New Levels of Obedience
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Leviticus 26:9-10 NLT
I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you. 10 You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!Favor - Grace for every situation and circumstance
Fertility - The capability to produce an abundant harvest in every area of your life
Fulfillment - God’s purposes and promises unfolding in your life
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We declare Real Life Church as a place where those far from God will find love, grace, and transformation. God is drawing thousands, and as we Make Room we will expand our space to welcome them into a family of redemption and hope, where lives are forever changed.A Season of Divine Expansion
We declare that God is opening new doors for growth and provision. With faith and boldness, we embrace His plan for supernatural expansion, trusting that resources and opportunities will come in unexpected ways as we step into this new season.A Place of Healing and Glory
We declare that Real Life Church carries the breaker anointing, releasing healing for bodies, minds, relationships, and souls. As we remain humble, God’s glory will rest upon us, and our church will be known for the fire of His presence and the power to transform lives.Haggai 1:3-11 NKJV
3 Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?” 5 Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! 6 “You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.” 7 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! 8 Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord. 9 “You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. 10 Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
Point 1: The Bag Level - Not Enough
Consider Your Ways!
Haggai 1:4 - “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?”
Haggai 1:6 - “You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”
Haggai 1:9 - “You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.”
Haggai 1:12 - …all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord.
Obedience to God opens our lives to the presence, power and provision of God
Point 2: The Bin Level - Just Enough
Bin Level faith is not dictated by what it sees, but directed by what God says!
1 Kings 17:13-14 NKJV
And Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: 'The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.'When we fail to trust in God’s Word, we will be more fearful and consumed about running out, yet God is more concerned about us running over.
1 Kings 17:15-16 NKJV
So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.Point 3: The Basket Level - More than Enough
Thanksgiving will take your not enough, your just enough and turn it into more than enough!
John 6:12-13 NKJV
So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” 13 Therefore they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.Point 4: The Barn Level - The Blessing of Overflow
Surplus - a place of blessing and abundance where we not only experience God’s provision, but we are able to bless others.
Deuteronomy 28:8 NKJV
The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.Proverbs 3:9-10 NKJV
Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the first fruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine. -
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commitment Sunday and I just want to reassure those who are checking us out for the first time um we expect nothing from you in the way of a commitment or pledge so just relax enjoy the service and our prayer is that you would encounter the presence and power of God and what he is doing Among Us amen amen amen we had about eight people Just Surrender their lives to Christ and I'm so thankful uh for that um if you gave your life to Christ we're doing things a little backwards today um but that's okay uh we have a I have decided next
steps packet that we'd love to place in your hand so following service if you raised your hand and you prayed that prayer you meant it with all your heart we believe you got born again if you didn't raise your hand but you still prayed that prayer and you minute we'd love to put this it's got your next steps in it as well as a uh new Believers New Testament we'd love to put in your hands can we give God praise for the eight people that just gave their hearts to the Lord amen so this entire series make room
which we still have another week or so left of it um I've been encouraging everybody to take a step when we take a step come on how many you know God can turn it into a lead you just heard a you just heard a leap somebody took a step to the altar dared to believe God and how many know God can go before us and work things out that we're all stressed out about amen I'd be stressed out about $60,000 too I'm just saying today many of you will take a step by making a commitment to the make room initiative however many of you
won't because you need to take a different step not everybody's step looks the same many of you will be taking a first step some of you just did you surrendered your life to Jesus Christ that's the best step that you can take to begin your new journey in Christ some of you will take a next step we been talking about these six growth areas to to grow healthy emotionally mentally uh physically relationally uh financially God wants us healthy in every area you might need to take a Next Step a step of
Faith a step towards growth a step of obedience a step in the right direction a step towards purpose and really the purpose of this make room series is to really do a personal inventory and say God if there's anything standing in the way of me growing closer to you God I need to clear it out Lord so you can give me a harvest a healthy harvest in every area of my life so we've been looking at this theme verse uh it's the theme verse for the series Leviticus 269 and 10 I preached on it earlier this
year it says I'll look favorably upon you making you fertile and multiplying your people and I will fulfill my Covenant with you you will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new Harvest I believe today for Real Life Church this is a day of favor this is a day of fertility it is a day of fulfillment for our church family all we have to do is say yes to what the Lord has asked each and every one of us to do and I believe we're going to experience
