good morning my friends i'm pastor
stephen brooks
welcome today to our online internet
around the world
church service i'm so happy that you're
here and i believe that god's word
is able to build you up to empower you
to do
what he has called you to do and very
importantly to be
the person that he has called you
to be today we're going to be in
proverbs chapter 11.
we want to look at verse 24 and verse 25
we're going to receive the holy tithes
and offerings
we're going to bring them into the
storehouse of god praise the lord
and god has a tremendous plan to bless
you financially
praise the lord proverbs 11
verse 24 there is one who
scatters yet increases more
and there is one who withholds more than
is right
but it leads to poverty verse 25
the generous soul will be made
rich and he who waters will also
be watered himself
my friends it is the generous
liberal soul that will be made rich
that will be made fat praise god
not so much the receiving soul now i
i love receiving and there is an element
of where we
have to receive in order to have
seed to sow but my friends it's not the
receiving
that makes you it's the giving praise
the lord
giving is what makes you and i think
there is a place in your life
where you begin to understand the joy
of giving and giving is
living praise the lord as a matter of
fact if you're
tight fisted and you make those american
dollars
scream because you grip them so tight
praise the lord
you're not really living and you need to
discover my friends the joy
of giving now i believe that the tithe
which is 10 is the very lowest
level that we as christians should
be giving at and
we should not tithe out of some type of
obligation in the sense we better do it
or god could
strike us with a thunderbolt no
the lord's commandments are not
burdensome
praise god all of the commandments are
god of god they are for our liberation
they are for our lifting up hallelujah
so we should rejoice in in them
including the lord's instructions and
commandments to tithe
but we should do so with a joyful
heart second corinthians chapter 9 verse
7
it says so let each one give as he
purposes in his heart not grudgingly or
of necessity or
you know with a compulsion or something
like that where you you feel that you
have to do it even if you don't
want to but we should give in this
manner we're directed by god for god
loves a cheerful
giver and in the greek it actually says
a
happy hilarious quick to do it
giver that's amazing praise the lord so
giving
should be done joyfully and as you do
that
you begin to go into this realm where
living
or excuse me giving is living it really
brings so much joy to your life
you know my wife and i we noticed
when we were looking at the website of
our uh
the school right which is our neighbor
right across from us
that they had some needs and that there
were some things that the teachers were
needing one of those things was a
laptop and i'm glad that they didn't
want to
how can i say a cheap laptop they wanted
a really good one
for the intent that they had uh that
they were wanting to use it for and they
had priced out of really
nice laptop and you know what my wife
and i we saw those needs
those particular needs and we just wrote
them a check
and paid for the whole thing and you
know what they they appreciate things
like that and it
i shared these examples because
the lord wants you to come into a
lifestyle well where you actually get
more excited about giving
than you do receiving now we're always
going to love receiving
but you'll also notice the childlike
element of receiving because children
get very excited during christmas
and because of their young age
there's a natural tendency of
selfishness so they don't get excited
about giving
but when you grow in the lord you become
to get very excited
about giving and it was just it's just
nice that my wife and i could do that
could just write a check
bless the school bless the students and
pay it off
with just one check and
let me say this you do not have to be
a multi-millionaire to get into this
well pastor stephen i'm not walking
around with deep pockets you know it's
not like i've got
you know thousands and or you know
millions of extra dollars
that's that's not what the lord is
looking for he's looking for your heart
to be open to him for not only
to honor him with what he has asked for
which is the tithe and
you know when there's special
opportunity to sow seed for ministry
projects but
this this just becomes a lifestyle this
becomes a lifestyle
god you've got my tithe but that's it
well
you know god's not poor he's not broke
he's not like well
that's all they're giving but we're
gonna have to lay some angels off over
here who's who's waiting
how many angels want to go into
retirement i can't afford to keep you on
staff anymore
no this is this is all for our benefit
praise the lord
and as you live this you'll see
opportunities now there's opportunities
everywhere but
you have to look for the ones that the
holy spirit lines up and that would
touch your heart
and it could be something just as simple
as going through the starbucks line
and when you get up to the drive-through
line
you say i want to get the person behind
me that's so fun to do
oh but if i do that leave they'll never
know who did it yeah
exactly and preferably that would be the
the way that we can do it most of the
time now sometimes you people will know
of them there's a check they're going to
see the name on the check or something
like that
but you know uh i was going through this
starbucks line
uh sometime back and uh there was an
old broken down car uh that was somehow
still driving behind me
the lady in the car was smoking a
cigarette she looked like she had had a
really
bad day honestly she looked like she had
a really bad life it probably took
her it probably took everything she had
to have the little extra
to go through the starbucks
drive-through and i can see her in my
rear-view mirror looking up i see her
and i said oh lord bless that bless that
lady she probably doesn't know you
and even if she does know you she she
hasn't had
uh the revealing of your ways and so
she's obviously hurting
so i get i get to the you know to the
window before she does because i'm in
front of her and i pay for mine i say
you know get the person
uh back behind me okay and you know they
tell you how much it is you just knock
it out
i mean what's five dollars you don't
have to be a multi-millionaire to do
that it's just five dollars
but so you can pray for somebody like
that and it touches them
you you doing these acts of giving
may be in that person's life the only
time they'll ever
experience something like that
praise god and you just you just
live a life like that where you're led
by the holy spirit you don't plan it out
just
so often it just happens spontaneously
and at your level
where you're at financially where
wherever that's at and you could be way
beyond me
or we could have a same financial level
