Believing the Unbelievable!

Hello, my name is John Humenik and welcome to my live stream tonight. I'm excited that you're here today. If you have not been to my channel before, I invite you to subscribe now and click on the notification bell because we put out a ton of awesome content for folks that just like you who are looking to get beautiful teachings about Jesus Christ and the Lord. So tonight's live stream is going to focus on believing in the unbelievable, where your faith matches and brings forth miracles, signs, and wonders. And if you're a person who is currently struggling through life, or you don't know Jesus at all, you found the right video. This video is going to help you understand how to walk out a victorious life that allows you to live free from all forms of sickness, All forms of mental torment, addiction. And if you're stuck in the poverty situation where you're living paycheck to paycheck, God is going to deliver you from that tonight. And so if you have never been on my channel before, these teachings are really powerful. And make sure you take back everything that you hear in this video back to the Lord in prayer. Don't assume that all the information that you will hear tonight applies to you in this current season. It apply to different people at different points in time. It may not actually apply to you at all depending on the context you're in in your life, although it may be applicable for you later in life in your walk with Jesus Christ. So if you've never understood the concept of salvation, this comes from Romans 10:9. The concept of salvation means that you are able to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord, believing that he came in the flesh, died, and was risen 3 days later by the Father, by Jesus, and by the Holy Spirit. All 3 participated in it. You're able to proclaim that with your mouth and accept it. That is salvation. It's a free gift. It's not something that you have to work for. It's not something that you have to toil, and it isn't even something that you earn in any way, shape, or form. You just believe in faith that Jesus died for your sins. He's alive, sitting at the right hand of the Father, and that he did it For you, and you're able to publicly proclaim that. That's salvation. At that point, if you haven't done that, I pray that you pray that prayer right now and that the Holy Spirit fills you with his power and his might, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Because when you have salvation and you have the Holy Spirit, then you are able to walk out life in a victorious manner. And it's really important to understand that. Now, if you're caught in any form of sin in your life, this is the— this video will cover that and go into great detail on how to believe in the unbelievable. Because when you understand the Bible and how God wants us to walk out our lives, Christians like you and me, brothers and sisters, it's really important to note that it's very much like a monarchy. And if you are living in a country that has a monarchy, you understand what I'm talking about. But if you're in the States, like where I'm at, or in any other country where you democratically or via republic elect your officials, You're the, the monarchy concept is new and it really can be confusing for people because they don't understand that in a monarchy you don't get to set the rules. And in fact, you don't even allow it to change them. And so in God's kingdom operates like a monarchy. He's the king, Jesus, the king on the throne, and it's his rules and his operation. He has an army which includes us and his angelic army in heaven, and he works through us. So how does this all work and how do you tap into To the unbelievable. We have to first understand your place, your identity in Christ. That all starts with the fact that back when God created the universe and put Adam and Eve in the garden, he gave Adam and Eve dominion over the earth. That meant that Adam and Eve were quite literally the kings and queens of the earth. When they fell at— during the original sin, when Satan tempted them, Satan took over as the basically the prince of the air and the ruler of this world. When Jesus came and died on the cross, he took those keys to death and sin and death and basically transferred them back to us. And so now through the Abraham promise, we now have authority, dominion, and power on the earth. This is where it all starts. If you wanna start to understand how the unbelievable works, it all starts with this fact that you are royalty here on earth, which means what you speak and how you speak will come into being. Let's look at a perfect example from the Exodus, when you had the 12 tribes of Israel had come out of Egypt in powerful miracles by God. And they decided, it was about 2 years after that event happened. So that Red Sea moment, they go and camp and basically spy out the land of Israel, the land filled with milk and honey. In that moment, Moses was instructed by God to take one person from each tribe. Uh, he took— uh, you had, um, all the different folks go into the, the foreign land which was going to become Israel. It was primarily inhabited by the, the descendants of Canaan, the Canaanites, and they were looking to see, is the land good? Is the land, uh, being able to provide for them? Because remember, when they were coming out of Egypt, they were fed by God hand and foot. Literally, they had bread that was given to them every morning that was fresh. They had quail that was blown in from the east, and they were fed. And so what you have here is you've got these 12 men made up of Joshua and Caleb and 10 others that go into the land to see, does it have the capability to produce for itself? Because once they cross over into that Promised Land, at that point, They're going to have to make sure that the, the land is good, that the produce was good and all these things. And so they go in and they actually bring back a grape cluster. And I guess basically the way it describes it in the Bible, it's so heavy that they had to put it on a stick and 2 people had to carry it back. I can't imagine how big that cluster and how weighty it was, but it was really impressive. And so what you see is Joshua and Caleb said, God is more than able to be able to go into the land and we can take it. It's an amazing land. We can do this. God will back us up, and it happens. We can take the land, and then we can conquer the people. The other 10 spies put this really bad report saying, we are like grasshoppers to these giants. And you see people talk about even today the Nephilim, and basically people that are larger than life. And you see these people and they're terrified. And we said, we cannot take the land. Guess who When they spoke, who was speaking the truth? Was it just Joshua and Caleb? Was it just the 10, or was it all 12? Well, the answer is all 12, because God was upset. And so what happened was, is that whatever a person spoke, that came to be. Joshua and Caleb, 40 years later, go into the Promised Land. They're basically in their 60s or 70s. And I think Caleb, throughout this process, ends up about being 85. So they were older when they did this initial report. Those 10 spies that said they couldn't take it, guess what? They couldn't take it. They died in the wilderness in those 40 years. So what you see here is, to start this whole process, is what you say and how you say it means a ton. Because as authority figures here on Earth, that becomes the standard, that becomes spoken law. So when you're starting to understand what Jesus talked about when he said, speak to the mountain and it'll be uprooted and thrown into the sea, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed. Now, you know, a mustard seed is about 1 millimeter in width. It's really small. If you don't know what a mustard seed looks like, if you eat strawberries and the seeds that are on the outside, it's basically that size. And so that's where it all starts. It starts with your heart and how you declare things, because