DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS (2)

"IT IS FINISHED "

JOHN 19:30

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Generation Z, it is your kingdom unc here, Minister Anthony Bonner of Truth Turned Up Ministries, coming to you live with another episode of The Gospel, the Game and the Glory. Divine Instructions Part 2. We're gonna jump right into it because there's no other way to do it but to get right into it. We're gonna get going right away with mental health generation Z. A generation that's truly gifted, truly created to be impactful for God in this end-time harvest that's waiting to be gathered. A generation that's bold, that's creative, that's uh has great ingenuity, uh curiosity, boldness, consciousness, awareness, uh, many of the things that have not fully been displayed in prior or previous generations. We're talking about mental health. And when we're talking about mental health, we're talking about really just being whole, being in one's complete divine right state of mind and being. Well you can operate the way God according to uh created you to operate, to freely live, move, and have your being in Him, to be about your father's business, not about the business of the world, not about the business of uh other people who have plans for your lives and your gifts, and even not about your own plans. Because it's when we stray from the plan of God, when we stray from his presence, from his protection, from his divine instructions, we find ourselves in a pickle, in a bind, in an upside-down situation, kind of like Humpty Dumpty who sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty who had a great fall. All of the king's horses and all of the king's men, none of them could put Humpty back together again. That's what we're talking about. Our mental health is challenged, it is stretched, it is pushed beyond repair when we solely rely on the vehicles and tactics and instructions of the world. Humpty went to the king's horsemen and the king's men. They were natural men, they were men of natural understanding, though they may have had some royal exposure. You see, your mental state will always be affected and out of order if it relies solely on means in which the creator of the universe didn't intend for the creation to solely operate upon and have its identity in. You know, as we look at the statistics of the world through the so-called experts, the same experts that encourage all generations to get an education K through 12, to go to college and get as many degrees as you possible. And they try and guarantee that through those degrees that you're going to be able to have a sustainable, successful life and living, that you can get a house in a rising housing market, that you can get an education in an increasingly expensive market to get an education. Education cost rises every year, and yet it proves of none effect that those who get those degrees have mental illnesses and mental challenges and mental situations in every generation. Because what they don't tell you is when you get these degrees and you uh succeed to get to these new levels in these worldly endeavors, that it comes with more stress, that the financial market changes, that the government changes, that the uh tactics of the enemy changes. You didn't know he was gonna attack your wife's health, you didn't know he was gonna attack your children, you didn't know that your job would be discontinued. Hallelujah. You didn't know that there would be a flood or a tornado or some kind of storm would come through your area and that your insurance company would tell you that buried deep in the policy, that it was not covered in the name of Jesus. All of these things add to your mental health because now they'll lead to the things that we're gonna talk about, Generation Z, that you do not have to be a partaker of. You can rebuke Satan in the name of Jesus and walk through the open door of the kingdom of your heavenly father who sent his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to shed his blood for you on the cross that you may have salvation. Religious people have tried to limit salvation to simply dying and going to heaven in the afterlife. But that is not complete salvation. Complete salvation is yes, I will spend eternity with Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. But true salvation means in this life, Jesus is my provider. He's my protector, hallelujah. He's a participator in my life, he orders my steps. No good thing is he's gonna withhold from me, regardless of the financial crashes, regardless of the economic highs and lows, regardless of the social things that happen, regardless of the attacks of the enemy on my body, on my family, on anything that has to do with me, God says that no weapon form shall prosper. Did you get that, Generation Z? Things are gonna happen. They're gonna rise up expectedly and unexpectedly. But God says if you're in position, if you're seeking divine instructions, if you're abiding in divine instructions, if you're walking in divine instructions, God says it's all good. That's good news. That's the gospel. That is the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in a nutshell. It's victory. You win and you continuously win no matter what game the enemy plays or tries to disguise it as. He's trying to steal your identity. He's trying to steal your inheritance, he's trying to get you to walk in the broad gate, the wide gate. The Bible says in the book of Matthew and that seventh chapter that uh many there be which go in thereat. Hallelujah. Many people walk this broad on this broad path through this wide gate. And the end of walking in that way, that worldly way, chasing that American dream, leads to mental health, mental stress, mental despair. Stats say that people in Generation Z in America are facing a severe mental health crisis. Do you hear me, young brothers and sisters? A severe mental health crisis. Not something minimal, not something minor, not something light. It is severe because we're in the end times, and Satan, Lucifer, the devil, the wicked one knows that his time is short. So he's turning the screws, he's tightening up, tightening up the bolts, so that young people will stray from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so that they won't love him, so that they don't know that there's safety in his arms, that on that narrow path of following