you know i just love the story of mary because another side of the story um even in just
listening to what you mentioned and connected to what um dr robin said how prosperity you know it
looks like having everything i need for what god has called me to do and i loved how elaine when
you just mentioned you know not looking at the natural but recognizing that this is supernatural
you know when i think about mary when she said yes to the angel that let it be unto me as you have
spoken yeah that she was accepting the prosperity of carrying the son of our living of our father
right the son of god and she was not looking at because mary again was a virgin she was engaged
so we don't know that maybe in that time they were looking at you know what if you're engaged to be
married that was prosperity in someone else's eyes that finally you have found your spouse
everything is going to work out for you but when mary said yes to the lord it was almost as though
she was sacrificing what someone else would look at as prosperity because she didn't know
how joseph was going to react she didn't know if i mean even joseph's initial reaction was to
leave her he said you know i love you i'm gonna make this quiet we're just gonna you know bye
so mary is not even the angel didn't tell her the plan right when you talked about
the how the angel didn't say you know i know you just got a booth
and we're going to make sure you keep your boot he didn't say any of that but why this is so
important is because many times we lose sight of the prosperity of what god is doing in our lives
because we're we are having we're coveting someone else's prosperity you know there was a time
when um the lord had he just kind of stripped everything away from me
and then he told me to start taking the train and the bus i said god what no
and i didn't realize because when i said you know what sure so i started taking the train but i saw
so many people because i love i love people i love to talk to people i love to hear about
their stories i saw i met so many people that came to jesus through a conversation in the train in
the bus just having a conversation with someone and i'm there i'm like hey what are you doing
you want to come to church with me and they're like yeah and i was drawn to all the atheists
and all the people that were far from god and i saw so many people their hearts just get softened
and drawn to jesus and what god was showing me was that in this moment what was prosperity for me
was was to share in the burden of the lord's heart for these his sons and daughters and he
said i needed someone to be there i needed to send someone to meet them in that bus to
meet them in the train and what you did and just like um dr deity said it's not about us
right prosperity is also about the other person that god sees two people in this thing
and so i just want to encourage someone watching right now maybe you feel like the hand of god is
not upon you because you're looking at someone else's prosperity and to start recognizing that
god what is it that you have called me to what is it that what what am i supposed to do in this time
because if i have the ability to do that then i'm walking in prosperity i'm actually being fruitful
yeah you know i love that and and where we get the jehovah jireh was when abraham was sacrificing
his son so he he did not hesitate so it was that obedience that that god told abraham i want you to
sacrifice your son so he takes the next morning grabs isaac and starts going and he said god
will supply he will supply the sacrifice and so he gets up there we all know the story lays
isaac out and then he goes to sacrifice isaac and the lamb is in the bushes and there he says
jehovah he calls jehovah jireh god will supply it doesn't say god did supply it says god will supply
and and he will provide in other words the name does not simply memorialize a past event it
entails anticipates a future action yeah god will supply and normally it is in the limitations that
we give to him you know i love the story of the widow woman who who the prophet said go and get
all the empty vessels and it was that emptiness that god wanted to fill and provide for her
and so a lot of times we we think we have to come to god with all this stuff
and it's but it's our limitations it's it's the stuff it's our emptiness it's
our brokenness that we give to god and he said i will provide for you i will supply
all your needs according to my riches not your riches my riches that means you can be healthy
and whole that means whole that means that sound you can be of a sound mind yeah you can be
blessed to give you know elaine we get that from your daddy blessed to be a blessing
that we get to to bless others out of what god has provided for us and it's all right here it's all
in our hands it's all something god has already given to us that he normally takes everything that
we have which is normally right in our hands to provide for our every need at tbn our mission is
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