the miraculous I believe we're going to experience favor Grace for every situation and Circumstance you might be wondering hey fertility fertility the capability to produce an abundant harvest in every area of your life fulfillment God's promises coming to pass in your life and in our church family's life today we're going to look at Hagi chapter 1 this is actually a message um or some principles that I shared the first time in 2018 and when I shared it in 2018 we are today in a totally different place as a
church today I want to continue our make room series with a message that I've titled taking steps to new levels of obedience taking steps to new levels of obedience have you ever felt like you're constantly Running on Empty no matter how hard you work or how much you earn it's a frustrating cycle and many of us find ourselves Trapped In This Place always coming short despite our our best efforts anybody ever been there what if the Perpetual of the Perpetual state of not having enough isn't just bad luck or poor financial
planning what if it's actually a spiritual issue the book of Hagi tells a fascin fascinating story about a people listen that got it backwards anybody ever got it backwards before for 16 long years the people of God had procrastinated on rebuilding God's Temple and instead they chose to focus on making sure their homes and lives were taken care of while God's Temple laid in rues that's right they were discouraged anybody ever been discouraged before they were being swayed by other people's opinions of
what they were trying to build and they were defeated by the voice of the enemy does that sound familiar to anybody the prophet Hagi comes along with the word of the Lord how many you love encouraging people in your life how many you thankful listen that God knows when to bring that certain someone in your life just to encourage you this is what happens with Hagia he's comes and he's encouraging them and he's trying to get them to realign their hearts so they'll redirect their resources so they could finish building
God's Temple we pick up the story in Hagi 1: 3 to 3-1 it says then the word of the Lord came by Hagi the prophet saying is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your panel houses and this Temple to lie in runes now therefore thus says the Lord consider your ways can you say that with me consider your ways you've sown much you bring in little you eat but do not have enough you drink but you're not filled with drink drink you clothe yourselves but no one is warm and he who earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes
thus says the Lord consider your ways can we say that again consider your ways go up to the mountains bring wood and build the temple that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified says the Lord you looked for much but indeed it came to little and when you brought it home I blew it away why says the Lord of host because of my house that is in Ruins while every one of you runs to his own house therefore the heavens above you withhold the Dew and the Earth withholds its fruit for I called for a drought on the land and the mountains on
the Grain and the new wine and the oil on whatever the ground brings forth on men and livestock and on all and on all the labor of your hands I think a lot of times I don't know about you but we find ourselves in deserts come on on in wildernesses in droughts they could be emotional droughts spiritual droughts we find ourselves in these dry places in one of the six areas our in the one of the six areas of our life and we Overlook the fact that it could be a spiritual issue this is what this is when we like
to blame the devil isn't it notice however that this story and the reason why the people of God are experienced the heavens locked up come on the Dew is dried up there's no Dew on the ground nothing is prospering there's no grain the the the new wine the new oil is stopped flowing there's no blessing on the people of God's hands notice in the passage it wasn't the devil that was attacking them amen it was the Lord trying to get the people of God to real line their priorities the people of God were in a
cycle of not enough because of their choices come on not because the devil did it but because of their choices come on everybody know how you know we have to take responsibility for our choices not because God didn't care but because he was pleading with them through the prophet to realign to get it right to realign their priorities with God's priorities welcome to the bag level everybody say the bag level it's the level of not enough anybody ever have not enough this is the bag level it's where I need to do
some personal inventory and consider my ways everybody say consider my ways the prophet says consider your ways two times in other words the prophet was saying listen there's no blessing in the land and he's saying how's that working out for you how is it that you are PRI prioritizing yourself yet God's Temple lies in how is that working out for you verse four it's time is it time for yourselves to dwell in your panel houses and this Temple to Lion ruins and the prophet begins to describe what's
happening in their life and you can read this in verse six you sow much you bring in little you eat you don't have enough you drink but you're not filled you clothe yourselves but you're not warm you earn wages just to put it into a bag with holes in verse 9 you've looked for much but indeed it came to little how many you know this is frustrating I blew it away who blew it away the Lord the Lord blew it away because of my house that is in Ruins while every one of you runs to his own house I think this is an
important principle that we get right because if we don't get this right listen we do not experience health and we do not experience growth in those six areas of our life God can never bless our Disobedience no matter how good our life looks on the outside to everybody else amen when I'm at the bag level I say things like when I get that raise I'm going start giving when I get that promotion I'm going to rain it down on the church when I win the lottery then I'm really when I win that Mega Millions now