you're going to struggle to speak truth if you don't believe it. Now, there are a lot of people that will go out there and speak lies and basically believe those lies. But at the end of the day, for the most part, most people are gonna be impassioned in what they do and want to speak the truth. And that's a, a great starting point because when you start to understand how God works, it starts with our mouth. It starts with our posture of our heart. Because when you're trying to believe something like Matthew 6:33, which says, seek my kingdom and my righteousness, and all of these things will be added unto you, we have to understand, well, what is all of those other things? And this is a great point. If you're So if you're taking notes, I want you to take this note so that you don't have to chase things that you already attract. What that means is, is that God's blessings that are in the Bible, and there is a boatload of blessings, you don't have to go after them in order for them to come to you. They will actually just get drop shipped to your front door. In the modern context, it's no different than ordering from Amazon. Think about this from the perspective that a point where you don't even actually have to order it. So now think about it, that God is going to drop ship clothes, Food, money, your housing, and take care of all of your needs. And believe it or not, your wants, because remember, he puts those wants inside of you. So you're not going to have a want that isn't going to be aligned with his will. So you're going to have these wants, and now he's going to provide them for you. So you don't actually have to go on to Amazon's website, click on ordering food or clothes or money, and it's just going to come to you. That's the essence of Matthew 6:33. If you're pursuing His kingdom. This is where it starts. If you understand that you're able to go out there and be about your Father's business, if you're able to understand that for the day I can take my daily bread, that God, whatever God has spoken to me in my prayer closet, and I can take that and I can carry that forward, and all of these other things that I would normally toil after and work for that will come will automatically come, you're going to basically take the first step into believing the unbelievable, where you're trusting in your faith and your surrender meets miracles, signs, and wonders. This is where it all begins. This is, this is basically ground zero. If you're understanding where you're at in your walk, in your life, this is where you have to begin. Now, for those who may potentially already walk this out, we're gonna— I'm gonna challenge you here with this video because we're gonna go next level. And for those who can't even understand this, you're like, this is impossible, I can't, I can't accept that I don't have to work for a living. Well, you do have to work for a living. You do actually have to do your part, but you don't have to chase the money. That's the key difference. A lot of people are chasing money, working 2 jobs, because they haven't surrendered those things to God. When you surrender your children, your finances, your health, your future, your well-being, and you're all in for the kingdom— remember, when you're going out and getting salvation, it's free, but when you're serving God, it costs you everything. When you've yielded your life to God, he is going to reward you here on earth. The biggest misnomer, misnomer in all of Christianity is that heaven is where you're gonna get your reward. And that's just not true. In fact, it's in the Lord's Prayer, as it is in heaven, it will become in earth. And so when you start to understand that you can pull down heaven's blessings and release them into the earth, that's where the miracles, signs, and wonders match up with your faith. So if you have someone that's sick in your family, the, the Bible teaches us, believe it or not, that you should be declaring healing. Now, there are aspects There are aspects in the Bible that talk about prayers, and there's no question about that. That's a part of the healing process. But when you look at healing, you see Jesus. Jesus never prayed for healing. He never said, Father, please heal this blind man. No, he just put mud on his eyes and said, go wash yourself in the Pool of Shalom and you'll be taken care of. That's just what Jesus did. He spoke to it. When Peter's mom was— mother-in-law was sick, and he just walked up, rebuked the fever, and it left her. Oh, Father, please take the fever away from her. Get on his knees and, and basically say a bunch of different things and be really religious. No, he just rebuked it and it was gone. So you have to understand that your position as a kingdom kid, a child of God, son or daughter, you need to understand that there are aspects in which you have to walk out confidently because that's what God wants you to do. You have to be about your Father's business. You have to believe that when you are seated, seated in heavenly places in Christ, That there is no limit. You have to understand that as a part of your walk, you're seated hidden in Christ Jesus. The old person is now dead. You prayed that prayer of salvation. You're no longer that old person. You no longer have to go back to the drugs that you used to do. You no longer have to go back to the alcoholic bottle. You no longer have to go back to that website that you shouldn't be on, or that social media feed, or that person's personal profile or their DMs that you shouldn't be there. You're— that person is now dead. This is why you hear a lot of people saying, I was born this way, I was born this way. Well, when you're born again in Jesus Christ, that old person is gone, and you don't have to operate that way. You don't have to go back to those things. You don't have to be the person who your parents think you should be because you are now set free in Jesus Christ. And the only one that's allowed to identify you as you is Jesus because he created you. Even your mother and father who gave you birth into this world only did so by the grace of God, by the power of the Holy Spirit. So in reality, while they partnered with the Lord in giving birth to you, at the end of the day, they don't own you. God does. That's the truth. And when you come to that realization that God owns you and that you are part of him, you now can operate from a posture of Just excellence, a spirit of faith, a spirit of hope. And when you understand that, when you're operating at that level, you, the person sitting across this screen, are operating at that level. You no longer have to do the things that the old person did. In fact, you may find God taking you out of your job. You may find God taking people that were close to you out of your life, including your family members. And that can actually include your children. More than likely, It probably won't be your spouse because that's kind of how God works. Because even if you understand how 1 Peter works, he talks about walking through the life even with an unbelieving spouse. But God will just take care of you. He will move you to a new city. He will give you a new job. He will give you a new identity and allow you to operate in a kingdom mindset. And this is so important because you can't live your life for your children. You cannot live your life for your parents. In fact, you can't even live your life to a large degree for your coworkers and family and friends. The only person you're going to live your life out with is the Father and your spouse if you're married, and that's it. And ultimately, that's the circle. And when you understand that, you can start to operate very freely because it becomes freeing. All of the demands and the constraints that have been put on you in your life Are now gone. You don't have to deal with this. So now you're operating from a heavenly place where there is no limit. You have to understand, God does not operate in time. And because he does not operate in time, he knows the end from the beginning. When he wrote