I didn't have a spouse or kids or money or a job or whatever it is, I used to think that that was all uh I was missing out, I was missing out on life. And God had to really show me the truth that He wants us to have abundant life, and that life is in Christ. So when you hear these voices of people telling you that abundant life is having a million dollars in your bank account and having all these followers on social media or becoming the president or senator or famous actor or this or that, that's abundant life. No, guys, abundant life is to know the Father, is the Holy Spirit's presence in your life, is to have eternal life. And it's it's amazing, guys, when you get to this place where you realize that you have abundant life right this moment, you your life will change. You will feel better about yourself, your circumstances, you could be in debt, you could be dealing with disease, you could be dealing with depression, all these things. But when you start realizing that you have abundant life inside your body, and you start truly believing it, it starts manifesting in your life. The real blessing is the Holy Spirit inside of you, being forgiven for your sins. That's the true having eternal life, your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Don't let people and false teachers tell you all this other stuff. Yes, there's blessings in life. Yes, God wants you to have things and experiences. I've been to 50 countries, I've done all this stuff, yes, but most importantly, he wants you to know him. Okay? God wants you to know him personally and to truly feel his love and to know he cares about you. You know, it's a lot easier once you just surrender and realize abundant life is Christ in me, is eternal life. And God promises that he wants me to have it abundantly, he wants me to have it in over. He wants you to really know him. Like to truly know God. That's worth uh way more than all the money in the whole world. Like, think about to truly know God. That's worth, there's no, it's priceless, guys. It's priceless. Eternal life is priceless. So repent today. Change your mind. Change your mind and start to believe the truth. That God that sent Jesus here so that you would be reconciled with the Father, and that you would truly know you're a son or a daughter of God, and that he is all you need. You know, think about this. These uh the Pharisees were all rich and all this stuff, and Jesus came and taught, he preached to the poor. He went to the poor, right? A lot of the people he ministered to. He preached the gospel to the poor. And he was telling them that they they, I came so that you may have abundant life and have it in all its fullness. He didn't set up a business for them. Jesus didn't come and say, hey, I'm gonna give you a loan, and then you're gonna start this business selling bread and you're gonna be a millionaire, and that's how you're gonna be blessed, and that's your fullness of life. No, he died on the cross for them and rose from the dead, and then God sent the Holy Ghost to those who obey him. God sent salvation to us. Those who believe the truth, obey Christ, is to believe that he's the Messiah. Think about it, guys. Think how amazing this is. Do you get it now? Yeah? I hope this encourages you a little bit. Okay? Abundant life is knowing God. You have to let go of all the voices of the world telling you this is abundant life. That's abundant life. Oh, I don't have a Corvette yet, then I'm not living an abundant life. Start believing you live in abundance with the Father, and you'll find that you'll disconnect from needing all this junk and needing to be famous or have all these followers, or to have a big ministry, or to make a bunch of money, or to strive and work 80 hours a week and never see your family because you need so much money because you bought this big house you can't afford anymore. Maybe downsize a little bit and start really experiencing freedom. Remember, the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. If he can't come and just steal from you physically, maybe he'll get you to be obsessed with uh working. And you won't have any time for prayer, you won't have any time for your wife, your children. Maybe he's got you obsessed with trying to be successful in ministry. So you do ministry all day long on social media, trying to get people to follow your ministry, to make money and you know, and and try to be this great social media star. But the enemy's stealing your time, stealing your energy away from what really matters, loving God and loving your neighbor. Amen. It's real easy, guys. I know some of you might listen to this and be like, I don't know about this. Do your own research, seek the Lord yourself. You know, read the word for yourself, just don't take my word for it. Go to the Bible and ask the Lord. Is what Nick was talking about? Is that true? Is real abundant life knowing the Father? Guys, everything