come on when I become a millionaire that's when I'm going to start giving can I just say this no you won't because because God's word specifically says listen if you're not faithful with the little things how are you ever going to be faithful come on when I release bigger things into your hands and so no matter where you're at it always starts out with a little listen if you're not faithful with giving a dime of every dollar you're surely not going to be faithful to giving a 100,000 of the 1 million
amen the bag level is a result of putting God on the back burner therefore I never experienced breakthrough in my finances it doesn't matter how much we make it doesn't matter how much overtime I have it doesn't matter how much we invest it's like putting your money in a bag that has a hole that's right listen when God is not first in your life come on how you know God is the one who blesses us it is he that gives us the power to give wealth but if we don't honor him with it come on how you know you're given 10%
somewhere come on God blesses you he's not a priority in your life how many you know that dryer is going to break down come on how you know that battery is going to go dead come on how you know the school is going to need some more supplies and it's like you the Lord keeps blessing and you keep looking and it's like you can never get ahead anybody been here before we've all experienced that no matter what we do there's never enough when God is not a priority our individual Pursuits will be fruitless
and in verse 12 the people of God hear the word of the prophet and it says this with all the remnant of the people they obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of Hagi the prophet as the Lord their God had sent him and the people feared the presence of the Lord this is what I know and this is the journey that we've been on as a church for the last seven years when I first got here I'm just going to tell you we were at the bag level not enough we were here and God the last time I preached
this message we were right here at the bin level this is a journey that we've been on but this is what I what I know from God taking us on this journey obedience to God opens Our Lives to the presence and the power of God this is what I tell this is what I tell pastors all the time that ask us man about what we're experiencing here and I believe we're truly in a move of God that we're facilitating and I just tell them listen we just got a bunch of obedient people and God in turn is opening up the
Heavens this is what doing you see God doesn't want us how many know God doesn't want us at the bag level come on as the people of God he doesn't want you carrying around a bag with holes in it no he wants to take you to the next place the bin level everybody say the bin level B level the bin level come on is your next step some of you you're going to go from today you're going to go from the bag level to the bin level the bin level is just enough everybody say just enough the last time I shared these principles
we were at the bin level in First Kings 17 8-2 there was an economic recession in Israel and in this particular story in chapter 17 they are six months in to a three and 1 halfe drought and the Lord speaks to Elijah to go to zerath where God told him a widow would provide a meal for him now the problem is God didn't tell the Widow how you ever been surprised before by company Elijah arrives and much to his surprise The Widow's at the bag level in fact he comes upon her and she's picking up sticks to make a fire
the oven to to make a fire and and and she and Elijah says hey I need you to make me a cupcake and she stops and she says wait a minute she says all I have left is a handful of flour and a little oil that's it my bin is dried up has God ever asked you to give something you didn't think you had to give amen just me all right this is so important that we understand this principle of faith at the bin level everybody say bin level B bin level faith is not dictated by what it sees or what it has but it is directed by what God
says let me say it again in case you didn't get it Ben level faith is not dictated by what it sees or what it has but directed by what God says this is where we're at as a church listen we are walking in the Fulfillment of prophetic words that were spoken to us listen earlier this year you've seen the prophetic words from Pastor 83 and Pastor Dave Patterson from the father's Hearts we are walking in the Fulfillment of words that have already been spoken but how many know we can fear what we think we can't
afford to do or by faith we can do what he's asked us to do you see if we operate by what we see we'll never do what he says let me say that again if we operate by what we see will never do what he says verses 13 and 14 in First Kings 17 says this and Elijah said to her do not fear how you know a lack of resources a lack of finances will play with your emotional life come on it is taxing mentally how am I going to pay the bills how am I going to feed these kids how am I going to pay the tuition how am I going to
afford them new clothes how you guys know what I'm talking about finances is Overflow in every area it can actually uh impact your physical health that's right it's the top three reasons why people call it quits and marriage so it can actually attack your marriage as well and so finances have this influence in every area of our life and Elijah says to her he shows up and the first thing he says is do not fear don't be afraid he says go and do as you have said but make me a small cake from it
first and bring it to me and afterward make some for yourself and your son for thus says the Lord of Israel the bin of flow shall not be used up nor shall the jar of oil run dry until the day the Lord's sins rain on the earth here's the principle putting my trust in God's word helps me overcome my worries of not enough that's right fear and worry will keep you at the bag level right faith will take you to the bin level yeah come on how you know just enough is better than not enough it takes courage to put God first in your
