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0:01 If you do a Google search for loyalty, you'll be given hundreds of stories of wonderfully faithful dogs who are loyal to their masters. But you won't find a lot of stories about ordinary0:12 people being loyal.0:14 Today, we'll help you discover why loyalty is 1 of the key elements of success and is your pathway to promotion.0:23 That's right. Next on Fixing the Money Thing. I'm Gary Kasid. And for 9 years, we lived in a0:34 chaotic, stress filled, visionless life. I cried out to God. He said, I want my people free.0:43 America's financial coach, Gary Kasseed, shares the kingdom principles that changed his life, defeated his debt, and set him free.0:53 You'll never find your destiny until you fix the money thing. Hi, I'm Gary Kasey.1:02 And I'm Jrenda Kasey. Welcome to the program.1:04 As you probably know, I've owned a financial services company for more than 3 decades and helped countless hundreds and hundreds, thousands of people with their money over the years. So I love stories about other1:16 financial professionals. Well, John Kenneth Galbraith was 1 of the most famous and influential economists of the twentieth century. He taught at Harvard and was an advisor to many government leaders. He1:27 recounted this story in his autobiography. Quote, It had been a weary day, and I asked Emily, my housekeeper, to hold all telephone calls while I had a nap. After a short while, the phone1:39 rang. President Lyndon Johnson was calling from the White House. Get Ken Galbraith on the line, he said. This is the president. Well, Emily replied, I'm sorry. He's sleeping, Mr. President, and he asked me1:51 not to disturb him. President Johnson wasn't accustomed to not getting his way and he tried again. Well, wake him up, he said. I want to talk to him. No, Mr. President, I can't do that, she said.2:03 I work for him, not you. Later, after my nap, I returned the president's call and he could scarcely control his pleasure. Tell that woman, I want to hire her. I want her here working for me in the White2:15 House. Well, our series this week is called Loyalty. I think you'd have to agree she was pretty loyal. And your pathway to promotion is loyalty. Emily the housekeeper2:26 understood loyalty and it captured the attention of 1 of the most powerful men on the planet and he offered her a job immediately at the White House. Loyalty is2:37 expected and rewarded.2:40 Wow. What a great story. Is an amazing story.2:43 Yeah. It's a great story.2:45 Sometimes we think we've got to bend and do what other people want, please other people. But really pleasing the 1 we have to give an account for2:52 That is it. To. Is it. Who are you loyal to? She knew who she worked for. And that is what held her. And today, we're gonna be talking about 8 steps. We're gonna talk about different functions of3:04 being loyal that you need to understand to inherit the promotion that you desire. You know at any step a person headed towards this loyalty can be corrected, Jrendon.3:16 Yeah, I mean we've all had times where we missed it. Yeah. Or we were not as loyal. And we've had people be disloyal to us.3:22 But we have to learn this lesson because God can't promote us until we learn how to be loyal.3:29 Yes. And loyalty, disloyalty. 2 different words, 2 different results. And, you qualify by being loyal. And you disqualify3:41 by being disloyal. And we want to talk about that today. And, let's kind of begin our discussion. If you want God's best, you want God's best, follow the path of loyalty.3:53 Yes.3:53 He's got to correct us, Gary. Instruct us and direct us because the Lord, the Bible says the Lord loves the 1 He disciplines.4:02 That's right.4:03 And sometimes we think of correction as a negative thing. We We think of it as, well, somebody corrected me and then we bristled. But really, truly, if we believe in someone, we want them4:15 to rise to their very best. And God believes in you. He believes in us. And so he wants to correct things that aren't right. We all grew up in this earth curse system. We have wrong perceptions of life, what is right,4:26 what is wrong. And so God in his love will show us, direct us, correct us, he'll use people around us, people that are over us in authority so that we can become the person4:38 that we're supposed to be. But unfortunately, too often, correction results and sometimes people being offended. And then what happens, Gary, when they get suspended?4:46 Well, get offended, you become disqualified. Now, you can repent anywhere in the cycle, right? But we all have a choice. I think loyalty is a decision that we make each day. And if we understand the reward4:58 of loyalty, we hold to loyalty, promotion. Even if your boss isn't so in tune with your obedience, someone else is.5:10 God watches us. David was on the backside, you know, out there in the wilderness, the