good morning my friends I'm pastor Steven Brooks and welcome to day two Morning Glory our midweek Bible study I'm so happy that you're here why don't you grab your Bibles and meet me today in the book of Genesis chapter 26 and Before we jump into today's message let me share some some cool stuff I've just been informed by our staff that we now have our SoundCloud link up and running so if you go to soundcloud.com forward slash Steven Brooks int or just go to SoundCloud common or search for Steven Brooks and it will pull up our site there and there's lots of wonderful messages that you can download that will really really bless your soul and here are the top countries that have been viewing and downloading on SoundCloud good old USA number one followed by Canada number two and surprisingly number three is Ghana but we have a lot of people that watches in Ghana and they have found our ministry on SoundCloud and they're gobbling up the messages number four South Africa followed by Mexico Indonesia Australia Belgium UK number ten is Singapore then Germany Nigeria and Malaysia praise God so I just want to shout out a big hello to everybody that's visiting us at SoundCloud and there's a lot of good programs there that can really really strengthen your faith so those are available there of course also many of you watch me on YouTube and life stream and Vimeo and we also have things going on with periscope and so forth but the main messages we are so happy that we can bring them to you through these various social media platforms praise God you know I think it's quite interesting because so many pastors and other ministers right now they have been almost forced to do more on the internet but you know going back ten years ago it was very very rare to have an online church it was almost unheard of and when some sometimes people would ask me you know what's the main thrust of my ministry and I would tell them well it's the online church that sometimes people give me a funny look nobody's nobody's giving any funny looks today because in you know you can't meet publicly right now at least not over 10 people and so you know it's it's forced the church to come in to some things that by God's grace some of us we're walking in a decade ago and so we're you know very comfortable in it and anytime that you have a scriptural foundation for anything you're going to be comfortable and Jesus said where two or three gathered together in my name there I am in your midst praise the Lord so we've been having online church for years having communion together receiving tithes and offerings the ministry is touching lives around the world yes people are receiving Christ as their Lord and Savior and I'm so happy that you're part of this online Church now if you're not a member of the online Church it's very easy to join this go to the ministry website Steven Brooks org and you'll see the header called online church and you can go there read about the information and sign up it's just as easy as that woo praise the Lord amen now what we've done on our books is we have marked them down for 10 dollars each all the way up till April the 15th okay so some of you you have a little extra free time now perhaps you're working from home and perhaps you've been you know put on a temporary hold with your work and so you find yourself with some free time on your hands and you know what reading is one of the greatest things that you can do for your mind and we've marked the price down on all the books there are ten dollars each and this is up until the time of April 15th so we have the book the sacred anointing which was a little painful to write because I shared my personal testimony but you know it's helped a lot of people and this is the testimony of where God brought me from and the the poverty and all of the things I had to overcome through working the word and I found out that God's Word works it will help you get victory in any area where you would be suffering or experiencing defeat and a lot of people have laughed though at my testimony and because it is a crazy testimony it's one of those testimonies where you realize that a person's mind like I mentioned in the book is like a rubber band and you can stretch it to amazing limits but there's a point you stretch you stretch a person too far they that they can snap like I've seen people who've lost their minds and I went to a place where it did seem like I was about to snap and it was right at that lowest point that God came in and began to do a turn around and begin to do a dramatic rescue in my life and brought me out of literally a horrible pit now today and if you've noticed you followed my ministry for a wild you notice I preach I preach about God's plan good plan for your finances that he wants you to prosper he wants you to be in hell but you have to understand because of the experience that I went through of formerly living out of the cardboard box and all the hard poverty associated with that really which I shouldn't even used to where poverty would actually be the word penury PE nur why that is a word that we hardly ever hear anymore but it actually is a word that means extreme poverty extreme destitution now if you're watching from another country and you're thinking pastor Steven how could that happen to anybody living in America I'll just let you know there's a lot of homeless people in America and I found myself in a horrible position and so today I consider myself allergic to poverty well glory I don't like it I despise it I hate it it's satanic I know it's true origin now you can be one of these people that maybe is a Christian but they've been indoctrinated with a lot of wrong religious tradition and teaching and they they hold poverty in a romanticized view they actually look at it as be something wonderful but did you ever notice they don't want to they actually don't want to embrace it the thing is if you love property go ahead and dive into it just be as poor and broke and miserable as you want but nobody in their right mind actually wants to touch that although sometimes some people try to glamorize it and that like it's holy to be barefoot and be poor and broke but I've done that I've lived in it I've had I've had the worst taste of it and so I know it's really just a total lie so you could read my crazy testimony in my book called the sacred anointing and it's it's a crazy story it'll take you to the edge praise the Lord but you know you can see God restored me God blessed me healed me filled me and everything else praise the Lord now this book how to operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit Sid Roth said this is the ultimate guide concerning spiritual gifts