this entire story, this beautiful love story that's called the Bible, the beautiful love story that's called your life— and it may not feel like that today, but it's really true. It really is. It is a love story to you. You will truly understand the blessings that he has given you, because we don't know— I don't know, you don't know— the depth that he has gone to protect you, to provide for you, and take care of you. Those are beautiful things. God will go all out just for you. That's why Jesus died for us. He took the only thing that he had. Remember, in all of creation, it's just created. So God just birthed all of these things, but Jesus was there before that, and he gave Jesus up to have us. So he's all in. And when you become all in, guess what? There's nothing that can stop you because you are greater than this— basically the scorpions and the snakes of this world. And you are triumphant over all forms of evil, and you get to rule over sin. That's what Genesis talks about. So you have to understand that when your posture, where you're at in life, that it's so important to believe in the unbelievable, because when you're seated in Christ, the impossible happens. all the time. It's not something that happens weekly or maybe, you know, quarterly or once a year. John talks about this and Jesus at the end of his gospel. He said basically, if I wrote down everything that Jesus did, he believed that the books themselves could not fit on earth. We read throughout the Bible and in the gospels that Jesus had 37 miracles. Those are the only documented miracles in the Bible, 37. But we know there were There were basically stories, if I remember correctly, it's Matthew 4:24, where he— they talk about them bringing people. I think it was in southern Syria where they just kept bringing the sick, the demon-possessed, all forms of oppression, and he just kept healing them. If you understand the number of miracles that Jesus did on this earth is astronomical because he had the power of the Holy Spirit operating through him without limit. This is the big key. There is no junior Holy Spirit. If a 5-year-old is saved, that 5-year-old has the same level of authority that Jesus Christ did when he was here on earth. It's the same authority that an adult who's walking throughout life with God has with the Holy Spirit. The power of the Holy Spirit has no equal. He is the strongest, most powerful person on this planet. There is no equal to him. The devil— it's not a wrestling match. It's The Holy Spirit just does, and that's the way it is. And so when you're working with the Holy Spirit, you're partnering with him. God is, believe it or not, is making your dreams come true. This is the thing that a lot of people, a lot of religious spirits, I can even hear them now screaming that they want you to be poor, that piety is the way to go because it equates to poverty. And that's, you should be poor and being able to struggle. And that's shows God's faithfulness, or you're sick and it shows God's faithfulness that you can continue to operate in a kingdom mindset because he was able to sustain you. But the reality is, is that's a total lie. In fact, the thing that the devil will do is he will try his best to keep people from salvation. But when they are saved, what he'll do is he wants to defeat the Christians and to make them believe that they have no authority here on earth, that they have No power. Well, guess what? The Christians are the most powerful people in the world. And because of that, when you understand your authority, that there is no such thing as sickness in your life, you can make the statement, it's impossible for me to be sick. If you can't believe it, say it anyway. Say it with me. It's impossible for me to be sick. It's impossible for me to be poor. Say it with me. It's impossible for me to be poor. It's impossible for me to be poor. It's impossible for me to have an addiction. It's impossible for me to have an addiction. Just say it. Believe it. It's so important that you have to understand that you can be set free of every form of torment, every form of pain and suffering, because God loves you. And Jesus didn't die and take the, the most epic, brutal beating of his life for you to live defeated. In fact, he let you He went through all of that so that you could live a life of complete domination. That's where it all starts. So now you're starting to understand that basically where step 2 is, is that you are seated in a position of power where you have authority to speak the impossible. If you need blessings in your life, you just speak them. That's what it talks about in James, is you don't have because you didn't ask. If you want a better job, ask God. God Please deliver me a better job. Please deliver me that raise. Please deliver me, you know, that opportunity to switch and get a huge bump and a promotion. I worked like that for many, many years. I would go up to God and say, look, I would struggle getting promotions at jobs. It was something that people just weren't interested in doing. And I had been at companies for years and years and years and see people pass me up, and I would be either, either as good or better than most of them, but they would just You know, play the office politics and work their way up the channel. And next thing you know, they're managers and directors and vice presidents and C-levels. And you would see that. So I would just hop to another job, get a promotion, and move on. And I was able to do that for years because God allowed me to be able to move in those positions, because the people in business had no— they didn't care for people. They were only concerning themselves with the bottom line and how to get there as quickly as possible. And that's not to say that's the case for all the people that I worked for. There was a lot of amazing leaders, but at the end of the day, it's still a business and they're still trying to make a profit. Even if they're a non— even if they're a nonprofit, they're still trying to operate in the black. So God is gonna be the one that promotes you. This is a key statement to understand. This is really what number 3 is about, is, is that you must humble yourself in order to be exalted. This is a concept that we see very clearly that happens when Jesus gets baptized. So you can look at the narrative, it's all in the early gospels, all of them talks about But what happens is, is that John the Baptist baptizes Jesus. The dove— heaven opens up, the dove comes down. Heaven doesn't close, and that's a key point because heaven's blessings are always there. The heaven, the open heaven, never closed. It's still open today, and the veil is gone. So now you have better access to God than you did in the Old Testament. And then Jesus went up to the wilderness filled with the Holy Spirit and defeated the devil in the wilderness. But notice that he was ascended. He ascended up, and that's a very important understanding—is you must have ascended thinking. So Jesus went up into the wilderness, and all He did was defeat the devil by saying scriptures. He says it is written three times, and defeated the devil. And then what happened was is by the power of the Holy Spirit, He started to spread the news about Jesus. So in that moment, Jesus humbled Himself to the Father. And then the Holy Spirit started spreading the news. When you start to understand God's favor, this is going to be game-changing because God's favor blows away finance, even to the extent when we talk about blessings and all the beautiful things God can give you. God's favor truly trumps most of what he can give you because you can't buy favor. You can't even earn it in any way, shape, or form. In fact, most of the time, favor is Uh, occurs based upon 2 things: either God giving it to you by obedience, or the world by some form of structure that they put in place. And generally it costs you something when the world does it, if not always. So what God does is he wants you to be humble and walk out a life of humility, basically below the