or you could be somebody that hey pastor
steven i'm
i'm i'm on minimum wage you understand i
can't do i
i understand that but wherever you're at
you can exercise
giving oh yes receiving's fun but giving
is where the joy is that jesus said it's
more blessed to give
than it is to receive so i tell
i tell these little stories just to
inspire you not to show off by any means
or anything like that because
if i could in a sense i'd just keep it
all hidden but i need to let you know
also
that as your pastor that it's very
important that we
operate in a giving lifestyle you know i
walked into
my barber the other day and
uh understand the context this is a
small
country town area this is not the city
okay we're
we're in an hour and a half for
charlotte three hours from raleigh so
this is the rural area
of north carolina so i walk in there to
uh
get my hair cut and um there's one guy
in front of me he's up there getting his
hair cut
i know the barber and so you know
there's there's just kind of small
talk there's only a couple of men there
we're just talking and
having fun stuff like that um everybody
you know kind of every everybody that
goes there loves jesus
and everybody has a gun you know
concealed carry but it's just it's just
the culture you know so you sit down and
you're
i just kind of like making small talk
with some of the fellows and i see a box
that's sitting uh in front of all the
chairs
kind of set back but it's a box anybody
can see it you you can't
help but notice it and i'm looking at
the box brand new never been open
it looked like the box that you would
put like a large screen tv in
and uh on the front of it it said
mongoose
and i said so i said to my barber i said
hey uh
what's in the box oh he said uh stephen
that's
uh that's one of those scooters for kids
and i looked at the side of the box oh
then there's a
there's an image there's a picture of
the scooter and he said you know
he said i ordered two of those things
online
i ordered two of them and they sent me
four of them
so i he said i had i had to call the
company and say hey you sent me four
so then he said i had to pay for the
other two so i paid for four
i don't even need to so i'm selling
these two
and uh he said they're the best scooter
you can get
and uh but you know yeah i'm in my 50s i
don't need a scooter i'm just curious
what's in the box he's not trying to
sell it to me but it is
for sale uh for 150
whoever wants a scooter so i'm sitting
there
and uh just hanging out and i next
in the chair now it's my time to get
into the barber's chair and
get my hair cut and i'm just talking
with my barber we're having a nice
little talk
and something happened there that's
never happened before
a mother came in with four young
children now i've been to the barber
over and over and over and over
and this where all the police officers
all the law men go
it's uh it's where the guys go so to
speak i have never once
seen a mother i've never seen a lady
walk in besides my wife who
often go with me i've never once seen a
mother walk in much less with kids
but a mother walks in with four
young children uh three little girls
and one boy ranging in ages from six
probably maybe up to twelve and
the boy was probably about eight well
i'm sitting in the chair and uh
you know they just take their seats and
remember this is country
uh a lot of good country folk they gotta
squeeze the dollar to get
through the week and to get through the
month and just uh
just to be able to keep on going and
i was getting my hair cut and suddenly
that little boy
saw that box and saw the side of it with
the picture of the mongoose scooter
and he said is that what i think it is
and and the you know the barber who's
the owner of the store
you know the barbershop he said yep he
said that's a mongoose
and the boy looked at that and he said
how much is it and when he was
told the price he's just like i mean you
might as well set a million dollars
that family can't afford something like
that
the the kids are because there's some
suckers sitting out in a little
basket you know get a sucker a piece of
candy the kids are they're so enraptured
to get a piece of candy
i don't know maybe the candy was the
high water mark for the whole week i
don't know
get a piece of candy never seen kids so
excited about candy they love the candy
why because you know when you don't have
a lot of money
the sweet things in life that you get
like that and i grew up poor i
know what it's like well familiar well
versed
with those past memories of my life i'm
growing up in the backwoods of
mississippi
and we were poor hallelujah praise god
but the lord he altered my life through
the strength of his word
now i'm in a position to be a blessing
so i'm sitting there in that chair
and i saw the countenance drop on that
young boy when he
realized the price was out of the
question and his mother could never
afford that and so
he drifts back to whatever he was doing
in the corner playing with a sucker or
lollipop or
something like that my and so my haircut
gets finished
and uh i turned my back
to you know those seated out there and i
told my barber
i said here's your here's the money for
my haircut and i just peeled off some
20s boom
boom boom boom boom 160 so give me 10
back
i said here's the full amount you want
for that scooter and i told him quite i
said give it to the
give it to the little boy when i leave
give me a minute to get out of here
he said oh are you sure
are you sure i said yeah i'm sure
i gave him a good tip and gave him
exactly what he wanted for it no
wrangling no arguing will you take seven
and four no none of that here's the full
amount boom
give it to the boy when i leave
praise the lord the men were already
talking about whose truck is that out
there
well have you ever seen a truck like
look at the color of that truck whose
truck is that
that's mine see see you just walk in the
level of blessing that you're at
but i gave him that money they never
they never knew what was happening
they're all eating suckers or watching
the tv
and i'm out of there got a good got a
good haircut i can only imagine
the pandemonium that broke out about one
minute after i got out of that place
when that little boy realized
what had happened when the barber broke
it to him pastor stephen you should have
stayed no i don't need to stain watch
that's
that's between me and the lord but i'll
find out about all that stuff
all these little things you can do
throughout your life one day you'll find
it out
the reward that god has for you it's a
lifestyle
praise god you you you live to give
praise god and let me just say this
i maybe didn't buy a brand new rolls
royce for somebody and give them a
300 000 car but to that little boy
there's no difference that to him was
like
oh the ultimate
he wanted that thing so bad praise god
amen
but my friends you need to just have a
heart
for the lord where when you have those
spontaneous moments
you're able to do you're able to do what
you can do praise god
