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0:00 On today's fixing the money thing, I'm gonna continue to interview Gary Kissy about his new book, Occupy Your Destiny, the winning strategy for life.0:12 In the dictionary, the word occupy means this, to take up a place, fill a space, take hold or possess or control a territory,0:24 or perform the functions of an office or position. In my opinion, the church knows very little about occupying, very little about occupation.0:40 You must first learn who you are in this kingdom before you can take an assignment to occupy anything. You say, oh, pastor, I'm sure you're having trouble.0:52 That's what we're talking about today. We need to talk about that. How you occupy that space? How do we occupy that space? If we don't know how to occupy it, Satan may be sitting in1:04 your chair. Occupy your destiny, the winning strategy for life today on fixing the money thing.1:16 On the last program, we were talking to Gary about how 70 percent of lottery winners go bankrupt. People think that finances is all the answer, but there's more to the winning1:28 strategy for life. Gary, so good. We were talking about people and we're talking about delegation, how we have a kingdom. You talked about how we don't have to conquer. We've already been given1:39 the victory by Jesus, but we have to occupy and how to drive out those forces and to occupy. Well, we're driving them out. We're declaring the wall or displacing them, right?1:51 We're declaring the wall. So let's review for those who may be joining us for the first time. We're talking about occupy. Jesus said, Occupy until I come. He gave an analogy where a prince went away to their land, came2:02 back as king, went away to be crowned, come back as king. And he told his servants while he was gone to occupy. He gave them some money, occupy while I'm gone. Mhmm. And so that is a direct2:14 analogy of the church. Jesus is coming back as king, and we have a directive to occupy. And so what does that mean? Well, the word literally means fill the space. We we talked about that.2:26 We are to fill the earth with this new government. See, Jesus ushers in this new government, kingdom of God, into the earth realm, and we carry that government2:38 with us, and we are now declaring the laws of this new kingdom to the captives that have been held hostage to this enemy territory, this enemy government, Satan's kingdom,2:50 he's defeated, but we're now declaring that. Okay, we're gonna occupy, take territory.2:56 So we're displacing the enemy's lies and all the things he set2:59 up We're gonna turn the new law. There's healing instead of sickness. There's now prosperity instead of poverty. There's Yes. You know, health. I mean, there's peace and, you know, anxious. I mean, there's a whole new3:09 righteousness. K? Is right? That's right. What the king says. Kingdom, king's dominion. What does the law of the king say is right, righteous, alright? We are declaring righteousness3:21 and we have been given authority to declare on behalf of the king. Now that's delegated authority. He has Jesus has given us his authority to us. We have3:33 authority over Satan, of course. He's he's been he's done.3:37 So Satan is displaced and already He's very defeated. We go and displace them in people's lives by giving3:44 them the He's He's a squatter. He's gonna hold on to territory.3:49 He's on3:49 to though the law says that people have freedom from him. But he has no authority. But if there's no 1 there declaring that he's gonna he's gonna continue to harass,4:01 torment people, you know, kill, steal, and destroy until someone comes along and says, hey, there's a new law buddy. Get out of here.4:07 Stopping the name of the law.4:09 That's what we do. We say, hey buddy, you're out. We found you out, you're out. Captives, you come out of there. God says, this new kingdom, come into the kingdom of God and be set free and there's a whole new way of4:19 life. That's our job. We're ambassadors, the Bible says4:22 Yes.4:22 On behalf of this new government. Okay? Got it? That's great. All right. So now, occupy. How do we what does it mean to occupy? I said that most Christians said last program, most4:34 Christians are focused on deliverance, not realizing Satan has been completely, utterly defeated. Fact, Luke 10 says, We will4:46 trample on scorpions and serpents, and nothing by any means shall harm us. We have absolute He has no legal jurisdiction whatsoever unless we give it to4:57 him. Right.4:57 But legally, under the law of the king, it's done. But now we occupy, and that means hold territory. Another definition of the word occupy is fill the space, also means to hold5:09 territory. So we used an example yesterday. Occupation requires a knowledge of, first off, how authority works.5:17 Mhmm.5:18 Then secondly, what does it what does delegated authority mean and administration. And I used an example yesterday if I had some tomato plants5:30 or corn, whatever you want to grow, a little garden, I could manage that. But if I'm going to take 20000 acres, that's beyond my capacity. Okay? I have to have processes,5:42 equipment, employees, an HR department. There's taxes. I have no harvest. I have nowhere to how to monetize sowing. There's a whole process of occupying those 20000 acres. Now, may own5:53 them, and they'd be full of weeds. I may own them. Have legal right to them, but I'm not occupying them. There's no benefit being derived6:04 from You plant something there, you clear the land, you plant something there, you harvest something there, you're not really occupying.6:12 You're not occupying it.6:12 And that's where you're saying the church has for too many years thought they were just in