waterline, because all the Spirit does— the Holy Spirit flows to the lowest place. But when you humble yourself before God, That's when you start. That's when the power gets unlocked. Even when it talks about resisting the devil, it says, it says to resist the devil and he will flee. But what it does say is, is that you must humble yourself to God. You must lean into him, trust him first, be able to build that relationship and say, look, I'm trusting you first. And then when the devil comes to try to ensnare me, I can then resist him and he'll flee. And God does all the work for you. That's the key part is you don't have to do the work. Work because he does. You can't truly fight a spiritual battle because at the end of the day, you're still caught in this physical world, and the devil doesn't have those limitations of the physical world because he's a spirit being. But God has angels. You can call angelic hosts to come guard you. You can call angelic, um, people to come and sing and praise with you and glorify the Father so that he can inhabit the praises of his people. These are the things that you can do. You can ask God, send your angelic guard to watch over my family, watch over my children, so whenever they're going to and fro that they won't ever dash their foot against the stone. These are key concepts, but they're all spoken, and then you have to believe them. You have to trust God with your children. You have to trust God with your finances. I don't know if there's anything more difficult in this world than to trust God with your finances. There's probably a couple other things that some other people If you're really well-to-do, truly well-to-do, that, that has never been a problem for you and you were born into a family of wealth and, and of some form of blessing, that, that may not be the case. But at the end of the day, finances, your health, your children, uh, your future, uh, are probably the, the core anchor points in which the devil will try to loosen you up in a way that causes you to, uh, concede something that that will, uh, really put you at, at, I would say, opposition to God. Because when you're not trusting God, that's a place where you just don't want to be. Think about it from his perspective. He is a God of everything. He has no limit. He already understands all the things that are about to happen or will happen or can happen. He understands all those permutations, but he knows the ones that ultimately do happen And his children doesn't trust him. That's a difficult place to be because he wants you to operate under the kingdom mindset. He wants you to be about his business. And how do you believe in the unbelievable if you are stuck doing the believable? Because remember, your job is not to do the unbelievable. Your job is to do the believable. God adds his supernatural on top of it, which then becomes unbelievable. This is how you walk. This is how Jesus walked every single day in miracles, signs, and wonders. When you are trusting God implicitly to the point where you're like, I'm completely not focusing on making money, I may go do my job as well as I can. And the Bible tells you to serve your masters, or in the current context would be your employers. Serve your employers with high respect because that they've— God has established them in those positions of power and authority. The government. A lot of people love to make fun of the current president or the previous president. It's a big joke along the nation, and the devil will divide the country up along these party lines to basically cause us to basically destroy ourselves. And that's what he wants us to do. Think about it from the perspective of the devil. If you're about your Father's business, you don't care about what the president is doing because you trust God to operate with the president, even if that person doesn't believe in God. But the devil wants you to badmouth the president because guess what? If the president fails, it's the head of the country. And guess what? It can cause a lot of problems. It can mess up with the economy, it can cause issues with the stock market, and it'll cause a lot of uncertainty. So the devil wants uncertainty, he wants fear. The world system operates 100% on fear because they know that if they can cause fear, things begin to crumble. But God's kingdom operates on love, and when you operate on love, it can't fail. It's impossible. In fact, perfect love drives out fear. And so when you understand that when you're yielded to God and you're believing in the unbelievable and you're doing your part, God's going to add all these miracles, signs, and wonders. Do you believe right now if you walked up to someone in your family that was sick and rebuked the illness, would that illness go away? If you do, it will go away, even if it takes a couple days. At the end of the day, not everything's a miracle. Sometimes it does. There is a process. God talks about praying unceasingly. He gives the example with the widow that chases after the judge, the unjust judge. She continues to pursue them. Even God talks about this, is that I keep hearing the cries of my people, and now I've come to answer them. Everything falls in God's perfect timing. It's important to understand that we don't understand what God is doing in this world. And in fact, if he told us, because the Bible says this, we wouldn't even be able to believe it. But at the end of the day, God is about his business, and when you're about his business, it's his timing. So if you need to be able to pay a bill and you don't have any income to pay it, you just got to continue to stay in that posture of faith and continue declaring to God, God, I'm standing on Malachi 3:10 because I tithe, that the storehouse is open to me and it's going to flow with limitless— that's what it says— limitless blessings. I'm standing on that. That. I'm standing on Ecclesiastes 11:2 because I have given and invested in 7 or 8 ventures, and those things apply directly back to me. Matthew 13:23 talks about that when you sow, you have an expectation to reap a harvest of 30, 60, or 100. It's no different. Think about it from the perspective if you are going out and planting a garden in your backyard, and let's just say You have it by 10 feet by 10 feet, so it's a square, and you decide, I'm going to plant 3 seeds, just tomato seeds, and that's it. I'm just going to plant 3 seeds. And invariably, one of the seeds dies, and you have 2 plants, and you get a harvest. So you have this big 10 by 10 space, and you plant 2 seeds that, I mean, ultimately grow— well, 3 seeds total— and you get a harvest. But if you want a bigger harvest, You should sow for every single square inch that you can. Now, obviously, you're not going to sow every square inch because the plants will choke themselves, but you can thin them out. If you're familiar with farming, you plant a bunch of seeds, and as they grow closer, you can thin them out and you take the strong plants. And then if you have to, you can transplant them. But ultimately, you're going to fill that 10 by 10 space with plants, strong plants that are going to produce a huge harvest. This is the same thing. God wants you sowing your money. In all these different places, 7 to 8 places. In fact, if you do it the way I've been doing it, it's actually split up. It's split up from the fact that it's— I have 7 offerings. I'm donating consistently to my church my tithe, and then 7 other aspects that are on top of my tithe. I'll also invest in 7 different things. So stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies, all kinds of other investments, all kinds of collectibles, things like that— gold, silver, You can do jewels. There's all kinds of stuff that you can do. Real estate, you can invest in cars, you can invest in boats, all kinds of stuff. And so you can do all of those things and get 7 or 8 ventures. But then on top of it, God will grace you, and I'm sure he will, to operate in 7 different businesses, or as we call today, side hustles. So you can have your primary