Operate from Abundant Blessings!

Hello everyone, my name is John Humenik. Welcome to the channel. If you're new to my channel, I invite you now to subscribe. And if you're a returning subscriber, please share this video with 3 people because it's going to bless them heavily today. So this video is for the Christian or even someone who's searching for something better with their life because I'm going to unlock in a powerful Revelation that God showed me just recently through the preachings of many pastors that I sit under, including my pastor, Tim Timberlake, which allowed me to understand a very, very powerful truth that I was actually operating from a different posture in life. So think about it from this perspective. When you operate today in your walk, whether it is at work or at school, Do you operate from a position of victory? Do you operate from a position of it's already done, the battle is complete? Or do you operate from the, the perspective— and this is really important— that you need to go and get something, or you need to go out and accomplish something? If you do, this video is going to be for you, because I want to show you and truly unlock the scriptures today That will allow you to understand that you already operate from abundant blessings. This is a different concept. It was something that actually I noticed recently when I was at, uh, summer revival over at Faith Ruston Church, when Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth was there at the beginning of June. And one of the things that he talked about was revival is something that's moving in the United States already. It's already happening. We don't have to search for it. It's there. The Holy Spirit can't be stopped. It's not something that comes generationally or even something that comes from time to time or year over year. It's happening right now. And from that perspective, he talked about that the areas that are really oppressed in the spiritual world, and those areas are very obvious, you can see them where poverty is high, murder rates are high, drug use is rampant. all kinds of problems, lawlessness. It moves very quickly. Those areas, I thought, okay, I had written them off as a Christian. I'm like, oh no, I don't really need to focus on those areas. Those areas are owned by the devil and that's his territory. But in summer revival, one of the things that I learned was, is that those areas belong to God and that we have the authority as Christians to go there and reclaim that land. And it doesn't matter because there's nothing that the evil one can do to stop us. But then the teachings recently from Pastor Tim Timberlake took that to a next level when he talked about Ephesians and the differences between the first half of the book and the second half of the book. And what really is, is chapter 4 is kind of like the, the end of chapter 3 and the end of beginning of chapter 4 kind of split the book in 2. But what we see is, is that we are already blessed at a level that we don't necessarily walk about every single day. So my question to you is this, are you operating from a position where you already have the victory? Are you operating from a position where you already have the financial resources to do what you want? Are you already operating from the position that your, your physical body, no matter how the issues you may have, whether you're sick, whether you're broken, whether you have some infirmity, are you operating as if you're healed? Are you operating in faith? Because the very definition of faith is being fully convinced that the promises of God are true. Therefore, you walk out those promises as if you have already received them, even when you don't see them. That's the essence of faith. That's the difference between a Christian that's defeated and a Christian that walks victoriously, because the Christian that walks victoriously declares the things that he or she wants in their life and operates as if they're from that position already? This is what I want to talk about today, and I really want to unlock it and go deeper for you because I feel like there's going to be a lot of people out there, especially even folks like myself, who truly were operating from a place of you have to go get it or you have to go accomplish it, rather than a place from it's already mine and now I'm just operating as if I already have it. It's a very different mindset. It eliminates the toil and the stress of being able to try to accomplish something, but rather it's now about walking the victory out step by step. So let's continue and stick around for this whole video because it is going to blow you away. So one of the areas that I want to talk about first that I think will start to help a lot of people is the area of finance. Now, there are a lot of people in this country, especially at this time, that have really struggled with inflation and interest rates. It's something that when you operate on a world economy, it is the functional divide and conquer. It is the situation where you are having issues keeping up with gas prices because they're— if they're not at record highs in your area, they're close. Food prices have gone up dramatically over the last couple of years, and even wages have rolled back to pre-pandemic phases where now the rates in which people are willing to pay dropped back to where the pre-pandemic was, and then even potentially even further. So what you're seeing here is a squeeze on finances. You're seeing this— I saw