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Fixing The Money Thing with Gary Keesee will educate and equip you to walk out your God-given purpose and provide insights and solutions on the topics of faith and finances.
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0:00 Gary concludes his series on the power of a promise today on fixing the money thing.0:07 When God has given you already all things and has given you authority and power to live life by his grace, what excuse can you come up with?0:18 We believe you're stronger than you think. Be encouraged today on fixing the money thing.0:26 I'm Gary Kasim, and for 9 years, we lived in a financial, chaotic, stress filled, visionless life. I cried out to0:38 God. He said, you're living like many of my people are, living in debt. He said, I want my people free.0:46 Your financial freedom is closer than you think. America's financial coach, Gary Kasid, shares the kingdom principles that changed his life, defeated his debt, and set him0:57 free.0:58 Financial problems, they're slow death. We're trying to change the way you think about money.1:06 This is Gary Kasim, fixing the money thing.1:12 Welcome to another edition of Fixing the Money Thing. We're Gary and Jorinda Kasey again talking about your life and about how great God's promises are Yes. In reference to allowing you to be something that1:24 you're not. Yes. There were titles today. You're stronger than you think. Than you think. Amen. The grace of God in us makes us someone we're not. God plus us equals more than us.1:34 Totally. There's no way we could have done the things that we've done. I look back at our history and everything that we've come through, it's the grace of God.1:42 Amen.1:42 The grace of God has given us the ability, because you believe you can through his strength.1:47 Well, Drenda, all week we've been talking about the promise of God. The power of the promise, and how God's promises produces the grace in us to change our future. We have emails coming in about this every week,1:59 so I want you to read my2:00 reports I love it, encouraging. I joined Faith Life Now as a partner, and within 4 days, I got checks totaling over 3000 dollars to bring in the cash flow for my immediate needs. It gets2:12 better. There was an application I had filled out for a TV show back in March, and the producers contacted me saying that they would like me to be on their show. Organizations who I sent my2:23 package to are now considering me to be a paid guest speaker for their conferences. There is so much more, but I will stop. I'm so thankful for you and your ministry. May Father2:35 God continue to richly bless you and make His face shine upon you. I can't wait to see what happens next. That's right. And he ends it with expectation of abundance.2:45 And we can't wait to see what happens next with you as well. Because you have promises. You begin to work with the grace of God, which is released in your life through the promises of God. You are stronger2:57 than you think. We taught this series for about a month at Faith Life Church talking about the power of the promises of God. Let's go to a session there at Faith Life Church now and join the service already3:08 in progress. 1 of the things about being effective in the body of Christ and learning how to walk in the kingdom is forgetting half3:20 the stuff you learned growing up. Religion has trained us all kinds of faulty things. How about this 1? You ever heard the prayer that parents tell their kids as they go to sleep at night, now they lead3:32 me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep if I shall die or if you should die before you wake, I pray the lord your soul to say. Can you imagine? Honey, I just love you so much. Let's pray. Let's pray good night.3:44 I've been down to sleep. I pray that if you die tonight, the lord will take your soul. I mean, our kids' eyes are gonna go, sleep? I'm not going to sleep.3:56 Are you nuts? That prayer was a quote, a children's prayer written in 17 11. How about the song Jesus loves me? That's a great song. Jesus loves me. This I know for the4:08 bible tells me, so that's awesome. Little ones to him belong. They are weak, but he is strong. Okay. Great song, but wrong ending. Sorry, we are not4:20 weak. Yeah. Amen. He is strong, but because of his strength. Last time I checked, we are the body of Christ. If he's strong, we are strong. Okay? So4:31 you pre you're programmed with all of this, I'm a worm, I'm going to heaven, thank God. How could God even love me? How can I'm just, you know, how could he even love me? We're programmed with all this horrible4:43 self image junk from religion. We have to change that. So let's start right now. Romans chapter 8 verse 35, Paul is telling us who we are. Verse 35, who shall separate us from4:55 the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written, for your sake we5:07 face death all day