We Are Recession Proof

Stop toiling and doing and producing for the food that perishes and decomposes [in the using], but strive and work and produce rather for the [lasting] food which endures [continually] unto life eternal; the Son of Man will give (furnish) you that, for God the Father has authorized and certified Him and put His seal of endorsement upon Him. John 6:27

I then heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out from her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, neither participate in her plagues. Revelation 18:4

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Matthew 6:25

Our Father plainly tells us that we are to not labor for earthly things. Jesus tell’s us to take no thought for food and clothing and that we are to come out of Babylon, the worlds economic and political system. How can we do these things? How is it that we can actually take no thought for food when we need food to live? How is it that we can live on this earth and not be part of its corrupt system? The answer is that we reap what we sow. Our Father is greater in us then anything that is in this world and He is causing us to sow things that are not of the world’s corruption. He is doing this through us  so that we can live apart from this world while we are still in this world.  

The sower sows the Word. Mark 4:14

Jesus answered him, If you would be perfect [that is, have that spiritual maturity which accompanies self-sacrificing character], go and sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; and come, be My disciple [side with My party and follow Me]. Matthew 19:21

External religious worship [ religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself unspotted and uncontaminated from the world. James 1:27

Judge not [neither pronouncing judgment nor subjecting to censure], and you will not be judged; do not condemn and pronounce guilty, and you will not be condemned and pronounced guilty; acquit and forgive and release (give up resentment, let it drop), and you will be acquitted and forgiven and released. Luke 6:37

The Holy Spirit causes us to share the Truth that sets people free. He causes us to give to those who we can receive nothing back from. Our Father drives us to the needy to be there for them as friends and He empowers us to forgive everyone everything! Because our Father does all of these things through us, we actually live in the perfect peace of taking no thought for the cares of this world. 

Remember this Truth: when Jesus called His disciples He had them leave their earthly jobs. He took them out of Babylon so that they could serve The Kingdom of God. Our Father had Paul serving mainly from prison cells or on the run. Yet all of the disciples were taken care of and rejoiced that they were not part of the worlds corrupt system. They had real peace and joy even though they were living in what the world would call hardships. Our Father never left them and He never forsook them and they were always taken care of because our Father always had them sowing His Heavenly possessions to others. They all reaped what our Father had them sow.   

Seek 1st His Kingdom

“But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and if we seek first His righteousness, then we shall receive from God all of the things that the gentiles of this world so desperately seek! “(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” Matthew 6:32 Our Father knows that we need clothes, food, and housing and He has shown us the way to have Him add them all unto us!

Now our Father is God, and nothing that He ever does is done half way! So look at just how great the things of this earth are that He will provide for us. “And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” Matthew 6:28-30 Our Father wants our clothes and the things that He adds unto us to be more beautiful than the lilies of the field! As God’s children we should have the best and because of Jesus we can have the best! But we are not to obtain these things as the world seeks to obtain them through toil and labor. All of these things are added unto us by seeking first God’s Kingdom and God’s righteousness! Actually we aren’t even take thought for having them, we are only to take thought for the Kingdom and for righteousness, and then all of these things, all of the things that the world seeks for, all of the things that they lie and cheat for, that they deceive for, and that they go to war for, will be added unto us.

And all of these things will be added unto us at a level that exceeds the level of possessions that God gave to Solomon! “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.” Matthew 11:11 The least in our Kingdom, the Kingdom of God, is greater than the greatest ever born of a woman! So the least in God’s Kingdom is greater than Solomon, and God wants to bless us with all of the things that the gentiles seek, and He wants to add them unto us at a level greater than what He added them unto Solomon!

Now here is the great Truth of our freedom concerning these things! “The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me]. I shall not lack. He makes me to lie down in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside still and restful waters. He refreshes and restores my life (my self); He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him-not for my earning it, but] for His Name’s sake.” Psalm 23:1-3 Amplified Bible.

For us to have God add all things unto us, all of the things that the gentiles seek: clothes, food, housing, we need to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness! So what did our Father do for us, He gave us Jesus, and Jesus now leads us in the paths of righteousness, not because we have earned it, not because we have worked hard and took thought for it! No, Jesus did it for us freely for God’s Namesake! Jesus does leads us so that our Father will receive the praise and glory and so that we will live fully in the provisions of God! Jesus is our Shepherd and because of Him we do not want and we don’t want because through Jesus we have all things added unto us that pertain unto life and unto godliness! “According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:” 2 Peter 1:3 God has called us unto glory and virtue and by His Divine power we are able seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness! Our Father wants the best for us, so He has given us His best to insure that it would be added unto us!