this all over the place. The job market in technology sectors and medical sectors are really, really pulling back because the way the industry is looking in those spaces is very similar to the markets that we saw during 2008 and 2009 when we had those big real estate crashes. And What you're seeing is, is if you're not already employed, so if you have not stayed employed through the pandemic and received what was considered more what I called a right-size wage, what happens now is if you're caught in that situation where you're now looking for a job or you found a job, you've rolled back your cost of living dramatically because of interest rates, because of groceries, because of all kinds of utilities and costs. and on top of that, wages. So if you're caught in that situation, I wanna start to really unpack what it means for you to operate from an abundance blessing, abundant mindset that allows you to say, no, I'm attached to the kingdom economy. I'm a tither. I give 10% of my pre-tax income to the church. If you're not, do it immediately. This is going to break the back of the enemy off your finances and put you in a position where you will operate from victory because Jesus allows himself to move in places where faith exists. Where faith exists is if you are willing to give God 10%, it says very clearly in the Bible that he's gonna return it to you 30, 60, or 100-fold. But what the caveat is, is that he's going to give you the capability to earn 30, 60, or 100-fold. That's the essence of what it talks about. Sure, you're gonna be blessed in your coming and going, Sure, things are going to come, but you can't operate from that perspective all the time. So now I want to kind of unlock something for you because this is going to help you with your finances going forward. Jesus already won the victory with your finances. Jesus already owns all the gold and the silver on the planet. He owns the cattle on the thousand hills. He has these things. He's already given you The capability, the wisdom, the knowledge, and the understanding to operate successfully in the season. He's got you exactly where he wants you. So now think about it from your perspective. If you are operating from the mindset that I already have all the aspects, the traits, the capabilities, the intelligence, the education that I need in order to be successful, what's stopping you from from walking out in victory from season to season, faith to faith, and glory to glory. A successful story that says your income continues to go up, where I already talked and painted a picture where the world continues to squeeze the people of this planet because it wants to be able to basically siphon off the opportunity. Because the devil knows if he can attack the Christian in one of 3 areas— in their health, In their— in functionally in their emotional or their spiritual state, which is the freedom and deliverance ministries, or in their finances, which are the 3 areas that he attacks everyone at. If he can take one of those captive, he is going to crush and cripple you in ways that you thought, wow, I'm defeated. But Jesus is saying very clearly, you're not. And not only are you not defeated, but you already have the victory and you already have the blessings. The blessings are there. You need to walk out this victory already because you already have it. That's the mindset I want to put in your thoughts today. I want you to walk away with this very definition of victory because you operate from victory. When— think about it from the perspective of, you know, we could use many examples, but let's talk about American football or even international football, which is in America known as soccer. So think about it. When a professional team or any team steps on the field, what is the goal of that team whenever they do that? It's meant to go out and win the game. Even when there's a friendly competition going on, when the game result doesn't matter, there's the competitive juices bubble up and people want to win. Now in life, you don't walk about life in order to go about the— to have a draw the world. You're not interested in losing, you're interested in victory. So this is the same mindset. I need you to walk out a victorious mindset in order for you to be able to understand that the blessings that are in your life are established and firm. And because of that, you operate from abundance, you operate from victory, you operate from a place of royalty where you can decree the things that you need to decree in order for them to come into your life. Now you'll hear a lot of people talk about, well, that's manifestation, and there's all those other things. But guess what? We already know that the devil can't create anything. He can only counterfeit. So when you understand the truth about your identity in Christ, who you are, the righteousness of Christ, and all of those things that are already inside of you, you can understand that you can speak and things happen. That's why we talk a lot about on this channel, don't speak Anything negative over yourself. Don't speak anything negative over other people or your situation, because guess what happens? It happens. So think about this from the financial perspective, and let's dive into this a little bit deeper. Are you in a situation where you're in debt? Do you have a mortgage? Do you have credit card debt? Do you have student loan debt, car debt, anything that would inhibit your ability to take that money and move forward? I would bet vast