comes from knowing the Father, healing, deliverance, prosperity. You don't want to prosper without God. You know, people are like, oh, uh that guy's prosperous because God made him prosper. Are you sure? There's people uh that you know, there's people that that do illegal crimes and they prosper like financially. Did God have them do that? So you can't just look at somebody and go, oh, God prospered them. Think about that. That's what they did back in the in the days. The Pharisees were all prospering, so everybody's like, oh, they're blessed of God. Jesus came and said, No, you are what? You are sons of the devil. Think about that. They're all these rich religious people in their robes, and they they do all the, they're telling everybody the right way to go and the law of Moses and all this stuff. Jesus said, You guys aren't you do the works of your devil. Peter and John came to the temple. Silver and gold, I have none. They weren't walking around with a bunch of money. These people are silly telling you this stuff. I I'm hearing sermons about Jesus had an accountant. Judas was Jesus' accountant. He made so he had so much money that uh that they that Judas was an accountant. So Judas was literally keeping the books for him because it says he stole from the money bag. Guys, how much was uh Jesus sold for to Judas so uh betrayed Jesus for? Let's look that up and then we'll we'll um I'm gonna look that up real quick while I'm sitting here. How much was he uh in today's money? In today's money, how much was Jesus uh betrayed for so he was um the lowest value of a slave's life, it looks like, in X is twenty-one thirty-two, so I'm looking it up. Four months wages, so eleven thousand to thirty-three thousand dollars, supposedly, but then it says that's weird. Hold on. Thirty thirty coins, thirty coins back then, don't quote me on it, but thirty coins back then is like one place is eleven thousand, other place is three hundred. So even if it was eleven thousand dollars, that's not a lot of money. If Jesus is walking around with a billion dollars, so it's yeah, it was like twelve hundred dollars or whatever. Okay, so I don't know, I'm not gonna get into all the Google. You guys can Google it, but think about this. If if what they say is Jesus had a billion dollars in today's money or a million dollars, uh, and Judas was stealing from his bag, okay, let's just think about today, okay. The 30 shekels was like $10,000 or $12 or $1,200 or whatever it was. That's not as if he had millions of dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars, it's very little statistically, you know, like so Jesus wasn't sold for like a million dollars, like Judas didn't become a millionaire. So these people try to tell you that Jesus was a millionaire walking around because of cloak and all that stuff, and Judas was like his uh his accountant, and they're trying to tell you this because why? They're trying to tell you you're supposed to be a millionaire if you're a Christian. Not everybody's called to be a millionaire, guys. What about the Christians in North Korea? How do you preach that gospel to Christians in North Korea? Think about it. There's different levels of Christians, and there's different members of the body of Christ. Some people God will bless with millions of dollars for his purposes. Other people, he'll still bless you, but maybe you won't be a millionaire. What I'm trying to say is, guys, abundant life is what you want, and that's to know the Father. When you know the Holy Spirit and you know that you're saved and you're forgiven, and you have joy of the Lord every day, and you walk in divine health and you can receive deliverance and you love Jesus, you love your neighbor, none of this stuff matters. What kind of clothes you wear, what kind of car you're driving around in, how big your house is, what kind of boat you can go on. None of it matters, guys, when you're close to the Lord. When you're close to the Lord, all this stuff starts coming out of you. Like, wow, that's just something I'm not interested in anymore. But maybe you're really like when I was young, I was really interested in sports. I was good at sports, played baseball, football, basketball. I used to watch sports, follow all the sports, play all the video games of sports, love sports, Michael Jack, uh Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, all these people, right? I followed him, Emmett Emmett Smith, uh, you know, uh Magic Johnson, all these people. I just love watching them. I love sports. I get saved, and that sort of starts going away from me. It's okay to like sports, guys. I'm not saying, but I used to love it. And then as I got closer to the Lord, I lost the love I had for the world, and that included my idolatry to sports. Doesn't mean you can't like sports and enjoy watching sports, nothing wrong with that. I'm saying, like, I my my mindset was all sports. Oh, I