life when I'm focusing on my lack this is what I've discovered how you know Heaven is locked when I'm focused on what I don't have listen the heavens are brass they're shut when I'm focused on obeying the word of the Lord Faith everybody say faith is which is Heaven's currency unlocks Heaven's resources this is why we believe in the nine spiritual gifts of the holy spirit here at real life this is why I just don't believe uh I just don't believe it because it's part of our Doctrine as a
church that we believe no no I really believe so when I bring past p and people who have the prophetic gifting and they speak the word of the Lord I say yes and amen I don't look at what I have Pastor 83 said I see trucks I see a building you're already looking at it he was reading my mail and I and I'm telling you this because listen I could have went to Pastor Jesse and said there's no way there's no way we're going to be a to do this there's no I could have came up with excuse after
excuse why that wasn't the word of the Lord but how many you know come on when you believe God's word come on come on when you when you have faith in what God is saying listen it cancels fear it cancels worry when it comes to putting God first in our finances when it comes to putting God first in our giving many of us are not faithful because we're fearful yes did you know the best time to give is when you don't have it to give amen that's right did you know the best time to start tithing is during a tight month
it this is what happened with our church that my first two months many of youve heard the story but I had to lay two P three pastors off I had to lay three pastors off within my first two weeks and I was just praying and seeking the Lord and He said you're not tithing as a church and so I went to our board and I said hey I'm going to our people every Sunday and I'm asking them to tithe yet we're not tithing as a church I said can we start giving 10% back to our community 10% back to missionaries 10
10% back to nonprofit can we start giving back and and the board unanimously said yes and you know what happened come on we we started going from the bin level to the Bas level listen we we started we started going from the handful that we were holding on to we're going to make it how you know you can get like this and what we realized listen that a seed in our hand is actually a harvest when we put it in God's hand and this is what we listen we're still today trying to figure out how we can outg give God
and every time we do it God shows up and blows our minds how many know you can't outgive God by the way God takes us from a handful to a harvest putting God first takes Faith he said make me a small cake how you know men of God love cake he said make me a small cake just I don't know where that came from but anyway make me a small cake from it first and bring it to me and afterward make some for yourself and your son when you put God first it activates and releases your faith the Widow had lost her Faith and Hope in the midst of a
drought how many you know that's tough that's real she was doubting her Destiny and her son's Destiny until the word of the Lord came and many people missed the true Miracle of this story and it's this God did not send Elijah to the Widow for the Widow to provide for Elijah God sent Elijah to the Widow so that God could provide for the Widow here's the principle here's the principle many times we need others to help us stretch our faith and break us through to new levels of obedience and
blessing amen now first service didn't do this too well but how many You' ever hired a trainer to get to the next level in your physical fitness see man we are an unhealthy Church Church there's only like four people what in the world is going how many you ever have you ever hired a coach a life coach anybody to get I I mean I've hired actually even emotional coaches just to help me get in a better emotional healthy Place anybody ever hire somebody to make you better in an area of your life man we've got a man
six people raise your hand when God began to put the make room initiative and just said man Dean it's time earlier this year Amy and I went to a conference in Denver and we just began to seek out stories among the pastors of of Miracles that God had provided them buildings I said man I want to hear all these testimonies and so my friend Doug Lait who will be here for the edify nights this year in January uh I asked Doug I said Doug tell me your story he said man 10 years over I think it's 26 locations they were a church plant over
10 years 26 different locations a man had came to him from a very a dying Church in downtown vver and came to him he said will you meet me for coffee here Doug met him for coffee and he said Pastor Doug our board was praying our church is dead our our facility sits 1,200 people we're down to 30 people and in a dream the Lord spoke to us that we are to hand these Keys over to you you know how much that building is worth in downtown Denver it's it's a $40 million complex right in the middle of downtown Denver I went to another Pastor
his name's Roger he's an Idaho I said Roger tell me your Miracle story he said man God gave us the building the owner we were in the process of purchasing and he just kind of threw up his hands I don't know why I'm doing this but I'm G the Lord told me to bless you with this building come on how many know God can do what only he can do talked to another friend in Montana and I said hey man tell me about your story said well we were in the process of of of looking at this old uh building that had been shut
it was an old newspaper plant he said in the process the owner just decided to give it to us free everybody say free how many like free 99 come on somebody listen they gathered around us and I said listen I want each of you guys to pray over us because listen we're believing God for our Miracle right here in atomas amen last month we gathered some of our core leaders and presented the vision of purchasing a building and renovating it and how many know sometimes you just got to let the cat out of the bag and I'm
