Study Notes

FOUNDATION STATEMENT: We are ambassadors sent on assignment from Heaven into the Earth.  While we are here we are to be supported by the Government that sent us called the Kingdom of God. – Matthew 10:5-9

 

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

A.     We don’t need to get our provision from anywhere else, but the place that sent us

1.      Too many believers don’t know how to receive the provision from home, consequently they have to get that provision from somewhere else

2.      God wants to be your source and your supply and he doesn’t want you running to any other system to get your need met

a.      The problem has not been with God’s unwillingness to release the provision; the problem has been with our spiritual incompetence to receive the provision

b.      When people are not taught in church how to receive the provision from God, God’s way, then they have no choice, but to run to the world & receive that way

3.      There’s a way to receive what we need from God

a.      There is a law of receiving and if the principles of that law aren’t in place then that law of receiving can’t work for you

B.      God knows that you have need of things before you ask Him (Matthew 6:8,32-33)

1.      He knows that while you’re here in the earth u need houses, cars, clothes, & money

a.      God wants u 2 receive the provision His way, not struggling 4 it the world’s way

1)       That’s what the whole teaching in Matthew 6 is about

b.      I’m never going to run to the world to get my need met b/c the world didn’t send me; When I’m in need I run to the Kingdom & His way of doing things (Matt 6:33)

2.      While He’s providing it, He decided to provide the best & do it in abundance-Ps 23:5

II.     We need to be conscious who sent us and the government or King that we represent because if we’re not conscious of that we’ll tolerate lack instead living in abundance

A.     The God who sent you is not broke and the place you come from has no lack

1.      Where you come from and who you represent

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

b.      Exodus 24:10 – Sapphire foot pillow

c.      John 14:2 – Mansions in Heaven

2.      We need to remember that I come from a rich place sent by a rich God, to live richly in the Earth, richly representing him

a.      EXAMPLE: The people in that poverty stricken country catch a glimpse of what the United States is like by looking at the life of the ambassador.  Multitudes of people wait in line daily for their visa trying to get out of there & over to the USA 

b.      We are supposed to represent Heaven in the Earth to give the world a glimpse of what Heaven is like & they’ll want it

B.      God’s the provider & He doesn’t want u to lack anything that u need, or desire-Ps 23:1

1.      When God is the provider there is NO LACK

2.      When we are conscious of the King who sent us, understanding that He is for providing for us, knowing that Heaven is the place where we come from, and it is the place that we represent then the benchmark of provision in our minds for our lives will no longer be just enough, but it will be more than enough

a.      Shepherd – to care for flocks, feed, guide, and shield

b.      Want – to lack, decreased, to go down

c.      Green pastures – prosperity

d.      Still waters – peace

e.      Leads me – guidance

f.       In the presence of my enemies I have abundance

g.      Runs over – abundance

3.      When you’re God sent/Heaven sent you are not supposed to lack any good thing because you’re giving the world a glimpse of what Heaven is like (Psalm 34:8-10)

a.      The angel of the Lord encamping round about you is abundance of protection

1)       Encamp – pitch a tent, siege (No way in or out)

b.      Blessed – Proverbs 10:22 – The Blessing makes total life prosperity

1)       The blessing works in such away that it removes lack from every area of life

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

1)       Where there is no faith, there is no blessing, where there is no blessing there is no provision abundance

a)      Faith begins with the Word

2)       Faith people ought to be rich because they are blessed

a)      Rich should be the mark of people of faith

b)      They are trusting in and looking to God and only God for what they need

d.      For His ambassadors (saints) that hear and obey (fear) there is no want

1)       Want – need, lack, poverty, poor

e.      Seek the Lord – Matthew 6:33

1)       You will lack nothing good when u seek God & His way of receiving provision

C.     God wants the ones that He sends into the Earth to have the best because they are representing Him (Heaven) in the Earth 

1.      Nobody should have better or be more abundantly supplied than the ambassadors of the Kingdom of God because we represent the richest place in existence

a.      Deuteronomy 7:14-God’s people should be the most blessed

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

c.      Psalm 115:12-16-The Lord shall increase you more and more

d.      Mal 3:10-God wants to increase you in such away that you can’t contain it all

2.      God doesn’t have just enough on his mind b/c He’s got the whole Earth on His mind

a.      God wants to distribute to the world through you (1 Tim 6:17)

D.     You got to know who you’re working for (Matthew 10:5-10)

1.      You’re working for God and He’s going to pay you

a.      The workman is worthy of provision

b.      He didn’t want them out there trusting in that bag; he was teaching them how to trust him as their source and supply

2.      I expect abundance b/c I know who my boss is; I know where I come from; I know who sent me I; I know who’s paying me and providing for me; I know what He has access to; I know how much He loves me

E.      While I’m here I’m supposed to be kept from the evil that’s in the world (John 17:15)

1.      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 they’re in the world, my prayer is that they be kept from the evil that’s there. 

a.      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. 

2.      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, 37:19)