for every believer and I go through all nine of them word of wisdom word of knowledge special faith working of miracles gifts of healings prophecy discerning of spirits tongues interpretation of tongues and I just opened them up because the more you understand it the easier it is to know what it is how it works and how most importantly you can merge into it and begin to have the gifts operate in your life I've had all nine gifts of the Holy Spirit flow through me how about this I've had times where all nine gifts of the Spirit have operated through me in one service whoo-hoo praise the Lord and that is true and my friends you can also operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit that book also is only ten dollars at this time standing on the shoulders of giants deals with the subject of mantels and the reason it's called standing on the shoulders of giants is because former Saints walked in unique special anointings and we can see where they went to with that grace with that anointing but when it's transferred to us we don't have to start all over again back at square one we can stand on the work stand on the anointing that they accomplished and go further by God's grace hallelujah we should know more we should have deeper revelation and understanding now they probably knew a lot there's no question about that and some of the old Saints really knew God in in phenomenal ways and they really paid a price for that but my friends most of those who had those close walks they either wrote books or books were written about them or they shared things that were recorded and quoted even if it was hundreds of years ago it was still recorded and written down so their secrets their revelations their understanding is available for us so we can take those things grab it learn it and then with that knowledge and with that wisdom go further than what they did praise God and I'm sure they would be encouraging from us from heaven say yes yes take it take it further whoo praise God take it further and that's exactly what we're going to do so if you like the stories in the Bible of people like Moses transferring the anointing to Joshua if you love the story the heavy classic story the great story of Elisha the prophet transferring his mantle to Elisha and now Elisha served him for at least 10 years we know that and Elisha did something special he got the double portion now I talked about how Mantle's are transferred and how you could receive a mantle and it's very important that you operate in more than one anointing I would say even more than one mental you'll have a primary anointing you'll have a primary Layne that you're supposed to drive in but you're gonna need some other other giftings for other areas and you see that with the coat of many colors that was given to Joseph all the different anointings so you have seven the seven spirits of the Lord one Holy Spirit but manifested through seven unique attributes so you be real strong in one but you'll still need access to touch the others whoo-hoo praise God it's really a fascinating subject the story of mentals standing on the shoulders of giants $10 and here's a book that will really take the lid off of what maybe could be blockages or obstacles that would try to impede you to get out into your inheritance and into the deeper walk with God it's called fasting and prayer and this refers to God's nuclear power okay fasting and prayer God's nuclear power and a three-day fast will do some things for you that you can't do when you don't fast and the attend a fast will do some things or three-day fast won't do and a 40-day fast will take you into some areas that a 10-day or 21-day fast will not accomplish but my friends I've talked with apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors from around the world I've been able to travel around the world and preach and I sit down and I talk with them and those that move into the unusual miracles those that have had dramatic experiences it's because they know the secret power that is available through fasting and prayer and they tie into that they tap into that and dramatic things come out of that praise the Lord so if you want some breakthroughs and really if you want to get into the strong flow of the anointing that's how you get there through fasting and prayer okay and that's available for 10 dollars you know I've I've heard good ministers say that it's really not necessary to you know really do much fasting and prayer and you know sometimes they'll say I've only the longest I've ever fasted my entire ministry is two days or something like that and they really actually put down the subject of fasting and prayer but you'll notice also those that really kind of belittle it they don't really move in miracles or if they do it's not much it's and it's certainly not much of the power memory mmm-hmm my friends that's God's gateway into the power it's through fasting and prayer now this book has gone all over the world and this book is called working with angels the first book that I ever had published and it talks a lot about the ministry of angels and it's got a lot of my stories now I've had a lot more stories since then a lot of experiences since then but this this will give you a whole bunch 200 pages to get filled up on of all kinds of good spiritual stuff praise God if you like angels this is the book that you need it's not dry have you ever ever read an angel book and you're disappointed because there's no angel stories it's just maybe like a theologian you know you know giving comments on scriptures and the books real dry and you're just like you know I could have read the Bible and oh man I'm trying to get something a little bit more here well this book will help you Scott plenty of the Word of God in here but it's unpacking the scriptures is unveiling the scriptures and also giving real life experiences praise the Lord working with angels $10 here at the ministry just go to our online store Steven Brooks org and you'll see these books for $10 manifesting the blessings of God we live in a day and age where in America even though half of the nation really is just not interested in God and just kind of wants to live for themselves and you know party and if the nation is destroyed who cares just let's just have fun and you know let's just make money and party and let the planet keep spinning lift let life go on we don't really care for those type of people they've in many ways they've already had some exposure to the gospel just because the gospel is so prevalent in America but they're they're like fish that aren't biting and I think one of the main reasons why is because when they look at the gospel being presented