good morning church family and ministry
friends i'm pastor stephen brooks
welcome today to our online internet
around the world church service and i'm
so happy that you're here today i
believe that god's word is able to build
you up to do everything he has called
you to do and also to be the person that
he has called you to be
today we're going to be in mark chapter
10 verse 17. we're going to receive the
tithes and offerings and i want us to
look just for a moment at the life of
the rich young ruler and the amazing
opportunity presented to him
but one which he missed
verse 17
now as he was going out on the road one
came running knelt before him and asked
him good teacher what shall i do that i
may inherit eternal life so jesus
responds by taking him through a brief
questionnaire concerning the
commandments of keeping the mosaic law
and the young man responds by saying
teacher all these things i have kept
from my youth so from the letter of the
law he's doing a good job but there's
still something holding him back and
that would be something that deals with
this heart
then jesus looking at him and that is a
look
that is scanning by the holy spirit
for that area that needs to be fixed
jesus looking at him loved him and said
to him one thing you lack
go your way
sell whatever you have and give to the
poor and you will have treasure in
heaven come take up the cross and follow
me
and my friends we understand that jesus
uh did not go around often making that
statement follow me in the sense where
come join me and be a part of what i'm
doing
now he extended that invitation to the
12 and some theologians have said this
could have been on the lord's mind
to have a future replacement for judas
iscariot but
he's going to miss the opportunity and
what could have been stepped into
and could have been marvelous is a blown
opportunity verse 22 but he was sad at
this word
and went away sorrowful now god's word
is never intended to make us sad it's
never intended to deprive us or hurt us
it's to build this up make us strong
help us get into our inheritance so
his disobedience is actually going to
cost him and it's not going to preserve
him and it says that he did this this
was his response because he had great
possessions
now there's nothing wrong with having
wealth or great possessions
the the problem is that is when god says
i want you to give some of it or even
all of it and you're not willing then
we're seeing what the root problem is
it's not the possessions that you have
it's that the possessions have you
and that my friends
goes over into an area that would be
covetous
and covetousness is the same thing in a
sense as idolatry it doesn't mean that
you're bowing down in front of a statue
of a pagan god and worshiping something
like that that would be quite obvious as
idolatry but this other area of not
obeying the lord is something that has
to be
cleaned up in our lives particularly in
the lives of this young man
let me stay in this same flow
by asking you a question
what is the greatest blessing of being
debt-free
well you may think well pastor stephen
if i'm debt-free and i have all of these
things paid off then it means i don't
have to make payments on them anymore
and i could take the money used as
payments and now i could either put it
in savings or i could i have now
discretionary money that i could do
something else with maybe i could invest
it or something like that and that is
true that's a great blessing but my
friends here is the greatest blessing of
being debt-free being debt-free
positions you where every thing that you
own
now has the potential to be a seed
not so much a donation
but a seed offering because when it's a
seed it are it all it always means that
it has a future every seed has a future
why there's a harvest on the horizon so
if you're debt-free
and you own your home out right
that means if the lord spoke to you and
told you to sow your home as a seed into
the life of someone you actually have
the ability to do that
now there are some of you that that just
hit you
probably like it hit the rich young
ruler who thought
uh hey i i you know i i didn't know it
was going to require that and you might
may even think well pastor stephen if
that's the case i don't know if i want
to be debt free i wouldn't want god to
tell me to give my car away if i owned
it debt-free and then i mean pastor
stephen you would have to understand i i
worked hard to get it paid off and uh
and that means i wouldn't have one
well
you have to understand with the lord
that he's never trying to subtract from
you and reduce you
he's trying to bless you and he's trying
to take you to a new level and so these
are kingdom principles that those
that
don't know the ways of god don't
understand how god can increase you even
by sowing and giving so this young man
looked at it as a total loss
instead of a tremendous opportunity to
maybe even have been the replacement for
judas
and also to learn biblical principles
uh primarily the principle of eternal
life put your faith and trust in god
you can't be saved anymore by a
a system that's already passing away the
the system of judaism based upon works
and so forth and even under the law
those that knew knew that really the
only way that you can please god is by
faith the just shall live by faith that
was an old testament revelation that
some caught carried over of course into
the new we're justified by what christ
has accomplished for us not by our own
works praise god so he completely missed
it because he saw it as loss instead of
as an act of obedience to step into the
inheritance the true inheritance that
god had for him
praise the lord and my friends we need
to understand these things that if there
were something in our life that if god
said i want you to sow that and we say
oh i i lord i i could do a lot but i i
can't i can't give that that's
sentimental or you know whatever the
case might be
then we're actually going to miss out on
god's best for our lives praise the lord
let's look at this from
the wisdom of god's word in proverbs
chapter 11 verse 24
it says there is one who scatters yet
increases more
now for the person that only thinks uh
naturally with the calculator and can
mathematically deduce that if you
scatter that means you're giving away
that means that you now have less of
what you previously had they would look
at that as a loss and they would look at
that as being a practice that we should
not participate in but my friends look
what happens there is one who scatters
yet increases more
and you would think well that doesn't
make any sense on paper
uh
how is this taking how is this increase
happening when you're actually giving
away because you're tying in to biblical
principles you're tying into laws that
god created
that are just as real as the law of
gravity that are just as real as other
laws that science has uncovered the laws
have always been here we have just began
to understand them and work with them
for their benefit there is one who
scatters yet increases more and there is
one who withholds and he probably thinks
that he's doing pretty good by
withholding he probably thinks he's
being smart there is one who withholds
more than is right but it leads to
poverty in other words that leads to
lack and insufficiency i want to
encourage you regardless of what the
climate may be like in the world's
economic system or the the economic
system of your nation i want to
encourage you to always work with god
and his principles his eternal laws by
honoring him with the tithe 10 percent
of all of your increase of all of your
income that belongs to him
and also by being a giver by sowing seed
which entitles you to harvest woo praise
the lord hallelujah and i believe for
many of you that god is going to take
you into debt freedom and yes while we
rejoice that hey the bills are paid off
we don't have to pay on that anymore you
also have an understanding that
everything that you now own debt-free is
all potential seed
glory to god whoa praise god there are
some people that if the lord said uh
that pair of shoes over there that you
have i want you to give those away and
the person might think well that's sure
that's a piece of cake they cost 25 lord
i'll go out give them right now
but if the lord says hey i want you to
give that car away sometimes people are
like oh lord and i'm not saying there
aren't weighty type offerings but
you know i've given a car away before
and gave it away
pastor stephen why did you do that well
first of all because i could because it
was paid off and second of all
and most importantly god moved upon my
heart
and he moved upon my heart to sow it and
i did and it made it made the couple
that i gave it to so happy and the lord
was all in it and still today the lord
has always kept my wife and i in
wonderful wonderful vehicles praise god
oh glory to god so you always want to
just keep that grace of giving flowing
and that way you never
taste these areas of lack or
insufficiency or even worse poverty
praise the lord
glory to god all right we're going to
honor the lord now we're going to bring
the tithe into the storehouse and if you
would like to sow seed that would be a
blessing we do have a special project
that we're focused on right now
and we have a deadline date
of uh november the 25th we're very fast
approaching that that would be
thanksgiving this is a special
thanksgiving offering that's going
towards the ministry hangar we have an
opportunity to purchase a beautiful
hangar for our future mission jet
and you know what if you have a horse
you have to have a stable first to put
the horse in so if we're going to have
an aircraft we have to have the hangar