his divine instructions, that you don't have to do it alone. He'll equip you with a comforter who he sent back to lead and guide you into all truth. He'll renew your mind so that you don't have to think about it. He'll give you discernment to discern and know those that are sent by God and those that are saying. God is saying, no, no, no. God is saying, walk with me. God is letting you know that he has something for you. God is letting you know that the plan that he has in place for you bless his name. God has need of thee. God has a plan for you. God is waiting for you to come back into the sheephole to identify how he's ordering your steps, how he's directing you, how he's guiding you. Because America, my young brothers and sisters, wants you to be lost. America wants you to be a sadistic. America wants you to be just normal. America wants you to have possessions and material things, but not have the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. America doesn't want you to rise to be a divine being and separate yourself and walk in the power and the authority in which our Lord and Savior has afforded those that will deny themselves, pick up their cross and follow after him. You know, the severe mental crises that they're talking about that's in America. It talks about astronomical rates of anxiety, depression, and hopelessness significantly higher than previous generations, than older generations, generations of your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents, and so forth and so on. That what's going on now, Generation Z, in your generation is never been seen before since men and women have inhabited the earth. Let that get your attention. Let the light bulb illuminate in your mind, in your soul, and in your spirit, that what's going on right now is not fixable or correctable or addressable by natural man, that no university on earth can touch or tackle this supernatural attack of the enemy to wipe you out and to limit you to being a fraction of who God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit has ordered and assigned and desires you to be. That his arms are open for you to come in to fulfill this divine mandate that's on your life through his divine instructions. These studies say that 42% of Generation Z, studies with mental health mental health conditions, and 61% have actually received a diagnosis for anxieties, serious anxieties. So let's break this down and look at it before we get to the solution, because right now all we're doing is we're unveiling Satan and letting him know we see you. We know that there's a problem and we acknowledge that. We don't run from that. We're not trying to gloss over that. Hallelujah, in the name of Jesus. But what we also want you to know, wicked one, you big ear devil, is that we got something for you. Because we're not ignorant of your devices. So it says in 2 Corinthians 2.11, it says at least Satan should get advantage of you if we're not ignorant of his devices. We can't be ignorant of Satan's devices. Because as uh John said in John 10 and 10, that the thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. We're not gonna allow him to steal anything, anything else from us this day forward, because now we're operating in wisdom and power and understanding. We're lowering ourselves so that God can raise us up to be mighty in his eyes in our generation through his divine instructions. Hallelujah. When we look at what anxiety is, my young brothers and sisters, anxiety is just a severe feeling of worry, of nervousness, or of great uh dis ease. It can manifest itself in your life and in your body in various ways. If I'm talking to you, just say amen. Because God can deliver you from anxiety right now, in this moment, in an instance. I speak unto anything that's operating in your life that is not of Jesus right now, we cancel it at the root and we speak life, we speak peace, we speak God's peace. Hallelujah. You can receive it. All you have to do is receive it and thank him. That if they've given you three bottles of pills to take every day, we rebuke it in the name of Jesus and cast it into the pit of hell. We stand on the word of God that with him nothing shall be impossible, and that all things are ours. Because Jesus sits at the right hand of the throne of God and he rules over everything in the heavens, in the earth, and under the earth. Anxiety can manifest itself or express itself through a racing heart, through profuse sweating, trembling, or even difficulty breathing, which can sometimes be a panic attack, as we're aware of. But you don't have to live with that. If you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and not as a religious westernized Christian who just go to church, who just study scriptures, who just go to Bible studies, who's just part of small groups, but you don't apply the word of God to your life practically and allow it to destroy your life so that it can give you life, so that it can kill you literally, but resurrect, resurrect you spiritually, emotionally, hallelujah, physically, so that you have the mind of Christ. And you begin to war, wage war against the enemy, letting you know I know my weapons from Ephesians chapter 6. I've got my armor on, I'm ready for battle. You can't catch me by surprise anymore. I'm not ignorant of your devices, I'm not weak anymore. I know the shepherd goes before me to prepare a way before me, hallelujah. And you begin to renew your mind. You begin to tame your tongue, knowing that death and life lies in the power of the tongue. So you stand on only what God has said. You stand on the Bible and you speak to Him and say, It is written. If it's not written, I don't need to say it, I don't pay it any attention. In the name of Jesus. The next one was depression. Depression is when people have serious mood changes or mood swings. It's a disorder of our emotions and our feelings. When you get depressed, you know, uh normally people that are depressed have persistent or long bounce of sadness. They normally find themselves in isolation, not fitting in, not wanting to fit in, not wanting to socialize. Uh they have a loss of interest in things that they were formerly passionate about, be it sports, academics, uh uh crafts, arts, in anything. You know, it could be exercise. Maybe they were outdoor people, uh loving nature, sitting in the park, but now they have no desire to do that or