“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)” 2 Corinthians 6:2 Today is the day that Jesus will lead us into the paths of righteousness and right now is the time that our Father's Divine power is giving us all things that pertain unto life and unto godliness! And today is the day that God is empowering us to live fully in His glory and in His virtue! The yoke is light and the burden is easy to be borne, because greater is He that is now within us than he that is in the world. We can now be used by our Father to do all things, and God is able to use us through the power of His Anointing, Christ, that strengthens us!

The world seeks out clothes, food, and houses by working hard to obtain them. The abundance of their hearts is how to get and keep these things. It’s very popular right now for preachers to preach that we have to sow seed to get them! Millions of our prayers ask for them. Yet Jesus said so simply that we are to take no thought for these things! Jesus proclaimed that through His power that is at work within us, these things would just be added unto us! Life is more than clothes and the body is so much more than food! God has called us unto His glory and unto His virtue and He has chosen us to be as He is, even while we are in this world! “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17

I see so many Christians who are in need. So many listen to prosperity preachers and all they hear is give money and you will receive. Even though Jesus taught us that we are to consider the birds of the air, which do not have to sow to reap! “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?” Matthew 6:26 Or they listen to preachers who tell them that we are to be poor because it is the will of God. Even though Jesus said that all of these things would be added unto us! The Truth will set us free and the Truth is that faith comes for us by hearing the Word of God. And the Word of our Father tells us that we are to be super blessed, blessed above Solomon, and that all of these blessings will be added unto us by God Himself as He leads us into first seeking His Kingdom and His righteousness!

Absolutely we will be used by God to sow into furthering the Gospel of His Kingdom and we will be used by God to give to meet the needs of the poor! But our provisions, that exceed the beauty of the lilies of the field, do not come unto us by these worldly actions! We are not sowing these things to reap them! We do not buy them from our Father! The blessings of God are added unto us and they are added unto us because Jesus is ever living to insure that we seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness, so that we might be saved to the uttermost! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

Father I ask that You empower all of us with the full knowledge of Your Truth! I ask that You lead us and guide us so that we all may be fully pleasing to You and that through Your Anointing that strengthens us, we may be able to glorify You by allowing You to add all things that pertain unto life and godliness unto us! Father the poverty message is a lie and the sow seed to receive message is a lie! Father I ask that You use all of us to sow the Word of Your Truth, the sower sows the Word, the Word that will set the world free! Father I ask that You are faithful to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and that there is no lie within us! Without Jesus we are nothing but sin, but through Him Father You have made us accepted! Today is the day that You have made Father and today You have given us Jesus as our Lord and Savior! Your will be done Father as You are glorified!

A Benefit Of Salvation: Our Needs Are Met Abundantly

"But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.” Psalm 23:5

“And they all did eat, and were filled, and they took up the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children” Matthew 14:20-21

When our Father meets our needs, He does it according to His riches and according to His glory. The standard that our Father meets our needs by is so far beyond anything that this world has to offer; God’s minimum is superabundant to man’s abundance. When our Father fills our cup it runs over, and when He feeds us He starts with nothing and then when He is done there are baskets full left over. our Father is a God of superabundance! Our needs are met with far more provision than ever is required. The Truth is our Father wants us to lack in nothing. Consider Heaven for a moment. Heaven is a perfect place, love, faith, and hope abound, no sickness, no fear, streets of gold, mansions, abundance, everlasting life, and power, everything is met abundantly! In Heaven God’s power shines so brightly that they don’t even need the Sun, God’s glory lights up the place! Now let me ask you a question, is God a respecter of persons? Does He favor one person above another? No! Acts 10:34

"Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons."

So if in Heaven people have all their needs met, spiritually, soulfully, and physically, why wouldn't we have the same here on earth? It is the same God providing the abundance in Heaven as it is here on the earth. Does our Father respect them more than us? Haven't we read and studied that now is the day of our salvation? According to God, we don’t have to wait to be saved, so we don’t have to wait for our needs to be abundantly met!