gotta watch every game, all that stuff. And God started changing me. And now I can sit in a room and just pray in the spirit, and I have more fun than I ever did watching sports or playing sports. But this is me personally. Maybe you're not called to do that. I don't know. I think everybody's called to be with the Lord all the time, but to love the Lord. Amen. Go all in, guys. Just go all in. Go all in. Choose to just go all in with the Lord. I always tell the Lord, how far can you take one man in one life? Why not? So far, I've almost been killed by lightning, right? Maybe you've seen that, maybe you haven't. I was on, you know, I was featuring like good Good Morning America, Fox News, uh, New York Post. Uh, I've been to 50 countries, got to go to Antarctica, was in Ukraine during the war. I've been to uh, you know, uh villages up near Afghanistan and Pakistan. You know, I've been to I've seen the E the Pyramids, been to the Philippines, Japan. I got to do all these things, and it's like the Lord, all I had to do is say yes to the Lord. Like, hey Lord, uh, I'm here. What do you want me to do? Hey Lord, can I go here? I think it'd be really neat to see the pyramids. So I ended up, I was flying over Egypt, and I'm like, well, wait a second, why don't I just land in Cairo? So I took a flight instead of flying over it, I just landed in Cairo for a day and a half or whatever and went to the pyramids real quick. Okay, I just want to see them. Why not? Having a relationship with the Lord is having a friend, right? Your best friend. And so you can be honest with him. If you've had a desire to go to the Super Bowl, maybe he'll let you go to the Super Bowl someday. Nothing wrong with that. If you do it with the Lord, you want to do things with the Lord. Because what happens is that we get pushed all this stuff of you have to do everything, you, you, you, and then you put all this pressure on yourself. You have to prosper, you have to figure out what business you're supposed to do, you have to figure out what house you're gonna live in. You know how many people uh talk to me and they're like, Yeah, we're just looking for this, we're looking for that, we're looking for a house, we're looking for a place for business, we're looking for a new car. And there's like nothing about the Lord in there. And I'm like, hold on a second, like, why don't you just ask the Lord? The Lord will just the Bible says, if you acknowledge the Lord in all your ways, he'll direct your path. So you just acknowledge the Lord. Lord, I just I'm gonna go look for a house, Lord. I'm gonna acknowledge you in it, and you're gonna direct my path. You know, I was uh I was coming back from overseas. I was I you know, I was living out of a backpack for like about eight months. I was in Albania, and then I'm I'm like, well, I feel like I'm supposed to go home uh back to Phoenix. And so I said, Lord, I don't know where I'm supposed to live, but I just put it in your hands. So my friend calls me up. Hey, uh, I heard you're coming back. You want to stay, you can stay in my guest room until you find a place to live. I'm like, well, I really want to live over this side of Phoenix because I, you know, uh my mother's getting older, so it'd be nice to live near her. Blah blah blah. So that's what I told the Lord. Lord, I you know, I need to find a place. First place near my mom's house, looked at. I'm like, God, this looks fine. I'll just go forward with it, Lord. Because I felt like, hey, you know what? I acknowledge him, he'll direct my path. If it's not the right place, some will fall through, whatever, he'll talk to me, you know, because I can hear the Lord, right? And uh I sign the lease, get this little apartment. A week before I move in, they're like, hey, uh, oh, I got the cheap apartment, not the upgraded one. I got the cheap one because I didn't want to spend money. I don't like spending money. I like low overhead, it's just easier for me. Low overhead. And uh, it's just I think, you know, because uh, you know, I I have been an administrator of programs and businesses and stuff, so I'm I just know how to have a low overhead. You know what I mean? I'm not somebody who needs to live in luxury all the time or nothing. So I'm like, I'll just get the cheap place. I don't need the upgraded model. So she so she calls me uh a week before. Uh just I'm really sorry to tell you. Um, you know, the apartment you chose, that one had a uh a pipe leak underneath, and the city of Phoenix is gonna be here for like two weeks fixing it. So we're gonna have to put you in a different apartment. And I was kind of sad. I was like, really? It's right next to the pool. I'm like, really? Okay. I'm like thinking, oh, it's probably gonna be some upstairs apart. I like living downstairs. She goes, Yeah, we we have this. Uh I talked to the manager, management, and they uh, for the inconvenience, we're gonna give you the