and there is one that is available that
has been presented to us uh to the
ministry for sale we would really like
to be able to purchase it and so the
cost is 400k 400
and giving has been coming in but we
have not yet reached that amount so any
seed that you sow is greatly appreciated
and helps us to move towards the
completion of this very special project
now
if you would like to give by mail please
send your tithe your tithe and offerings
to stephen brooks international p.o box
717 moravian falls north carolina the
zip code is 28654 now if you're giving
a special offering towards the hanger
project just write that on your check so
that we can know that goes into that uh
allotted place praise the lord amen if
you want to give online you can do so
right now from anywhere in the world
please visit our ministry website
stevenbrooks.org there's a link on the
home page
that says give it has a red heart on it
you can click on that and you'll see the
area for your tithes and you'll also see
the area that you can click and submit a
seed offering a thanksgiving offering
there into the hangar project woo glory
to god amen glory to jesus so thank you
thank you for standing with us in this
project hallelujah now let me pray over
your giving heavenly father i pray you
bless your people
and that if there would be any type of a
stingy spirit
that that be broken off of them because
that uh that is that is an unclean
spirit all evil spirits are unclean a
stingy spirit is an unclean spirit and i
pray father god that there be the grace
of giving upon your people where giving
is done with joy and even should there
be something lord that you would put
your finger on and say i want you to sow
that that there would be nothing
within our hands or but uh within our
control that we would ever withhold from
you
we give you praise we thank you for
freedom to give that we will not
let
wealth or riches control us or be
something that we can't touch because
it owns us
we thank you father for complete liberty
and freedom to serve you in jesus name
amen
and amen woo praise god
oh glory to god
um i'm going to jump into the message in
just a moment uh this message
while it's an enjoyable message uh with
a lot of maybe we could call them fun
stories there are some things also i'm
going to share that you have to really
really be careful with what we're going
to be dealing with today it's like
nitroglycerin
you could have a lot of fun
removing things that need to be blown up
but you could also really get hurt we're
going to talk about that in just a
moment but concerning
even this area
of of giving anything that the lord
would
require
i heard
jerry savelle tell the story one time
when he was sitting in a meeting and
while he's sitting in the meeting now
he's one also one of the
conference speakers but he's he's
already done his session so he's just
sitting there while the conference host
is actually up there talking and
ministering so jerry said that he's
sitting there and while he's sitting
there the holy spirit spoke to him
and said
the minister
is actually very discouraged in his
heart right now because he feels that
i'm not he i'm not hearing his prayers
now this this minister that was
preaching had gone through a divorce uh
some years earlier and uh
he just felt like people said well god
won't hear you now so he's kind of like
trying to work his way through that
while still ministering for the lord so
he he was actually very discouraged but
he's
he's still ministering but that's going
on in his heart and so jerry savelle is
sitting there and the holy spirit said
the minister
up there right now is very discouraged
and he feels
that
god does not hear his prayers so i want
you
to let him know that i do hear his
prayers and i also want you to give him
your airplane
whew now the airplane that jerry savelle
had was the airplane that kenneth hagin
gave to him
and so what jerry savelle had done is he
had taken that airplane he had upgraded
it with a brand new interior he had
upgraded uh the engine put a brand new
engine package on it and put brand new
avionics in it and so this thing is like
a real hot rod plane now and the holy
spirit said i want you to give that to
him whoo glory to god how many of you
know we're not talking about giving a
pair of socks
i was in a service one time when a
preacher said
i'm gonna give away my boots i just love
everybody so much if somebody don't have
any shoes come up here and take my old
boots he put his boots on the platform
and everybody you could just read the
minds everybody thought no nobody want
those old stinky old boots okay i'm even
though there's a big difference between
an old pair of boots that nobody wants
and god telling somebody give your
airplane away
and so jerry savelle said he was sitting
there and he said well holy spirit when
should i do this
and uh
the holy spirit said wait just a moment
and get ready to respond and while that
minister was up there preaching he
suddenly stopped
and he said jerry savail he said god
just spoke to you and told you something
he said he said come on up here and tell
us what god said
and jerry said okay i sure will he went
up there and told him in front of all
the people he said god says that you
you're very discouraged because you feel
like i i'm not hearing your prayers but
i do hear your prayers and the lord says
to
just
back you and endorse you i'm going to
bless you and
jerry said god told me to give you my
airplane whoa hallelujah isn't that
amazing isn't that amazing
okay now watch this
the service
concludes
and in that same service another
minister walked up to jerry savelle
after the service was over
with uh you know kind of like
it's kind of hard to describe the look
but he went up to jerry savelle and said
brother jerry
while we were sitting in the service and
you you know you said god told you to
give your airplane to that minister
he said um god told me to give you my
citation jet
jerry said okay and the minister said
but i can't do that
i can't do it
brother jerry i can't do that
watch out
that you don't have any rich young ruler
in you
lest you abort your destiny oh glory to
god watch out
watch out
hallelujah
i'm not talking about reckless giving
i'm talking about specific when god says
something so that woo
wow and it could be your most treasured
thing
wow god's not trying to deplete you
god's trying to bless you and take you
to a total new level
um well that minister didn't obey
and now that leads me to our message
today
i want to jump into the subject of
the word of wisdom and this is the title
of my message it's a command
not a suggestion
and what i'm going to share is something
i've learned over the years
i found out a few other
ministers came across the same
revelation
and this is something fascinating about
the supernatural word of wisdom
and you can get a word of wisdom from
god if you do you just got gold
you got action you had amen if you get
the word of wisdom out of the nine gifts
of the spirit you just got the greatest
one
but you have to realize that is a
two-edged sword
in one way that is your ticket to
freedom in that area of what that word
would speak to in the other way if you
don't do it
uh you're we're talking um
major repercussions we're not we're not
only talking you miss the boat you miss
the blessing
you could it could go way beyond that
into something that you
you may not get another chance to
recover you could die
so let's talk about these types of
things today
just right off the top of my head this
is not in my scripture notes but
do you remember when elisha the prophet
told naaman the syrian
army leader go dip in the jordan river
how many times
seven times right and your skin will be
clean
and naaman almost blew it he was just
like hey that's a dirty river
aren't these other rivers cleaner well
of course they are but that's not what
god said god said in the jordan river
and so he almost walked away first of
all because even uh the prophet didn't
tell him the directi uh directly he the
prophet sent his servant out or his
administrator out to give the
instruction and that that insulted uh
damon also because he already kind of
had it uh figured out in his head how
this was going to go down kind of like a
grand epic event and the prophet would
do some kind of spectacular gesture and
it would be uh photographers taking
pictures to put him on the front page of
the paper the next day it didn't happen
like that at all and the word was very
unusual go dip in the jordan river
seven times
and so he almost did not do that
well we all rejoice with the fact that
he did and he did god bless him he got
healed right came out he came out of the
water after the seventh time not after
the third or the or the fourth or fifth
but after the seventh dip
the seventh wash he come up with brand
new skin like a little child so not only
was the leprosy gone but he also
received what we would call or classify
as a creative miracle with brand new
skin don't you know that caught some
attention when he went back to syria the
king probably said what in the world
happened to you
whoo glory to god
but what would have happened if he would
have walked away and said that's a crazy
word uh wash in the
jordan seven times that doesn't even
make any sense why do i have to do it
seven times instead of two
what does this mean uh nothing except
that's what god said and if you don't do
it you're gonna you're gonna have
leprosy the rest of your life and it's
probably gonna eat you up and kill you
and there is no plan b this is either it
you take it or you leave it
and sadly enough there have been those
that that have rejected valid