You may say that Brad, "there are no people in Heaven, at least not in human bodies." If you believe that there are only spirits there now, shouldn’t our spirits be as abundantly supplied as theirs? But there are more than just spirits in Heaven; there are bodies. I was preaching once and as I spoke our Father began to speak to me. It was amazing; Words flowed from me, yet I was totally in another conversation with God. our Father asked me the very same questions, "Am I a respecter of persons? I said, no. He then asked me about Heaven, is there sickness? Is there hunger? Is there lack? Is there fear? Is there a lack of understanding? Do people get killed? Do people owe money? All of these questions I answered no to. Then our Father said if my children do not have lack in Heaven, and I am not a respecter of persons, than there should be no lack on the earth for My children! I shouted I see it and A-men, and never skipped a beat in my other sermon, and until I said what had happened no one knew what was going on.

God allowed me to taste just a little fraction of what He is like and capable of. He talks to millions of us all at once, in individual conversations, and never skips a beat. our Father had John write in 1 John 4:17 that as He is so are we in this world. I didn’t do anything to do this, it was our Father within me that was allowing me to preach and have a conversation with Him at the same time. I was really just along for the ride. But He showed me that this is how we all can live 100% of the time. Think of all of the millions of dollars that are spent on preachers traveling, then think of how our Father is? Our Father is more than capable of allowing us to talk to each other as He does, without ever leaving where we are. If man can make a phone that can conference call, or video conference, God can allow us to talk through our spirits!

Now back to people being in Heaven, there are people, just like us with physical bodies. The Bible speaks of at least two of them, Enoch and Elijah. The Bible teaches that neither tasted death, but both were delivered to Heaven. Scriptural proof: Hebrews 11:5 "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death;" and 2 Kings 2:11 "..there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven." Now Enoch and Elijah are not in fear, they do not have sickness, they do not have lack, and they are in Heaven. Our Father showed me this during that sermon and it was so exciting. God sees our needs as being so far above what we see them as. We tend to think as a need as being the bare minimum; God sees it as abundance!

“Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than meat, and the body more than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies in the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of them.” Matthew 6:25-29 Jesus tells us to take no thought for our physical needs; food, clothing, or our lives, which are all definitely needs we have while on the earth, and Jesus teaches us to take no thought for them! Jesus teaches this because He knows, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that our needs are now met according to God’s riches and glory! So; “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.” Matthew 6:30

How many sermons have you heard that teach us how to pray or act to get something, a new home, a car, clothes for the kids, a spouse, a job, more money, or whatever else we need? I have heard hundreds of them; whole ministries are out there devoted to preaching nothing but that kind of stuff. Well, Jesus said to take no thought for these things, it’s kind of hard to reconcile the two isn’t it? God teaches us to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all of these things will be given to us, and they will be given to us according to His riches! “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all of these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33 Our Father knows what we need and He doesn’t slouch in meeting our needs! If you are concerned with your needs, don’t be like the unsaved and worry about them, and focus on them, seek first God’s Kingdom, and all of your needs will be met. “(For after all of these things do the Gentiles seek;) for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” Matthew 6:32

Our Father knows that we need all of these things to live, and He teaches us to seek Him first and seek His righteousness and all of it will be added unto us. Our Father is not mocked, whatsoever He has promised, He will do! Our Father is not a man that He should lie, so if He said that we are not to take thought, He meant, take no thought! Now that goes against what most of us have heard and it definitely goes against society, but remember that our Father has given us a new heart and He has placed His Spirit within us to cause us to walk in His Truth’s. Jesus’ yoke is easy to be born, this Truth is in us, and we are more than capable through the power of Christ that strengthens us to live without taking any thought for our own lives! We are far better than flowers and we are far better than birds! Look at the birds, they get to fly south every winter, they don’t have to hang out in the snow and cold! Our Father is a God of abundance!

Think about our Father for a second? Is He taking thought for His own life? We never read that He is; yet we read that He is always taking thought for ours! His Spirit now abides within us, we are born of Him, born of His incorruptible seed, and Jesus is now the One giving us everything needed to live, just as a branch receives everything needed to live by the vine! We are now alive because our Father has birthed us and He now lives within us. So we will resemble Him, taking no thought for our own lives, yet ever living to help others. Jesus ever lives to intercede for us, and we are now one with Him, so we too ever live to intercede for others! Jesus’ needs are being met in abundance and our needs are met by the same abundance! Our Father loves us, just as He loves Jesus. Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God. This needs to be preached, we need to encourage each other with it daily, our needs have been met according to the same riches and glory that Jesus’ needs have been met! Since they are we can have peace and joy as we take no thought for our own lives, we have been given the mind of Christ, it’s how He has made us! Jesus came that we might have an abundant life, and our abundance is measured with the same level of abundance as Jesus’ is!