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Providence in Prosperity: Waiting for the Paint to Dry

by Rev. Gina Johnson


So we are on our second week of Painting Prosperity, the Art of Abundance and we are going to have some storytelling today.

 

Imagine you are a skilled painter and maybe some of you already are a skilled painters and you have been tasked with painting, creating, designing a masterpiece and you have put on that final coat of paint or that final touch of paint and now all you have to do is wait. Just wait for the paint to dry. Wait for it to be perfectly dry and finished so you can reveal this masterpiece to the world.

 

But waiting can be challenging. Waiting can be very difficult if we let it be, especially when we let our mind run wild like what if it drips? What if someone comes in and touches it after all the time I put into it? What if it doesn't dry evenly? What if as many times as I thought it was exactly what I had hoped to paint, when I see it when it's dry, it's not? What if I made a mistake and someone comes in and says, nope, that's not what I wanted? Isn't it funny how when we wait, then we allow doubt to creep in and we start to question our skills, we start to question our materials, we start to question our very presence in that situation.

 

So now imagine if you're spending your time waiting for God's prosperity in your life. You've prayed, you've worked hard, you've trusted in his plans, you've really turned inward and you're seeking the kingdom. But my goodness, this wait feels endless. And then one of your close friends shows up, doubt.

 

And doubt starts to whisper in your ear, “Maybe God has forgotten you. Or maybe you're not worthy of the blessing you thought you were worthy of. Or maybe you're just not doing enough. Or maybe the timing is all off.” So now all I can do is wait.

 

 

Well, just like the paint, realizing our prosperity takes patience. And let me add this, because it's not God that we're waiting on. Our prosperity and our abundance is always in our hands. It's always right before us.

 

Put a pin in that. I have a great friend named Travis. I've known this man a long time and we've had a whole bunch of ups and downs. But if there's one thing he knows how to do is worry and wait and worry and wait. Recently he’s begun some spiritual practices like reading his Bible and praying. And the transformation that I have seen in him as he has started these practices, as he has started his trusting, the things that have fallen into his lap, the abundance that has started to come up all around him, it's just like the paint. He had to not allow doubt to come in and say those, “Oh, it's not going to dry properly. Oh, Travis, your timing is off. Oh, Travis, you're not deserving.”

 

But no, when you put your trust in God and you practice that discernment and you practice faith, remember a few posts back, that mustard seed size faith, when you practice your patience and you do those things in the waiting, your faith will grow, your character will develop, and your trust will deepen. And so like a skilled painter who just put on that final coat or that final touch, when we are tuning in to the Holy Spirit, when we are seeking to know the fullness of who we are, when we are wanting to fully hold the abundance that God has before us, sometimes it takes waiting.

 

It takes waiting on us, on us to realize that there is no limitation to what God can and will and does give us. There is no limitation to those that we can help and love, to those that we can strengthen and come alongside. There is no limitation to the fullness of who we are because we are created in God's image.

 

And if there is anything that God is, God is abundant, God is prosperous, God does not fall short, and God is limitless in the provisions that are provided. And so today I want to take you all along the story of Jacob. And as we go through the story of Jacob, I hope that you can see these moments where even in the promise and the knowing of prosperity, there is still the challenge of waiting and working on ourselves and realizing that anything we want in our life, if it's at arm’s length, it's because we keep it out there. And what do we need to do to bring it to us, which is actually where it already is? It's just realizing that we can just relax and let go and trust that it'll manifest outward.

 

I'm sure you all are familiar with Jacob and Esau. When Jacob and Esau are born, these are twins, and they are born to Isaac and Rebekah. As the twins come out, Jacob is grasping Esau's heel. And Jacob's name, oh so fitting, as you'll learn as we go through the story, is he is a deceiver. The name Jacob, it means the deceiver.

 

And so we start with the birth, and right there should be clear signs. You know, these babies are born, and the one baby is holding the other baby's heel. I just want to look in that moment at the mother and say, “Ah, these boys are going to be a handful.”

 

Then as we continue on, we know that Jacob and Esau have a little bit of strife between them. And then Jacob one day, his brother Esau comes in after working hard in the field, and he's really hungry. But Jacob has been plotting, I'm sure with a little bit of his mother's influence, and says, you know, before you get anything to eat, I want you to give me your birthright.