words of wisdom that god gave maybe they
uh
analyzed it maybe they uh did a little
bit like naaman and said well this this
doesn't you know make any sense uh
there's better rivers elsewhere and all
that and all of that but you know what
god knows what he's doing so it's a
command
when god gives a word of wisdom it's a
command it's not an option it's not a
suggestion if you don't do it
something's not going to go
good
a spiritual mentor good friend good
friend of mine he's in heaven now he
lived his life out lived into his 80s
and finished his course
good man of god
uh he had he had an anointing to uh
acquire very unusual properties historic
properties properties that even wealthy
investors would love to have in a real
estate portfolio well he had properties
like that given to him
he had one property on the east coast
right on the beach that was given to him
six million dollar property
but see these properties were to be used
for ministry purposes and he understood
that
well
uh he told me this man told me he said
um
this beautiful property on the beach was
given to him he had plans to use it for
a ministry training institute
to train young men and women in the
bible it was like a bible school and he
was planning it all out and the son
who was on the ministry staff one of the
directors of the ministry the son had
this idea to sell it and just take the
cash and you and then use the money for
other types of purposes and the father
said oh no he said that's a holy
property son we can't we can't do that
god gave us that property we have to use
it for a kingdom plan we can't just sell
it and you know it doesn't this is not
like business out in the world this is
kingdom business everything that we do
has to have
the the focus of winning souls and
equipping the body of christ to reach
the lost and we we have to use it for
ministry well the son the son didn't
think that was too smart
and the father who i knew very well said
do not sell the property
would you believe the son went out
behind his father's own back and sold
the property
whoo
sold it for millions and millions of
dollars
and two weeks later dropped dead
of an unexplainable brain aneurysm
something that did not run in the family
something that
no other family member had ever had
happen he just so the sun just drops
dead
drops dead
words of wisdom are commands that come
from on high
and we must obey them praise god look at
deuteronomy chapter 30
and let's go down to verse 19 heavenly
father as we're jumping into your word
into today's message
we ask for your holy spirit to come
bringing
illumination to our understanding of
your word yes
but also of your ways because some of
these things father they're better
caught than taught
so help us to catch it
and enjoy the great blessing
and avoid
the tremendous danger of disobedience
now father we praise you in jesus name
amen
amen
it kind of reminds me of sports right
contact sports say like uh
motorcycle racing right motocross right
it's it's like the doctors say it's all
fun
until somebody gets hurt right i had
this guy he used to do a lot of uh
he actually did a lot of work around the
church he built a retaining wall and he
did some other uh projects uh for me
very good worker and he loved motocross
you know getting a dirt bike and running
real driving it real fast and jumping
over heels and stuff like that
so he had his young son doing it with
him and i said you know i said so that's
real dangerous stuff i said i'm just
curious do you have health insurance he
said oh no he said you know we know how
to ride these things
well it wasn't too long after that that
his son had a wipeout
accident and tore his knee up towards
knee completely apart and had all kinds
of internal
injuries and so they rushed him to the
local hospital and of course the first
thing the hospital says do you have
insurance
right it's all fun right somebody gets
hurt right
and the dad says uh no we don't have any
insurance
so the doctor did it all for free
he said well
he said i'm going to do the job he said
i know i'm not going to get paid for it
but he said i'll sew him back up
together really good and fix them all up
but boy that was a lot of work and you
know you just think let's try to
like thomas jefferson said he said let's
try to grab things by the smooth end not
the sharp jagged end
glory to god verse 19
i call heaven and earth as witnesses
today against you that i have set before
you life and death
blessing and cursing
you see this is heavyweight options
right
life yes but hey the opposite is death
and when god said death
he meant it
well it's you know it's that's not a
you know pastor steve that's not any big
deal no that's that's that is what it is
death is bad
death has always been an enemy against
mankind it did not exist until sin came
into the earth
uh
and so
this is let's not sugarcoat this it's
either life or death
life is really really good death uh
let's try to stay away from that now
there isn't a point in time where
everybody eventually will die but let's
not have anything premature take us
there
i have set before you life and death
blessing and cursing therefore choose
life
choose
did you notice it's a commandment to
choose life well you know here we have
two options now now you just take
whichever one you want because all paths
lead to the same destination oh no one
leads to hell one leads to heaven and
it's an eternal consequence
whew praise the lord
so god commands not suggest he commands
that we choose life god says that one
right over there take that one
he doesn't just present options no he
presents these two but he tells you
choose this one so there is a
commandment to choose life
that both you and your descendants may
live praise god and that's what we want
to do we want to live we want to have a
good life we want to enjoy the things of
god and stay away from things that would
hurt us
or
be detrimental to us
even if we don't understand all of that
that's what god said god said don't go
into that then we're staying away from
that just as far as we can
praise the lord isaiah chapter one
let's jump over there just for a moment
isaiah 1 verse 19.
if
notice the word if
if denotes there is a condition we have
a part to play if you are willing and
obedient you will eat
you shall eat the good of the land so
that's the positive side of the if
there's the negative side if you decide
to go in the negative route
but if you refuse and rebel you shall be
devoured by the sword for the mouth of
the lord has spoken
um hallelujah
what is wisdom one definition of wisdom
is the ability to anticipate a
consequence
hey if you do that that's wrong that's
not a good idea that's going to hurt you
or who are you to tell me what to do not
trying to tell you what to do but i am
trying to suggest what wisdom is that's
not going to end well well how do you
know that because god said don't do that
so you know money can't fix everything
money can solve a lot but there's
there's certain things out there you get
that that's going to stick with you for
the rest of your life and it's going to
bring a lot of misery into your life why
not just avoid it
so if we're willing and obedient that's
the route we want to go we shall eat the
good of the land sounds a lot better to
me than a disaster right hallelujah
let's go over to the book of job
hallelujah
job
chapter 36
verse 11 this one may ruffle the
feathers on somebody with an old stingy
spirit we're trying to get rid of that
today
get rid of the old stingy tight-fisted
spirit
job 36 verse 11
if
there's that there's that word again
if okay so that denotes
we have the ability to go this way or to
go another direction if
they obey and serve him they shall spend
their days in prosperity
and their years in
pleasures now there's always two sides
of the coin here's the other side but if
they do not
but if they do not obey
they shall perish by the sword and they
shall die without
knowledge
you never want to see people in a mess
you never want to see people in agony
but sometimes you can't help but see it
and what you're looking at is you're
looking at the consequences of sowing
and reaping you're looking at the
consequences of somebody who said no i'm
going to do it my own way
and so it's not like you may perish
literally by the sword but you can you
begin to experience areas of defeat and
failure that god never intended for you
to walk down that path
what is the remedy get back on the right
path praise the lord get back into the
commandments of god and rejoice in them
david said i rejoice in the law of my
god day and night i meditate in it
praise the lord
but if they obey and serve him they
shall spend their days in prosperity and
their years in pleasures so prosperity
and pleasures are not accidental they
are a result of obedience and serving
god
that does not attribute these things to
luck or random chance
these things are a result of a
calculated approach to obeying all of
the instructions of god and serving the
lord with all of our hearts
now
let's go
wow we can go some different directions
let's go to matthew chapter 17.
we're going to jump over there praise
the lord and i've always enjoyed
this definition here of a spiritual gift
matthew 17. verse 24 we're going to
begin to get now
more into the direct obedience to a word
of wisdom
i'm going to talk a little bit more
about what that is in just a moment but
i first want to just give us a great
example and as we're looking at this
remember
anytime a word of wisdom comes to you
from god it is a command
it's not
a suggestion it's for your good it's for
your victory it's for your overcoming
now watch this we're in matthew chapter
17.
we're going to go down to verse 24.
