The Danger of Transactional Faith: A Critique of Prosperity Theology

• Vision and Faith [00:01:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor defines himself as a 'visionary specialist' and argues that God operates through vision, urging the congregation to use their 'faith voice' to achieve what seems impossible.
• Financial Provision and Debt Freedom [00:04:23 ▶️ 📄]
  > Duplantis shares his personal testimony of being debt-free since 1982, arguing that believers should stop asking for 'needs' and instead claim what God has already promised to supply.
• Discovering Spiritual Gifts [00:05:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > He emphasizes that every person has a specific gift and reason for being on earth, and finding this gift allows one to succeed ('go to the top') because they know what, when, where, and how to act.
• Biblical Exegesis of [Joshua 1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+1&version=KJV) [00:09:26 ▶️ 📄]
  > He interprets Joshua 1 as God commanding believers to stop memorializing the past (Moses' death) and immediately cross the Jordan to possess the promised land, illustrating that vision is stronger than visible obstacles.
• Vision and Courage [00:11:38 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that vision is stronger than physical sight and that courage is essential for spiritual and physical progress, citing Joshua 1.
• Prosperity vs. Success [00:13:51 ▶️ 📄]
  > He distinguishes between 'prosperity' (God making your way prosperous) and 'success' (good success in everything), asserting that obedience to the Word leads to prosperity.
• Faith and Obedience [00:14:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > He shares his personal practice of asking God what to do and commanding God concerning His Word, resulting in impossible things becoming inevitable through faith.
• Financial Stewardship and Business [00:19:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > He recounts buying a private jet, paying cash, and making a profit on the deal before possession, illustrating how faith and vision lead to financial advantage.
• Faith and Vision [00:23:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that one must live in the moment while having faith for the future, emphasizing that determined thoughts with intent are necessary to reach goals.
• Divine Favor and Provision [00:25:08 ▶️ 📄]
  > He shares an anecdote about receiving a $10,000 check to illustrate that God provides for those who believe, contrasting this with the idea that one must pay for blessings.
• Overcoming Obstacles [00:28:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor advises the congregation to jump over stumbling blocks rather than stumble, asserting that a high vision protects against spiritual attacks.
• The Power of Imagination [00:30:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > He defines imagination as a powerful, God-given tool that, when corporately focused, draws God's attention and initiates planning and manifestation.
• Courage in Ministry [00:32:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > He recounts preaching in Northern Ireland despite death threats from the IRA to demonstrate unwavering commitment to the vision despite physical danger.
• Faith and Vision [00:41:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor defines faith as a 'now concept' rather than a future hope, emphasizing immediate action on God's vision.
• Financial Provision and Budgets [00:40:45 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts human budgets with divine provision, arguing that God's vision supersedes financial limitations.
• Scriptural Interpretation (The Hundredfold) [00:45:05 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a conversation with Kenneth Hagin Sr. to argue that the 'hundredfold' promise in scripture applies to financial provision, not just the word or healing.
• Ministry as Business [00:47:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor asserts that treating God's kingdom like a business is necessary to avoid bankruptcy, contrasting it with the lack of business sense in past healing revivals.
• Vision and Business Sense [00:47:21 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts running a business with running a vision, arguing that treating God's kingdom without business sense leads to bankruptcy, while understanding facts (business) and faith (vision) allows God to provide.
• Parenting and Protection [00:48:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > Illustrated through personal anecdotes about protecting his son Jody from an 'ugly' boy and allowing him to stay out all night for prom to teach trust and reality checks.
• Offense vs. Hurt Feelings [00:52:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor distinguishes between being hurt (childish reaction) and being offended (seeking revenge), sharing his personal struggle with suppressing affection and learning to express love.
• Financial Stewardship and Giving [00:57:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor discusses the 'anointing of increase,' the limits of FDIC insurance, and the importance of giving to the ministry, emphasizing obedience to God's specific financial direction.
• Obedience in Giving [01:00:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that giving more or less than God specifically instructs is disobedience, emphasizing that love makes obedience easy.
• Stewardship and Wealth [01:03:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares personal anecdotes of giving away large sums of money twice, resulting in debt freedom, to illustrate trust in God's provision over financial security.
• The Motive of Giving [01:05:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that God requires nothing because He is the Creator, and giving is motivated by a desire to bless God and touch His heart.

• Sermon Illustration [00:00:34 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a humorous anecdote about his 56-year marriage, noting that the first five years were 'hell' due to his fault, but the rest has been a bliss and blessing.
• Sermon Illustration [00:08:31 ▶️ 📄]
  > He recounts a personal story of spiritual warfare, mentioning that he and Kenneth Copeland have cast out devils at conventions, with 'spit flying,' emphasizing that believers should not be afraid of a 'defeated foe.'
• Sermon Illustration [00:09:26 ▶️ 📄]
  > He uses the biblical narrative of Moses' death in Joshua 1 as an illustration, contrasting the people's tendency to hold a funeral/memorial for Moses with God's command to immediately 'get your butt up and cross that Jordan' to possess the promise.
• Sermon Illustration [00:12:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells a story about a man who criticized his prosperity preaching, to which the pastor replied he is a Bible preacher and the critic has the problem with prosperity. He also shares a detailed anecdote about buying a private jet: he negotiated a deal, offered $500,000 as a binding gesture when the seller hesitated, received the money back before taking possession, and made a $500,000 profit on the deal using the seller's money, which he attributes to 'vision' and 'favor'.
• Sermon Illustration [00:18:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > He mentions his daughter Jody asking why everything he touches prospers, and his response: 'I create my world, and then I walk in it.'
• Sermon Illustration [00:23:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > He describes talking to his body when it experiences throbbing pain, commanding it to shut up until the pain stops, illustrating the power of speaking to one's circumstances.
• Sermon Illustration [00:22:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells a story about his wife Kathy interrupting his sermon about buying a Falcon 10 jet, using it to transition into a lesson about being '10 years ahead' in vision and not being behind.
• Sermon Illustration [00:23:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > He describes a personal technique of talking back to physical pain ('throbbing pain boom boom boom') until it stops, illustrating the power of commanding one's body and circumstances.
• Sermon Illustration [00:24:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > He recounts walking into a restaurant where he was initially ignored or rejected, but within 30 seconds won over the crowd, leading to a stranger giving him a $10,000 check for his house.
• Sermon Illustration [00:27:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > He shares that he was demonetized on YouTube and 'debanked' by JP Morgan Chase due to high views, but views this as a non-issue because he trusts God for provision rather than relying on platforms.
• Sermon Illustration [00:29:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > He recalls a story from 1971 where he confidently promised to 'jam pack' a club seven days a week for $15,000 a week, fulfilling the promise and renegotiating a better contract.
• Sermon Illustration [00:30:55 ▶️ 📄]
  > He references the Tower of Babel as an example of sinners using focused imagination to get God's attention, and Elon Musk as a modern example of a 'vision minded' person who makes Mars happen.
• Sermon Illustration [00:32:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > He details a terrifying experience in Northern Ireland where he received death threats from the IRA, preached anyway, and later faced a gun to his chest in the Republic of Ireland, refusing to let fear stop his vision.
• Sermon Illustration [00:34:38 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a story from his youth in New Orleans involving the mafia, where he challenged a man to shoot him if he was a killer, demonstrating his resolve to preach regardless of threats.
• Sermon Illustration [00:36:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares an anecdote about his evangelism department employee Denise and a $1.6 billion lottery, using it to illustrate his contentment and lack of desire for material wealth like a Rolls Royce.
• Sermon Illustration [00:40:15 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor describes a recent trip to Australia where fuel costs spiked, costing him an extra $100,000, but he proceeded anyway because he believed God told him to go, asking 'What's the price of a soul?'
• Sermon Illustration [00:42:35 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells a story about showing a senator a $28,000 Federal Reserve note, pointing out that while the nation has a $39 trillion debt, the bill says 'In God We Trust' and is 'debt free,' arguing for donations over grants to the church.
• Sermon Illustration [00:44:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a conversation with Kenneth Hagin Sr. where he convinced Hagin that the 'hundredfold' blessing in Mark includes financial provision, leading Hagin to light up and agree.
• Sermon Illustration [00:48:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a story about a boy who came to his house who was 'ugly' and might make 'ugly babies,' leading him to protect his son Jody. He also recounts allowing Jody to stay out all night for prom, trusting him, and the friends arriving at midnight because there was 'nothing to do after 12 o'clock.'
• Sermon Illustration [00:53:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor discusses his difficulty with affection due to his upbringing, revealing he didn't tell his wife he loved her for five years and only recently learned to express it verbally, alongside his love language of buying gifts.
• Sermon Illustration [00:58:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains the limits of FDIC insurance ($750k) and T-bills ($25m) to illustrate why one should trust God for financial increase rather than relying solely on worldly security systems.
• Sermon Illustration [01:00:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor warns against disobeying God's specific financial instruction, stating that if God says give $1,000 and you give $5,000, you have disobeyed Him, and vice versa.