sheep. No 1 knew his name. In fact, his dad didn't even call him in when the prophet came5:22 and said, Hey, the king is in your house. Bring your sons. His dad never even brought him in the house. So, was just, you know, the shepherd boy, right?5:31 Right.5:32 But now God, see, he had passed tests. And it's interesting when King Saul was disqualified because he did not obey, he was not loyal. God told the prophet, I have5:43 chosen someone else who is loyal because I know he will do what I tell him to do. Yet David had done nothing for him yet. David wasn't even in the service of the king yet. So how could5:55 David, how would God know that David will do everything I told him to do or tell him to do if he's not done anything yet?6:02 Because he'd been faithful with the little things.6:04 That's exactly How he6:05 served his own father, how he served the commission he'd been given, really set him up to be promoted to the It tested his heart. And so a lot times we think the little things are not6:17 No such thing as a little thing. David risked his life. It actually says he grabbed the hair of the bear, the lion. And that's pretty You know, he risked his life for some sheep. No, he risked6:29 his life for a trust was given him. God knew if he passed that test, he could pass a bigger test. All this week, we're gonna talk about the principles of loyalty. We just6:41 mentioned, Drinda, about David and being promoted to the king, and we need to understand here's the question, can God trust you? Can God trust you? This is loyalty. Can you be trusted with a6:53 trust? Can God trust you with an assignment? Can he trust you with, as we said, correction? Alright. Can he trust you not to get offended? Can you receive correction? Can he trust you to keep your heart?7:06 You know, Joseph's story, remember? Tempted to go into adultery with Potiphar's wife, but he ran. He was trusted in that situation, which meant7:18 he'd be trusted later. So, can you trust? Can you keep your heart? Can you keep your heart? Number 4 is, can God trust you to serve others? Not be selfish. Because your assignment involves people. Yes, it And it's gonna7:29 be others. And number 5, have listed, can God trust you to keep your mind clean and thoughts right? And James chapter 1 27 says, religion that our God, our father accepts is pure and faultless7:41 is this, to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. You know, we think, well, this won't hurt, this little bit, this and7:53 that. But no, you're polluting yourself and it's gonna affect your life. So can God trust us, Drenda? That's a vital Why8:00 so thankful for the Holy Spirit because as we start to drift away, God's correction out of love will bring us8:08 Praise God for that. Yes, we need Where we need8:10 to be. And then He'll give us careful instruction again. Really just like training our own children.8:15 Yes, right.8:15 They start to veer off. We have to pull them back on and reinstruct them how to do this thing and how to do it right.8:22 That's right.8:23 And so we have a story, Gary, of a couple who found that out firsthand. Kellen Carla Nelson, she was healed from an incredible life8:34 threatening cancer. And we wanted to share that story with you. Let's take a look at that now.8:42 We found out about Faith Life Church through a friend who brought us some CDs of Gary's teaching. We had never heard any teaching quite like it, and so we decided we needed to find out more.8:54 So we just started getting some more books and CDs and listening to it over and over. He would get angry he was listening to because he would say, They're keeping something back. There's a secret to this9:06 that he's not telling us. And I was like, No, he's telling you everything. And finally the Lord revealed to him that the key is the Holy Spirit, listening to the leading of the Holy Spirit.9:17 That's what Gary was saying, but he couldn't hear it. Finally, kind of got on the same page and started digging in, watching online,9:26 Became partners.9:27 We to live in South Carolina, we came up. We drove up with our 5 kids a few times to come to service here. Then we started coming to provision conferences. I started having a9:39 lot of physical problems, and in April of 20 19, I ended up in the hospital, the weekend of provision. Was diagnosed with a high grade uterine cancer. Found out9:51 later it was cervical and uterine. That was sort of, I guess, the beginning of when we knew if I was going to live, we had to apply these principles now. It was the moment where we kept saying, This is where the rubber10:03 meets the road. We've been hearing the teaching, but now we have to apply it like never before.10:08 We had heard for years about the stories from the church of the children that came back to life or the businesses or marriages that were renewed. And everything had the thing in common was the kingdom understanding.10:20 