amen hallelujah and it is so much
enjoyment your prosperity
is not in someone else's pocket
you control your own financial destiny
based upon what you choose to do with
the money
that's in your pocket
i'm waiting to receive i'm waiting to
receive that's good but keep the giving
going keep the giving lifestyle going
i could tell you stories of many such
things that my wife and i do
just out of a love to give
but many of those things we course just
like yourself you would want to keep
them concealed
but i only share a few just to inspire
you
kelly and i and our grown children we
take care of
care of kelly's mother and uh
she's kept in the finest nursing home
and uh kelly has uh other you know
relatives that
you know it's easy to say how much you
love somebody but if you're not willing
to put out some money
uh that's then there's the love's not
running very
deep it is impossible to love without
giving
praise the lord so we take good care of
her why we love her
and so we do what we can do to make sure
that her life is very comfortable
she gets uh good care good food
wonderful treatment plus we visit her
often praise god
so you know we just do that so often
your prosperity
doesn't just ride on one thing it rides
on an overall platform of having a
giving heart
of just having a giving heart well god
you got the tithe
and i i did my obligation so
that's nice but you're not really
creating channels for the blessing to
flow through
that establishes the giving covenant but
for
it to now flow that requires more of
what we would call a giving lifestyle
that creates
the channel that blessing could actually
flow through to
you praise the lord hallelujah now
for those of you that prefer to give and
honor the lord with the tithe by
mailing it in please send it to stephen
brooks international
p.o box 717 moravian falls
north carolina or zip code 28654
for those of you that prefer to bring
the tithes and offerings in
online because you love to give woo
glory to god hallelujah and i know your
heart
some of you get so excited about your
tithe and you should hallelujah you're
connected
with the platform of the covenant that
no
circumstances in the earth can prevail
against you'll be fine
praise the lord you also love to give
if so through on the online portal
please go to
stevenbrooks.org there's a link on the
homepage that says
give it's a red heart you can click it
and bring the ties and offerings in from
anywhere
in the world we also have special
projects
the project that we're focusing on uh
with the highest priority right now is
to redo
the parking lot surface with brand new
asphalt it's forty thousand dollar
project
we're on the way but we're not there yet
so your gifts towards that
would be appreciated praise god let me
pray for you
father we thank you that jesus did say
it's more blessed
to give than to receive so let us know
the joy of living to give
and father we thank you that we don't
have to maybe
buy somebody a brand new home or
something like that because
there's there's many that are not on
that level to do something like that but
we thank you father
that you're going to cause opportunities
to come up
that fit that fit the
level of where your people are at and
they'll be able to respond
just literally reach into their pocket
and respond right on the spot
and it will be a blessing and we thank
you father that only eternity in heaven
will reveal the
the rewards that you you give for such a
heart and we thank you father we don't
do it in a sense because we're looking
for reward we just do it for the
for love and for joy because we like to
do it
because we have your nature but father
we thank you
that you do see it and uh you certainly
uh you certainly know how to take care
of us and bless your people so father
bless them
with seed to sow always may they always
have
seed to sow thank you father not only
for the ministry of course but father
also the things that just pop up in
their own individual lives around them
in their ecosystem of life of their
world that they live in
and we thank you father god we thank you
and we bless you in jesus name
we agree and say amen whoo
praise the lord glory to god now
today let's take our bibles
and we're going to go to the book of
ecclesiastes chapter 10.
so let's go back to the new excuse me
the old covenant
and we're going to go to the book of
ecclesiastes
chapter 10. today we're going to talk
about an interesting subject that i've
titled creating
your throne praise god creating
your throne heavenly father as we go
into your word to study it
we ask that these scriptures would be
opened up
by the illumination of your holy spirit
that we can take them apply them to our
lives
and see any plateaus
ascended beyond any barriers
overcome and father any difficult
situations
that the way out would be clearly
revealed now we receive the help of your
spirit we thank you
in jesus name we pray let's all agree
and say amen
now last week we talked about the
subject
of work and the dignity of work
and labor and doing a good job
hallelujah
but we need to also understand that work
by itself will not lift you into
high levels of success
my friends it takes creative work
to guarantee certain levels
of what we would call exceptional
productivity
and this creative work requires
demands thinking and
reasoning oh pastor stephen don't tell
me i'm going to have to use my brain
my mind yes that's good
you know an old pastor who wrote
70 books and i haven't read one that's
not good
i haven't read one that's not anointed
he wrote 70 books
this is what he said he said and he said
this in his 80s
he said i have found that by continually
writing books particularly as i have
gotten older that it keeps my mind
sharp whoa praise the lord so yes
we are going to use the minds that god
has given us and we're going to not only
work
but we are going to work in a creative
way and to do so
requires that we thank
and that we also reason with our
minds thinking
is the ability to coordinate
thoughts in a productive way for
an increased output let me say that
again
thinking is the ability to coordinate
thoughts in a productive way for
an increased output now that output
could be
perhaps in your business or
if you're a minister it could be in your
ministry or
if you're employed employed by an
employee and maybe you work for a
corporation or
for some type of business then that
could be applied to
your job your career field praise the
lord that pro
that that increased output that's what
we're looking for
so working alone
does not make you wealthy
i've seen some very hard workers
that work hard and they're still
not wealthy now i can certainly
understand the lazy
not becoming wealthy because they're
missing all kinds of opportunities
they're not they're not applying
themselves
but it's going to take more than just
hard work
it must be wise
work wise work generates
wealth please let that go into your
spirit
wise work generates
wealth now in ecclesiastes chapter 10
verse 15.