majority of the people that are watching this video are going to say yes, because that's the situation the world has taught us to get into, is to operate in debt and operate from the position of debt. But yet God says in the Bible that you're the lender and not the borrower, that you will overflow so much that everyone will come to you for income and you will never have to borrow from anyone. You were always the head and not the tail, above and not beneath. So when you start to think about it from a financial perspective, how to get out of debt, Operate like a lender. Operate from the positions as if you already are out of debt. How does someone who's out of debt operate? Well, one, they don't ever go back into debt. They're not in a situation where they, they accept any form of credit in order for them to move forward. Now, if you're in a financial situation where you can consolidate debt, get lower interest rates, and then streamline your path to being paid things off, perfectly fine. God's going to grace that and bless you because all of us in some way or shape or form have made mistakes with our finances at some point in our life, whether we've decided to spend things on things we shouldn't have or we overspent in areas that we definitely didn't need. So operate from the perspective as if you already have it. And I'm not talking about in the sense of operating in the sense that you have billions of dollars. Fine, if you want to do that, that's actually a recommended path. But some people have to operate from a lower mindset in order to work their way up. And that's obviously, you know, that's part of the proverbial sanctification process where we ourselves learn step by step the very things we have to be able to do in order to steward the things of the future. Because the future is stewarded based upon the present, because what you learn today, you're going to apply tomorrow. So when you are situationally caught in a financial situation where you can't overcome it and you're stuck, maybe you've got yourself in a position where you're hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and your, your situation— that, and that can include your mortgage. And now you're trying to say, well, how do I get out of this? How do I get into a position where I don't have to pay this debt for 30 years, but I'm in a position where I can start to operate in a kingdom mindset? So let's dive into that. A little bit further. Operate from the blessings that God has in your life. Now, this is really important from a financial perspective because in order to get to where you want to be, whether that's debt-free, multimillion-dollar status, or multibillion-dollar status, you have to understand that it is much easier when you replicate what someone has done in order to receive what you're going to get to. And you are going to say, well, how is that biblical? It's very biblical because Paul says, Follow me as I follow Christ. So what he was doing was, is when Jesus came on this earth— and the reason why Jesus— and this is why a lot of religions don't understand why did Jesus come to the earth in the manner that he did, beyond the fact of the sacrifice in order to reconcile us to the Father— is that he had to show us how to walk out life correctly in order to live abundantly from our position of blessings. That's what Paul is talking about. So it's very important to understand is, is if you want to be somewhere, it's very important to either know a person who's already at that place or read up and study people who are already there. And that's the beauty of the internet. That's the beauty of YouTube and all these social media platforms is you can find someone who's successful and study the things that they, he or she have done in order to accomplish the things that you can do. So this is the power of what's out there, the blessings that you have, and the ability to self-educate, because it's really important. You have to be able to, be able to push through season from season. So you're going to stay in the same season until you learn the lessons you need to learn. And that's why a lot of people get caught in these vortexes of life where they just can't ever escape, because they are reluctant to change and reluctant to yield through obedience and humility the very things they need to give over to Jesus Christ in order for him to pour into them, to operate from an abundance and blessings that God has already given you. So think about this, think about the things that you have. So now let's say you want to be able to— let's, let's use the example you want to get out of debt-free. So you, what you should do is find people who had been in situations where they were in debt and got out of it and start to apply the principles that they had. And I can give you a bunch of very, very well, good examples that you can apply. So the first thing is, is that you should stop spending if you can, to the degree that you can. And again, I know everything's situational, but you should stop spending to the point where you have to continue to incur debt. You need to be at a point— your starting point has to be where you make more money than what you're spending. Now, in certain situations, depending on whether you have a job and then the debt structure that you have, you may not be able to do that for a short period of time. But again, that's a partial season. That's not even a whole season. So you need to get to a place where you can operate from the fact that, hey, I