they just don't see it lining up they they were familiar with the Matthew Mark Luke and John they're familiar with the Ministry of Jesus and they're not they're not seen satisfactory proofs that what we proclaim is actually taking place in our life so a lot of times they just say you know I just don't know because you know you know it doesn't seem like it's working for you so manifesting the blessings of God will take you into a place where God's Word is actually working in your life and your life is a reflection of the glory of the Lord your you're going from victory to victory glory to glory strength the strength in God's blessing God's favor is on your life so people they want to see that they want that at times like this they want to see stability and if they see Christians weak and you know just running around it just as worried as the rest of the world is they'll just think where's the power but my friends when you're stable when you're full of faith when you're strong and when you have no fear you stand out with like a light in darkness so this book talks a lot about how to manifest the blessings how to get into them and it deals a lot with spiritual laws spiritual laws that God governs the universe with and as you tie into those rules those laws they'll start to lift for you just like the laws of aerodynamics it will begin to lift an airplane so all that metal gets up off the ground and actually moose of the air at over 500 miles an hour okay so when we work God's laws we begin to go up we begin to fly and then and then you have proofs praise God for those of you that would struggle in certain areas with with you know financial frustration lack or perhaps persistent sickness this book will really help you manifesting bringing forth the blessings of God I wrote that book to bring an end to perpetual window-shopping you know just looking through the window you wish you could go inside the store and shop but you can't you're always on the outside I wrote the book to end that so that you can go inside and receive all that the Lord has made available for you praise God my friends reading is very very good and you also want to build your own library okay you need books on the supernatural you need books on angels you need books on finances you need some books on how to have a good marriage you need to build your own library invest in your well-being praise God your mind will be very very happy and you read you read my books you're going to laugh a whole lot also because I put a lot of my silly stories in my books and a lot of the things that I learned sometimes through you don't making the wrong turn so I share those things with you okay to help you and to bless you praise God all right all of that's available on the website those books are $10 each up until April 15th praise God let's take our Bibles and go over to the book of Genesis chapter 26 and I want to talk today about April 20 20 month for miracles now we're just rolling into the month and this message of course is being released on the the 1st of April but even if you're watching it on the second or third or fourth or 10th day of this month just jump into this message and grab ahold of this anointing and watch what God will do for you Heavenly Father we asked it as we jump into your word today that your Holy Spirit would quicken the word that this would be a month of miracles that freedom and healing and deliverance and blessing and favor would flow that there would be a breakthrough this month Father we give you praise we believe you for it in Jesus name Amen now Genesis chapter 26 let's go to verse 1 there was a famine in the land besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham now famines can happen and when a famine happens you need to know your covenant because there is exemption for you in the covenant the economic cycle of the world things happen and you know whether it's pestilence whether it's the locusts going crazy right now in certain parts of Africa or you know the the flu the corona virus going throughout the earth you can have these things that hit the economic system the economic engine of your country or the world because now countries are just linked together economically in so many different ways you could have a manufacturing plant in America but all the parts are coming from Germany or coming from Taiwan or something like that so everything is just linked we're all you know there's there's trade going back and forth amongst the nations so you need to know how to respond in times of famine verse 2 then the Lord appeared to him and said do not go down to Egypt live in the land of which I shall tell you dwell in this land and I will be with you and bless you for to you and your descendants I give all these lands and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father and I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven God's really into multiplication God can do addition really well but I think he's a lot more excited about multiplication and we should be as well I will give to your descendants all these lands and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws so Isaac dwelt in Guerard ok so he stayed there despite that there's famine there but he received a word of wisdom from God don't go down to Egypt stay right here this is the place you're supposed to be and I will bless you here now verse 12 then Isaac sowed in that land what kind of land well a land with fat so if you were to look out over the land you would see that upon the land were the visible effects of famine there's nothing green anywhere it's all gone the earth this scorched and it's dry so it's very very difficult times then Isaac sowed in the land the land of famine and reaped in the same year a hundredfold and the Lord blessed him the man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous I want to talk a little bit today about the 100-fold return and why it has become a rarity in the church today and it's really quite simple there's two reasons why and the two reasons that I'm going to share with you explaining why it's not often that we see the 100-fold return these two reasons came out of a vision that a very good minister named John Evans Eenie he received a vision from the Lord years back actually decades back when he was ministering in Nigeria and he he was speaking in a conference a very large conference and he was just bombing out he wasn't doing good at all because he did not have a breakthrough anointing he didn't have an anointing that was strong enough to minister in a nation at that time that was really destitute financially so he's up there trying to teach and it's all intellectually good stuff but there was no