 

And Esau's like, “Dude, what good is a birthright if I starve to death? You can have it.” And Jacob's like, “No, no, no, no, no, you promise me that birthright.” So the promise is made, and the birthright belongs to Jacob, when truly it should belong to Esau, the firstborn.

 

Now we fast forward, and you know, Jacob's mother is a very, very sweet, influential mother, and she is the one to say to him, you know, your father's getting older, and he's going to have to give his blessing to your brother. But that blessing should be yours. She's telling Jacob, her son, that you know what? This is your right. And this is how we're going to pull this off. You are going to go to your father and seek that blessing. But before you do that, we are going to cover you in some goat hair. Because Esau, for those of you who don't remember, is a very hairy man. She says, when you go to your father and seek that blessing before he passes, in case he wants to touch you, you will be able to pull this off, because you are covered in goat hair, and he will think you're his other son, Esau.

 

And so the moment comes, and Jacob goes to see his father, and his father asks, you know, well, who is it? He's like, oh, it's me. It's Esau. And he's like, you know, I'm here to receive this blessing. And again, his father is questioning, like, oh, you know, is this really who it is? And he's like, come close so I can touch you. And as he touches Jacob, he says, okay, it's you, my son. And Esau's blessing is given to Jacob. So let's just pause for a moment.

 

Jacob, though his name means the deceiver, he's obviously mommy's favorite. What a blessing. He's already got this birthright. I'm sure he knows the history of his family, Abraham and Isaac, and this is going to be the family that is going to be fuller than all the stars in the sky and all the sand in the seas. And it's one of those opportunities where it's like, “Man, I am the third generation of the founding fathers of this great nation.” So Jacob is feeling fantastic.

 

Well, I wonder how Esau's feeling. Well, once Esau figures out what happens, and of course, their father, Isaac, he's upset about this whole thing, but there's nothing that can be done. The blessing has already been given to Jacob.

 

And it's in this time where that strife, that anger is so strong between these two brothers that Jacob knows it's time to move on. He's not only instructed by his mother, he's instructed by God that you need to go ahead and move on. But here's the thing, in all of that deceit, in all of that manipulation, this is what God says to Jacob:

 

There above it stood the Lord, and he said, I am the Lord, the God of your father, Abraham, and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south.

 

All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. And I will bring you back to this land.

 

I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised.

 

If that is not a blessing of prosperity, how many of us can say at a young age in our life, we clearly heard the Lord tell us, “Hey, I've got great plans for you. Don't you know who I am? I'm the God of your father, Abraham. I'm the God of Isaac. And I'm going to give you people. I'm going to give you land. I'm going to give you riches. I'm going to bless nations through you. And don't you worry, because I'm not going to quit until I do that.”

 

Maybe we heard that from our own parents in a special way, but wow. Talk about a blessing of prosperity. And so Jacob moves on.

 

And as he moves on, he gets sent by his mother to go live with his uncle Laban. And when he goes to live with his uncle Laban, I'm sure he's feeling great and confident, probably still a little shook up by his brother. But God's already told him, don't worry about any of that. I got you. I'm taking care of you. And he goes to live with his uncle.

 

And what happens? Well, you know what? Deceit runs in the family. Jacob meets Rachel, and he falls in love. And he's like, “Hey, hey, uncle, I want to marry her. What do I need to do?” And uncle's like, “Ah, no big deal. Just work for me for seven years.”

 

Well, he must have had it bad. Any of you gentlemen out there worked seven years to end up with your woman? He waited, boy. He went and worked those seven years. And here comes the wedding day. Here comes the bride. He's excited. This is his Rachel. The wedding takes place. And what happens? It's not Rachel. It's Leah.

 

And, you know, I feel bad. Let's have another side note. That story always makes it sound like Leah is like, you look at her, it's like, “Ah! What is that? Is that Leah?” You know, but I don't think it was like that. Okay, let's get rid of that. I really think it was more like, you know, he was in love with Rachel. Leah, I'm sure, was attractive in her own ways and a good cook, good at tending gardens or something. But the thing is, it wasn't who he wanted to marry.

 

So I'm sure Jacob in this moment is like, “Man, I'm supposed to be blessed. I'm the third in the line of greatness of Abraham, Isaac, and I'm Jacob. And here I am, hiding from my brother, being deceived by my uncle, and I married Leah. Dang it. What is going on here?” So he goes back to his uncle and he's like, “Hey, hey, that is not cool.”