just telling you for two years we've been just kind of keeping this journey that we've been on to oursel but I said you know what I need to let the people know so that their faith can agree with my faith and we can break through to new levels together cuz how many know we can't go by our s sometimes where God is calling us to go with other people and so we've been sharing this over the last uh many couple of months and we went actually to a core group of our leaders and we asked them specifically to go
first by making their commitments before this Sunday and so recently we got together and uh so I could come to you today and just share with you what the leadership has already done as far as their commitments go and can I just share it with you the first phase of a miracle can I just share it with you this consisted only about 40 people actually less than 40 36 to be exact and already committed to the campaign over the next two years is $429,000 can we give God praise for that now the goal is 2.5 million and 1300 people call Real
Life Church their home 36 people have only given and we're already there how many know if everybody just does what the Lord is asking them to do come on we'll do above and beyond and exceedingly what God is asking of us this is what I want to encourage you with faith in the word of the Lord restores My Hope and my confidence in the Lord in this story God was giving the Widow an opportunity to go from the bag level to the bin level an opportunity to put her resources in biblical order so he could supernaturally Prov provide for her let
me just say this and here's a principle and I'm going to move on to the next level when we fail to trust God's word we will be more fearful and consumed about running out and miss the fact that God is more concerned with us about running over can I say that again when we fail to trust in the word of the lord we will be more fearful and consumed about running out and miss the fact that God is more concerned about us running over over you see she went from a handful come on to never running out she
said son this is our last meal she looked back in there she said oh I got another for another another cupcake she reached back in and she had a whole plate of biscuits ready for this boy come on somebody it says this she went away and did according to the word of Elijah she and he and her household ate for many days the bin of flowers was not used up nor did the jar of oil run dry according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Elijah listen when we exchange our fear for faith God will take us now to the basket level
everybody say the basket level again these are principles Amy and I have lived out these are the principles that we have taken through this church and we right now as a church are at the basket level come on with one foot at the next level which I'm going to share here after this one I'm not going to spend a lot of time here because last week's message was a lot about the basket level but God did show me one thing that I left out last week that I want to just reiterate the feeding of the 5000 is a
story about how God invites us to participate in the miraculous come on how you want to participate come on God using you to do Miracles listen we've been singing about it all all morning all it takes is your yes to him all it takes is your yes the disciples remember they wanted to send the crowds away before they even got there you remember that Phillip actually started complaining Jesus we don't have enough money to buy food for all these people Andrew looks to the crowd he's not look he's looking to the
crowd to meet the needs to feed the 5,000 and this is what I noticed this week Jesus does the opposite of his disciples because he's inviting them into the miraculous Jesus invites he doesn't send the crowd away he invites them to sit down come on tell your neighbor sit down he takes what the boy what what's in the boy's hand and he places in his hands this is what we talked about that Jesus Takes our surrender and he turns it into a sacrifice a sacrifice often means giving up something precious for
God's greater purpose he takes it in his hand and what does he do he takes that sacrifice and he makes a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving Jesus looks to heaven and he gives thanks and He blesses the people with more than they possibly could eat you see Thanksgiving everybody say Thanksgiving Thanksgiving will take your not enough you're just enough and turn it into more than enough that's why we need to praise God before we get the raise that's why we need to give God praise listen before we get the
promotion this is why we need to praise God before the financial increase Comes This is why we need to thank God for blessing our business come on before our business is blessed that's why listen that's why when I I'm get so encouraged when people said I've been driving around the building I've been driving around it too and every time I drive around it I'm just saying I'm thankful God that you're going to use this house For Your Glory I'm thankful God for the thousands that are going to come through
these doors listen I'm not even in the doors yet and I'm asking God to do something above and beyond all we could ask or think amen you see I'm not going to get my eyes on how many baskets Jesus needs to fill to feed the multitude I'm just going to set my eyes on the people Jesus wants us to bless spiritually emotionally mentally physically relationally financially and leave that to him amen you see it's not my burden when there's not enough instead I have to recognize it's a test to Lead Me To
The God Who is more than more than enough come on how many you know he is the bread of life this is what he says later down in the chapter I am the bread of life if you thirst listen you don't have to thirst again if you're hungry you don't have to hunger again nothing is lost nothing is wasted it says this in John 612 to13 I didn't really touch on this but it says this so when they were filled he said to his disciples gather up the fragments that remain so that nothing is lost you see when I'm at the basket