• Sermon Illustration [01:03:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts being a 'rocker' raised Catholic who gave all his money away thinking poverty was required for salvation, only to get a job, mortgage a house, and then be told by the Lord to give it all away again. He describes obeying, feeling like he had his 'Abraham moment,' and becoming debt-free in nine months.
• Sermon Illustration [01:05:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a dialogue with God where he asks why God requires offerings. God responds that He requires nothing because He is God and the Creator, but the act of giving touches God's heart because it is an expression of love.

• Pastoral Charge [00:01:19 ▶️ 📄]
  > Attend as many services of the convention as possible.
• Pastoral Charge [00:03:05 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the principle of using the 'faith voice' to make things inevitable.
• Pastoral Charge [00:07:34 ▶️ 📄]
  > Open their Bibles to the book of Joshua.
• Pastoral Charge [00:16:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the statement that divine silence is due to a lack of obedient ears.
• Pastoral Charge [00:15:35 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the principle that reaching a goal requires living in the moment and having faith for the future.
• Pastoral Charge [00:26:54 ▶️ 📄]
  > Donate financial resources to the ministry/work of the Lord.
• Pastoral Charge [00:30:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > Consciously write down and affirm the power of God-given imagination.
• Pastoral Charge [00:43:58 ▶️ 📄]
  > Give donations to the work of God rather than seeking grants.
• Pastoral Charge [00:41:35 ▶️ 📄]
  > Live and act in the present moment rather than waiting for the future.
• Pastoral Charge [00:57:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > Give financially to the ministry to support the pastor's anointing of increase.
• Pastoral Charge [00:59:54 ▶️ 📄]
  > Give financially to the ministry.
• Pastoral Charge [01:00:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > Give the exact amount God specifies, correcting any over-giving.
• Pastoral Charge [01:02:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > To give their best effort in the offering

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:00:00] You may be seated. I was on my treadmill the other day and I popped that leg. Glory to God. I'm leaving for my healing. Anyway, God is so good. The closer I get to it, the younger I look. Okay, I tried it. It didn't work.
[00:00:16] It's always an honor and a pleasure in all these years to come and minister with Word of Faith. People of what I call like precious faith. What makes something beautiful is when it's precious.
[00:00:30] That's what makes it rare, see.
[00:00:32] And God has been so good and gracious.
[00:00:34] And my wife is here of 56 years.
[00:00:37] Kathy, stand up.
[00:00:39] Give Kathy a hand clap.
[00:00:44] Hallelujah.
[00:00:47] She said the first five years was hell, which was my fault.
[00:00:52] And the rest has been a bliss and a blessing.
[00:00:55] And I thank you.
[00:00:55] How many of you, if this is the first time you've ever been to a Believer's Convention, stand up.
[00:01:00] All over the building, stand up.
[00:01:01] Good Lord. My Lord. You may be seated. I think he's been doing this 46 years.
[00:01:15] Anyway, thank you for coming. And this is just started out this morning.
[00:01:19] And then also make as many services as you possibly can and you'll be blessed by it.
[00:01:23] And God will honor you. It's my honor to receive the offering.
[00:01:26] But if you don't mind, I'd like to do it at the end, if you don't mind.
[00:01:29] I want to get into what God has called me to say and do.
[00:01:33] and I just enjoy, I am a visionary specialist. And I mean that in a prideful sense. Everything I see is vision. Everything. Because see, God deals with vision. From the very beginning, he had a vision
[00:01:46] of mankind. Then he had a vision of the kingdom of God. Now think about that. Everything God does is vision. He never stops. He's always expanding spiritually, physically, financially, in every which way, shape or form. And God wants you to do the same. Now I have never, this is,
[00:02:07] this is going to be a unique Southwest Believers Convention because normally I preach one night service and day service, but I'm going to preach Friday night too. So my Lord, my stock must have went up, I guess, whatever. And so it'd be such a, and that's increased day. And I want to say
[00:02:22] this without sounding private. I know something about money. You listen to me. In 50 years of preaching this gospel, I've never had a financial deficit. Now, most people can't say that. I'm not bragging about that, but it's just simply truth. But you see, when in the back there, Brother
[00:02:38] Copeland said, I want to believe for 2 million over the budget. Immediately, we stretch our faith to believe the unbelievable, to receive the impossible, simply because it's doable. See what I'm saying? And to all my partners of my ministry, I have a wonderful theme that says,
[00:02:55] use your faith voice. So you got a faith voice. You got a cussing voice, an argumentative voice, screaming voice. Why don't you use your faith voice? And you can write this down. Faith, your faith voice will not only makes things possible, it makes things inevitable. It will
[00:03:13] come to pass. The only way you can be defeated is time. And when you realize that you are timeless being created in a very expressed image of God almighty. Now that's going to make a lot of people
[00:03:27] mad. But the reason why I'm blessed because of a scripture that probably the most prayed prayer, our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done where?
[00:03:41] Where? Where? Where? As it is where? What are you waiting for? Has the church stumbled you so much that you still hadn't got there yet. Don't shout me down when I'm preaching good. And I'm a church
[00:03:58] person. I believe in church, but I made up my mind that I would live here like I would live there.
[00:04:07] And I mean that sincerely. And I don't mean, I am living just like that. I don't know when I ever had a need. I quit asking God for needs in 1982. I've been debt free since 1982, because why would
[00:04:23] God asked for a need when he said he'll supply.
[00:04:25] How many?
[00:04:27] How many of you believe that?
[00:04:30] Put your hand down.
[00:04:31] No, you don't.
[00:04:34] I'm going to just be honest.
[00:04:36] See, I don't, and you've heard me say this so many times.
[00:04:38] I don't tell him what I need or tell him what I want.
[00:04:41] Now, you get in trouble when you do that with the church world.
[00:04:44] Because when you have what you want, you destroy all your need.
[00:04:49] You don't even think about need when you have what you want.
[00:04:52] And the scripture is, the Lord's my shepherd.
[00:04:55] I shall not.
[00:04:57] That means you never would not or get to it.
[00:04:59] You shall not.
[00:05:01] Now I will show you something how important your vision is.
[00:05:04] For you to accomplish your vision, I'm going to talk a little here before I get into it.
[00:05:07] You got to find your gift.
[00:05:10] What is the gift that God gave you?
[00:05:13] What, why were you put on this planet?
[00:05:16] Why are you here?
[00:05:18] There is a reason for that.
[00:05:20] Because God has no respect to person.
[00:05:23] Every gift he's given, everyone in this building a gift.
[00:05:25] And everybody in this building, all the way to the top.
[00:05:27] We've got a big crowd in here tonight.
[00:05:29] I'm telling you, all of you have talked to angels of God.
[00:05:32] You may not have realized it.
[00:05:34] You've entertained angels unaware.
[00:05:37] Why?
[00:05:37] Because they're more angels than they're ever human beings.
[00:05:39] You can count human beings, but you can't count angels.
[00:05:42] And they sent the minister to you, for you, and helping you in every which way, shape, or form.
[00:05:48] And it's all about your vision.
[00:05:49] So what has God called you to do?
[00:05:52] What is it?
[00:05:53] It could be in the ministry world.
[00:05:54] it can be in the business world, kings and priests, kings supply them the money for the ministry and the priest, they preach it. Or you can be both a king and a priest where you supply
[00:06:05] finance as well as preach the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. See, when you find your gift, you begin to go, I mean, like a rocket, you begin to go to the top because you know what to
[00:06:17] do, when to do it, where to do it and how to do it. And that's the whole key to that. I found my gift many, many years ago, what God called me to do. And I've
[00:06:25] never got away from that lane. People said, have you ever pastored? No. Why? Didn't call me to do that. Now I have a church. My wife's a pastor. Can you believe that? So you Baptists out there, I'm sorry. God called Kathy to pastor that
[00:06:41] church. Now I never thought in my entire life that my wife would be my pastor. She said, do you need any counseling? No, I don't need no counseling. It's kind of funny. You know what I'm
[00:06:57] Son, if you think about it, and, uh, but I, I, I have not, I don't have a problem with strong women. I was raised around strong women and whatever a man can do, a woman can do to shout
[00:07:08] ladies. I just set you free, you know, and people say, well, you know, and I know what the apostle Paul said. You want to have a theological, homiletical, hermeneutical, philosophical debate. I can do that. I mean, debates make discussions, decisions make choices.
[00:07:24] You see what I'm trying to say? So I can do all that, but I've realized who got to use whoever he want. There's neither Jew, no Greek, no bond, no free, no male, no female. All I want is what
[00:07:34] God said. So if you got your Bibles, would you go with me today to the book of Joshua, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua. Wherever there's a Moses, there's a Joshua.
[00:07:48] And I mean, it's amazing. And you got to understand as you turn to Joshua chapter one, Moses had sons, but they didn't get the top slot because it's not biological.
[00:08:02] God calls who's going to be at that top slot.
[00:08:05] Joshua had sons, but they didn't get the top slot neither.
[00:08:10] And the reason why, they didn't understand the vision.
