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Join Gary and Drenda Keesee as they share an amazing story of a mechanic who became a farmer—by accident! You’ll discover that you may already possess the key you’re looking for!
Series Your Financial Revolution: The Power of Generosity March 20, 2024 · 28 min · Your Financial Revolution: The Power of Generosity
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0:02 If you've ever said, I just gotta find that 1 key to my success, you don't wanna miss today's program.0:08 Plus the story of a mechanic who became a farmer by accident. You don't wanna miss this 1.0:14 It's all happening right here.0:21 From the Your Financial Revolution series, the power of generosity.0:29 Being generous is acting like God does.0:37 This is Gary Kasey.0:51 I am Gary Kasseed.0:52 And I'm Brenda Kasseed. Welcome to the program. Gary, we've been talking about your financial revolution, the power of generosity. Mhmm. So why is it important for us to be generous?1:03 I'm so glad you asked. The power of generosity. That word power, I wanna focus on that for a minute. But let's talk about the effect of generosity from what Paul said about it in second Corinthians. It's amazing what he1:15 said here. And it says in verse 10, chapter 9 of second Corinthians, Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed. He'll enlarge the harvest1:27 of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way. I like that. The Bible says, you'll be made rich. So that you can be generous. Now, we got the Here's the purpose of1:39 money, folks. There's defined in the word of God that money has a purpose.1:44 It does.1:45 So that you can be generous on every occasion. Now, that's that's the formula.1:50 It is.1:50 But the impact, that generosity is what you asked. So let's move down further.1:53 It changes lives. Right?1:55 It says, and so through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people but is also overflowing with many2:06 expressions of thanks to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of2:18 the gospel of Christ and for your generosity and sharing with them and with everyone else. In their prayers for you, their hearts go out to you because of the surpassing grace God has2:30 given you. Thanks be to God for this indescribable gift. So the impact of generosity is what? Based on the scripture.2:36 It gives people a desire to praise God because they see the blessing on your life and it helps them. So now they're thanking God.2:44 What are they thanking God for?2:45 Because you've been generous.2:46 Because you have money generous with. Yes. Okay. Yes. So let me say it again. They're thanking God that you're generous.2:52 Mhmm.2:52 But they're all they're thanking God that you have money to be generous with.2:57 Yes. Right? You know Gary, I know for us this is our story. We used to live in an 18 hundreds farmhouse and that is 1 of the scriptures that we put on. I put it on the refrigerator and on the mirror and we would3:09 thank God when we were poor, when we were living in an old farmhouse renting it for 300 dollars a month. Barely able to put any gas in our car. Right. Couldn't afford fuel oil at times to make heat in the3:21 house. Right. We were confessing, believing God, that scripture that God would give us the power to be generous on every occasion.3:29 Now, he gives the power. He gives us the power. Yes.3:33 That's the book. He gives us the power.3:35 Wouldn't you like to know the power?3:36 Yes.3:37 Wouldn't you like to know the power? Wouldn't you like to know how this works? If the Bible is accurate,3:41 I believe it is Mhmm.3:42 That he's going to give us the power to have wealth.3:46 Okay. So how does that power3:47 He says, because of this surpassing grace that God has given you. Thanks be to God for this indescribable gift. Now, Paul is not3:59 saying the gift of the money. He's talking about this indescribable gift of God's grace. That because of the surpassing grace4:09 that God is4:10 giving surpassing grace.4:11 Let me give you a definition of that. Okay? It literally means in the dictionary, a large amount or high degree exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary.4:21 Oh, extraordinary grace.4:23 I that. Grace, the grace of God means the ability to have extraordinary. Mhmm. So what is going to be extraordinary? What's gonna be a huge amount? What's he talking about?4:34 That you can be generous on every You're4:37 be made rich. Yes. You are going to be made rich. The Bible says by God's power that you can be generous which impacts people. The Bible says God is generous. He reigns in the just4:48 and the unjust.4:50 That's4:50 good. Is good. His goodness leads people to repentance. Generosity opens people's hearts.4:56 It's good. And I like what you're saying because whether they're a good person doing nice things to you or they're doing things that are not nice, that being generous actually convicts the 1 that's not doing what's5:07 right. So when you're in the restaurant and the person's Mhmm. Rude that's waiting on you, even being generous to that person can unlock gives us door.5:16 Opens the heart. So when you let me give you an example. You know, my father never showed his emotions growing up. Never said he loved me once growing up. Okay? We owed the5:27 IRS taxes. And we just