 

And, you know, uncle's like, “Eh, no big deal, just work another seven years for me.” All right, so I got to ask you gentlemen again, how many of you waited 14 years for your lovely bride, that special woman in your life?

 

It's so fascinating because Jacob does. He gets to marry Rachel, the one he wanted, and she's not having children. And Leah is popping out children left and right. I know what that's like because I have six children. And, you know, she's having all these kids. And guess what? I'm sure, like, Jacob's thrilled. It's like, wow, I have kids, wow, I have kids.

 

But ultimately he's like, but those aren't Rachel's kids. Those are mine and Leah's kids. You know, and so then there's this sadness and it's like, and I'm so glad we don't practice this nowadays, but it's like, “Hey, since I can't give you children, have my handmaiden, she'll give you children.” And, you know, so Jacob's like, sure. And he's having more children with the different handmaidens, but ultimately he just wants to have a child with Rachel, his beloved, the one that he worked long and hard for.

 

And again, he had that blessing. You guys remember that blessing you just read a few minutes ago? Like, you're going to multiply. You're going to be blessed among nations. You're going to have it all. And God is saying, I promise this to you. But Jacob in his mind is thinking, man, something is still a little bit off here.

 

But then it happens. God promised Rachel that she would have a child, and she ends up having Joseph. And Joseph, as we all know, is the dream child, if we know his story. And Joseph is the apple of Jacob's eye.

 

Jacob decides, well, it is time to move on. But before that can happen, he needs to make sure to take care of himself. He has a conversation with God, and he knows that God is going to make sure that he has a bounty, that he is able to provide not only for his family, but for his servants, for his children, and for all those who he comes into contact with. And so what he does is he goes to Laban and he says, “Hey, you got all these goats. So all the goats that look perfect and pretty, like, those are yours. But the ones that have speckles or stripes, uncle, why don't you give those to me? You know, the ones that have blemishes on them, why don't you give them to me? I promise you, I will tend all the goats, and I will only take the ones that have blemishes, that have something that people might think are wrong just by the way they look.” And the uncle agrees to that.

 

But then what happens is Jacob's flocks just multiply more and more. So the herds just multiply over and over again. And Laban's sons are like, “Hey, dad, what kind of deal did you make there? Because ever since you and him made that deal, our goats, our herds are nowhere near the size of Jacob's herds.”

 

And so Jacob really knows that it's time to move on, and he knows he's not going to be able to leave Laban very easily. He plans an opportunity to sneak away, and in the process of sneaking away, one of his wives decides that she's going to steal these idols, and take them with. Eventually, Laban catches word that he ran away, and Laban goes to pursue Jacob.

 

And as he pursues Jacob, it becomes a, “Well, you stole from me? You left without saying anything? Those are my daughters that you took with you and my grandchildren that you took with you, so how are we going to work this out here?”

 

Again, Jacob is supposed to have this abundance, this inheritance, and everything happening along the way seems like one challenge after the next. I feel like these are those moments that hit us in life where we question, how can we hang on to God's promises? How can we hang on to this idea that we are abundant and limitless when all these challenges keep falling on us?

 

Recently, I had gone down to Warrensburg. I was planning to go anyways and come back on the next morning, and while I was waiting to go down on that Sunday evening, I get a phone call. My daughter’s car broke down a little bit outside of Sedalia. She pulled over, it started smoking, and it wouldn't start again. Well, praise God. She is fine. She was great. Her attitude on the phone was fantastic. I'm like, man, good for you, Isabella. She's like, “Mommy, I'm safe. I'm okay. I don't know if I'll be able to fix the car because I've already put so much into it, but it's all right. I'm not worried about it.” I'm like, that's my girl. Way to go. There are so many other ways she could have handled that.

 

So, I go down there, and things just go perfectly. It turns out the car is no good anymore, but she ends up meeting a great mechanic who works with her, gives her an amazing deal, and you know what? She's in not a brand new car, but a brand new used car, and it wasn't very expensive at all, and everything is taken care of.

 

So here comes Tuesday, and I'm like, hey. This is perfect. That's awesome. That's God's prosperity. We saw that situation. It could have went sour, but we just believed, and we stayed hopeful.