[00:08:14] God had a vision and he does not like being delayed from the vision he's given mankind.
[00:08:21] That's why you need to know your gift and never which way, shape or form.
[00:08:27] I've had many opportunities to fail.
[00:08:29] I just don't take any.
[00:08:31] I've had the devils at my house and angels at my house.
[00:08:34] I had to run the devils off.
[00:08:36] I mean, it's just amazing.
[00:08:37] I used to cast out a lot of devils back there.
[00:08:39] You don't see much of that in church because there's not much power in there.
[00:08:42] Don't shout me down when I'm preaching good.
[00:08:44] Listen to me.
[00:08:45] But I'm telling you, we've cast out devils doing these Southwest Believers Conventions.
[00:08:49] I'm telling you one thing.
[00:08:50] I mean, it's amazing.
[00:08:51] It was International Believers Convention.
[00:08:54] I mean, me and Brother Copeland are back just casting the devil out, spit flying and everything.
[00:08:57] We're just enjoying ourselves.
[00:09:01] People say, you're afraid.
[00:09:02] Afraid of what?
[00:09:03] Why would you be afraid of a defeated foe?
[00:09:08] You understand what I'm saying?
[00:09:09] I want to read Joshua chapter one.
[00:09:11] And I want to show you how important a vision is.
[00:09:14] Because one of the nicest things, or one of the most important things, is a funeral.
[00:09:20] To honor someone.
[00:09:22] Moralize them or whatever.
[00:09:25] Joshua chapter one, verse one.
[00:09:26] After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spake to Joshua. Notice that he spoke to him, the son of Nun, Moses of the sister saying, Moses, my servant is dead. He breaks into a funeral. He knows where
[00:09:47] Moses is. He said, what y'all doing? Memorializing Moses. He's dead. He says, Moses, my servant is dead. Let me paraphrase it. Now get your butt up and cross that Jordan. What are you waiting on?
[00:10:01] because what you're looking at is promise, promise, promise.
[00:10:06] That land of promise.
[00:10:08] A vision of a nation just across a river.
[00:10:13] And you in a funeral?
[00:10:15] Nothing wrong with funerals, don't misunderstand me.
[00:10:17] He says, Moses, my servant, is dead, verse two.
[00:10:19] Now therefore arise and go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, the children of Israel.
[00:10:26] God give whatever land he wants to anybody.
[00:10:29] Every place that the sole of your foot was tread upon, I have given you, as I said to Moses.
[00:10:34] So notice that he didn't tell you to sit down.
[00:10:37] He said, you walk by faith and not by sight.
[00:10:41] Verse four, from the wilderness and this Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
[00:10:52] Israel, when are you going to possess the land God gave you?
[00:10:57] What are you waiting on?
[00:11:02] You still haven't got there yet.
[00:11:03] This is thousands of years ago.
[00:11:06] Yeah, but what about all about it?
[00:11:07] It don't make no difference to anybody else.
[00:11:10] God knew the Hittites were there.
[00:11:11] They just needed to get hit.
[00:11:15] And God met them on offer.
[00:11:16] They couldn't refuse.
[00:11:17] You see what I'm saying?
[00:11:18] It just happened.
[00:11:20] Watch this.
[00:11:21] Verse four again.
[00:11:22] From the wilderness in this Lebanon, as far as the great river, God knows where he's going.
[00:11:26] The river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites into the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
[00:11:31] No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life.
[00:11:36] That's a strong statement.
[00:11:38] See, vision is stronger than anything you will see in life.
[00:11:42] That's what he's saying there.
[00:11:44] Let me read it again.
[00:11:45] Verse five.
[00:11:46] No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life.
[00:11:48] As I was with Moses, so will I be with you.
[00:11:51] I will not leave you nor forsake you.
[00:11:55] I'm amazed at how many people.
[00:11:56] I just don't know what God's doing.
[00:11:58] What's the matter with you?
[00:12:00] Your problem is if you've got your eyes off the vision.
[00:12:03] You want to be at a funeral when you should be crossing the Jordan and going into the promised land.
[00:12:08] Don't tell me I can't do something when Jesus said I can do all things through Christ.
[00:12:13] Now, I constantly get here.
[00:12:14] A man told me, you want him prosperity preach.
[00:12:16] I said, no, I'm not.
[00:12:18] I'm a Bible preacher.
[00:12:19] You're the one with the problem with prosperity.
[00:12:21] I don't like y'all.
[00:12:22] I don't think y'all have that house.
[00:12:23] I said, no, you love my house.
[00:12:24] You don't like yours.
[00:12:28] Let's just be honest.
[00:12:29] He loved my house, but he don't like it.
[00:12:31] He don't think I should have it.
[00:12:32] I didn't ask him.
[00:12:34] I don't mean to sound hard or rude.
[00:12:35] I just did what God told me to do.
[00:12:39] See, he said, walk to and fro.
[00:12:41] That's what I've been doing for 50 years.
[00:12:43] I like what he said in verse six, be strong and of good courage.
[00:12:46] Courage is the oxygen of the soul.
[00:12:49] Breathe.
[00:12:51] Every time you breathe, you ought to be breathing great courage.
[00:12:54] For this people you shall divide as an inheritance, the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
[00:13:00] Then he says in verse seven, only be strong and very courageous that you may observe to do according to all the law of the word, which Moses, my servant, commanded you.
[00:13:10] He didn't ask them.
[00:13:11] He commanded them.
[00:13:13] Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.
[00:13:21] Now, if God did that for Joshua, why can't he do that for Jesse?
[00:13:25] Everything I've ever touched is prospering.
[00:13:29] Please don't think it's arrogant.
[00:13:31] I'm just following this book.
[00:13:33] Just believe in what he said.
[00:13:34] Verse eight, the book of the law, the book of the word shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is
[00:13:46] written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous. How many don't want to be prosperous?
[00:13:51] Listen to me. This is, this is the plan right here. He will make your way prosperous. Everybody say prosperous. And then you will have good success. So there's a vast difference between prosperous and success in everything you do, spiritually, physically, and financially.
[00:14:09] You see, if you refuse to be contained, you cannot be confined. Now, people are always telling me, when are you going to retire? Do I look tired? I mean, I could have retired 25 years ago,
[00:14:22] me and Kathy go to Hawaii and just suffer for Jesus the rest of our life. To do what? On the beach, play golf. I'm about the father's business. That's it. That's all I do. I get up every morning
[00:14:37] and say, Lord, what will I have me to do? What do you want me to do? And every time he tells me to do something, it's always impossible because my faith voice makes it inevitable. And there's a
[00:14:51] lot of time you'll say, what do you want me to do? And he told me to quit asking him for things years ago he says command me who I said Jesus Lord command ye me concerning my word tell me
[00:15:04] what you want command it okay I lost that crowd let me go over here that's strong in it that's what he's saying what are you in a funeral for man get over into the promised land for God's sake we
[00:15:21] got to do this thing ever which way shape or form so write this down if you're taking notes to reach a goal in your life. How many of you have goals? All right, write it down. To reach a goal in your
[00:15:35] life, you have to live in the moment and have faith for the future. Let me say it again. To reach a goal in your life, you have to live in the moment and have faith for the future.
[00:15:45] Today's journey is just a stepping stone towards tomorrow's dream. What are you dreaming? Dreams have no expiration date. I love that about Joseph when he's just walking around. His brother said, behold, that dreamer cometh. That's somebody going to do something. Spiritual, physical,
[00:16:03] financial, it don't make no difference. That doesn't mean you don't have trouble in life.
[00:16:06] So what? I read the end of the book. I win. He said, I'm not concerned about the devil. He's defeated, restricted, and rejected and awaiting confinement. So what I want to worry about that fool? I have nothing to do with him. You see, if the divine voice is silent, it's because there's
[00:16:24] no obedient ears to receive it. Write that down. That'll help you. I'm going to give you some chicken nuggets, glory nuggets. If the divine voice is silent, it's because there's no obedient ears to receive it. Now, something's always costing something. So what? We live in an economic world.
[00:16:44] Now, I have been royally persecuted because of those planes. I can't do what I do without a plane. When I left Delta, I was paying them people a million dollars a year traveling. That's a fact.
[00:16:58] And I've never asked anybody for anything, nothing wrong with doing this, any kind of expenses or anything.
[00:17:04] I believe in taking care of people's expenses, but me, I just like living by faith.
[00:17:09] Boy, do I live good. I feel good.
[00:17:13] In every which way, shape or form.
[00:17:16] If I have a chance to walk by faith, I'd take that over anything.
[00:17:21] Now, the reason why, this is going to sound arrogant, I'm successful spiritually, physically and financially.
[00:17:27] You looking at one blessed puppy.
[00:17:30] Listen to me.
[00:17:31] I know what I'm talking about.
[00:17:33] When to get that, to understand that, I know where I'm going.
[00:17:37] I just, I got my new book and I was supposed to do a book signing and I can't do it because it's already filled up.
[00:17:42] That's all right.