it says the labor of fools wearies
them for they do not even know
how to go to the city
what's going on here pastor stephen in
this verse
we're seeing men working
but they're working without any results
and you can even know where it is that
you want to go
but the frustrating thing is is that you
don't know how
to get there they want to get to the
city they're working on doing that it's
just not happening
and my friends it can be very
frustrating but i see that from this day
forward
there will not be any
vanity any vain work ever again
in your work praise god it's not vein
work
it's not foolish work it's not just
spinning the wheels not getting anywhere
nope that's over praise the lord i see
wise work coming out of you
that's going to create very very
unusual unusually productive
results praise god now psalm
104 let's go to the psalms
psalm 104
praise the lord
and we're going to go to verse 24.
now this this verse is going to really
grab some of you because it's going to
really speak to you watch this
oh lord how manifold
that means they're they're multifaceted
there's many of them
how manifold are your works in
wisdom you have made
them all god's made them all
now all the wealth
of the universe came
out of wisdom think about that all of
the wealth of the universe came
out of the wisdom of god in wisdom you
have made them
all praise the lord
everything has come out of the wisdom of
god this wisdom
will attain results for you in
any environment and it will do it
under any type of circumstances
and i must say my friends that
regardless where you live
regardless of what's going on in your
part of the world
the the economy of the government or the
economy
of your region is not the problem
praise the lord you must engage your
mind
with god's wisdom for extraordinary
output because that wisdom will prevail
over the negative circumstances that you
could be facing
now perhaps you're in an economy that's
going boom
glory to god and you it's easy to
go up with that lifting
but there's many people that watch these
messages from various parts of the world
and it's very difficult to go upstream
because everything else is going
downstream and maybe there's a lot of
fraud maybe there's a lot of corruption
and the system maybe in a sense we could
say is rigged against you
but i need to let you know that with
god's wisdom
his wisdom prevails over all of these
corrupt
methods
in wisdom you have made them
all i'm telling you my friends god
knows what he's doing and the
application of his wisdom
in your life is going to produce a level
of productivity
that's going to astound you and those
around you praise god now well pastor
stephen how do we how do we do it how do
we make application of it
let's talk about it from the words of
jesus his teaching
in luke chapter 14. let's go to the
gospel of luke chapter 14
and we're going to look at something
amazing that he said in verse 28.
for which of you intending
to build the tower does not
sit down first and count the cost
whether he has enough to finish it
lest after he has laid the foundation
and is not able to finish
all who see it begin to mock him saying
this man began to build and was not able
to finish
verse 28 again for which of you
intending to build a tower
does not sit down first
while hard work is important
and you need to do it with all your
might
yet the work in order to be profitable
the work must be done in wisdom and my
friends
you must have times
where you sit down
why pastor stephen to generate
to create and analyze
ideas that you get through
thinking you have to sit down and you
have to think
now we're going to do this what are the
logical steps
that we need to take in order to get it
done so you generate
ideas they can be very creative but
then you analyze them and perhaps even
talk it over with team members
get counsel input and advice
and then based upon that then you begin
to move
forward praise the lord there is an
element of prayer
and fasting and so forth but you're
gonna
you can't avoid facts you're gonna have
to gather
knowledge information and you need facts
and if you use those facts
right those facts will help you
become fat praise the lord and you end
up
making some good money praise the lord
i do know a man that started a business
and a good man nice man
and he told me he was concerned though
when he told me he said
he said pastor stephen i'm generating
sales each month of
400 000 that's pretty good
he started the business uh and he's
making four
uh well not making but he's generating
thousand dollars in sales i said okay so
what's
what's the scoop then he goes well uh my
my all-in costs though were like four
hundred forty thousand dollars
so he's actually running behind going
into a hole
40 000 every month and this has been
going on now for about a year
and so he's he's almost like a half a
million dollar
into the hole and he has he has a real
problem
and not only that he had signed a
commercial lease
on a commercial building uh to you know
have
room to do all of these things that he's
doing
and now that he wants to shut the
business down because he's not making
money
now he's stuck in a long-term
high-paying
monthly commercial lease that he can't
get out of so
he told me i've got two options either
file bankruptcy
or you know i'm going to have to
have an attorney and go into a legal
battle with this
uh very high powerful very wealthy you
know
corporate leasing agency because he said
i'm stuck
and you know what this is this is an
interesting fact
65 of all businesses fail within the
first 10 years
why they they never obeyed verse 28.