upgraded unit for the same price. I'm like, cool. So I went to go see it. It's all upgraded, it's the upgraded one, and then I got the patio out front for little Timmy, my dog. So I pay for a cheap apartment, but I got the upgraded unit, like all new stuff, tiles and all that stuff, you know, like all the nice fixtures. And I didn't even try. The Lord just allowed it, and it's in the perfect spot. Got nice neighbors, got the grass out front. I can see everything. Little Timmy's got his little patio, his little window, he looks out and barks at everybody. But think how amazing that is. I didn't even try, I just acknowledge the Lord in all my ways. And and in my mind, I'm like, Well, I want a cheaper apartment, right? And so I'm like, I'll just get this dumpy one, the dumpier one, not dumpy, but dumpier. And Lord's like, no, you know, I want you to have the upgraded one. Here you go. Same price though, son. See how he does these things? He can bless you and do things that you just didn't even think. I didn't even think about any of that stuff. Isn't that interesting? I didn't go out and try to find an upgraded apartment. I was like, Lord, I'm just gonna have low overhead, Lord, because that's how you train me. And then boom, I got this thing, and I love it. It's perfect for me. I just re-signed my lease. It's why why is that, guys? Why? Why? Because I've just chosen to go all in with the Lord, and whatever that looks like to you, you know, there's different levels to it. You know, it doesn't mean you're gonna go be a missionary somewhere if you have three kids and you're you know, and you're a single mom or something. You know what I mean? Like maybe you're not gonna be a missionary, maybe that's not what you're called to do. You know, maybe your mission right now or your ministry is to your children, your family, and that's perfectly fine. If you're anointed for it, right? You want to be anointed, Lord, anoint me for this. If you feel like you're not anointed for where you're at, ask the Lord to anoint you. Help me, Lord. You know, if you feel like being a mom is pretty hard or a dad is pretty hard, ask the Lord to anoint you for it. Lord, I you know you've given me this responsibility. I just really want to feel like I'm anointed for it. I need wisdom with my job. You guys, you don't now I'm like yapping, but you guys don't realize that your jobs are just training grounds. And a lot of people fail when they say, Oh, I'm just gonna quit my job. I don't like how they treat me here. I'm gonna go to another job. I've seen it not a hundred times, a lot of times people say, Oh, I'm gonna go to another job. They treat me so bad, my boss treats me bad, my secretary's mean, or whatever. I don't like the hours or whatever, right? Well, they go get another job. Guess what? All the same stuff's there because it's a challenge, it's uh it's a growing experience. So God's trying to get you to repent. Guys, really, he's trying to get you to change your mind. You need to start thinking like a son or daughter. So instead of going to work going, oh, I hate my job, Lord. I work for you. What do we got today? I'm gonna get through this because you know my dream is to have this job, or my dream is to write a book and travel. My dream is to do, you know, to be able to travel and see the world and uh have a travel ministry or a business. My dream is to be self-employed. I don't want to go to this job, but teach me why I'm here. But most people they complain and get mad, and then they think God doesn't love them. You fail, you're failing in your tests, right? So don't fail in your tests. Remember that abundant life isn't about the job you have. You can have abundant life in prison. How can Jesus say this and that mean you're gonna be a millionaire flying around learjets? That's abundant life. How could he say that to people? How could how could a prisoner read that? Let's say you're you let's say you're stuck in a in the gulag in Russia, and you read the Bible, and it says, I've come that you may have life and have life more abundantly. How can that apply to somebody that's in the in the gulag in a prison for the rest of their life? It still applies to them, see? That's why that doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna be a millionaire flying around in jets or on yachts or be super famous and all that stuff. Think about it, guys. False teachers are teaching you guys this stuff. Pray about it. I think it's false. Because how can you take that, how can you give that scripture to somebody in a North Korean house that they get one meal a day? And tell that person, yeah, you're gonna be a millionaire. No, abundant life is to know the father. You can have one meal a day, let's say, or be in jail and know the father and be having abundant life. He's gonna take care of you anywhere you go. That's uh I got story beyond stories, but think about it, that that has to apply