already am the lender and I'm not the borrower. Then you need to think about the context of how to manage the money that you have in order to do that. So in the Bible, it talks about stewarding talents and that as you have 1 talent, you can steward that to 2, and 2 can become 5, and 5 can become 10. So now what you need to do is there's a combination of then shrinking your debt and then expanding your income. So what you need to do is you need to be able to find ways to either consolidate your debt or shrink your debt to a place where you can get to a small set of payments. To be able to move things forward. So now you're not caught up in multiple loans, car loans, credit cards, mortgages, any kind of like, you know, maybe you're borrowing on a bunch of other things. Maybe you, you know, you financed a TV, you know, whatever that may be. Get that to a point where you can really shrink, start to shrink that down, get a low interest rate and free up income so that you can operate from blessings. And this is what God's talking about. Because now you can take that income and put it in stocks. Don't worry about what anyone says. The stock market over the long haul always grows. It's a blessing. Don't believe the lies. Don't invest your money unless you're already, you know, at the end of the line and you don't want to lose it for whatever potential reason and invest in, you know, either CDs or bonds. Not to say diversification isn't a thing, but what we're trying to do is operate from a posture of blessings so that your finances can increase and you want to grow. So you wanna be able to do that and you can invest as low as like $100. You know, Acorns out there, there's all kinds of different firms like Edward Jones and Fidelity, Merrill Lynch. There's all these great investment places where you can put money in, E-Trade, and start to grow your income. But the key part is, is that you need to start to listen to God and understand that you need to get more income streams. You need to be able to be in a position where you are able to then leverage your income and do more with it. Now, at this point, I'm not going to give a lot of specific examples because that's going to be dependent on where you're at and what God has you. He may have you start a side business. He may start a side hustle. He may have you go out and get a second job. There's so many different ways that God will start to bless you in ways that you start to operate from that abundance and the blessings. But what I'm trying to get and impart upon you is to understand these core concepts because you are already blessed. You already have the capacity to make more income. That's very important because that's the essence of what the Bible teaches in the context of finance. It talks about that God gives you the capability to do more, and then as you do more, he gives you more. That's the context of 1 talent, 2 talent, 5 talents, 10 talents. That's when you can ask, 'cause remember in James it says you Have not because you ask not. So as you want to step forward, he's going to then say, okay, if you need more wisdom, I'm just going to deposit in them. If you need more favor and opportunity, more renown in order to break into this place, he's going to give it to you. So I need you to start to understand that you already have the things you need in order to operate in abundance, in overflow, and to be able to push the kingdom of God forward. Now, this is really important because as you orient your life and your finances, God will then move on to areas of your emotion, your mental state, and also your spiritual state, which in, in general is considered freedom and the deliverance area. And he wants you to understand that you can't believe the lies the world tells you. If you're already starting to apply the financial aspects to your life, you're already believing the things that God wants you to do in order for you to walk things out. This is the important aspect of blessings, because a lot of people will come into this situation and say, it's okay for me to accept some form of mental torment, it's okay for me to accept some form of spiritual warfare, it's okay for me to have my own opinions or have my own political agenda or have my own thoughts and things and biases where God is saying, no, I want obedience and humility, because obedience is greater than sacrifice. And if you understand that, that means he doesn't want you to slip into a place where you are sinning and therefore need some form of reconciliation and repentance in order to be returned and restored to where you're supposed to be. God wants you to operate today from a position where you are loved. This is so important. He wants you to operate from a position where you love others, and it doesn't matter their differences. It doesn't matter their race, their income. It doesn't matter where they're at from a society perspective, what part of town they're in, what school they go to. It's not relevant. Even the sports teams they root for. What God wants you to understand is, is that you are loved. You are cared for. That joy is yours. That that joy can become permanent. It's not. Like happiness that comes and goes. It's not about laughter. It's this depth of just tranquility and peace and operating from a place of just this aspects of where— what I would probably describe it is, is that there's always an expectation of something great that's going to happen no matter the situation you're in. We had a really tough