So we decided that if it worked for them, it would work for us. And we were just determined in that. We were to the point where we had nothing left. There was nothing but an10:32 opportunity to apply this to our lives specifically to sustain hers.10:36 And finally, he just came out with this, like out of nowhere. It wasn't out of nowhere, but I mean, he said, this is a lie. We do not accept this. This is not our truth. And10:48 it was like peace just washed over me because I felt very panicked inside, but when he said that, it was like, Yes, that is our truth. This is a lie. I know it's what we see. It's a fact,11:01 but it's not true.11:02 But I had been taught here that that was not how it was supposed to be, and whatever came from here would set the tone for our journey.11:09 We knew enough not make an agreement with what we saw. That 1 defining moment sort of set the stage that we were not gonna accept this as truth. Went into the hospital April 20 fifth of 2011:21 19, and my doctors told me then what I had was a very aggressive type of cancer. I had a tumor the size of a cantaloupe. He said, The interesting thing is it's dead around the outer11:33 layers, so we understand by what we've seen that it's outgrown its blood supply. And we just looked at each other and we said, No, it did not outgrow its blood supply. We have been11:45 speaking every day over my body, death to whatever is there that is not of God, and life to what is. And so, the doctor sat down on my bed and he said,11:57 Look, I'm just gonna be real honest with you. I think you probably have around 4 months to live. We could attempt treatment, but I don't know that you could handle it. But I do, I am12:09 prepared. We can go ahead and set up hospice care. I said, No, I'm not setting up hospice care. We're gonna attempt treatment. And I had total peace about it, so I knew it was okay to do that.12:20 What was that peace about it?12:21 So we started chemotherapy. I had a port put in the next morning, and the next week we started heavy doses of chemo. And we had been told every treatment you're gonna get a little12:33 bit worse. The effects are gonna be harder every time. And I said, I'm declaring right now that the opposite will be true, that every treatment is gonna get easier. And it did. It did. Every12:44 treatment was easier. And my doctors kept saying, We don't understand. You're tolerating these treatments so well. To be so sick, we didn't even know if you could tolerate treatment. And now, it's like every 1, you just12:56 keep getting better. And my days as I took chemo were just diving into the Word. It was like, this is your, we had learned the power of rest, and this is your season to rest. Many people in the hospital13:07 kept saying to me as I got the diagnosis, Just keep in mind, you have to fight. You have to be a fighter. Fight like a girl. You know, I just kept hearing all these terms that we hear about cancer. And every day I would13:18 spend 4 and 5 hours just digging into the Word. Every morning I would turn on praise and worship music, and I would just worship. On into the journey, I had to face13:30 surgery, and my doctor had told me, we're going to attempt surgery. The goal is radical hysterectomy, and we may have to do a bowel resectioning13:42 and a colostomy bag and all these other things. And that day, I just looked at him and I said, Okay. I said, You know what? This is in God's hands. He's my healer, and we're just gonna leave it there. We're gonna trust13:53 him with it, and we're gonna go into surgery And so we went in the morning of surgery, and I just said, Joy comes today. Joy comes in the morning, and today Joy's returning to our home.14:06 We go into the hospital, and my doctor comes in, and he said, You know what our goal is. You also know that when I open you up, I may have to abort mission and stitch you right back closed. And I just smiled at him and I14:17 said, Today's gonna be a really good day. And he said, Okay. And so we went into surgery, and then about 2 and a half hours later, I was in recovery, and he came in and he had a big smile on his face. And he said,14:29 You were right. Today was a really good day. There was no need to take out any other organs, no need to resection your bowels, no need for a colostomy bag. We got it all.14:39 So the learning and the teaching we'd received here at Faith Life, practically applied these things and we were fully persuaded.14:48 In January, I went in this January, 20 21 for a PET scan. And as we're driving to get the PET scan, I looked at him and I said, I'm clean. And he said, Yes, you15:00 are. And so we get there, I do the PET scan. I'm in this tunnel, you know, in the PET scan. You can't move. I'm sitting there and I'm laying there with my eyes closed just praying, talking to the Lord. And I just saw15:10 this image. It's just like the Lord just allowed me to see, just