anointing to get a breakthrough over to the people so he was just bombing out in the services so he was he was desperate went before the Lord and after a couple of dramatic failures you know that's something you know foreign minister to go into a meeting and you know and you realize you're in over your head in the sense that I'm not really prepared to minister on this level and I've tried to tell young ministers there are some countries that you Minister out you just can't go over there and give like a nice talk you actually have to go with a breakthrough anointing because they're desperate and they need miracles and when I endeavor to minister anywhere overseas I in ever to go in that type of anointing now honestly I tried to minister in that type of an anointing here in America as well too whenever I'm going to be in a meeting where I'm laying hands physically on people I go in with a strong anointing praise God and prepare myself for that but you can get in some other countries where needs are more desperate in the sense that perhaps there are no hospitals there are no options there are no banks you can't get you know you can't go out and just you know finance a car or or you know it's either God helps you you do a miracle or you know you could really be in some very dire situations so you have to have a breakthrough anointing and Jonathan zeny talked about when Jesus came to him that night at the hotel and released a breakthrough anointing upon him for financial miracles and Jesus explained to him that in order for anybody to receive the one hundredfold return there's two things they've got to get right and if you don't get these two things right you can give and you just don't see your harvest you don't see your harvest and there have been people in the church today who've who've looked at the scriptures such as the one that I read to you from Genesis 26 even the heavyweight scriptures of Jesus talking about it in mark chapter 10 also mentioned in Matthew of the one hundredfold return and even today ministers have looked at that and basically said we don't know what that's talking about because we just don't even see it anymore and some of these would be what I would call even spirit-filled type ministers and but I think the reason they're puzzled by it is because really they don't believe it you have to believe it first if it's in the word it's true even if we don't understand it it's still true so we have to fix something it's not like God needs to fix something because everything God does is perfect in every word that he speaks is perfect but we have to make sure that on our end we're meeting any conditions that would be in the mix and that's what we need to do and talk about today now number one the number one thing concerning the one hundredfold return which is what Isaac received just what many people often sadly don't receive I'm talking about God's people is number one they seldom give the exact amount that the Lord tells them to give you have to follow instructions the Lord told Isaac stay here if he would have said hey your Lord hey there's no famine out in Egypt you actually want me to stay here this doesn't make any logical sense lord I know you told me that but I'm leaving okay if you do stuff like that and you think you're smarter than God you know it's your own fault when these events begin to work into your life as a reaction to the choices that you made so anytime God gives the release of wisdom there will always be instructions involved and what what Isaac received was literally the gift of the word of wisdom remember 1st Corinthians chapter 12 verses 1 through 7 verses also going even into verse 8 and 9 it talks about the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit they had the gifts of the Holy Spirit back in the Old Testament they had seven out of the nine now in the New Testament we also now have tongues and the interpretation of tongues but outside of tongues and interpretation of tongues they had all of the other seven under the Old Testament including the word of wisdom which is what God gave to Isaac praise the Lord and when there's a word of wisdom there will be an instruction sometimes more than one there will be an instruction that's given and for him it was to stay in the land okay so now he's also going to so and I believe he's following the wisdom of God there too so well if I'm here I'm gonna make the best of my time and I'm going to so so when there's an anointing for a special offering and we are receiving a special offering for Passover Sunday May 12th and we're getting close to that K this is our resurrection seed this is the special seed that we're going to sow believing God for a hundredfold return for a miracle harvest here's the thing when you sow a special seed into the fertile soil with a special anointing number one you have to give the exact amount that the Lord tells you to give well Pastor Steven I'm just gonna give $10 that's all I want to do and that's all I feel like I should do and die that's just what I want to do well what did God say well I didn't even ask the Lord Pastor Steven I mean you know and so you know that's why that's why people today it's like it's like a rare thing for the 100-fold because when there is a special offering and there's an anointing on that offering and let me tell you this this Resurrection Passover Easter offering is for the completion of the ministry fence because the Holy Spirit told me finish the fence and by God's grace we're going to do it okay so your seed will go into that and the Lord's all over this project praise the Lord but my friends I want you to understand that when you sow a special seed into the SIRT the soil the fertile soil you have to do what God tells you to do that's very very important so Jonathan zeny said that Jesus explained to him that the reason why many do not receive the one hundredfold return is that they seldom give the exact amount I tell them to give whoo that's amazing that's amazing well Pastor Steven God told me to give 500 but I think I'm just gonna give twenty well you know if you give the twenty you're not going to get the hundredfold return why pastor Steven because God if he were to do that he would actually if he told you to give 500 and you gave twenty and then you give the twenty but you somehow think that God's gonna out release its very best return upon you he can't because if he did he would actually be honoring your disobedience praise the Lord this is very very important this is actually so important that if you're not going to do what the Lord showed you to do it would actually be better not to give because if you give in disobedience the Lord can't multiply that back