[00:17:42] It's called Create Your World and Walk in It.
[00:17:45] I always told Jody that, my daughter.
[00:17:46] I only have one daughter and one granddaughter.
[00:17:48] Jody is going to be 55 and married and made 18 years old.
[00:17:52] You know, you've got a very small family.
[00:17:54] Me, Kathy, Jody, Jay and Meredith.
[00:17:55] That's it.
[00:17:56] Everybody else is dead.
[00:17:58] Everybody else, I'm the last Duplantis.
[00:18:01] That's it.
[00:18:02] I kind of feel like Dancing with Wolves.
[00:18:03] I'm the last, you know, or the last of the Mohicans, you know, whatever.
[00:18:07] So, and I just do what God tells me to do, in every which way, shape, or form.
[00:18:12] And I don't care if I'm in a business situation.
[00:18:14] I say, let me go pray about it.
[00:18:17] And they go, what?
[00:18:18] When I deal with, and, man, I deal with some major things, see.
[00:18:21] And I say, I use glory language, and I use God language, and it freaks out those people.
[00:18:26] They go, you know, whoa, what are you saying?
[00:18:30] And I just do it, and God tells me to do what to do, when to do it, where to do it.
[00:18:34] So Jody asked me one time, and that's how I got my, well, the title of my new book just came out.
[00:18:40] It's on the table if you'd like to get it.
[00:18:41] That everything you touch prospers.
[00:18:44] I said, you know why, Jody?
[00:18:46] I create my world, and then I walk in it.
[00:18:49] You see, if you create your world, you know what's going out, and you know what's coming in, so you're not surprised because you created it.
[00:18:56] That's vision.
[00:18:58] It never was the way, shape, or form.
[00:18:59] Well, I'm waiting for the money to come in.
[00:19:01] It's already come in.
[00:19:03] You're looking in the wrong place for it.
[00:19:06] The wealth of the sin is way bigger than the wealth of the church.
[00:19:11] You know, when I was being crucified over all them planes, y'all remember that a few years ago?
[00:19:15] They were eating my lunch.
[00:19:15] Lord Jesus.
[00:19:19] He'll never get that plane.
[00:19:20] I got it.
[00:19:21] I flew.
[00:19:22] I didn't fly.
[00:19:22] My pilot flew it here.
[00:19:23] I can go anywhere in the world, nonstop, well, one stop, all the way across the world.
[00:19:28] Paid for it, cash.
[00:19:29] I'll never forget that billionaire.
[00:19:31] He thought he saw a billionaire.
[00:19:32] Whoa.
[00:19:34] He said, how are you going to finance that?
[00:19:35] I said, I'm going to give you cash.
[00:19:36] He went, cash?
[00:19:37] I said, well, not in a suitcase.
[00:19:38] That's the mafia that does that.
[00:19:40] I said, I'll wire you the money.
[00:19:43] You know what I'm saying?
[00:19:44] And if you buy that plane today, that's $60 million.
[00:19:49] Now, I didn't pay $60 million because I serve a Jewish God.
[00:19:53] I don't pay retail.
[00:19:56] You do what you want to do.
[00:19:59] I'm going to do business.
[00:20:02] and when you understand that see he said you're gonna pay me cash I said cash he said are you serious I said yes I said I sure how serious I am I looked at Kathy just standing by I said Kathy
[00:20:13] you got a check Kathy goes always got a check hallelujah I mean I don't really know how much money I got Kathy does but I know where she lives and I'm telling you I mean it's just amazing and
[00:20:30] I don't care if they're going to persecute me.
[00:20:32] You think that bothers me?
[00:20:36] So I said, if I don't buy this plane, sir, I said, give him a check for $500,000.
[00:20:41] I said, cut him a check for $500,000.
[00:20:43] So he's just kind of looking like that.
[00:20:44] I said, let me tell you something.
[00:20:45] If I don't buy this plane, you can have the money.
[00:20:50] Yours.
[00:20:51] Now my mind going, no, I don't do that.
[00:20:54] I mean, I consider myself a reasonable business.
[00:20:57] I didn't even give the guy $500,000.
[00:20:59] I don't even know who he is.
[00:21:00] But the Lord made me say it.
[00:21:01] He got so excited, he was supposed to, what do you call that when you put the money in escrow?
[00:21:06] He didn't escrow the money.
[00:21:09] Now, this is millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars.
[00:21:12] You understand what I'm saying?
[00:21:14] So he said, okay.
[00:21:15] I said, sign that.
[00:21:16] He signed that.
[00:21:18] That binds me, that binds him.
[00:21:19] But you're supposed to put the money in escrow when you're dealing with that kind of money.
[00:21:22] But he was freaking out over that $500,000.
[00:21:26] All of a sudden, I had his money.
[00:21:29] now what you got to do you got to do pre-buys you got to go through all kinds of the shops were full all kinds of different things going on we just had to wait by the time we got into the shop which
[00:21:42] at the end of October or November something like that I had made mark I made five hundred thousand dollars on his money it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood with his money so the money that I
[00:21:58] gave him, I got it all back before I possessed the plane. Now, Keith would call that victory.
[00:22:08] Favor. Yeah. I call it vision. See, that vision. See, I'm constantly like this. I'm 10 years ahead.
[00:22:18] The other day, Kathy said, where are you going? Now, this is a beautiful plane I got. I don't mean that properly. I said, I'm going to Little Rock. I'm going to look at that thing, Citation
[00:22:25] 10. You ought to see this thing. This is like an airliner. She said, you're going to buy another.
[00:22:29] I said, hang on, Kathy, let me finish here.
[00:22:33] I'm preaching, Kathy, not you.
[00:22:35] See, pastors do that all the time.
[00:22:38] Yes, Falcon 10.
[00:22:41] Got it.
[00:22:41] What did I say?
[00:22:44] You up.
[00:22:45] That's what she said.
[00:22:46] I meant, so I take Falcon 10.
[00:22:48] This thing's huge.
[00:22:50] Well, she said, why are you going?
[00:22:52] Did you go sell it?
[00:22:52] I said, no, I'm 10 years ahead.
[00:22:56] I'm enhancing my vision.
[00:22:59] And I went over there and looked at the thing.
[00:23:00] Now, do I want it?
[00:23:01] Not really.
[00:23:01] No, because I've got what I want anywhere in the world, one stop, you know, make gold, just go at it. And I looked at it and I went, Oh Lord, 10 years ahead. I'm never behind. Never. And I never
[00:23:17] will be. See, that's what I mean to reach a goal in your life. You have to live in the moment and have faith for the future. You people that are sick, do you see yourself well? Do you, let me
[00:23:30] tell you something. You got to learn to talk to your body. You have a voice. You ever get some, what we call throbbing pain boom boom boom you know what that happens to me sometimes you know
[00:23:40] when I go oh you want to talk to me oh you see you're trying to get my attention you want to talk to me so every time you go boom I said the word the word I just talk back to him till he
[00:23:51] quits how long does it take I don't care till he shuts up you want to talk we'll talk that's what I mean see and I don't just I hope it works daydreams are idle thoughts they are a form of
[00:24:06] escape. Determined thoughts have purpose and direction. There are thoughts with intent that take you places. Where you want to go, what you want to do. When all those people were attacking me, I went to a restaurant over my home and over the jet and all this kind of crazy stuff,
[00:24:25] you know, and I walked in and that man, that, that restaurant went stone cold solid.
[00:24:29] When I walked in, I just hit a planet. I just hit a planet. So I looked at him and said, give me 30 seconds. Hey, I got a crowd. Within 30 seconds, I had that whole crowd. They jumped up
[00:24:43] and said, they're lying. They're people lie all the time. It was a great day. I sat back down, a man walking to me said, boy, that's a fine house you got there, Mr. Blantz. Call me a doctor. I
[00:24:54] said, well, thank you. I don't, listen, this literally happens. I'm just sitting. I said, well, thank you. He goes like, pulls the check out for $10,000, puts it on my table. He says, go buy something for that house. Man, I felt like a black man. I started doing my lean.
[00:25:08] Oh yeah, baby. Lord, Lord. Let me go here. Tent on the table. That's victory. That's favor. In every which way, shape, or form. Every thought has to have intent. Every vision.
[00:25:29] See, that's what God was telling Joshua. What are you doing in this funeral? Get up. Cross that Jordan. I hear that constantly. Move. Complete destiny and reach destination. See, if you're wandering around daydreams, never let you believe what it takes so you can change what it takes
[00:25:48] to start doing what it takes. Let me say it again. Wandering around in daydreams never let you believe what it takes so you can change what it takes to start doing what it takes. So I just made up my
[00:25:59] mind. Well, you can't do that. I said, well, God said I could. No, no, no, you don't understand. It's impossible. Yeah, that's why it works. See, it's an advanced level of faith. It's not just faith
[00:26:14] to get something. It's faith to produce something for everybody else you meet in life. I got some wonderful partners, man. Oh, thousands upon thousands of them all over the world. And they love me because, I don't mean it privately, I produce for them. See, in every which way, shape,
[00:26:31] or form. Yeah, but do you know how much that cost? He didn't ask me to pay for it. See, that's the problem with everybody. Y'all thinking God's asking you to pay for it. He's asking you to
[00:26:39] believe for it. Once you learn to believe, you'll pay for everything you ever did in your life. Now, if that can't get me $10,000, I've had it done with a million dollars. $500,000.