a 1 on 1 war with the devil fighting against the enemy, but really the sin, fighting, battling is just to keep them out of their6:23 destiny.6:24 Well, celebrate deliverance and that is a great deliverance. Right. All right. Then I said we were delivered from something to go to something. And so we love to celebrate the deed. Hey, I own 20000 acres.6:36 Praise God. They're paid for. I got 20. That's great. That's fantastic. You know, said it's like if I had a brand new car and it's paid for and I'm celebrating, I got this new car, it's6:48 in my driveway and I have you over to the house and we look at it and we look at it and look at it and we all celebrate that I have it. That car is designed to take me someplace.6:57 Exactly.6:57 Okay? But the church is having a party around the car.7:03 God is Deliverance.7:04 We're singing in our churches about freedom.7:06 And it's great to have freedom, but we've got to actually walk out that freedom too.7:10 Listen, we sing in our churches about freedom. And praise God, we're free. Yes. But we don't teach them, you're free, go take your destiny. Go occupy what God says it's yours to occupy.7:22 You're free from sickness, go do this. Because you're free from poverty, go tackle Go care it. Go do this.7:28 Now, to occupy, as I said, the 20000 acres, I have to have employees, people. I always say your destiny is a place, okay? And it will require people.7:40 God, your assignment requires people.7:44 Which is the blessing and the challenge at the same time, I always say people7:48 are the answer and they're the problem. And Satan sends people and God sends people. Okay, so a lot of things you have to learn about people, And where do you learn that at?7:57 The word of God and the training that he puts you under in authority.8:02 God is always gonna place you under a position of preparation, and that is always under authority. Now, there's 2 ways of looking at authority. Number 1, we have8:13 authority over the enemy. We have God's authority over the enemy. Every believer has that. Okay. He has he's done. We that's done. In the name of Jesus, it's okay. We have that. That's finished. And but believers8:25 have this mindset. It's just me and God. This thing the journey we're on. It's me and God. And if I don't like this person, that person, I don't want know? But no. God calls us to things, moves us. Mhmm. Alright.8:36 And 1 can put 1000 to flight. 2 can put 10000. So it takes more for our assignment than just us. Okay.8:44 So now we're involved in what's called delegated authority. Now it is delegated authority for you and God. He's Jesus gave you his authority over the enemy. Alright. But if you're gonna build anything and yesterday, I8:55 put an org chart up, and I think let's put it up again. Every business, every family, everything in the world has an org chart. If it's just you and your family, there's a 5 or 6 or 3. You know? You have an org chart.9:05 There's a head of that little miniature government, and then there's people under authority there. We learn authority by being submitted to. In fact, it's impossible to have authority unless we're9:17 submitted to authority. Now, delegated authority is a little different because we are submitted to authority typically through someone else. So, for instance, in Matthew chapter 8, we find the9:29 story of the centurion. The centurion, Jesus was like, this guy gets it.9:35 He worked for the Roman government.9:37 He was a centurion.9:38 This was a very authoritative government.9:40 Okay, what's the first thing they teach in the military?9:42 To missionaries. Follow orders9:45 because the life of your squadron or your platoon, everyone's life is dependent upon that rule. So the centurion has a person over him and the head of the military is9:56 Caesar. Okay? But he tells Jesus, he has a servant that needs healed. And Jesus says, I'll go heal him. And he says, that's not necessary. In his world, his world is10:08 a world of decreeing orders to the death, meaning that he knows he could be ordered into a life and death situation by a word from10:20 his commanding officer. And he's trained, and that is that's it. There's no option play. So his commanding officer's voice should sound exactly like Caesar's.10:33 Caesar gives a command. It comes down through delegated authority. It should sound exactly like Caesar's. Then he says to Jesus, that's you don't I don't you don't have to go there. Just say the word10:44 Am I10:45 serving you? I'm under authority, and I have people under my authority. I say to them, go do that, and they do it. He knows when he has that command, he does what he's10:57 commanded. And so he is completely he understands the system of delegated authority, and so he tells Jesus, this is how he's trained. No. You don't have just say the11:08 word.11:09 That's11:09 right. So Jesus was a That's good.11:11 What you said about training, we all have to be trained. God sends people, but they've also11:16 been It in11:18 the home. It begins at workplace. So when people buck training, they go against authority. The chaos it creates is they're not getting trained. Cates creates chaos11:30 in the church or the business or the ministry, whatever it is you're doing.11:34 Yep.11:35 And it creates, where the blessing of God can't flow.11:38 No. It can't. Why can't it flow? Because the authority cannot flow. Unity. Okay. Here the org chart. We have it on the screen right here. If I can break that flow of Caesar's voice or your11:50 CEO's voice or your pastor's voice11:52 God's voice. Yeah.11:53 Satan wants to break that flow of authority and words so he can disrupt the power. See, understand this is a very important statement.12:04 Power follows authority. Understand