to everybody, not just people that live in capitalism in America. If you're in a caste system in India, some of these people aren't allowed to prosper or in different countries, they're in a caste system. Their family line isn't allowed to go a certain level, can't get education or whatever. So abundant life isn't theirs because a caste system? No, abundant life is that eternal life, and eternal life is to know the father of lights. That's what I'm trying to get at here, guys. The Holy Spirit is all you need. God is all you need for abundant life, He is abundant life, and when you get that, then everything else kind of fades away and it doesn't matter as much. You can kind of relax and not take life so seriously. You know, other people, you know, you talk to people, they're so stressed out about their job at the corporation. They're working all these hours in this corporation, they're treating them bad. I I've done it, guys. I've worked for corporations. Going to meetings about meetings, meetings, more meetings about meetings, nothing's getting accomplished. And then you got all these numbers you got to do. You got to get These numbers or that numbers, or you're gonna get written up and you're gonna go to HR and it's all stressed. Your boss has you working 80 hours a week and texting you all the time, all hours. You're like married to this job, and you're taking your so stressed out because you got bills to pay and everything. I know the feeling. And you might be in that position. You might feel like you're a slave to corporate America. Okay, you can still have abundant life. You can still have abundant life. You can set up healthy boundaries, abundant life. God might move you to a different job as you learn that He is abundant life, as you stop striving to climb the corporate ladder all the time. There's nothing wrong with working hard and all that. I'm not trying to don't take me out of context. Where is it at in your heart, though? Where is it at in your mind and your emotions? Is it taking all your energy, all your time from your family? Right? Get with the Lord, ask him for wisdom. Lord, this is the type of job you have me, and what am I learning? How can I let some things go from my emotions so it doesn't bother me as much? I'm working a lot of hours, Lord. Teach me how to to to still, you know, be the father and mother you want me to be with all this working I'm doing. Help me make boundaries with people so they don't take my energy from me or steal joy from me. Healthy boundaries, nothing. I don't even know what I'm doing, guys. I'm just yip-yap and down. Boundaries is a huge thing, right? And don't take my, I'm not telling you to quit your job. I'm not telling you anything like that. I'm telling you just surrender to the Lord. 100%. Just Lord, this is this is the life you've given me. And a lot of things in your life you might not like. You might not like your current position, your job, your business. You might not like that you only get Social Security check every month. Maybe you're, you know, you're on disability, or maybe you're, you know, you're of old age and you're on social security. Maybe you don't like your situation. Maybe it's hard for you to afford groceries. That's when you get with the Lord and you thank him for abundant life in the Father. And you thank him that he always provides for you and that you are a sheep that hear his voice. And you repent, you change your mind. Lord, thank you that I have food and clothing. In this, I'll I will be happy, I'll be content. Be thankful for food and clothing, and you'll find that God just takes care of everything. I used to always look at all the finances all the time. That was something the Lord really had to deal with me with. And I and I had to deal with the fear of not having money come in. Because the Lord has me do ministry. And so I would a long time I had to, you know, deal with that. And it was an emotional thing, fear of the what if. So what if what if nobody supports? What if you know this or that? What if I can't pay this? And you know what? God's always taking care of me. And I wish I wish I would have surrendered that area of my life and my emotions years ago. Years ago. I wish I would have grown in that area of my life years ago. Because it took a lot of energy from me sitting here worrying about how I'm gonna pay this or God, why don't I have more money, Lord, now? How am I gonna afford this? You know, the Lord, I felt like the Lord told me to do a crusade in Baltimore. So I'm going everywhere looking for stuff, I'm looking for places to rent and all this so expensive. And I even called the convention center. They wanted like you know, thousands of dollars to rent this area in the convention center. I'm like, then I gotta pay for the flights and all this. I'm like in the speaker system, all of a sudden, like, Lord, I I don't have any money, Lord, to do this. Why are you