for which of you intending to build a
tower
or build the business or build a house
how about this one
build the ministry okay for which of you
intending to build
a tower does not sit down first
and count the cost whether he has enough
to finish it whether he has enough
to finish it praise god thank you jesus
well
the gentleman who told me his dilemma
he never asked me to pray for him he is
real smart guy he actually thought he
was smarter than god but he
he wasn't feeling too smart with the
trap that he got himself stuck in
he actually came to my church one time
and
although he's very wealthy
uh worked for bill gates and has lots of
money millions of dollars
when he came to my church he actually
came on the day
with his family in which we were raising
a special offering for something that
the ministry
needed vitally and you know what he sat
there
and didn't give one penny he did not
give
one penny he's worth millions he didn't
give a penny he built this house paid
his house off debt-free hundreds of
thousands of dollars
he didn't give one penny but right there
in that service with he almost having
like a mocking spirit like oh
you know steven's ever going to get the
money
i said now we're going to take the
offering and then after the offering was
done
the monies were given uh there in the
physical church and the monies were
coming in online i said let's add it up
count it right now and
right there on the spot we had more than
enough
he couldn't believe it he couldn't
believe it that god did it without him
yes god's not in need god's not a beggar
oh please please won't you give my mark
please
no no we're talking about
god in his wisdom created all of this
and gives us the privilege
of participating in it and also his his
kingdom
but this man um he he did not
he didn't not see the value of the
church honestly i don't i don't even
think he was saved he's a good man in
the sense that
i never heard him use one curse word
you know he was raised in aristocracy so
he's very polished
but he had no trust in the lord his
reliance was upon himself
and that had led him into a mess
see he worked for a major corporation
but he had never started his own
business
so he was doing fine when he was working
for somebody else and those leaders were
running the ship but when he tried to do
his own thing on the side
in other words tried to build a tower
himself he never set down the planet out
so you could be a smart cookie you could
have a lot of money but you could launch
off into something
without planning without thinking
without going through all the mental
processing of the steps
and then end up in a place where you're
trapped
and there is no easy perhaps solution to
get out especially for the person that
has no covenant with god
you could be in a real mess you could
you could you could destroy your
financial prosperity that maybe took 20
or 30 years to create
but my friends let me tell you this that
will never happen to you you're never
going to have a sad testimony
you're going to have nothing but good
testimonies why you sat down
to think you sat down to lose to
use rational logical thinking
let's go through the steps let's get a
team meeting together
let's talk about this so that we make
sure we don't miss anything
let's itemize the cost of everything so
we know exactly how much it costs and
then how much
they're going to upcharge it whether
it's a general contractor or whatever it
is
let's run the numbers ourselves let's
know what we're looking at
yes everybody has a right to make money
that's being involved that's
you know the subcontractors contractors
or whatever that that's fair
but let's not get price gouged
let's be aware of what's taking place
why are the why is the lumber
prices so high well you know numbers
gone up
300 percent in the last year so that
all the lumber prices out there tripled
so all of these things factor it in
what are the costs well i didn't know
that well you should have known that
before
you told them to uh start constructing
because that's a lot of wood going into
that project
well i didn't know that we have to
change it well you've already signed it
you signed on the contract
thank you jesus i see you as a holy
spirit-filled
thinker using your mind to go through
the whole process
not being caught off guard with anything
even bringing up
questions that perhaps things that they
thought were veiled that they could
conceal from you
the holy spirit highlights to your heart
ask about this
is that included and so
my friends your tower will be completed
glory to god there but i'll tell you
what there's more exciting things to
build than just a tower maybe you're not
very much into a tower so um
there are many things that you can
construct and build out
even in your business where things go to
higher
levels of productivity you know
i know in the body of christ that there
are some subjects that
maybe they're more fun to follow read
about study you know
spiritual warfare that's cool yes let's
go in the prayer
and let's block the power of the devil
and let's pray hallelujah
unless fast yes pastor stephen i enlist
for a 40-day fast
okay it's cool it's fun amen
and we're going to teach that it's all
biblical but what do you do
after you've prayed because
eventually let's say you do a long fast
what do you do after the fast because
it will eventually end what do you do
after you have been
anointed with fresh oil i'll tell you
exactly what you do
you sit down and then you start thinking
and as you do with that anointing upon
you having prayed sought the face of god
as you start to think sit down and think
god
will show you steps to get you out
of any crisis situation
that you may find yourself in you know
i've
i've i've have people that have listened
to these messages
that are living in uh in you know huge
homes
and i have people that listen to these
messages that literally
live out of their car and they're
watching the message on their on their
phone
through uh you know streaming or uh you
know 4g
or 5g or whatever it is but they're
they're watching in very difficult
places but i'm telling you
i'm telling you as you sit and think god
will say do this
this this and it's usually a process you
can't you can't always jump to
instant deliverance whoo look at that
somebody just gave me a million dollars
i'm out of here i'm going
i'm gonna go get me a place to live
sometimes it steps
boom boom boom boom boom but as you
start walking those steps it'll show you
exactly what to do
as you but you're going to have to think
you're going to have to get still
think think about it and god will help
you
now the level to which you are willing
to engage your mind
determines the level of results that you
will achieve let me say that again
the level to which you engage your mind
so you've fasted you've prayed
you've read the bible praise god but the
level to which you engage your mind
determines the level of results you will
achieve
see your car has a transmission
that is in it but you must be able to
engage
the transmission to go anywhere or else
the car
just sits there so your mind
has the ability to take you places to
take you out of situations that you need
to get out of
and take you into areas that you do need
to get into
and the holy spirit will work with you
through your mind
because even as your spirit yielded to
the holy spirit gets information and
gets ideas
guess what it's all coming up and being