that. That's when Jesus healed the sick, he spoke to them, and then they were healed.12:13 So tell me the difference between authority and power just real Power backs up authority.12:18 Power itself is not authority. As we said earlier, we'll come back to the centurion, but a police officer rules or he governs by authority, he has no power, he can't stop that semi truck. Now there's a government12:30 backing him up that has the power to stop that guy.12:34 Interesting. I'm thinking also the officer has a weapon, he has a gun, or he has something12:38 Well, if his life's12:39 a danger and the weapons of our war warfare are not carnal Correct. But they're mighty to the pulling down of strongholds.12:47 Correct. But he doesn't rule by the power of the gun. He does have some power if he is limited, he's a threatened. But the bottom line is he has the power of the entire12:59 United States government that's going to put that driver in jail, impound his truck, take his livelihood. So his word to stop in the name of the law is backed up by13:11 the power. He is governing by authority. Right. Okay. So people think that power is the force that governs.13:19 Give me more power.13:20 You give more power to Follow Jesus. Follow Jesus. And every time he healed, when they carried the stretcher in there, the guy was paralyzed on the stretcher. And he said, your sins are forgiven. And people are13:32 like, he's acting like God. And he says, to prove that the Son of Man has the has the authority to forgive sins, which is harder to say,13:45 your sins are forgiven or to rise up and walk? That you may know the son of man has that authority, rise up and walk. The guy's healed. See, to prove that I have authority.13:56 See, power followed that. To prove that not not prove I have power, he said. To prove the son of man has authority. Then it says the people were amazed that God had given someone such great authority, not14:08 power. So to prove that I have authority, get up. Power then is released and he rises.14:16 Power14:18 always follows authority.14:20 So the church doesn't understand their authority. People don't understand their authority. They're looking for more power. God, give me more power, power. But really the authority to do what Jesus14:31 said. And then we have weapons that we use that we fling and they release power.14:38 No, no. No? Okay. What are the weapons that we can go off this a long time?14:42 Our words.14:43 The weapons of warfare are thoughts. If you examine Ephesians chapter 6, the helmet of salvation, all of that, it's not power. Sword of spirit, faith. Sword of spirit is the word of God.14:55 Shield of faith is the word of God. Helmet of salvation is what you think the word of God. The belt of truth is the word of God. The breastplate of righteousness is what you think about your righteousness. Those are all15:04 thoughts. The enemy is defeated. His only plan is to attack your thoughts. Did God really say?15:12 And words15:13 What's the truth?15:14 Words are the release of our thoughts. So what we think on out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth is speaking. So like you said, a king declares and decrees15:23 Well, this is15:23 We decree what our thoughts are, right?15:25 Well, your thoughts better be in line with God.15:27 Exactly.15:27 That's what I You better be steadfast on your knowledge of your legal standing like a courtroom. This is my legal right, and this is it. Now, over in 2 Corinthians 10,15:39 we find Paul talking about, again, thoughts that the weapons we get the weapons of our warfare. He uses the word warfare there, but, really, that Greek word means wrestling, like a wrestling match.15:51 It's not like a gun, like warfare. It's a wrestling match. Someone's gonna come out on top. And then he goes and talks on about that you have these preconceived ideas.16:01 Right.16:02 These these strongholds of thoughts. You see, it's thoughts, the wrong thoughts. Enemy's going to, Did God really say? He has to get you to think different thoughts than what God16:13 says your position in Christ.16:16 And your authority.16:17 And your authority. And so the church is all confused about the power and authority. See, they don't have a power issue. Ephesians chapter 1 says that we have the power16:29 that's immeasurable given to the church. They have an authority issue. They've not been taught authority.16:36 So how do we fix that issue? Because we all wanna walk in the authority God has for us.16:40 You first off submit to authority and earn promotion.16:44 What does that look like?16:46 It's do what they say. Okay, so for instance, when Paul was training Timothy how to pick leaders, he said, let them first be tested. Now again, it's not testing them how well16:58 they play the guitar or their talent, it's if they do what you say. In fact, if you go back to King Saul, he was disqualified as the king of Israel17:10 because he did not wipe out the Amorites who had set themselves against Israel and he brought back the livestock and the king and he comes before Samuel and said, I did17:22 what you said. And Samuel said, why do I hear the bleeding of these sheep and animals? Said nothing.17:27 He should have said, I almost did what you said. He17:29 did and Samuel said, no. He said, what's going on? But then Saul arrogantly says, no, but I did obey the Lord. And Samuel says, no, you've been disqualified. God has someone else, who is17:41 David, of course. And what the Bible says about David in Acts, I've got it copied that scripture here, but I don't wanna read it. It says, after removing King Saul,17:53 Samuel, God made David their king. God testified concerning David. I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart because he will do18:04 everything I ask him to do. Now, David qualified for promotion because he would follow authority and submit. Saul18:16 was disqualified because he did not do what God wanted him to do. So we learn submission first of all in our family, then our employer. See, people wanna short short circuit that.18:28 Don't wanna be enemy is trying to destroy families, destroy authority Authority. Destroy in and displace any and every authority in the culture.18:36 Police officers18:37 against them. Any and every because he knows he can move in, take that territory, take whatever steal, kill, destroy.18:44 Well, he'll disrupt the flow of power. See, now it's not just authority. See, once he breaks that chain of authority, there's no power. Never power follows authority. If he can cause18:55 division, there's no power to kick him out, you see. So his main his main attack mode is division, and the church is not teaching19:07 this. They're not teaching occupation.19:09 Even in the home, even in the home, the Bible is very clear that the husband is the head of the wife. There is a And yet those are almost fighting words with women nowadays because they see it19:21 as an attack on their identity. But actually, our identity comes from God and he gives us the position. He's 1 of his people. It gives us the ability to be a co heir. We19:33 inherit the same things, there has to be a leader in a head.19:37 All authority flows through an order, a process. And Satan hates that. And so he is getting people, I don't want to be down here. I wanna market myself on social media. And19:49 I wanna be the owner, okay? And you19:51 mentioned stat. Emulate authority but they don't actually have it.19:54 You mentioned the stat, 70 percent go bankrupt because their character and knowledge was not mature enough to occupy, manage that money and they went20:05 bankrupt. So, God is not foolish. He's not gonna promote someone into a place of disaster.20:11 I'm thinking of Isaiah 3 and 4 where it talks about where Israel rebelled against God, went the wrong way, It says, I'll give you youths to rule, that they'll rule. It even says20:22 in the last days that the oppressors will be youth led by women.20:26 That's all out of order.20:27 So you see the order. Whenever order is broken, chaos is.20:31 Chaos.20:32 Whether it's order in the home, order in the church, So I know we're20:35 talking to business people right now. Your company may be in chaos because I call it there's so many things. The enemy has many ways to get into this thing.20:46 Blackmail by talent is 1 way I say, where you're afraid to deal with things. You're walking on eggshells around a manager who's very talented, and you know he he you know his heart is not with you, but yet you don't know20:58 who to get to take his place. And you would know if there was someone that you would could do the job, you'd rather have someone that was there, you know, on board and on the mission instead of someone just there waiting21:08 for a better opportunity. And I'm telling I'm telling you, we've learned this so many times, it's the mistake people make over and over again. And God had to teach us all. We're21:20 in leadership. We're occupying. You've gotta trust God for that. See, because somewhere behind the scenes, somewhere God is raising up the Davids. And the David who has been tested and proven21:32 and experienced with the knowledge you need, God already knows where they're at. But he can't show you that person until you get rid of the Saul, the 1 who's been disqualified and you replace him and let21:44 God move in the person that's qualified. And so blackmailed by talent. So another reason, people don't understand authority at all. You're gonna hire a person. Listen, if you hire someone who21:55 doesn't understand basic kingdom understanding, you're in trouble. They have to know how authority operates to be effective handling authority, respecting22:07 authority, understand the lanes or delegated authority where that's their box. They're not responsible22:14 for This something people have to do when they bring people into their company, their ministry, job is in the home you have to lay out for kids.22:21 Lay it out clearly.22:22 This is Dad is an authority, I'm Dad and I, and together, we're in unity, and you obey your parents. And that way, home comes in order.22:30 Here's the question you have to answer. Who is over you? Meaning who are you supposed to submit to and who is supposed to submit to to you? Who's supposed to submit to you? That's the question we ask every day because22:42 there's people. All right. And so remember, Satan sends people, God sends people. We're out of time, but our book, Occupy Your Destiny covers these things in detail. You need it,22:54 your friends need it, anyone owns a business, runs a family, which is everyone, runs a church, runs a department, you need to understand how this works and Occupy23:06 Your Destiny. The Winning Strategy for Life goes into detail about how to recognize that.23:12 It's a great book, Gary, and you did a great conference around this as well, teaching about how to occupy your destiny. And when we see these keys or trained in these things, we can have23:23 good success. Amen. And we thwart the enemy's lies, whether it's in our home or life or business wherever.23:30 Yep. You can see23:31 And then we have the character, the integrity for the blessing of the Lord23:34 to cover us. Promotion, the power of God23:37 Yes. Finances.23:38 Favor. All that happens after this is running how it's supposed to. Hey. We're out of time. And we will look forward to seeing you again next time. Same place. Same time. Thanks.
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