 

Well, on my way back to Maryville, my vehicle that's only about a month old starts overheating, and I'm thinking to myself, “You've got to be kidding me. Well, okay. You know, I'm just going to keep going. I'm going to pull over. I think it has to do with the cruise control. I'm not going to use the cruise control. I'm just going to go ahead and get home,” and then I look down. I'm like, “Wait a second. I'm not using the cruise control, and all these other times it was overheating, it was when I was using the cruise control,” so I'm like, “Dang it. I might actually have to do something about this,” and I'm debating. I'm only about 20 minutes outside of Warrensburg, and I'm like, do I go home? Do I turn around, because the car dealership I bought it from is right there? I'm not sure what to do. My best friend, Rory, calls me on the phone and is like, that car is barely a month old. You go and get it looked at, so I'm like, okay, you know. And I go, and I get it looked at, and it turns out, yes, it looks like you have some coolant leaks. They say, “We don't know when we'll get the parts in, but we'll get it taken care of. We don't know if it's covered by warranty, but we'll get that figured out.”

 

I'm having that Jacob sort of moment of like, “Wait a second. I'm abundant. I'm prosperous. I'm provided for. God is faithful. What is going on here?”  And I had a choice in that very moment. I had a choice where I could have reacted poorly, where I could have been upset, where I could have been angry, but instead, I said, no, no, all is well. Everything is continuing to work out.

 

Well, the story gets better, and so my best friend who is in Warrensburg is like, hey, you know, if your car is not fixed, I would give you mine, but my car is having problems and it's going in the shop. I'm like, okay, now that's three cars in a row that are all going in the shop right now, so you know, there's a funeral home there in Warrensburg, and the owner of the funeral home used to be in my congregation and he says to me, “You know what? If you need a vehicle, you can take that one out there. It runs great. My niece took it the other day.”

 

It's awesome, and so here we are. Now we are on Wednesday. I haven't made it back home. I'm still waiting to hear when the car is going to be fixed. Maybe the parts are going to get in. At least my daughter’s got a car, and so it's Wednesday, and I'm like, “Okay, do I take this car that Clark lent me and drive home, or do I wait?” And Rory says to me, he says, “You know what? Your car will be fixed tomorrow, and if it's not, my car will be fixed tomorrow, so you can take my car. Just stay one more night.”

 

So I check in with my son Ohmi, and I check in with Isabella, and I check in with my Office Manager, Virginia, and I'm getting all this feedback. “Just stay. You're fine. It's quiet here. We'll get through it.” So I wake up Thursday morning, and I'm with Isabella, and I'm driving back to Warrensburg, and I'm on the road, and the Lincoln starts overheating.

 

Yeah, exactly.

 

I'm just like, what? So this is the fourth car now in one week, and I'm just like, man, what is going on here? And I pull over. Thankfully, Rory comes and brings coolant and fills it up, and I'm on the phone with Virginia, and it's so funny, because she's laughing, and she's like, just so you know, I'm having car problems. I'm like, are you kidding me right now? And I didn't tell you guys, but in this time of waiting, I ran into a close friend of mine named Alyssa, and Alyssa says, oh, I'm having to use Gavin's car, because I'm having car problems, and I go to see Isabella, and her boyfriend's like, hey, I'm having car problems, but you know one thing that I was doing all week? I kept saying, you know, everyone close to me is having car problems.

 

Everyone who's so close to me is having car problems.

 

You listen to my words? Everyone close to me is having car problems, and just in that short amount of time, not to mention the week before, Travis had car problems. Everyone close to me was having car problems.

 

It's amazing what happens when we let ourselves get pulled into the situation, instead of focusing on our abundance, instead of focusing on all that we have coming to us.

 

Lo and behold, come Thursday, my car was fixed. I was able to get back home. The other car, I have no idea. Rory's car is good. Travis's car is good. Isabella's got her new car. It's all wonderful, but I was asked, what was the biggest lesson that you learned in this past week?

 

And you know, for me, it was that idea of every time a situation came my way, I could tune in to my abundance. I could tune in to my prosperity. I could tune in to the faith that I have, knowing that God will always provide, or I could choose the other. I could have stormed up in that car dealership and said, “Hey, WTF, I just bought this car like a month ago, and it's already having problems.” I could have looked at all sorts of things and just been upset, but you know what was beautiful? In all of that time, though I didn't have a vehicle, you know what I had? I had people that I knew I could call on.