anything else. Umpression can affect our sleep, where it's an uh instant uh uh change to it where we can get too little sleep, or now we're sleeping entirely too much, where we want to stay in the bed all day long and have the blinds, the windows, the shades closed, and really just kind of disappear from the world because it is a demonic spiritual uh uh attack from the enemy again to steal your purpose, to steal the reason why God created you, trying to disturb the plan that He has for your life. And lastly, depression can have you even experience feelings of worthlessness, just like it's just not worth living anymore. I do not know, but I would imagine that the suicide rates in uh our nation as well as the world would correlate to depression to some degree, to what that degree is, I will not speak on out of ignorance. But uh to feel worthless will surely cause someone to feel like that they're not needed in this world anymore, unfortunately. Not knowing that God has need of everyone. The Bible says that the whole field is served, uh that God is served by the whole field. Meaning God gets glory out of everything and everybody in this life. Everybody. The good, the bad, and the ugly, the good, the wicked. Hallelujah. The just, the unjust, the righteous and the unrighteous. It does not matter. God's power is not limited by who we think we are, who we say we are, and what we actually are. He has a button in our spirit that overrides all that. He can shut it down. It's like stepping on the parking brake in your car. God can step on your soul, my brothers and sisters, and bring you to a halt. And immediately, just like Saul who turned into Paul, you'll look up and say, What will you have me do? Hallelujah. A dramatic encounter with God is what is needed in this generation. Not a casual, slow leaning up to we need an intervention in the name of Jesus in the hearts and the minds and the souls of Generation Z. Lastly, we'll talk about hopelessness. You know, hopelessness is serious, just like everything else is, because when you're hopeless, you know, you're not only full of anxiety and fear, you're not only full of depression, separated from the world and isolated, but when you're hopeless, you're in a real state of despair or panic. Like, you don't see good in anything. The sun can be shining, it can be 89 degrees a perfect day, and you'll see a storm. There can be food on the table in your refrigerator. You can still be hungry because you're hopeless, because you're hungry someplace else in your spirit, not necessarily in your flesh. You can have people around you that love you parents, a wife, a husband, a spouse, children doing well in school, friends that support you, brothers and sisters in the faith, and you can still act like you have nothing, that you're poor and life is upside down simply because you're disconnected from reality, not understanding that the Bible tells us in many places in the Bible that Jesus Christ is our hope. That our hope is found only in him. It's not found in anything outside of him, and that's probably one of the major problems in the world is we've allowed the world to try and dictate and show us where our hope is found, and what our hope is found in. Found in our job, found in our extracurriculum activities, found in our loved ones, found in our beauty, our physical attributes, found in our possessions, what kind of car we drive, what kind of money we make, where we live, what kind of clubs we are part of, whether we're in a sorority or a paternity or we're a member of a country club, all things that Solomon count as dung and foolishness and vanity and worth absolutely nothing. 1 Colossians 1 and 27 says to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. They're called riches, hallelujah, in you, Christ Jesus, the hope of glory. Now, you may not fully understand that right now and get it, but we'll plant that seed right now to let you know that Christ in you handles all your anxiety, all your depression, all your hopelessness, that the Christ in you makes the stats that all of the smartest men in America who've taken centuries and and and years and countless hours to compile all this information based on mere natural knowledge and natural experiences, having been blessed to have a peek into the supernatural side. Come on now, brothers and sisters. I'm talking to you, I'm talking to your real business now. See, God says He takes the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. See, I'm one of the foolish things. Scholars and theologians and people who've gone to theological schools and who are part of big congregations and churches and on TV and write magazines and big books, they'll look at me as an idiot, as a fool, because I have not come the way they've come. I'm not part of their congregations, I'm not part of their denominations, I'm not part of their groups. You see, I was called and raised by God, appointed and anointed by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be one on the outside, to bring others on the outside and to the inside, inside the kingdom of God, to uncover things that have been hidden by the enemy and by the religious establishment. God wants you to know He has need of thee, that there is value in your life, that your life is very important. It has major importance. And he wants you to come back to him. In Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 19, we read, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul. Both sure and set that, and which can enter it into that within the veil. This hope that Jesus Christ gives, my young brothers and sisters. We have as an anchor of the soul. That means we can be planted in it. We can be unmoved by things that happen in the world. Because the hope of Jesus Christ, who's the hope of glory in us, is anchored in our soul. It has us weighed and weighted down. Unmoved, unbothered, unchanged, unswayed by anything that the wicked one sends our way. Because we have great discernment and we know that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has given us armor. That I can have on the helmet of salvation to protect my mind. That I can have on the breastplate of righteousness to guard my heart. That I can have my loins guarded or girded with the belt of truth. That's God's truth, not my truth or your truth or the world's truth. That's the word of God. I can always have the shield of