long. We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered, just a number of nothing, just a pawn to be used by God. That's what it said.5:20 Paul is quoting Psalms where Israel had backslidden and blamed God for all their trouble. But Paul5:32 says, he has to correct this. Let's put that next verse up, verse 37. He says, but what? No. Say it louder. No. No. So in trouble, are you in this are you gonna just just give up and weep5:44 and just carry on? No. No. In famine, you you have lack in your family, you're just gonna go, oh, poor is me. No. You know, it's sickness or you're oh, gee. It happens to everyone. No. No. Because in5:55 all of these things we just mentioned, you are what? More. Say the word more. More. Than an overcomer. He's talking about who? No. Me.6:07 Don't want this to not do it the general thing here. Okay? You've gotta get it. Because us includes people that you think, well, they got it. You know, they're more spiritual than I am. And the Bible says you. You. He's6:19 talking about you. Sitting here today in that seat, he has made you more than an overcomer. We have just completed a series on the promises of God. Notice this is past6:30 tense. Remember we talked about the nature of God. God calls things that are not as though they are. He has legally given you the promises. You are more than an overcomer. Take a look at what Paul wrote6:42 to the church of Ephesus in Ephesians the first chapter, and he had to make sure that he was setting the posture with this church. He had to make sure they had this6:53 understanding in verse 15. For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the lord Jesus and your love for all of the saints, I have not stopped giving7:05 thanks for you. Remember you in my prayers. I keep asking that the god of our lord Jesus Christ, the glorious father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of7:16 revelation so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. A light come on. You need to see something. He's saying you need to see something.7:28 Ever since I've heard about you coming to the Lord, I have prayed that you would see this. Alright? See what? That you may see the hope to which he has called7:40 you. The riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints. Whose inheritance is he talking about? Mine.7:51 Ours. Glorious inheritance. Imagine walking into a giant treasury room or whatever your vision of inheritance might be, but just imagine that it's glorious, so beyond what you8:03 anticipated that you just gasp. Alright? Number 19, and it's incomparably nothing compares to his great power for who? Us. Us8:15 who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly realms. This is referring to8:27 authority, the king's authority at the right hand of the father. Far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age, but also8:39 in the 1 to come, and God placed what? All things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church which is his body which infers8:51 that everything we just read that he acquired is ours in him. Yes. Is that what the Bible says? Yes. Paul says, hey,9:02 the first thing you've got to know is you are not some nothingness. You are the body of Christ filled with his incomparable power that raised Jesus out of the9:14 grave. That kind of power that brought something dead alive. What excuse do you have? Is there anything harder than that? No. But that power9:25 is for us, the Bible says. That wisdom is for us, the Bible says. That authority in second second9:36 chapter of Ephesians verse number 6, it says, god raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in heavenly places, which means we are in9:48 the same position he is with the same authority on his behalf in the earth realm. Now, that just changes a bunch of stuff. That kinda shuts down the10:00 whining, the complaining, the issues because there really isn't any excuse. When god has given you already all things and has given you authority and power to10:12 live life by his grace, What excuse can you come up with? Alright? First Corinthians chapter 1, Paul continues his discussion here,10:24 and we need to discuss this as well. First Corinthians chapter 1 verse number 22 says, Jews demand miraculous signs.10:36 Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ,10:48 the what? Power. The power of god and the wisdom of god. For the foolishness of god is wiser than man's wisdom and the weakness of god is stronger than man's strength.11:00 Verse 26, pay attention. Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Go back in history, Paul says, think about where you were at. Not many of you are wise,11:11 inferring that you now are. By human standards, not many were influential but that infers that he's saying, think about where you were. You had no influence, but now you do.11:25 Not many have noble birth, but now you have been born again by the very God himself and chosen by him. No 1 more noble than that. But god chose the foolish things of11:37 the world to shame the wise, that be you. God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong, that be you, previously. He's saying, think back how weak you11:48 were. Think back where you were at when you came to Christ. He chose the lowly things of this world and and the despised things and the things that are not to nullify the things that are so that no 1 may boast before12:00 him. It is because of him that you are in Christ who has become for us wisdom from God, that is our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. Therefore, as it is written, let him who boast, boast in the Lord.12:14 So what is he saying? You are called, you have a destiny to what? Demonstrate the power of12:25 God. Let me say it this way. You have a destiny to shame those who think in themselves they are strong. You have a destiny to bring shame to the wisdom that people think they stand in. What12:37 what would shame someone that has wisdom? A higher wisdom. What would shame someone that is thinks they're strong? To find someone stronger. Right? So you12:49 are in the in the natural realm limited but god says in his realm, you're unlimited with his wisdom, his power to demonstrate to demonstrate who he13:01 is. You with me? When I went to college, most of you know this. I went to college. Of course, in high school, graduated at the nearest there's 1 guy under me. I basically flunked out of high school. And so when13:13 God called me to go to college, I went to college, wrote a paper my first year in English class, and it came back with a big red f on it with the phrase, is it possible that you went to high13:25 school? 20 years later, I received an email from that professor. Out of the blue.13:37 I saw you on TV. I saw you written some books. Is this the same Gary that was in my is this the same Gary that's in my class? Back it over to you. You13:50 see, God wants to take the weak, the foolish, the nothings, and he wants to make something out of them so that he gets the glory, that people see him. And it's by his14:02 grace, his strength that people see God. And they have to stand back and go, what? Is that is that really? Did that really happen? Hebrews chapter 11 verse number 31. 1 more14:13 shall I say. Now, Hebrews chapter 11 is the the hall of faith fame. All the people that did things that were impossible. Okay? By faith. And what shall I say? I don't have time to tell about14:25 Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, about David, and Samuel, and the prophets. Who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, meaning making it right, administering what14:37 is right, and gaining what was promised by faith. So let me just paraphrase this. You have the power by faith to change everything. Kingdoms infers14:49 the laws of government how you live. You can change everything. Meaning that you can change you can administer justice, righteousness, what God says is right into your situation, and you can gain what the promise says.15:00 You are supposed to have what the promises say. All the promises are yes and amen. You're supposed to have them all. Amen. Alright. So people also shut the mouths of15:12 lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword. And what's the next phrase? Whose weakness was turned to strength. This is about you.15:24 The kingdom, the grace of God in you, the power of God that brought Jesus out of the grave, the wisdom of God is able to change you from that I can't do nothing till you can do15:36 all things. Yes. So stop saying that. Stop saying it. That's a lie. It is not true. You can do all things through Christ15:48 who strengthens you and your weakness is not your destiny. Okay? Bible says, all things are new. We are new creatures in Christ Jesus,16:00 which means I have a new future that is not tied to my past. It's not tied to my daddy's last name. It's not tied to where I failed in the past. It's not tied to anything in my past. It's now tied to that glorious16:10 inheritance I now possess in Christ and the power of God that brought a dead person out of the grave. I'm still alive. I may still I may have a lot of death in me learning in the earth realm, but if God can bring16:22 Jesus out of the grave, Lazarus out of the grave, he can bring me out of nothing to make something. There's no doubt about that. Whose weakness was turned to16:34 strength. I don't like to hear people keep keep practicing and rehearsing their weakness. Well, I've never done that well. I've never do this, and then you never will.16:46 Sorry. Alright. So we have a destiny. God's destiny is he wants people to see him in you. You are his body. You're the only picture they see of god. If16:58 you're moping around, why do they wanna join the team? If church isn't fun, then why do they wanna come? If your life isn't any different, they might as well go down to the bar