run and processed
through your mind when i prophesy
i see images that are being played in my
mind now it's coming out of my spirit
but
god's going to work with the image
screen on my mind when i have a vision
it's it's my spirit that is being
quickened
and but so often god uh particularly if
it's a spiritual vision
he will show it to me through my mind
whoo praise the lord
amen we must be willing to engage our
minds
now god wants you to have a mental
attitude
that is willing to say regardless of the
situation
you must be willing to say there must
be a way out of this and for others of
you that are in different scenarios
where you're actually wanting to get
into something god wants you to have a
mental attitude
that says there's got to be a way for me
to get in
there's got to be and i'll tell you what
there is
and as you sit and think after you've
prayed
as you sit and think god will show you
the steps
the first one then the second one and
you can you can start walking towards it
praise the lord
thank you jesus now
i want to make a statement and we're
going to talk about this based upon
isaiah chapter 66 let's jump over there
just for a moment
isaiah 66 1. but here's what i would
like to say
every throne is created
it is not a gift
it's something that's created and every
throne
is a creation
of wisdom every throne that you would
see
is the expression of a creation
that has been brought forth by wisdom
which was produced
by a person that was a thinker
that thought hmm i wonder what kind of a
throne i could make
now look at isaiah chapter 6 66 verse 1
thus says the lord heaven
is my throne so god obviously thought i
need a big one
all right heaven is my throne
oh but then he realized okay that's
great but i'm gonna need a place to put
my feet
and earth is my
footstool did you notice here
that in light of the scripture that even
god
had to create his own throne
now in the same manner the throne
that you with the desire to have
here on the earth also is going to have
to be created
by you because because it's in so many
ways
nobody else really knows what you want
except for you now there can be some
help
there can be some inspiration there can
be maybe
some pictures showed is this the color
palette that you like
is this the color carpet or drapes is
this and you know then you see different
designs and things like that
but really you know in here
what you like when you see it when you
hear it when you taste it or smell it or
whatever it might be that's why there's
so many different perfumes out there
because what one person thinks is
wonderful you might think well that's
nice doesn't do anything for me
but this one over here oh yes so you
know the throne
that you desire but you're the one
that is going to have to create it just
like god
created his own throne and even threw in
a footstool
somewhere to put his feet so he made a
whole planet called the earth just to
put his feet on
praise the lord thank you jesus this is
fascinating in first kings
first kings chapter 10
verse 18. you ready for a
extraordinary throne i see something
being constructed in your life of great
beauty
maybe it's a book maybe it's a poem
maybe it's a song maybe it's an album
maybe it's a business
maybe it's a new ministry i see a new
throne being created
but i can guarantee you that throne
will have to be created through wisdom
and that wisdom
is a result of deep meditative thinking
that comes after you have done your your
time of prayer
your time in the word your time with god
you're going to have to think
praise god first kings chapter 10
verse 18 moreover the king
that would be solomon made a great
throne of ivory
wow where to get all the ivory from i
don't know
that's a lot of tusk a lot of a lot of
ivory was needed
a great throne of ivory well if it was
just made of ivory alone
yeah that's pretty impressive but he
didn't stop there
and overlaid it with pure
gold he had poured on top of all of that
ivory
24 karat solid gold
the throne had six steps and the top
of the throne was round at the back
there were arm rest on either side of
the place of the seat
and two lions stood beside the armrest
twelve lions stood there one on each
side of the six steps
nothing like this had been made for any
other
kingdom how come it wasn't made anywhere
else
not the same level of thinking not the
same level of wisdom being applied
and so out of that wisdom out of that
thinking
hmm let's create something that's never
been
expressed before there's plenty of
thrones surrounded by all of these
smaller tribal type nations and then you
have
egypt down south and you've got some big
stuff going on over in persia yeah
that's pretty cool but solomon's like
let's let's create something through the
wisdom of god that he was loaded with it
and by the way you are too
you have the mind of christ
solomon's like let's create something
they've never seen before
but let's make it also something that we
like particularly
something that i like because it's for
him and your throne will be
for you whoo praise the lord so
he dialed it up planned it out
had the architectural designs created
and then they went to work on it
now of course we also thank the lord
for all of the jewish rabbis and sages
throughout the many centuries
who passing down not only
written eyewitness accounts but also
the oral tradition of those ancient
jewish leaders who actually saw it and
scribes who saw it and wrote about it of
course we have it in the bible
but we also have just writings and
documents
that have been gathered over the periods
of time from original eyewitnesses who
saw the throne and let me say this about
the jewish people
they are excellent record keepers
and they are so good at preserving
their history so based upon
what the rabbis saw also
not just three verses that we have here
that give an overview that is
that tell us uh you know this thing was
fabulous
but this is from those that actually
stood there and saw it and had time to
write give more detail
and this is what they said king
solomon's throne
was the most wonderful throne that any
king
ever sat upon it was fashioned of ivory
and covered with pure gold it was set
with rubies
sapphires emeralds and other precious
stones
that shone with the most brilliant the
most
dazzling the most fascinating hues
and colors i'm reading this from
shabbat.org
which is a site of jewish learning six
steps
led to the seat and each
step served to remind the king of one of
the six
special commandments that the kings of
israel were commanded to
observe on the first step a golden lion
lay facing a golden ox
on the opposite side on the second step
a golden wolf faced a golden
lamb so there was a lot of symbolism in
these
beautiful artifacts because you're
you're looking at
even symbolism of the millennium of the
one thousand year reign of christ and so
forth
and in many ways uh solomon was a
he was a forerunner type and shadow of
the
savior who would one day rule the world
from jerusalem
from israel for one thousand years
on the third step a golden tiger
faced a golden camel on the fourth step
a golden eagle faced a golden peacock
was big on peacocks now on the fifth
a golden cat faced a golden rooster
and on the sixth step a golden hawk
faced a golden dove higher steel
above the throne a golden dove
held a golden hawk in its beak
praise the lord the hawk represents the
apostolic ministry
now uh that's by the way isaiah chapter
46 verse 11.