when they had come to capernaum those
who received the temple tax came to
peter and said does your teacher not pay
the temple tax
he said
yes
and when he had come into the house
jesus anticipated him saying
what do you think simon from whom do the
kings of the earth take customs
or taxes from their sons
or from strangers
peter said to him
it's an easy answer from strangers
stop and think about it just for a
moment you have our
let's use for example the federal
government you also have the state
government they they implement their own
taxation system too so you pay state and
federal taxes here in america so
uh let's think along the federal line
just for a moment you have the ir irs
internal revenue service what is their
job their job is to collect taxes from
the citizens of america
but does the irs tax itself
that doesn't make any sense does the
government
tax its own institutions
uh for example you'll see
particularly on a state level you'll see
vehicles driving around and maybe you
see a county vehicle or a state vehicle
and if you look at the license plate it
shows you that it's tax exempt
why because they're not taxing what
actually belongs to them they're not
taxing the insiders or themselves
they're only taxing
those that would be citizens or
residents so you have
god almighty who is the king of the
universe and
there's his son
well the
the king doesn't tax his self the king
taxes the subjects so that the kingdom
can be peaceable and can run smoothly
but there's no there's no kingdom where
the king is taxing himself or is making
his own son who's the royal prince pay
taxes
they just don't do that but it's not
like jesus could stand up in front of
the pharisees and say you know what i
really am god's son because they're not
buying that they don't believe that
they're they are rejecting his messianic
identity they are rejecting his true
identity as the son of god now legally
he is not required to pay taxes because
he is
the king of kings he is the son of god
it's it's a it's about the king of the
temple well there he is right there so
it doesn't make any sense for him to be
paying taxes
um
and jesus said to peter then the sons
are free right okay nevertheless
lest we offend them because they're not
they're not really going to give in on
this and it's going to give them
something that will agitate them and
irritate them nevertheless lest we
offend them
go to the sea cast in a hook get ready i
know you've read this verse many times
you're about to see something that i
i can't
i can't believe how many people misquote
it
i i would literally say nine out of ten
people misquote or misspeak
what you're about to see
watch watch and see if you catch it with
me i know you will let me get a drink
real quick
all right
nevertheless lest we offend them go to
the sea
cast in a hook all right so he's talking
to peter
former commercial professional fisherman
tells him the cast and hook no mention
about bait you don't need that okay
and take the fish that comes up first
okay and when you have opened this mouth
you will find the piece of money take
that and give it to them watch watch for
me
and
you well peter by this time has seen
he has seen the ways of god he has seen
the way that the holy spirit works
through messiah jesus
so he's not arguing with this at all
he's like i've i've seen so many
words of wisdom that this man has given
uh that i'm not about to
you know lift an eyebrow on this i'm on
the way right now with my fishing pole
and i'm putting the line in
and i'm gonna yank him up praise the
lord but notice
when it comes to paying the tax
you will find a piece of money take that
and give it to them for me and you i
can't believe how many christians stand
up and say well now
jesus told peter to go pull the fish up
there'd be the coin in his mouth and
that uh and then peter could pay his tax
and then go pay jesus tax well brother
you got that backwards you better pay
the lord's tax first
you better pay his first that's the word
of wisdom
pay
pay the tax pay for me
and
you
please my friends anytime you receive a
supernatural word of wisdom from god do
exactly what it says don't reverse the
order don't put your own spin on it
don't
question it just do exactly as he says
and it'll work
it'll work woo
can you imagine how messed up it would
have been peter takes the fish takes the
coin out double drachma enough to pay
the exact tax for two people and he goes
down and pays for his first
well i'm all taken care of let me take
care of this other guy it's just jesus
i'll pay histo oh no no
you're inviting you're inviting the
enemy to come in and wallop you because
he's going to be aggravated too that
god's working that god's moving
that that stirs the enemy up better have
a tight walk with the lord and follow
instructions precisely
what gets some people into trouble not
that they haven't heard from god it's
just that they're not they're not
precisely walking out those instructions
so jesus said take that and give it to
them for me
and
you
do it just right
what is that supernatural word of wisdom
as revealed in first corinthians chapter
12 let's look at it very briefly first
corinthians chapter 12 verse 7
but the manifestation of the spirit
is given to each one for the prophet of
all four to one is given the word of
wisdom through the spirit now there's
nine
gifts or manifestations of the spirit
nine charismata okay
why is this one listed first
because it's the best one
what is
the
word of wisdom well first of all let's
understand that they're all supernatural
we can't
just pull this down to like a some type
of wise quote because you can go online
and and get all kinds of quotes from all
kinds of people saints sinners and
quotes of so-called sage advice or
whatever but this is extremely different
this word of wisdom is miraculous it is
supernatural and
here's a book if you don't have in your
library you need to add you can also
download it
through many different formats you can
get it off the ibooks
you can get it off amazon you get a
physical copy of course i always like
physical books you can hold in your hand
although i have a pretty large library
growing on my ipad this is my book
called how to operate in the gifts of
the spirit look at my friend sid roth he
said he said this book is the ultimate
guide for every believer and there's a
lot of depth uh here on the teaching of
the spiritual gifts and i covered the
word of wisdom here's my definition
of the word of wisdom praise god
hallelujah the word of wisdom
is let me find my little area here
well let me just read this paragraph
this is a good paragraph and the mind of
god is contained all wisdom
through the holy spirit a word of wisdom
a word not a whole book a word of wisdom
can be shared with a believer that
reveals supernatural wisdom
the word of wisdom will always be future
tense
now that's very important to understand
the word of knowledge by the way deals
with past tense or current events but
the word wisdom is always future tense
when i say future i'm not necessarily
necessarily talking about something
three months out ahead of you it could
be three months out ahead of you as
the lord talking to peter go fishing
i'm sure right after the lord told him
that peter's out getting this poll he's
off he's on that assignment to fulfill
that word
now
the word of wisdom will always be future
tense it will speak regarding something
you are to do
or reveal something that is going to
happen hidden things are revealed that
we would not normally know
in essence the word of wisdom is the
revealing of supernatural instruction
direction
or guidance that reveals the perfect
will of god concerning a specific
situation
whoo and that's the
that's the gold that's the dynamite of
the word of wisdom it reveals the
perfect will
of god concerning that specific area
that that word addresses
wow
and when you got it
you just received a portion of god's
mind wisdom that was given to you not a
whole book not a universe full no one
word pertaining to that situation coming
supernaturally from the mind of god
himself regarding what he knows
and it is the perfect will of what
you're supposed to do and when you do it
it will always
always 100 percent work every
single time
and now you can see why this gift is
listed first out of the nine
pastor stephen i need the gift though of
the working of miracles
uh
you may think you do but the holy spirit
can manifest the word of wisdom and that
word of wisdom will show you
oh you don't need a miracle you need to
make a phone call and that one phone
call will solve that and you didn't need
a miracle after all
pastor stephen i need to divine healing
i'm sick i can't get healed i need a
divine healing
and you may think i need the gifts of
healings but the holy spirit can
manifest the word of wisdom and the word
of wisdom can say you have not forgiven
that person that sinned against you and
that unforgiveness is blocking your
healing from coming
so
sometimes we don't always
need what we think we need but the word
of wisdom is the perfect will of god
straight is sourced straight from god's
own mind right there on the moment
oh it has a time limit
it's got a time limit
and there's a window and if you don't go
through the window of obedience it will
close
it'll close
i got up one morning
years back
this was this was over 25 years ago i
got up one morning it was six o'clock in
the morning and i got up to pray
and i went in the prayer and at 6 10
6 10 in the morning 10 minutes after 6
exactly
the holy spirit swept over me like a
wave
it was a cessation of him coming over me
like a wave and when he came over me in
that like a wave he spoke to me he said
leave
immediately for california
that was a wild word i was living in
texas and i had a job with a company
that had been in business for over 80
years and they had given me my own
office and i had my own nice desk and oh
i was ready to climb the corporate
ladder
um
and they all like me and i liked them
got along really well
i already had been there like a couple
of years previously then i had gone over
to another job and they wanted me back
and i was back and i thought well i'm
going to be back for quite some time
but the holy spirit
told me to go to california and didn't
tell me where to go to
but i knew it was southern california so
i just that was just like blazing in my
heart
but i was like wow oh lord that's like
scary and so i tried to override it i
tried to overwrite it
and
um
so i i just tried to like act like you
know i didn't hear that but just a few
minutes after that he came over me again
with like a wave of such glory and he
said leave immediately
see the the voice of god is
authoritative he said leave immediately
and go to california and i just jumped i
said all right i said i can't act like i
i'm not hearing this
and i just said all right lord and by
literally by seven can you believe this
it tells you how little i had by seven
o'clock in the morning i had my car
packed full of every single thing that i
owned
i was living in a little bitty like
apartment type efficiency it was real
tiny uh i just threw it all in the trunk
through the rest of it in the back seat
had some stuff in the front seat and
then i had enough time to think hmm
how in the world am i going to explain
this to my boss
when i go in the work
this morning well you know the hour went
by really quick i left it 15 till got to
work just like five five till eight got
out of my car
and when i got out of the car and
started walking towards the the
corporate office because there's a big
manufacturing facility and then there's
the sales office the administrative area
as i was walking towards my area that i
would go to
the boss over the whole complex just