go over the last 30 days with a lot of spiritual warfare and a lot of things that hit us. from a financial perspective, it hit us from a physical perspective, hit us from a mental perspective, relationships and other things. But God had the victory. So what we did in our families, we walked out those aspects saying, no, we're loved. No, we are always at peace. We always have our tranquility. It doesn't matter what it looks like in the natural. It doesn't matter what bills may be mounting up or what other people are doing in our lives or the words that they're saying. We are going to operate from the position that we're going to love them as Christ has loved us, and that we're going to continue to move forward as if we already have the victory. Because when you understand the promises of the Bible and you understand the lies of the world, what you can clearly do is, you know, very simply— and even Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth said this recently, it's something that I even thought about— which is if you do what the exact opposite of the world says Either that's exactly what God wants for you in your life, or it's at least pretty close. I can guarantee that for every situation, whatever you hear from the world, especially when it comes with fear or any kind of things to try to catch your attention, when you start to operate from a place where you are no longer thinking about those things and you are truly thinking about the things of God, the things God wants you to do, how he wants you to act, what he wants you to say, what he doesn't want you to say, how to spread the gospel, how to share your testimony— you start to walk that out in every aspect of your life. You walk that out from your health, that you said, hey, by Jesus's stripes I'm healed. By the fact that he died on the cross and everything that was accursed Was nailed on the cross, because that's what it says— accursed he who hangs on a tree. When you operate from that perspective, all of the things from a health perspective, you realize, I'm either going to receive it or I've already got it and I just got to walk it out. And so there's nothing that you have in your life that God can't overcome. Now, there may be situations and there are people, and I will say admittedly That there are people who will live with a lifetime infirmity, with something that God could have healed them, and they would have walked through life knowing that God could have healed them, but God doesn't. Now, I don't really want to talk about those situations because at the end of the day, when you compare those situations with the, the walk of Jesus, there's probably something still preventing them from either receiving that, or God is using that for his glory. And that allows that person to operate in a greater level of power in that space than others would have had otherwise, because that becomes a foundational aspect in which they are using to fuel their faith. And that's the thing that you look at it from the perspective of how you can look at victory and blessings and abundance. Because just because you have a disability, whatever that may be. That doesn't mean you can't walk out life in complete victory. That doesn't mean you can't operate at 100% of your freedom from your mental, emotional, or physical state. Now, God does want to heal you on this side of eternity. God does want to set you free in every aspect. The devil wants to keep you in bondage. But the fact of the matter is, is that if you are going through something right now, Whatever that may be, stand on the promises that you're healed. Stand on the promises that all forms of mental torment, confusion, nightmares—that they're all going to come to an end. Stand on the promises that your emotional state—maybe you don't feel like you're being loved. Maybe you don't feel like your love language is being met by those around you. Maybe by your spouse, your family, your friends. Maybe you're caught up in a situation at work or at school. where it's just not right. Stand on the promises of God that you can go into the prayer closet and get peace that passes understanding. You have to lay on the sacrificial altar the things that are keeping you from having peace. And that's— those are the areas that wherever part of your life that you do not have peace, you can put on the altar those things and receive it. That joy comes from the fact that you can put it on As a garment of praise. Think about this: the spirit of heaviness gets pushed out by the garment of praise, which means you put on praise, you put on worship, you put on thanksgiving. That the joy of the Lord is your strength, that in his presence is the fullness of joy, that you can come into those places and feel all the things that God is doing in your life and just shove it all out. We know that love is eternal. We know that there's nothing on this earth and above the earth and below the earth that can separate you from the love of God that's in Christ Jesus. It's impossible. So when you start to operate from those areas where you're now able to operate in freedom in the sense of your physical body through healing, in your emotional state or your mental state, you can start to operate that, hey, these blessings are already here. That's the essence of what I wanted you to capture. You don't have to go out there and try to search something. You don't have to go out and get a victory. You don't have to build an army and overcome this town through siege works