job or business, and then— or if you're in ministry like myself, that could be your primary thing. And then off of that, you can, you can have these ownership stakes that allow you to be in different places and basically, you know, have all these different incomes. When you're operating by this 7x3 principle, which is a new concept, you can really truly thrive in this world because guess what? The income is just going to come in nonstop. God's going to bless you through the— your ventures, plus other things are going to happen. And then if a venture fails, it doesn't matter because you're spread so powerfully across the investments you can do it well. And believe it or not, you can do this if you're broke. You might— people are like, why don't I— can't even pay my bills. If you start to faithfully sow right now, you're going to be blessed in a huge way because that's the starting point for God. It's sacrificial giving. Because when you are struggling— and hear me now— if you are struggling financially and you start to invest in God and in his kingdom right now, he can move mightily. The challenge is when you're doing really well and you have to give sacrificially because now the dollar amounts are huge because think about it from the perspective of someone who's making $7 million a year, $14 million a year, and they're pocketing— maybe let's say they're pocketing after all the things that they do and all their expenses, let's say they pocket just $1 million. And for most people, that would be a ton of money. But God's going to say to that person, I need you to sow sacrificially. So guess what? He may ask that person to sow $500,000 into a church. Think about it. Perspective. So that's why he talks about the rich struggle to get into the kingdom of God, because they have to give so much. They have to believe that when they're sowing that half a million, that God's going to do something miraculous and then actually return it 30, 60, or 100. But it's a faith step. That's the key. You don't sow after you have. You sow when you don't have, and then you can move forward. That's how you break the poverty mindset off of yourself. That's how you operate in kingdom culture. These are the key things. Think about it from the perspective of God. You need to operate in the heavenlies. Let's get back to that core concept. You're seated in Christ. And so how does Christ work? Christ wants to bless you to be a blessing to others. That's scripture. And so if you're keeping your income, how are you blessing others? Are you donating to the poor? Are you giving clothes to kids in need? Do you have Any form of prison ministry that you're supporting? Are you doing any form of missions where they're out there evangelizing, preaching? Are you doing anything online where you're preaching the gospel? At the end of the day, that's being about your Father's business. Those are the core concepts. If you want to understand how to be about your Father's business, which is really basically point number 4, you need to understand how this works. Is, is that you have to functionally— with the idea is, is you're robbing hell to populate That's being about your Father's business. So how do you do that? Well, there's so many different ways. There's serving in your local church, which is core to any, any Christian. You should be serving. Now, you may go through sabbatical periods or a wilderness period that God pulls you back, kind of like what he did with Elijah, and, and then allow you to pour into you so that he can grow you for the work ahead. But at the end of the day, you should be serving in a local church. That's so important. You should be tithing to your local church, and then you should be doing the things we talked about, the 7x3, where you, you have 7 ministries that you're supporting, you have 7 levels of investments that you're going, and then you have 7 different income streams. And at the end of the day, if you're not— if you're struggling financially, you have to start somewhere. Start with your tithe. Start tithing the money, because I would rather give my 10% to God and keep 90% and have him bless that 90% and then have him turn around and curse all 100 because I decided to own it myself. When you do those things, even if it's small pennies, God's going to bless you. First fruits offerings, you know, that's a beautiful thing. Take the first paycheck that you get every year and donate it to your pastor. That's what first fruits are, is to donate it to the, the priests, where in this case would be your pastors. If you have an opportunity to take— if you, you know, if you're growing fruit, uh, or vegetables in your garden, take that and donate it to your pastor, or ask them Hey, if you don't want this, can I take this to a food bank in your name? So there's so many different things, but it's more than just money. It is your time, it is your talent, and you should be supporting those things. Think about it when you look at how God talks about the believers in Matthew 7 that don't understand how they took care of God, but yet these unbelievers strutted up to the Father and said, hey, or Jesus, and said, hey, look at all of the things that we did. for you. Let us into your kingdom. Let us go and operate in a way that allows us to just come in, because they thought it was their works that did it. It was something that they thought, oh wow, hmm, if I can work hard enough, I can come into the kingdom. And what the reality was is God said, you didn't even take care of the poor. You didn't even take care of the sick. You didn't take care of the elderly, the widows, those people in need, your neighbors. This is how God wants us to operate, because he doesn't want anyone to be in any position of lack. But the reality is, is we are his hands and feet. God isn't going to send a group of people miles away to take care of your neighbors. It's not going to work that way. That's just not how God works. He put you in that community for you to take care of your neighbors, even if it's just praying for them right now, because it doesn't cost you anything but your time. That's what God wants you to do. Start with praying for them. Start praying for your enemies. Start praying for people that you don't get along with. Start praying with your family and friends or your extended family. Maybe you don't get along with them. It doesn't matter. Pray for them. Forgive them. Get yourself in that posture where you can serve them and take care of them. This is the key part. In order to ascend, you must descend, basically. And so how to do that is when you descend, God lifts you up. And that's really important. You do it through service. You do it through your prayers. You do it through your pocketbooks. You do it through your possessions. And you do it at the prison level. You do it at the kids level, the widow level. You're doing it across the spectrum of need, the homeless, and you're taking care of them. Now, the thing that you— God may guide you is, is that, believe it or not, God's gonna guide you in different ways through different means at different times. You have to be Spirit-led and understand how that's going to work, because otherwise you're not going to get the blessing because you're trying to do it your way. But you know that whenever you walk up to a beggar on the street, God may say, don't give them money. He may not say that, but he may say, give them a word. Give them a word of encouragement because that may transform their life. And that word may be far more important than the $20 you were about to give them because that's how God works. And that's what he says is that you have to see all of the people on the planet as either God's children or God's lost children that he wants in his family. That's the bottom line. The people on the earth aren't your enemy. The enemy is operating in the spirit realm. In the second heaven. That's basically the space between the earth and heaven itself. That's where Satan is. The biggest lie that you'll hear is Satan operates out of