faith. Hallelujah. Speaking those things is not as though they were. I can have on the shoes of the gospel of peace upon my feet that I'm walking in truth day and night, meditating on his word, allowing his word to saturate my soul, which is anchored in God as a sponge. Hallelujah. And then I have the sword of the Spirit. It's a two-edged sword, the Bible says. It cuts on the way up, it cuts on the way down, it slices completely. That's God's word of truth. These are the weapons God has given us. The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 10, 3 through 5, that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and taken every thought into captivity. See, that's power. When you can speak like that to the enemy, now you're in your divine mind. Now you do have a mental health issue because you've lost your mind in the name of Jesus. And you've taken back your right mind, your righteous mind, the mind that is always victorious, the mind that is illuminated with light. Light being the presence of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who came for you to win and to win big. He didn't come for you to struggle trying to make it in this world and find your own way and lower yourself to the standards of men that you may advance in their worldly systems, which are certain and soon to be destroyed. Heaven and earth is gonna pass away, but we thank the Lord that the word of the Lord is going to endure forever. That's in the book. As big as Apple is, one day it will not be anymore. As big as Amazon is, one day it will not be anymore. Home Depot, no more. Burger King, no more. White Castle, no more. Put any other natural company in that system, no more. But then you thank the Lord and say, Hallelujah, the kingdom of God endures forever. It says so in the word. In the book of Psalms, chapter 145, 12 and 13, I believe. He says to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures throughout all generations. I think I want to be on that team. I think I want you on that team, my young brothers and sisters of Generation Z. Let us not waste any more time. Let us not waste any more days. Let us seek the divine instructions of the word of God. Yes, it's the enemy's tactic to say, I don't understand it, it's too hard, the word is antiquated, it's outdated, it's not relevant for 2026. It's a trick, it's a tactic. He did it in 1906, 1806, 1706, 1606, 1206, 006. He's gonna continue to do it because he causes confusion. He wants you to settle for the natural way of doing things, which have a natural end and can only deliver limited results. But when you get outside yourself and you get in Christ, the hope of glory, who's the anchor of your soul, now you begin to see past the natural. Because the Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 5 and 7, we walk by faith, not by sight, my young brothers and sisters. Hallelujah. We walk by faith, not by sight. What is faith? Book of Hebrews, chapter 11. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So faith gives me an expectation in the face of certain defeat. Faith gives me a hope in the base of anxiety. Faith gives me power in the base of depression, faith gives me victory in the base of hopelessness. Because now I can speak to the enemy and go, You sure right, in me lies no good thing. Hallelujah. Thank God I've been dead and I've been crucified in Christ Jesus. But now I'm risen in him, and my hope lies in him. There's nothing I can do without him. I don't know where I would be without him. I don't deserve anything. It's all due unto my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You gotta change the way you talk, change the way you think, change the way you fight this war of life that we've been given. We're waging war. You're at war, generation Z, and you're not gonna win it if you fight it the way the world tells you to fight it. You gotta fight it the way God designed you to fight it. And that way is casting your cares. He says it in 1 Peter 3. I'm sorry, 1 Peter 5. I'm sorry, 1 Peter 5, 6 and 7. He says, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God that he might exalt you in due time. He says, casting all your cares upon me because he cares for you. God is saying, throw it to me. Pass me the anxiety, pass me the depression, pass me the hopelessness, pass it to me. Give me everything the enemy is telling you you are not, and watch what I do with it. I take trash and I turn it into treasure. I take those that are on the bottom, I put them on the top. I take those that are left out and I put them in. I take those that were in the back and I put them at the front of the line. I take those who failed the ACT, the SJT, and every other test, and I give them wisdom to tell them the secret things of the kingdom of God that allows them to go on and do great and mighty things in the natural world, that will confound men of great education, of great intellect who've gone to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Stanford, that the world uh bows at their feet and bestows Nobel Peace Prizes and other great awards onto them. God said, Oh, taste and see what I'll do for you in Psalm 34 and 8. He says, Come to me, oh taste and see. Cast all your issues on me, Generation Z. You're not strong enough to fight against the enemy. He's been here longer than you, he's more experienced than you. He's taken down stronger men and women than you and I combined. God is saying, Trust in me. God is saying, incline your ear unto me, Generation Z. Because I have good news for you. I have benefits for you. Walking with me and serving me is not a religious endeavor like the world and the modern church wants you to think. There are tangible benefits in me. 1 John 3 and 2. It says, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. The apostle is telling us that there's a holistic approach to prosperity, and it starts in God through a relationship with Christ Jesus. He says, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper. To prosper means to increase. We're not slow. You can't change the meaning of the word prosper. Prosperity comes out of prosper. You can prosper in your spiritual nature, you can prosper in your education, you can prosper in your health, you can prosper in your relationships, you can prosper holistically, which we were created to do. Back in the book of Genesis, one of the first mandates to Adam and Eve was to go forth, be fruitful, and