to you this is very important when you give you must give the exact amount now watch this this is also just as important you must give the exact amount and to give the exact amount doesn't mean that you should give less right but it also means don't give more okay if the Lord said give a hundred you know that doesn't mean you have to give ten thousand but if the Lord did say give ten thousand it means don't give don't give a hundred twenty and expect to get the return multiplied back it won't work so you don't you don't need to give less you don't need to give more all you need to do is do exactly what he told you to do woohoo praise God and you would be shocked at how many won't do that why I don't know I I believe I'm speaking to many people many of God's people you're obedient you will do what God tells you to do but there are a lot I would have to say that there are just a lot of believers out there they're just they're not going to do it if 10 angels appeared before them and said this is the number alton angels agreed and said yes you're supposed to give this amount they still wouldn't do it and if Jesus appeared riding to them on up on a white horse with his crown on his head and you know what the whole what the whole package and said you're supposed to give this amount that they probably still wouldn't do it they're this crazy they met that may sound there are believers that are like that they're just gonna do their own thing regardless and you know what the Lord cannot multiply an offering that's given in disobedience he can't do it so Jesus told John and John Evans Eenie that they seldom give the exact amount I tell them to give pastor Steve and I just don't know about this hundredfold return you know I just don't even I just don't think ministers should preach that well I think we should preach it I think the problem is not with God or his word I think the problem is with God's people's disobedience mMmmm thank you Jesus okay so when you give a special seed into a special project and I'm I am my team we're praying over every seed that's coming in whether it's online or whether it's through the internet okay or whether it's been mailed in we receive it we look at it we pray over it we're agreeing with you for the 100 fold return that your seed will be multiplied back to you okay not that it'll just come back you know you get 20 you got 20 backward you came you know you gave 20 and he came back with 40 I'm talking about multiplied now the multiplication 30 60 hundredfold the 100 fold and Johnathan zeny teaches this and I've proved it out my own life and many ministers harmonize on this understanding the 100 fold basically is God's maximum return on the harvest that he has for you it's his very best given back into your life multiplied back into your life and it can come back in many many different ways it can come back in them in the most amazing ways but you have to understand 30 60 100 it's really like this it's good better best and I would really just point you straight to God's best okay you really want the hundredfold return and and when Jesus taught it in mark chapter 10 he actually just skips over the 30 and 60 in that teaching unlike Matthew's in that teaching he just goes straight to the hundredfold he just says you'll have 100 fold and he talked about that and I thought that's amazing really I would like for you to focus on that it's God's best for you it's the maximum return possible on your harvest okay so there's two things you need to really understand concerning experiencing the hundredfold return and seen April turn into a month for miracles for you I believe it I believe this month can be a month for miracles of you and I'm praying that it will be that for you and I want you to join with me in faith because this is something that Lord has put on my heart this is going to be a month for miracles and I believe that they're going to touch your life it's time for you to receive your miracle praise the Lord now let's continue on with number two again the number one reason why God's people don't experience the 100 fold return it's because Jesus said they seldom give me the exact amount I tell them to give Wow number two and this is what the Lord told John Evans Eenie in a vision he said they give without expecting anything specific back in return wow that's incredible this one totally knocks over what I would call sacred cows okay in other words cherished religious traditions that are unbiblical they are held to sincerely but it's a wrong teaching okay so one of those two reasons the second reason of why many people in the body of Christ do not receive the hundredfold return on their giving is because they give without expecting anything specific back in return Wow it's incredible today I looked at the weather forecast with Kelly this morning we realized it was going to start raining today around lunchtime and so what we did and I'm actually teaching this at night this is the this is March 31st I'm teaching this late at night I'm going to get ready to release this early for Wednesday morning on may excuse me April the first okay so earlier today we were checking the weather realized it was going to rain today and we had this one area out in the front of the church a large large green grass area a very very pretty area where the top part had been torn up because the county had put in some new sewer lines which is wonderful we're happy about that County's doing a great job with that and then they covered it back up it's a smooth out everything and then they did some seed and some straw but it never really came up the grass never really came up very good so we decided since it was going to be raining today and the temperatures were dropping let's recede that entire area the right way and let's get the straw out there the right way let's just do it the right way so we got one of our workers what our gardener and we went out there and just began to really do it do it right and we put a lot of really good seed down and we got everything done and then as soon as we finished guess what started to gently rain and it's been raining for hours out there so I know what's going to be growing out there in other words seed was planted what kind of see pastor Steven oh it's a mix of grass seed you know fescue and some of the other type of breeds it's grass that's does its seed that's designed to grow grass in the southern states and it works really well down here so it's going to it's going to grow the thing is is that when we sold that seed today which is always fun I always love sowing seed it's just a lot of fun that go out there and and so these season see it turned into a beautiful lawn but when I was sowing