hell. There isn't a single scripture that talks about that. It talks about multiple scriptures that Satan goes about to and fro. He walks about the land looking for someone to devour because he's a roaring lion. That's who Satan is. Don't get caught up that he's stuck in hell. Hell is a prison that when you go there, you never come back. And so if there's anything in hell, they're there, they're stuck, they're not, they're not operating. We talk about the kingdom of hell, but that's just a word for Satan's kingdom. So when you're operating in this mindset, when you're moving forward and being able to help the poor in a huge way by your volunteer time, by your letters— like, why, you know, people don't even have to go to prison to minister to them. They can become part of pen pals and send letters and send pictures. There's so many different ministries in the prison, in the missions, in the world, the homeless. There's so many different aspects that you can participate and go in that ultimately doesn't even cost a lot of money. In fact, it doesn't even take a lot of your time. That's what God wants out of you today. That's how you operate with the kingdom mindset, 'cause you're taking care of his people. You are the hands and feet of the kingdom. When you start to understand that's your responsibility, it's my responsibility to take care of the people that are surrounded by me, then that's when you start to unlock the blessings Because now you know that when you're about your Father's business, and when you're about your Father's business, all of these other things that I would normally from a worldly perspective be concerned about, but you're like, no, and as a kingdom kid, I'm not going to focus on those things because my Father takes care of them. He's the one that owns the cattle on a thousand hills. He's the one that the silver and gold is his. He's literally the Creator, and everything that's in it is his. Earth is his footstool. That's how he looks at it. And so when you know that he can just create something out of the air, because that's what he did at the beginning, he can do the impossible. You can operate in the possible and allow him to flow through you, into you, into others. That's how the kingdom works. That's how blessings get unlocked. Because now you know, my dad is the dad of the impossible. My father is the creator of the human body. So he knows. If someone is sick, if someone's disabled, if someone has lost an arm, he knows how to actually reattach and rebuild all of those muscles, muscles, tendons, veins, arteries to bring it back. That's why you hear people that go on mission trips to Africa talk about seeing limbs being regrown, seeing eyes that haven't been seen from birth. They can't see having color in their irises and. And boom, now they can see colors vibrantly, 20/20 vision, because he's the God of the impossible. From his perspective, there's nothing you can ask within his will that he won't do. That's just not possible because he wants people to be healed. He wants people to operate in mental strong— not mental strongholds, but mental strength. Think about it. If you're struggling to pray because the flesh wants to pull you away and distract with things. That's an area where you can focus on and get stronger. But God doesn't want you in that spot. He doesn't want you in the position where you're struggling to pray. He doesn't want you struggling to declare things or believe the promises that are there. Every single promise that's in the Bible belongs to you, and you don't have to chase those promises unless it comes with a situation where you— as a condition An example of that would be you will have long life when you honor your mother and father. When you honor your mother and father, it comes with a promise that you will have a long life. So you can stand on that saying, well, I'm continually honoring my mother and father. You're not a slave to your mother and father. Remember, there's a huge difference. So parents, do not turn your children into your slaves. That's not what it says. It doesn't say that, oh, you poured millions of dollars into them, that they're going to pour millions of dollars into you. That's not how it works. That's all about honor. It's about respect. They're supposed to respect you. They'll help you when they can, but if you're not doing your part, that's on you to take care of yourself. It's not on them to do that. Now, if you're in a situation where you're a widow or some, you know, calamity has struck and you need their help, sure, that's fine. But believe it or not, those are only short-term things. And when you look at the priority stack of how your children are supposed to take care of you, believe it or not, parents, you're pretty close to the bottom. In, in the grand scheme of things, that's how it works. God's at the top, their spouse is second, their kids are going to come before you. In fact, their church is going to come before you, their friends, and probably closer family if they live closer are probably going to be before you. And when you understand that, you can operate in that humility. God's going to bless you. God's going to bless your children. It's going to bless you because you are submitting to the one who can take care of you. You don't have to be a burden to the people on earth. And so this is how God wants you to operate. So if you think about like the next point on how to level up even beyond that, well, God wants you to believe in the unbelievable. He wants your prayers to be radical. Really. I mean, think about it. Are you praying radical prayers? Are you praying for your mortgage to get paid off? Maybe you just built a house and you're saying, hey, I want it paid off in 12 months. It doesn't matter if that mortgage is $50,000, $100,000, or The same faith that it takes to make one payment will allow you to pay it off. So when you're operating in that kingdom mindset, God's going to bless you and he will be able to do things. Pray radical prayers. Pray that everyone on the earth will be saved. Pray that everyone will have healing and all these strongholds broken off of them. Pray that they'll operate in kingdom mindset. Pray radical prayers. You got to believe them because you're not going to be able to achieve something radical unless you start to think radically. Radical. Anyone that knows any entrepreneur that's been super successful knows that they believe in something that is really— a lot of people could never believe. They can see something that other people can't see, even if they don't even believe it. They're just trying to chase it, and they're like, it's going to come about by the things that I'm trying to do to lay these foundations in place, and then ultimately everything will come together. They have that vision that they're chasing, and then they have a group of people with them that they're following. Then you're going to be able to accomplish that. That's how God works. He wants you to have that vision, but he's never going to give you a vision— this is so important— he's never going to give you a vision that you can accomplish by yourself. It's just not how God works. God wants community. He wants you to operate in a group. If you have a vision for something and you want to accomplish it, I can assure you, if it's the correct size, you're not going to be able to accomplish it yourself because God wants other people to come with you because he wants to bless them through you. That's just how he works. So if you've got a vision, you've got to be able to believe that it's going to come to pass, and it's going to come to pass on God's time. And you're going to have to create a team around you, even if it's just family members, to make that vision come to pass. Any great entrepreneur understands that. That's how they work. They believe in this vision, something that maybe someone's not interested in accomplishing, but they know if I can get to here, I'm going to need these 3 people at this point and these 10 people at this point. I'm going to have