[00:26:50] I don't know how many. $100,000.
[00:26:52] I never asked nothing.
[00:26:54] Give it to the work of the Lord.
[00:26:57] In every which way, shape, or...
[00:26:58] I was doing so well.
[00:27:01] I got demonetized on...
[00:27:03] What do they call that?
[00:27:04] That's right. Demonetized on Facebook.
[00:27:07] Was it Facebook? Help me, Mom.
[00:27:10] YouTube.
[00:27:12] because there were too many views.
[00:27:16] You know what they say?
[00:27:17] You pool more people than Jimmy Kimmel.
[00:27:20] I said, who's Jimmy Kimmel?
[00:27:22] I don't know who Jimmy Kimmel is.
[00:27:24] That's not my world.
[00:27:26] Well, my God, you had 1.6, 2.7 million views everywhere.
[00:27:29] We're on 41 different platforms, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:27:34] They demonetized.
[00:27:35] That didn't hurt me.
[00:27:36] I didn't even know they were paying me.
[00:27:39] My staff takes care of all that.
[00:27:40] I don't even know what that means.
[00:27:42] JP Morgan Chase debanked me.
[00:27:49] That's, Mr. Diamond, that's the stupidest thing you've ever done in your life.
[00:27:55] Boy, Capital Bank said, we'll take that money.
[00:27:58] I said, well, why y'all debunking me?
[00:28:00] You got 30 days.
[00:28:01] I said, 30 days.
[00:28:02] They said, fine.
[00:28:03] Somebody going to take this money.
[00:28:05] Is it you?
[00:28:11] See, there's always a stumbling block.
[00:28:13] Don't stumble.
[00:28:14] Jump over it.
[00:28:16] Your vision is higher.
[00:28:17] Let me put it right there.
[00:28:17] Your vision is higher than that.
[00:28:20] Satan can't get to your vision.
[00:28:22] People say, you don't ever have to.
[00:28:23] I fly above Christian turbulence.
[00:28:27] I just ascend to a high level.
[00:28:30] Not trying to show off.
[00:28:31] I don't have time for that.
[00:28:33] When you understand that your destiny is really not firm.
[00:28:37] Your free will has been given to you to make choices.
[00:28:41] Destiny happens one day at a time.
[00:28:43] Do you know your destiny?
[00:28:44] Do you know your destination?
[00:28:46] And the only way you're going to know that is if you know your gift.
[00:28:49] Where would God will send you?
[00:28:51] What you will do.
[00:28:52] And most people think it's arrogance.
[00:28:53] It's not because you know what to do.
[00:28:56] You see, I knew what to do. I never forget when I was playing rock music, I walked into this club.
[00:29:00] I said, if we play this place, I said, we'll jam pack this place seven days a week.
[00:29:05] He said, this is a cocky kid. I said, I'm telling you, we'll jam pack it.
[00:29:11] Oh, yeah. Yeah. How much you want? Fifteen thousand a week.
[00:29:15] This is 1971. I had a lot of money. Gas was twenty nine cents a gallon in Texas.
[00:29:24] I said, we'll jam pack it. I said, if we don't, don't pay us.
[00:29:29] I give you three weeks free. We jam packed that place every night for three weeks. He said, man, you got a job. I said, no, you're going to renegotiate another contract. And all of a sudden
[00:29:46] we make him remember that time I called Kathy. I said, let's take Jody to New Orleans so everybody can see my baby. She had to be at least six weeks old. So we flew to New Orleans. So my mom and dad
[00:29:57] and Kathy, uh, mother and father could see Jody. And I started out with nothing, not bragging on that. But I knew my gift. I knew what I wanted and I knew it would take work to get that done.
[00:30:11] So I was a visionary even as a sinner. But when the Lord saved me, the first thing I said, what do you want me to do? And that's what I mean. Sometimes it's called faith imagination.
[00:30:25] Write this down. Imagination is powerful. Oh, it is. It's God given and worth using.
[00:30:33] When imagination is corporately focused, God takes notice.
[00:30:40] The planning stages start taking effect.
[00:30:44] Let me say it again.
[00:30:45] Imagination is powerful.
[00:30:47] It is God-given and worth using.
[00:30:49] When imagination is corporately focused, God takes notice.
[00:30:52] The planning stage starts taking effect.
[00:30:55] That was the Tower of Babel.
[00:30:57] They said, there's nothing we can't do.
[00:30:58] They begin their math.
[00:30:59] Nothing.
[00:31:01] Oh, I've got God's attention.
[00:31:04] God comes down and says, let me look at this.
[00:31:05] These were sinners.
[00:31:07] That made no difference. God will see people with vision. So when you've got so much vision, you turn out like Elon Musk. You may be a little weird. You may make $1.1 trillion and then lose
[00:31:22] it the next week. You think he cares? He's not even in the house. Why? He's so vision minded.
[00:31:32] He will make Mars. He going to do it. It's just going to happen. And if the government don't help him here to do it himself. And no matter what, now think about you with the nine gifts, the nine
[00:31:45] fruits, the fullness of the Godhead, the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, including the maps, if you want to deal with that. Jesus, and you telling me you can't do this? When God said you could, in every which way, shape, or form, all of it at any given time. Joshua, be strong. Nice to
[00:32:10] be at a funeral, but you got too much to do here. Cross this Jordan. Now you're going to run into a problem. Jericho, AI. So he just keep walking. And I've had many opportunities to fit. I went
[00:32:25] to Northern Ireland, Lord, Belfast. Remember that? And I rented Ostra Hall. I think that's the name of that. And Nancy, I was going to preach this day. I got notes under my door said, if you preach
[00:32:35] tonight, we will kill you. From the IRA, this is many, many years. And bombs and everything like I said, it don't make a little difference what you say, sucker.
[00:32:46] I went to that boy, and boy, you talk about security.
[00:32:48] They so scared. What are y'all scared for?
[00:32:50] Sit down. What's the point of killing you?
[00:32:52] Then I go to heaven. Now sit down.
[00:32:56] Boy, we had a meeting.
[00:32:59] It was wonderful.
[00:33:01] We shut down City Hall.
[00:33:06] People couldn't get in the building.
[00:33:07] There was another place. What's the name of that place?
[00:33:10] So many of them.
[00:33:11] They said they can't get in. They're mad.
[00:33:13] There was 800 people outside mad because they couldn't get in the building. So I said, give me a ladder. I could see myself preaching to them.
[00:33:20] I said, y'all sing till I get back. They gave me a ladder. I climbed the ladder and I start preaching. The police trying to get to me and the people just pushing them away. I'm just shucking
[00:33:31] corn. Just preaching. I said, Kathy, come up here. Kathy walks up that leg goes, hello. We didn't care. People being saved. I wanted to go to the Republic of Ireland. So I had a friend that,
[00:33:50] Well, a friend, an acquaintance said, I will drive you there, Brother Jesse.
[00:33:52] I said, okay.
[00:33:53] Man, I could see myself preaching in the Republic of Ireland.
[00:33:56] My God, there's a vast difference between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
[00:34:01] Vast difference.
[00:34:02] So I'm walking there.
[00:34:03] You had to stop at these places.
[00:34:04] All of a sudden, we stopped at this place.
[00:34:06] And I just look at the man that's taking me.
[00:34:09] And he's sweating, boy.
[00:34:10] I mean, he got big drops of sweat.
[00:34:12] He said, Brother Jesse, don't move.
[00:34:13] I said, what?
[00:34:15] He said, don't move.
[00:34:16] They got a gun on you.
[00:34:17] I said, what?
[00:34:19] He said, look at your chest.
[00:34:20] So I looked down, they got this little red, you know, from the scope, I guess, I guess right here.
[00:34:27] And I'm looking at, I thought he wanted to dance.
[00:34:34] So I said, what was that guy's name?
[00:34:36] I can't remember.
[00:34:36] Pierre.
[00:34:37] Yeah.
[00:34:38] I said, he said, he said, oh, he's praying the Holy Ghost.
[00:34:41] I said, keep praying there, Pierre.
[00:34:43] I said, Pierre, can they read my lips?
[00:34:45] Can they see me?
[00:34:46] He said, oh yeah, yeah, this is the IRA.
[00:34:49] So I looked right there.
[00:34:49] I said, what if you're going to shoot, shoot?