and all those other things. You already have it. Operate from that place and then walk out the victory that's already described in the Bible, but also the specific steps that God wants you to do. Because you have to understand, one of the things that God does through our suffering is allows us to have triumph. Now, this is an important aspect because as a person like myself who— at least I'm talking historically, you know, obviously I don't want to speak this over myself from the future— but I have faced a tremendous amount of adversity in my life, in almost every aspect of my life. And what the The difference is, is that I recognized that adversity and overcame it. I can be assured, and I would probably say that if I sat down with any one of you and talked about the things that everyone is struggling with, I wouldn't be surprised that my experience was worse than yours and your experience was worse than mine. Now, there may be nuances that make it tougher, but at the end of the day, I firmly believe that we have all experienced a set of adversity, a set of problems that when you start to look at it and you start to quantify all those different things, that as you move closer to God and the devil wants to fight with you, that we're all experiencing some form of trials and tribulations. Because in those areas are the parts of life where God will refine us, strengthen us, and they become testimonies and Ebenezer moments, which in the Old Testament Is where they built those altars that we can recollect and build our faith upon. Because it's no different than a sports team going to practice. If you went in and just played games all the time, you would never be able to refine the skills you need in order to be successful in the game, because practice is the area in which you can refine those things. The storms of life are the practices for the future so that You can be able to accomplish the work that God has for you in this life, or the work that you're not supposed to do, by recognizing it and get into positions of rest, which is just as important. If you do that, you will go through the aspects of life that God will then train you and then get you stronger. Perfect example for some people— for— let's talk about finances again. For people, if you truly trusted God with your finances, You would never have to operate from a position where you're concerned about paying a bill. You can operate from a position where you're never concerned about where income is coming from. If you get to a point where you are wholeheartedly believing God is going to provide for me, food on the table, clothes on my back, a house over my head, and everything in between, and you're at total peace regardless of how your financial situation works, you have You have arrived in that area. That's the same in the context of mental and emotional health. It's very important to be healthy in these areas because that reflects who we truly are, because out of the abundance of the heart comes out of the mouth. So if you are speaking the fruit of the Spirit, if you're speaking hope, if you're speaking all the things that God wants, Grace and mercy, then what you're doing is you're operating from a position of victory. You're operating from a position of abundance. You're operating from a position of blessing. Wherever you have a form of struggle where you have accepted the storm— this is very key for some people— wherever you have allowed yourself to enter the storm, because we can definitely put ourselves into the place where we can walk into a storm that we could otherwise have avoided by our own decisions. Whenever you're at that place where you were either walking into storms or you are constantly caught in them and you can't seem to wait to get out, you are yielding to something that's not of God. You are yielding to something the devil wants you to believe and operate from because he knows that you're blessed. He knows that you can operate from abundance. He knows that you operate From a more than enough position seated in Christ at the right hand of the Father. He knows those things. And so he wants you to always think that there's something that you either have to go get, go do, or try to learn something new. But God is saying that the Holy Spirit, that he that's in within you is greater than he that's in the world. Now what you start to understand is, is that if I need something that I need to be able to accomplish today and I don't know it, all I have to do is ask the Holy Spirit. If there's favor that needs to become on my life, then I can ask the Holy Spirit to open that door. If there's something that I have to accomplish, but maybe I can't do it because I need someone else, then the Holy Spirit will then partner with someone to bring that person into your life. And then as long as you are patient, and this is so key, as long as you're patient to work through those seasons of tranquility, those seasons of storms, those seasons on the mountaintops, those seasons in the valleys. You will always have victory. You will always arrive at the destination God wants you to, in a position where you are ready to receive for the next season. This is what it means to operate from blessings. You're operating from a place that you already have it, and now you just need to walk it out. It doesn't matter where you're at in life. It doesn't matter your intelligence level. It doesn't matter the things Look at the most powerful people in the history of the world in the Old