level I have to understand that what I do with the leftovers is critical in taking me to the next level everybody say the next level of obedience it's the barn level everybody say the barn level level the barn level is the place where I believe God is calling us to go and I don't just want a few people to go I want everybody to go I am crazy enough to believe that we could have 100% participation in the make room initiative I'm that crazy because I don't want to go listen from the basket to the barn level by myself
come on I want to go with the entire church from here to there because you know what we are good stewards with the leftovers we're good stewards with the blessings the place of the barn level thinker knows that Surplus plus is this it's a place of blessing and abundance where we not only experience God's provision for our needs but we're able to bless others Deuteronomy 28 the Lord will command the blessing on you on your storehouses and in all which you set your hand and he will bless you in the
land which the Lord your God has given you Proverbs 39 and 10 honor the Lord with your possessions and the first fruits of all your increase so your barns will be filled with plenty and your Vats will overflow with new wine you see when I'm in a place of more than enough I don't waste my leftovers instead I allow them to position me for overflow we position ourselves to impact our community in Greater ways when we're good Steward over the leftovers we position ourselves to influence our city like never before we position ourselves
for World Outreach like we have never known last year this time it was this time of year and the school district had walked over and they said listen we have 600 kids in need of toys and and we need some help is there any way we can help you at that time they had asked us kind of late in the game and I said you know what we already made our commitments for Christmas to other nonprofits and organizations but if anything comes our way I promise we'll do our very best to help out with some of that 600 at least
you know 50 kids or so the next day come on everybody say the next day I got a call for from Convoy of Hope and they said hey we know you had a request and we denied your request but this is crazy he said we found 12 pallets of toys in our warehouse do you want them I said I know exactly who needs them I went over there I went over to the school district they were stressing out because there was no way they had the money the funny or the time to buy all these toys I said hey I've got 12 pallets of toys you guys
could they said yes listen not only did we take care of 600 kids from the school we took care of a thousand kids last year because of the Surplus come on this year Hana Robinson who's a member of our church who works at Sava she told me that Friday that love nomus Warehouse which is right back here is providing 80 to 90% of the resources they are making available to their students and families who are in tremendous need this time of year last weekend we went to Vista NOA the transitional housing here right down the
street and we went door too with blessing bags for the first time and guess what God did this week John eddinger he's a truck driver in the area and one of his stops they said hey we've got some items do you know anybody that could use me said yes my church they have a warehouse this week John delivered and dropped off seven pallets of rice cookers and cast iron skillets come on [Music] somebody what I'm saying is listen when you make room got to bring you a harvest listen if you're faithful and you will
just take a moment and say God if there's anything in my life that I need to clear out for you to make room for a miracle in my life in my family in my church can I tell you he'll do it above and beyond church God wants to take us to the barn level not so we can be a storehouse or a warehouse but so we can be a lighthouse come on so we can Shine the Light of Jesus Christ in our community and in our world so I want to challenge you in two ways today again not every one of you you are going to be making a make room
commitment I I don't want you to cuz there's other steps you got to take to get here I'm not asking you to put yourself in any kind of financial tension or anything like that one of the things that you could do and this is my first call is just take the next step maybe the next step in your life is not the basket level or the barn level maybe it's just going from the bag level to the the bin level and maybe it's just starting by putting God first in your life in the area of your finances there's a card actually in
front of you for those that might be interested we call it the test me challenge it's actually our 90day challenge you can fill out this card or you can text 90day to 97,000 and you can say you know what I'm going to make God a priority in my life you can make that first move in your life secondly most of you been praying about the make room this is in your pocket seat pockets as well if you just get that out maybe you already have it and let me just show you how easy this is for $417 a month how many you know that's
less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks for $417 a month you can help us make room for what God wants to do for generations to come I was thinking of the subscriptions that I have for a subscription and I know somebody I know I do I have a subscription that's at least $20.83 cents I could get rid of that subscription come on to that app that I never use listen and I could be a part of what God wants to do to make room we've already show showed you what leaders do but I'm just I'm just saying what has the Holy Spirit asked you to do
already I want to just give us a minute maybe you haven't had time but your ears are tuned in to the Holy Spirit right now and you say God just speak to me about my commitment right now I'm going to ask Pastor Brandon and the team to come and just play for about a minute or so while we just Ponder God what is my commitment that you want me to make in making room for the next couple of years pastor hey everybody I want to take a moment again and say thank you for joining us real life Church's mission is to engage
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