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God is leading you on a journey bigger than you! Join Gary Keesee for this encouraging message and discover how you can handle the increased weight of your God-designed assignment.
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0:00 Today on fixing the money thing.0:03 You see, you have a destiny. It's bigger than you. Bigger than you. And, you know, your ability is not gonna have the strength and wisdom to get there and handle it.0:15 Your your skill set has to be honed. But more importantly, your ability and willingness to submit to God has to be trained. Obedience must be tested before0:27 that happens.0:29 Gary's Loyalty, your pathway to promotion series. Now on fixing the money thing.0:37 I'm Gary Kassi, and for 9 years, we lived in a chaotic, stress filled, visionless life. I cried out to God. He said, I want0:49 my people free.0:50 America's financial coach, Gary Kasim, shares the kingdom principles that changed his life, defeated his death, and set him free.1:00 You'll never1:10 loyalty, your pathway to promotion series. Today's message, training for your destiny.1:17 Buckle your seat belts. Get your bibles out. Let's get ready to roll here. We're talking about can God trust you or loyalty, and, has a huge impact on where you're headed, friend. Huge impact.1:29 So we need to talk about that, and we learned this is review now. We have learned that God can tap people on the shoulder to handle huge assignments if they first have1:41 been tested. Exactly. Thank you for that answer. That's right. First Timothy chapter 3 verse 10 says, leaders must first be tested and there's nothing against1:53 them. Let them serve as leaders. Right? Now, when you test someone, it's not only the skill set you're looking for. Again, you learned this, we talked about this, what are we looking for, friend?2:05 Their submission. See, you can learn a skill set. Right? And that doesn't necessarily show their heart. What you wanna test is the heart. Are they gonna stay submitted to the leader and to the assignment? We2:17 spent last week covering 8 steps of disloyalty. Now, obviously, there's 2 paths. God has a path of promotion, and there's a path of destruction. I don't think2:29 anyone just jumps out there and says, you know, I'm gonna put together a great plan to be disloyal. I don't think that's actually what happens. I think people are deceived. I think they fall into this trap. I think they2:39 don't know their heart, and so we need to make sure you can recognize this because your future depends on it and the future of many others. So let's review quickly 8 steps. What's the first 1? Get your notes2:51 out. The spirit. What does that look like? You know, you give them an instruction. They add to it, take away from it, change it, decide when to do it. Right? You say paint it blue, they they they3:03 paint it black. You know, they kinda do it, they kinda, you know, you know what I'm talking about. They wanna add their twist. They don't follow it exactly as has been instructed. They have an independent spirit3:15 and if that is not challenged with correction or instruction, what happens? Many times, they don't receive correction. They become step number 2, offended. Offended,3:27 offended, offended. And then offended people become step number 3, passive. They began to withdraw. They get upset, they get offended, they disengage, then they3:38 become passive, and then they become critical. They have a front row seat to everything. They're viewing everything through their critical eyes. Everything that they see is now validating their complaints,3:50 and it gets worse. They then become political. They begin to try to justify their opinions, their viewpoints with others around them. They draw people around them. Again, we covered this in-depth4:02 last week. They cover people around them, and then they enter a very dangerous phase because up until this point, we can still reach this person, but now they step into the stage of4:14 deception. As I said, deceived people do not know they are deceived. So now if you try to correct them, they don't receive it because they're right, you're wrong,4:25 they've made that decision, and then this leads to an open rebellion against their leader, and then we know what happens to rebels in the end. Our last step, number 8, is the execution4:37 phase. Rebels always die in the end because they attract Rebels. Rebels. That same spirit is now in their followers, and we have4:49 problems. Now, we don't want this for you. God does not want this for you. Now, how do you stop this cycle? Everyone say, correction and instruction. So5:01 I'm gonna I'm gonna name this this session, can God trust you to be corrected? Back when I was in second grade, I lived in Columbus, Clintonville to be exact, and I was in a5:13 gang. I was in a I was in a gang. We had our little bicycles, had about 4 or 5 of us, and I would run the back alleys, and I would we would steal stuff.5:25 We had a little saying back then with our gang that if it's in the back of the alley, they don't want it, it's trash, and