to change my mindset to receive the things that I have to receive in order to accomplish the work that I want to accomplish. And I'm going to continually adapt, trusting in God to be able to reach it. Because what you know today is not what you're going to need to know tomorrow. That's an important aspect. People want to be— look back on yesterday's words. They look back on their degrees, their bachelor's degrees, their master's. If you've got a PhD or you have multiple degrees, people will lean on the past and apply it to the future, where God is saying no. If you want to believe in the unbelievable, where your faith, your surrender, your trust attaches to miracles, signs, and wonders, you have to know something new. You have to understand something new that has to come from the Holy Spirit, that deposit in your spirit that gets into your mind, that comes out and becomes something real. It has to be a now word. You see Hebrews talk about this in 11:1, where it talks about now faith. It doesn't talk about yesterday's faith. It doesn't talk about future faith. It talks about now faith. That's what it means. Now, the now level of knowledge, the now level of understanding. The now level of wisdom will carry you forward. If you don't have it, ask for it. It goes back to the points we talked about. You got to open your mouth. You got to trust God that when you say, hey God, I need to be able to accomplish something and I don't know how to do it, I'm just going to ask him. That happens to me all the time. If you're— if I'm trying to learn a new software package or a new technology or a new programming language, anything that's out there, then I just ask God, say, hey look, I don't know how to do this, but I need you to open my mind Fill me up, blow into me your pneuma spirit, and give me the space to receive it, and then give me the stuff to operate in it. Because that's how it works. You have to be continually moving faith to faith, glory to glory, because this is an upward motion. So when you're trying to unlock new levels of the unbelievable, you have to operate in the unbelievable, but you have to be in a posture where you can Can handle the unbelievable, because that's the part that a lot of people forget. If you have a platform on social media, God's not going to give you a platform of hundreds of thousands or millions of subscribers unless you can handle it, because you may be caught up in looking at the comments. You may be wondering, oh, in the live stream, look at all the people that are commenting negative things. At the end of the day, those things need to be like— you need to be like a duck in water and in the rain where everything just hits you and rolls off. You have to be in the mental capacity to handle that kind of, you know, kind of that, you know, rigor that's going to come with it. The criticisms for people, they're going to call you religious or call you legalistic, but you got to stand your ground and just keep doing the part that God's calling you to do. Even if you make a mistake, you have to be in a position to give yourself grace and mercy. If you fall into your secret sin, the one that so easily ensnares You're going to have to be able to go boldly before the throne of grace and ask for forgiveness and then just move on. The devil is going to want to shame you. The people around you is going to want to shame you. But at the end of the day, God doesn't do that. God doesn't condemn. He doesn't shame. He, he will convict you, but he will also encourage you and he will also comfort you. But he always lifts you up because he knows, he knows when you're going to sin before you know it. He does. He knows every single sin that I'm going to commit from this point to the time I meet him face to face. And so he knows that for you too. So you have to understand that you have to give yourself some grace. You have to walk this life out of a leveling up. You must be always forward-thinking. This is why I keep looking up. It's a— it's the motion of looking up and forward. Think about it from the perspective of a staircase that reaches all the way to heaven. That's how you operate. Every single day is a step. Every single day is a forward motion and up. And even if you do not believe that that's the case because you're in the storm of your life, it doesn't matter. The storms— even Jesus slept through the storms. I mean, you can too. So you just have to trust God to do his part and then for you to do yours in accordance with the blessings. Because blessings are functionally 2 things: it's obedience and timing. Okay, you have to be at the right place at the right time through obedience in order to receive the blessing. God's going to grace you to get to that point. You don't have to rush it. You don't have to birth it. Remember the example we talked about, the tomatoes? If you planted a 10 by 10 square of tomatoes and I see— let's say I see a couple hundred green tomatoes, I'm like, well, I want to just take these tomatoes off and put them in brown paper bags and maybe put them under UV light and rapidly ripen them. I could probably do that and, and probably find, you know, a hack on social media that would allow me to ripen them quickly, but they're not going to taste as good if they were vine ripened and I was patient and waited another week or 2 weeks. This is the same with your blessings. This is a key concept that I want everyone to understand, and this will— it'll help me to kind of close out this teaching. The way God works is, is that you're going to be operating in multiple seasons. We talked about leveling up, we talked about walking out in faith, we talked about being about your Father's business, believing in the promises is in doing God's work and being able to operate in this kingdom mindset, sacrificially giving, sacrificially giving time, doing all of those things. But the way seasons work, think about it from the perspective, is multiple lines. Okay, so if you're a visual person, what it is is at any point in time, a person can be easily, easily in 5 different seasons because you're operating in aspects throughout the seasons. And if you look at agriculture, just do a Google search and look Do agricultural seasons where they talk about preparation of the soil. You can do fertilization, watering, irrigation, planting, harvest, and then ultimately enjoying it. There are 7 aspects in order to take land into crop, and God operates that way. So when you're in your different seasons, these horizontal lines that are like on a timeline are going to be at different steps. They're going to be at At one of 7 steps. When you start to understand that you, you're trying to harvest a season, like say, remember, harvest and use it— harvest is technically season 6 or step 6, and enjoying that harvest is step 7. If you're at step 5 and you're trying to rush step 6, you're, you're going to end up with a bad harvest. But the reality is, is what you should be doing is enjoying the seasons of past. So the way these lines work is once you get to the end of the line, that's when you can start to enjoy it. It. And this applies to learning, this applies to your faith, this applies to where your walk is in your work, maybe if you have ministries, your volunteerism. These are all the different aspects, and they're all different points in time. So you're harvesting the work that you already did. That's the key point. What you're doing today applies to a future date. Your harvest for the work you're doing today applies to a future So you're trying— don't try to birth something that's about to happen 9 months from now. If you're starting a brand new business, you know there's going to be some ramp-up time. Even the most aggressive businesses that do successful so fast generally take a couple months to be profitable. Believe it or not, there are plenty of businesses that become profitable in a couple months. There are others that take much longer, especially if you need like a warehouse and hardware. Maybe you're building a medical device and you