[00:34:51] what are you waiting on fool pull a trigger came up to here come on you call yourself a killer do what you gotta do I was raised on the streets of New Orleans with the mafia with La Cosa Nostra
[00:35:07] you do what you gotta do I said I'm going to preach this gospel whether you like it or not do what you gotta do boy went this way it went this way and then the light went out we heard
[00:35:18] this I said Pierre drive not bragging not trying to show off I am not gonna let no devil in hell stop the vision that God has given you. You do what you want to do. So when you, and when we
[00:35:39] had glorious meetings there in the Republic of Ireland and all over, I mean, it's been so many things, but I think about that. I've never broken into someone's funeral. Moses, pretty good old boy, you know, God said, get up, man. Look, I proud, look, what has God shown you? You have not
[00:36:01] possessed yet. To promise you, you know how much you need, but you don't know how much you want. One of my, in my evangelism department, Denise, she's a blessing to God. You know, they had that big lottery about a year ago, 1.6 billion or
[00:36:20] something like that, you know? And so I didn't know, you know, I walked in and I say, hello girls, everything going good?
[00:36:25] She said, they all call me boss. Boss, what would you buy if you won that lottery? I said, what y'all say? I didn't even know it was that high. There's a lottery there. 1.6 billion,
[00:36:37] they're going to call it tomorrow, you know, whatever, however they do that. And I said, what would you buy? I said, nothing. No, no, no, no, no, no. What would you buy? I said, nothing. I got everything I can think of. Then somebody said, well, you have a Rolls Royce?
[00:36:56] No, but I got a friend that got two of them and I can drive them anytime I want. Leroy Thompson driving Mr. Leroy. Come on. Why don't we just go and drive down the road here?
[00:37:05] we have the most wonderful time. No, I mean, can I buy one tomorrow morning?
[00:37:13] I'm not bragging about that. Ain't using your money, ain't using the ministry's money, mine.
[00:37:21] No, I just know what, I don't know. What do I want? I don't know. I have everything I want that I know of. Now I collect a lot of artwork. I do all kinds of different things. If I see
[00:37:32] something I like, fine, you know, but it doesn't make any difference, you see, because when you understand where I'm going and what I do when I get, when I get there. Let me tell you, if the
[00:37:45] rapture church comes, first thing I would say to the Lord, what will I have me to do? Where are you sending me? They got this scientist. He said that the piece of universe that we see, and we don't
[00:37:54] know how big it is. You got at least 2 trillion galaxies, the piece that we could see and God flung it with his hands. That's why they don't believe in God. You know why? God will not give
[00:38:06] any proof that he exists that's why they can't understand that it says in the beginning god that's it hanging up jack that's all you getting moses tried to find a way what's your name i am
[00:38:19] what i am i am what i am that i am now get your butt up and go to pharaoh come on move wow you got a whole nation to get out of slavery that was his destiny every time they every time they give
[00:39:09] me one of these i feel like jonathan shuttlesworth i want to let you know i like that but it also makes me feel Catholic. Throw a little holy water on you. I get so excited. Lord, what will you want
[00:39:41] me to do? What I'm going to do when I get there? I've been to heaven. Some people say, I don't believe it. I just don't really care. And I don't mean that in a rudely. That's a beautiful place,
[00:39:54] but I am not interested in the gold and the diamonds and the silver and the amber and the gold streets and all that. And that's beautiful. Don't misunderstand me. I'm interested in people.
[00:40:05] What do you want me to do?
[00:40:07] Where do you want me to go?
[00:40:10] I never asked him how much it was going to cost because he didn't ask me to pay for it.
[00:40:15] You know, someone tried to shut me down.
[00:40:17] I just came back from Australia.
[00:40:19] And, you know, the Iran war and all that kind of stuff.
[00:40:21] I mean, the fuel jumped up like crazy to, you know, 9,500.
[00:40:24] So it cost me an extra $100,000 to go over there.
[00:40:30] People say, why don't you just, you know, reschedule it?
[00:40:35] What's the price of a soul to you, sir?
[00:40:38] And I didn't ask those people to pay anything.
[00:40:40] I just went and did it.
[00:40:41] And we went way over the budget.
[00:40:45] Budgets cost you something.
[00:40:46] Vision brings you something.
[00:40:47] I really didn't know what the budget was until I got back.
[00:40:51] And we surpassed that like crazy.
[00:40:53] I don't mean that pridefully, please.
[00:40:55] Because God told me to go.
[00:40:57] And I'm talking New Orleans all the way to Perth.
[00:41:00] You know how far Perth is?
[00:41:01] All the way down.
[00:41:03] I mean, when it's down under, it's down under.
[00:41:06] Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney.
[00:41:09] My God, man, Honolulu.
[00:41:12] And then back to New Orleans and wham, just going again.
[00:41:16] And it's just such a blessing to understand that this faith is not a tomorrow concept.
[00:41:23] It's a now concept.
[00:41:25] Do you get that?
[00:41:26] It's a now concept.
[00:41:28] The word now is a word that connects time.
[00:41:33] You want to hurry up?
[00:41:35] Stay in the now.
[00:41:35] faith is not the finish line it's the beginning line Hebrews 11 verse 1 now faith is not is faith now we don't no no no now faith is well I tried that tried didn't get nothing done I didn't try
[00:41:49] to marry Kathy I did you should have seen me when I was young I was a good looking boy I had a body that was it's all terrible now but I had a body a six-pack now I got a keg I've had people say
[00:42:11] You know, you can take some of them shots in the arm or in the butt.
[00:42:14] Which one?
[00:42:15] All the shots I ever knew before was in the arm, you know.
[00:42:23] And his mercy and grace saved me.
[00:42:27] I still get excited about my salvation.
[00:42:30] It's just such a blessing.
[00:42:32] Now, what do you want me to do?
[00:42:33] Build this, build that.
[00:42:34] Okay.
[00:42:35] I got people want me to run for office.
[00:42:37] I ain't running for no office.
[00:42:39] I just talked to two senators in the state of Louisiana.
[00:42:42] You know, Reverend, I know you do very well.
[00:42:44] I said, yes, sir.
[00:42:46] That's all I said.
[00:42:46] What'd they ask?
[00:42:47] I said, you know, we got about a $38, $39 trillion debt.
[00:42:51] I said, I know.
[00:42:53] It don't look like we're going to ever be able to pay that off.
[00:42:55] I said, if you listen to me, you can.
[00:42:58] He said, what do you mean by that?
[00:43:00] I said, you got any money in your pocket?
[00:43:01] I know they do.
[00:43:07] That's all I'm going to say about that.
[00:43:11] Maybe a stock option in the left pocket and whatever.
[00:43:13] You know, who knows?
[00:43:17] He had a $28,000.
[00:43:18] I said, what does it say on the front of that?
[00:43:19] He said, a Federal Reserve note.
[00:43:21] I said, that's about a $38, $39 trillion debt.
[00:43:24] Flip it over now.
[00:43:26] I said, what he says on that side?
[00:43:28] He says, in God we trust.
[00:43:31] I said, that one's debt free.
[00:43:32] Which one you want?
[00:43:34] I said, now you listen to me.
[00:43:35] Listen to me.
[00:43:37] Quit giving churches grants, school grants.
[00:43:40] That's nice to misunderstand me.
[00:43:43] But you see, a lot of the time they get into your business that way.
[00:43:46] I said, why don't you give churches donations or do a nation?
[00:43:52] Do a nation.
[00:43:53] Give them donations.
[00:43:54] I said, you start giving to the work of God, not a grant?
[00:43:58] a donation. I said, that $38, $39 trillion, I'll walk away from you. He said, you think so? I said, no, I know so. I know the God I serve. I know how wealthy he is. Not all of it by no means.
[00:44:13] I can't grasp everything he has. My God, I mean, he measured the oceans with a drop of water in his hand. Go read. Is it Isaiah 40 or 41? And he measured it in a span. Good. That's God, man.
[00:44:25] and yet would not give you any proof to the fact that he exists.
[00:44:29] And the only way you please him is you walk by faith and you believe that he's a rewarder.
[00:44:36] So you that are mad at me because I receive it, it ain't my fault.
[00:44:41] I sowed seed.
[00:44:43] I never get Brother Hagin Sr.
[00:44:45] I liked him.
[00:44:47] I didn't know him real well, but I really liked him when I got around him a little bit.
[00:44:51] And he walked up and he goes, how you doing, Brother Jesse?
[00:44:54] I said, fine, Brother Hagin.
[00:44:56] How you doing?
[00:44:56] This is Hagin Sr.
[00:44:58] So I'm just looking at him.
[00:44:59] he said, can I ask you a question? I said, sure. I was honored that he would even know me.
[00:45:05] He said, do you believe in a hundredfold? I said, yes, sir. What scripture do you use for the hundredfold? I said, well, I go to Mark four and I also go to Mark 10. I just see it all over the
[00:45:18] Bible. He says, so Mark four, where the soul of the word. I said, yes. He said, well, he's not talking about money there. He's talking about the word. I said, that's correct. Yeah. He says,
[00:45:32] what would you say to that? You think, you know, some 30, some, that that's money. I said, it's the word. I said, yes, sir. I said, you know, brother Hagan, and I really believe I convinced
[00:45:42] him. I really do. He looked at me. I said, you know, you said what's up in the word. We can have it. When would he come to healing? He said, well, you stand on the word of God, come hell or high
[00:45:53] water, like they say in Louisiana, you can get your healing. You just don't move. That was brother Kenneth Hagan. He's doing, if you move and go to nothing wrong, we're going to doctors or misunderstand. He just made you believe, my God. I said, so if it's in the word, Brother Hagin,
[00:46:05] I can receive it 100%. I said, Brother Hagin, there's money in the word. He said, what'd you say? This is that rhema. He said, I said, there's money in the word. He does this.