newly married. Went home to visit our parents. We lived in Tulsa at the time. And I just happened to mention, said, how's it going? I said, well, owe 4000 dollars in taxes. At5:39 that time, thousand dollars was like 1000000 dollars. Right? And he simply said, well, that's easy to take care of. He pulls out a check and writes out 4000 dollars. Now, my dad never5:50 never said he loved me. But that gift opened. I could see his heart for me in that gift. You see what I'm saying?6:01 Yes.6:01 I I saw my I saw his love for me by his care Action. His action of generosity towards me. It revealed his heart. Previous, he didn't let me see that.6:14 But when he was generous, I saw his heart and I I was very thankful. This is exactly how it is with God. As we give to people, they're thankful and they see God's heart. See our heart6:25 and they see God's heart. And this grace literally means empowerment.6:32 That's good, Gary.6:33 So this is actually God's power6:36 to help you prosper. So when we're giving to people, it's important. I mean, they know we're being generous, but more importantly, they know God's generosity. That's good.6:46 It opens the heart. You remember the time we went to the restaurant and gave this lady, she must have been due that week. She was6:52 pretty She was very pregnant.6:54 I decided we're just gonna double up that. I don't know how much we gave her. 100 something, 2 don't know. It's a6:58 large Yes. Yes.7:00 And she didn't look at it. She went back to the back and she comes back out in tears. I mean trembling and tears.7:05 Spread down, shaking and crying.7:06 And we find her life story. We had a chance to share Christ with her and pray with her. We did nothing but be generous to her in her need. Mhmm. And it opened her heart.7:17 Yes.7:17 And so God wants that same opportunity, but his people have to have money. This is what he says, that you be made rich in every way so that you can be generous. Thus, the7:29 people see God and give thanksgiving to God for this indescribable gift, Paul says. Indescribable gift is not about the money, it's about the grace of God that helps you prosper.7:40 That's great.7:41 And this is a mighty key7:45 of life.7:46 It is. It is. And then, the beauty of it, it doesn't just open that person's heart and bless them, but he makes us rich in every way. And I love that it says every way. Because how many people could talk off7:57 finances there and say, no, no, it's just talking about spiritual richness and spiritual things. But no, says rich in every way. You can't argue that it's not every But then it goes on to talk8:09 about giving in such a way that you understand it is very strongly focused at finances.8:15 It is. Well, this whole chapter is about finances Right. Here in second Corinthians. Right. Also in verse 8, and God is able to make all grace. Paul's collecting an offering. He says, remember if you sow generously,8:26 you'll reap generously. If you sow sparingly, you're gonna reap sparingly. But he reminds him, listen guys, God is able to give you all empowerment, all grace. He says, abound to8:37 you so that in all things at all times having all that you need, it means you're gonna go past what you need. Now, you're going to abound in every good work of this generosity by giving8:49 this grace. Now, grace is simply usually been defined in the church world as unmerited favor. But really, it's empowerment. God's God's empowerment. Right.9:00 It's like getting God himself doing it9:02 through you. And so, you I I like this. It says, God gives seed to the sower and food for the eating and he shall increase your store of seed. Now, got to talk about that.9:14 God gives seed to the sower, not the 1 who's not sowing, but the 1 that's sowing. If you were sowing grass, you'd have a bucket and you just toss it. Right? And if you're in the middle of sowing it,9:26 it's a price it's a flow. As you toss it, you get more. As you toss it, you get more. As you toss it, you get more. God gives seed to the sower, the 1 that has the heart of God, that's working with what he has. And9:38 God increases that, but it also says he also supplies the bread for eating. So I always say this, you get in a family business. God wants to touch people. You say yes. You're9:49 generous. You're generous. He keeps increasing your ability. But as you need something for your family and your seed business, so to speak, as it increases, you're able to take more out of it for yourself and help you're10:01 gonna prosper at the same degree and ratio, so to speak. You're gonna prosper as well as what you're sowing towards prospering10:08 Yes.10:09 Of this increase. This is huge. It is. Because God's gonna give you ideas. He's gonna help you prosper because his all of his grace. Yeah. I think we'd agree God might know some things we10:20 don't. Amen. He give us ideas we never thought of.10:24 Right? Yes. We've seen him do that so many times in our own life. Our property that we actually own today Yeah. Was a result of us sowing. I'm thinking of this how it's a double blessing. It blesses the person you're10:35 sowing into, but it also blesses the person that gave it. So now, both parties get blessed.10:41 Exactly.10:42 We did that. We were when we were just starting pastoring, our business, we'd seen this process work in our business, But now