multiply. That means to prosper. But religious minds want you to think you shouldn't prosper. That you should walk through the earth broke is a joke. Getting loans for a mortgage on a house, getting loans to buy a car, getting loans to send your children to school, loans you'll never be able to pay back. That the enemy will steal the vitality of your life by you working three, four jobs and never having time to enjoy the life God has given you, to worship him, to praise him, to study and grow in the grace and knowledge of who he is. They want you to walk through the wide gate on the broad world. They don't want you, they being Satan and those who follow him, the children of darkness, to dwell in the presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to experience the magnificence of the great things that he has prepared for you. In closing down on this chapter dealing with mental health, I read 1 Peter 5, 6 and 7. God is so magnificent that he makes sure that everything he says, he reiterates. And he says it twice, sometimes three times in the Bible. And if he doesn't say it directly, you can cross-reference it to another scripture in the Bible where it may not say the exact same thing in its writing, but it will mean the exact same thing spiritually, because that's how powerful it is. We have such an example in Psalm 55 and 22, where the psalmist tells us, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. You see, and this is very powerful for you, my young brothers and sisters. Let Unc break it down to you before we move on. He says, Cast thy burden upon the Lord. That's God saying, Give it to me. Give it to me now, give it to me quick, give it to me without any delay. He says the same thing over in Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, when he says, Come unto me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls. God said, Come to me and bring all of it with you. Go to U-Haul, go to two men in a truck. Go get the biggest truck you can find. Load all your troubles, all your cares, all your issues, all your enemies, all your sickness, all your fears, all your doubts, all your dreams, all your hopes, all your visions. God can't load it all up in one truck. Then what I want you to do, I want you to bring it to me, drive it up, walk away from it. Just drive it up to me, hand it to me, and walk away. And he says, See what I do. Hallelujah. How powerful is that? Bring me all the drama. God says, I want the smoke, Generation G. I want the smoke, I want the smoke, bring it to me. He says, Cast it upon me. He says, And he will sustain you. Now I went to college. I got a degree from St. Louis University by the grace of God in communications. And my degree has not sustained me. My degree has definitely benefited me and allowed me to walk through some natural doors, simply saying that I can start a process and finish it, that I attended a university for four years and left with a certified, accredited, accepted piece of paper in the world that acknowledges that paper and puts great merit on it to hire people. He said, I'm going to sustain you. To sustain means to take care of. So that means I don't have to die to go to heaven, young brothers and sisters. That means I just need to come to Jesus. That means I just need to walk with him and allow him to continue to give me divine instructions to grow me up in the things of the kingdom. So that I can have a kingdom mind. So that I can be aware that I'm a kingdom citizen. So that I can tell others there's a king who takes care of his kingdom citizens. That it's not a religious, it's not a religious endeavor. That it's more than going to church, it's more than lifting hands, it's more than singing songs, it's more than doing outreaches, it's more than going on missions. Those things are important and they're part of it. But the biggest part is to be crucified in Christ Jesus and allow him to give you a new identity so that you can become a new creature, so that you can have a new vocation, a new purpose, a new life, new power, new understanding. That when the enemy does come in like a flood, the Bible says he will lift up a standard against him. God will destroy him on your behalf. He said he'll never suffer the righteous to be moved. The righteous are those who operate in divine instructions, divine orders given from God by God for the expansion of the kingdom, for the advancement of the army. Hallelujah, to take over territory that the enemy has occupied since the fall and will occupy unless more kingdom-minded people are raised up and created and brought into the awareness of the divine mandate, of the divine instructions of the Bible, that it is not a religious book to die and wait and go to heaven. It is a manual of takeover. It is a manual of returning to the original purposes God intended for Adam before Eve picked the apple and bit the apple, and Adam ignorantly defied God, whom he got the directions, the divine instructions from directly. Hallelujah. You were created to walk among kings and queens. You were created to ride on the high land, not on the lowland. You were created to be the head, not the tail. The Bible says the lender, not the borrower. But you won't unless you operate in divine instructions. Money. God knows that the world has done its fair share of uh brainwashing concerning money. There's a song that's beyond your young years, Generation Z, that was created by the OJs in the 70s, and I was a young boy, but I can clearly remember my mom and dad and my uncles and my older brothers and sisters listening to it. Says, for the love of money. Says, for the love of money, people will kill their own mother. Hallelujah. Their own brothers, their own sisters, for the love of money. The Bible tells us that not money itself, because money itself is simpler, simply paper that was created from a tree that God made. And that God makes and created. So that you can operate in a greater level of certainty that God has your back. That you do not have to do it the way your parents have done it, your grandparents have done it. Any athlete or entertainer or influencer on social media tells you you have to do it. We're gonna do it God's way, according to his divine instructions, because we are the king's kid. Somebody say I'm a king's kid. When you know you're a king's kid, you operate the way the kingdom operates. Nobody's walking around the palace with holes