 

I knew that even people in my current congregation, if I would have called them and said, “Hey, I need help,” they would have been there for me. I know that I had people not only in Warrensburg, but in Sedalia and Lee Summit and Kansas City that I could have called on. I knew that I had cars being offered to me left and right.

 

Maybe they broke down, but the point is, I was taken care of, and that was because my God is abundant, and I am abundant. And so when we look back at Jacob's life, and we see that these different things are taking place, it's so easy to get lost in the situation. It's so easy to look at what's going on in our personal lives, whether it's financial, whether it's relationship, whether it's illness, whether it's job-related, and to get sunk into those thoughts, “Man, I'm never going to get it. This is always how it's going to go. Life is always going to be a struggle.”

 

And when we start to say that, what do we have popping up around us? You know, there's that phrase, and I've shared it with you guys before, when all you look for is God, all you will see is God. When all you look for is your abundance, all you will see is your abundance.

 

But when all you look for is struggle and challenge, waiting for the other shoe to drop, well, don't be surprised when that happens. I think one of the things that Jacob had going for him in the midst of all this is he knew the promise that God left him. He knew that God would always be there for him, and God said, “I am not going to quit until you have what I have promised.”

 

And he reminds Jacob that that is within you. Eventually, Jacob does get out from under Laban. They end up building an altar to symbolize their covenant, and Laban says, “Hey, you don't come give me any trouble, I'm not going to give you any trouble.”

 

And this changes Jacob. Remember in the beginning, I said as you're waiting, your character grows, your faith deepens. And you know what Jacob decides to do? He decides to seek out his brother Esau, and he's scared.

 

He's scared as he seeks out his brother Esau because he hears stories that Esau is sending 400 men to meet him. And Jacob's like, “Dang, I took his birthright, I took his blessing, he probably wants to kill me.”

 

So Jacob is amazing. You know what he does? He decides I'm going to send him flocks, I'm going to send him herds, and he lines it up so he puts all his family before him, and he is in the back. And as he's on his way to meet his brother, he sends his family before him, and he stays behind, and he ends up in an encounter of wrestling with God.

 

How many times have you been in your life waiting, waiting for that moment of recognition of all that you have, waiting for the situation to be resolved, waiting to be able to truly hold and embody the abundance that you have and the abundance that you are, and all of a sudden there's that moment of pause.

 

And so while Jacob was there waiting to go encounter his brother, he has an encounter with God, and he and God wrestle all through the night. And you know what Jacob refuses to do? He refuses to let go.

 

As I was there in that past week, it was like, you know what? I refuse to let go of knowing that everything is going to work out perfectly. God is going to work out everything for the good of those who love him. I refuse to let go of Jeremiah 29, where he says, you know what? I didn't come here to harm you. I came here to bless you.

 

So it's amazing. As Jacob holds on and holds on, God finally comes in and touches his hip, and Jacob's down. And it's that recognition of, look at you. You are powerful, and you are strong, and you held on, and for that you are blessed. But I am still God. So down you go. Humble yourself before me.

 

And Jacob goes on, and he meets his brother, and his brother brings him this great unexpected forgiveness, and all is going well with Jacob. All is beautiful. Jacob thought his brother was going to try to kill him, and instead his brother hugs him and kisses him. And he's like, what's going on with all these animals? And Jacob's like, they're for you. They're for you. I want you to accept them. He calls his brother, my Lord. He's like, they're for you, my Lord. And his brother's like, hey, man, I'm doing awesome. I got wives. I've got children. I've got my own goats. I don't need any of that. And Jacob is just beside himself. He's like, no, if I have found any favor in your eyes, have them.

 

So look at that. Look at that. Through all of those challenges, Jacob was still abundant. He was abundant in his family, abundant with his herds, abundant in his brother's love. It's perfect. And that's where it ends, right?

 

Absolutely not. Because then one of his daughters ends up being raped, and a couple of his sons decide that the way we are going to make this all better is to be deceitful and is to trick the people, the armies of those who belong to the gentleman that raped their sister. And so they do. And there is Jacob again. He says to his sons, why would you guys do this to me? Everything has been going great. And now people are going to think that I am overreacting. They're going to think that I am going beyond my means. So once again, Jacob is in that place.