[00:46:17] When he starts doing this with his thumbs, I know when to shut up. And he looked at me, said, I never thought of that like that. I said, Brother, if it's in the word, I can believe for
[00:46:29] it. Is that right? Yeah. Now, if it's not in the word, throw it away. It ain't no good. And I said, I'm not worthy of the Latcho shoelaces, Brother Hagin.
[00:46:35] I'm not.
[00:46:36] I said, but I'm going to tell you something.
[00:46:38] I know this Bible.
[00:46:39] And since I got a choice, some 30, some 60, some 100, I'm going to believe for the 100.
[00:46:47] He just, I mean, I saw him light up.
[00:46:53] That's all I said.
[00:46:54] I think I changed his mind.
[00:46:55] Several people got around him.
[00:46:57] Brother Hagin, go over here.
[00:46:59] He kept looking at me.
[00:47:02] So I started twiddling my thumbs.
[00:47:06] But it wasn't too good.
[00:47:07] I couldn't do it as good as he did, that kind of stuff. It was just such a blessing to understand what God is saying. And when I talk to business people, running a vision is greater than running
[00:47:21] a business. If you don't treat God's kingdom like a business, you're awaiting bankruptcy.
[00:47:27] I don't care how unknown as you are. That's what happened between the 1947 and 1958 healing revivals. Great miracles that you ain't never seen in your life, but didn't have much business sense.
[00:47:38] that's a fact go check it all out and most of it was debt ridden miracle you could get healed something in a second but my god they pay for something cash but when you understand that a
[00:47:51] business person looks at facts and a visionary looks at faith see so when I go to do a meeting whatever it may be I mean I know it's going to cost at least I think I do I'll say well that's
[00:48:03] God's business and not mine I'll go do my work and he does his work every which way shape and form And in 50 years of ministry, you're not going to believe this, he's never told me no.
[00:48:16] Not one time.
[00:48:19] I was talking to him about that not long ago.
[00:48:21] I said, but you know, Lord, you did some things I did not understand.
[00:48:26] He said, yeah, that's what fathers do.
[00:48:30] I said, you know, that's right.
[00:48:32] How many times I told Jody, oh, Dad, that's crazy.
[00:48:36] He can't do it.
[00:48:36] Now you're going to make sure he said, boy, Dad, that was right.
[00:48:39] See, you got to watch over your kids.
[00:48:40] I know what them boys are looking.
[00:48:42] I used to be a boy.
[00:48:42] I know what they're looking for.
[00:48:44] I ain't stupid.
[00:48:49] He said, Kent, there's one boy came to my house.
[00:48:50] That's an ugly boy.
[00:48:51] That boy was ugly.
[00:48:53] I said, he going to make ugly babies.
[00:48:55] I don't want no ugly babies.
[00:48:56] I don't want no ugly grandchildren.
[00:48:58] That boy going to make some ugly babies.
[00:49:00] Not saying he's not a nice guy, but he going to make ugly babies.
[00:49:04] Kelly, I didn't want him around Jody.
[00:49:05] He said, can I see Jody?
[00:49:06] I said, no.
[00:49:09] I said, son, you need to go somewhere else, you know.
[00:49:11] You don't fit in this family, you know.
[00:49:13] I said, you got a honk of this big honk.
[00:49:14] I said, I don't want to.
[00:49:17] Kathy, she couldn't believe it.
[00:49:18] Go away. So here comes Jody down the step. Daddy, was that for me? I said, no, that was not for you.
[00:49:25] You got to protect them. And I never forget, Kathy got so mad at me. Let me close with this. I don't want to hold you long. I want to pray and receive this offering. Jody comes up to me, Dad, I'm a
[00:49:44] senior in high school. I said, I know. Well, I want to stay out all night for the prom. Kathy goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no. That's not going to happen. I looked at her and I said, Jody,
[00:49:56] I put a lot in you. I trust you. You know that. Stay out all night. Kathy go, whoo. What? I said, don't listen to her. Stay out all night. Kathy looking, I mean, I could, I could feel the flames
[00:50:13] singeing my hair in the back. And I looked at her and I said, I got this. You trust your daughter?
[00:50:26] I said, let me tell you something, Jody. There ain't nothing to do after 12 o'clock.
[00:50:31] Nothing.
[00:50:32] Zero.
[00:50:33] But you want to stay out with your friends?
[00:50:37] And they had rented one of them, you know, like a limousine or something.
[00:50:42] They had about six or seven, all that kind of stuff.
[00:50:43] I said, enjoy yourself.
[00:50:46] Kathy said, I can't believe it.
[00:50:47] She's chewing on me for hours.
[00:50:51] It's five minutes to 12.
[00:50:56] I said, wash that door.
[00:51:01] Three minutes to 12.
[00:51:02] She said, you're going to stay out all night?
[00:51:04] I said, wash the door.
[00:51:07] We got grandfather clocks in the house back then.
[00:51:09] ding the door opens dad there ain't nothing to do after 12 o'clock I said I told you she said can we stay here and order some pizzas and stuff like that I said yeah come on in all y'all eat as
[00:51:24] much as you want to pay for it all lights stay on lights stay on and they with that the house till four o'clock in the morning man they're just enjoying themselves and I looked at Kathy and I
[00:51:36] and she said shut up and I said yes ma'am I am going to shut up I want to thank Daystar for carrying this service give Daystar a hand clap thank you Daystar what a blessing you are
[00:51:53] yeah I miss Joni and I miss Marcus they used to call me all the time over business stuff many years ago me and Marcus were good friends it was just such a blessing thank you all you that are watching
[00:52:06] y'all bless Daystar if you're watching. They're just wonderful people. They're so kind to carry this great Southwest Believers Convention. So when you understand where you're going, you're going to know what you do when you get there. Now, I could shout you down and make you scream and holler,
[00:52:24] but what you going to do when the shout's gone? Because it's going to go. It's going to happen.
[00:52:33] You know, and things happen in life nobody wants and nobody cares, but it just happens. You know, it's not easy. You know, you cannot offend me. I didn't say you couldn't hurt my feelings.
[00:52:47] I mean, I'm normal like anybody. You can hurt my feelings, but I'll never let it develop the offense. Why? I don't want to become you. Okay, let me go over here. Now, what's the difference
[00:53:02] between offense and hurt? Well, when you get your feelings hurt, you're like a child. Mama, kiss it, make it feel better. Mama, kiss it, make it feel better. When you get offended, it, you look for somebody to hurt. The church mafia kicks in. That's offense. I didn't say
[00:53:22] you couldn't hurt my feelings. Kathy has never offended me. And I don't think she's ever hurt my feelings to tell you the truth. She said, you just don't feel nothing half the time.
[00:53:33] That's true. I got to agree with that. I'm getting better as I get older. I really struggled with affection because I wasn't allowed any of that growing up. I've only kissed my mother once in
[00:53:45] my life when I was six years old. And my grandfather went, he said, we're men. We don't do that. Isn't that stupid? So I was raised that way, to suppress. I didn't tell Kathy I loved her
[00:54:01] until five years after I married her. She'd say, do you love me? She said, I love you. I said, me too. I don't want to talk about that. But now I got to watch myself. I mean, I find tears come
[00:54:16] in my eyes this 77 ain't fun sometimes I'm watching a movie and the thing touched my heart Nancy the movie I went you've been in my house at the theater and Kathy go you crying I said shut
[00:54:33] up woman I ain't crying I can't believe this what is going on and she says finally my love language which was I'd buy her something.
[00:54:52] I'd buy her a diamond, you know, a ring, whatever, you know, something.
[00:54:57] Oh, Jesse, thank you.
[00:54:58] She told me the other day, I want you to be bilingual.
[00:55:01] Keep the diamonds coming, but say you love me too.
[00:55:08] And say you love me too.
[00:55:10] Okay, I got it.
[00:55:12] I want to ask that you want lab grown or you want, you know, whatever.
[00:55:16] When you understand that the most important thing in life is your vision.
[00:55:27] Why has God placed you here?
[00:55:29] Why did he bring me to Kenneth Copeland Ministries?
[00:55:33] Who would have thought?
[00:55:35] To create fellowship.
[00:55:41] Kenneth needed me.
[00:55:43] I needed him.
[00:55:45] Jerry needed me.
[00:55:47] I needed him.
[00:55:48] You know, I'm the last of the original four.
[00:55:52] It's true.
[00:55:53] It started out with Brother Kenneth Copeland.
[00:55:55] Then Kenneth and Gloria.
[00:55:56] Then Kenneth, Gloria, and Jerry.
