Study Notes

I.      While we’re hear we’ll be supported by the Kingdom of God

A.     We are sent into the Earth on assignment from Heaven & Heaven is responsible for providing us with everything that we need to complete our assignment in the Earth

1.      God knows that you have need of things (Matthew 6:8)

a.      He knows that you need houses, cars, clothes, and money in the Earth and while He’s providing it, He decided to provide the best and do it in abundance.

2.      My assignment is to bless the Earth so the provisions and protection necessary to do so, Heaven has already provided

a.      Everything that you would need has already been provided (Ephesians 1:3, 2 Peter 1:3-4, 1 Peter 1:3-5)

b.      Before the foundation of the world God created an account in Heaven filled with everything that you would ever need here on this Earth

1)       Money is there, cars are there, clothes are there, houses are there

3.      You don’t ask for what God has already given to you, you place a demand on what’s already yours (Matthew 6:8, 7:7,11, John 15:7)

a.      To place a demand on what’s already yours, you take the steps necessary to make a withdraw

b.      Making the Withdraw

1)       You get the word

2)       You put the word in your heart

3)       You think, talk, and act like you already have it

4)       You walk in love

c.      Faith then reaches into your unseen account & manifests what u need in the seen

4.      I don’t to run to the world to get my need met b/c the world didn’t send me

a.      When I’m in need I always run to God, His Kingdom, and His way of doing things (Matthew 6)

1)       If I’m here on assignment from Heaven, then why would I look to anybody else to meet my needs, but the one who sent me

B.      We need to be conscious who sent us and who our provider is

1.      God’s the provider and He doesn’t want you to lack anything that you need, want, or desire (Psalm 23:1)

a.      The Lord is my provider and because He is I do not lack

1)       Shepherd – to care for flocks, feed, guide, and shield

2)       Want – to lack, decreased, to go down

b.      Psalm 34:8-10

1)       Blessed – Proverbs 10:22 – The Blessing makes total life prosperity

2)       Trust in him – In the Kingdom of God you must live by faith (Matthew 6:30)

a)      Faith people ought to be rich

b)      The ought not be one person who calls themselves faith people who is poor

3)       No Want – need, lack, poverty, poor

4)       Seek the Lord – Matthew 6:33

a)      You will lack nothing good when you seek God and His way of doing things

II.     Who are you representing

A.     The God who sent you is not broke

1.      Revelation 21:10-21 – Gates of pearls, streets of gold

2.      Exodus 24:10 – Sapphire foot pillow

3.      John 14:2 – Mansions in Heaven

B.      God wants the ones that He sends into the Earth to have the best.  Nobody should have better or be more abundantly supplied than the ambassadors of the Kingdom of God.

1.      Deuteronomy 7:14 – God’s people should be the most blessed

2.      Malachi 3:10 – God wants to increase out on you in such away that you can’t contain it all

3.      Psalm 112:3 – Wealth and riches should be in your house

C.     God doesn’t have just enough on his mind because He’s always got the whole Earth on His mind

1.      God wants to distribute to the world through you (Timothy 6:17-18)

a.      God’s giving you things to enjoy

b.      Be ready to distribute

D.     You got to know who you’re working for

1.      You’re working for God and He’s going to pay you (Matthew 10:5-10)

a.      God’s paying them because they were working for Him

b.      He didn’t want them relying on that bag because He sent them and He wanted to provide for them

1)       Besides that, that bag couldn’t contain all that God wanted to do

c.      He’s teaching them to work a system that no matter where they are, what they need, and how much of it they need they can get it

d.      I don’t get my paycheck from the world I’m going in, I get it from home

2.      You’re not working for a living (Ephesians 4:28)

a.      You work so that you can distribute; that’s seed

b.      You don’t live on seed, you live off of harvest

III.   When Adam sinned in the Garden mankind fell from a place of working towards the visions to working for the provision

A.     Gen 1:29-God provided him with everything that he would every need in the Earth

1.      Adam’s total focus is on the vision – Replenish the Earth because God took care of the provision

B.      Genesis 3:17-24 – When Adam sinned he had to toil just to get provision for his life

1.      When Adam fell he lost:

a.      Fellowship

b.      Provision

c.      Assignment

2.      Adam is now just surviving

a.      He’s just getting by

b.      The assignment is not #1, it’s survival mode

c.      He’s not thinking about, “Replenish the Earth” – He’s thinking about replenishing himself

3.      Adam’s main focus is provision, but you can’t serve two masters

a.      God provides everything that u need so that you can go after your assignment

b.      Matthew 6:24

C.     Jesus came to take us back up the level that Adam operated in before the fall

1.      Take no thought for your life – Don’t live in survival mode

a.      Be after the vision because God’s provided the provision

2.      Satan’s plan was to get us distracted with putting food on the table and making a living so that we would lose focus on the vision bless the Earth

a.      We need to have a proper balance of provision and vision and understand that “provision” is very necessary to complete “the vision”

1)       You don’t want to be too far over on the side of all you think about is provision and you don’t want to be so far over on the other side that you say money is not for the church

IV.   While I’m here I’m supposed to be kept from the evil the evil that’s in the world-Jn 17:17

A.     Jesus’ prayer: Lord they are not of the world just like I’m not of the world.  They’re from Heaven like I’m from Heaven.  I’m not asking you to take them out of the world because there’s work to be done there, but while their in the world, my prayer is that they be kept from the evil that’s there. 

1.      EXAMPLE: The idea is the U.S. embassy in a foreign country.  That in that country there could be poverty, famine, danger, wars and other evil things.  But this person that’s representing the United States has a bright white building that they live in, with a rod iron fence surrounding it, and bright green grass inside the fence.  Not only that he has armed guards protecting that embassy and him everywhere he goes.  Not only that, but whatever he needs in that country he gets from the United States because that’s who sent him.  They are paying for his house, his car, his food all of that.  You know he’s from the United States because of how he lives.

B.      That should be the picture of us.  That in a world full of evil, poverty, famine, and danger we should be living in that nice big white mansion, with bright green grass, and a black rod iron fence surrounding.  With angels encamped around us everywhere we go, seeing to it that we don’t dash our foot against a stone.  (Psalm 91:11-12, Psalm 34:7)

C.     I expect abundance because

1.      I know who my boss is

2.      I know where I come from

3.      I know who sent me I

4.      I know who’s paying me, I know who’s providing for me

5.      I know what He has access to

6.      I know how much He loves me

V.    The main reason that a lot of believers haven’t plugged into this kind of provision and protection is because they’ve yet to look to God as their only source and they continue to run to the world’s system

A.     To get this kind of provision and protection you got to work the Kingdom of God

B.      To get this kind of provision and protection God has to be your only source and your only supply

C.     God needs me rich, wealthy, and healthy