2022
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After you watch the video and read the study notes below, answer these questions here:
1. What is it that you may be doing that is limiting God?
2. Share some stories of how God showed you where your provision was, and how He wants to take care of you.
3. Talk about the storehouse in Heaven that God has for you. How can you participate in that?
4. Pray for each other.
DISCUSSION:
Warrior Notes is about the whole body of Christ, not just through a certain individual or group. I was sent back to build up the body. I don't have criticism, and I don't sit around on the sidelines. I’ve come to you to help you. We at Warrior Notes love all of you all over the world. We want to build you up and tell you that you can do this and have this as well.
People will say, “I wish I had what you had,” and “I'd like to be able to walk with God like you do,” but I'm just like you, and most ministers won't tell you that. I want you to participate in what God has for you. We're going to build each other up and see God use us. When Jesus hung on the cross, He did it for all, not just a certain group of people.
GLORIOUS RICHES
Philippians 4:19 NLT:
And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus
I read this verse for many years, and it was a happy verse. It was an exciting verse for me. However, a banker, or a person who handles money, a person who handles property, or a person who can give out benefits or give you that grant or loan, may see this a different way. When Paul was writing this, he was talking about an actual transaction. Paul is saying the same God that I serve can take care of you and take care of me. The same God that you serve can take care of you just like I am being taken care of. Then he says God will supply all your needs from His glorious riches..
When we talk, we sometimes say the words “to,” “for,” or “from” to express the meaning of what we are saying. For example, the verse in Hebrews 1:14, is quoting Psalms. It talks about the angels sent to minister for those who are going to inherit Salvation. It doesn't say to minister to those that are going to inherit Salvation. It says to Minister for, and that is a totally different word, and it's saying a totally different thing. When people quote that, they misquote it, because if you study it out, what it’s saying is that the angels are partnering with you. You're actually the one that's in authority and you're being sent. You're the sent one. There's never been an angel that was an apostle. Only human beings can be apostles. The angels are sent to minister for the sent ones; the prophets or the evangelists or the pastors, teachers or the single moms who have prophets in their house, in their womb, and they're raising them up. It's for everybody.
Paul here is talking about a transaction. It's saying God will supply your needs from (an account), Paul calls “glorious riches.” If you would go to a bank, the bank's name is “glorious riches.” You have to think that way because that's how it is. It's a storehouse; God has a treasure because He's very wealthy. He has everything. When He built this Earth, He made this earth, He made it so there'd be no needs for Adam and Eve and all the children that would ever live. It was set up so that Adam and Eve would never have to work, and they would always have an inheritance to give to their children. They would live forever. In the Garden of Eden, you didn't have to work. It was because they were withdrawing from the glorious riches. Now we have to make a transaction, and we have to work in a broken system down here. We have giving and receiving down here, but we didn’t have to do anything in the beginning. It was just a constant flow.
The same thing happens with healing. If you don't believe and do something about it, you may not get healed. You have to believe. You have to engage with God from His promises. That's the frame of mind that I want you to get back into, as we study this.
God is ministering to our needs out of His glorious riches. In other words, there has to be a transaction that comes to pass. It's spoken all through Paul's writings, and it's in Peter's writings, as well, but you won't catch it if you don't read slowly. If you're just trying to memorize verses, that's fine, but are they changing you? Are you encountering transformation? God wants all of us to walk in transformation. I've met people in other countries that don't have what we have access to here in the United States, but they are all on the same page, they have big churches, and they all get along with each other. I was wondering, how do they know how things work? The spirit would move there, and the power of God was much stronger than in the United States. It was rare for anyone to stay seated in a service there, and they did not have hands laid on anyone. The power of God was so strong that I would walk by, and people would fall out under the anointing as I was preaching.
Here in America, everyone just sits and stares at you in a service. We know that all of you in other countries are very hungry. You don't have the same inhibitions that we do here. When people in other countries have somebody come and speak they draw from it immensely because they know that you’ve been sent to their country. We would see so many miracles. People were healed of incurable diseases, and they would never have hands laid upon them. I remember, I would just point and say, there's an angel behind you, because a little angel would walk in and stand beside a person, and I would say, “You have a back problem, and you're being healed right now.” We were in other countries where almost 500 people in the congregation had demons leave them. I wondered what did I even say? It was through a translator. I just said, Blood of Jesus or in the name of Jesus, and I commanded all the demons to leave. I thought maybe a couple demons would come out with little coughs, but no, people were throwing up. I thought to myself 500 people were there, and they all wanted to come. I realized that we have to tap in and make a transaction from God's glorious riches, just knowing a couple verses isn’t going to work anymore. You need to tap into everything. If you're not going to allow God to supply all your needs, then you're going to stay right where you are, and you're not going to be everything that the Lord Jesus has written about you.
HE IS OUR PROVIDER
2 Peter 1:3 NLT: By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.
Everything comes by His divine power. God has given us everything we need for living a Godly life. I had one person tell me recently, “Of all the customers we have, you're the only one that pays your bills for your jet early.” He said, “I've been in the industry for many years, and I've never seen anybody do what you do.” I said, well, “I want to live a Godly life, the main thing I can do is can I keep my word?” I said, “Part of living a Godly life is paying your bills and being on time.” There are certain things that God would do. He wouldn't be in debt to anybody. He wouldn't be late.
He wouldn't say something and not do it.