[00:55:58] Then Kenneth, Gloria, Jerry, me.
[00:55:59] And for years and years later, then Creflo Wood and everybody else came.
[00:56:05] It was such a blessing to flow and watch this ministry grow.
[00:56:12] But just because he's going to be 90 years old don't mean it's over.
[00:56:17] Because you know what?
[00:56:19] Look at me, all of y'all.
[00:56:24] Can you see the promised land?
[00:56:26] All we got to do is cross over the Jordan.
[00:56:30] Can you see it?
[00:56:31] How important it is?
[00:56:33] And you are a part of it.
[00:56:35] When he says he prays for you every day, I've seen him do it.
[00:56:38] That's a fact.
[00:56:39] He ain't just saying that.
[00:56:43] In just a minute, we're going to ask you to give.
[00:56:44] and I'm going to ask you to do big.
[00:56:48] Why?
[00:56:48] Because you need big stuff.
[00:56:51] How many of you want your homes paid off?
[00:56:54] Be honest.
[00:56:54] Oh, yeah, no.
[00:56:55] Well, name your seat.
[00:56:58] That ain't hard for God.
[00:57:02] How many want all your family saved?
[00:57:04] Ah, well, you got the promise of your family down to a thousand generations.
[00:57:08] That ain't hard.
[00:57:10] You don't try to make them get saved.
[00:57:13] You just let your light shine.
[00:57:17] We're going to ask you to give today.
[00:57:19] And I know you already have, but I want to tell you something.
[00:57:22] for me surely. This anointing of increase is on me, man. Get me on your side. I'm telling you, it is on me. I have to watch what I say because I just get it. People I don't even know. Just walk,
[00:57:40] and I'm not talking about little stuff. And I pay taxes on it. Just thought I'd tell everybody.
[00:57:47] And even the IRS, you know what they said about me? He never touches that money. It's not mine.
[00:57:53] It's yours. And you gave it to the work of the kingdom. So I'm going to ask you, brother, back there. He said, let's believe for $2 million over the budget. He knows I can believe for that.
[00:58:08] Why not? Have you ever gave $1,000? My God, no. Why don't you start? That's a lot of money. Sure is. But the hundredfold, you won't be able to count it all. Can I say that, Lord? Me and Kathy,
[00:58:27] now that we've learned to give, and you've got to be in the right soil. And if you're a person that likes cash, CDs, treasury bills, things of that stuff, you know, instead of stock options
[00:58:40] and whatever you got.
[00:58:43] They'll cover you for $750,000, every bank, FDIC.
[00:58:48] See, you get $250,000, then your wife gets $250,000, then a corporate account of $250,000, which is $750,000.
[00:58:55] After that, if the bank goes broke, you lose your money, right?
[00:58:59] Just the way it is.
[00:59:00] That's just the government.
[00:59:03] Why don't you believe God and use me?
[00:59:04] Me and Kathy had to get out of New Orleans so we could find some banks.
[00:59:12] Don't get mad at me.
[00:59:13] Hey, don't make no difference what you say.
[00:59:17] You hear what I'm saying?
[00:59:19] Because if you want to keep cash, you got to do some stuff so that if the bank goes down, you don't lose your money and all that kind of stuff.
[00:59:25] A T-bill, I think.
[00:59:26] Am I right?
[00:59:27] It'll cover up to about $25 million and then after that, you own your own.
[00:59:30] Am I wrong in that or right in that?
[00:59:33] T-bills, yeah, treasure bills.
[00:59:34] Yeah, yeah, I know a little bit about money and stuff like that.
[00:59:37] And it's just such a blessing.
[00:59:39] Oh, you can't have that.
[00:59:40] Oh, yes, you can.
[00:59:42] Listen, yes, you can.
[00:59:46] Somebody's got to have it.
[00:59:47] Why does it always have to be someone else?
[00:59:51] Why can't it be you?
[00:59:54] So we're going to ask you to give today.
[00:59:56] And I know something about Kennecott and the ministry because I'm on the board of the directors of Kennecott all these years.
[01:00:01] We see everything that happens in this ministry.
[01:00:07] Sometimes I wish they wouldn't show us because there's a long board meeting.
[01:00:12] But they won't.
[01:00:13] Am I right?
[01:00:13] But they want us to see everything.
[01:00:16] And we go over it and we discipline ourselves, blah, blah, blah, and all that kind of stuff and everything.
[01:00:23] And this ministry is worthy of your support.
[01:00:25] And the hundredfold anointing is on it.
[01:00:29] So I don't know if I can believe that.
[01:00:30] Well, I'm going to show you how strong I am.
[01:00:33] And most people would never say this.
[01:00:34] And I hope I don't make somebody mad here in case of him.
[01:00:36] If God tells you to give $1,000 tonight and you give $5,000, you just disobeyed God.
[01:00:44] Tear that $5,000 check up and give $1,000.
[01:00:47] that's what he said. Now, if God tells you to give 5,000 and you give a thousand, you just disobeyed God. Oh, yeah. Love makes obedience easy. Now, most people will never take it all you can. There's been times when I've said, and I am going to say this, ladies and
[01:01:05] gentlemen, and I think, and not too far of the distant future. I've been saying it for years and years. One day you're going to hear me say this, ladies and gentlemen, I got an emergency. And if
[01:01:15] but you don't respond today.
[01:01:16] I am in major trouble and I need help.
[01:01:20] Please don't give me no more money.
[01:01:22] I just got too much.
[01:01:23] It's just everywhere.
[01:01:24] I just don't know what to do with the stuff.
[01:01:25] Jesus, we got boxcars full of this.
[01:01:29] Only one preacher, Bill, ever said that.
[01:01:31] And that was Moses.
[01:01:33] Stop the people from giving.
[01:01:40] Well, you ever had a hundred million?
[01:01:43] Many times.
[01:01:45] Not bragging here.
[01:01:47] Don't get mad at me.
[01:01:47] I just kept sowing seed.
[01:01:49] and very, very near future, I think I'm going to get my first billion dollar donor.
[01:02:06] Keith.
[01:02:08] And the first thing I thought of, I'm going to cut a check for a hundred million dollars.
[01:02:14] That's tithe.
[01:02:16] But me and Kathy always give over.
[01:02:18] We'll do another hundred million.
[01:02:19] You still got 800 million you didn't have before.
[01:02:23] Why?
[01:02:23] I want to get out of here.
[01:02:25] When there's gospels preached to the world for a witness, and he said, you have to receive it.
[01:02:31] Bible said the end shall come I want to leave I am ready now I want to go in the rapture I don't believe in the rapture stay here Jesse going out on the first load y'all do what y'all
[01:02:46] want to do I mean you know what's the point you die I go to heaven what's the point you live I go to heaven so I'm going to ask you to do your best I believe many of you could do phenomenal
[01:03:01] stuff yeah the Lord said tell the people the money test is here You know, I gave away all my money twice in my life.
[01:03:16] First time was a ton of money.
[01:03:18] I was a rocker.
[01:03:20] Because I was raised Catholic, thought to be Savior, you had to be poor.
[01:03:24] So we gave it all away, me and Kathy.
[01:03:26] Four years later now, I got a regular job.
[01:03:28] Three years.
[01:03:28] Three years later, I got a regular job.
[01:03:30] I mortgaged a house and I financed a car.
[01:03:34] I walked outside and the Lord said, give me all your money.
[01:03:37] Oh, Jesus.
[01:03:39] The first thing I thought of was this.
[01:03:40] how I'm gonna pay this house note how I'm gonna pay this corner but I didn't say it because the Bible said take no thought saying so I walked into Kathy and I said Kathy the Lord just spoke to us
[01:03:57] to give all our money away again which means this going to Jody's piggy bank unscrewing a little take the quarters the nickels and everything and we did we felt good about it we had obeyed
[01:04:10] I walked out that house on the side there I got my Abraham moment in King James Version Jesse do plenty because thou has done this and not withheld for me all that you have I'm going to bless you
[01:04:26] beyond your wildest dream but in nine months I was debt free I don't know how I know I did some extra work I just don't know how it all happened and today I have to watch what I say
[01:04:48] because I get it my favorite I'm going to close with this my favorite offering my favorite part of a service is the offering not because of money it's what God told when I first gave him money he said you know who I am
[01:05:02] yeah you're God you know I require nothing I said yeah you know if anything you're there I just created I said yeah I know but why are you doing this I said because I love you I just want to be
[01:05:15] a blessing to you but you know I'm God I can do anything I said I know I just want to be a blessing to you it touches his heart his ability to love is far greater than yours his ability to hurt
[01:05:28] is far greater than yours. I said, I just want to be a blessing to you. That's it. When I go preaching to church, I make no demands. Why? Like I said, if I'm not going to make it,
[01:05:44] you come too late to tell me that. What's the point? You lost it all. What would you do? Start over. You can't take what's in here, but I'm not going to lose it all. Now people get mad when I
[01:05:58] say that. Why? My God. I don't know about your God, but my God supplies. And I like the other word, all.