know it's going to take R&D, and I'm going to be, I'm going to be throwing money in the garbage trying to solve these problems that no one else had. But I have an idea that if I do it for 3 years at a cost of like $10 million, I got a good shot at accomplishing it. So you know that season is going to be 3 years. So if you're trying to build a medical device and you're going to say, well, let me, let me throw $20 million and do it in half the time, it's not going to happen. That's really not how that works. You might be able to shorten it because you might be able to bring on people faster or find the elite talent, but you're not going to really harvest it today. That's the key point. So when you're walking out your life and you're trying to understand how things are going to operate in a way that you can work, the work that you've done in your past, you're receiving today. Your harvest for today comes from yesterday. Your harvest from tomorrow comes from today. This is how, if you understand that concept, you will start to realize that, guess what, I can put my believable and God's going to add his unbelievable, because I'm going to believe that he's going to bless the work that I'm doing today, tomorrow. And he is the one capable of bringing people together. He is the one that allows me to open doors that otherwise I would not have You know, opportunity. I can talk to people of stature, of nature, of people who are of authority, and I'll have access to people of talent and of knowledge. And he will lift you up one step at a time on this beautiful staircase to heaven because he wants you to level up. When you believe that that next step is unbelievable, that's when you're going to stop. But if you believe that I can make that step, I'm going to step and God's going to add to it. Then guess what? There isn't anything he can't accomplish. There is nothing that he won't do for you, because it— as long as you're in his will and you're operating in the space he wants you to operate, you don't have to toil for the steps because the steps are already there. That's the secret that a lot of people miss, is the steps are there even if you can't see them. He's already paved the street. He's already built the mountain that you're walking on. He has already taken the backpack of bricks off of you, and you're just ascending with him. And guess what? He'll give you the strength, the capability, the mindset, the people, and the talent to do it. All you have to do is take the step, and then you'll receive as you take the step. It's not the other way around. He's not going to bless you before the step in order for you to take the step. You have to take the step. step first and then the blessings come. It's you going to a place of obedience and timing to receive the blessing. It's— it is. I can give you dozens of Bible verses that talk about that. Abraham with Isaac on the top of Mount Moriah. You look at all the different prophets and how they operated. Habakkuk said, I ascended to the ramparts, I ascended up to my appointed place with God, and I had a place where I can go with And be with him away from everyone, and then he could pour into me. You see it. Adam had an appointed time with God because whenever he sinned, he didn't show up. And so God was looking for him. He's like, why aren't you where you're supposed to be? This is the blessing that God wants you to have, is take those faith-filled steps, having God— just trust in him. And guess what? If you— if he doesn't want you to go there, he'll do what he did to Paul and just block you. You and just keep you from being there. He's going to protect you. So he already knows the mistakes before you make them. He already knows the successes before you experience them. He already knows the blessings you're going to receive because those are all out there. He will continue to guide you, literally like bumper pads at a bowling alley for kids. He will keep you on that alley walking towards the pins so you can strike— create a strike every Every single time. That's how God operates. But he can't operate unless you make faith-filled steps. He can't operate unless you are doing your part. And when you take all of the things of this teaching and apply it, and apply the steps, apply the prioritization that God's your number one, your spouse is your number two, that you don't have to worry about your kids, you don't have to worry about your income, you don't have to worry about anything, that you know it's impossible for you to be sick, you know that it's impossible for you to be poor, that God will bring people of stature and authority into your life, that God will pour into you so you can become a person of stature and authority. He will start to unlock these things. You're operating seated in heavenly places, that you can function as a son and daughter. You're royalty, that every single thing you say becomes decree and law, and you can speak life. If you want finances to come, say, I want $10,000 to come into my bank account next month. I want, uh, brilliant people to come and bless me to build a board of directors or an advisory board. I want to be able to break into this market because I believe I'm graced based upon all the leadings that the Holy Spirit and all the unctions and all the things that are pulling me in. I believe that I can operate in this space. Father, make a way where there is no way. Make a path in the wilderness. Put rivers in the desert. God will do it. He's more than capable of doing that. He's more than capable of blessing you. you, and you just have to keep praying over it. If it doesn't happen in that time, keep pushing, keep pushing. He'll tell you if you're praying for something that's going to ultimately be unfruitful, or if you're going in a direction over time, because you won't have peace. That's the key. If you move at the pace of peace, all of these horizontal seasons we talked about, all these beautiful things, they'll come to pass at the right time. And ultimately, if you understand what Paul talks about in Philippians that he's content in all situations. It doesn't matter if you're hyper-successful or you're hyper-not, if you're content in seeking the presence of God in every single moment, because that's what God wants you to be in, that presence. Because this is where all the bondages and problems disappear. If you're in the presence of God and you're walking life out in this powerful manner, having faith, but you keep going back into the present— the presence of God and your, you know, your secret place, your prayer closet, You will unlock all of these beautiful blessings day in and day out. You will level yourself up. And if you are a millionaire, you could become a billionaire. If you're a billionaire, believe it or not, God will allow you to ascend a trillionaire, 'cause Solomon was the first trillionaire. And now, and he was around 3,000 years ago. So again, the promises for you apply, they apply to everyone. So the blessings that he gave to Solomon can come to you. The blessings he gave to Abraham, the blessings he gave to Jacob, The blessings he gave to Jesus— Jesus was so wealthy they'd had his own treasurer walking around with him. That's the reality. He was that rich. He needed to take his bank everywhere with him. So if those blessings are for them, they're blessings for you. And operate in those blessings and let God take care of the rest, and you will level up, and he will show you what you need to do this day to move forward. I hope this message blesses you. We have a really exciting vision here at John Humenik Ministries. This month we're looking to have 1,000 salvations confirmed. We're doing a great job. We're making a lot of great progress. So if you are interested in sowing in this ministry, you can do a one-time donation. That is at humenik.com/give. It's spelled H-U-M-E-N-I-K.com/give. Or if you want to become a monthly partner, we actually have our partner website set up. That's the same address. It's humenik.com/partner. So it's H-U-M-E-N-I-K.com/partner.