so we might as well take it. Right? Of course, in Clintonville, the garages are right there at the5:36 alley, so we would just have a little saying, well, bet that's trash. Let's take it. I bet that's trash. My mother didn't know what I was doing, but anyway, 1 day, you know, who can remember back in the day when the5:47 transistor radios were big? Portable trans I mean, I that was a big deal back then. And, you know, my dad had 1. I wanted 1. And driving down the alley, I heard5:59 music playing. I looked in the backyard. There is a transistor radio sitting on a blanket playing music. No 1 around. Must be trash. Right? So I grabbed it, took6:11 it home. I hid it from my mother. I would listen to it at night in the bedroom at night trying to go to sleep. I'd turn it on. She discovered I had it, and she made me march down to that house,6:23 give it back, repent to the owner face to face. And so everyone say, thank God for my mom. I was not heading down the road that God wanted me to head down. Right?6:35 And she was wise enough to make me go down and face them face to face instead of just taking it down there. And of course, that was a traumatic experience having to go through that through a little 3, you know, third6:47 grader. But I never obviously, I've not forgotten it. And so I thank God for correction. So can God trust you with correction? You see, you have a destiny. It's bigger than you. Bigger than you. And,6:58 you know, your ability is not gonna have the strength and wisdom to get there and handle it. Your your skill set has to be honed. But more importantly, your ability and7:10 willingness to submit to God has to be trained. Obedience must be tested before that happens. God starts small. He leads with glimpses and dreams. He7:22 leads you on a journey of preparation. I can remember back in the the WCVO days, our church started at WCVO radio station, if you didn't know that. And, you know, was a great place to7:33 start. 1 day 1 of these 1 day I was praying there in service, and the Lord spoke to me and said that I would be doing radio and television someday. That was crazy. I mean, I7:45 never even thought about that, didn't want to think about it, knew 0 about it. And it wasn't only about a month or so later, the radio station had a a show that was about marriage, this couple.7:57 It was an hour long show. They had call ins and they talked and you know, taught on marriage. They had a huge fight on the air. So the radio manager took them off and called us8:09 and said, would you and Drenda wanna take over the marriage broadcast? So for a year and a half on Tuesday nights, we would drive down from Mount Vernon. We were building our house at the time. We would stop8:19 construction, and we would drive down to the radio station, and we would teach on marriage, and we would take phone calls, and it was a good break for us, for our own relationship, but it was also a learning experience8:31 about radio and media. And so, you know, God starts you, but you have to say yes. He you have to say yes. We launched television. I won't tell you all the details. You've heard it8:43 before, but that was really scary to start television. We knew nothing about TV. But God spoke to me 1 day. We were building the NOW Center where we're seated right now, and8:55 we would go to churches in the area and look at how they built their buildings as we were designing our building here. 1 day, we went to a church that was doing a Sunday morning TV broadcast. And9:07 as I was walking through the hall, looking at the building, their room where they had their TV equipment was open. The door was open, and as I walked by it, all of a sudden, the anointing of God came on me9:19 so strong I could hardly stand up. And the Lord said, you'll have this. You're gonna have the same thing. Now, if you're like me, I didn't know what all those dials and lights and all that was, all that electronic9:30 equipment, but I knew I would have it. I was so overwhelmed by the presence of God. I left the tour, went down into the car and had to sit there for about an hour. Just9:43 God was speaking to me. So we came back. Again, I won't tell you the whole story. We launched television. That was a a a more courage than faith. Took both, but it took it took took both, but9:55 it was courage. Takes courage. Our airtime at the time, we started as 9000 dollars a month. I remember thinking, I even called Drinda once on the phone and said, Drinda, I don't how are we gonna pay 9000 dollars a month10:07 in airtime when we're building the NOW Center? I mean, money is being spent before we even get it. Right? I mean, it's just how are we gonna do that? But the TV ministry kept growing, opportunities kept coming up, more10:18 stations wanted our broadcast. And then 1 night, Drinda was here, we were having prayer and our team was praying, and Amy began to prophesy to me. And here is the words she10:30 spoke, words of the Lord to me. The harvest is too big for you. I am stretching you. How many love to be stretched? How do you stretch a balloon?10:42 Everyone say the word pressure. Pressure. Pressure