in their socks, a heel off their shoe, a hole in their shirt, you know, a pant, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, one pants leg cut off. No. You're king's kid. You're outfitted in royal appear. Hallelujah. For the representation of the king and of the kingdom, that others who see you may know that there's a differentiation between you and them. You're not better, but you're set aside for a divine task. So, about money in 1 Timothy 6 and 10, the Bible says, for the love of money is the root of all evil. The love of money, my young brothers and sisters, is the root of all evil. It is the reason there are wars, it is the reason why families don't speak, brothers and sisters don't speak, why countries can't get along, why companies don't do business together anymore. The love of money is the result of it causes anxiety, it causes depression, it causes hopelessness. Because when you don't have money and you don't have the skills or you're not equipped to get money, now your mind, your natural mind, begins to race and create all sorts of scenarios of the what-ifs that are going to occur because you don't have the money to pay the car note, to pay the mortgage, uh, to pay the school tuition, to uh put the down payment on the house, uh, to make the daycare payment, to pay the hospital bill, uh, to secure the last deposit on the vacation, and many more things. The list is endless. So the enemy will take your mind on a trip of defeat. He will take your mind down a lane of darkness that will cause you to be in despair and do things that you normally wouldn't do. In prison ministry, there are many men who have fallen victim to the tactics of the enemy simply because they did not know better. They were not instructed in divine instructions, they were not equipped by the love of God and the presence of the Holy Spirit to secure them, to embed them, to remind them that Christ is the anchor of their soul, that the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ is your provision, that they could cast their burden on the Lord and that he would sustain them, that he is a present help in the time of trouble, that his love knows no end, that he is greater than money. Hallelujah. So the love of money will cause us to extremes, to go to extremes that are way outside of our normal character, but are well within our fallen nature. We were born as sinners, so as a result, we sinned. Sin is not what we do, hallelujah. It's just who we are. We are sinners. When we are separated from Christ, unless we accept. His redemption and we offer full repentance. Now we can receive full restoration and once again walk in fellowship with God. That's what we're talking about. Those are the divine instructions, my young brothers and sisters. But money and the love of money and the anxiousness to have money interferes with the plan God has, and Satan knows that. That's why Satan will offer and create opportunities for people to rise suddenly in the world system without doing it the kingdom way and trick their minds to believe that they've done something, not knowing that a man can receive nothing except this given to him from above, says John in the book of John in the ninth chapter. That God puts one up and sets down another. But also knowing that if God allowed you to get up there, but then he didn't put you up there and ordained you to be up there, you'll fall down because God, it was not part of his plan for you. You're occupying someone else's seat, someone else's spot. So you can keep it warm for a while, but you will vacate the premises, and eviction notice will be served on your heart, on your mind, on your sore soul, and on your physical door. Hallelujah in the name of Jesus. So money is a very tricky thing in the culture that we operate in because people believe you gotta have it to win. When we read the Bible account of Jesus, when the scribes and Pharisees came to them and wanted to know if he paid tribute to Caesar, and he told Peter to go down to the lake, and the first fish that would pop up, there'd be a coin in his mouth to take it out and go pay his and Peter taxes taxes because it was tax season. And Peter said to those evil, religious, wicked rulers, he said, Give unto Caesar those things that are Caesar's, but give unto God those things that are God's. You're God's, my young brothers and sisters. God is more powerful than money. Just like God provided money for he and Peter to pay the taxes, God will provide for you to do whatever it is he's ordained according to the divine instructions. It's that simple. God knows what things you have need of, he says in the Bible in the book of Matthew. He says he knows before you even ask. God knows you need a car. God knows you need a roof over your head. God knows what type of education you need and when you need it. And through a faithful commitment and relationship with him, God can send people into your paths who will paper those things. Or will allow you to get those things. I know it should be so. Just recently, down here in Florida, I was speaking on behalf of the kingdom of God. My wife and son and I are in need of a permanent residence. We're temporarily living in a place. I went to speak. Someone was moved by something that I said. Unbeknownst to me, the man anonymously gave it to someone who knew me. A $5,000 donation, not knowing if that donation was needed toward our security deposit and first month's rent to our house. Hallelujah. We come down here on faith. We have need of other things that God has provided. Access to things that we needed access to, God has provided. Divine connections, which solidifies Psalm 24 and 1 when God says, the earth is the Lord, the fullness thereof, and they that dwell therein. That includes money, my young brothers and sisters. 