we started to pastor10:51 a We're out10:51 of debt. We're getting of out We're walking us all out. We're sharing all these things. And we want land. We're believing God for land. And so we actually sowed a seed where we paid for11:02 a conference, a marriage conference that we were hosting. But we actually took from our personal finances and funded We the hotel, we paid for all these people and we had 250 people11:14 show up, couples showing up and ministry happened there. There was divorces that were cancelled. People had already drawn up the paperwork and who even are in our church today still 20 something11:26 years later, 24 years later. They drew a paperwork to get a divorce and today they're not only still married, they've got you know grandchildren. But we saw other11:37 stories of divorces that were cancelled, marriages that were healed. And you know our marriage even benefited by studying and giving it to others. We received in our own marriage and so giving and receiving.11:50 Now, a couple calls us. We sowed this seed believing it was for our land. We were looking for land.11:55 We we had gone with a real estate agent for about a week. Mhmm. And I said, we don't have time for this.11:59 I don't wanna do this.12:00 You go house to house. I said, no we're gonna make a list out. We decide decide exactly what you're looking for.12:06 Right.12:06 And we're gonna sow a seed. We're gonna believe God. The Holy Spirit knows where this is at. Yes. He can direct us right to it. Yes. So we agreed. We were gonna sow towards that marriage conference. And then, this couple12:17 came into the church 1 night. They knew nothing about us sowing for our land.12:21 Yes. I wanna tell the rest of the stories. When we come back, we'll share the rest of the story.12:27 No matter how long you've been a Christian, you probably still have questions about God and his kingdom. Because you asked, faith is a mentorship CD that answers your specific questions about12:39 faith. Understand the will and character of God, know how to determine if you're truly in faith, and learn exactly how the kingdom of God operates. Head to our website, gary12:51 cassee dot tv, so we can send you this important audio teaching.12:58 So we were talking about a story where we gave financially to be able to help do a marriage conference. All these couples came, life transformation happened there. But, as we were13:10 sharing We were But, God was generous back to us.13:13 We sowed to see specifically for the Holy Spirit to show us this land. We made a list out. And, a couple walked in a church, know nothing about that. And, they walked up and said, we saw this great piece of property, but13:25 somehow we know it's not for us. We really believe it's supposed to be for you. And we asked them to explain what it was and it matched our list to the perfect tee. In fact, that's what we bought.13:36 Yes. But we went that Sunday Mhmm. To look at it. So here we've done a conference. We go out there. We walk the property. And it was in the winter months. And it was kind of out in the country. And for me, I was kinda13:46 like, is this you God or is this not you? Because that's the other step. Sometimes13:51 God is out in the country.13:52 That's obvious. I know you love the land. Gary came back. He said, I've seen the promised land. It's a great some friends from church went with us to look at it. I sat in the car, cold day, with the ladies and we were14:03 all staying warm while the men went and scouted out the land and they came back and Gary said, I've seen the promised land. Now, I have to be honest, I was kinda like, I don't know. This is out in the country. We went14:14 back, just the 2 of us. We walked the property. When we got in the center, all the way back into the woods, we're walking the property. Just recently, we we we went out, walked this again and revisited. Mhmm. There was a14:25 tree and it's still there today in the center of the property and the words Gary, Only words carved on the street, the words Gary. So we took our grandchildren14:35 still smoking as a lightning14:36 bolt part is not true. It was not so14:39 it had that impact though.14:40 It had an incredible impact because we'd sowed for the we'd sown for this land, believing God. Now, here's someone comes to us and says, here's some land. I believe it's for you. We go out, walk it, look at it. We're14:51 still like, is this the land, God? Is this But God made it very clear. See, something very simple that here the name Gary is on14:58 the14:58 tree.14:58 It's still raining out the whole place.14:59 It is the only thing. And so, we couldn't even talk about it. Both of us kinda got quiet. We walked to the car. We drove halfway home. And almost at the same time spontaneously we both said, that was15:11 strange, wasn't it? Oh my gosh, I can't believe that Patrice has Gary on it.15:15 That was good.15:15 And from that we went ahead, put a contract on the property. Still live there Took the grandkids a couple weeks out and told them the story and showed them the Gary tree15:23 we saw. Yeah, call it. Hey, that's a crazy story, but hey, Talking about crazy stories. This farmers no, mechanic. Well, he was a mechanic. They turned farmer. I don't know. It's a crazy story. You gotta see how this15:35 thing turns out. Check it out.15:41 Coming to Faith