happened to be
walking towards the administrative
building and he noticed i didn't have my
work clothes on you know which was dress
clothes
and he said stephen he said is
everything all right
i said
i said john i need to talk to you he
goes well come on into my office
and so i go into his
office which you know you you rarely
would go in his office it's uh unless
something was bad you you probably
wouldn't want to go in there so you know
you might be getting in trouble or
something like that so anyhow uh i went
into his office and
you know it was a typical ceo type
office big mahogany desk he's got a big
leather chair a lot of brown colors you
know kind of like an old man type office
very very classy
and uh so i sat down in front of his
desk in a chair and he said well stephen
what is it
i said um
i said john i don't really know how to
explain this to you he said all he said
just go ahead and say it i said okay
i said this morning at 6 10 in the
morning the holy spirit swept over me
with great power and he spoke to me and
said leave immediately and go to
california and and i i was going to
continue talking and he said stop
and i didn't know what to think and he
reached over to his drawer and pulled
the drawer out beneath his desk kind of
fuddled around with something and pulled
a bottle out of oil
god is my witness this is true and he
walked around the desk unscrewed the
bottle
took the bottle
and poured the whole thing on my head
and said go
when you get there mail me your your
address this was before email mail me or
send me i can't remember mail me or send
me your address where you're living at
and i'll mail you your final check
i was stunned now i found out later
john was a member
of the full gospel businessmen's
fellowship international he was a
spirit-filled tongue-talking on-fire
christian and i had no idea
i had no idea he had that in him
[Laughter]
nor did i have any idea that when i got
to california i would be asked by the
president of full gospel businessman's
fellowship that's a big word right
that's a big name full gospel
businessman's fellowship international i
would be asked to start a chapter in the
very center where the world headquarters
was at and i would be hosting some of
the greatest speakers within that
organization from all over the world wow
crazy crazy stuff
and i went and i remember on that day
when i was leaving i said i'm going to
go by the church and tell my pastor
and when i went to the church uh they
said he's not here he's in he's in south
korea he's visiting dr cho i thought
well
he's certainly out of town
uh but i realized also looking back on
that that it was probably good that he
was gone because if i would have told
him what i was doing not even really
knowing where i was going or anything
like that he probably would have said
you probably need to think this through
and i probably would have been talked
out of it so anyhow i went
and uh it was the lord that journey
began to set me up for the stepping into
ministry i would incorporate my ministry
in california and then eventually later
of course i would uh move that to north
carolina
where we're at today
and also what i did not know
is that when the lord spoke that to me
that there was a woman in
southern california at a very large
church who had bought
four seats in her church and as she
purchased them by faith because the
pastor said we need to get new seats for
the church sanctuary and she purchased
four for herself she bought one for
herself one for her son one for her
daughter and because she's now single
she said this other one is for my future
husband and he will come and sit in this
chair
and would you believe
when i got to california and got settled
and got a job and got and kind of
started getting my feet on the ground
that one day just a few months later
after i'd been there literally two
months later i walked in literally into
that church and sat in that seat met
kelly we started the conversation fell
in love with each other and got married
i literally sat in the very seat that
she purchased for her future husband to
come sit in
[Laughter]
don't tell me that you can delay and
play around with a word of wisdom you're
playing with fire
if you do that you're choosing like
death over life you're doing crazy crazy
stuff when god speaks i'm not saying
that it won't make the hair stand up on
the back of your neck i'm not saying it
won't be the adventure of a lifetime but
i'm saying that if he did speak you
better write that word because that'll
take you all the way to the to to
victory it'll it is god's perfect will
for your life unveiled
praise god and the church that i ended
up visiting that day was the church i
was raised up at in the ministry
whoa praise the lord
yes
we're talking about
dealing with uh powerful elements here
in the word of god this is like those
that work around the nuclear reactor
you're dealing with things you've got to
be very careful with
praise the lord
and we have a lot of positive stories in
the bible of those that
that obeyed the word of wisdom but we
also have others that did not obey it
and blew it such as the rich young ruler
when jesus said
sell it all
give it to the poor and come follow me
that is not a suggestion that is not an
option that is a commandment from the
living son of god and if you don't do it
it's not like three months later we're
going to be waiting around for you you
do it right now
you do it right now he didn't do it he
didn't do it he lost that opportunity so
you do see the tragedy of those that did
not really understand what they're
dealing with when this tremendous gift
is in manifestation by the holy spirit
it's also time sensitive you have to
obey it and step through it in that
moment praise god
also i'm sure you've also noticed you
cannot take somebody else's
supernatural word of wisdom and try to
make it work for you you have to have
your own word from god in these types of
areas praise the lord
well here's a story
from the book gifts of the holy spirit
by dr d.g.s
dinacaren now i have to admit this book
is a little bit hard to get a hold of
i'm sure that you can contact uh their
ministry
uh they have a ministry in dallas you
could probably get this book um but of
course most of these are coming out of
india from south india
and
dr dgs denicarin talks about the time he
received a word of wisdom from the lord
to do something very unusual and he
didn't do it
and i want to read that story to you
and i'm actually very
happy that he was willing to share
this story of his life and it's a
tragedy
it is a tragedy something that lived
with him for the rest of his life now of
course he's in heaven now so all his
glory and happiness right but i'm glad
he told what happened because you have
to understand what you're dealing with
when god actually does speak i see a lot
of young christians sometimes they get
all excited god spoke god spoke i'm
thinking that's good but you better make
sure you're obey because you're you're
dealing now with life life or death
obedience or disobedience so go do what
god told you to do don't play around on
it don't sleep on it get moving get your
fishing pole go catch that fish pull him
up
pay the tax
how about this for an unusual word
let's jump into it this is from the book
gifts of the holy spirit by the man they
called the prophet from the east dr dgs
dinacaren
now he said in 1985
during the course of my prayer
the holy spirit spoke to me
and said okay so this is going to be
what we know in the bible as a
supernatural word of wisdom the holy
spirit spoke to me and said
your car is very old
exchange it and purchase a strong
mercedes-benz car
dr dennicarin said a mercedes-benz is
quite a costly car and so he said i
found the second hand one
all my friends urged me saying
in obedience to god's command
purchase the mercedes-benz
you can pay
the money in easy
monthly installments
but i thought within myself that instead
of borrowing a huge amount to purchase a
mercedes-benz
i could continue using my old car and
spend that money for god's ministry
i did not understand now listen to this
i did not understand
that god's word about buying a car
was not
a suggestion
but was a command
though the word came to me through other
tongues because he he was praying
in tongues after he prayed in tongues
then he translated it
into his language that he could
understand that's when the holy spirit
that's what the translation was saying
to him he said
he said i did not take it as a
commandment i took it as a suggestion i
never put it i never put it into action
what was the net result
okay in other words what was the result
of him not obeying the holy spirit to
buy her mercedes-benz because he thought
that's not a good use of money that's a
lot of you know money and i'm i'm going
to save the money instead and use it for
the ministry what was the result of that
on the on the fifth month the 21st day
1986
when i was traveling with my family in
my old car
we met with an accident
and the car was smashed flat
alas
my 17 year old beloved daughter angel
lost her life
my heart was shattered to pieces and i
still lament since
that day
had i prayed for receiving the correct
interpretation this gift the word of
wisdom would have made it clear that it
was not a mere suggestion of god but a
command he said i would have obeyed it
and i would not have lost my beloved
daughter who i loved more than my own
life due to my carelessness
so he basically says that because he did
not obey a word of wisdom that the holy
spirit gave to him
he was involved in a car crash
his daughter 17 year old daughter was
was killed in the crash he broke his arm
his whole arm was fractured he was in a
sling and his wife broke her neck uh her
neck was fractured so tragedy tremendous
tragedy now the holy spirit did
bring
uh supernatural healing and comfort to
him and his whole family and he was able
to continue on
with his ministry
but that was something that was very
very difficult for him to get over with
because he felt a certain sense of
responsibility because he didn't do what
god told him to do
these things are very very serious my
friends i don't want you to be fearful
but i do want you have a tremendous
reverence for god's word when god says
choose life death choose life
life is life and death is death
it it and you're you're you've got to do
the right thing
don't tour around with god's word
reverence deeply and respect god's word
and reverence the holy spirit and what
he instructs a word of wisdom will
always carry instruction you can never
separate wisdom from an instruction
i was in india south india one time
and
the host minister
he
he picked me up
and he was using a beautiful vehicle to
show for me around in i'd be at the
hotel they'd pick me up to the hotel and
then they would take me to the
television recording studio
where i would record tele christian
television programs it was kind of funny
because you know i've got to get dressed
up to do the tv shows and so
what i didn't know they told me later is
that everybody at the hotel thought i
was like a bollywood actor
you know here in america we call it
hollywood california
well they have their own version in
india it's called bollywood so
they thought i was some american
bollywood actor i think that's extremely
silly
but one of the things that made them
think that was the car i was getting
picked up in
this beautiful beautiful
white
mercedes bins brand new brand new
absolutely beautiful and you have to
understand that uh in this part of the
world
if you have a mercedes-benz
you're at the very top echelon of wealth
and so um
when i got picked up in the mercedes and
taken to the studio i was before
recording i was talking