telling me to do this? And I was on a Zoom, I think it was a Zoom or I mentioned it. I said, Yeah, uh, I feel like the Lord's telling me to do this or that. And uh a really nice couple, they said the Lord, you know, put on their heart to give thousands of dollars for this uh this crusade, and so uh I called all these places, and nobody seemed there was no open door to rent anywhere except the convention center, and all of a sudden I had the money for it. I didn't fast and pray and cry, I didn't manipulate people, I just mentioned it casually to some friends I know, people I know. I didn't ask them, they came back around and God spoke to them. So I started to learn wow, the Lord knows my needs before I even ask him, and that's biblical. So God already knows what you need before you even ask him. So, what are you tripping about? You need a car repair? Guess who already knows? God, and so pass the test, and it's usually an attitude test. It's usually how you are you gonna hold that good attitude during it? Are you gonna just believe that God's healing your body even if it's not instant? Are you gonna believe that God's gonna pay that bill? And even if He if it seems like He doesn't, somehow work it out for the good. You know, I know somebody that couldn't pay their house payment or whatever. They're like, oh, life's over, whatever. They ended up selling their house or whatever, however that happened. God got them into a better area. I know I know a couple that prayed for a really nice house in this area of Phoenix. They wanted to live in this area, they prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed, and they had me pray for them. And then all of a sudden, the husband, my friend, gets a job out of state. They never got the house where they wanted here. Move out of state, they get a house that's better, better area, had a parkour street for the kids, big, beautiful, and they raise their kids there. But in their mind, you know, at the time, well, we need to live in this area, this rich area, we need to have this yard here, we need to have this. This is gonna be the best for our kids growing up, blah, blah, blah. Nope. God knows what's better for you. Why? Because he's the great shepherd. So surrender to the great shepherd, and the great shepherd will lead you along the narrow road. He doesn't ever leave you, okay? So if you need to repent today, change your mind. God doesn't, God doesn't leave me, God doesn't forsake me, God is not counting my sins against me, God is transforming me, God is blessing me in different ways that I never expected. God is always protecting me, He's always healing me, He's always delivering me. He always has a good plan, He always takes care. He knows everything I need before I ask Him. He cares about my family and my loved ones and my friends. He cares about little Timmy, my dog. He cares about everything concerning me. Cares about my future, cares about my ministry, cares about everything. And the dreams and the goals and the things he's put in my heart, we're gonna do together in his timing. So just because you have a dream and a goal in your heart doesn't mean it's gonna come to pass in a week. You might have to be trained. God might have told you you're gonna have a big church in your in your neighborhood or in your city, and you're sitting there and you don't have any money, you're sitting there working at McDonald's, you're like, Lord, I thought you told me I was gonna have this big church someday. I'm already 35 years old. That was 15 years ago you gave me that prophetic word that I really felt like it was you. Well, pass your tests. So you got these tests you got to pass to get to certain levels. Like, for example, if you want a spouse, you have to prepare yourself for your spouse. You can't just sit there and not and not prepare. Like you want to buy a home, you got to prepare yourself. You got to start preparing your character, you got to start preparing financially. There's a lot of things you have to do to prepare. So anything you want or anything you're looking forward to, you have to prepare yourself. Ask the Lord, Lord, I want a spouse. What in my life can I change, or you can change in me to where I can be the spouse for my future mate or whatever? Or Lord, this is the ministry that's on my heart. What can you do in my heart? Or, you know, what type of thing are you doing to get me to that place? You know, like the money thing with me, uh, finances. I had to get to, I always went, Lord, why don't you know, why is this not this way or that way? And I realize now is because I was believing a lot of lies and I wasn't fully trusting God to take care of the ministry. If you notice now, I don't sit here and beg people for money. I don't tell you you're gonna be a millionaire if you give to the ministry. I know that the Holy Spirit will put it on people's hearts to be supporters of the ministry, and that's