Life Church, we we heard a lot of teaching that we had never we never heard of before. Like, the the reference or the phrase that the the kingdom of God was not something that we were familiar15:53 with. It was something you read in the Bible, but not necessarily that we thought of it as a structure of laws and principles that you can live by on the earth. So when he started the Power16:05 of Rest series, he talked about how it's a different way of living life. You can you can live life on the earth living in rest. So it was about the second week16:17 that he taught that that series that was like, we heard a testimony in there, and I was like, man, I just I just wanna see the something happen in our life that we know we can tie it to and say that was God. Like, that16:29 was 100 percent God. And so it was always, maybe it was James and God. But it was never just, I could tie it to and say it was God and it was God only. So driving home, we're talking about it. I said, you know what?16:38 Let's just just let's let's let's believe God for a a 10000 dollar blessing. And if pastor's teaching, let's just take it and and apply it literally. You know, that's what it says in the word, you know, in Malachi 3 10,16:50 it talks about how, you know, to try me. And and that's the only only time that God says to try him is in finances. And I'm like, you know what? It's finances. Let's try him. Fast forward a a a few more weeks, pastor17:01 kept teaching, and he kept talking about the double portion. And finally, I was like, man, I I really think we should just double it up. Why not? You know, if if if 10000 is great, 20000 is better.17:12 And but it was such a stretch. It was finally I I was finally able to see the 10000. I could I could think I could comprehend of what that would look like. And I was like, well, if we go to 20000, it's like, man, I don't17:23 I don't so it felt like I was starting over.17:25 I thought he was crazy when he said when he said 20000. I mean, I I didn't say anything. I was just like, 20? We can't even do 10. What are we thinking doing, you know, doubling up? He was by the front door. He gave17:37 me a hug, kiss, you know, we prayed. And as he's walking out, he goes, double portion, 20000. And I just said, okay.17:47 My day started just like any other day at work. I, you know, got all my guys busy with projects and I went to my desk to work on office stuff and later that morning, 1 of my clients came17:58 in, plopped down on my desk and started telling me about his past few weeks. He's a farmer and his fences were in disrepair and his cows were running out. And he's just telling me all this stuff and I'm listening kind of18:09 1 here and the other side. I'm still working, doing what I need to get done for the day and and finally he got caught my attention when he said, man, don't even know if I want cows anymore. He said, Right now, I I wanna18:20 give them away. And so that's kinda when I stopped and looked and said, Okay. This is different. This is not typically a conversation I have. He said, Manus, I'm telling you right now, I'm gonna give them all to you.18:31 They're they're all yours. And I was like, well, don't I don't I don't know what I'd do with that. You know, I'm a mechanic. I own my own repair shop. I live in town. You know, I have a half acre.18:43 I grew up around the farm, but it's been a few years since I've been around cattle. And I'm like, well, I don't I don't know. And just all these thoughts going through my mind, but then all of a sudden, there was a18:52 thought that was there. I was like, wait. Hold on. This is not every day that somebody walks in and says, look, I wanna give you a bunch of cows. So I drove out that evening, and as I'm leaving the shop, I call Ella, and19:02 I was like, I really think there might be something in here, but I I don't even know where to begin with this. And so I left that night and I called a family member and said, look, hey, I want you to come out and look at19:14 these cows and see see if this is something you're interested in. And I told them, I said, I'm these cows are being given to me and I'm selling them. And if that's a problem, I'll find a different avenue of selling them.19:24 And he said, no, no, that's okay. He said he was wanting to buy a herd of cows and he'd like to buy them from 1 farm. So that was, you know, that made sense to him. So I said, do you have an idea of what you'd be willing19:34 to pay for them? And we talked a little bit about it, he said, well, he'd be somewhere around 20000 for the herd. I kind of did the math real quick in my head. I was like, 23 head, let's say they average out of 100019:45 each, you know? And we'd take a number some off, then go on the low side, and just say, all right, this is less than that. That's close to 20000. It's like, well, that's we're that's close.19:54 And I'm like, really? I got excited. I'm like, wow. I mean, we just said that that morning. I mean, because we were hearing about the double portion. So to me, I just remember immediately going, oh, we weren't receiving20:05 it because we weren't we won't believe him for the double portion.20:09 Saturday comes around and we're gonna went in to haul these cows, I said, look, said, you'll buy them, but you also have to help me haul them because he's got a truck and trailer, and