with the man of god who had brought me
there
and who's uh who had purchased the
vehicle
and i said hey
beautiful mercedes it's really nice
he said thank you brother stephen
he said i was in prayer some time back
and the holy spirit now watch this
please please listen to me very very
carefully
said the holy spirit told me
to buy
a new mercedes benz
and he said lord
he said those cost a lot of money how
can i do something like that
and the holy spirit said ask
your ministry partner so and so for the
money he has the money
oh
and you talking about an inner struggle
he told me he said oh what a struggle he
said he says so i'm supposed to ask my
ministry partner for money to buy a
mercedes-benz what if he thinks i'm a
fake or fraud i mean what if he thinks
i'm a swindler what what i mean how am i
supposed to explain that
you're not you're supposed to do it
so he he wrestled with that and did not
immediately
do it because he thought he thought lord
i've always
had practice the highest level of ethics
in ministry and i don't want to
do anything that would look
like
that's interesting but he said here god
is commanding me to buy a new
mercedes-benz and to ask my ministry
partner over here for the money
so he said i did not immediately move on
that because i'm i he said i felt great
pressure lord what would this ministry
partner think
and the holy spirit spoke to him
and said
you're making
the same mistake
that dinner karen made
oh
he said when the holy spirit said that
he said my lord
he said i'll get this taken care of
right now
but he said he said brother stephen
he said i did
bend it a little bit
he said i did call the ministry partner
which was a man that had a uh
you know a large business in the city
and uh he said i called him but he said
i didn't
i didn't
directly ask him for the money in other
words can you give me this amount of
money he said can i borrow
he said the lord has led me to call you
to ask you and he said can i
borrow this amount of money to purchase
mercedes-benz
and the man said
let let me and my wife pray about it
and so
uh my friend you know he he's waiting
for the call back and so the call came
back i think it was two days later
and the man said
he said
man of god
the lord has told me
not to lend you the money
but he did tell me that i'm supposed to
give it to you i am supposed to give you
the complete amount of money that you
need to buy the mercedes-benz
so my friend said okay he said praise
the lord
now watch this he goes out and buys a
brand new beautiful mercedes-benz i've
written in it various times
and the moment the man releases the
money the businessman releases the money
for him to do that the moment he
releases it just right after that
immediately after that another contract
came in he got another contract that
paid off the whole amount of money that
he just released it just covered it it
covered it
it's like
god paid for the car
and you know what that's exactly what
the lord did
that's exactly what the lord did now in
the church you've got a lot of people
that are jealous you have a lot of
people that um
they criticize any type of prose
prosperity and really what it is is that
they're frustrated they don't have it
they're not so much mad that you have it
they're just frustrated that they don't
have it but they may may not be walking
in obedience like you are and so they're
frustrated and so they say certain
things and there's criticism it's okay
it comes with the 100 fold well
it's not okay but it just comes with the
territory you understand what i mean by
that so we're going to honor the lord
and obey the lord but you have to be
aware that if there's anybody that you
want to please it must when it's all
said and done it must be god
it must be god well pastor stephen i
don't i don't know what people are going
to think about that i'm not sure either
but i'm mainly concerned what's god
going to think about it because we must
obey him despite what cultural norms say
despite what the rot of society would
say we must obey god because
blessing is directly linked to obedience
and problems and a mess is directly
linked to disobedience so we're going to
do the right thing and we're going to
obey the lord
and when the holy spirit manifests with
words of wisdom that are supernatural
we're going to obey the lord and honor
him hallelujah praise god glory to jesus
hallelujah now i had a situation one
time
uh it was the day before a new year's
eve service
and i said lord i need a i need a word
for new years people want to hear the
prophetic word
and the lord did give me a what we would
call a word for the body of christ but
the first thing he did was he gave me a
personal word he said i want you to ring
in the new year
and the moment he said that
it just the revelation i've exploded in
my heart because i knew exactly what he
meant by it sometimes the lord will say
things in a very prophetic sense where
maybe there's like a pun attached to it
and he said i want you to ring in the
new year and my wife was wearing
uh an old ring that her grandmother had
given her and she was actually using
that as her wedding ring because i had
not been able to
just directly go out and buy her like a
really nice wedding ring and so she had
that one and she liked it and it was
pretty
but it wasn't something that i'd gotten
her so the holy spirit said ring in the
new year and that meant go out take your
wife out and buy her
a new wedding ring and so in our savings
account
we had a certain amount of money in
there several thousands of dollars and
so i thought well i do have some money
uh saved up and so i took her to the
jewelry store uh this was just right
after this word i didn't waste any time
because i knew this was hot hot hot i
gotta act on it so i took my wife to the
jewelry store
and basically just said get get whatever
wedding ring you want and she did she
looked all over and looked at this tried
this tried that finally uh found one
that really made her heart happy
and i bought it for her and when i did
it was the exact amount that drained
completely that account it just emptied
it
there was there was hardly anything left
in it at all maybe like 20 or something
like that left but the thousands of
dollars went on that ring paid the whole
ring off but it totally emptied that
account
but within just a few days
after i did that i was blessed with two
personal offerings and when the
offerings were given to me
it was
it was stated pastor stephen these are
for your personal gifts these are not
for the ministry these offerings are for
you personally and i put them right back
into that account and when i did it
brought it right back up to where it was
before i spent the money on the ring
so the money's already back there it's
like
it's like god paid for the ring
yeah that's exactly what he did why it's
a word of wisdom it will always work
when it is truly from god and you hear
it from god and you act on it and it
doesn't matter it means go pull up a
fish if jesus says there's money in his
mouth it will be there it doesn't matter
what it is when it comes from god so
that's why this word is so powerful and
it that's why it's listed first among
all the gifts
of the spirit and we're also told in
god's word that wisdom is the principle
thing or the chief primary thing
therefore get wisdom so this is
supernatural wisdom this is the wisdom
of god uh what you're supposed to do in
that specific situation praise god
um
while in many ways we rejoice
about a lot of the fun stories uh
associated with the miracles that happen
out of obeying a word of wisdom there is
also the other side that we must be
aware of such as the rich young ruler of
the
missed
opportunities of not obeying the word of
wisdom when jesus said come follow me
he meant it right now
just sell this stuff get rid of it this
stuff has completely owns you you think
you're free you're slave to it sell it
all get rid of it give the money to the
poor come on with me i'm going to show
you how we do things right
and he didn't do it
praise god
amen
so be ready to obey no matter how
even silly it would sound
you know one time i was shaving
you know i think there's moments in life
where you get real calm and relaxed and
i think for guys it's shaving i was
standing in front of the mirror and i
was just shaving you know shaving cream
all over my face
and i wasn't thinking of anything it's
just one of those mellow moments right
and i'm shaving and as i'm standing
there shaving the holy spirit just out
of the blue spoke to me
as if a
as if a person were just standing there
heard the voice but it's from within it
echo it's from within and it kind of
like echoes out
and the holy spirit spoke to me and said
take off
the timex watch
that you're wearing
i'm going to give you a rolex
i thought well
lord well first of all i kind of laughed
i just thought it was funny a statement
like that because it's kind of well
that's kind of a good trade lord because
i knew the watch cost 35
[Laughter]
lord yeah sure lord i'll throw it away
now if you want me to
it's actually a good watch
but i never wore it again after that i
took it off right then
and two weeks later
now remember i took it off
he said take it off i took it off right
then never put it back on ever after
that two weeks later i was in a meeting
and i was given
a very beautiful rolex watch
amen
beautiful watch
wow glory to god
is that an unusual word pastor steven i
didn't even know jesus knew about rolex
i didn't know he knows even stuff about
that he knows everything
there's nothing in his mind that he
doesn't know he knows everything about
everything
you know when that was given to me
at a certain conference
later that evening at a meal i showed
the watch to the conference host and i
told him what had happened
and
he looked at it he said pastor steven
that's wonderful
and i cause i told him
and i told him like two weeks earlier i
was shaving and the holy spirit told me
to take off
the timex and i was gonna get a rolex i
said now look at that isn't that amazing
god said that now here it is
he said that's wonderful pastor stephen
he said that's interesting
he said sometime back now listen to this
he said sometime back i was shaving
standing in front of the mirror and i
was shaving and the holy spirit spoke to
me and said take off that seiko
i'm going to give you a rolex i'm
telling you god talks
some of you may think i'm crazy but i'm
telling you god is a talker and when he
talks
he is never told one lie
in all of eternity past and all the
present it is absolutely impossible for
god to lie
um so he said he said brother stephen
god told me
take off that seiko
i'm going to give you a rolex
and he said now look at this and he's
showing me a real nice
rolex daytona uh chronograph watch
beautiful very expensive i said isn't
that amazing not so much that you got a
rolex that that's cool but isn't it
amazing that god speaks
and that if you'll obey he'll do exactly
what he says it's bulletproof
wow and it doesn't matter what he says
it doesn't matter what he says if you'll
do that
there is the there is the manifestation
coming
praise the lord glory to god
thank you lord jesus
hallelujah
but you must be very precise
in obedience let's close with this
second kings
chapter four
you're going to have to have a prophetic
edge to your life
i'm not saying that you have to be a
prophet because a prophet's office is a
calling into a fightful ministry gift
but you're going to have to have some
prophetic
uh
uh
flow
going through you so you can pick up on
these things
and you can know what's going on
and you can know the blessing that's
attached to it
but also you have to be very very
precise in your obedience
take a look at this in second kings
chapter 4
and
verse
29.