it, guys. That's how it works. Okay, I don't have to give you a big lecture about giving. I don't have to tell you that you have to tithe or you're gonna be cursed. You know, all that stuff people tell you. People give from their heart, and if you mature Christians, if people start maturing in the love of God, generosity flows out of love, right? Or people who love, they're generous. You don't have to give them a bunch of tithe and giving spiels. Mature the people that listen to you, mature your people, right? Not your people, but mature the people that listen to you, you know, the listeners or your church or whatever. You don't have to tell them everything. Help them grow up. You know, somebody that has the love of God is generous automatically, just the way it is, guys. I mean, I think so. Praise God. But yeah, so think about like what you go through and what God's teaching you. So you can be in the hospital listening to this. What are you learning in the hospital? It might be scary. Maybe you need to learn to trust God in the scary times. Maybe you're doubting that you're you're gonna get through it. You gotta dig into the word and find those places where King David, you know, at the end of his life said, you know, many, you know, God delivered me from all my troubles. He always delivered me. So in my life, I know God will deliver me from all my troubles. I was in Dubai, I just remember this. I was in Dubai, and the taxi driver was driving like, I don't know, it felt like 100 miles an hour. And you know, like in your heart, you know, hey, this guy's driving a little fast, but it was the first time in Dubai. And I'm like, I don't know, like, I'm just gonna be quiet. I'm gonna get from the airport to the hotel. So I hold on to the what is that called, the handle up here in the car in the back of the SUV. Sure enough, we're driving down the freeway. This lady doesn't see us. It's late at night, 11 o'clock at night. Boom, hits the side of the car. Okay, we're going like, I mean, at least 80. She doesn't see us, hits the side of the car, and the and the taxi driver does the overcorrecting, you know, like in the movies where they overcorrect and they flip. And I and I I was holding on, and I remember uh right when she hit us because I saw it coming, like I just knew she's gonna hit it. I could see it. I'm like, here it comes. She's not looking in her, you know, because you glance over and the car's you know 50 feet or 100 feet behind you. But if they're going really fast, you think you have the right, and if you don't look again, they're right in your blind spot or boom. So hits the side of the SUV. I'm holding on to the handle already. And I I I literally go like this, Wow Lord, I wonder what this is. I wonder what beat in a car is gonna be like, and I start laughing as the guy is overcorrecting on the freeway, almost flipping this SUV on the highway in Dubai. Never been there before. I was just I just landed an hour or so before. And I'm I mean, in the back of it, we're almost going over and I'm laughing. Okay, how is that possible, guys? It all worked out in the end, but I mean we didn't flip. We pulled over and the cops and all stuff, but eventually we left. How is that possible, guys? How could I literally be driving in a taxi cab in a foreign country, not knowing the language or anything, getting hit on the side, and the car is about to flip over, and I'm laughing with the Lord. Abundant life. I know I have a purpose in life, and I know that if we flipped and I ended up dying, that it's just a blink and I'm with the Lord forever. Paul knew that, right? To be absent from the Lord is what? Or to be absent from the body is be present with the Lord. So the minute, the second, the split second your heart stops, the split second you go out, you're with the Lord. So Jesus abolished death. So what are you afraid of? You're afraid of death, you're not going to be judged because Jesus took your judgment. You'll be judged for the things you did in this life, good or bad, yes, but that's for rewards if you're a born-again Christian. So you get rewards, uh, you know, depending on how you did stuff. You know, if you preach a gospel just to get people's money, you get no rewards, it'll get burned away with with fire. But if you sincerely care about people and you're preaching the gospel, not to please man, but to please God, then you get diamonds and gold. And then the fire comes and doesn't burn them. See? However, that works. It's really easy to uh you you could teach people stuff and just not cover the basis, not the whole counsel of God, right? But you want the whole counsel of God in your ministry, you want to be able to help everybody come to the knowledge of truth and to repent to change their mind. Because when you repent, you're basically going forward and then you're changing your mind, and then you're swinging around back the other way. So if you're