that I was just thinking about what I was going to be teaching and sharing with you because as I was sowing that seed I knew exactly the kind of seed I was sewing and I know exactly the kind of harvest that I'm expecting and I'm expecting here with within a few days I'm gonna start to see green blades coming up through the dirt and this seed is going to turn into a lush green carpet of grass that is going to be absolutely beautiful seed reproduces after its kind I sowed grass seed I'm not expecting that go out there later and fine cantaloupes growing out there if there are it just means somebody so some of those seeds out there and mixed it in but that's not the case we know it's nothing but grass see I'm not expecting to find a palm tree growing and I'm not expecting to find watermelons out there and I'm not expecting to find any kind of vegetable we sowed grass seed and grass seed is going to come up praise the Lord my friends you have to know that when you give your sowing and to give without expecting anything back in return it's just like throwing your seed out there throw in the way and just you know I'm sure it's a blessing yes it meets a need but you also have to understand God's concerned about your life God wants to get harvest into your life and so when you give you have to give expecting that you're going to get something specific back in return whoo praise the Lord so yes I saw that seed and I'm expecting that there will be a beautiful lawn while that pastor Stephen you should be humble in strategics expect nothing you should give you should sow your seed not expect anything no if I sold all that seed nothing happened I'm taking that I'm taking those bags of seed back to the home improvement store that I bought them from and I'm gonna say you're the seed something's wrong with it it's dead or you know it's been sitting on the shelf for too long it didn't produce no I I sowed all of that seed and I'm expecting all of those seeds to turn into grass praise God I have a right to expect a harvest any farmer does if you told the farmer who planted $100,000 of seed on his you know vast acreage to just plant all that seed and then just walk off and I expect anything he'd think you don't know anything about farming if we did we did stuff like that we'd all starve to death no he's expecting a harvest and that harvest is his blessing who praise the Lord look when you sow your seed you need to give your seed a target praise God you need to specify that seed so that when your harvest comes back you know it you could say that's my harvest praise the Lord in other words say Lord I am sowing this money I am sowing this financial seed and Lord I need a harvest in this area so this is the seed that I'm sowing okay if you want a harvest of a green lawn you saw grass seed but if you need something to come back into your life you saw a financial seed God I need a blessing in this area I'm believing for raise I would like to start my own blesses I'm believing to be debt-free I'm believing for money miracle mmm praise the Lord or whatever it is whatever it is that you need so that seen in faith for that specific need and that anticipate and expect a harvest that that thing is coming into your life absolutely praise the Lord hallelujah thank you Lord Jesus and that is why that is why many people have never verified the 100 fold return in their life why they didn't expect to harvest they just they just gave they gave which is good to give but when you give you should expect a harvest whoo praise the Lord and Jesus Jesus requires you and I to expect a harvest hmm he requires us to give the exact amount that he tells us to give and he requires us to expect a specific harvest back in return and I know that to do some to do that for some of you maybe you feel uncomfortable you may be well I'm just giving to get pastor Steve that seems like you're just giving to get something well I mean I mean do you go to work for 40 hours a week and not expect to get something who does that who goes out and works for 40 hours while I you and you tell your boss now I'm working 40 hours I don't expect you to give me anything he think we need to move this person on down the line this you know this employee is it's got a screw loose okay everybody that's going to work is expecting a paycheck at the appointed time whether it's once a week or you know once every two weeks or however it is you're expecting your paycheck absolutely but you're looking forward to it and you have a right to you have a right to why you've sold your labor you sold your work your time your energy your your your intellect your ability and you so do all of that and you're expecting a harvest of a paycheck praise the Lord but somehow we have bought a religious lie that says that when you give now you should never expect anything back that's unbiblical that's unbiblical praise God Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 now faith is the substance of things hoped for well Matt we shouldn't hope pastor Steve now if we're believing for it we shouldn't hope for it if you don't have hope if you don't have an anticipation you're not even in faith you are not even in faith faith is the substance of things hoped for what is hope it's an expectancy it's an expectancy that you're going to get your harvest who praise the Lord Jesus multiplying money back to you is a miracle don't forget that see April is a month of miracles it's time that the church got back to the fact that we believe in miracles stop all this normal living normal living it's nice but I mean there there are daily operations of life or you know you know you eat your food you take your shower put your clothes on and stuff like that you drive your car but we need to be believing God for miracles because we have a miracle working God Jesus multiplying money back to you is a miracle and miracles operate by faith not by look not by chance not by I'm hoping on motion no by faith praise the Lord just multiplying money back to you as a miracle and miracles operate by faith when you give without expecting anything back then you have not given in faith and so what we're doing today is we are positioning ourselves for for the month of April to be a month of miracles praise the Lord and we need to understand these biblical truths these spiritual laws when you give without expecting anything back then you have not given in faith again Hebrews 11:1 now faith is the substance of things hoped for of things that you have an expectancy for well pastor Stephen I don't have any expectancy but then you're not in faith that's what it says here in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 you're not in faith you need to