I said, you know, being a mechanic,20:18 I don't have that. And so you have to help haul them. He said, I'll do that. And so we finally managed to get them all out of the trailer, and we hauled them and got them over to the family member's20:30 farm. And it was an awesome deal for him because he had you know, a herd of cows, Aberdeen Angus cows that he had that, you know, he got, you know, what he was looking for. And he got them for, you know, what he thought20:41 was a great deal, and we had our 20000 dollar check. I knew God was there to help me with the big stuff, but I didn't know that he would be there for all the little stuff.20:53 I never heard anyone say that before. I never heard anyone teach that before until I heard pastor teach that. And then the power of rest series, like that's that's when he made it plain. Like it was just the way he21:04 teaches that series is bottom shelf, like I I got it. And I was like, if that's for anything and everything that we could want and desire, you know, if to have a part of our life, then21:16 then why not?21:20 I told you it's a crazy story. It's a God story. I'll tell you that. But here's how he ended it. Why not? And I would ask you the same thing. Why not you? I mean, why not you have a crazy story about how God,21:33 you know, brought some great ideas to you. And I this this scripture in in second Corinthians, after they had received the gifts, Paul says, people are gonna thank God for the surpassing grace, empowerment21:44 that God has given you. Thanks be to God for this indescribable gift of God's empowerment to prosper.21:51 Yes.21:52 I mean, it's amazing. Yes. Thank God for that.21:54 It is. Thank God for that. Yes. Your financial revolution, the power of generosity actually tells you how to operate in those supernatural crazy stories that nobody can22:05 say. God didn't do this. Mean James and Ella's story, it's a God story. But you know they had to be open to even receiving the cows. Sometimes we think, okay this couldn't be God. But when you've got your faith22:17 engaged Gary, you talk book. When your faith is engaged and you know what you're looking for, you've you've sown your believing, you're looking for the harvest.22:26 Expectation.22:26 Yes. You have an expectation. Then they had to say, wait a minute, we sow, we believe God. So maybe this is God coming through. Just like with us, with the marriage conference. We'd sown, we were believing for land. So22:38 someone comes and offers this land. Sometimes we're like, well, is this God? Is this not God? But all of those pieces, that expectation out, you know, out of our faith Yeah. Causes us to seize hold of22:49 something that might look a little crazy. Garrett got a a kind of another crazy email here. Okay? So here's someone. This is Ray and Sharon in New York. And they asked for prayer. They called the ministry here and asked23:01 us to pray because they have a dairy farm and they had a calf that was born and the mother could not get up after she'd calved. They'd been listening to your Financial Revolution audio series,23:13 reading the books their daughter had given them. And so they began just beginning to understand sowing a seed. So they sowed a seed that night and she was believing and standing that their cat23:25 their their cow would recover, get up. The vet said it was impossible that just they don't do this. They were gonna have to put it down. And you know what? She kept picturing in her mind just like what you teach her in23:35 the book. She pictured that this this calf was getting up, eating, everything was good, everything was going right. And sure enough, they got the next day and it says it was overwhelming the sheer realization of what God23:47 had done. The calf the cow was up walking around today giving milk to the calf and eating herself And so they're prospering, she says. They jump for They24:00 couldn't get over that this this works. Something so small like James said Hey. Something little, but God cares24:07 That's right.24:07 About it. They named the cow Ducky and her calf is Donald Ducks. Oh, wow. Very good. You know, she says, I feel so blessed with my family and the prayer that God answered to further his kingdom because24:19 this is their livelihood. This is their business. It's not just a cow. This is their Yes.24:24 Exactly. Right. Well, no matter what size, whatever it is you have need of, God's grace is available for you. And I trust, get the book, but understand the principle that God's grace is24:36 his empowerment for you to prosper. And we'll look forward to seeing you next time. We're gonna talk more about this grace that is yours to prosper.24:45 Gary and Drenda wanna thank their Team Revolution partners for helping make today's program possible.25:05 Generosity supersedes words. I want to talk to you about generosity and how it opens the heart of people and the goodness of God.25:18 The dictionary defines generous as showing a readiness to give more of something that is strictly necessary or expected.25:27 Being generous is acting like God does.25:31 I'm sure we've all felt the power of someone else's generosity in our lives. The person who paid it forward at the drive thru, the teacher who didn't give up on you, the stranger who led you aheadShow more
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