believing a lie, you repent, you change your mind, and then there's this, it's kind of like a sailboat turning back around. Remember, your tongue is James said your tongue is like a um a rudder on a ship. Okay. So uh the the wheel of the ship is connected to the rudder. Okay, so the wheel, let's say, is your emotions, and your mind is the per is the captain. So if you believe a lie, let's say you believe a lie that you're rejected, then your emotions stir, stir that feeling of rejection, and then your mouth, it makes you feel like you want to say something negative. I hate that person, they rejected me, and that's your rudder on your ship. See? So your mind is controlling the wheel or controlling the wheel, the wheel is the emotions, so your soul, and then your tongue is the rudder and it controls where you're going. So you start speaking negative towards your family, your spouse, you speak negative all the time. That's your mind, you're believing wrong, and then your emotions are turning your tongue to say a bunch of bad stuff. If you believe right, your emotions of joy and love and peace are speaking truth. See, I mean, you can quote scripture all you want, but you want to actually believe it in your emotions and your mind. You can say a scripture a hundred times a day, but you need to mix it with faith, right? And faith comes from your heart, and you have a spirit of faith living in you already. So start believing right. So we have all these videos at our website. We have the we currently have the 30 days to believing right. I got my books, all that stuff. But I just want to help you. I'm gonna pray for you. Hopefully, this helped a little bit. Remember, abundant, true abundant life is to know the Holy Spirit, is to know you're saved, is to have that eternal life, to know the Father, and to be covered under the blood of Jesus, and to know that Jesus knows you intimately. He's your great shepherd. And so you can rest in the back of the boat with Jesus as a storm comes, and you can trust that he's gonna take care of everything for you. Praise God. It's about trusting God's word over your own emotions, over your circumstances. God is faithful to all those who call upon him. Praise God. Lord, we call upon you, Jesus of Nazareth. We call upon you for everything. We rest in you, and we trust you for everything. Lord, I know that people out there, uh they they're dealing with big emotions, they're dealing maybe with mental illness, uh, financial issues, job issues, whatever it may be. But I know that you're greater and you know every intimate detail of their life. And I pray that they would surrender those pieces of their soul to you, those feelings of unbelief or doubt or uh uh discouragement or shame, that they would surrender those pieces of their soul to you so that you can transform them. Lord, help them receive truth because truth sets them free. Help them never go away from the simplicity that's found in Christ Jesus, the simple gospel, that you came to save us from our sins and to reconcile us to the Father through your blood and your resurrection. We glorify Jesus of Nazareth. We glorify Jesus of Nazareth, and I ask God that you would heal anyone that can receive healing today, listening to this or watching this, that healing would flow into their bodies, Lord, that they would get breakthrough in their bodies and their minds. And Lord, even that you'd heal relationships, uh, maybe they need to express forgiveness towards people. Help them just choose to express forgiveness, Lord, despite their feelings. Thank you, Lord. Lord, thank you for renewing our minds on the truth. Thank you for blessing our lives with your presence. Thank you for prospering us in everything we do, Lord, in everything. And thank you for teaching us. Thank you for giving us wisdom. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for always loving us. I could pray all day. Lord, I love you so much. Thank you, Lord. Let the Holy Spirit flow now, Lord. Let the Holy Spirit flow. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you that the angels minister to the heirs of salvation. Thank you that we are heirs of salvation. Thank you that you've chosen us, Lord, to be in you before the foundation of the world. Thank you that you have written our names in the Lamb's Book of Life. Thank you, Lord, that we don't have to be afraid of death because you have abolished death. You've completely abolished death. Glory to Jesus of Nazareth, who He is the only one worthy to open the scrolls. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for your bravery on the cross. Thank you for your bravery. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for raising yourself from the dead to prove that you're the Son of God with power. Praise God for the Messiah. Amen. In Jesus' name. Amen. Love you guys. Thanks for your support of the ministry. Till next time. This was Spirit Stream 59.