2 Timothy 1 and 7 says, God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind, meaning you don't have to be afraid. You don't have to worry. King's kid don't worry about things in the kingdom. Can you imagine Prince William and Prince Harry when they were growing up in the kingdom with Prince Charles and their mother before she passed away? Worrying about if there were going to be food on the table, if there were going to be enough money to get books for school, if they were going to be able to take a field trip, or they were worried about when they got a cold, or they were worried about enemies of the kingdom attacking them and coming over the wall through the royal gates, slaying them. God has not given that to us. That is not a kingdom trait. Being in fear are outside of the divine instructions. Those are natural instructions. People in the world with PhDs and masters and people that have millions and millions and billions of dollars live in fear because they're afraid that there's going to be a drastic change in their lifestyle. They worry about a crash in the stock market. Yeah. They worry about thieves breaking through, robbing their vaults, or taking what they've worked so hard for and what their identity is tied up in. You and I don't do that. Our identity is in Christ Jesus. Yes, God knows we need money in this world. Absolutely. Money is the accepted, favored, and traded currency of the natural world. But it is not the currency of the kingdom of God. In the kingdom of God, the currency is faith. Faith is your money in the kingdom of God, Generation Z. Because when you have faith, you have everything. In Psalms 5 and 12, the Bible says very clearly, For thou, Lord, will bless the righteous with favor will you compass them about us with a shield. That is God telling you. His favor is his acceptance. His favor is his presence. His favor is him extending his septic or his hand pointing, going, That is yours. I have this for you. The Bible says, For thou, Lord, will bless the righteous, meaning God is going to participate in your life. His salvation that he's offered, his salvation, his safety, hallelujah, his security, his surplus, his services. He says that he's going to bless you with that. Because that's why Jesus came. So that you can win, you can rise, that you can serve him, you could work for him, you can keep your eyes stayed on him. That you can be separate and come out from the natural world, from people who are struggling every day, toiling, trying to make ends meet, killing themselves slowly, having no joy, no peace, no hope, no love, no kindness, hallelujah, no understanding. He says, For thou Lord will bless the righteous. With favor will you compass them about is with a shield. Meaning, God's going to surround you with good stuff. You're going to be a magnet attracting everything you need or that God has for you to accomplish the plan He has for your life. Whatever plan God has for your life, once you get in Him, with Him, walk with Him, learn to love Him, God now pulls back the cover, begins to show you why you were created, why He gave you the gifts you have, why you're passionate about the things you're passionate about. You begin to grow in the grace and knowledge of who He is. You begin to be conformed to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in His image and likeness. You begin to walk in that manner. And as you walk, as you go, you cast your burdens on the Lord, burdens of the things you need, the desires he's placed on your heart, because he's given you a new heart. The old desires have been wiped away as information on a chalkboard. Now God begins to give you new desires, new divine instructions, new information. And according to that information, as you walk in the narrow path through the straight gate and you seek him, the things that are required to accomplish the purpose that he has over your life now begins to find you. That's why the Bible says a man's gift will make room for him and bring him before great men. That's what God is talking about, my young brothers and sisters. God will make room for your gift. You don't have to bow down to people, you don't have to worship people, you don't have to chase money like other people. Money is simply a tool. It is a tool. God can get you anything he has for you without you having a dollar. I promise you. Joseph was raised up from captivity from the pit from the prison to the palace. He didn't have one dime. David was exalted to be king of Israel without any money. Abraham was sent out of the land of Ur of the Chaldeans unto a land that God would show him, and was blessed more outside than he was when he lived in his native land. Noah cast out of his homeland, faithfully building an ark, following divine instructions, without a dime in his pocket, appearing poor, but yet the richest man of his time, because God saw him as righteous. God saw him as just, God saw him as favored. So he gave him an instruction. You see, divine instructions are greater than money in the natural world as well as the spiritual world. Money didn't, or money was not the reason that Noah had great value in God's eyes. Money was not the reason he was given those instructions. It's because his heart was purposed to love and serve God in a wicked, adulterous, and crooked generation. He inclined his ear to hear the voice of God. And if you in this day and this hour, Generation Z, will be intent on doing the same thing, on seeking God while he may be found, on listening to hear his voice, then you too can be like Noah. You can experience what David experienced. You can experience victory like Joseph experienced. You can be like Mary, who was a virgin, who experienced the Immaculate Conception, who was a virgin, who was with child by the Holy Spirit, chosen by God, to give birth to the Savior of the world. But she heard an instruction. And those instructions, as astounding and impossible and overwhelming as they surely were, she did not doubt in her heart. She simply said, Be it unto thy handmaiden. Be it unto thy handmaiden. She received God's instructions with purpose, with clarity, surely not in full understanding, but yet willing to grow in understanding as the process unfolded. And that's a big instruction to you right here today. Because much of what I'm talking about can seem foolish, senseless, or impossible. But the kingdom monk is talking from experience. Experience that it can be validated and substantiated and verified in the scriptures. We can walk through the book and I can point to things that others in the book who've gone before me have experienced that God has allowed to be my portion in my generation. If you're willing to enter this process without full understanding and trust God and get understanding as you walk, you will understand that money is not your issue. It's your lack of knowledge, it's your lack of adherence to the divine instructions. Your current fallen nature, your current heart, your current mind is against the things of God. We all