for a glimpse, this imagery of Jesus as my covering. And I thought, I know I'm clean because He's clean and He's my15:22 covering. And so I had total peace in that PET scan. We leave, we drive home, and my phone rings as I'm pulling into our driveway, I'm thinking, Well, this is the hospital. That's weird. I must have forgotten something.15:33 Or maybe they need to reschedule my next appointment. So I answer it, and it's my doctor, my oncologist. He said, What are you doing? I said, nothing. What are you doing? Why are you calling me? And he said, I know I'm15:45 seeing you on Monday for your follow-up to give you your results. And he said, But I had to call you today. And I said, Okay. And he said, Your scan is completely clean. And I15:57 said, Yeah. And he said, No. I mean, your scan is completely clean. I said, Yes. That's what we expected. He thought it was kind of strange that we weren't jumping out of our We16:08 were. But we expected that, so it wasn't this shock. And I said, Remember what I told you when I left? And he said, Yeah, you told me it would be good. He said, Well, you're right. And I said,16:20 Yes. So I am 100 percent cancer free and clean. Praise Jesus. Praise God. Yeah. Stay in the truth, based on what you16:32 feel, not based on what the facts are, not based on what the world says, but what is the truth? And the only truth, the only absolute truth is God's word. Keep saying it, keep16:44 listening to it. Don't ever stop listening to the truth.16:50 We're living the good life.16:52 That's17:02 something's happening in your life that concerns you. What happened to Carla and Kale, how their story was completely radically changed by the kingdom of God, that can take17:14 place in your life too. Whatever it is you're facing. Maybe today you're facing sickness or you've been given a bad report or maybe it's something completely different. It's financial or it's something at your work. God17:25 will do for you what his word says he'll do. And before long, you'll be sharing your story. Hopefully, right here on Fixing the Money Thing. That's what we want for you. We desire to see you, fulfill God's kingdom17:36 principles in your life to live them, to receive whatever corrections or, anything we need in our life. So we all have to be teachable. We all have to be loyal, loyal to the Word of God and17:48 correctable to receive instruction.17:50 That's right. And the thing you have to remember, the foundation is God doesn't lie.17:54 That's right.17:54 These kingdom laws do not fail. The failure, we already say, we gotta look at our end. Like if a light's not on, make sure the switch is flipped on, right? Or the bulb's good. You know, you18:06 don't just call the phone or the electric company up and start yelling at them when the power's been on. It's on your end that, you know, someone didn't flip the switch or the bulb's burned out. Well, that's how it is in18:15 the kingdom. God has already turned the power on, so to speak. These laws govern how the power flows into the earth realm and how we operate within that authority. And that's why we have to learn the laws. And then18:27 we have to make a decision to stay with those. And loyalty, God moves us into assignments to stretch us, to grow us, so we can pass the test and move on to greater and18:39 greater things, which we all want. And loyalty is required on that journey to ever reach the dreams you have that God placed in you.18:48 That's right. I'm so thankful for his careful, faithful instruction. Because even when we miss it or we make a mistake, something in our life we don't know how to handle, God is there to18:59 gently correct us, to pull us back on target, to lead us by his spirit, to give us the instruction that we need because he wants us to get it. And he wants us to get there to our19:11 destiny, to that promotion he has for us. So, Gary, he's helping us along the way.19:16 It is. And it is a process.19:17 It is a process.19:18 If we look at Joseph, we've mentioned Joseph. You know, you look at his story, how he was moved over to Egypt by his brothers throwing him in a pit, right? And then he was in Potiphar's house. Well, it just so happens19:28 later, of course, he ends up right under Pharaoh with an administrative plan. Well, all along, God had to move him, posture him, stretch him to be able to handle the destiny that19:40 God had for him. And so is so with you. You're going to be faithful with the small things. Never handle the big things. And this is, something not that popular in our society, but this is how it works. And so,19:52 you know, God will never lead you someplace you always say where your character cannot hold you. So when we come back in a minute, we'll talk more about this, but this is important. This is vital to your success.20:05 It's called loyalty. We'll be right back.
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