then he said to gehezei
get yourself ready and take my staff in
your hand
and be on your way watch this now watch
this
you're getting instructions from a
prophet
under the anointing
do exactly as he says
okay
if you meet anyone
do not
greet him
and if anyone greets you
oh i can already tell
i could already tell that bless your
hearts for some of you this is too much
this is too much for some of you
i i don't know if elisha
if he told some of you to do this i i
honestly don't know some of you bless
your hearts if you could do it
but you have to understand why
if you meet anyone do not
greet him
and if anyone greets you
do not answer him
belay my staff on the face of the child
if you could just get into a little bit
of the prophetic flow
a little bit of that prophetic stream
you begin to understand when the spirit
begins to come upon your life you're
carrying something
you're it's no different than literally
carrying two buckets of water you know
you're carrying something and when
you're carrying something the last thing
you want to do is spill it and have it
pour out before you reach your
destination and then deliver the goods
i was
sitting one time and heard a man over
talk
he said something that
caught my attention
he was he was criticizing a very
well-known minister
he said well i tell you one thing
i was standing outside of a conference
room one time when the man of so-called
man of god walked by and my son and i we
said hello to him and he didn't even
turn around look at us he just kept
right on walking
and he was mad
not all ministers are fake and snooty
and
snobby and stuck up
oh i said he didn't say hi to you he
goes no i thought that was rude
i said you ever read the bible second
kings chapter four did you ever read
about the ministry of elisha no what
does that mean what does that say
ah never mind it might be a little too
hard for you to obey that one
people sometimes even christians they
have no sense of the prophetic they have
no sense
i was
i was getting ready to do a conference
one time i was hosting i was the speaker
we were renting a facility the people
all there were about ready to go and i
went up and i i took a look at the
microphone that i was going to be using
uh this was the the microphone and the
podium came with the facilities they
weren't not our equipment it belonged to
the facility that we were renting and
when i looked at it i noticed the
microphone wasn't working right and it
looked like it was the whole the whole
system was about to fall apart
it was a real old podium mic it was that
tells you how old it was the mic was
built into the podium and had the like
you know the wire coming up or the uh
you know the metal thing whatever
and uh
right at that moment a man walks up
and he says that's not working as a
brother stephen i said no something's
wrong with it he said well let's take it
apart right now let's i said i said no i
said brother i can't do that i'm gonna
get out of the spirit oh no no he said
i'll go get a screwdriver and we can
take it apart i said no
and i walked away i he knew what he was
doing what's he doing he's trying to
pull me out of the spirit why because
i'm carrying something i cannot i don't
even care at this point i don't care if
the microphone doesn't even work i'll
just stand in front of the people and
talk
because i cannot let things get me out
of the spirit and i drop what i'm
carrying because i'm carrying something
for the people
and he knew he knew exactly what he was
doing because there's jealousy and
there's envy and he was trying to he was
trying to get me all discombobulated and
it didn't work i said no just walked off
completely
and when i came out a few minutes later
to start the meeting the speaker worked
fine never malfunctioned the whole time
watch these things
wisdom requires
the strict obedience to instructions
well pastor steve if i don't talk to
somebody what if i what if my best
friend comes up to me you're on
assignment you're on kingdom assignment
and the prophet said don't talk don't
talk
well now pastor steven they're going to
think we're rude you can work all that
out later you can you can explain all of
that later and for some of them bless
their hearts they may never understand
it even if you do show it to them in the
bible
this is not the only time when such
a type of instruction was given very
specifics get in
do your job and get out don't say
anything
and those that didn't do it it didn't
work for them
one man one young prophet tremendous
anointing lost his life because of all
the blabbing afterwards god told him to
go
and the old prophet
who was probably envious of the new
anointing said oh oh god god told me
that you're supposed to come over to my
house
and the young prophet who god said do
not
stay leave immediately he goes well god
told you that he goes yes yes god said
no you're supposed to come over here he
went over there and the old prophet said
because you did this you're going to die
and he did
he was killed on the way home
what do you see you see the old guard
envious of the new anointing not uh no
longer having that and thinking well if
i can't have it i'll just nobody can
have it we'll take him out too
that's what the guy was doing at the
microphone let me get the screwdriver
we'll take it all apart can you imagine
that little pieces going everywhere
little bitty screws rolling all over the
pulpit and i'm supposed to minister in
the anointing and people want to be
healed from sickness and disease through
the power of the holy spirit and i've
got screws going all over my desk that's
crazy crazy stuff
the enemy will try to do crazy stuff
like that you have to be ready before
you ever get there
here's a book
very hard to get a hold of
take your glory
lord the life story of william duma
very hard to get a hold of i found it on
the
internet in a bookstore in i think
somewhere in england i paid a hundred
dollars for this book and it's worth
every penny i've seen it i've seen it
for sale on the internet for a thousand
dollars
i wouldn't pay a thousand dollars but i
was honestly i was happy to be a hundred
dollars for it
uh you can read about when the lord told
him to go raise this person from the
dead
go do this and he's on the way and you
wouldn't believe how many people want to
come up and talk to him and not they're
trying to why do they do it they're
trying to pull him out of the spirit and
people are cursing and profaning him as
he's walking trying to do anything to
get him out of the spirit you're gonna
have to learn these things when god
gives you a word to do something don't
go to the left or right execute the word
and then you can go talk to your best
friend after that anointing lives uh and
as we would say in a sense life returns
to normal
praise god
glory to god
all right i've actually had many other
words of wisdom that the lord has spoken
me at various times some of them were
personal
just certain things i needed to do but
my friends this
this gift of the holy spirit is very
very powerful i just want you to realize
when it happens
what you're dealing with and rejoice yes
but
execute let me give you one more
one more then i want to pray that this
anointing touch your life this gift come
to you
i was
sitting
in the couch or not in the couch sitting
on the couch and i was thinking
about
my television ministry now at this time
i didn't have a television ministry i
had a calling
and i knew that god had tv for me
i'd done a lot of television shows on
other people's
sets
and i've been on tv as a guest at
various places but i felt god had
a calling for me that for me to have my
own program for this ministry to have
its own program which today we know is
pure gold but this was before pure gold
ever materialized
and i was sitting on the couch and i was
thinking about
the money that i had saved
for the television ministry and i'd
saved for a whole year
and in some ways as i was thinking about
it in some ways it was a lot of money
because i thought
i could buy a really good camera
with that i mean i could buy a really
good camera but at the other time at the
same time i thought
but that's all i could do i it's not
enough i just thought lord it's a lot
but it's still it's it's a little
because it's not enough and i i'm stuck
between two worlds and i don't know what
to do
should i should i use what i have and do
the little maybe a little bit with it or
is it just not enough and i so but i
honestly didn't know what to do so i'm
sitting on the couch and i'm thinking
about that
and as i sat there
suddenly the holy spirit
spoke to me a word of wisdom now
remember what is a word of wisdom
it is god's perfect will for your life
revealed
through a word not a book
i i didn't need god to read a whole book
to me
but a word could even be one or two
sentences