were born and raised and reared and brought up that way in this world that we live in. But it's only through a relationship with Jesus Christ when we allow ourselves to be crucified and slaughtered and laid on the altar as a living sacrifice and to get a renewed mind and to get a new understanding, to get a new heart, a heart of flesh, a heart that thirsts and hungers as the deers pant at the stream of waters for the divine instructions of God. That we can be raised up to do amazing things for God without money. Because when you need money, guess what? He has an endless supply of it from the north, the south, the east, and the west. God can make a billionaire write you a check right now in the name of Jesus. God can make a stranger send you money. Two months ago, I heard from a guy in Staten Island I did ministry with seven, eight years ago, him and his wife. He calls out of the blue. I was on my way to a burial service of a nephew of mine. The phone rang. We're talking while we're proceeding to the cemetery. He simply says, Man, God puts you on my heart. I was thinking about you. God told me you had need of something. I've been blessed. I want to send you something. Within a matter of 20 minutes, he has cashed at me $2,000. I haven't talked to this man in seven years. A couple of days ago, a lady who I've ministered to over the last seven or eight years. She's doing well. She's doing something. God put me on her heart. She says, I think I want to send my tithes and offerings to you. Because she's been blessed for the ministry. You see, those are signs that God is with you, that God is favoring you, that God loves you, that you're in the right place. Because you're seeking God, you're seeking the things of the kingdom. You're not seeking money. But don't get this twisted Generation Z. You got to grow into this place. You can't just hear this word. You can't just read this e-book. You can't just read the Bible and expect God to instantaneously treat you like you're an entitled brat and give you everything you need right away without shaping you, molding you, trying you, putting you in the fire, allowing you to go through a little bit to see if your heart is really centered on the things that are being shared with you. This is no quick fix. You can't come to God like you do at the gas station or the 7-Eleven and buy a $3 scratch off and win $75 and act like everything's okay. No can do in the name of Jesus. We gotta walk with the Lord. We gotta study to show ourselves approved. We gotta patiently wait on the Lord. Hallelujah. We gotta continue to stay in constant fellowship with him day and night. We gotta allow him to impart real virtue and power in us so that we can be where we need to be in our generation and be used mightily and greatly to expand his kingdom so that others who are struggling with the things we talked about in the last chapter and even greater things can know that there's deliverance in the salvation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, that it's not a religious experience, that it's not a church experience, that it is a practical, literal experience that fuels your testimony to continue going on from faith to faith and glory to glory. Because you're a king's kid, you are a king's kid. God has need of them. There is a great plan for your life, there is a great mission God wants to send you on. And it's not just a local mission, it may start locally, but the great commission is a worldwide commission, and it comes with a commission. Imagine a salesman who goes out and he sells just say vacuum cleaners, and he goes on and he sells 10,000 of them in a month, but he hit his quota of 5,000. So he received, he began to receive a large commission for everything he sold over that. That's the way it is with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You are blessed as you go. There's no number, but there's a commission being uh uh uh uh uh imparted into your divine account in heaven and on earth as you're about your father's business. You are blessed, and you're not doing it just to be blessed, you're doing it because you love him because he first loved you. He said, No greater love than this than a man lay down his life for his friend. He says, You're only his friend if he tells you his secrets. God tells his friends those things which he hears from his heavenly father. He doesn't tell servants his secrets, servants just want to serve. Servants don't necessarily want to be about the kingdom business because the kingdom business requires being uncomfortable, the kingdom business requires coming out of the world, the kingdom business requires being stretched beyond your natural limitations and understandings and capabilities. We just want to thank God for today. You know, divine instructions are unlimited, it's a bottomless pool and pit as we continue to go forth in these series. There are going to be more and more and more and more instructions, and those who take heed to these instructions shall be separated in their generation to do great and mighty things for their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. They will be the light in dark places in their families, in their communities, in their cities, in their states, in their countries, and in the world. Because the power of God has set aside through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who's been sent back through the Holy Spirit, is for victory in mankind in a fallen world to renew them to their divine mind through divine instructions in the name of Jesus. God bless you, God keep you, Generation Z. You are of the beloved of God, you are favored by God, He listens intently for your cries, none of your tears, none of your desires, none of your problems fall on deaf ears. He hears everything, and his angels are waiting to be dispatched. All you need to do is come back into the family. Come back into the family, Generation Z. As I'm introducing you to the family, you can come back because you were in it before you were ever even created in the name of Jesus from the foundations of the earth. God knew you before he formed you in your mother's womb and before you came forth from her belly. The plan he had for your life was already etched in time. And now it's the appointed time for you to come back into the family and boldly walk into who you were created to be a king's kid in the kingdom of God. Amen and hallelujah.