be expecting a harvest let's go further you need to be expecting a specific harvest would you like to get out of debt if you have any debt in your life as a Christian you should want to be free from debt because if you have debt that means you're having to take a portion of your income and instead of you doing with it what you want to do with it you actually have to take it and you have to send it over here in order to in order to feed that that debt machine or that debt monster okay but if the debts gone you now have you now have full authority over your income to do with it what you want to do with it praise the Lord hallelujah when you don't have any debt Wow you don't have to keep sending all these streams of money out to feed the debt monster you have your income coming in and now you can do what you want to with it that makes sense and it would be an appropriation an application of the wisdom of God mmm-hmm thank you Lord Jesus so my friends what we need to do is focus on these two things number one we need to understand that so often God's people do not give the exact amount of what the Lord told them to give and because of that they do not see God multiply their seed back to them and number two giving without expecting anything specific back in return is a proof that you did not give in faith mmm praise God Wow Paul the Apostle said in the book of Romans he said that which is not of faith is sin Wow phenomenal to do something when you're not even in faith well I'm gonna give it oh okay I'm gonna give it but there's no faith well okay I'll go over here with you okay but you know just over you know whatever no faith just just no faith doing things with no faith you know we're gonna take a trip but uh well hope we'll make it back mmm I hope we don't die I hope we don't die on the journey well I heard that that uh that virus is out there I hope we all don't die just it says no faith statements like that those are sinful statements people trivialize doubt and unbelief they trivialize it is dangerous unbelief and doubt can kill you you need to be a person of faith what does a person of faith a person whose life is based on the Bible you believe what God says about you you choose to believe what God says about you and you hold to that despite opposing circumstances praise the Lord praise the Lord are you ready to see the one hundredfold return take place in your life or your see this multiplied back to you woo hallelujah praise God praise God it's going to come back in the way that you need it it's going to come back in the way that you need it and you need to talk with the Lord about how you need it be specific about what you're sowing praise the Lord praise the Lord well Pastor Steven I already sold my seat well if you've already but you've heard today's message and you realized that you gave and you just kind of you know you gave and maybe it was a wonderful offering but you never really even specified what you want at your harvest to be then you need to tell the Lord right now Lord by the way that seat I just sewed I'm believing that seed is gonna put a fence around my life from divine protection that no no virus is going to touch me or my family and we're not going to be laid off and we're going to keep on going we're going to be okay financially we're not going backwards we're going forward Lord I'm sowing this seed to come out of debt completely hallelujah you know give that seed an assignment give that seed in the same and be expecting the expecting a miracle return a miracle harvest to come into your life we have got to get back into a miracle mentality praise the Lord we've got to get Pentecost back into the church we've got to get the power of the Holy Spirit back into the church that involves miracles but God can do a miracle in your life and deliver you instead of taking three long years and wearing yourself out and trying to dig yourself out of a hole God can do a miracle and get you out and in 13 days and with God can do a miracle and he wants to but we have to honor the Lord and we have to follow these principles praise God these are timeless and these are straight from the Bible praise the Lord thank you Lord Jesus I want you to have a testimony like Isaac where he's so during a time of famine how crazy he's so during a time of famine what if you so during a time of global famine where we have this virus this corona virus and people pull back oh I can't so during coronavirus well Isaac did he's sort of right during the time of famine he sowed and that year reap one hundredfold one hundredfold God multiplied it back to him and he became very very prosperous very prosperous I want you to have a testimony like Isaac then Isaac's third in that land and raped in the same year one hundredfold and the Lord blessed him the man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous God wants you to become very prosperous he's very serious about that and we have to follow his instructions with great precision you follow those instructions with faith with faith we must remove the doubt the fear the uncertainty out of our lives and follow God's principles and they will produce even during famine watch this they will produce even during coronavirus whew praise the Lord God's Word is that strong the anointing is that strong but we have to do it right we have to do it the right way and when we do it we are going to see the one hundredfold return now I am going to be praying for you but great prayer retreat between now and up to Passover I'm really going to be praying for you that you sold the right seed and that you are expecting a great harvest a specific harvest mmm now I would also pray that any dormant seeds that you have sown in the ground over the past years that you just gave them you like maybe even gave a really good miracle offering seed and then after you sowed it kind of just turned around and kind of forgot about it I pray I am praying for you that all of those seeds come back to life that you give them an assignment that you speak over them the harvest that you're expecting and that those seeds and the see that you're sowing for the project that we have here of complete defense finish the fence pass over a resurrection seed I'm praying that all of your seeds just God touched them God touched them praise the Lord and you begin to have Isaac testimonies mmm thank you Jesus thank you Jesus hallelujah hallelujah praise the Lord father I just thank you that you're speaking to your people those that have not yet sowed a miracle Passover seed that you would speak to them right now the amount that they're supposed to sow and father those that sowed a Passover seed but they just sowed something to sow