 

This is like when I drove the loner car and then it overheated. It's that moment of how much more can I take? But you know what? It's in that moment after that's all taken care of that God comes to him again. And this is what he says. He says,

 

I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I also give to you.

 

And I will give this land to your descendants after you. Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him. 

 

So again, in the midst of all the trials and all the struggles, God shows up and reminds Jacob of his promise.

 

I'm not going to go any further with the story of Jacob. I just want to let you know, even in that moment where all seems well, you can now return to your father's land, there are challenges.

 

He's born a second son by his beloved Rachel, but she dies in the process of giving birth. And we know what happens later in life. His chosen cream of the crop son gets almost murdered, sold into slavery. There's a famine in Egypt. Jacob just can't win.

 

Or can he? Because the truth is from that very beginning, when God smiled upon him with favor, when God said to him, “I am going to give this to you. Know who I am and know who you are, and you will be in abundance, and I will make sure you receive it.”

 

Can you all hear that message for just a moment? Can you all for just a moment recognize that even in your challenges and struggle, God's sovereignty is there, that you can always trust in God, even when things seem chaotic, even when seats seem empty, even when budgets seem low, even when relationships seem disconnected, we can trust in God's sovereignty in those times. We can trust in God that he will give us guidance when we are in the wilderness. As Jacob was experiencing all of these different things, who continued to show up? God continued to show up.

 

Tell me a time in your life that God was not there. And if you can tell me that time, then I'm going to wonder what you put in front of you that you could not see him. How many times did you put your fingers in your ears that you could not hear him? What kind of barriers did you place that God was not able to get through to you? And remember that when you are wrestling, when you are moving through these times, God is there.

 

God is there to not only speak to you, to not only guide you, but to remind you of your true identity. And that's exactly what he did. When he worked with Jacob through all that time, he changed his name to Israel, which is one who wrestles with God, God perseveres.

 

Are we not Israel? Are we not the ones who have had to wrestle through life, wrestling with the spirit, wrestling with the directions we're given, but ultimately recognizing our new identity?

 

God perseveres, so we persevere. It's so important that you do the things that bring you into that relationship with God, of always knowing you have that abundance. Whether it's prayer, whether it's letting go of control, whether it's spending time in community, in the word, whether it's studying, whether it's seeking wise counsel, whether it's just taking time to isolate, to be yourself and turn inward and practice gratitude for all that God has given you, those times to turn inward and see who you really are.

 

You're not defined by how much cattle you have, or how many wives, or how many children you have. You're not defined by whether or not your brother likes you this week. You're not defined by whether or not you got exactly what you thought you deserved to get. You're defined by the inner truth, which is you are the I Am. You are abundant. You are the empowerment of Christ Jesus.

 

And so as I bring this all to a close today, I just want to take you back to that initial story when we were talking about waiting for the paint to dry and just wondering what's going to happen? What's going to happen? Is it going to drip? Is it going to dry even? Well, you know, we can spend our time in that place. We can sit on our hands, twiddle our thumbs, furrow our brow, and just get really worked up in the struggle, in the darkness, in the places where we're unsure.

 

Or we can trust. We can trust that we've done our part. That we are going to continue to seek, that we are going to continue to be transformed, that we are going to continue to illuminate God's truth. And through that, our abundance will come to fruition.

 

Because it's already there. It's already in you. I don't know where in your life you're waiting for paint to dry, but I want you all to stop and look back at that masterpiece and admire it. And even though you're not sure how it's going to turn out, trust that you are the artist. And that brush that you have in your hand is that brush of the Spirit.

 

As you continue to see this masterpiece come to fruition, you can recognize that abundance. You can recognize the truth of who you are. That limitless prosperity that you have, not only for yourself, but for everyone you encounter.

 

I'm telling you, Israel, you are abundant. Let's live that way. Let's practice that way. Let's be abundant.

 

Please pray with me. Our most gracious and loving God, we come before you in stillness. Let this be a time where we recognize that all is happening perfectly. That there is no separation between us and you, God. And so it's in that place. It's in that place of wholeness. It's in that place of recognizing that we are one. That we can feel the abundance of who we are.

 

These are those moments where we, God, can see that there are great things on the horizon for us. So help us to be faithful. Help us to stand strong. Help us to release the stories and grab the truth that there is nothing that can stop the provision, the abundance of our God. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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