Touré Roberts - The Mentality of Abundance

Alright, alright, don’t play with me. Alright, Isaiah 55, let’s go! So it’s going to be a little abbreviated, but you’ve got the 9 o’clock service in your back pocket. It says, «For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.» Isaiah 6:8: «Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? ' Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'»

Father, thank you for your word; it’s a lamp to our feet, and a light to our path. In the beginning was your word, and your word was with you, and your word was you. All things were made by your word; there’s nothing that was made that wasn’t made by your word. I thank you, God, that the word became flesh. You came here, Lord God, to redeem us, to break everything off of us, God, that we might have life and life more abundantly. Lord, I thank you for the spirit of wisdom, revelation, insight, and knowledge. You love your sons and daughters so much, each and every one of them, God. Will you pull revelation out of me? Will you pull power out of me? Will you pull insight out of me, to the end that none of us will leave here the same, that we will be equipped, that we would have tools to manifest our greatness? God, do it in an awesome way. In Jesus' name, Amen, amen, amen.

I got it this go for so listen. Last week we began a conversation called the power of the present moment, and God has been dealing with me about what it means to truly be present in the moment. When I say the power of the present moment, I’m talking about two things: I’m talking about the power of the present moment as in the power of what we call now. Right? So there’s always power in now. The other part of it, which I was most excited about, is that the present moment is not just the moment of now, but the moment in which you and I are present. So the present moment is where God’s people are; it’s the moment where you are present. It is possible for you to be in a present moment but not be present in the moment interacting with me. All of us are in this present moment, but not all of us may have all of ourselves engaged in this present moment, and it’s important for that to happen. One of the things I’ve realized is that God—you know, we know that the Bible says, «God says I know the plans that I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.» I realize that God doesn’t give you your future in advance; He gives you your future proportionately in these things called moments. Are you tracking with me? All God gives you is a moment, and how you store that moment will determine whether or not you experience the opportunities in each moment. There is an opportunity in every single moment, an opportunity to, watch this, be edified. Now, one of the things we talked about—and this is a hard concept, so you have to go back to last week to get this recap in its entirety—however, one of the things that’s hard to grasp is the fact that God said, «Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you.» Hello, look at that! He’s describing two planes, two dimensions. He says, «Before I formed you in the belly» (that’s dimension one, the moment you were formed in the womb of your mother) right? That is a dimension, but you didn’t start in that dimension; you started in the dimension above it. Right? «Before I formed you in the belly, ” God says, „I knew you.“ So right there in that verse, it reveals to us that there are at least two dimensions: the dimension where God thought something up, completed something, and the dimension where that something is carried out and manifests. Oh, you’ve got to catch it! Yeah, catch it: two dimensions. God operates and functions in a dimension where He thinks it, speaks it, boom—and it is. Right? That’s one dimension. The other dimension is the place in which that thing that He spoke is carried out and manifests. Just because that thing is still becoming does not mean it is not so. It is becoming because it is so. You understand what I’m saying, right? And so what God gives us then is these pregnant moments. In every moment, there is an opportunity to be edified, and to be edified means to be built up; it’s an architecture term. What God is saying, and what I mean by that, is that in every single moment, God is causing you to become, and when you bring all of yourself into that moment…