something but they didn't really catch the anointing that's on this project and they didn't maybe understand that they have to they have to give what you tell them to give in order for there to be a multiplication back to them one hundredfold I prayed that if any made a mistake on that that they would make that adjustment that they would make that adjustment and I believe that there are some of you that the Lord he would have you to give this but you gave that you gave something else just because he just gave something but the Lord wants you to do but he wants you to do and that's where the blessing is that praise God praise God and remember all you have to do there's no pressure all you have to do is just do what the Lord tells you to do that's it it's just that simple praise God hallelujah praise the Lord praise the Lord there's an anointing right now father I just pray over all the seeds that have been received the seeds that are coming in right now I just thank you for 100 fold multiplication I thank you Father God the resurrection power of Christ touching every seed thank you Father God that that person that's sowing that seed that's watching me that's listening to me those of you that have already sown your seeds those of you that are sowing right now those of you that are getting your seat prepared I speak to you prophetically and I say you will have an Isaac 100-fold testimony I believe the Bible I'm a little bit old-fashioned I still believe the Bible I still believe the 100 fold return who praise the Lord mm-hmm thank you Lord Jesus hallelujah hallelujah now I dare you to believe it I dare you to step out and do what God would say to do praise God praise got an expect a harvest well pastor Stephen I was always taught not to do that that's why you do not have a 100 fold testimony but we're correcting that right now and you're gonna be just like Isaac did you know to have your testimony and I believe these other seeds these other seeds are going to start to come to life and that the rain of heaven is going to touch them the Spirit of God who is that heavenly rain is going to touch them and they're gonna come to life also and harvest we're gonna be to start coming in and you're gonna be calling them all in expecting them all to come in mmm this is your miracle month praise God so father I speak blessing over your people this is the month of miracles we receive in the name of Jesus amen and amen hallelujah let's get ready to take Holy Communion communion today grab some unleavened bread and some grape juice if you're watching today's program and you don't know Christ as your Lord and Savior you're intrigued by these things of the kingdom of God and you're just you're just really liking Jesus but you don't yet know him as your Savior today you can you can make the greatest decision of your life by receiving him into your heart if you would like to do that pray this prayer after me pray it out loud pray it right now say Lord Jesus I'm a sinner come wash all of my sins away give me your new life Jesus I receive you now as my Lord and Savior thank you Jesus write my name in your book of life thank you Jesus I now belong to you you are my king my Lord and my God thank you Jesus those of you had that have prayed that Christ has washed all of your sins away he has given you his new life and you now belong to him whoo you know there's an anointing today it's the anointing of the righteous take it by faith and you also have to take it by a violent faith you have to really get serious with your faith you have to really hold on well pastor Steve and I'm just not sure about yeah then then many of the blessings will they'll just skip right past you you have to say now hold on this is in the word the word promises this I'm going to do what I need to do the line up with it and now because I've done that I meet the conditions now I take a hold of this and that's what you're doing today you are taking a hold of the one hundredfold return your seed multiplied back to you one hundredfold and the miracle that you so greatly need being manifested in your life praise God mmm I see Isaac written over you whoo praise the Lord father we thank you for the bread and the juice we consecrate it we set this apart as Holy we thank you that this is the body and the blood now of our Lord Jesus Christ father we received the body of Jesus we thank you that some of your promises father have eluded us because of our lack of knowledge or other times even our disobedience but we thank you that we have made those things right and we thank you Father God that your word is working in our lives it's producing and we believe you for the hundredfold thank you Father we received the body of Jesus now in his name we pray amen let's receive together thank you Father for the blood of Jesus father any past seeds that were sown into your kingdom for your kingdom purpose seeds that you want to resurrect father we just asked as we received the blood of Jesus that you bring those back to our memory and give us a vision for their harvest that we can speak over it and call it in we thank you father you do not want us to lose those harvest you don't want us to lose the harvest so father we thank you we thank you for your goodness to remind us of that harvest and you're going to bring them in also we give you all of the praise in Jesus name Amen let's receive the blood of Christ hallelujah whoo praise the Lord hallelujah amen now if you are mailing in at this specific time your resurrection seed you can mail it to Steven Brooks international peel box seven one seven Moravian falls North Carolina two eight six five four if you want to bring your special Passover resurrection seed in through the internet go to Steven Brooks org the link on the home page you can use that click that and it'll come right into God's house praise the Lord make sure that you mark your seed Passover seed resurrection seed you could even call it fence project seed but this is the seed this is the project that you're believing for the one hundred fold return on woo praise the Lord see we're not just doing a religion we're not just we're not just you know doing things just to do things we are doing things with Kingdom protocol we are operating in the kingdom praise God and accessing those blessings that the Lord has made available to us praise God thank you so much for your giving don't forget about the books that have been discounted to ten dollars a piece on the website and also drop by SoundCloud and go by our site and you'll see all of the teachings there that are available for download thank you for joining me today I'll see you back on the next program until then stay richly blessed bye-bye