it is a word of wisdom
wisdom always directs as to what to do
and it directs in a specific area a
specific
uh part of your life
and it is god's perfect will
so as i sat there on the couch
stuck not knowing what to do the holy
spirit spoke
and said
what you hold in your
hand which was thousands of dollars but
not enough
he said what you hold in your hand
is
your seed
it is not your harvest
and i thought lord that's amazing i
actually got up and looked back behind
the couch because the voice was that
real it wasn't an angel it was a holy
spirit the voice was all around
it filled the room but
i mean i got up and looked behind the
couch i thought lord have mercy and i
said that's right
this is not my harvest it can't be it's
too little so i said it is a seed
and i went and told my wife i said kelly
i said i know exactly what we're
supposed to do with that
money that we have been saving for over
a year for the tv ministry she said what
i said the lord said it's a seed it's
not our harvest so i took the whole
thing and
sowed it into the ministry of a man of
god
that has an international television
ministry and i said this is my best seed
and he received it with thanksgiving
and today
today
it's it's you know we're reaping the
benefits of that so here's the problem
with some they eat their seed
and if you eat your seed you have no
expectation for a harvest why it's not
out there in your field the harvest's
not in your field because the seed went
in your belly
but we sowed the seed
and now we are reaping god's best
100-fold return on that
and as you know we're on television on
many different networks we're increasing
our coverage
and people from all over the world
literally are watching the pure gold
program
hallelujah but see i obeyed that word
i obeyed that word
um could i feel the weight the magnitude
of what it is to give that away think
you know it took a year
to save that yeah i could feel that i
could feel that but i also knew in an
undeniable way i heard from god and it
was a word of wisdom
which reveals the perfect will of god
what to do in that situation and today
i'm so glad i sowed that
because today that looks small
back then it looked huge but today it
looks so small compared to the budget
that it requires to operate uh all that
we're doing with television praise the
lord
yes rejoice when you hear the word but
execute
and walk it out praise the lord lift
your hands
father i pray for those that are
watching today
that not only
will they open their hearts to receive
this supernatural manifestation of your
spirit of the word of wisdom
but i pray lord that they not be like oh
i heard it and then there'd be like some
kind of
foolish giddiness
but i pray that there be a sobriety that
hits them that that they realize
oh i know what to do and i must do this
and let there be a holy reverence
when this word comes now we give you
praise
thank you father not a fear in the sense
of a phobia but yes
a deep reverence i have heard from god
and now
i must
choose life i must i must obey quickly
now father we give you praise in the
name of jesus
let that gift come to your people in
jesus name whoa glory to god amen shall
i receive
praise the lord
glory to the lord
now those of you that are watching today
and you don't know christ as your lord
and savior
jesus christ loves you he died on the
cross to save you from your sins if
you'll put your trust in him and give
him your entire life he'll save you
right now
if you would like to receive his eternal
salvation pray this prayer say lord
jesus
i'm a sinner
but you died to save sinners
like me
jesus
i give you my whole life
every part of it
wash me with your precious blood
write
my name in your book of life
and take my life now
thank you jesus for saving me in your
name i pray
amen
and amen welcome to the family of god
that was the wisest thing that you've
ever done in your life
praise the lord glory to god now
let's honor the lord let's receive holy
communion
i want to encourage you grab some
unleavened bread
if you have a little cracker or
something like that that will work just
as well also
and grab some grape juice
and let's pray
father we thank you for the bread and
the juice we bless it
we set it apart as holy
we thank you father god
we thank you this is now the body the
flesh the blood of christ
and father we thank you that we
understand what the psalmist meant when
he said he trembles at your word
thank you father god
we give you praise for the power
in your word your ability to do exactly
what you say
so father we rejoice let us also
always be aware of the the power
associated here
oh god we reverence you we give you
praise as we receive the flesh of christ
we thank you for the gift of the word of
wisdom coming to us
showing us exactly what to do in that
specific situation in jesus name we pray
amen
and amen let's receive
the great prayer intercessor
brees house
had a tax payment that was due
and he didn't have he did not have
enough money to pay it
and so he's thinking lord what am i
going to do i've i've got this amount
but it's not enough
and right during that time another
brother came up to him and said brother
reese he said i really need god to help
me and rei said what do you need
he said i've got a tax payment that's
due and i don't have it
reese said how much is it
and it was the exact amount that he had
saved
rhys said let's pray
they got that on the ground and they
prayed and knelt down and prayed and
then reece said well let's get up he
said brother he said god told me to
deliver you god told me to pay your
uh give you the money for the taxes so
they went down to the bank
and uh reese gave him the money his
money which was all he had that guy went
and paid his tax payment and re said
lord you instructed me to do that so i
know that you're going to help me and
the very next day the full amount of the
tax money that he was supposed to pay it
all came in through a personal gift to
him personally
and he was able to pay the whole thing
off
so at that time he didn't need to go
fishing in the lake and find the fish
with gold in his mouth so you can't
replicate these
these things these are all
all worked out by the holy spirit praise
the lord
father thank you for the blood of jesus
we asked if we've committed any sins
that you would forgive us
we ask that you would cleanse us from
all unrighteousness and we forgive and
bless anybody anyone who has sinned
against us we thank you father god this
is a new day for the church this is the
new dawn the golden era of the church
we're in the last days and while there's
gross darkness in the earth we thank you
that your glory is being seen upon us we
thank you for solutions we thank you for
the way forward we thank you that we
have supernatural help through the
enabling of your holy spirit we give you
praise in jesus name
amen let's receive the blood of the lord
jesus
praise god
now let's lift our hands and thank the
lord
for all of his gifts
lord we just praise you and we thank you
we give you all of the praise we give
you praise lord we thank you for the
revelation gifts that reveal something
we thank you for the word of wisdom
we thank you for the word of knowledge
we thank you for discerning the spirits
we thank you for all of the gifts of
your holy spirit
oh god we give you praise we thank you
that we are in a time of things being
unveiled
and
having a bright illuminated path in
front of us
father we just thank you for jesus
we thank you for the words of the master
coming to us
we thank you o god hallelujah we give
you praise and glory thank you lord
jesus for making a way
even in certain areas where there would
appear to be no way we thank you that
with you and your wisdom there's always
a solution thank you oh god for showing
us what to do
thank you lord hallelujah and lord jesus
we receive the ministry of your holy
spirit we receive the manifestations of
your holy spirit and oh god we give you
praise
thank you father in jesus name amen
and amen
hallelujah
hallelujah let me say this in closing
and keep in mind
someone like dgs dennicarin who the lord
said by mercedes-benz see the holy
spirit knew the enemy was going to try
to attack him and so the holy spirit
wanted him in a very strong
vehicle with steel frames running
through the hole the doors and the
entire structure to protect from a crazy
driver sent by the devil
oh glory to god this is what i want to
say don't let any
person talk you out of obeying something
that the lord has told you to do maybe
some crazy family member or somebody
like that or
somebody that basically does not
understand the ways of god you you know
too much now
to disobey so do what the lord says to
do and you'll also see god move mightily
in your life in a beautiful way
god bless you thank you for watching
i'll see you back next time