now and you would have to read that in
the hebrew to understand that
okay on the side rising over the throne
stood an exquisite menorah of pure gold
decorated with golden cups knobs
flowers blossoms and petals
on each side of the menorah seven
branches turned upwards
on the branches of one side were
engraved the names of the seven fathers
of the world
adam noah shem abraham isaac
jacob and job they were engraved there
on the other seven branches of the
menorah the names of the most pious men
were engraved
on each side of the throne there was a
special
golden chair one for the high priest
and one for the assistant high priest
surrounded by 70 golden chairs
for the 70 elders which would be the
sanhedrin
which was the israeli version of the
supreme high court
now 24 golden vines formed a huge
canopy above the throne my friends are
you seeing
the magnificence of what this man
created
with the wisdom of god oh pastor he just
pulled that off in one day he just
drew that out on a napkin oh no no this
was
this was extreme planning extreme
planning details sitting down thinking
allowing the holy spirit to take your
mind into deep
levels of creative thought and then the
logical processes
of walking that out step by step knowing
that hey if we're going to do this
we're going to need some skilled people
and he had them he had them whoo glory
to god
thank you jesus praise the lord
okay let's continue reading about
solomon's throne
be inspired also for the throne
that the lord would have you build for
your life
when king solomon stepped upon the
throne a mechanism
was set in motion now let me say this
without getting into it
there was a lot of egyptian technology
there in the temple you had sand
hydraulics you had
other mechanisms and other forms that
they had learned from the egyptians but
and solomon just taken
it to a whole new level with the
brilliant mind that he had
when king solomon stepped upon the
throne a mechanism was set in motion
as soon as he stepped upon the first
step the golden ox
and the golden lion each stretched out
one foot to support him
and helped him rise to the next step
on each side the animals helped the king
up
until he was comfortably lifted up upon
the throne
no sooner was he seated then a golden
eagle
brought the great crown and held it just
above
king solomon's brow so that it should
not weigh heavily on his head
so the crown did not literally sell on
his head because it's too heavy i mean
it could have weighed like 50 pounds
with all the gold and stones
so this mechanism think of like uh you
know
these clocks these big antique clocks
with the with the cuckoo that comes out
and all the mechanics back behind it
that's what they had going on
but even more advanced so this mechanism
would bring that crown right over his
head and hold it
right there and uh very
deep thought went into the design of all
of this
now there upon the top the golden dove
flew over the holy ark and brought out a
tiny scroll of the torah
and placed it in king solomon's lap in
accordance with the commandments of the
torah that the torah should always
be with the king and should guide him in
his reign
over the jewish people the high priest
and his assistant
all the seventy elders would rise to
greet the king and would sit down to
hear the cases
brought for judgment king solomon's
throne
was the talk of all the reigning kings
and princes they came to marvel at its
wonders
and admire its beauty many years later
when pharaoh neca
of course from egypt invaded the land of
judah
he carried away this wonderful throne
now we're talking about later when
israel had gone into apostasy and now
god is allowing
other nations to invade and conquer
areas
of israel so pharaoh eventually invaded
the land of judah he carried away this
wonderful throne
but when he set his foot on the first
step the golden lion gave him such a
kick in the thigh that he toppled over
and remained a
for life that is why he was
named nikkei which means the lame one
still later when nebuchadnezzar
destroyed the temple
and subsequently conquered egypt as well
he carried the throne away to babylon
but when he tried to ascend it the lion
threw him over
and he did not venture to sit on it ever
again
later king darius of persia
conquered babylon and carried the throne
with him to media
now when the king of persia
tried to ascend the throne he too got a
kick in the pants
and toppled down and he did not try to
sit on it ever again
instead he sent for a team of great
egyptian engineers
and ordered them to construct for him a
throne similar
to king solomon's for nearly three years
the great egyptian masters
worked on a throne for the king and they
finally com they finally completed it
but as you and i both know it was
nothing
like the original and i see originality
in you i see creativity in you and my
friends
you're going to pull this out by
thinking
jesus said sit down and think
count the cost analyze it talk about it
discuss it get it on paper get the
blueprint
let's see it let's map it all out that
requires reasoning
it requires thinking
thank you jesus now many of you have
seen my
half hour television program called pure
gold which airs on various networks
around the world praise god and if you
have seen that
show you'll notice that we have a
medieval castle type feel
but season three which is in
final post-production editing right now
and will soon be
sent to all the networks season three
will reveal that we had an upgrade
on the throne the throne that we had in
season one season two was nice
but you know what we needed something a
little more solomon style
woo glory and we got it we got it
well pastor stephen i guess you and
master kelly just created all that in
just a few days didn't
you just just do it all together didn't
you there it was it just all came out no
it took five months to build
the set not five days not five weeks
it took five months with about eight
people
on it working five days a week and some
overtime
lots of overtime i was told it took five
months
to build it and
the set director told me that a man came
in from london
and uh he saw that set he saw our set he
said
wow he said i've got a castle
about about 400 meters down the road
from the office of where i work
and he said this set looks just like
that castle they said this is amazing
how did y'all do this oh pastor steve
but it just all happened
lots of planning and as you can see some
of the images i'm having
put up on the screen pastor kelly
sitting down with the engineer
to map it all out the planet all out
before anything is ever cut
remember measure twice
cut once praise the lord uh and there's
a lot of measuring
all kinds of measuring and then there
was digital imaging
and then there was the planning for the
lights and then the planning for the
electrical and
and then you know then it's got to be
painted and then you've got a
you got to get all the props and you've
got to you gotta fit it all in and then
there's the cameras
uh four cameras all shooting from
different directions including
the boom jig camera which is movable uh
a lot of work a lot of planning well
pastor stephen i think it looks amazing
it's it's your throne for your life
you're going to have to build out your
throne
and you know what you want kelly knows
my heart she she can read
what i like silently she could she knows
what i'd like and
so her and i sitting down and me
uh just you know saying yes this is this
is the right direction
and then me going back to my job which
is prayer and
study in the word to minister to you and
kelly sitting down with these designers
and teams
saying let's make it happen let's get it
all drawn out let's get let's get the
engineering plans and boom i'm going to