changes your capacity. I am stretching you. Only by my spirit can you understand what is10:54 about to happen. Will you step out? Let me lead you to hard things beyond your understanding the impossible. Wow. Now, we'd seen enough and had11:06 been been trained enough to know to answer that with a yes. As you know, as you attend here at Faith Life, I tell you, always say yes, figure it out later.11:17 Because if God says it, he already has the figure it out part done. Right? So it was probably, I don't know, a month later we get a phone call where we are offered a daily11:29 television spot. We are currently just doing weekly, and 5 days is extremely expensive, and our bills are now jumping significantly. And they said, you'll probably fall11:41 behind on the first month or so because, you know, you gotta adjust, more people watching. Well, we were 6 months down the road, and we were a half million dollars behind on our airtime bill.11:53 Now, the name of the program is fixing your money thing. I knew that could not continue. That was not integrity, and I I was nervous about it. I didn't know. I said, well, we have to drop off. You know, I don't I can't12:05 live there being behind on television when my whole ministry is about having financial integrity. Right? Well, we went away that week, and we prayed. Drenda encouraged me. I I was12:17 getting nervous about it. I have to be honest with you. But I came back from that trip, after praying, and I had a dream in the night where I saw your names. I saw piles I saw12:28 piles of checks. I saw your names. I saw amounts in the checks. That weekend, it was just a normal weekend, we did not make an appeal for the money, but that half million dollars came in on that12:40 normal weekend. We paid the television bill, praise the Lord, and have been current ever since. Our price now, we're spending 250000 dollars a12:52 month on TV airtime. And so here's the here's the moral of the story. God starts you small. You have to train for the big. Right now, today, you're training for your13:04 future destiny. You know, training is so important. I I loved football. I mean, I still love it, but I played football all through junior high and high school. Going to school here in New Albany is a very small school,13:15 so I got to play both offense and defense. I loved the games, but I did not like summer practice. 2 a days, I dreaded that. Anybody play football? You know what I'm talking13:27 about. I used to dread those 2 a day summer practices. But in the game, what we learned in 2 a day summer practices showed up. Right? See, listen, game day is coming, friend.13:39 God is a a system of preparation. It's called correction and instruction. You need to embrace his system if you're ever gonna get there. Let me show you what I mean in Hebrews chapter13:50 12 verse number 4. In your struggle against sin or to be obedient, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood and you have completely forgotten this14:02 word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son. My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline. Do not lose heart when he rebukes you14:14 because the Lord disciplines the ones he loves. He chast chastens everyone he accepts as his son. Endure hardship. Now the Greek word for hardship means to stay14:25 under, remain, have fortitude, persevere, abide, endure. What's he talking about? Don't quit. You're being14:37 stretched. It's not comfortable. You don't know how to do it. You're tempted to quit. Don't quit. You must persevere with discipline. Right? God14:49 is treating you as children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? You know, many times as believers, we like to bail people out that have problems. And many times15:01 that's good, but sometimes in doing so too quickly, you might be short circuiting their ability to be trained by the Holy Spirit. God may be working something hard out of you know, into their life,15:13 working something hard right there that they need to submit to and learn through. We need to be careful. Right? Yes. Everyone undergoes discipline. And then it proves15:25 you're not an illegitimate child. You're a true son and daughter of God. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us as we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the father of spirits and15:36 do what? Live. How many like living better than dying? Healing better than disease? Yes. You know, success better than failure. Right? I mean alright. So they disciplined15:48 us for a little while as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good in order that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful.16:00 Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Righteousness. Let me just find the word because it sounds religious.16:12 Righteousness, just right, what heaven says is right. You're gonna reap what heaven says is right in your life, how life should be lived. Right. Righteousness.16:24 You're gonna you're gonna walk in that. You're gonna harvest that peace to have all that God says. James chapter 1 verse 2 gives us more insight. Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face16:36 trials of many kinds. What kind of statement is that? Right? Because you know, and you're gonna know right now, because you know that the testing of your faith16:48 now you know faith is being fully persuaded of what God says. Satan has a legal right to test that. You'll be tested. Parable of sower tells us Satan comes immediately for the17:00 word. You'll be tested. And circumstances will test your faith. But it says this, the testing of your faith produces perseverance. If you are fully17:11 persuaded, you persevere. You stand because you know the outcome. Let me say it again. Because you know the outcome, you persevere. And the Bible says, let perseverance finish its17:22 work. Don't quit. Don't give up. You know the outcome. It's gonna finish its work, and at the end, you'll be mature, you'll be complete, not17:34 lacking anything. How many like that? Not lacking anything. Well, is what maturity looks like. New believers, you heard them say, well, you know, this this faith thing is not working. The word's not working. That's17:45 immaturity. The word always works. Amen. Satan's gonna try to deceive you and intimidate you to let go of the word. That's all he can do. He has no authority. Your17:57 responsibility is to keep your heart set on the word. Put on the helmet of salvation. Guard your thoughts. Cast down imaginations that exalt themselves against what God says. Right? Take18:09 the spirit of truth, the word of God, and speak back to fear. Speak back to sickness. Go on the offense. No. In the name of Jesus. This is not my destiny. Let me tell you what my destiny is. Right?18:21 This is how you sound. This is how you act. But that's what mature people understand. People have to be tested. They have to be trained. Once they're trained in this understanding,18:33 they are now able to handle weight of a bigger assignment. There are hard things. David could have run from the lion. He could have run from the bear. Right? I mean, everyone could have understood that. I mean, why18:45 why risk your life for a sheep. Right? But he had a trust. He's being tested. His heart's being tested. God will test you the same. Hard times. You18:57 know you know basically my story, 1.3 average in high school. Probably missed more days than I attended. Did not like school. I say that because I hate to use the19:09 word hate. Did not like school. Teacher would hand me the test, I would say, I'm sorry, I don't want to take it. I hand it right back. I had an attitude problem as you can19:21 tell. You would not vote me most likely to succeed. When I was born again and then God called me to preach, the very first thing he said is go to college.19:32 Yay. It was at that time of my life the hardest thing I had ever done. Let me give you a hint. Remember the balloon example. If you're not19:43 currently doing the hardest thing you've ever done, you are not growing. You're sustaining. Let me say it again. If you're not currently doing the hardest thing you've ever done in your life, you're19:55 not stretching. God will test you. You must learn. I remember in those days in college, we need money, you know. College kids always need money looking for ways to make it. And20:07 they came in the dorms. My guys my friends said, hey. They're gonna give you 10 bucks for your plasma. What's plasma? What what know, when you go down to this little room, you20:19 know, it's part of your blood. They're gonna take part of your blood, and they'll give you 10 bucks for it. What do you gotta do? Just sit there? Okay. Sign me up. It sounds easy. I went down there. I was shocked. I20:29 mean, I had I'd never given blood before. And these IVs and all these people sitting around, I didn't quite like the atmosphere. The 3 friends that told me about it, they all quit. They said, no, we're not doing it. But20:41 I figured I was there, I would do it. I got the 10 bucks. You know, you say, well, what's that all about? Well, you've gotta get comfortable with change.20:53 You know? Yeah. I could have backed it. I already went I already made the trip there. I remember those same guys. When I ended college, I, began the insurance business. And they were21:05 recruiting, and I told them about it. They all they all signed up with me, and they quit. Well, of course we got married and down the road a couple years later I saw these guys, all 3 of them still together playing21:16 basketball at the at the college there. And they, hey Gary, how's it going? Said, how's that insurance thing? I said, man, it's awesome. I said, I made 50000 this year. You could see the21:27 countenance's faces dropped. Because what they were hoping was I would validate their quitting by saying, I had nothing there. Didn't work out, right? But when I said21:39 it worked, and it worked well, you understand. That insurance thing is now a multi million dollar business.21:51 It's been around for 39 years. Let me give you some quick scriptures, all of these out of Proverbs. You'll see them on the screen. Proverbs 12 1, whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is22:03 stupid. Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored. A fool spurns a parent's discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows22:14 prudence. Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise. Whoever heeds life giving correction will be at home among the wise. Those who disregard discipline despise22:25 themselves, but the 1 who heeds correction gains understanding. Listen, God has a great future for you. Will you submit to him, his process?22:37 You know, it's interesting. I told you about the company, how we started that business years ago. How we started television. It was a struggle, I'll tell you. We had to had to die to ourselves. We had to submit.22:49 We had to be like that balloon where pressure allowed us to increase our capacity, change our processes, change our vision. And it was painful. I'll be honest, it's painful at times.23:01 But yet it yields great fruit.23:06 Have you ever wondered how you'll realize your destiny or do great things when it seems like no 1 even knows you exist? Maybe you feel alone, like David out in the wilderness where no 1 recognizes23:18 your gifts. You have 2 choices, give in to deception, defeat, and disloyalty, or remain loyal to God and his promises to bring you into your divine destiny.23:31 No 1 really plans to destroy their life. Right? No 1 really plans to be disloyal. In fact, a lot of people, maybe most people don't even know they're being disloyal.23:43 But we need to find out because this is how Satan operates, underground, undercover with deception.23:49 Call or log on now to discover God's pathway to promotion on this exciting new teaching resource by Gary Gacy. Loyalty, your pathway to promotion.24:00 Understand God has a pathway for loyalty. Understand God has a pathway for loyalty. The pathway of disloyalty has a bad ending. The pathway of loyalty has a great ending. And we need to understand how they both operate.24:10 Once you understand God's pathway and loyalty and put it into practice in your life, you'll see transformative results in your career, your finances, your relationships, transformative results in your career, your24:18 finances, your relationships. Putting God's principles and his kingdom laws to work in your life will put you on the fast track to your promotion.24:29 Let me suggest this to you that if you are feeding on corruption, you will become corrupted.24:37 Gary's new teaching resource, Loyalty, your pathway to promotion, will help you discover the 8 steps to disloyalty and how you can escape the enemy's deception. You'll learn how instruction24:49 and correction are vital to becoming a person of loyalty and how your firm decision to flee from compromise and temptation and follow God's principles and promises will open the door to your25:01 freedom and destiny. Loyalty, your pathway to promotion is available now on CD or as a digital download. 3 messages to change your life. Being25:12 loyal, receiving correction, and keeping to yourself.25:18 Your ability and willingness to submit to God has to be trained. Obedience must be tested.25:26 Your promotion will only come when you start following God's principles and putting his kingdom laws to work in your life. So start now by calling25:38 the number on your screen. Go online and visit Gary's website or write to Faith Life now, PO Box 7 7 9, New Albany, Ohio 4 3 0 5 4.25:50 Ask for Loyalty, your pathway to promotion on 3 CDs or as a digital download. It's our gift to you when you sow 20 dollars or more into the ministries26:02 of Faith Life Now.26:04 But understand this, God has a pathway of promotion. And if you'll submit to that pathway, and you'll be coachable, you'll get there.26:13 And as always, thank you. It's your generous prayers and financial support that allow Gary Andrenda to reach the world with the life transforming message of the kingdom of God. Don't put26:25 it off. Use the information on your screen to start experiencing the blessings that come from being loyal to God's plan and purpose for your life. Call, write, or go online now.26:38 Next time on fixing the money thing, Gary reveals the destiny impacting benefit of growth and correction.26:45 Being corrected and trained or given instruction is a privilege. Someone cares for your destiny.26:57 You need to celebrate that.26:59 That's next time here on fixing the money thing. Join Gary Kasseve this spring at the fifteenth anniversary provision conference, April 20 fifth through 2027:11 seventh. Are you ready to open for business? 3 days of essential kingdom insight will give you the knowledge and confidence to expand your success potential and thrive in your27:23 assignment. Register now for the open for business provision conference experience at provision conference dot com.28:05 To contact us for prayer or more helpful kingdom resources, visit Gary dot com. The loyalty, your pathway to promotion series on fixing the money28:17 thing has been a presentation of Faith Life Now and brought to you through the very generous support of Gary and Drenda's team
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