and get drunk.17:09 Have a good time for the evening or whatever, you know. I mean, we are supposed to look different. Understand this. Paul said, the most important thing I need to tell you since I heard of your faith in Christ17:21 is that the power of god is in you, for you. Yes. The wisdom of god is yours. The authority of Christ is yours and so he is saying, it's all17:33 yours. Your life has been changed from the inside out. Now speaking of the inside out, obviously, there's a process that we need to submit to Christ and change. We can talk to this mention17:45 this scripture. Romans chapter 12 verse 2, Do not be conformed any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Some of you guys, if you if you have made a dress, let's say, if17:57 you actually are a seamstress, you make a dress, and you don't like it, and you keep using the same pattern over and over again, no matter how many times you use the same pattern, what happens? You have the same dress.18:09 So underline this in your mind. If you do not change how you think, tomorrow will be the same as yesterday. Let me say it again. You've got to understand this. You can wish all you want. You can pray18:21 all you want. Pastor, are you you have to change how you think because it's you and God that are gonna fight face Goliath, not God by himself.18:33 And if you think I can't, I'm afraid, I'm afraid of people, I don't wanna talk to people, I don't wanna make the sales call, I don't I have I'm limited. I'm just not that way. My personality's not that way. Shut up.18:44 Spare us all the complaining. Okay? We want people that are doing something. We want I wanna hang around people that are talking about dreams and visions where they're going, not about their past failures all day.18:55 You know what I'm saying? Not be conformed any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed. That word transformed is from the Greek word morph, which means change.19:07 We get the word metamorphosis from that. So if you think of a caterpillar to a butterfly, your life in the caterpillar realm, the natural realm, is not supposed to look anything like that when God gets done19:19 with it. It's supposed to look like a butterfly. Butterfly's a whole lot different. Butterflies are pretty. Caterpillars are ugly.19:33 You know, they have they have these big glass buildings with butterfly exhibits. Not caterpillar exhibits, butterfly exhibits. Yeah. And you wonder why no one's19:45 around your house watching your life? Because you're a caterpillar still. I can't get going fast enough. Nothing's gonna work. I can't Well, thank God for the cocoon.19:57 No, I'm serious. See, when we come to Christ, we enter into a cocoon phase. In the cocoon phase, and you need to understand this because you'll be tempted to quit. In the cocoon20:09 stage, from the outside, you you see nothing like nothing's everything's changed. There's no caterpillar moving, no feeding, there's no butterfly, just this thing, just a leaf, just20:21 nothing. Right? But inside the caterpillar, inside the cocoon, everything is changing. And at the right season, it bursts out into something that never has been and people20:33 gasp. Oh my, that thing flies to Mexico. Look how beautiful and intricate it's made. How does it fly? It's so light and the wings and catch the you just marvel at these things that God made.20:46 The church is the cocoon that God uses to transfer transform you from where you came from when you're trying to run all those legs as fast as you can run trying to get20:58 anything done to where God's gotta get you to change to reach your destiny. In the cocoon, a caterpillar feeds on the plant it was born on.21:11 It stays on the plant. It was created to feed on that particular milkweed, that plant. It doesn't go very far. It just feeds on that plant, content with21:23 the knowledge, if you will, of what it's doing, and that's just to eat. Just gotta eat. I just gotta feed. And then from the inside, it has a a natural process where it knows the timing21:35 to create a cocoon when it's never made 1 before. Doesn't even know how to make 1. I mean, it's never done it before nor has it flown to Mexico before. It's never been there before, yet something inside it starts to21:46 create this beautiful thing from the inside out. And at the right season, it bursts out and flies. So 2 things. Take responsibility,21:59 but be encouraged that you're in the cocoon process. Many of you are tired. I don't see any change. Stay plugged in. Feed on the word. Be convinced that God's22:11 promises are yes and amen for you. At the right time, as you feed, you continue to change from the inside out. And that inside out is gonna eventually burst out, and your life is gonna take on more and more of the22:23 character of Christ. Just don't give out. Give up. God will get it there, but you have to stay involved.
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