turn you guys with your own creative
anointing
loose woo and they they they've got the
gift
praise the lord but it's all planned
plan plan plan
plan i don't i don't want another
meeting pastor steve i don't want no
you're gonna have to have enough
meetings to whatever it takes to get it
ironed out and smooth
and then when you're ready launch it woo
praise the lord
but we must as pentecostal tongue
talking
vision seeing dream interpreting
people of god we must use
our minds
thank you jesus god has a throne
solomon had a phenomenal throne the
greatest one in the earth
god wants you to have your own throne
god wants you to build your life out
with structure order planning and the
things that you do
how can we say the towers that you would
build or the thrones that you would
create
they're completed they're actually
finished
finished not half done and then tell
thrown in all
we didn't know about oh and just thought
you know
no finished i see you as a finisher
because of your good planning lift up
your hands
father i pray for your people there's
genius anointing in them they belong to
you
they have the mind of christ now they
must use it now they must
sit down and think and i think
i thank you that they're going to and
you're going to show them
the steps they should take to create
their throne that will bring you glory
that will make their life
comfortable that will make them
more productive than they've ever been
in their lives even pro productivity
that's a level of astonishing
because it's smooth and everything is
well thought out now we thank you father
god let the thanking anointing
come upon your people i thank you father
god in that this week
you will be touched within the next five
days
you will be touched with the thinking
anointing
pastor stephen i want the miracle
working anointing
there's many that think that you know
what they need they need the thanking
anointing they need the thanking
anointing
within these next five days the thinking
anointing will touch
your mind receive in the name of jesus
praise the lord and for many of you it's
flowing right now
right now it's flowing over your mind
god we give you praise god we give you
praise
pastor chief i don't have the money to
do that money's not the issue
the the issue is you don't know where to
go and the reason you don't know where
to go
is because you haven't you haven't
planned it out you have to stop and
think
and then when you get it on paper
finalized
formalized god just has a way of
causing the money to show up because
you're already a giver you're already a
tither you've already prayed you've
already fasted
but you're gonna have to think it out
and then when you're ready trust me
god knows how to be right there for you
when it's time to
launch it there'll be no lack the money
will be there
on time but you're gonna have to do your
part and think
think it all out now father we praise
you bless your people
thank you father god solomonic wisdom
and the anointing of christ they have
the mind of christ
i thank you father for them thank him
like jesus
now we give you praise we give you
praise i thank you there's nothing on
this earth
no trouble no difficulty that will
outwit them
thank you father we give you all of the
praise god's going to show you what to
do
in jesus name amen if you're watching
today's program
and you don't know the greatest thinker
of all time not just the greatest
miracle worker
but the greatest thinker of all time his
name is jesus christ of nazareth
and he died on the cross 2000 years ago
as a sinless
sacrifice to redeem lost humanity from
their sins if you would like to receive
him now
and receive his eternal life and
the ability to think his thoughts and to
think like him
that that creative anointing pray this
prayer right now
just say lord jesus i'm a sinner
but you died to save sinners like me
thank you for dying for me
jesus i give my heart to you
come into my life right now wash all of
my sins away
i turn from my sins write my name in
your book of life
give me your new life right now jesus i
accept you as my lord and savior
thank you for saving me in your name i
pray
amen and he has heard that prayer and he
has answered and said yes you now belong
to him
praise god welcome to the family of god
praise god amen now let's take holy
communion together
those of you that have just received
christ
find a mature christian a christian that
really loves christ
and go talk to that person about getting
water baptized tell them you've gotten
saved
you now belong to jesus you need to get
water baptized that's your next step
that's your next plan in your walk with
god
get baptized in water praise the lord
that is a declaration
that is a public declaration of your
commitment your faith to christ
which is water baptism praise the lord
amen
and i'm sure your christian friend will
be very happy to help you
in that next step let's take holy
communion grab some unleavened bread
grab some grape juice
let's pray father thank you for the
bread and the juice
if we consecrate it now through this
prayer we thank you
this is the body and the blood of christ
our savior
we thank you father god for the body of
jesus
the creator of the universe and all that
is
within it he created everything
he's the wisest one he's all god
all man father as we receive his body
we thank you that we can operate
in the wisdom of christ we thank you
father god
we thank you for letting our minds be on
your frequency
the privilege of this we give you praise
thank you father in jesus name amen
let's partake of the
body of jesus
father thank you for the blood of jesus
father if we have committed any sin
we ask that you would forgive us and
wash us with the precious blood
of christ a father if anybody has sinned
against us
we completely 100 forgive them
and we bless them and we go on we thank
you father we hold nothing
against anyone we forgive them
completely and father
we ask that you would lead us away from
temptation
and deliver us from the evil one and we
thank you that you will
and for yours is the kingdom and the
power and the glory
forever thank you father for the
cleansing blood of jesus
in his name we pray amen let's receive
praise the lord in closing let me say
this
as we have just received the blood of
christ
if you ever blow it your sin
or whatever repent sin
has a way of shutting down that
frequency
of wisdom of the god level of wisdom
and so it it it
blocks or hinders that frequency from
coming through
so the thing with clarity
then you need to stay away from sin
because sin will hinder that ability to
pick up on that wisdom when you think
sin can distract so press into god
and live a life that's pleasing to the
lord and of course of course if we ever
do sin
we have the blood of jesus that covers
and cleanses
washes us from all sin praise the lord
that doesn't mean that you have to take
communion any time you sin
you wouldn't be able to do that of
course but you can take communion
as often as you like of course we take
it twice a week you can take it every
day if you like
but walk with the lord do your best to
live for the lord praise god
so that that frequency is wide open
glory to god doesn't mean
you have to be perfect the only perfect
person was jesus
but stay out of sin
it'll it'll um gum up the system praise
god this flow of wisdom
father bless your people i thank you i
see them flying high in the spirit
and i see them on this frequency and
remaining on it
all the days of their life i thank you
father god that there will be thrones
that will bring you much glory
and will do much to further your kingdom
in the earth father bless your people
with these brilliant ideas
in jesus name amen thanks for watching
go create your throne i'll see you next
time