Testament. Look at them. Look at the power, true power, because God talked about this and the Holy Spirit revealed this to me. He said, look at the Old Testament and the most powerful people in the Old Testament. Now, I'm not talking about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because the patriarchs, while they had power— I'm talking about real power. I'm talking about Samson. Who could go up an army solo and destroy everyone in a battle. I'm talking about Moses, who commanded the 10 plagues, who struck the rock, although he's supposed to speak to the second one, and water came gushing out of it, where he put the serpent, the bronze serpent, up and it stopped all the disease that was rampaging. That, that the direction of what Moses said over and over again led a multi-million nation people across the wilderness for 40 years. Every battle, physical battle, that Moses went into, he won. Look at that. We know Joshua, who followed him, outside of the Battle of Ai, never lost. Look at King David and all the things that he did. Every single battle he entered, won. He was undefeated on the battlefield. In fact, he had to run away from Saul all those years Just so that he would prevent from engaging Saul and destroying his army. What people forget is David's army at the beginning of his reign, even before he truly took over Judah, while he was still operating under Saul's kingship, his army numbered in the hundreds, and he could go into battle and destroy huge armies. We're talking armies that grossly outnumber him. He was undefeated in all these battles. People think He had hundreds of thousands of troops. He didn't have hundreds of thousands of troops until he was anointed king of Israel on the 3rd time, and then he had those troops, and then he wiped out nations. So you have to understand that those people, those people of renown, of great power, what did they all have in common? They were all truly blessed because the Holy Spirit was inside of them, and there they— it says very clearly in scripture that the Holy Spirit was there. Okay, now that doesn't necessarily mean that the Holy Spirit wasn't present in the other ones that we talked about and in the other— and the prophets and other areas. Obviously we know he was there, but you start to see from that perspective— I want to draw this contrast for the people, okay, because this talks about the blessings that you already have. Stick with me, this is so important. I really want you to understand this. The greatest and the most powerful people in the Old Testament had one thing in common: the Holy Spirit. What does every single Christian have in common? The Holy Spirit. So the very Spirit that powered Samson's victories, David's victories, Joshua's victories, Moses's miracles and his victories lives inside of you. The Holy Spirit is so powerful that he alone is blessing enough for you to operate in abundance, much less all the other things that he gives you. That he himself, by himself, without even giving you any blessings, is more than enough for you, more than enough for you to operate in blessings and abundance. That's what I want to unlock in you today. I want you to realize that the power that's vested in you, the places where you sit in the kingdom, seated in heavenly places, that you are all priests and kings and queens in this kingdom, that you operate from this abundance, that this is the thing that allows you to walk out life totally in victory. You operate from victory. You're operating not for victory but from victory. You are operating with riches, not for or to get riches. You're not operating, um, to chase health. You're not operating to chase mental clarity or emotional stability. No, you already have them. You operate from those places, and then God gets glorified along the way. And that the torments that you experience, the trials, the tribulations, become your testimony that you can share with others for the body of Christ. And here's a beautiful example for you. There was a recent place where I was ministering to some people, and one of the individuals that I was speaking to was very, very sick, actually functionally a walking dead person, to be fair. Let's just— medically, that was the case. And without going into details, uh, you could tell the countenance of this individual was just very bad. You could just You could see it. Their body was oxygen-depleted, very similar to what you would see with people with bad cases of pneumonia, where their body can't process the oxygen really well, and they were just dying. And their condition that this person had was actually going to kill them, and they just really didn't have a lot of time to live. And even as I prayed over the person, I don't know at the time, I don't recollect all the specifics, but Even as I think about it, there, there could have been some level of doubt in my prayer in the sense of like, wow, this person's all but dead, but let me pray in faith and let my faith operate. Because again, all I need is the size of a mustard seed and that's it. And so what happened was, is I got a chance to see that individual a few months later, and that person was fully restored. That person's health conditions that would have killed them was gone, like completely healed. And this is one of those ones where it just can't go away. These situations are functionally for basically the world, they're static, and that's basically a one-way trip to the grave. And so what happened was, is not only did that person's countenance change because they were physically healthy, not only were they physically healthy that allowed them to operate from the blessings and abundance, but the faith of that individual was so sky high that they were like, I can accomplish anything. And this person was much older. This person wasn't— A young person, and it was like their life had just functionally been reborn and they were starting over, and that they were like 21 again and being able to move forward. You see, a lot of people talk about this in the world. It was, oh, I would love to have my mind in my 20-year-old body. That's irrelevant because guess what? God is the one that can continue to restore your time and give back the time that's lost 7 times whenever the devourer comes. So You can operate from this place going forward in a way that allows you to be able to live life out in true success, true victory, true dominance. That's what we're talking about here. Jesus Christ paid the highest price for us, not for us to walk out life in defeat, not for us to walk out life in poverty, not for us to walk out life in, in basically all forms of bondages. or physical infirmities or illnesses. Jesus Christ came and paid the price for us to live life and live life abundantly. And that's really important because those blessings are already there. You don't have to chase them. In fact, you need to receive them in your mind as if you already have them, because you already do. That's the essence of what God is saying. That's what the power of operating from abundant blessings because you already have them. You don't have to seek them. All you have to do is steward what's in front of you using the things you already know, working with the people that you already have in your networks, and having access to the things that you have. When you start to do that, you will never struggle in any part of your life. Sure, you're going to face temptation. Sure, you're going to face trials. Sure, you're going to have illnesses that you're going to be like, man, I really hate this. It sucks. Sure, any one of those things can happen. And believe it or not, none of those things could happen because God can strengthen you in a lot of different ways. He doesn't have to use trials and tribulations in order to strengthen you. There's a lot of different things that he can use. But I can assure you that if one of those things chooses to decide to put itself on your doorstep, your faith will have the patience and the long-suffering to work their way through that process to glorify God. And that becomes the testimonies that you get to share with others. And what happens is, is it allows you to edify and refresh others who are in the same situation as you, allows you to experience the thing— same things again in order for you to imbue advice, imbue grace, imbue finances, imbue anything onto that person and say Yeah, I was there. I know what it was like. I was in that same situation, but here's how God walked me out. And now you become the example that Paul talked about: follow me as I follow Christ. So now you become the representation of Paul, who is then chasing Christ. So now you can be the living example for the person who you can now follow in order for you to continue going forward through your faith walk. They can watch. and see how Jesus Christ has worked in your life in abundance and power, and that, that becomes the gospel story you get to share with others. And so I really want to encourage you today through this message that think about the blessings that God has given you today. Think about the sacrifice that Jesus paid on the cross. Think about how your testimony can transform lives, how you can love on others. It doesn't matter their situation. Because remember, if you go back and look at yourself before you were saved, it doesn't matter if it was at a young age or an older age. Some of these people in your life, in some way, shape, or form, even if they came and left very quickly, did this very thing that we're talking about. They operated from a blessing that then became an abundant blessing for you, that you then were able to receive and go forward and operate in victory. That's the essence of what we're talking about. Be a living testimony. Represent Jesus Christ to the highest standard that he operates at, because he's a king. He's a king that operates from a place— if he wants money, he can just create it. And since you're his child, you're Jesus's brother, you're this— there— you're the son and daughter of a king. There's nothing that's out of your reach. There's nothing that you can't accomplish in this life. There's nothing you can't do. Because you already have it. And I want you to receive that. I want you to receive that in your spirit. Say it out loud. I already have it. Jesus paid the highest price for me, and now I'm going to walk it out. Walk it out. And I assure you, it will transform your life. It'll transform your thinking. It'll transform the things you want to do. It will de-stress your life, and you will always operate in victory from victory, glory to glory. Even in the areas where things start to go sideways and life tries to overwhelm you and the torrents try to beat against the wall, guess what's going to happen? You're just going to stand strong on the cornerstone, the rock that is Jesus Christ. And the storms came and they smashed against the wall, and guess what happened? The storm eventually ran out of energy and you're still standing.